Following a roundtable meeting held on September 18-20 in Chicago, with participation from the CMIOs and CNIOs of 26 major patient care organizations, the leaders at the Scottsdale Institute, a not-for-profit membership organization, produced a report entitled “Care Standardization: Why and How to Make this Work.”
Janet Guptill, executive director of the Scottsdale Institute, said, regarding the CMIO/CNIO Summit in September, “Scottsdale Institute’s mission is to convene the right executives to discuss the right issues facing healthcare leaders in today’s fast-paced, tech-enabled world. Bringing together our member CNIOs and CMIOs released remarkable energy and excitement about harmonizing the CDS-supported care process–a collaboration so vital to standardizing care across the nation,” she said.
Meanwhile, Angela R. Tiberio, M.D., physician executive at the Naperville, Ill.-based Impact Advisors consulting firm, said, “We were excited to be a part of this Summit, as many takeaways and next steps emerged from the discussions and collaboration around the topic of care standardization. Attendees agreed that serving as a CMIO or CNIO places them in a unique position to very positively impact some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, including optimizing processes for maximal quality, safety, value and access, as well as provider and patient satisfaction,” Dr. Tiberio said. “Attendees identified several key focus areas for the future, including continued venues for CMIO/CNIO collaboration; benchmarking and analytics to demonstrate “success”; addressing clinician/physician burnout; and advancing the overall profession. We look forward to seeing where these conversations lead us over the next year and beyond.”
“The burden of variation in clinical documentation and the lack of standardization is clearly a problem for healthcare providers today,” said Luis Saldaña, MD, CMIO at LogicStream Health. “The Summit was a highly productive forum for numerous leading CNIOs and CMIOs to connect and share excellent insights about ways to address this problem in their respective organizations. As a group, we committed to continuing the conversation and advancing our collective efforts to set the standard for driving improvement across all of healthcare.”
