Care Value System at Catholic Health Initiatives

Barbara Caspers, MS, RN, VP, National Nursing Services, Catholic Health Initiatives. The national agenda for health reform seeks to control healthcare costs and quality, and to purchase healthcare based on value. To succeed, it will be necessary to move from traditional resource management to a value-based resource management model. Technology-enabled business processes are the vehicle […]

EDW in the Cloud and ACO Analytics

Joe Boyce, MD, CIO and CMIO, and Andy Bramlage, EDW Architect, Heartland Health. This session explores data and analytics needed to manage in the value-based model of commercial and MSSP ACOs, using Cerner's new cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse. Heartland Health has internal, commercial and Medicare "at risk" contracting which require deep development of workflows that […]

Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative: PCMH, Primary Care and HIT

Marci Nielson, PhD, MPH, CEO, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Dr. Nielsen discusses the latest evidence associating the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care delivery with reductions in healthcare costs and improvements in quality of care. Additionally, she also touches on recent legislation which supports the much-needed transition from the current volume-driven, fee-for-service reimbursement […]

Accelerating the Adoption of Connected Health

Chantal Worzala, PhD, Director of Policy, American Hospital Association, and Sarah Thomas, Director of Research, Center for Health Solutions (DCHS), and Casey Korba Health Policy Manager, DCHS, Deloitte Consulting, LLC.  The demand for value is prompting healthcare organizations to find more efficient and effective ways to improve care, including making services more accessible through facilitating […]

Improving Value of Care for Risk-Based Contracts at Cedars-Sinai

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 […]

GIS Mash-ups Can Help ACOs, HIEs

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 […]

Patient/Consumer Engagement at Cedars-Sinai: It Takes a Village

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 […]

The Alignment of Value Based Care and Population Health Technologies

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 […]

New Technologies Help Transform the use of Big Data

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 […]

Insight-Driven Healthcare – The Future Has Arrived

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 […]

Patient Engagement and Population Health at Kaiser Permanente

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, […]

Powering an ACO, Analytics, and Technology Innovation with an HIE at Baystate

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 […]

Clinical Integration: A Road Map to Accountable Care from DHG Healthcare

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 […]

Pop Health: Leveraging Technology to Drive Prevention at Mercy Health

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 […]

Leveraging MACRA to Improve Revenue Cycle and Clinical Integration

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 […]