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 […]

SI 2019 CIO Summit – Enabling the Future: Self-Service, SaaS, Mobility, Cloud

Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk

Is the future CIO the CEO─Chief Experience Officer─ or the CKO─Chief Keep-the-Lights-On Officer? How do consumers define High Availability? These and other topics were explored at the Scottsdale Institute’s 2019 CIO Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors, which convened 15 chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT executives from 14 health systems across the country October […]

SI 2019 CISO Summit – Cybersecurity Impact of Cloud/Virtual/Mobility

The 2019 SI CISO Summit sponsored by Deloitte was held October 24 & 25. Co-hosts CHRISTUS VP and CISO Fernando Blanco and BayCare VP and CISO Thien Lam welcomed 21 chief cybersecurity officers and other healthcare IT security executives from across the country to the CISO Summit convened at the Hyatt Regency on the beautiful […]

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. […]

Patient Engagement Platform at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Pete Stetson, MD, MA Kevin Shannon Pete Stetson, MD, MA, CHIO, Deputy Physician-in-Chief, and Kevin Shannon, Director - Solutions Architect, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  In 2015 MSK began a journey to build a robust, user-friendly and secure platform to collect patient reported data for clinical and research purposes. The end result, MSK Engage, is […]

Agile Change Management at Banner

Sherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS Sherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS, CNIO, and Jean Davis, MSN, MBA, HCM, RN, Senior Director Nursing Informatics, Banner Health.  Have you wondered how to use Agile methodology to improve your clinician experience working through EHR workflow changes? Banner has focused the last few years on hospital acquisitions and […]

Opioid Abuse and Misuse: Pharmacy’s Role in Prevention, Monitoring and Management

Rebecca W. Chater, RPh, MPH, FAPhA Rebecca Chater, RPh, MPH, FAPhA, Director of Healthcare Strategy, Omnicell. In light of the scope of opioid abuse and misuse, this session explores the societal impact of opioid misuse, as well as system and patient-level solutions to improve management of opioids throughout the healthcare continuum. Rebecca reviews implementation of […]

Today’s CMIO: Dreamer, Doer or Dinosaur?

D. Matthew Sullivan, MD Angela Tiberio, MD D. Matthew Sullivan, MD, Associate CMIO, Atrium Health, and Angela R. Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive/Clinical Solutions Leader, Impact Advisors.  Please join in a discussion of how the role of the Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer (CMIO) has evolved since its earliest inception circa 1995.  Few other roles have seen […]

DevSecOps at Spectrum

Sean Henkel Sean Henkel, Director IS, and Barry D. Nowak, Senior Domain Architect, Spectrum Health.  In this discussion Barry and Sean share Spectrum Health’s 4-year DevSecOps journey.  The effort emerged in 2015 with the creation of an automation team supporting agile fixed teams which led to the emergence of lean scaled agile teams in April […]