EHR Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Attendees: Reeves, Middleton, Palmertree, Todaro, Miller-Davis, Cowan, Massey, Smith, Summer, Skelton, Holliman, Hughes, Stanton, Stringer, Seltzer, Serio, Brunson Guests: Parnell, Atwood

Date: January 3, 2006 1:00pm

• Massey: In Dr Warren Jones’, Chair, absence, called the meeting to order, minutes from previous meeting approved • Progress reports • Portal – Mike Smith (Subcommittee) • Technical Team in place, in process of assembling clinical team; target date 1/23/2006 kick-off meeting. • Ambulatory Solutions – Massey (Subcommittee) • SoftMed procurement on hold until NextGen evaluation. NextGen demo scheduled for 1/9/2006 1pm Office Annex 2nd floor conference room. Attendees of last SoftMed demo asked for feedback/questions to present to SoftMed; Palmertree re-capped issues to include: 1) ChartScriptMD not storing discrete data items, 2) clarification of search functionality, 3) support of wireless devices, 4) concerns of interface downtime, 5) quality monitoring, 6) notifications and workflow, 7) future upgrade costs, 8) desktop computer minimum requirements • Clinical Document Imaging (CDI) – Mary Palmertree • ChartView/ChartScan on hold pending NextGen evaluation. • Anes Update (SIS, Centricity) – Dr. Brunson • Centricity is Anesthesiology EHR; go-live in Batson soon. Significant upgrades to SIS needed; Linda Atwood project manager. Presented requests to hospital administration for reporting and scheduling modules for immediate funding and documentation module for next-FY funding. • Brunson to compile and distribute list of all available SIS modules. • EHR Website development – Holliman • http://ehr.umctest.edu • Development underway. • DigiChart – Cowan • Testing underway, including interface testing. Tablet hardware has been ordered. Ob-gyn faculty to go to Nashville for training, with expected go- live in 2/2006. • Other business • Massey to clarify and distribute to group guidelines of item types to be part of clinical document imaging (CDI) and PACS. • Massey: TheraDoc and PACS presentation to be made to ITS and IHL. • Stringer expressed frustration with lack of forward movement of EHR initiative. Questioned value of best-of-breed systems vs. core, one-size-fits-all systems. Also, cautioned that outbound documents from systems would be expected to meet marketing/branding requirements. Stringer stressed that EHR initiative has no real “boss” to make decisions and move the efforts forward. • Massey – Jones to organize EHR retreat. • Massey – Add Serio to EHR mailing list. • Massey – There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Next EHR Steering Committee meeting will be Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 1:00pm.