ED Pilot Project to Address Opioid Abuse and Suicide Prevention at Bon Secours Mercy Health

Aliya Jones, MD Allan Austin Allen Tien, MD, MHS Aliya Jones, MD, Chair, Department of Behavioral Health, Bon Secours Baltimore Health System, Allan Austin, Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant and Allen Tien, MD, MHS, President and Chief Science Officer, mdlogix.  The ED Diversion program was designed to provide comprehensive screening and improved referral processes for high […]

Thinking Like a Brand: How to Build Loyalty in the Age of Digital Disruption

Thomas Selva, MD Amanda Hammel Dick Flanigan Thomas Selva, MD, CMIO, University of Missouri Health Care, Amanda Hammel, SVP & CIO, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Dick Flanigan, SVP, Cerner.  In an age of consumerism, new market entries and digital disruption, driving loyalty to your healthcare organization is more important than ever. Learn from three […]

Tech Planning for New State of the Art Hospital at Stanford

Christian Lindmark, VP & Chief Technology Officer, Gary Fritz, VP & Chief of Applications, and Gautami (Tami) Shirhatti, Program Director, Stanford Health Care.  The new Stanford Hospital, opening in the fall of 2019, is a state-of-the art facility that will accommodate the latest advances in technology and treat rare and complex diseases. The Stanford team […]

The Untapped Potential of AI in Understanding Patient/Member Experiences

Tom Sullivan Tom Sullivan, Innovation Lead, Optum.  Call center voice data is a largely untapped resource among many healthcare organizations today.  In this session, Tom discusses how emerging AI technologies are being applied to voice and data at scale to truly transform customer experiences and their healthcare outcomes. Both health systems and health plans stand […]

How Henry Ford Health System is Changing to Succeed in Direct-to-Employer Contracting

Susan Hawkins, FACHE Chelsea Pollet Susan Hawkins, FACHE, Senior VP Population Health, and Chelsea Pollet, Director Direct-to-Employer Relationships, Henry Ford Health System.  In January 2019, Henry Ford launched a new, direct contracting relationship with General Motors for medical and surgical services.  This value-based contract applies to the salaried workforce members and dependents in the Detroit […]

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 […]

Utilizing Social Determinants of Health at Centura

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Katie Korte Rodney Gardner, RN Tamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, CPC+/SIM Coordinator Mercy Primary Care, Katie Korte, Community Health Advocate, and Rodney Gardner, RN, Care Coordinator, Centura Health.  Looking at a patient’s "Social Determinants of Health" has been gaining traction as a focus for whole person healthcare.  Rightly so; in […]

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 […]

Changing Role of the CIO: How Successful IT Leaders are Leveraging IT innovation as Imperative to Growth

Ken Lee Carol Chouinard Ken Lee, SVP & CIO, Centura Health, and Carol Chouinard, VP,  Optum Advisory Services.  Historically, CIOs were limited to operating back-office applications; these days, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to operate 24/7, mission-critical solutions. This is because technology downtime risks the organization’s reputation, financial performance, and ability to effectively […]

Feeding the Precision Health Genetics Pipeline: Specimen Acquisition to Data Storage at UCLA

Christopher Denny, MD, UCLA Health.  The UCLA Institute of Precision Health is currently engaged in an effort to genotype 50,000 patients each year for the next three years.  To accrue sufficient patient specimens, a workflow consisting of electronic universal consent followed by retrieval of remnant blood specimens, has been created.  Genotype data are processed into […]

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 […]

How AI is Transforming Care Delivery at Partners

Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs.  AI has transformed most aspects of how we live today. Healthcare systems are beginning to realize this potential and are trying to harness its power - but to what end? Should we leverage AI to increase efficiencies for mundane, repetitive […]

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. […]