Scottsdale Institute

Tony Oliva, DO, Chief Medical Officer, Nuance, and Shane Wolverton, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, CareChex.  Evidence clearly shows the value of implementing Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) to improve Case Mix Index (CMI), but can it positively impact patient safety and care quality metrics – in a quantifiable, persistent way?  An in-depth look at clinical […]

Tina Esposito, VP, Center for Health Information Services, Darcy Davis, Data Scientist, and Fran Wilk, Clinical Process Designer, Advocate Health Care.  With annual cost estimates as large as $300 billion, non-adherence to medications is an enormous opportunity in the Accountable Care era.  As a large ACO, Advocate Health Care is working to more effectively intervene […]

Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD, Director for Interoperability Informatics, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System.  NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) is an integrated delivery system in the New York City metropolitan area.  Like all health care providers, NYP is responding to dynamics that are advancing value-based care and the need for efficiency in health care delivery.  The value-based care landscape – and […]

Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, and Joan Campbell, RN, Clinical Informaticist, Impact Advisors.  Dr. Edwards and Joan discuss management of the tidal wave of changes necessary to be successful as health systems transition to value-based payment environments.  They also cover developing true systems out of federated states to reduce clinical variation and cost, integration […]

Deborah Larkin-Carney, Corporate VP for Quality, RWJBarnabas Health, and Catherine Gorman-Klug, Director Quality Service Line, Nuance Communications, Inc.  Beginning in February 2017, hospitals will be required to submit quality measures electronically to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While all electronic health records (EHRs) are required to be certified to submit the proper […]

Dan Golder, MD, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session provides an in-depth review and analysis of the calculations used to score each of the four MIPS components (Quality, Advancing Care Information, Improvement Activities, and Cost). Learn how to understand some of the complexities used in the […]

Dr. Timothy Buchman, PhD, MD, MCCM, Director Emory Critical Care Center, and Cheryl Hiddleson, MSN, RN, CCRN-E, Director Emory eICU Center. There is a shortage of critical care providers in the United States. Finding new ways of utilizing existing resources to provide high quality care to larger populations is essential for filling the gap found […]

Brenda Reiss-Brennan, PhD, APRN, Mental Health Integration Director, Intermountain Healthcare, and Jeffrey Rose, MD, Senior VP of Clinical Strategy, Hearst Health.  Properly diagnosing and treating mental disorders through an effective integrated team approach is vital to achieving population health. In 2000, Intermountain created a Mental Health Integration program for patients that made mental health evaluation […]

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session will look at the “other half” of the MACRA legislation: incentives for participating in Alternative Payment Models (APMs).  Topics will include an in-depth review and analysis of the different APM options defined under […]

Grayling Yarbrough, Director of Population Health Management, and Randy Osteen, Associate CIO and Vice President for Information Management, CHRISTUS Health.  Over the past few years, Population Health Management has become a buzz word in the healthcare industry as payment and care delivery moves from fee-for-service to value-based care models.  In 2013, CHRISTUS Health began its […]

Sara Laskey, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Metro Health, and Shara Cohen, JD, Senior VP, Client Experience, Emmi. Technology can be a powerful tool to enable providers to engage patients to be active partners in their care, but Cleveland-based MetroHealth System learned it could do much more.  MetroHealth initially implemented Emmi care transition solutions to help […]

Andrew L. Rosenberg, MD, CIO, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, and Migdalia Musler, Associate CFO, University of Michigan Medical Group.  Healthcare providers and health systems may be at financial and other risk if they are unable to accurately determine costs for patients and their episodes of care, let alone how those costs compare to outcomes […]

Melissa Dill, Vice President, Ascension Information Services.  Technology has and will continue to play an important role in the way products and services are developed, delivered and used by their customers.  While healthcare tends to lag behind industry in adoption and delivery of new, innovative solutions, consumers are demanding that healthcare keep up with non-healthcare […]

Trac Pham, MS, RPh, MBA, Corporate Director of Central Service Center, Advocate Health Care.  Advocate Health Care has transformed the management and delivery of drugs throughout the health system with an aggressive and disciplined focus on standing up a central service center for pharmacy to reduce medication costs and improve pharmacy staff efficiency.  In just […]

