AHNEJ February Meeting

Topic: Hospital Technology Planning Workshop
Speaker: Helen Wu,
Senior Consultant, Innovation Services,
Johnson Controls, Inc
Date: Wednesday, February 21st
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Overlook Hospital,
The Wallace Auditorium, 5th Fl.

The February meeting of AHENJ will be held on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey.  The event will begin with a networking reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner and our educational session.

Workshop Scope

Johnson Controls will facilitate a two-hour Navigation Session to share how other healthcare systems around the country are planning for their clinical, business and building systems investments in cross-functional teams to make collaborative short-term and long-term decisions for their expansion plans or replacement hospitals.  

Johnson Controls Inc. will make use of a specially designed “game board” assessment tool called the Solutions Navigator™ which accelerates cross-functional planning activities.  During the session, participants will interact with each other through three exercises.  They will:

• Evaluate a comprehensive set of healthcare organizational needs 
• Evaluate a set of common types of people and assets that are candidates for location services
• Evaluate a set of top best practices in automated critical event management, with a focus on patient safety

In addition, key technology drivers from over 50 other healthcare systems will be shared with this group, along with the findings from two other planning exercises related to wireless applications, systems and devices and systems integration.

Workshop Deliverables

A comprehensive report (in PowerPoint format) summarizing the results from the participants will be provided within two weeks of the workshop.  The facilitator will be available for a read-out of the report (via conference call) with the workshop participants after delivery of the report.

Helen Wu is a Senior Consultant and Healthcare Practice Leader with Innovation Services for Johnson Controls.  In this role, she provides strategic planning, needs assessment, solution design and capital project planning services to client organizations.  Since joining Johnson Controls in 1990, she has held a variety of sales and sales management positions serving clients in the corporate real estate and healthcare industries.  Helen received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.  She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and serves on the Catholic Health Association Diversity Committee and was an immediate past board member of the Institute for Diversity in Health Management (IFD).

The cost of the meeting is $35.00 for AHENJ Members and $50.00 for non-members; which include networking, dinner and program. Please RSVP by February 14, 2007 to Steven Hauer, AHENJ   Treasurer at the address below.  We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, February 21, 2007.      

Click here to download the registration form.