Clinical Guideline Recommendations you can Trust

Janice Kaczmarek Janice Kaczmarek, EPC Program Manager & Director, ECRI Guidelines Trust, ECRI Institute. When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) decided to stop funding the National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NGC), ECRI Institute heard from numerous users of the site who were dismayed. ECRI had been the prime contractor for NGC for 20 years, […]

Continuing Care: It’s not just Post-acute Care

Seth Nore, MBA, MHA Seth Nore, MBA, MHA, Clinical Applications Director, and John Jurchak, MSPT, Director of Performance Enhancement, Atrium Health. Atrium Health operates as a fully integrated system that is connecting and transforming care delivery. Seth and Bennett discuss the growing importance of continuing care organizations and how Atrium's approach to clinical system integration […]

Recruitment Marketing in a Digital Age at Ascension

Anne Pankonien Lauren King Anne Pankonien, Senior Director Talent Acquisition, Promotions and Sourcing Strategy, and Lauren King, Regional Recruitment Director, Ascension.  People are talking … and texting, and tweeting and blogging. How do you ensure your recruitment message is being heard above the noise? In this session we will discuss the digital recruitment toolbox, and […]

KLAS Interoperability and EHR Data Sharing Trends

Colin Buckley Paul Warbuton Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, Paul Warburton, EHR Analyst, and Tyson Blauer, Interoperability Analyst, KLAS.  Interoperability and EHR market share are still top of mind for HIT leaders across the country. KLAS' latest interoperability update validates the CommonWell-Carequality connection, which makes data sharing possible for almost any provider organization. The next hurdle […]

An EHR-Based Real-Time Analytics Program for Patient Safety Surveillance and Improvement

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah.  Dr. Classen reviews the use of artificial intelligence at the bedside to improve the safety of care for patients. He also discusses an article recently published in a special issue of Health Affairs in November 2018 that is totally devoted to patient […]

GDPR: So You Think it Doesn’t Apply?

Scott Dresen, FACHE, FHIMSS, CISSP, CISM, Senior VP & CTO/CISO, Leah Voigt, JD, MPH, Chief Privacy & Research Integrity Officer, Spectrum Health System, Christy Wheaton, Chief Information Privacy & Security Officer, and Liz Callahan-Morris, Deputy General Counsel, Henry Ford Health System. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in effect for almost […]

Transforming Patient Access to Care

David Jaspan, DO, FACOOG James Farley David Jaspan, DO, FACOOG, Chair, Access Governance Committee and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Einstein Healthcare Network, and James Farley, National VP Value Creation, UnitedHealthcare.  Einstein Health Network (EHN), was struggling with recurring and growing financial losses, both in their medical group and at their hospital. Wait times in the […]

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery through EMR Integration

Stacey Johnston, MD Megan Argabright Stacey Johnston, MD, Associate CMIO for Hospitalist Informatics, and Megan Argabright, Clinical Informaticist, Baptist Health (Jacksonville FL).  Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is an evidence-based interdisciplinary care delivery model that focuses on quickly moving the evidence developed from surgical research to bedside patient care, making a more immediate positive impact […]

Population Health Strategy & Technology in the Shift to Value-Based Care

Shara Cohen, JD Vanessa Guzman, AVP, Quality Improvement, Montefiore Health System, and Shara L. Cohen, JD, VP, Customer Experience for Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health.  Vanessa and Shara describe the strategy used by Montefiore Health System to implement value-based care model activities, understanding that patients' health extends well-beyond healthcare settings. The model promotes accountability for […]

New Visualization Techniques for Medication Adherence at Advocate Aurora

Darcy Davis, PhD Darcy Davis, PhD, Data Scientist, Advocate Aurora Health.  Medication adherence is a multi-faceted problem with varying intensity of health consequences but ultimately a high societal cost. In this complex space, tools that aid clinician judgement are more actionable when paired with meaningful conversations about patient needs and barriers to adherence. Learn how […]

Making the Right Choice: How to Rate Healthcare Apps

Adam Landman, MD David Levine, MD David W. Bates, MD Adam Landman, MD, CIO, David Levine, MD, Associate Physician, and David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  There are several hundred thousand healthcare apps in the marketplace, but it can be very difficult to determine which ones […]

Utilizing a Balanced Scorecard for Better BI at CHRISTUS

Dustin Drueckhammer, Manager Business Intelligence, and Cindy Neuenschwander, Senior Data Quality Specialist, CHRISTUS Health.  In today’s climate, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Governance (DG) are pivotal aspects of a successful heath system. The capability to produce actionable governed data enables an organization to ensure that high data quality and integrity exists throughout the complete lifecycle […]

Children’s Minnesota Community Connect: Linking Families, Resources and Care

Jessica Block Pam Ross, JD, MHA Jessica Block, Manager Community Health Programs, and Pam Ross, JD, MHA, Director Community Health Programs, Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota.  Increasingly, efforts to address the social determinants of health provide important opportunities to influence individual and population health. Responsive programming requires thoughtful clinical integration, skilled resource navigation, and […]