Susan Craft, Director, Care Coordination Initiatives, Henry Ford Health System. Reduction in readmissions continues to be a challenge for many organizations around the country with unique obstacles for hospitals in urban areas caring for a large underserved patient population. Henry Ford Hospital received the full 1% CMS penalty in 2012 but has since significantly reduced […]
Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, CMO, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, and Christine Sammer, DrPH, RN, Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, Adventist Health System. Adventist began the Readmissions Reduction journey in 2009. Â In 2013 they added the position of Transition of Care Coordinator and partnered with Cerner to develop the Readmission […]
Ray Duncan, MD, CTO, Cedars-Sinai Health System. Dr. Duncan describes Cedars-Sinai's Clinical Data Hub, a web-based, user-friendly self-service tool for cohort selection based on both patient demographics and clinical characteristics. It supports both research (delivering scrubbed data) and operational (PHI visible) roles. Unique features include similarity searching, integration with the enterprise MPI, and extraction of […]
Bruce McCarthy, MD, MPH, President Physician Division, Columbia St. Mary's, Ascension Health, discusses the CSMConnect patient portal that gives 300,000 patients secure online access to view summaries of their visits, send secure messages to their clinic providers, schedule appointments, pay bills, get lab results, view medication lists, and more. The functionality has been expanded beyond […]
Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how mergers and acquisitions have and will continue to shape the US healthcare landscape. Â This teleconference explores industry trends in market forces, recent mergers and acquisitions examples, and key information technology considerations. Â The session also seeks to answer the […]
Shannon Eubank, Product Manager, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the millions of dollars that health systems are losing when employees choose out-of-network providers - and what you can do about it. In this session, she reviews how one large health system created a customized steering tool to replace an outdated system and inconsistent data-updating processes. The […]
Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Dale provides an overview of his 12 criteria that health systems can use to evaluate vendors who offer population health management systems. Â The criteria can also be used by organizations to plot a strategy for population health. Â One of the core messages in this presentation is that no single vendor […]
James Whitfill, MD, CMO, Scottsdale Health Partners: Â Imaging, once a radiology function for image capture, storage and display, is evolving to the Enterprise. Â With this brings opportunity to extend image management technologies to other departments, and to apply IT processes like SOA and IT Service Management to PACS, and image enable the EMR. Â Dr. Whitfill […]
Kyle H. Townsend, Pharm.D, BCPS, Director, Pharmacy Services and Jacob Thiesse, Pharm.D, Informatics Pharmacist, Billings Clinic, John Mortimer, Knowledge Architect, for Cerner, and John D'Costa, Director Engineering Omnicell. Healthcare costs continue to rise; in 2014 it is estimated to be ~18% of U.S. GDP. Increased functional interoperability between systems reduces waste, medication errors, improves care […]
Joseph Kvedar, MD, Founder and Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare. The Connected Medical Home can include mobile devices and apps, wearables, sensors and remote monitoring technologies. Dr. Kvedar describes how remote patient monitoring can help individuals better manage chronic disease, improve clinical outcomes and quality of care; as well as potential cost savings […]
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Health Information Officer, Christy Benson, Director of Clinical Informatics, and Shawn-Marie Herring, Manager of Clinical Informatics, Texas Health Resources. The session discusses the increasing importance of quality transparency in the era of accountable care. They describe the journey in making the strategic decision to share quality and safety data with the […]
Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS. Accountable care and population health are overwhelming and unachievable without sophisticated systems in place, but it's hard to know where to start with myriad population health vendor solutions available. Join Colin for this revealing discussion of population health vendors that are leading the pack and learn which might best […]
Toni Jarrett, Director, Zach Rogers, Senior Manager, and Jolin Carlson, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how to capitalize on key optimization opportunities resulting from an EMR implementation. Â They explore the most common optimization opportunities with a focus on those most impactful to the business, including areas of financial metric degradation, clinician and patient dissatisfaction, and […]
Fiona McNaughton, Director Patient Education Practice, Truven Health Analytics, offers insights on how to create a strategic approach to reduce medication management-related readmissions. She describes approaches to medication-related patient education, mobilizing the medication-related experts who impact care decisions at the point of care, improving your workflow to make time for caregivers to exercise best practices […]
Alan Soderblom, Vice President & CIO, Loretta Sloan, Vice President of Operations, and Jennifer Stemmler, IT Director, Ambulatory Clinical Information Systems, Adventist Health. Â In May 2012, Adventist Health System began the journey to transition its outpatient clinics from paper to electronic documentation and workflows using Cerner's Practice Management and Ambulatory EHR solutions. Â Adventist Health explores […]
