Analytics Tools for ACO

Shawn Griffin, MD, Chief Quality and Informatics Officer for MHMD - Memorial Hermann Physician Network. Dr. Griffin reviews the multiple new analytics tools being utilized by Memorial Hermann's Medicare Shared Savings ACO to track performance metrics, manage population health, and support ambulatory care management. He also discusses both claims-based analytics and EMR based "middleware" for […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 47: Patient Portal

David Voran, MD, Medical Director, Heartland Health. Heartland Health quietly turned on Cerner's patient portal in 2007 and after several years of piloting it in one clinic, has now expanded it throughout it's entire network. The primary benefit has been to provide patients with secure communication directly with their providers. Patients also have access to […]

Trinity Health: MU Progress Toward Stage 2

Carla Robelli, Vice President, PMO, and Tauana McDonald, Vice President, Integration Services, Trinity Health. In 2011, Trinity Health attested for over 25 hospitals as early adopters of Meaningful Use Stage 1 and subsequently plan on early attestation regarding Stage 2. Trinity has established ongoing governance and developed a comprehensive plan to prepare for the new […]

2012 Fall Forum

“Creating Value through Meaningful Use 2.0”

Successful Practices, Challenges, and Solutions in Project Prioritization in Large Health Systems

John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Carla Robelli, VP, PMO, Trinity Health, Nanda Lahoud, Administrative Director, Value Realization-Innovative Technology Solutions, Texas Health Resources, Emily Handwerk, System Executive, Information Systems, and Mike Rodriguez, Manager, Professional Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, panelists. This panel features representatives from large healthcare systems who […]

Clinically Focused Packaged Analytics – Panel Discussion

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS, moderator, Lee Pierce, Director of Business Intelligence, Intermountain Healthcare, Mike Kramer, MD, CMIO, James Schweigert, MD, Associate Medical Director Quality and Medical Director Emergency Medicine, Kristen Farmer, Manager Quality & Professional Practice, Spectrum Health, Wendy Wright, VP Clinical Integration, MissionPoint, Shawn P. Griffin, MD, Chief Quality […]

AHS Journey to Meaningful Use

Bruce A. Wacker MT(ASCP), Director of Customer and Regulatory Services, Adventist Health System. Bruce discusses the timeline of AHS's Meaningful Use activities and outcomes, governance structure, implementation strategy and tools, status management, and lessons learned on their way to reaching meaningful use.

Health Insurance Exchanges and Implications for Providers

Sally Fingar, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Sally focuses on the background of exchanges, the current state of the state for exchanges in the marketplace and at the federal level, and discusses the specific impact to providers.

ACO 2012: The Train Has Left the Station

Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, KLAS, Orem, Utah, and Andrew Croshaw, Partner and Managing Director, Leavitt Partners. Recently KLAS and Leavitt Partners embarked on a joint research project to provide greater insight into the evolution of accountable care organizations - including partnerships, practices, and payment arrangements. Colin and Andrew highlight what solutions are being applied, […]

SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 48: Hardwiring Quality Measures

Ted Daniel, MD, CMIO, and Alexa Hodgins, Director Quality Improvement, St. John Providence Health System, Ascension Health, and Linda Mazur, Manager, Nancy Earp, Team Lead and Brian Conway Senior Systems Analyst, from SJPHS IT Clinical Information Systems. The team has worked collaboratively with SJPHS Providers, Quality, and Clinical Transformation to develop Cerner rules and alerts […]

Sustainable Community HIE: A Birds-eye Perspective and Vision

Doug Dietzman, Executive Director, Michigan Health Connect. With the Stage 2 Meaningful Use and evolving risk-based funding models continuing the push for widespread data exchange beyond current EMR system and enterprise boundaries, why is the reality of sustainable community HIE still so elusive? Michigan Health Connect shares its story and current status, as well as […]

SI Readmissions Collaborative Kickoff

Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, Scottsdale Institute, and former VP, Global Institute for Emerging Practices, CSC, leads a discussion about the purpose of the Collaborative, the starting point and the plans for future work. All SI members are welcome, but to be an active collaborator you need to be currently involved in interventions to reduce […]

Innovating with Telehealth: An Example for Emergent Care

Deborah Hunt, RN, Specialist Leader, and Saurabh Vyas, MD, Consultant, Deloitte Consulting. Resource constraints, regulatory climate and rapid innovations in technology are driving the evolution of telehealth from being a tool for remote healthcare delivery to being a complement to traditional care models helping organizations achieve operational efficiencies while increasing patient satisfaction. Emergent care can […]

Leveraging Business Intelligence to Achieve Strategic Objectives

Andrew W. Proctor, MS, Senior Director of Business Intelligence, Medical Operations Division, and Brian Harte, MD, Medical Director, Business Intelligence and President, Southpointe Hospital, Cleveland Clinic. In 2006, The Cleveland Clinic implemented its Enterprise Business Intelligence program. Initial success from the early dashboards provided the platform for using BI to introduce an Executive dashboard, Quarterly […]

Care Coordination Capability for Accountable Care

Jane Metzger, Research Principal in Emerging Practices, CSC. Care coordination is clearly a core competency for accountable care. This talk reviews the likely processes based on the evidence so far from demonstration projects, collaboratives, and safety net institutions, as well as models for collaboration between primary care teams and external care management programs in three […]