Extending Patient Care Through Voice Technology and AI

  Shara Cohen, JD, VP Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Shara Cohen, JD, VP Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer.  Scaling reach and effectiveness of care management resources is a critical challenge for leading healthcare organizations as they seek to meet the demands of population health management, value-based care performance and shrinking […]

Telehealth Strategy at VCU Improves Productivity, Patient Experience and Bottom Line

Vimal Mishra, MD, MMCi David Collins, MHA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Vimal Mishra, MD, MMCi, Medical Director Office of Telemedicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, ABPM Diplomate in Clinical Informatics, and David Collins, MHA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Practice Administrator Telemedicine, VCU Health.  Traditional face-to-face patient visits require multiple accommodations, including travel, parking, navigating to a clinic, and spending time […]

Understanding and Getting the Most out of Value-based Services

Warren Whitford Colin Buckley Warren Whitford, Director of Value Based Care Research, and Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, KLAS.  The shift to value-based care is top of mind for many health systems. Market complexity and growth in the value-based care (VBC) managed services market have led to fluctuating customer experiences. Over the past two years, leaders […]

Community Collaboration Address Social Determinants to Reduce Costs and Improve Health

Mark Ropiecki Mark Ropiecki, Executive Director, and Wayne Teris, MD, Medical Director, Care Compass Network.  Community Based Organizations provide valued services to our community members that contribute to health outcomes. These services are not yet fully quantified or qualified from an integrated health system-community based organization approach to value-based reimbursement.  This session focuses on innovative […]

Understanding Cost and Efficacy of New Medication Therapies

Deborah Pasko, PharmD, MHA Deborah Pasko, PharmD, MHA, Director of Performance Center Optimization & Services, Omnicell. As inpatient drug spend continues to outpace payer reimbursement, health systems need to have better insight into the impact of medication usage on the total cost of care.  Deb discusses and reviews ways to understand the impact of medication […]

The Future of Work in Healthcare

Jen Radin Quinn Solomon Deborah Hays Colleen Bordeaux Jen Radin, Principal, Quinn Solomon, Principal, Debora Hays, Specialist Executive, and Colleen Bordeaux, Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  The future of work and the workforce is a topic at the World Economic Forum and in every industry publication. With the unmatched disruption in exponential technologies, generational changes and […]

Civica Rx at Intermountain

Dan Liljenquist Dan Liljenquist, SVP/Chief Strategy Officer, Intermountain Healthcare.  Shortages of essential generic medications are impacting patient care throughout the country.  Civica Rx is a not-for-profit generic drug company, organized by leading health systems and philanthropies with a mission to ensure that essential generic medications are available and affordable for everyone.  This session (1) explores […]

SI 2019 CIO Roundtable

During the 26th SI Annual Conference twenty CIOs met to network and share ideas and insights regarding: efforts underway to reduce the cognitive burden of the EMR; paving the way for increased consumerization of healthcare delivery; and extending the ways SI CIOs can offer advice to “next generation” IT and executive leadership. The group of […]

SI 2019 Annual Conference | IT Models for the Future

The future was on the minds of CEOs and other health-system leaders from Scottsdale Institute member organizations as they tackled consumerism, digital health and even the politics of healthcare at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona during our 26th Annual Conference.  See the SI 2019 Annual Conference Summary for more details! The healthcare industry is in the […]

SI 2019 CMIO/CNIO Roundtable

The Scottsdale Institute 2019 CMIO/CNIO Roundtable sponsored by Hearst Health convened 18 chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief clinical information officers (CCIOs) and chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) on April 11 during the Scottsdale Institute 2019 Annual Conference in a roundtable to tackle the vexing problem of how to reduce the cognitive burden of the EMR, often […]

Enhancing Nursing Mobility and Improving Care Team Communications with CareAware Connect

Angela Kline-Couch, MBA-HC, MSN, BSN, RN Kassaundra McKnight-Young, BSN, RN Breane Lucas, BSN, RN Angela Kline-Couch, MBA-HC, MSN, BSN, RN, Director of Telemetry Services, Kassaundra McKnight-Young, BSN, RN, Senior Clinical Informaticist, and Breane Lucas, BSN, RN, Senior Clinical Informaticist, Truman Medical Centers.  Hospital leadership is constantly searching for ways to improve care team efficiencies and […]

CMS and ONC Proposed Rules on Interoperability, Patient Access, Information Blocking, and EHR Certification

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Jason Fortin Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, and Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session focuses on two proposed rules recently published by the federal government:  Interoperability and Patient Access from CMS, and Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program.  Dan and Jason provide an overall […]

Advocate Partnerships for Statewide Pediatric Care

Mike Farrell, President, and Frank Belmonte, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Children's Hospital.  High quality pediatric care starts with sufficient volumes and breadth of services. In a contracting pediatric market, how do you continue to gain market share and augment services that you can provide to this population? Nontraditional partnerships become essential to consolidating the […]

Medication Therapy Management and CMS Standardized Format: Medicare Part D Co-design

Nicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, BCPP, FASCP, Executive Director, The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging, and Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.  Co-design is one of the essential tools in human-centered design (HCD) and involves the patients in the design process and works with them to […]

Creating and Running Innovation Centers: TechSpring at Baystate

Christian Lagier, Managing Director and Co-Founder, TechSpring – the Baystate Health Technology Innovation Center.  As regulatory and competitive pressures are dramatically increasing the pace of change in our industry, Christian speaks about the role of "innovation centers" in healthcare. At the founding of TechSpring five years ago, there were less than 20. Today, the list […]