Strategies and Technologies for Advancing Patient Engagement
January 15, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTColin Buckley, Senior Analyst, and Adam Cherrington, Director of Patient Engagement Research, KLAS. Patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is just taking shape. Broad visions and experimentation abound, but pathways are still being cleared, and there is a lack of consensus regarding end goals. The […]
Demographics, Burnout, and Technology: From Frustration to Friend
January 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTMichael Tutty, PhD, VP Professional Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association. The demographics of the United States are shifting as the population ages and the number of workers per retiree shrinks. The resulting changes will put a heavy strain on the healthcare system. There is a projected physician shortfall of between 42,600 and 121,300 […]
Driving EHR Adoption: Looking Beyond Go-Live for Long-term Success at Scripps
January 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTShane Thielman, FACHE, AVP of Information Services, Joseph B. Stein, MD, FACC, Director of EHR, Scripps Health, and Bret Shillingstad, MD, CMIO of EHR Optimization Services, Nuance Communications. Preparing members of the Scripps care team to adopt and utilize their EHR effectively was a key driver behind the way Scripps approached go-live and enablement of […]
Managing Cyber Threats and Protecting Patients: An HHS and Industry-led Response
January 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTErik Decker, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine, and Julie Chua, Risk Management Branch Chief, HHS Office of Information Security. Learn about mitigating common threats to the healthcare industry through a deep dive of the 405d cybersecurity guidance document. This guide (written for small-, medium- and large-sized organizations) posits a voluntary, […]
Diagnostic Errors and Health Informatics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
January 30, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTPaul Epner, CEO and Co-Founder, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Diagnostic Errors, i.e., failures to provide an accurate and timely explanation for a patient’s problem, are the most significant patient safety issue today, causing more morbidity and mortality than all other patient safety problems combined. Informatics will certainly have a significant role in improving […]
Microhospitals: Alternative Strategies for Clinical Services Delivery at CHRISTUS
January 31, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJennifer Varnadore, Administrator, CHRISTUS Bossier Emergency Hospital, Randy Osteen, VP Applications Services, and Dana Smelser, Director of Marketing and Communications, CHRISTUS Health. As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, provider organizations are seeking lower-cost alternatives to providing traditional clinical services through creation of facilities that are scalable in design to provide high levels of care […]
Digital Patient Engagement at Partners
February 6, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs. Evidence suggests that patients engaged in their own care have better clinical outcomes and lower total medical expenses. However, engaging patients in meaningful ways requires high levels of coordination within care teams, along with the availability of well-designed, intelligent tools to offer to patients. […]
2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule from CMS
February 19, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTDan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session focuses on the 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Final Rule from CMS, and provides a high-level overview of the significant components of the legislation, how they interrelate, and what providers and health care organizations need to know for 2019. Highlights include […]
Developing a Provider Efficiency Program at Beaumont
February 20, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTKarie Lyon, VP Information Technology, Suzan Beydoun, MD, MSHI, Associate CMIO, and Cathy Shepherd, RN, MEd, Director Information Technology, Beaumont Health, share their journey on the development of a provider efficiency program for their ambulatory providers. This program utilizes proficiency data from the electronic health record to identify providers who would benefit from on-site support […]
Tackling Provider Directories: Sharing and Managing Change Across the Blockchain
February 21, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTGerry Lewis, Senior VP and CIO, Ascension and CEO, Ascension Technologies, and Lorraine Frias, Senior Director Strategic Initiatives, Optum. Billions of dollars are spent annually on provider data management, yet provider directories often contain inaccuracies that dramatically increase the cost of care while reducing its quality. This session provides an overview of why Aetna, Ascension, […]
The Growth and Maintenance of a Population Health Strategy at Memorial Hermann
February 26, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTIni Ekiko, VP Population Health and Ambulatory Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Memorial Hermann has implemented tools to facilitate tracking and completion of registry care gaps and accurate HCC (hierarchical condition category) coding, as well as the reporting, analyzing and visualization of data. With HealtheIntent serving as just one component of the solution, the population […]
Cybersecurity Investment Strategy at Partners HealthCare