J.D. Whitlock, VP, Enterprise Intelligence, Mercy Health.  Whether you are just starting your VBC journey, or are a mature ACO / CIN refining your technology strategy, we are all struggling with obtaining the right balance of VBC capabilities from our enterprise EHR, VBC vendor add-ons, and staffing. J.D. discusses IT management / strategy implications of […]

Lee Pierce, Chief Data Officer, and Lonny Northrup, Sr. Medical Informaticist, Intermountain Healthcare.  With hundreds of vendors advertising the benefits of big data and machine learning for healthcare, it is challenging to separate claims from reality. Intermountain Healthcare shares examples of work they have done and work done by other leading healthcare systems that are […]

Kenneth J. Fawcett, Jr, MD, VP Spectrum Health Healthier Communities.  Spectrum Health’s Healthier Communities offers community outreach to vulnerable populations to improve health and reduce health disparities.  Infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes have been reduced by 50%; enhanced educational outcomes are supported through virtual health delivery augmenting onsite behavioral health, medical and dental services; […]

Erik Johnson, VP Value Based Care, Jay Hazelrigs, Jim Dolstad, Senior Director Actuarial Advisory, and Elena White, Optum.  Today’s integrated health systems are increasingly engaged in Medicare risk management strategies, such as Medicare Advantage, MSSP, and MACRA. Strategies for managing risk in the Medicare population can cascade into commercial payer performance, and market competitiveness and […]

Alexander Nieto-Avila, Imaging Systems Support Manager, Tampa General Hospital, and Lara Caldwell Stout, Director, Diagnostics, Nuance Communications. At Tampa General Hospital (TGH), the region’s only Level I trauma center, radiologists and physicians treating the area’s most critically ill patients are routinely faced with life or death decisions. For them, speed and information can literally make […]

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session examines the new proposed 2018 Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule for MIPS/MACRA (released 6-20-17) and its implications, providing not only a review of the rule’s provisions, but also an in-depth examination of how those provisions […]

Jay Weems, Vice-President of Operations, Avera eCARE.  Avera Health journeyed into telemedicine in the early 1990s to assist the needs of the workforce and to better serve the population in rural and underserved communities.  Today, the telemedicine arm of the Avera Health system, Avera eCARE, has become an important solution to solve several complex healthcare […]

Urvi Shah, Manager, and Heather Nelson, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  As customers’ expectations continue to mature, healthcare organizations must be prepared to support changing expectations. Focusing on the patient experience has multiple benefits for healthcare organizations – financially, and more importantly, quality outcomes. Hear about what’s most important to customers and how providers can address and […]

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, general internist and clinician investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School. Providing hospital-level care at home to acutely ill adults who would normally have been admitted to Brigham & Women’s Hospital, one of the original founding members of Partners HealthCare, offers […]

L. David Harlow, III, BS, Pharm D, Assistant VP for Professional Services Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Laboratory and Disease Management, Martin Health System. Dr. Harlow defines the significance of pharmacy services embedded in primary care that focuses strategically on Complex Multi-Comorbid patients with a history of therapeutic failure. This service leverages pharmacist talent in the context […]

Sam VanNorman, MS, CPHQ, General Manager Managed Analytics Programs (MAP), and Derek Pederson, MA, MBA, VP Medical Informatics Consulting, Optum.  See how innovative analytics helped to mitigate risks associated with diabetes severity, potentially avoidable ER visits, and palliative care across health systems.  Gain insights from three highly impactful case studies and see how advanced data […]

Brian Wayling, AVP TeleHealth Services, Angie Adams, RN, BSN, TeleHealth Program Manager, and Katherine Repko, RN, TeleHealth Operations Manager, Intermountain Healthcare.  Intermountain Healthcare has deployed a broad range of TeleHealth programs in just a few years that have facilitated over 330,000 patient interactions. Participants will hear how a central TeleHealth deployment team, and an integrated […]

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor Impact Advisors.  This session provides late-breaking information about what every provider needs to know now in order to successfully attest for 2017. Dan, Jason and Larry examine the implications of the recent clarification from CMS regarding the MIPS requirement that eligible […]