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 […]

Improving Depression Screening in Primary Care with Health IT at UCLA

Jessica Jeffrey, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Clara Lin, MD, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Specialist and Physician Informaticist, and Rachel Linonis, MS, Director Digital Solutions, UCLA Division of Population Behavioral Health at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.  The high prevalence of under-recognized and costly behavioral health conditions, coupled with the rise of accountable care organizations […]

CommonSpirit as Worldwide Partner to Address Root Causes of Illness

Ji Im, MPH, Senior Director, Community and Population Health, CommonSpirit Health. Social and environmental factors have a profound effect on long-term health and well-being, with 60 percent of preventable deaths rooted in modifiable behaviors and exposures in the community. However, one challenge is identifying and connecting individuals to their respective needs for housing, nutrition, employment […]

Pop Health Management Strategy and Framework at Providence

Rhonda Medows MD, FAAFP Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, President, Population Health Management & CEO Ayin Health Solutions, Providence St. Joseph. Providence St Joseph Health is the third largest non-profit health system in the country, spanning 7 western states. With this much diversity in populations served, local market dynamics, and underlying social infrastructures, managing a comprehensive population […]

Pharmacy Intelligence – Insights from Aggregate Benchmarking

Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS, VP Pharmacy Operations, OSF HealthCare System, Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  Recently aggregated nationwide drug data from hundreds of health systems, as well […]

Using Self-Insured Data as a Foundation for Value-based Payment Strategy at Adventist Health

John Beaman Allen Miller John Beaman, Chief Business Officer, Adventist Health, and Allen Miller, Principal, COPE Health Solutions.  As CMS and employers continue to push for more premium risk contracts and value-based payment, a key to success is accurate data on the total cost of care for attributed or assigned membership. There is a growing […]