Best Practices to Identify and Control Drug Shortages

Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS Michael Ganio PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, Senior Pharmacy Specialist, Yale New Haven Health System, Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS, Associate Director Clinical Pharmacy Services at UChicago Medicine, Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, Director Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American […]

Strategies and Technologies for Advancing Patient Engagement

Colin Buckley Adam Cherrington Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, and Adam Cherrington, Director of Patient Engagement Research, KLAS.  Patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is just taking shape. Broad visions and experimentation abound, but pathways are still being cleared, and there is a lack of consensus […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System CISO Case Studies Workshop

BayCare Health System’s VP & CISO, Thien Lam, along with CIO Tim Thompson and CTO Scott Patterson, hosted a very focused one-day SI CISO Case Studies Workshop at their headquarters in Clearwater, Florida in January 2019. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other healthcare IT security executives (individuals and teams) from 12 SI Member organizations […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit

SI Members were able to experience the powerful combination of digital and retail healthcare, January 17-18, at SI's first site visit of the year. Read our SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit report to discover how an innovative partnership between BayCare Health System and Publix Super Markets is changing the healthcare landscape in Florida.  […]

Demographics, Burnout, and Technology: From Frustration to Friend

Michael Tutty, PhD, MHA Michael Tutty, PhD, VP Professional Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association.  The demographics of the United States are shifting as the population ages and the number of workers per retiree shrinks.  The resulting changes will put a heavy strain on the healthcare system.  There is a projected physician shortfall of […]

Driving EHR Adoption: Looking Beyond Go-Live for Long-term Success at Scripps

Shane Thielman, FACHE Joseph B. Stein, MD, FACC Bret Shillingstad, MD Shane Thielman, FACHE, AVP of Information Services, Joseph B. Stein, MD, FACC, Director of EHR, Scripps Health, and Bret Shillingstad, MD, CMIO of EHR Optimization Services, Nuance Communications.  Preparing members of the Scripps care team to adopt and utilize their EHR effectively was a […]

Managing Cyber Threats and Protecting Patients: An HHS and Industry-led Response

Erik Decker Erik Decker, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine, and Julie Chua, Risk Management Branch Chief, HHS Office of Information Security.  Learn about mitigating common threats to the healthcare industry through a deep dive of the 405d cybersecurity guidance document. This guide (written for small-, medium- and large-sized organizations) posits […]

Diagnostic Errors and Health Informatics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Paul L. Epner, MBA, MEd Paul Epner, CEO and Co-Founder, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.  Diagnostic Errors, i.e., failures to provide an accurate and timely explanation for a patient’s problem, are the most significant patient safety issue today, causing more morbidity and mortality than all other patient safety problems combined.  Informatics will certainly have […]

Microhospitals: Alternative Strategies for Clinical Services Delivery at CHRISTUS

Jennifer Varnadore Randy Osteen Jennifer Varnadore, Administrator, CHRISTUS Bossier Emergency Hospital, Randy Osteen, VP Applications Services, and Dana Smelser, Director of Marketing and Communications, CHRISTUS Health.  As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, provider organizations are seeking lower-cost alternatives to providing traditional clinical services through creation of facilities that are scalable in design to provide […]

Digital Patient Engagement at Partners

Kamal Jethwani, MD Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs.  Evidence suggests that patients engaged in their own care have better clinical outcomes and lower total medical expenses. However, engaging patients in meaningful ways requires high levels of coordination within care teams, along with the availability of well-designed, intelligent tools to […]

2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule from CMS

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Larry Katzovitz Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session focuses on the 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Final Rule from CMS, and provides a high-level overview of the significant components of the legislation, how they interrelate, and what providers and health care organizations need […]

Developing a Provider Efficiency Program at Beaumont

Karie Lyon Suzan Beydoun Cathy Shepherd Karie Lyon, VP Information Technology, Suzan Beydoun, MD, MSHI, Associate CMIO, and Cathy Shepherd, RN, MEd, Director Information Technology, Beaumont Health, share their journey on the development of a provider efficiency program for their ambulatory providers.  This program utilizes proficiency data from the electronic health record to identify providers […]

Tackling Provider Directories: Sharing and Managing Change Across the Blockchain

Gerry Lewis Lorraine Frias Gerry Lewis, Senior VP and CIO, Ascension and CEO, Ascension Technologies, and Lorraine Frias, Senior Director Strategic Initiatives, Optum.  Billions of dollars are spent annually on provider data management, yet provider directories often contain inaccuracies that dramatically increase the cost of care while reducing its quality. This session provides an overview […]

The Growth and Maintenance of a Population Health Strategy at Memorial Hermann

Ini Ekiko, VP Population Health and Ambulatory Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System.  Memorial Hermann has implemented tools to facilitate tracking and completion of registry care gaps and accurate HCC (hierarchical condition category) coding, as well as the reporting, analyzing and visualization of data. With HealtheIntent serving as just one component of the solution, the population […]

Cybersecurity Investment Strategy at Partners HealthCare

Jigar Kadakia Jigar Kadakia, CISO/CPO, Partners HealthCare System.  Cybersecurity does not generate revenue, and this makes it difficult to assess how much money to allocate to a cybersecurity budget or predict the economic impact of a successful cyberattack or major breach; but it’s not impossible. In this session, Jigar explains that while there is no […]