February 27, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJigar Kadakia, CISO/CPO, Partners HealthCare System. Cybersecurity does not generate revenue, and this makes it difficult to assess how much money to allocate to a cybersecurity budget or predict the economic impact of a successful cyberattack or major breach; but it’s not impossible. In this session, Jigar explains that while there is no exact science […]
Using AI to Improve Physician Documentation and Quality
February 28, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTEhab Hanna, MD, MBA, CMIO, Universal Health Services, and Michael Clark, SVP & General Manager, Nuance Communications. Through conversational AI-powered solutions at the point-of-care, providers at Universal Health Services (UHS) are now able to capture documentation to create a complete picture of the patient story with specificity from diagnosis to treatment. In this session, Dr. […]
The Future of Health: Technology Trends Transforming Healthcare
March 5, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTTom Foley, Principal, Jason Wainstein, Principal, and David Betts, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The life sciences and health care industry is on the brink of large-scale disruption. The future will be defined by radically interoperable data, open and secure platforms, and consumer-driven care. Is your organization prepared? This teleconference explores the future of health and […]
Strategic Program Management at INTEGRIS: The IT Role as a Strategic Partner
March 6, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTMark Pasquale, CIO, INTEGRIS Health. How many projects in your portfolio require IT resources to succeed? If your organization is like most, over 90% of the projects will require at least one IT resource. Many organizations now rely on IT as the team who has ownership of all project intake, approval, prioritization and management processes […]
Medicare ACO in Adolescence: Six Years of MSSP Experience at AMITA Health
March 7, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTLuke Hansen, MD, MHS, VP & CMO Population Health, AMITA Health. Accountable Care Organizations represent the most widely adopted of Medicare’s alternative payment models. AMITA Health was an early entrant of the program and has realized over $45 Million of shared savings over the last six years while posting top tier quality performance. Dr. Hansen […]
Complex Care Planning Process at Mercy Health
March 14, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMichael Olgren, MS, MMI, MD, FACEP, CMIO, and Diplomate in Clinical Informatics of the ABPM, Mercy Health Saint Mary’s Campus, a member of Trinity Health. Most healthcare workers feel patient complexity has gone through the roof, along with the expectation of managing the costs these patients incur. As we move to value-based care, that cost […]
Extending Patient Care Through Voice Technology and AI
March 19, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTShara Cohen, JD, VP Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer. Scaling reach and effectiveness of care management resources is a critical challenge for leading healthcare organizations as they seek to meet the demands of population health management, value-based care performance and shrinking margins. The ability to provide reliable and consistent patient care and […]
Telehealth Strategy at VCU Improves Productivity, Patient Experience and Bottom Line
March 21, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTVimal Mishra, MD, MMCi, Medical Director Office of Telemedicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, ABPM Diplomate in Clinical Informatics, and David Collins, MHA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Practice Administrator Telemedicine, VCU Health. Traditional face-to-face patient visits require multiple accommodations, including travel, parking, navigating to a clinic, and spending time in waiting rooms, all of which often take far […]
Understanding and Getting the Most out of Value-based Services
March 26, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTWarren Whitford, Director of Value Based Care Research, and Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, KLAS. The shift to value-based care is top of mind for many health systems. Market complexity and growth in the value-based care (VBC) managed services market have led to fluctuating customer experiences. Over the past two years, leaders from 30+ provider/payer organizations […]
Community Collaboration Address Social Determinants to Reduce Costs and Improve Health
March 27, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMark Ropiecki, Executive Director, and Wayne Teris, MD, Medical Director, Care Compass Network. Community Based Organizations provide valued services to our community members that contribute to health outcomes. These services are not yet fully quantified or qualified from an integrated health system-community based organization approach to value-based reimbursement. This session focuses on innovative efforts underway […]
Understanding Cost and Efficacy of New Medication Therapies
March 28, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDeborah Pasko, PharmD, MHA, Director of Performance Center Optimization & Services, Omnicell. As inpatient drug spend continues to outpace payer reimbursement, health systems need to have better insight into the impact of medication usage on the total cost of care. Deb discusses and reviews ways to understand the impact of medication use on patient outcomes. […]
The Future of Work in Healthcare
