Transforming Patient Access to Care

David Jaspan, DO, FACOOG James Farley David Jaspan, DO, FACOOG, Chair, Access Governance Committee and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Einstein Healthcare Network, and James Farley, National VP Value Creation, UnitedHealthcare.  Einstein Health Network (EHN), was struggling with recurring and growing financial losses, both in their medical group and at their hospital. Wait times in the […]

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery through EMR Integration

Stacey Johnston, MD Megan Argabright Stacey Johnston, MD, Associate CMIO for Hospitalist Informatics, and Megan Argabright, Clinical Informaticist, Baptist Health (Jacksonville FL).  Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is an evidence-based interdisciplinary care delivery model that focuses on quickly moving the evidence developed from surgical research to bedside patient care, making a more immediate positive impact […]

Population Health Strategy & Technology in the Shift to Value-Based Care

Shara Cohen, JD Vanessa Guzman, AVP, Quality Improvement, Montefiore Health System, and Shara L. Cohen, JD, VP, Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health.  Vanessa and Shara describe the strategy used by Montefiore Health System to implement value-based care model activities, understanding that patients' health extends well-beyond healthcare settings. The model promotes accountability for […]

Get SMART in the EHR Classroom

Paula Theriault, RN, MBA Jim Belanger, Jr., MBA Paula Theriault, MBA, RN, VP, Regional Nursing Informatics Officer, Jim Belanger, MBA, Director Clinical Informatics, Northern Light Health.  In today’s business world, time is at a premium which is especially true in a hospital setting. Efficient delivery of EHR education for a healthcare system that spans a […]

Making Primary Care Primary at Centura: CMMI’s Vision for Healthcare Innovation, Part III

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Steve Lavengood, MD Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN, Coordinator for Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Mercy Family Medicine  and Steve Lavengood, MD, CPC+ Medical Director, Mercy Family Medicine, Centura Health Physician Group.  With the advent of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI) that began in October 2012, CMMI has continued […]

New Visualization Techniques for Medication Adherence at Advocate Aurora

Darcy Davis, PhD Darcy Davis, PhD, Data Scientist, Advocate Aurora Health.  Medication adherence is a multi-faceted problem with varying intensity of health consequences but ultimately a high societal cost. In this complex space, tools that aid clinician judgement are more actionable when paired with meaningful conversations about patient needs and barriers to adherence. Learn how […]

Making the Right Choice: How to Rate Healthcare Apps

Adam Landman, MD David Levine, MD David W. Bates, MD Adam Landman, MD, CIO, David Levine, MD, Associate Physician, and David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  There are several hundred thousand healthcare apps in the marketplace, but it can be very difficult to determine which ones […]

Utilizing a Balanced Scorecard for Better BI at CHRISTUS

Dustin Drueckhammer, Manager Business Intelligence, and Cindy Neuenschwander, Senior Data Quality Specialist, CHRISTUS Health.  In today’s climate, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Governance (DG) are pivotal aspects of a successful heath system. The capability to produce actionable governed data enables an organization to ensure that high data quality and integrity exists throughout the complete lifecycle […]

Children’s Minnesota Community Connect: Linking Families, Resources and Care

Jessica Block Pam Ross, JD, MHA Jessica Block, Manager Community Health Programs, and Pam Ross, JD, MHA, Director Community Health Programs, Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota.  Increasingly, efforts to address the social determinants of health provide important opportunities to influence individual and population health. Responsive programming requires thoughtful clinical integration, skilled resource navigation, and […]

Network Management: A Strategic Approach to Value-based Care

Matthew Penziner, Executive Director, NYUPN Clinically Integrated Network.  For NYUPN, keeping costs down and quality high meant keeping more of its attributed patients seeing NYUPN physicians. To influence patients to utilize “domestic” primary care physicians, specialists and facilities, NYUPN worked with patients’ greatest influencers: physicians. Attendees will gain insight into how NYUPN was able to […]

Elite Analytics Status at Rush

Bala Hota, MD, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center.  Rush University System for Health achieved the 2018 HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity Stage 7, demonstrating an elite status in the use of healthcare data to improve operations.  This achievement was only possible through a strong data governance program and alignment with […]

TEFCA in a Nutshell Part II: Updated Proposed Rule and What It May Mean for Orgs and Providers

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Impact Advisors. This session examines the April 2019 update to the Draft Specifications for TEFCA - the "Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement." This proposed rule builds on HHS’ earlier proposed rule on TEFCA, and Dan reviews this new proposed rule, some of its important provisions, and […]

Innovative Technologies to Manage Social Determinants of Health at Advocate Physician Partners

Alvia Siddiqi, MD, FAAFP, VP Population Health, and Mike Barbati, Med Ec & Innovations, Enterprise Population Health, Advocate Aurora Health.  There are many factors that impact a person’s health beyond traditional medical care; these Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) can range from job security and education to having access to healthy food and transportation, and […]

Predicting Congestive Heart Failure Using AI Techniques

Sunil Mallya, Principal Deep Learning Scientist, Amazon Web Services, and Marc Overhage, MD, VP Population Health Intelligence Strategy, Cerner.  Predicting the onset of a serious condition could be life changing. Cerner and Amazon Web Services recently created a CNN-GRU based model, a variant of recurrent neural networks (RNN), to predict the onset of chronic disease […]