Value-Based Care

Scott Weingarten, MD, SVP, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center.  Similar to many other health systems, Cedars-Sinai has signed a number of new risk-based contracts, including health plan ACOs, Medicare Advantage contracts, and commercial HMO contracts.   Dr. Weingarten discusses a number of new health care delivery strategies that have enabled Cedars-Sinai to reduce inappropriate […]

Brian E. Dixon, PhD, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health and Regenstrief Institute.Through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, researchers at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute in partnership with the Marion County Public Health Department have embarked on a journey to integrate clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs) with community-level […]

Sharon Isonaka, MD, MS, VP of Clinical Transformation; Cynthia Litt Deculus, VP of Population Health; Omkar Kulkarni, MPH, Director, Healthcare Innovation Accelerator; and Cindy Levey, MPH, Associate Director, Community Benefit Systems and Planning, Cedars-Sinai Health System.  This team from Cedars-Sinai discusses their multi-pronged approach to Patient and Consumer Engagement which aims to meet patients and […]

Brian Flanigan, Principal, and Tony Jurek, Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  The changing landscape of Value Based Care, as it exists through regulatory, market or technological shifts, can make it difficult to connect the dots between Healthcare Technology Investments and Value Based Care requirements.  Join Brian and Tony to hear lessons from the field, along with […]

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst.  The term "Big Data" emerged from Silicon Valley in 2003 to describe the unprecedented volume, variety and velocity of data that was being collected and analyzed by Yahoo, Google, eBay, and others. An affordability, scalability and performance ceiling had been reached with traditional relational database technology.  Through the Apache Open […]

Brian Doty, Principal, and Nitin Mittal, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Since its inception healthcare has been an information-driven process. We are at the threshold of a new age of healthcare where analytics will radically transform the way patient care is delivered. The convergence of financial, socioeconomic, competitive, regulatory, and technology trends requires healthcare organizations to […]

Scott Young, MD, Associate Executive Director Clinical Care and Innovation and the Care Management Institute at Kaiser Permanente, and Andrew Wiesenthal, MD, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP.  Kaiser Permanente looks at patient engagement as a core component of population management and care for the chronically ill.  Kaiser Permanente's framework breaks this into three complementary approaches.  First, […]

Joel Vengco, VP & CIO, Baystate Health.  Interoperability is extremely critical for the advancement of healthcare.  In fact, it is necessary for surviving in today's healthcare environment.  A health system can no longer simply rely on its physical locations for seeing and managing patients; rely on its EMR and Revenue Cycle systems for comprehensive information […]

Josh Berlin, JD, Principal, DHG Healthcare, and Jacqueline Matthews, RN, MS, Senior Healthcare Transformation Director, IBM Watson Health.  Many health systems are pursuing options to form Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) in order to move from volume to value to help lower the cost of care and improve quality. It's critical that providers gain access to […]

Erin Fries, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Mercy Health, Tarah Knaresboro, VUI Design Manager, and Samuel Moore, Client Services Manager, Emmi.  Managing a population's health means more than helping people when they're ill - it means driving behaviors that will keep them healthy. But the resources required to do this effectively are often costly and in […]

Scott Pillittere, VP, Impact Advisors and Henry Stokman, Principal, Impact Advisors. As 2017 quickly approaches, the new MACRA rules will start to take full effect.  As value based reimbursement ramps up through 2020, it is going to become increasingly important for hospital executives to manage their patient populations and reimbursement through data in order to […]

Tamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, Clinical Performance Coordinator, Centura Health Physician Group, and Will McConnell MBA, PhD, VP Operations and Outreach Strategy, Mercy Regional Medical Center.  The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, as well as several payer groups, invested in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative to drive change and prepare organizations for population […]

Charles Coleman, PhD, CMPH, PHM Solutions Lead, Behavioral & Mental Health Programs, and Karen Handmaker, MPP, VP, Population Health Strategies, IBM Watson Health. Engaging people in their health and healthcare is a universal challenge - and even more so for people with behavioral health diagnoses. Now, with value-based incentives, new sources of data and expanded […]