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 […]

Using AI to Improve Physician Documentation and Quality

Ehab Hanna, MD, FHM, MBA Michael Clark Ehab Hanna, MD, MBA, CMIO, Universal Health Services, and Michael Clark, SVP & General Manager, Nuance Communications.  Through conversational AI-powered solutions at the point-of-care, providers at Universal Health Services (UHS) are now able to capture documentation to create a complete picture of the patient story with specificity from […]

The Future of Health: Technology Trends Transforming Healthcare

Tom Foley Jason Wainstein David Betts Tom Foley, Principal, Jason Wainstein, Principal, and David Betts, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  The life sciences and health care industry is on the brink of large-scale disruption. The future will be defined by radically interoperable data, open and secure platforms, and consumer-driven care. Is your organization prepared?  This teleconference […]

Strategic Program Management at INTEGRIS: The IT Role as a Strategic Partner

Mark Pasquale Mark Pasquale, CIO, INTEGRIS Health.  How many projects in your portfolio require IT resources to succeed?  If your organization is like most, over 90% of the projects will require at least one IT resource.  Many organizations now rely on IT as the team who has ownership of all project intake, approval, prioritization and […]

Medicare ACO in Adolescence: Six Years of MSSP Experience at AMITA Health

Luke Hansen, MD, MHS Luke Hansen, MD, MHS, VP & CMO Population Health, AMITA Health.  Accountable Care Organizations represent the most widely adopted of Medicare’s alternative payment models. AMITA Health was an early entrant of the program and has realized over $45 Million of shared savings over the last six years while posting top tier […]

Complex Care Planning Process at Mercy Health

Mike Olgren, MD Michael Olgren, MS, MMI, MD, FACEP, CMIO, and Diplomate in Clinical Informatics of the ABPM, Mercy Health Saint Mary's Campus, a member of Trinity Health.  Most healthcare workers feel patient complexity has gone through the roof, along with the expectation of managing the costs these patients incur. As we move to value-based […]