SI 2020 CMIO Virtual Roundtable

Voice technologies and ambient intelligence hold promise for improvements and efficiencies in clinical workflow. During the past few years vendors and services have emerged from both within and outside healthcare.  The Scottsdale Institute convened 24 chief medical informatics officers (CMIOs) for a virtual roundtable on August 20, 2020, to discuss the current technologies and use […]

SI 2020 CMIO Virtual Summit: The Enabling Infrastructure for Effective COVID-19 Crisis Response

The Scottsdale Institute 2020 CMIO Virtual Summit sponsored by Hearst Health convened 28 chief medical informatics officers from prominent healthcare systems across the country on October 1, 2020. These executives gathered to discuss how health informatics enabled hospitals to rapidly and effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic starting in first quarter 2020. Informatics delivered new […]

Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify COVID-19 Patients at High Risk of Clinical Deterioration

Peter Winkelstein, MD, MS, MBA, FAAP, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, VP and CMIO, Kaleida Health, Executive Director, University at Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics, and CMIO, UBMD; and Randall Wald, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, Cerner. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged hospitals to make careful use of resources, especially for patient subpopulations which are clinically complex. […]

SI CMIO Dialogue – Mar 18 2021

"21st Century Cures Act, part II" Bonny Chen, AMITA This is an invitation-only event.  For more information, fill out the form, below.

Building Healthcare’s AI-Powered Digital Front Door

Stephanie Lahr, MD and Peter Durlach.  Patients want the same conveniences from healthcare organizations that they enjoy from major consumer brands. To deliver voice and digital experiences to patients across their journey, Monument Health is partnering with Nuance to build an AI-powered patient engagement platform to power their digital front door. In this teleconference, Dr. Lahr […]

WEBINAR | Sharing Insight: SI Member Vaccination Efforts

Ferdinand Velasco, MDJennifer Fogel RNJennifer Fogel, VP & Regional Nursing Informatics Officer, Northern Light Health; Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CHIO; Joni Padden, DNP, APRN, BC, CNIO, Texas Health Resources; Joyce Oh, VP, Web/Mobile, Enterprise Data Management, ERP, and IT Business Office, Beaumont Health; and Janice Wurz, Senior Director, Strategy

WEBINAR | Virtual Advanced Care & Analytics Partnership at OSF

Mark Hohulin, MBA, SVP, Healthcare Analytics, and Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF OnCall, OSF Healthcare System. OSF Healthcare’s Virtual Advanced Care manages those at the highest risk for hospital or emergency care by offering chronically ill patients daily virtual care from a team of clinicians. Participants use at-home monitoring equipment to report vital signs […]

Understanding the CMS Prior Authorization Rule – Reducing Provider and Patient Burden

Viet Nguyen, MD, Technical Director for the HL7® Da Vinci Project, Stratametrics; and Rajesh Godavarthi, AVP, Technology and Interoperability, MCG Health.  CMS recently issued a rule to standardize the electronic exchange of healthcare data for prior authorization.  Although the rule is now on a temporary administrative hold, it is expected to be enacted soon.  The […]

WEBINAR | Vaccination Credential Initiative: Open Source COVID Vax Standards

JP Pollak, PhD, Chief Product Officer, The Commons Project. The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired the most ambitious immunization effort in history, and along with it an immediate need to produce trustworthy digital records of vaccination. The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) aims to enable individuals to access a verifiable and portable copy of their vaccination records […]

WEBINAR | Home Hospital Innovation at Mass General

Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital.  Advancements in healthcare technology and science are disrupting the paradigm for the most expensive hotel in town—the hospital.  Further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are re-thinking how to enable the home as a key site of acute healthcare […]

Annual Review: Critical Trends in the Rapidly-Changing Health Delivery Market

DJ Skalsky, VP, and Mike Garzone, VP, Impact Advisors. There is no shortage of pressure that hospitals and health systems are facing today. Though COVID-19 created completely new challenges for health delivery organizations, the pandemic also exacerbated existing issues like clinician burnout and financial uncertainty for many organizations. At the same time, pressures such as […]

Stabilizing the IV Medication Supply Chain Using Robotic-and-Labor Subscription Model

Marisol De Leon, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Operations, and Yevgeniya Kogan, PharmD, Sterile Compounding Operations Manager, University of Maryland Medical Center. Many health systems rely on 503B pharmacies to provide the vast majority of their pre-mixed, compounded sterile products (CSP). But the 503B supply chain has become unpredictable, fraught with product shortages, price fluctuations, […]

WEBINAR | Can “Not for Profit” Health Systems Create Successful Digital Health Start-Ups?

Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, and Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, EVP & Chief Clinical Officer, Providence.  Health systems are looking to diversify revenue sources as wages rise faster than patient care reimbursement.  In response, many health systems launched or contributed to venture funds, which flooded the digital