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Satish Maripuri, Executive VP and General Manager, and Peter Durlach, Senior VP – Strategy, Nuance Healthcare. AI-powered intelligence incorporated into clinical documentation and imaging workflow is now able to augment a provider’s ability to capture patient stories and improve care. Nuance shares case studies and insights from applications of AI-supported virtual assistants, imaging algorithms, and […]

Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, Chief Data Science Officer, Partners Healthcare, and William Boonn, MD, CMIO Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance. The impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on healthcare comes from a new and expanded use of AI-powered solutions. With AI, hospital groups can augment clinical expertise with deep-learning algorithms trained to prioritize patients with life-threatening […]

Tom Moran, MD, Vice President & Chief Medical Information Executive, and Laurel Fleming, JD, Director, Corporate Compliance & Integrity and Chief Privacy Executive, Northwestern Medicine. In this era of value-based care, information exchange and data analytics, the ability to use and share patient care information is critical. Healthcare providers, however, continue to face challenges presented […]

Glenn Wasson, Administrator of Analytics, and Jonathan Michel, Director of Data Science, University of Virginia Health System. Data science can provide fundamental insights and efficiency gains that healthcare providers must leverage. Doing this requires not only strategic alignment of data science with overall health system strategy, but also workflow alignment with caregivers whose actions ultimately […]

Barry Aaronson, MD, CMIO, Niloofar Alikashani, PharmD, and Therese Franco, MD, Virginia Mason Medical Center. Two important quality goals for hospitalized patients are optimized Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis and optimized glycemic control for diabetic patients. Dr. Aaronson describes efforts underway at Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) Hospital to use lean methodology as incorporated into the […]

Chris Franciskovich, Manager Advanced Analytics, and Mark Hohulin, SVP Healthcare Analytics, OSF Innovation, OSF HealthCare System. Defining a healthcare data science strategy can be daunting. Do you build internal capacity or buy services as needed? How do you find and retain talent? Can an internal team really produce enough value to make it worth the […]

Rick Howard, VP Data and Insights, and Chief Data Officer, Ascension. Building an advanced analytics platform is challenging, as data governance, management and integration across the spectrum of information systems and types vary. Addressing this challenge requires that organizations eliminate such variation by using mature analytics to inform workforce skill development, which in turn supports […]

Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, Paul Warburton, Senior Analyst, and Sam Eaquinto, Senior Analyst, KLAS. US hospital EMR market share and emerging buying trends: In 2017, 216 acute care hospitals contracted for a new EMR, with 1 – 200 bed hospitals accounting for the vast majority (80%) of these decisions. And looking beyond EMRs, providers are […]

Brian Patty, MD, VP Clinical Systems and CMIO, Jordan A. Dale, MD, Associate CMIO and Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Bret Shillingstad, MD, Executive Director and CMIO – EHR Optimization Service, Nuance Healthcare.  By helping physicians advance the utilization of available functionality and providing specialty specific workflows and tools, Rush […]

Ed Cantwell, President and CEO, and Aaron Goldmuntz, SVP Comprehensive Interoperability, Center for Medical Interoperability. Ed and Aaron introduce the Center for Medical Interoperability, a non-profit organization led by health systems with a vision to accelerate the seamless exchange of information to improve healthcare for all. They discuss how this approach, modeled after other industry centralized […]

Albert Chan, MD, Sutter Health VP, Chief of Digital Patient Experience, and Steve Chambers, General Manager & VP, Patient Access Solutions, Sutter Physician Services, Sutter Health. Patients have more choices in healthcare than ever before. Today’s patients want consistent and seamless care when it is convenient for them, which may or may not be the […]

Kelly Patrick, Managing Director, Tony Jurek, Managing Director, Mitch Bailey, Senior Manager, and Alan Vitale, Specialist Master from Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Technology advancements, many developed outside of the traditional healthcare technology organizations, have the ability to both advance and disrupt how healthcare plans and providers interact with their employees, partners and customers. Incorporating these technologies can enhance the […]

Julie Henslee, Senior Director Data & Insights, Ascension Health. Large, multi-state health organizations with significant variability continue to struggle with system interoperability. The development of new interoperability standards and adherence to traditional standards is a must when accounting for the flexibility necessary to tackle large, heterogeneous ecosystems. As the market continues to grow in population […]