April 2, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJen Radin, Principal, Quinn Solomon, Principal, Debora Hays, Specialist Executive, and Colleen Bordeaux, Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLC. The future of work and the workforce is a topic at the World Economic Forum and in every industry publication. With the unmatched disruption in exponential technologies, generational changes and flexible labor markets, the Future of Work is […]
Civica Rx at Intermountain
April 3, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDan Liljenquist, SVP/Chief Strategy Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Shortages of essential generic medications are impacting patient care throughout the country. Civica Rx is a not-for-profit generic drug company, organized by leading health systems and philanthropies with a mission to ensure that essential generic medications are available and affordable for everyone. This session (1) explores the market […]
Enhancing Nursing Mobility and Improving Care Team Communications with CareAware Connect
April 18, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAngela Kline-Couch, MBA-HC, MSN, BSN, RN, Director of Telemetry Services, Kassaundra McKnight-Young, BSN, RN, Senior Clinical Informaticist, and Breane Lucas, BSN, RN, Senior Clinical Informaticist, Truman Medical Centers. Hospital leadership is constantly searching for ways to improve care team efficiencies and the overall patient experience, all while ensuring the highest levels of patient safety. An […]
CMS and ONC Proposed Rules on Interoperability, Patient Access, Information Blocking, and EHR Certification
April 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session focuses on two proposed rules recently published by the federal government: Interoperability and Patient Access from CMS, and Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Dan and Jason provide an overall review of these rules and how […]
Advocate Partnerships for Statewide Pediatric Care
April 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMike Farrell, President, and Frank Belmonte, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Children’s Hospital. High quality pediatric care starts with sufficient volumes and breadth of services. In a contracting pediatric market, how do you continue to gain market share and augment services that you can provide to this population? Nontraditional partnerships become essential to consolidating the […]
Medication Therapy Management and CMS Standardized Format: Medicare Part D Co-design
April 25, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTNicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, BCPP, FASCP, Executive Director, The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging, and Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Co-design is one of the essential tools in human-centered design (HCD) and involves the patients in the design process and works with them to […]
Creating and Running Innovation Centers: TechSpring at Baystate
May 1, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTChristian Lagier, Managing Director and Co-Founder, TechSpring – the Baystate Health Technology Innovation Center. As regulatory and competitive pressures are dramatically increasing the pace of change in our industry, Christian speaks about the role of “innovation centers” in healthcare. At the founding of TechSpring five years ago, there were less than 20. Today, the list […]
Clinical Guideline Recommendations you can Trust
May 2, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJanice Kaczmarek, EPC Program Manager & Director, ECRI Guidelines Trust, ECRI Institute. When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) decided to stop funding the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC), ECRI Institute heard from numerous users of the site who were dismayed. ECRI had been the prime contractor for NGC for 20 years, and in […]
An Introduction to Emerging Healthcare Technologies
May 7, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTGeoff Lougheed, Principal, Raj Mehta, Partner, and Chris Shudes, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Emerging technology trends can seem both elusive and ephemeral, but some become integral to business and IT strategies – and form the backbone of tomorrow’s technology innovation. Deloitte has identified eight technology trends for 2019 to guide CIOs and technology leaders through […]
SMART on FHIR: Integrating HIE Data into EMR Workflow, Part III
May 8, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTitus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute, and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Indiana University, and Jason Schaffer, MD, IU Health. How do you integrate data from a community health information exchange effectively and efficiently into an EMR? Our FHIR-based app, called CareView, for connecting the Indiana Network for Patient Care with the Cerner EMR […]
Insights for Unlocking the Potential of AI in Healthcare
May 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTushar Mehrotra, SVP Analytics, and Marc Paradis, VP and Dean of Data Science University, Optum. Recent survey findings suggest increasing optimism that AI will transform healthcare while also yielding a return on investment. But success can only be achieved when organizations focus on solving a particular business problem and applying the right resources against it. […]
Continuing Care: It’s not just Post-acute Care
May 15, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTSeth Nore, MBA, MHA, Clinical Applications Director, and John Jurchak, MSPT, Director of Performance Enhancement, Atrium Health. Atrium Health operates as a fully integrated system that is connecting and transforming care delivery. Seth and Bennett discuss the growing importance of continuing care organizations and how Atrium’s approach to clinical system integration aligns with an overarching […]
