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Is Health IT on our Risk Management Radar – Part 2

Speaker:  Karen Zimmer, MD, MPH 

This meeting has been approved for the following contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.

• Is Health IT on our Risk Management Radar – Part 2, February 9, 2018:  1.0 CE credit

Objectives: Part 2

1. Define health information Technology (not just the EMR)

2. Recognize the importance of event reporting to health IT safety

3. Identify ways to collect health IT data for risk and safety and to provide feedback and monitoring.

Description: The program will provide an overview of the safety of electronic health records and provide examples of problems encountered with EHRs.   In addition, a means for healthcare organizations to assess the safety of their using us9ng a CPOE/HER assessment tool will be discussed using lessons learned , successes, challenges and recommendations.

Part 2 Speaker Bio

Karen Zimmer, MD, MPH

Dr. Zimmer is an independent consultant in the area of Health IT, Patient Safety and Quality. She has over 25 years of combined healthcare, patient safety, and quality experience. She was formerly the Medical Director for both ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) and the Patient Safety, Risk and Quality Group where she provided overall clinical direction and was responsible for supervision of analytics, development of tools, and dissemination of strategies and solutions. She designed an event management analysis database and was integral in the development of the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization which serves healthcare facilities and systems nationwide. Her past work extends from implementation of IT and QI programs at Johns Hopkins Hospital to leading government-sponsored HIT collaboratives at ECRI. She currently co-chairs the Practice Improvement Committee for Society of Diagnostic Error and was a member of NQF Committee: HIT Patient Safety Measures Expert Panel. She also sits on the Alumni Board for Cornell Weill Medical Center and is a trustee of The Franklin Institute and Cornell University.

Dr. Zimmer received her medical degree from the Cornell University Medical College and completed her Pediatrics residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, OH. Following her training, she completed a General Academic Pediatrics fellowship and Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and then joined the faculty of Department of Pediatrics. Additionally, she has expertise in evaluation processes as she designed and studied a formal educational evaluation for pediatric residents. Earlier in her career she was involved in policy on the Clinton HealthCare Task Force. She currently is an active member of the medical staff at Nemours of Alfred I, DuPont Hospital for Children, an Associate Professor in Department of Pediatrics at Jefferson University, and an instructor at the Jefferson College of Population Health