Ken Ong, MD, MPH

Physician Community Podcast Series, Episode #6: Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer Ken Ong, MD, MPH, discusses pearls from several chapters in the HIMSS 2007 Book of the Year titled Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer. Dr. Ong addresses what the DMI/CMIO should do to get an organization ready for implementation of an electronic health record; the role of the DMI/CMIO in helping to prevent the failure of an HIT project; and his thoughts on how the results of the recent presidential election may change the landscape of healthcare as it relates to the EHR. The interview was conducted by William F. Bria, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community. Click here to download.
Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer   by Kenneth R. Ong, MD, MPH, FACP, Editor   HIMSS Member Price: $60 Regular price: $75   Order your copy today!    Information technology in healthcare is increasingly being applied at the hospital bedside at the point of care, at the physician's office and in our homes. With Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer, healthcare executives, managers and clinicians learn when and how best to use this influx of new technology.   16 Information-packed chapters—focusing on... Electronic prescribing CPOE and patient safety Identify management HIT certification Ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) ROI analysis Health information exchange Nursing informatics The personal health record EHR strategy management Software selection Project management Key quality and HIT issues for executives EHR and racial disparities IT organizational credibility Why projects fail   Plus...case studies, a glossary of medical informatics and HIT terms and an extensive bibliography round out this essential resource.	Ken is currently the VP of Medical Informatics at Catholic Health Services of Long Island.   Ken was recently selected to serve on the Advanced Clinical Decision Support Work Group of the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology.    He edited the textbook on health information technology, Medical Informatics: an Executive Primer -- winner of the 2007 HIMSS Book of the Year Award.   Ken's past projects include developing and implementing the acute care EMR (Eclipsys's Sunrise Clinical Manager); clinical decision support for the ambulatory EMR in the HIV clinic (Epicare) and the hospital pharmacy system (Cerner Pharmnet); implementing web-based results review, and physician charge capture (PatientKeeper).   Ken is a member of the Hospital Association of New York State's Health Information Strategy Group, a past president and current at-large board member of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); past president and board member of Medical Informatics New York; and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics.   He is adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University's School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics. Ken's medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. He is a previous recipient of the AMDIS Award In Applied Medical Informatics and the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepard Science Award. Ken is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.   Ken is residency-trained and board certified in family practice, internal medicine, and infectious diseases. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, HIMSS, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his MPH at Columbia University, MD at Wayne State University, and BS at University of Michigan.