Kristin M. Jenkins, JD, MBA, FACHE, President, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation and Senior VP, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. Â The Foundation houses a voluntary health information exchange in which 98 acute care and post-acute care facilities share claims data. Â This data is analyzed to measure performance on AHRQ quality metrics, hospital acquired conditions and readmissions […]
Jason T. Schaffer, MD FAAEM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Division of Informatics, IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Department of Emergency Medicine, and Keith Kelley, VP Solution Delivery, Indiana Health Information Exchange. The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) has delivered community-wide clinical results into physician office EMR systems for years, and […]
Tina Esposito, VP, Center for Health Information Services, Darcy Davis, Data Scientist, and Fran Wilk, Clinical Process Designer, Advocate Health Care. Â With annual cost estimates as large as $300 billion, non-adherence to medications is an enormous opportunity in the Accountable Care era. Â As a large ACO, Advocate Health Care is working to more effectively intervene […]
Russell L. Jones, Partner, Raj Mehta, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, and Phillip M. Englert, National Director Technology Operations - Physical Asset Services, Catholic Health Initiatives. There has been a lot of interest and discussion on BioMed device security over the last couple of years. Â As part of cybersecurity concerns, Boards are asking questions on this […]
Qammer Bokhari, MD, VP/CMIO, and Loren Hauck, MD, CMO, Adventist Health System. Â Drs. Bokhari and Hauck share how Adventist Health System (AHS) established its vision on leveraging Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) to provide real-time clinical and financial surveillance across the care continuum. Participants will hear about the evolution of IDSS at AHS and how […]
Julie Hollberg, MD, CMIO, Emory Healthcare & Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. Â While EMR's offer robust potential to improve healthcare delivery, the initial versions have caused significant frustration. Â Originally Emory had just four different views of the EMR, yet what a urologist wants to see is different than a dermatologist or […]
Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD, Director for Interoperability Informatics, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. Â NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) is an integrated delivery system in the New York City metropolitan area. Â Like all health care providers, NYP is responding to dynamics that are advancing value-based care and the need for efficiency in health care delivery. Â The value-based care landscape - and […]
Rich Pollack, VP & CIO, VCU Health. Â Rich discusses how a detailed review and benchmarking of IT revealed an excessive staffing in infrastructure roles to the detriment of adequate resources for applications support. Working with HR, a plan was developed to transition 40 positions to new roles and provide the training and mentoring needed to […]
Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, and Joan Campbell, RN, Clinical Informaticist, Impact Advisors. Â Dr. Edwards and Joan discuss management of the tidal wave of changes necessary to be successful as health systems transition to value-based payment environments. Â They also cover developing true systems out of federated states to reduce clinical variation and cost, integration […]
Deborah Larkin-Carney, Corporate VP for Quality, RWJBarnabas Health, and Catherine Gorman-Klug, Director Quality Service Line, Nuance Communications, Inc. Â Beginning in February 2017, hospitals will be required to submit quality measures electronically to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While all electronic health records (EHRs) are required to be certified to submit the proper […]
Steven R. Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy & Interoperability, Sutter Health. Â Taking a clinical perspective, Dr. Steven Lane reviews the foundations and recent history of interoperability and health information exchange. Â He focuses on the emerging Carequality Framework and the increasing participation in and use of Carequality supported exchange since the first transactions […]
Kelly Patrick, Managing Director, Nick Wong, Senior Manager, Mitchell Bailey, Senior Manager, and Alan Vitale, Specialist Master, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Â Seamless interoperability, both within an organization and externally-facing systems, is the "ideal state" healthcare enterprises are searching for. Â This capability paves the way for health systems to access all relevant information at the points of […]
Mac McMillan, FHIMSS/CISM, Chairman & CEO, CynergisTek, Inc. Cyberattacks in 2016 targeted at provider organizations proved that they have the capability to disrupt operations for prolonged periods of time. These attacks are not only expensive for the institutions affected, but also disrupt their ability to treat and serve patients. Mac discusses the future of cybersecurity […]
Steven Tolle, VP and Chief Strategist - Imaging, IBM Watson Health. Â Machine learning and artificial intelligence can be leveraged in imaging technology to streamline workflow, accelerate turnaround time, and offer personalized approaches to diagnosing and treating patients. Steven shares the work in progress around this new technology as a physician support tool that integrates imaging […]
Debbie Ochs, Director IT Applications, Sony Dhillon, Senior System Analyst, Mary Kay Shibley, MSN, RN, Clinical Informaticist, and Michael Dodson, Manager, Clinical Applications - Ambulatory EHR Support, Sharp HealthCare. Sharp Behavioral Health has been live on Cerner Millennium Powerchart in both the Inpatient and Outpatient settings since June 2010. The implementation of Cerner Powerchart Ambulatory […]