Recruitment Marketing in a Digital Age at Ascension
May 16, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAnne Pankonien, Senior Director Talent Acquisition, Promotions and Sourcing Strategy, and Lauren King, Regional Recruitment Director, Ascension. People are talking … and texting, and tweeting and blogging. How do you ensure your recruitment message is being heard above the noise? In this session we will discuss the digital recruitment toolbox, and tips and tricks for […]
KLAS Interoperability and EHR Data Sharing Trends
May 21, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTColin Buckley, Senior Analyst, Paul Warburton, EHR Analyst, and Tyson Blauer, Interoperability Analyst, KLAS. Interoperability and EHR market share are still top of mind for HIT leaders across the country. KLAS’ latest interoperability update validates the CommonWell-Carequality connection, which makes data sharing possible for almost any provider organization. The next hurdle is making shared data […]
An EHR-Based Real-Time Analytics Program for Patient Safety Surveillance and Improvement
May 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDavid Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. Dr. Classen reviews the use of artificial intelligence at the bedside to improve the safety of care for patients. He also discusses an article recently published in a special issue of Health Affairs in November 2018 that is totally devoted to patient […]
Insourcing Ready-to-Administer Syringes with IV Robotics
May 30, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKevin N. Hansen, PharmD, MS, BCPS, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicate that whenever possible, medications are to be dispensed in the most ready-to-administer (RTA) forms available from the manufacturer or in pharmacy-repackaged unit dose. […]
Value Based Care & Payment Transformation through Interoperability
June 4, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTony Jurek, Managing Director, Anne Phelps, Principal, and Mark Bethke, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Despite the political rhetoric and public doubt surrounding the viability of the value-based care model, the industry continues to mature and evolve this model of healthcare delivery. The next wave of meaningful use funding, CMS Innovation programming for value driven […]
Improved Nursing Workflow through EHR Documentation Optimization
June 5, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTRebecca Kohler, RN, MPH, Director Clinical Informatics, Hennepin Healthcare, Jennifer Aning, BSN, RN, Senior RN Clinical Informatics Analyst, Nikki Helle, BSN, RN, Senior RN Epic Application Analyst, UnityPoint Health, and Brita Hansen, MD, CMO, LogicStream Health. While a primary responsibility of nursing is compassionate, knowledgeable, and effective delivery of care, today’s nurse is challenged with […]
GDPR: So You Think it Doesn’t Apply?
June 6, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTScott Dresen, FACHE, FHIMSS, CISSP, CISM, Senior VP & CTO/CISO, Leah Voigt, JD, MPH, Chief Privacy & Research Integrity Officer, Spectrum Health System, Christy Wheaton, Chief Information Privacy & Security Officer, and Liz Callahan-Morris, Deputy General Counsel, Henry Ford Health System. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect for almost […]
Evolving your IT Strategy in the Digital Health Age
June 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTElizabeth Pearlman, VP Software Applications and Operations, Hospital for Specialty Surgery (HSS), and Liam Bouchier, Principal, Impact Advisors, discuss how organizations can prepare for and ensure a traditional IT strategy is aligned with and enabling the Digital future in a highly competitive urban marketplace. They share their views of what it takes from both the […]
The Innovation Process at John Muir
June 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJon Russell, SVP and CIO, John Muir Health. Jon provides an overview of John Muir Health’s journey from innovation to transformation, including a description of their internal processes and examples of how John Muir is engaging in the Bay area’s health tech startup and operational innovation environment to drive organization strategy, develop creative partnerships with […]
Transforming Patient Access to Care
June 13, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDavid Jaspan, DO, FACOOG, Chair, Access Governance Committee and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Einstein Healthcare Network, and James Farley, National VP Value Creation, UnitedHealthcare. Einstein Health Network (EHN), was struggling with recurring and growing financial losses, both in their medical group and at their hospital. Wait times in the medical network were extremely long – […]
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery through EMR Integration
June 18, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTStacey Johnston, MD, Associate CMIO for Hospitalist Informatics, and Megan Argabright, Clinical Informaticist, Baptist Health (Jacksonville FL). Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is an evidence-based interdisciplinary care delivery model that focuses on quickly moving the evidence developed from surgical research to bedside patient care, making a more immediate positive impact on patient recovery. Designed to […]
Population Health Strategy & Technology in the Shift to Value-Based Care
June 25, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTVanessa Guzman, AVP, Quality Improvement, Montefiore Health System, and Shara L. Cohen, JD, VP, Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health. Vanessa and Shara describe the strategy used by Montefiore Health System to implement value-based care model activities, understanding that patients’ health extends well-beyond healthcare settings. The model promotes accountability for performance through contractual […]
