Tapping Into the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Wendy 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

Brian Doty Casey Graves Dan Kinsella Brian 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 […]

Applying AI Across Industries into Healthcare

Kenneth Harper Kenneth 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 […]

Recognizing How to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent the Causes of Physician Burnout at Sharp Rees-Stealy

Alissa Speziale, MD, FACG Elan Hekier, MD Brent Steineckert, MD Alissa 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 […]

Regulating Opioid Use: Strategies for Safely Prescribing Opioids in Light of New Federal Mandates

Vanessa Guzman Bob Hussey Vanessa 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 […]

Clinical Process Improvement and Actionable EHRs

Thomas Moran, MD Darby K. Dennis, MS, RN Brita Hansen, MD Luis Saldaña, MD Tom 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. […]

Patient Engagement Platform at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Pete Stetson, MD, MA Kevin Shannon Pete 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 […]

Agile Change Management at Banner

Sherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS Sherri 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 […]

Today’s CMIO: Dreamer, Doer or Dinosaur?

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD Angela Tiberio, MD D. 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 […]

Machine Learning Algorithms for Disease Detection: Implementing AI into Radiology Workflow

Warren 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 […]

Clinical Transformation through Care Team Communication

Simmy 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

Jean-Claude Saghbini Jean-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 […]

Artificial Intelligence in Obstetrics: New Models to Prevent Poor Outcomes

Matthew 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 […]

Outlook 2020: The Top Three Challenges for Hospital Pharmacy Teams

Dean Parry, RPH Daniel Teich PharmD Jennifer Wheeler Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Dave Ehlert PharmD, MBA, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Dean 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 […]

Intermountain at Home and Virtual Care

Joel Macey, Executive Director Intermountain Homecare, and Nick Bassett, VP Population Health Services, Intermountain Healthcare.  As more health systems transition to value-based care and risk-based contracts, moving care upstream and out of traditional health centers has become increasingly prevalent. Providing care in the home is the model for the future, especially for high risk patients […]