2021 Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule Overview

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session examines the recent “2021 Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule,” released on August 4, 2020. Larry Katzovitz Dan and Larry provide a high-level overview of the proposed rule, and its potential implications and impacts for providers, hospitals and health systems. Highlights include […]

SI CIO Dialogue – Oct 8 2020

"RPA Governance" Heather Nelson, SVP & CIO, UChicago Medicine This is an invitation-only event.  For more information, fill out the form, below.

Operationalizing Telehealth Across Sites of Care at AMITA

Laura Messineo, RN, MHA, VP TeleHealth, AMITA Health. Telehealth has seen exponential growth across the country and many health systems have implemented interim solutions to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Laura provides an overview of AMITA Health’s centralized telehealth strategy which is focused on transforming the delivery of healthcare across the care continuum. […]

Delivering Better Outcomes by Insourcing Complex Processes in Pharmacy Operations

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD, VP Clinical Operations, Tidal Health, and Dennis Wright, Senior Director, Omnicell. The healthcare industry often turns to software as a service (SaaS) to increase software versatility and accessibility without having to install and run applications on multiple computers and data systems. Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD Dennis Wright Yet, when considering capital […]

Meeting Patients Where They Are With Voice Technology

Jason Burum Freddie Feldman Jason Burum, VP, Patient Engagement, Clinical Effectiveness; and Freddie Feldman, Voice Design Director, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer.  Nearly 90 million adults in the US own a smart speaker, representing a powerful opportunity for providers to engage health consumers with voice technology. To that end, Wolters Kluwer and Amazon, through Amazon’s exclusive HIPAA-Eligible […]

SI Analytics Dialogue – Oct 20 2020

"OSF Pandemic Impact Model – Lessons Learned" Chris Franciskovich, Director, Advanced Analytics & Kimberly Blakey, Director, Clinical Business Operations, OSF HealthCare This is an invitation-only event.  For more information, fill out the form, below.

Cedars-Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Continuously Forecast Demand, Supply, and Outcomes

Michael Thompson, MS, Executive Director of Enterprise Data Intelligence, Cedars-Sinai. Over the past three years, Cedars-Sinai has merged together its analytics capabilities across finance, clinical informatics, and IT to form an enterprise data intelligence function, encompassing an enterprise data warehouse, data science team, end-user content delivery, and an advisory team to teach others how to […]

IT/Marketing Partnership for Digital Customer Engagement at HonorHealth

Emily Borlas, MBA, AVP, IT Applications, and Craig Kartchner, MBA, AVP, Marketing and Customer Experience, HonorHealth.  Creating the best experience for healthcare customers is like making a delicious vinaigrette, and it’s difficult to do for similar reasons: How do you make the oil of IT mix (and stay mixed) with the vinegar of Marketing, without […]

Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Workflow

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF.  Recording patient reported outcomes (PROs) in real time between visits, versus by patient recall during visits, allows patients to monitor and self-manage their health and capture a more comprehensive picture of their health status and overall health experience.  Despite the value of this clinical information, PRO use […]

Using Self-Insured Data as a Foundation for Value-based Payment Strategy at Adventist Health

John Beaman Allen Miller John Beaman, Chief Business Officer, Adventist Health, and Allen Miller, Principal, COPE Health Solutions.  As CMS and employers continue to push for more premium risk contracts and value-based payment, a key to success is accurate data on the total cost of care for attributed or assigned membership. There is a growing […]

Top 10 Factors to Consider when Developing Your Growth Strategy: The role IT can play in 2021

Leslie Schatz, Director of Client Services; Danny Fell, Director of Client Services; Nick Fromell, Subject Matter Expert, Optum; and Carol Chouinard, Vice President, Optum Advisory Services.  As hospital leaders begin to prepare for 2021, it is important to balance long term growth plans, while also working to recover from revenue losses. Carol Chouinard Nick Fromell […]

SI 2020 CIO Virtual Summit: New Alignment for IT in an Era of Rapid Change

The Scottsdale Institute convened 25 chief information officers for a CIO Virtual Summit on December 8, 2020, to discuss how a new social pact between health systems and the public is emerging as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn and the incoming administration in Washington, D.C. Key talking points included: “We saw […]

Leverage a Digital Practice to Advance Consumer Engagement amid COVID-19 and Beyond 

Tom Pacek, CIO, Inspira Health, and David Harse, VP and GM, Consumer Engagement, Cerner.  As the healthcare industry undergoes a shift in consumer behavior patterns, providers are challenged with finding new opportunities to meet consumer expectations in delivering quality care.  Rising healthcare costs, a desire for more transparent health data, and the influence of digital […]

COVID-19 Immunity Research at Mass General Brigham

Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is relatively well-known that the immune system produces antibodies in response to COVID-19 infection, but how long these antibody responses last continues to be unclear, and the heterogeneity of immune responses to COVID-19 makes it difficult to […]