HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition
March 6, 2025, 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. PT
Las Vegas, NV | Venetian, Level 5, Palazzo J
Overview
Join ECRI leaders at the 2025 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition for a vital session on improving discharge summary (DS) quality to enhance patient safety. Accurate clinical information from acute care visits is crucial for seamless care coordination, yet many DS generated by electronic health record (EHR) systems contain critical gaps—putting patients, especially seniors with multiple care transitions, at risk. This session uncovers key usability issues identified by human factors experts and highlights the real-world concerns outpatient providers have rated as severe or essential for effective care coordination. Through an assessment of four DS, attendees will see firsthand the structural deficiencies that hinder care transitions. Walk away with actionable guidelines to improve DS quality, optimize communication between providers, and ultimately enhance safety for acute care patients. Don’t miss this opportunity to drive meaningful change in healthcare documentation!
For more information, or if you would like to set up a time to speak with one of our experts, please contact us at communications@ecri.org.
Agenda and Speakers
Thursday, March 6, 2025 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. PT
Improving Quality of Discharge Summaries Produced by Electronic Health Records
Michael Kirchhoff, MD
Chief Innovation Officer and Patient Safety Officer, Cooper University Health Care
Michael Kirchhoff, MD has been on key teams that have brought new business units to Cooper including Emergency Medicine Contracted Services, Urgent Care, Emergency Medical Services, and the Helicopter Transport Program. He has developed applications for Graduate Medical Education procedure tracking, hospital coding/charging and revenue cycle audit, external provider post-acute communication, and ED over-crowding surveillance. He currently helps to drive organizational intellectual property management and development, outside business development partnerships, and inter-institutional resource sharing. He has served as the Medical Director for the Emergency Department, Urgent Care, Simulation Lab, and EM Ultrasound. Dr. Kirchhoff is the Patient Safety Officer for the health system as well as board eligible for Medical Informatics and is active in business intelligence, reporting, and planning.
Priyanka Shah
Principal Project Officer, ECRI
Priyanka Shah is a senior project officer with the Device Evaluation group at ECRI, where she performs medical device evaluations, investigates system failures, develops practical guidance for healthcare facilities, conducts accident investigations, and consults healthcare facilities on pre-purchase selection and appropriate use of medical equipment and health-IT systems. Her areas of expertise include consumer devices, remote patient monitoring, physiologic patient monitoring, alarm management, and EHR usability. Ms. Shah came to ECRI with a background in research engineering and program management. She earned her MS in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University.
Patrice Tremoulet, PhD
Director, Human Factors Engineering, ECRI
Dr. Tremoulet has more than two decades of experience designing intuitive human machine interfaces for complex, information-intensive systems. She has spearheaded a broad range of advanced human-computer interaction research during her career and co-established the Interaction Design and Engineering for Advanced Systems (IDEAS) process for producing computer systems that optimize human performance.
Dr. Tremoulet has played important leadership roles in several DoD initiatives, including serving as Principal Investigator on the DARPA Augmented Cognition program — an effort that entailed using physiological data to assess individual cognitive state in real-time. Her research interests include developing intelligent information systems that use human data (e.g. medical images, vital signs, reaction times, verbal, numerical or abstract reasoning assessments, neurological measures, etc.) to support healthcare and/or to improve job performance by enabling more effective human-machine interaction.
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