Get SMART in the EHR Classroom
July 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTPaula Theriault, MBA, RN, VP, Regional Nursing Informatics Officer, Jim Belanger, MBA, Director Clinical Informatics, Northern Light Health. In today’s business world, time is at a premium which is especially true in a hospital setting. Efficient delivery of EHR education for a healthcare system that spans a large geographical region poses a challenge. Northern Light […]
Making Primary Care Primary at Centura: CMMI’s Vision for Healthcare Innovation, Part III
July 16, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN, Coordinator for Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Mercy Family Medicine and Steve Lavengood, MD, CPC+ Medical Director, Mercy Family Medicine, Centura Health Physician Group. With the advent of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI) that began in October 2012, CMMI has continued incentivizing primary care practices to move away from […]
New Visualization Techniques for Medication Adherence at Advocate Aurora
July 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDarcy Davis, PhD, Data Scientist, Advocate Aurora Health. Medication adherence is a multi-faceted problem with varying intensity of health consequences but ultimately a high societal cost. In this complex space, tools that aid clinician judgement are more actionable when paired with meaningful conversations about patient needs and barriers to adherence. Learn how Advocate Aurora Health […]
What Nurses Need: Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Clinical Staff to Improve Patient Outcomes at CommonSpirit
July 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAnn Shepard, RNC, MSN, VP & CNIO, CommonSpirit Health, Nancy Beale, MSN, RN-BC, President, Beale and Associates, LLC, and Anthony F. Oliva, DO, MMM, FACPE, VP & CMO, Nuance. Nurses have long been seen as the primary collector of patient data, they are typically the first clinician with whom a patient interacts, and they rely […]
Making the Right Choice: How to Rate Healthcare Apps
July 25, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDTAdam Landman, MD, CIO, David Levine, MD, Associate Physician, and David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. There are several hundred thousand healthcare apps in the marketplace, but it can be very difficult to determine which ones to choose – and the vast majority have little, if […]
Utilizing a Balanced Scorecard for Better BI at CHRISTUS
July 30, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDustin Drueckhammer, Manager Business Intelligence, and Cindy Neuenschwander, Senior Data Quality Specialist, CHRISTUS Health. In today’s climate, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Governance (DG) are pivotal aspects of a successful heath system. The capability to produce actionable governed data enables an organization to ensure that high data quality and integrity exists throughout the complete lifecycle […]
Children’s Minnesota Community Connect: Linking Families, Resources and Care
July 31, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJessica Block, Manager Community Health Programs, and Pam Ross, JD, MHA, Director Community Health Programs, Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. Increasingly, efforts to address the social determinants of health provide important opportunities to influence individual and population health. Responsive programming requires thoughtful clinical integration, skilled resource navigation, and community collaboration – all anchored in […]
Network Management: A Strategic Approach to Value-based Care
August 6, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMatthew Penziner, Executive Director, NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network. For NYUPN, keeping costs down and quality high meant keeping more of its attributed patients seeing NYUPN physicians. To influence patients to utilize “domestic” primary care physicians, specialists and facilities, NYUPN worked with patients’ greatest influencers: physicians. Attendees will gain insight into how NYUPN was able to […]
Elite Analytics Status at Rush
August 7, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBala Hota, MD, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center. Rush University System for Health achieved the 2018 HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity Stage 7, demonstrating an elite status in the use of healthcare data to improve operations. This achievement was only possible through a strong data governance program and alignment with […]
TEFCA in a Nutshell Part II: Updated Proposed Rule and What It May Mean for Orgs and Providers
August 13, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTDan Golder, DDS, MBA, Impact Advisors. This session examines the April 2019 update to the Draft Specifications for TEFCA – the “Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.” This proposed rule builds on HHS’ earlier proposed rule on TEFCA, and Dan reviews this new proposed rule, some of its important provisions, and how it may influence […]
Innovative Technologies to Manage Social Determinants of Health at Advocate Physician Partners
August 14, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAlvia Siddiqi, MD, FAAFP, VP Population Health, and Mike Barbati, Med Ec & Innovations, Enterprise Population Health, Advocate Aurora Health. There are many factors that impact a person’s health beyond traditional medical care; these Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) can range from job security and education to having access to healthy food and transportation, and […]
