Alternative Payment Models: MACRA, Part III

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session will look at the "other half" of the MACRA legislation: incentives for participating in Alternative Payment Models (APMs).  Topics will include an in-depth review and analysis of the different APM options defined under […]

Pop Health Initiative using HealtheIntent at the University of Missouri/Health Network of Missouri

Bryan Bliven, CIO, MU Health Care and Executive Director, Tiger Institute for Health Innovations, and Mike Seda, Director, Regional Operations, Tiger Institute. As University of Missouri Health has been progressing on its journey towards value-based care it has developed various types of innovative healthcare provider and industry partnerships to scale care delivery across a larger […]

Analytics: Harvard Offers Digital Repository of Medical Evidence

Ali Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, Executive Director, Harvard Medical School Library of Evidence and Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Raja describes the HMS Library of Evidence, a collaborative between the HMS Countway Library of Medicine and representatives of other HMS hospitals and Harvard institutions. It was founded to create […]

The Evolution of Population Management at CHRISTUS Health

Grayling Yarbrough, Director of Population Health Management, and Randy Osteen, Associate CIO and Vice President for Information Management, CHRISTUS Health.  Over the past few years, Population Health Management has become a buzz word in the healthcare industry as payment and care delivery moves from fee-for-service to value-based care models.  In 2013, CHRISTUS Health began its […]

Beyond Patient Engagement:  Using Patient Engagement Data to Identify Gaps and Measure Process Improvements

Sara Laskey, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Metro Health, and Shara Cohen, JD, Senior VP, Client Experience, Emmi. Technology can be a powerful tool to enable providers to engage patients to be active partners in their care, but Cleveland-based MetroHealth System learned it could do much more.  MetroHealth initially implemented Emmi care transition solutions to help […]

Activity-based Costing Initiative at the University of Michigan

Andrew L. Rosenberg, MD, CIO, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, and Migdalia Musler, Associate CFO, University of Michigan Medical Group.  Healthcare providers and health systems may be at financial and other risk if they are unable to accurately determine costs for patients and their episodes of care, let alone how those costs compare to outcomes […]

Technology Organizational Transformation – What it is and How You Achieve it

Melissa Dill, Vice President, Ascension Information Services.  Technology has and will continue to play an important role in the way products and services are developed, delivered and used by their customers.  While healthcare tends to lag behind industry in adoption and delivery of new, innovative solutions, consumers are demanding that healthcare keep up with non-healthcare […]

Leading Wisely: The Next Generation of Executive Decision Support

Dorian DiNardo, SVP Product Development, Health Catalyst. While healthcare has invested billions of dollars in digitizing information, many leadership teams haven't had the right decision-making tools to harness data, generate insight and effect clinical, financial and operational outcomes. Now, that has changed. Leading Wisely is a game changer for healthcare leaders. This web-based solution automatically […]

Performance Scorecard at Methodist Le Bonheur, Part II

Paula Jacobs, VP Process Improvement & Innovation, and David Deas, Director, Innovation and Knowledge Analytics, Methodist Le Bonheur.  This session reviews the innovative quality measurement system used by a six-hospital healthcare system as a strategy to achieve top decile performance across all service lines. Performance Scorecard, an expanded Balanced Scorecard model, was developed in 2015 […]

Implementation of a Best in Class Central Service Center for Pharmacy at Advocate

Trac Pham, MS, RPh, MBA, Corporate Director of Central Service Center, Advocate Health Care.  Advocate Health Care has transformed the management and delivery of drugs throughout the health system with an aggressive and disciplined focus on standing up a central service center for pharmacy to reduce medication costs and improve pharmacy staff efficiency.  In just […]

Value-Based Care Tech Strategy v2017 at Mercy Health

J.D. Whitlock, VP, Enterprise Intelligence, Mercy Health.  Whether you are just starting your VBC journey, or are a mature ACO / CIN refining your technology strategy, we are all struggling with obtaining the right balance of VBC capabilities from our enterprise EHR, VBC vendor add-ons, and staffing. J.D. discusses IT management / strategy implications of […]

Big Data and Machine Learning in Healthcare: Actual Experience, Actual Results at Intermountain

Lee Pierce, Chief Data Officer, and Lonny Northrup, Sr. Medical Informaticist, Intermountain Healthcare.  With hundreds of vendors advertising the benefits of big data and machine learning for healthcare, it is challenging to separate claims from reality. Intermountain Healthcare shares examples of work they have done and work done by other leading healthcare systems that are […]

Physician Engagement at Houston Methodist: Let Doctors be Doctors

Nicholas Desai, MD, CMIO, Houston Methodist, Arthur Sorrell, MD, Principal and Physician Executive, and Christina Boling, Advisor, Impact Advisors.  Physician engagement and preparedness are among the strongest factors influencing the overall success or failure of an EHR implementation.  Houston Methodist strongly believes that to achieve physician efficiency, they must identify human-centric versus computer-centric workflows, and […]

Community Outreach at Spectrum

Kenneth J. Fawcett, Jr, MD, VP Spectrum Health Healthier Communities.  Spectrum Health's Healthier Communities offers community outreach to vulnerable populations to improve health and reduce health disparities.  Infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes have been reduced by 50%; enhanced educational outcomes are supported through virtual health delivery augmenting onsite behavioral health, medical and dental services; […]

MACRA: Who Will Gain and Who Will Lose?

Erik Johnson, VP Value Based Care, Jay Hazelrigs, Jim Dolstad, Senior Director Actuarial Advisory, and Elena White, Optum.  Today's integrated health systems are increasingly engaged in Medicare risk management strategies, such as Medicare Advantage, MSSP, and MACRA. Strategies for managing risk in the Medicare population can cascade into commercial payer performance, and market competitiveness and […]