Harm Scherpbier

CMIO, Main Line Health Philadelphia

• Biography
• Presentation

Biography

Harm J. Scherpbier, MD, is Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer at Main Line Health in suburban Philadelphia.  He is responsible for the implementation of healthcare information systems and the electronic patient record for doctors, nurses and other clinicians throughout the health system. His focus is on increasing patient safety and achieving high quality of care through innovative IT solutions.

Prior to joining Main Line Health, Dr. Scherpbier was Product Manager for Healthcare Process Management at Siemens Health Services, a global provider of Healthcare IT software and services.  He was responsible for design and development, marketing and implementation of Workflow Management Systems and Decision Support Systems as key components of a Healthcare IT infrastructure.

Dr. Scherpbier was Vice President of Software Engineering at CareScience, an outcomes measurement and analysis firm.  He also was Medical Director at Aetna’s US Quality Algorithms division, responsible for performance measurement and outcomes analysis.

Dr. Scherpbier is an active member of the Healthcare IT standards movement, particularly focused on Knowledge Representation standards, promoting the sharing and re-use of knowledge between healthcare organizations.  From 1995 to 1998, he chaired the HL7 Arden Syntax committee for Knowledge Representation.

Dr. Scherpbier was born and raised in the Netherlands.  He received his medical training at the University of Groningen, graduating in 1986, and completed additional training in Medical Informatics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, both in the Netherlands.  He moved to the United States in 1988.

One of Dr. Scherpbier’s personal interests is local farming, and the impact on health, the environment, and preserving open space.  He is the past-president of Pennypack Farm & Education Center, an organic community farm in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Scherpbier lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife and 3 children.

Presentation

Good Patient-directed Information in the Hospital Setting

Case: Main Line Health Philadelphia

E-health, Conference Day #2, Thursday May 6th, 10.30 am - 12.00 am

A hospital stay is a confusing and overwhelming time for patients and families.  There is a deluge of information, communications, and decisions to be made.  Main Line Health developed a patient-directed “Daily Care Plan” to help inform patients and families of the care they receive while in the hospital.  This plan serves as an information summary and a communication tool for patient and care-team.

Harm's presentation demonstrates the Daily Care Plan and how it was developed, and outlines the challenges that arise in the implementation of patient-directed information tools: transformation of content for the target audience, missing information, operational and delivery concerns, privacy, security and legal concerns.

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