Predicting Congestive Heart Failure Using AI Techniques
August 20, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTSunil Mallya, Principal Deep Learning Scientist, Amazon Web Services, and Marc Overhage, MD, VP Population Health Intelligence Strategy, Cerner. Predicting the onset of a serious condition could be life changing. Cerner and Amazon Web Services recently created a CNN-GRU based model, a variant of recurrent neural networks (RNN), to predict the onset of chronic disease […]
Helping Care Teams Thrive Within their EHR at Centura
August 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTScott Raymond, MHA, INF, BSN, RN, VP Information Technology, Centura Health, and Bret Shillingstad, MD, FACS, Executive Director & CMIO, EHR Optimization Services, Nuance. To meet your care team needs it takes more than a single technology or services offering. Hear how Centura Health has optimized the value of their EHR investment through the combination […]
Seeing is Relieving: Digital Reality in Healthcare
September 10, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTEren Aksu, Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Virtual and augmented reality, once considered a novelty for entertainment, has become one of the most effective emerging technologies for healthcare practitioners to improve their training, care delivery, and patient outcomes. In this session, Eren – Deloitte’s AR/VR Innovation Hub leader for Digital Reality – provides an overview of […]
ED Pilot Project to Address Opioid Abuse and Suicide Prevention at Bon Secours Mercy Health
September 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAliya Jones, MD, Chair, Department of Behavioral Health, Bon Secours Baltimore Health System, Allan Austin, Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant and Allen Tien, MD, MHS, President and Chief Science Officer, mdlogix. The ED Diversion program was designed to provide comprehensive screening and improved referral processes for high utilizers of the Bon Secours Emergency Department, enabling better […]
Thinking Like a Brand: How to Build Loyalty in the Age of Digital Disruption
September 17, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTThomas Selva, MD, CMIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Amanda Hammel, SVP & CIO, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Dick Flanigan, SVP, Cerner. In an age of consumerism, new market entries and digital disruption, driving loyalty to your healthcare organization is more important than ever. Learn from three industry perspectives as they address strategies and […]
Tech Planning for New State of the Art Hospital at Stanford
September 18, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTChristian Lindmark, VP & Chief Technology Officer, Gary Fritz, VP & Chief of Applications, and Gautami (Tami) Shirhatti, Program Director, Stanford Health Care. The new Stanford Hospital, opening in the fall of 2019, is a state-of-the art facility that will accommodate the latest advances in technology and treat rare and complex diseases. The Stanford team […]
The Untapped Potential of AI in Understanding Patient/Member Experiences
September 19, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTom Sullivan, Innovation Lead, Optum. Call center voice data is a largely untapped resource among many healthcare organizations today. In this session, Tom discusses how emerging AI technologies are being applied to voice and data at scale to truly transform customer experiences and their healthcare outcomes. Both health systems and health plans stand to benefit […]
How Henry Ford Health System is Changing to Succeed in Direct-to-Employer Contracting
September 25, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTSusan Hawkins, FACHE, Senior VP Population Health, and Chelsea Pollet, Director Direct-to-Employer Relationships, Henry Ford Health System. In January 2019, Henry Ford launched a new, direct contracting relationship with General Motors for medical and surgical services. This value-based contract applies to the salaried workforce members and dependents in the Detroit metropolitan area who selected the […]
Tapping Into the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
September 26, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTWendy Chapman, PhD, Director of the Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne, and Mike Dow, Senior Director of Data Science, Health Catalyst. Gathering insight from clinical notes remains one of the areas of untapped healthcare intelligence with tremendous potential, but extracting that value is difficult. Still, a few organizations […]
Leveraging Analytics to Drive Greater Value from your EMR Platform
October 1, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTBrian Doty, Principal, Casey Graves, Principal, and Dan Kinsella, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Digitization of the electronic medical record from 2010 to the present was largely driven by economic incentives of the HITECH Act. These “too big to fail” projects were not often scoped to consider innovative ways of working. As a result, many […]
Applying AI Across Industries into Healthcare
October 3, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKenneth Harper, VP and GM, Healthcare Virtual Assistants and Ambient Clinical Intelligence, Nuance Communications. While healthcare has been slower to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) compared to other industries, AI is now being applied in full force to drive workflow efficiencies for providers and positive health outcomes for patients. But for AI to reach its full […]
