Leveraging Open Source to Advance Clinical Decision Support

Hospital and acute-care facility staff view clinical decision support (CDS) tools as a chief ingredient in improving patient care, despite dissatisfaction with their current solution. That’s according to a recent survey of clinicians and healthcare IT and business professionals conducted by HIMSS Media.

Join our webinar to take a deeper dive into the research and solutions that healthcare organizations are using today to achieve success and satisfaction in CDS, including the role of open-source software to obtain the desired capabilities.

Learning Points:

Current state of Clinical Decision Support tools usage and satisfaction
Overcoming usage barriers

Atif Chaughtai

Chief Technologist, Healthcare North America
Red Hat

Bio info: Atif Chaughtai is the Chief Technologist of Healthcare NA at Red Hat. He brings over 18 years of experience in...

Atif Chaughtai is the Chief Technologist of Healthcare NA at Red Hat. He brings over 18 years of experience in information technology with a focus on Healthcare and Life Sciences. At Red Hat, Chaughtai helps customers align with the Red Hat portfolio, while serving as a champion for emerging requirement and feedback needs through the product and engineering team. He is active participant on various Healthcare and Life Sciences standards committees.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Chaughtai worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as an Enterprise Architect where he was tasked with solving some of the most critical challenges faced by the agency. He worked on streamlining clinical research programs while ensuring HIPAA compliance and was recognized multiple times for his contribution to the NIH’s mission.

Janet King

Sr. Director, Market Insights
HIMSS Media

Bio info: Janet King is an entrepreneurial business executive, bringing more than 25 years of experience in B2B tech and media...

Janet King is an entrepreneurial business executive, bringing more than 25 years of experience in B2B tech and media research to the HIMSS team. Her ability to apply a variety of research approaches to strategic business problems has resulted in the delivery of impactful, innovative research programs for a long roster of global Fortune 1000 companies. Her passion is storytelling with data, leveraging research to fuel data-driven strategic decision making and to create a thought leadership position for clients through research-driven content. She holds a B.S. degree from Alfred University, and a MBA degree from the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.