Dr. Floyd P. Eisenberg This is Me

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1. 1. OVERVIEW: IHE Canada Workshop 2007

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 3/22/2008

   FLOYD P. EISENBERG, M.D., MPH, Senior Physician Consultant , Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
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   FLOYD P. EISENBERG, M.D., MPH Senior Physician Consultant, Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
   
   Floyd Eisenberg is an internal medicine physician with a sub-specialty in infectious diseases and eleven years clinical practice experience followed by serving four years as a Senior Medical Director for Quality at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia . Significant quality measurement and guideline implementation-related activities for the managed care organization include:
   
   Directing guideline-based interventions for patients with diabetes associated with the Medicare Managed Care Quality Improvement Project (MMCQIP) and the Pennsylvania QIO. Leading a controlled intervention study with the American Cancer Society to evaluate the effectiveness of the US Public Health Service program, "Put Prevention Into Practice" (PPIP), in 357 Family Practice settings. Chaired participating physician advisory groups to create localized evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for asthma, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and cholesterol management. Developed quality outcome measures for profiling and reporting to participating practitioners, groups and integrated delivery systems and developed chart abstraction tools for a team of 30 RNs to collect required data elements as well as hybrid HEDIS information.
   
   For over nine years Dr. Eisenberg has served as a Senior Physician Consultant with Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services. His activities have included value on investment strategies for clinical information systems especially in the areas of physician order entry, the incorporation of clinical content in clinical information systems, and repurposing of data for use in population health, outcome reporting, research and surveillance activities.
   
   Dr. Eisenberg represents Siemens Medical Solutions at the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) where he is a member of the Strategic Planning Task Force. Other industry activities include Co-chairmanship of three industry quality-related groups: (1) the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Population Health Technical Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), (2) the Performance Measure and Integration and Reporting Workgroup of the Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with Electronic Health Record Systems, and (3) the IHE Quality Domain Technical Committee. He also represents Siemens USA on a CDC Foundation Roundtable on Global Health Threats and advises on health issues for business continuity at Siemens USA.

2. 2. www.medical.siemens.com

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   Published on: 2/19/2008   Last Visited: 3/7/2008

   Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Provides Cross Domain Interoperability including Quality/Public Health with Floyd Eisenberg, M.D., M.P.H., senior physician consultant, Health Services, Siemens - Monday, Feb. 24, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Room 204 B-C of the Orange County Convention Center, Education Session, Number 23.

3. 3. www.snomed.org

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   Published on: 11/1/2002   Last Visited: 3/7/2007

   When it comes to clinical alerts, the rules or algorithms can become "as complex as the organization would like," says Floyd Eisenberg, MD, MPH, physician executive for clinical systems at Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services. "Our rules engine can extract data from various locations, perform the appropriate calculations, and notify the physician synchronously during the ordering process or asynchronously at the occurrence of new events outside an existing order session," Dr. Eisenberg says.
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   Adds Dr. Eisenberg of Siemens, "My concern is that the system can provide many alerts, but if the number and/or quality is more an annoyance than a benefit, clinicians of any type will quickly learn to breeze right by them." Alerts, he says, must either provide a clinician with significant, timely information that poses a real, immediate risk to a patient or request information the clinician perceives to be important in the clinical care process.
   
   The "nuisance potential" of alerts has been acknowledged as a serious issue by the Leap Frog Group.
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   "Dealing with physician order entry requires managing many workflows," says Siemens' Dr. Eisenberg. "It's not just a matter of encouraging physicians to get online and put orders in an electronic system." A doctor writing an order is more often than not writing an order for other orders, taking an action that will affect many workflows. "For instance," Dr. Eisenberg says, "if I write an order for a lab study, I may just write that I want a certain drug level done in the morning, say half an hour before the next dose of the drug is administered."
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   "A number of our CPOE customers are already reporting good results," says Dr. Eisenberg. "At the Ohio State University Medical Center, where 100 percent of physician orders are entered electronically, they have seen a 25 percent reduction in turnaround from the time a lab order is placed until the result is back from the lab, a 43 percent reduction in radiology turnaround time, and a 64 percent reduction in medication turnaround time."
   
   Similarly, says Dr. Eisenberg, Siemens' CPOE systems at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's in Chicago have facilitated a 64 percent reduction in medication turnaround time (the time between when a medication is ordered and the patient receives it), and Meridian Health Systems in New Jersey has seen an 84 percent reduction in medication TAT. In addition, says Dr. Eisenberg, these sites report significant cost reductions derived from reduced lengths of stay and fewer unnecessary or duplicate laboratory, medication, and radiology orders.