Telehealth Services that Accelerate Program Maturity
October 8, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJay Backstrom, VP and Telehealth Practice Leader, Impact Advisors. While many organizations have implemented telehealth over the years, some are realizing significant success while others are failing with low adoption and little to no realized benefits. The difference between success and failure is directly attributed to having a mature telehealth program with the right alignment […]
Utilizing Social Determinants of Health at Centura
October 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, CPC+/SIM Coordinator Mercy Primary Care, Katie Korte, Community Health Advocate, and Rodney Gardner, RN, Care Coordinator, Centura Health. Looking at a patient’s “Social Determinants of Health” has been gaining traction as a focus for whole person healthcare. Rightly so; in fact these are the first things that need to be […]
Recognizing How to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent the Causes of Physician Burnout at Sharp Rees-Stealy
October 15, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAlissa Speziale, MD, FACG, Chief Wellness Officer, Elan Hekier, MD, CMIO, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, and Brent Steineckert, MD, Director – EHR, HIM, Patient Access, Sharp HealthCare. Learn how Sharp Rees-Stealy Physician leaders tackled the issues of burnout through a multi-pronged approach addressing EHR/technology, practice transformation, and workplace wellness. Understanding and quantifying the demands upon […]
Changing Role of the CIO: How Successful IT Leaders are Leveraging IT innovation as Imperative to Growth
October 16, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKen Lee, SVP & CIO, Centura Health, and Carol Chouinard, VP, Optum Advisory Services. Historically, CIOs were limited to operating back-office applications; these days, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to operate 24/7, mission-critical solutions. This is because technology downtime risks the organization’s reputation, financial performance, and ability to effectively and efficiently deliver care. […]
Feeding the Precision Health Genetics Pipeline: Specimen Acquisition to Data Storage at UCLA
October 17, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTChristopher Denny, MD, UCLA Health. The UCLA Institute of Precision Health is currently engaged in an effort to genotype 50,000 patients each year for the next three years. To accrue sufficient patient specimens, a workflow consisting of electronic universal consent followed by retrieval of remnant blood specimens, has been created. Genotype data are processed into […]
Regulating Opioid Use: Strategies for Safely Prescribing Opioids in Light of New Federal Mandates
October 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTVanessa Guzman, AVP, Quality Improvement, Montefiore Health System, and Bob Hussey, Business Consultant for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health. In light of new federal mandates, Bob reviews strategies for safely prescribing opioids including review of federal quality and health technology reporting requirements related to opioid prescribing, potential new federal requirements and how to use CDS […]
How AI is Transforming Care Delivery at Partners
October 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs. AI has transformed most aspects of how we live today. Healthcare systems are beginning to realize this potential and are trying to harness its power – but to what end? Should we leverage AI to increase efficiencies for mundane, repetitive tasks, or can AI […]
Clinical Process Improvement and Actionable EHRs
October 29, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTTom Moran, MD, VP & Chief Medical Information Executive, Northwestern Medicine, Darby Dennis, RN, MS, VP Clinical Systems and Informatics, Houston Methodist, and Brita Hansen, MD, CMO, and Luis Saldaña, MD, CMIO, LogicStream Health, recap the latest CMIO/CNIO Summit in Chicago. Join the panel as they discuss the trends around clinical process improvement opportunities and […]
Patient Engagement Platform at Memorial Sloan Kettering
October 30, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTPete Stetson, MD, MA, CHIO, Deputy Physician-in-Chief, and Kevin Shannon, Director – Solutions Architect, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In 2015 MSK began a journey to build a robust, user-friendly and secure platform to collect patient reported data for clinical and research purposes. The end result, MSK Engage, is MSK’s electronic questionnaire tool enabling the […]
Agile Change Management at Banner
October 31, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTSherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS, CNIO, and Jean Davis, MSN, MBA, HCM, RN, Senior Director Nursing Informatics, Banner Health. Have you wondered how to use Agile methodology to improve your clinician experience working through EHR workflow changes? Banner has focused the last few years on hospital acquisitions and moving towards a single electronic health […]
Opioid Abuse and Misuse: Pharmacy’s Role in Prevention, Monitoring and Management
November 5, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTRebecca Chater, RPh, MPH, FAPhA, Director of Healthcare Strategy, Omnicell. In light of the scope of opioid abuse and misuse, this session explores the societal impact of opioid misuse, as well as system and patient-level solutions to improve management of opioids throughout the healthcare continuum. Rebecca reviews implementation of opioid-related quality measures and other initiatives […]
Today’s CMIO: Dreamer, Doer or Dinosaur?
