The SCHIMSS Annual Conference will be held on the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) campus. SCHIMSS is bringing the conference to the people with this exciting new format for 2023. We are excited to have MUSC host our annual conference which will include vendor booths, speaker presentations, networking, food, and an evening networking event the night before.
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Robert Budman, MD
Artificial Intelligence – Alleviating clinical burden of time and resource intensive diagnosis capture for At-Risk populations tied to payer contracts
Dr. Budman is board certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Informatics. His background includes academic medicine at UC-Irvine, emergency medicine, hospitalist work, worker’s comp, urgent care, utilization review, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), and of course family medicine. With many years of EHR experience on numerous platforms especially Epic he created content for multi-state IDN’s, worked on many quality initiatives with major hospitals, re-engineered several EHR modules, and has a passion for workflow improvements for provider and patient care needs. Of interesting note, Dr. Budman was the expedition physician for the 1998 RMS Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition that recovered the “Big Piece” an 18 ton steel piece of Titanic’s hull.
Currently, as CMIO for Nuance Communications Healthcare division he supports computer-assisted physician documentation and CDI efforts, engages directly with physician and executive leadership as well as front line providers, and works directly with revenue cycle and IT teams. Dr. Budman focuses on the core of good Dragon use in documentation efforts then adds artificial intelligence tools to assist providers with accuracy and creating their best possible notes while targeting diagnostic coding and improved billing, all while alleviating EHR burdens.
Carolyn Harmon
Unintended consequences of the Electronic Health Record and Cognitive load in Emergency Department Nurses
Dr. Carolyn Harmon is the Dean of Nursing at Belmont Abbey College. She received her Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of South Carolina in 2022 and her DNP with an executive leadership focus from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2014. Dr. Harmon’s academic research and projects have been focused on informatics and patient safety. She is an ANCC Board Certified Informatics Nurse, Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership fellow, and the 2018 recipient of the state of South Carolina’s Palmetto Gold Award. Dr. Harmon is the 2021-2022 recipient of the ENA and Sigma Foundation’s research grant to study unintended consequences of the EHR and cognitive load in ED nurses.
COST
Students – $50.00
Individual Registration – $200.00
Provider Organization non-members – $135.00 ($75.00 early bird in January)
Provider Organization members – $100.00 ($50.00 early bird in January)
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