Advocate Partnerships for Statewide Pediatric Care

Mike 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

Nicole 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

Christian 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 […]

SMART on FHIR: Integrating HIE Data into EMR Workflow, Part III

Titus K. Schleyer, DMD, PhD Jason T Schaffer, MD Titus 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 […]

Continuing Care: It’s not just Post-acute Care

Seth Nore, MBA, MHA Seth 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 […]

Insourcing Ready-to-Administer Syringes with IV Robotics

Kevin N. Hansen, PharmD, MS, BCPS Kevin 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 […]

Value Based Care & Payment Transformation through Interoperability

Tony Jurek Anne Phelps Mark Bethke Tony 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, […]

Evolving your IT Strategy in the Digital Health Age

Elizabeth Pearlman Liam Bouchier Elizabeth 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 […]

The Innovation Process at John Muir

Jon Russell Jon 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 […]

Population Health Strategy & Technology in the Shift to Value-Based Care

Shara Cohen, JD Vanessa 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 […]

Making Primary Care Primary at Centura: CMMI’s Vision for Healthcare Innovation, Part III

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Steve Lavengood, MD Tamra 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 […]

Children’s Minnesota Community Connect: Linking Families, Resources and Care

Jessica Block Pam Ross, JD, MHA Jessica 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 […]

Network Management: A Strategic Approach to Value-based Care

Matthew 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 […]

Innovative Technologies to Manage Social Determinants of Health at Advocate Physician Partners

Alvia 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 […]

Seeing is Relieving: Digital Reality in Healthcare

Eren Aksu Eren 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 […]