November 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTD. Matthew Sullivan, MD, Associate CMIO, Atrium Health, and Angela R. Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive/Clinical Solutions Leader, Impact Advisors. Please join in a discussion of how the role of the Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer (CMIO) has evolved since its earliest inception circa 1995. Few other roles have seen such a rapid change in scope, duties, […]
DevSecOps at Spectrum
November 14, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTSean Henkel, Director IS, and Barry D. Nowak, Senior Domain Architect, Spectrum Health. In this discussion Barry and Sean share Spectrum Health’s 4-year DevSecOps journey. The effort emerged in 2015 with the creation of an automation team supporting agile fixed teams which led to the emergence of lean scaled agile teams in April 2019. Security’s […]
Machine Learning Algorithms for Disease Detection: Implementing AI into Radiology Workflow
November 19, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTWarren B. Gefter, MD, Professor of Radiology, Penn Medicine, and William Boonn, MD, CMIO, Nuance. With November being Lung Cancer Awareness month, Drs. Gefter and Boonn discuss Penn Medicine’s work with developers, radiologists, and scientists to incorporate deep learning algorithms that automate the detection, measurement, characterization and reporting of lung nodules on chest CT scans […]
Improving Depression Screening in Primary Care with Health IT at UCLA
November 20, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJessica Jeffrey, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Clara Lin, MD, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Specialist and Physician Informaticist, and Rachel Linonis, MS, Director Digital Solutions, UCLA Division of Population Behavioral Health at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. The high prevalence of under-recognized and costly behavioral health conditions, coupled with the rise of accountable care organizations […]
Clinical Transformation through Care Team Communication
November 21, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTSimmy King DNP, MS, MBA, RN-BC, NE-BC, Nursing Director: Clinical Information Systems & Professional Development, Matt MacVey, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, and Jeremy Davis, Senior Director & Application Leader, Children’s National, and Steve Harlow, Director Clinical Communications, Cerner. Discover how Children’s National Medical Center is using evidence-based processes and a unified clinical communication […]
Predictive Clinical Surveillance with AI
November 26, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJean-Claude Saghbini, Chief Technology Officer of Wolters Kluwer, Health. Real-time surveillance of rapidly deteriorating conditions is key to impacting quality and cost of care. In this session, Jean-Claude discusses how Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are coupled with clinical knowledge to enable predictive and prescriptive decision support at the point of care. […]
Artificial Intelligence in Obstetrics: New Models to Prevent Poor Outcomes
December 5, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTMatthew Hoffman, MD, Marie E. Pinizotto Endowed Chair in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Christiana Care Health System, and Andrew Roberts, PhD, Data Scientist, Cerner. Drs. Hoffman and Roberts review the opportunity and collaboration that has developed to improve obstetrical care at Christiana Care Health System. They’ll describe the roles and limitations of current predictive models for […]
Behavioral Components of Shared Decision Making at Sentara
December 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJordan Asher, MD, MS, SVP and Chief Physician Executive, Sentara Healthcare. Patient engagement through shared decision-making between providers and consumers of healthcare sounds so easy. However, there are a great number of behavioral characteristics that elevate the need to understand different dynamics that are in play. Dr. Asher discusses the behavioral components of both consumer/patients […]
IV Automation + Cloud Technology = Increased Patient Safety
December 12, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTJeff Brittain, PharmD, BCPS, Director Pharmacy Support Services, MUSC Health, and Mark Neuenschwander, Founding Director, THRIV. Manual IV compounding is fraught with patient safety risks. Studies show one in ten IV preps have errors. Yet, just one in four health systems use IV workflow technology proven to significantly increase accuracy. Learn how providers’ use of […]
Outlook 2020: The Top Three Challenges for Hospital Pharmacy Teams
December 17, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CSTDean Parry, RPH, Associate VP Clinical Informatics, Care Support Services, Geisinger Health System, Daniel Teich, Pharm.D., VP Purchasing and Contracting, Fairview Pharmacy Services, Jennifer Wheeler Davis, Pharm.D., MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health, and Dave Ehlert, Pharm.D., MBA, FASHP, Area VP Health Systems, McKesson, and Patrick Yoder, Pharm.D., […]