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 […]

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 […]

SI 2021 CMIO/CNIO Summit – Clinical Informatics: A Meeting of the Minds

Put your heads together with peer experts to innovate clinical informatics solutions that last—from interoperability to integration, and AI to patient-facing apps. Then, we invite you to stay a few days longer and enjoy SI’s 2021 Fall Symposium, Cracking the Code: Healthcare 2025.

WEBINAR | How the UCLA Center for SMART Health Leverages Data Science and Technology to Advance Patient Care

Arash Naeim, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Research, Co-Director UCLA Center for SMART Health, and Alex Bui, PhD, Director of UCLA Medical & Imaging Informatics, Co-Director UCLA Center for SMART Health.  Data science and emerging innovative technology affords many possibilities for impacting patient care and healthcare operations to be more insightful, efficient, and […]

WEBINAR | Unlocking Patient Data to Make Evidence Based Care Decisions

Anthony Akosa, MD, MBA, System Medical Director of Care Management, Franciscan Health, and Rita Beckman, APSW, JD, Senior Product Manager, MCG Health. New technology leverages artificial intelligence to search through the electronic health record for patient clinical data that can substantiate a hospital admission. Learn how real-life hospitals are utilizing this technology to get their […]

SUMMIT | 2022 Clinical Informatics: The Time is Here: Leveraging More Patient-Specific and Workflow Context

The Time is Here: Leveraging More Patient-Specific and Workflow Context How is your health system navigating the many challenges surrounding workflows for benefits inside—and outside—your organization? Join a select group of your Clinical Informatics Affinity Group peers for Scottsdale Institute’s 2022 Summit, The Time is Here: Leveraging More Patient-Specific and Workflow Context, sponsored by Hearst […]

WEBINAR | Making the Switch: Migrating and Integrating Partnered Facilities and Team to a New EHR with Evidenced-Based Content

Crystal Claussen, Project Manager, Clinical Informatics, Prisma Health.  Hospital mergers have become both routine and routinely fraught with tension. This is especially true when clinical teams are faced with consolidating their EHRs or migrating to an entirely new system. In this webinar, Crystal describes the recent merger of two large hospital systems and their migration […]

WEBINAR | Reducing the Prior Authorization Burden: Regulation vs. Automation Using AI

Rajesh “Raj” Godavarthi, Associate Vice President of Technology and Interoperability; and Daniel Cawood, Senior Product Manager, Interoperability Solutions, MCG Health. The regulation and automation of prior authorization processes is a widely-discussed topic – along with the CMS proposed rule (PARDD API and FHIR®), many states have passed laws or regulations regarding prior authorization. Join this […]

WEBINAR | Introducing Meaningful, Patient-First Medication Guidance While Tackling Alert Overload

David R. Linz, MD, FACP, Internal Medicine, Moorings Park. During its EHR system transition, NCH collaborated with FDB to tailor medication alerts specifically to patient contexts. This focus on “patient-first” medication decision support resulted in a marked reduction in frequently dismissed alerts for conditions such as hyperkalemia, QT prolongation, opioid use in outpatient settings, and […]

WEBINAR | Innovating for Impact: Real-World Approaches to Advancing Health Using Data Science and AI

Arash Naeim, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine in both the Division(s) of Hematology-Oncology & Geriatric Medicine, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine; & Greg Dorn, Senior Vice President, Hearst President, Hearst Health. Leaders from Hearst Health and the UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health discuss technology shifts and the evolution of data in healthcare, including the […]

WEBINAR | The Rising Tide of Health Literacy

Low health literacy is a widespread challenge, with 9 out of 10 U.S. adults struggling to understand and use medical information. This communication gap leads to medication errors, non-adherence, and poor health outcomes.  Join us for a webinar with Greg O’Neill, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, Director of Patient & Family Health Education at ChristianaCare, […]