Nov 15, 2015
Dr. Jan Lee is the Chief
Executive Officer of the Delaware Health Information Network
(DHIN). She is a board certified Family Practice physician with a
Master of Medical Management degree and a wealth of leadership
experience. Prior to joining DHIN, she was Vice President of
Knowledgebase and Content for NextGen Healthcare, a leading vendor
of health information technology products and services, where she
was responsible for the development of clinical content in 26
medical specialty areas for the NextGen electronic health record.
She transitioned to NextGen from a career in the United States Air
Force, where she had worldwide assignments in clinical settings
from outpatient clinics to medical centers, several academic
appointments, and varied leadership and command assignments. She
served in a senior leadership capacity at Headquarters, Air Force
as the Chief Information Officer of the Air Force Medical Service.
She steered management of a $3.2B IT portfolio supporting 130K
Department of Defense healthcare employees and 9.1M beneficiaries
worldwide. She led implementation of the Department of Defense EHR
throughout the Air Force to 75 facilities of all sizes supporting
all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. She has
served on a range of national level committees and workgroups, and
is frequently sought as a speaker on health and health IT topics.
Her specific areas of interest are health policy and the use of
health IT to improve clinical practice and population health.
Recent recognition includes listing in “Guide to America’s Top
Family Doctors” and “Who’s Who in America” and selection by
“Cambridge Who’s Who” as Executive of the Year.
00:00 Jan explains DHIN, the Delaware Health Information
Network.
02:45 How DHIN works with other HIEs.
03:00 How National Standards for HIEs make exchanging information
across borders easier.
04:00 There are no laws that prevent hospitals from participating
in more than one HIE.
04:30 DHIN’s interstate agreement with Maryland’s HIE.
05:00 How DHIN is enabling continuity of information to support
continuity of care.
06:00 The secondary initiatives that DHIN pursues.
07:30 DHIN’s effort to encourage providers to follow up with
patients after hospital visits to cut down on readmittance.
09:00 Why it is in enlightened self-interest for providers to
pursue early follow-ups after hospital discharge.
11:40 Transitional Care Management: The effort that you spend in
reaching out to a patient, in order to get them to return for a
follow-up visit.
13:20 How DHIN operates as a backbone for patients and providers
setting up follow-up visits after a discharge.
17:00 “When you’ve got the data, there is so much more you can do
than simply pat the patient on the back and say, ‘On to the next
one’.”
18:00 DHIN’s work in research and clinical trials.
23:00 How DHIN helped prevent a Swine Flu outbreak.
25:30 The two ways for public health to access data.
27:15 How DHIN is getting patients involved in their own data and
healthcare.
35:00 How DHIN is one of the only self-supporting HIEs in the
nation.
42:00 You can find out more information at DHIN.org, as well as on
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.