Erik Johnson, VP Value Based Care, Jay Hazelrigs, Jim Dolstad, Senior Director Actuarial Advisory, and Elena White, Optum. Â Today's integrated health systems are increasingly engaged in Medicare risk management strategies, such as Medicare Advantage, MSSP, and MACRA. Strategies for managing risk in the Medicare population can cascade into commercial payer performance, and market competitiveness and […]
Alexander Nieto-Avila, Imaging Systems Support Manager, Tampa General Hospital, and Lara Caldwell Stout, Director, Diagnostics, Nuance Communications. At Tampa General Hospital (TGH), the region's only Level I trauma center, radiologists and physicians treating the area's most critically ill patients are routinely faced with life or death decisions. For them, speed and information can literally make […]
Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session examines the new proposed 2018 Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule for MIPS/MACRA (released 6-20-17) and its implications, providing not only a review of the rule's provisions, but also an in-depth examination of how those provisions […]
Jay Weems, Vice-President of Operations, Avera eCARE. Â Avera Health journeyed into telemedicine in the early 1990s to assist the needs of the workforce and to better serve the population in rural and underserved communities. Â Today, the telemedicine arm of the Avera Health system, Avera eCARE, has become an important solution to solve several complex healthcare […]
Urvi Shah, Manager, and Heather Nelson, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Â As customers' expectations continue to mature, healthcare organizations must be prepared to support changing expectations. Focusing on the patient experience has multiple benefits for healthcare organizations - financially, and more importantly, quality outcomes. Hear about what's most important to customers and how providers can address and […]
David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, general internist and clinician investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School. Providing hospital-level care at home to acutely ill adults who would normally have been admitted to Brigham & Women's Hospital, one of the original founding members of Partners HealthCare, offers […]
L. David Harlow, III, BS, Pharm D, Assistant VP for Professional Services Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Laboratory and Disease Management, Martin Health System. Dr. Harlow defines the significance of pharmacy services embedded in primary care that focuses strategically on Complex Multi-Comorbid patients with a history of therapeutic failure. This service leverages pharmacist talent in the context […]
Sam VanNorman, MS, CPHQ, General Manager Managed Analytics Programs (MAP), and Derek Pederson, MA, MBA, VP Medical Informatics Consulting, Optum. Â See how innovative analytics helped to mitigate risks associated with diabetes severity, potentially avoidable ER visits, and palliative care across health systems. Â Gain insights from three highly impactful case studies and see how advanced data […]
Brian Wayling, AVP TeleHealth Services, Angie Adams, RN, BSN, TeleHealth Program Manager, and Katherine Repko, RN, TeleHealth Operations Manager, Intermountain Healthcare. Â Intermountain Healthcare has deployed a broad range of TeleHealth programs in just a few years that have facilitated over 330,000 patient interactions. Participants will hear how a central TeleHealth deployment team, and an integrated […]
Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor Impact Advisors. Â This session provides late-breaking information about what every provider needs to know now in order to successfully attest for 2017. Dan, Jason and Larry examine the implications of the recent clarification from CMS regarding the MIPS requirement that eligible […]
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD Julia Adler-Milstein, Director, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, UCSF. Julie has spent the past decade studying the progress of electronic health information exchange (HIE) and EHR system interoperability in the U.S. She discusses the policy context and how federal policy efforts have sought to intervene to promote health information exchange. […]
Kelly Hoover Thompson Joe Walker Kelly Hoover Thompson, CEO, and Joe Walker, Sr. VP of Technology Services for MyHealth Access Network. The Patient Centered Data HomeTM (PCDH) is a national initiative to deliver a cost-effective, scalable method of exchanging patient data among health information exchanges (HIEs) to access real-time information across state and regional lines and […]
John Bulger, DO, MBA, Chief Medical Officer Population Health, Geisinger Health System and the Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan. Making the move from volume to value requires fundamental changes. While there are tools and capabilities, most of the change is cultural. Dr. Bulger describes how Geisinger is aiming to change the way they […]
Marek Bako Marek Bako, Senior Director Revenue Cycle Management, and Kerri Grizer, Senior Product Manager, Optum. As a result of their growing responsibility for paying out-of-pocket for medical care, patients are increasingly leveraging the same consumer behaviors they employ when making other major purchase decisions, fueling the rise of consumerism in health care. As consumers, […]
Tony Jurek Christopher DeBeer Tony Jurek, Managing Director, and Chris DeBeer, Principal Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Advances in technology have provided healthcare organizations with a myriad disparate systems from which to get information and derive insights. While the volume of data has grown exponentially in recent years, the availability and access […]