Siraj Anwar, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS, Associate CMIO, Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann began their clinical decision support journey 12 years ago when they set out to implement Computerized Physician Order Entry across the entire health system. Over the years, with the help of the clinical decision support alerts, they have been able to positively […]

Harry C. Sax, MD, FACS, MHCM, FACHE, Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and John Kontor, MD, Executive VP, Optum Advisory Services. Cedars-Sinai Health System partnered with Optum Advisory Services and Stanson Healthcare to design and execute an observational study to show that embedding care standards effectively within the provider workflow is at […]

David Hanauer, MD, MS, FACMI, Program Director of Clinical Research Informatics, Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer, and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. Often the most detailed clinical data are trapped within the free text clinical notes, and these data are needed when the structured/coded data are […]

Burton Hayes, MD, CMIO, Methodist Le Bonheur. Dr. Hayes discusses how Clinical Decision Support has evolved at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare with an open discussion about how others are approaching this topic. Included in the discussion will be Methodist Le Bonheur’s efforts to reduce alert fatigue while increasing the effectiveness of clinical alerts.

Petra Olsen, RN, MSN, Clinical Applications Director, Centura Health. The work culture you either allow or create impacts the quality of your work; in this case, your EHR Implementation. Petra shares Centura Health’s “secret sauce” to deliberately creating a culture of excellence to complete an Epic Implementation for its 17-hospital system in 18 months – […]

John Bulger, DO, MBA, Chief Medical Officer Population Health, Geisinger Health System and the Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan, and David Ledbetter, PhD, Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer at Geisinger Health System. At Geisinger, the goal is Caring – for the people and communities we serve to improve health. Precision Medicine […]

Luis Saldaña, MD, MBA, FACEP, CMIO, and Kanan Garg, MS, MA, MPH, CPHIMS, SSBB, Applications Analyst III, Clinical Business Intelligence, Texas Health Resources. Dr. Saldaña and Kanan share their journey in improving measurement of the end user impact of various clinical decision support (CDS) interventions including alerts and order sets, and the effectiveness and value […]

Julie Bonewell, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, Director Quality Improvement, Spectrum Health, and Angela R. Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive, Impact Advisors. The concept of Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) as a foundation for higher quality and safer care has been a focus for more than 40 years in the US. The Institute of Medicine report in 2001 […]

Luis Saldaña, MD, MBA, FACEP, CMIO, Maxine Ketcham, Clinical Decision Support Applications Analyst, Texas Health Resources, and Brita Hansen, MD, CMO, LogicStream Health. Texas Health Resources (THR) is achieving clinical improvement by hardwiring evidence-based practices into their clinical processes across all 14 of its hospitals using Clinical Process Improvement (CPI) methodologies. This talk discusses why CPI is […]

Ann Hendrich, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior VP, Chief Quality/Safety/PSO and Nursing Officer, Sheila Stern, VP Clinical Professional Development, and John Pirolo, MD, Senior VP and CMIO, Ascension. Ascension Healthcare has established a system-level effort to narrow clinical variation, align platforms with evidence-based medicine and best practices, and streamline monthly tracking of performance. These efforts have been aligned […]

Ben Wandtke, MD, MS, President of Medical Staff, Chief of Diagnostic Imaging, FF Thompson Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and William Boonn, MD, CMIO, Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance. Incidental findings are common and while most are benign, others represent early treatable forms of cancer. The management of incidental findings has historically been a source […]

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human” revealed that 98,000 people die every year due to medical errors. The Leapfrog Group founders partnered with the Business Roundtable, leading researchers and academics, and top quality and patient safety experts […]

Matt Sullivan, MD, CMIO, Atrium Health, and Alan Staples, Senior Strategist, Cerner. Atrium Health utilizes clinical decision support alerts within the electronic health record that are triggered by selected risks for opioid abuse. The alerts might include a history of prior opioid overdose, or whether he or she had tested positive for marijuana or cocaine […]

Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, Senior Pharmacy Specialist, Yale New Haven Health System, Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS, Associate Director Clinical Pharmacy Services at UChicago Medicine, Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, Director Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP), and Patrick Yoder, PharmD, CEO, LogicStream Health. Healthcare leadership is increasingly focused on […]