Patient Activation: Measurement, Outcomes, and Implications for Models of Care

Val Overton, DNP, VP Quality and Innovation, Fairview Medical Group.  Hear how Fairview has implemented the measurement of patient activation and their early findings related to cost, quality, and patient experience.  Val shares how Fairview is utilizing activation measurement in care processes, risk stratification, training for staff, and the development of the patient portal initiative. […]

Population Health Analytics: Market Update

Cora Sharma, Principal Analyst, Chilmark Research, discusses population health analytics. Cora describes current market barriers and what providers can do to address them, what is missing from out-of-the-box solutions, and what to expect from the market over the long-term. She also explains 1) how clinical and claims data are getting married; 2) what is "good […]

Population Health Management: Technology and Analytics Effectiveness

Mark Golberg, SVP, HealthCare Strategy and Value Based Care, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte.  Mark discusses client case studies and examples illustrating how organizations can effectively leverage their technology and its impact on overall analytical effectiveness.  He also goes over key challenges, lessons learned, and future direction in the market.

Healthcare Mobile Applications: The Ascension Journey

Kathy Mulvey, Director, Shared/System PMO, Ascension Information Services.  Join Kathy as she shares Ascension Health's journey in developing healthcare mobile applications.  Ascension Health began focusing on mobile applications in 2011 and has 60+ mobile applications live today.  Kathy relates successes and challenges experienced along the way, and how these lessons learned can be leveraged for […]

Analytics for Value-Based Care: A New Paradigm

Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, and Graham Triggs, Research Director, KLAS Research. In a BI/analytics market that is bursting with vendors, healthcare providers have never had more options - or more important decisions to make - than they do today. This teleconference dives into the confusion and reviews providers' consideration of vendors for analytics […]

Physician Data Transparency: Through the CMS Looking-Glass

Michael R. Udwin, MD, FACOG, National Medical Director, Truven Health Analytics. With the April 9th release of Medicare provider specific encounter data, including type of venue, charge, reimbursement and number of patients treated, physicians wish to understand how they will be viewed.  Like a prism, the image can look quite different depending on perspective.  Join […]

The Healing Edge: Innovation Meets Information Technology

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Innovation, Northwestern Medicine, Co-Founder and Chairman, healthfinch ("The Doctor  Happiness Company"). Learn how different organizations across the nation have been innovative in their use of healthcare information technologies, from creating major quality and efficiency gains using Electronic Medical Records, to virtualizing healthcare via Telemedicine, to […]

The SAFER (Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience) Guides at healthIT.gov

Dean F. Sittig, PhD, Professor, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. Electronic health records have the potential to improve quality and safety of healthcare. However, EHR users have experienced safety concerns from EHR design and usability features that are not optimally adapted for the complex workflow of real-world practice. Dr. Sittig and Hardeep describe the development of […]

Aligning CDS and Quality Measurement

Jane Metzger, Research Principal, and Marta Arthur, Principal Researcher, CSC. For most hospitals, the dust is settling on Stage 1 of meaningful use and efforts have turned to Stage 2. The time is right to start tying individual elements of meaningful use into a more comprehensive and unified strategy that sets the stage for using […]

MU2 Attestation at U of Missouri: Lessons from the Bleeding Edge

Bryan Bliven, CIO, and Gregory Brown, Sr. Program Manager, University Of Missouri Healthcare. It's a long and winding road to achieving Meaningful Use Stage 2.  Join Bryan and Gregory as they share MU roadblocks and detours they encountered before coming to the realization that there is no easy, direct path to get to the attestation […]

Readmissions Predictive Model at Advocate Health Care

Lee B. Sacks, MD, EVP, CMO of Advocate Health Care and CEO of Advocate Physician Partners, Tina Esposito, Advocate Health Care, and Cole Erdmann, Cerner, Erica Drazen, ScD, Senior Advisor, Scottsdale Institute. This session outlines how Advocate worked on the creation, validation and deployment of a 30-day all cause readmission predictive model.  It also highlights […]

Is Epic to Non-Epic Clinical Data Sharing Real or a Myth?

Mark Allphin, Senior Research Director, Colin Buckley, Strategic Operations Director, and Graham Triggs, Senior Research Director, KLAS.  Epic is seen by many competitors and providers as not playing well with others, but there is much more to the story. Data is being shared between Epic and different EMRs, but the effort required to get there […]

Clinical Business Intelligence Across Ascension Health

John Pirolo, MD, EVP, CMIO, Saint Thomas Health, and Gail Zielinski, Director, BI/HIE, Ascension Information Services.  This presentation describes a holistic approach to selection and validation of a system-wide clinical business intelligence platform.  Dr. Pirolo and Gail also discuss early value opportunities, including the use of clinically driven analytics to influence behavioral change (and improve […]

MyAdvocate: Attracting and Engaging Patients Through Innovative, Vendor-Neutral Portal

Mike Delahanty, VP Application Products/Projects, and Ted Kliebhan, Director Project Advocate Connection, Advocate Health Care, discuss how Advocate is using state-of-the-art patient portal technology to attract, engage and activate patients in their own wellness.  Among the many robust functions, the new portal emphasizes patient ease-of-access to medical records, secure two-way communication with the care team, […]

ePMO at Ministry Health: Setting Up your Project Workplan for Success

Jodie Gardner, Manager, ePMO Quality and Process, Ministry Health, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). Ministry Health Care, an Ascension Health Ministry, utilizes MS Project Server 2013 in their ePMO (Enterprise Project Management Office).  To help our Project Managers validate that their Project workplans were set up correctly, […]