Value-Based Care

Kenneth J. Fawcett Jr., MD, Vice President, Healthier Communities, Spectrum Health.  Dr. Fawcett asks and attempts to answer how we can create equitable outcomes among disadvantaged populations in the context of an active pandemic.  He describes strategies to reduce COVID-19 infections, explains how to proactively reach out to patients who are at greatest risk outside of a medical model,...

Patrick R. Young, President Population Health, Hackensack Meridian Health. The transition from volume to value-based care is transforming healthcare.  Patrick discusses how the largest health system in New Jersey is making this transition through physician engagement, data integration, and payor partnerships. Hackensack Meridian Health is a leader in this transition to value-based care in New Jersey, pioneering innovative programs...

Kevin Guill, Director of Digital Marketing, Centura Health, and Becca Lococo, PhD, VP Optum Advisory Services. Spurred on by the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care in the Colorado marketplace, Centura Health chose to deploy digital patient engagement tools in a way that would provide valuable feedback from their consumers and the market to confidently develop a digital strategy...

Greg Hindahl, MD, CMIO and Apparsamy Balaji, Director, Enterprise Data Management & Web Applications, BayCare Health System. BayCare’s Business Intelligence Center facilitates the integration of disparate data sources from across the organization to be analyzed in near real-time for data discovery, performance tracking and advanced analysis. These decisions and insights aim to improve the quality of care and patient...

Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, KLAS.  The need for patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is in its adolescence. Today, broad visions and experimentation exist, but there is a lack of consensus regarding end goals, and pathways are unclear.  Colin discusses the most recent strategies and technologies being used today...

Urvi Shah, Manager, Minakshi Krishnan, Senior Manager, Tim Smith, Principal, and Ken Abrams, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Virtual Health is becoming an expectation for customers and providers alike, and a means for health care organizations to differentiate themselves. Urvi, Minakshi, Tim and Ken explore the imperative of Virtual Health and discuss benefits they’ve seen organizations experience in developing...

Michael Ries MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director, Adult Critical Care and eICU, and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, VP, Adult Critical Care & Medical Prof. Affairs, Advocate Health Care. If used properly, tele-ICU can enable a healthcare organization to garner significant clinical and financial benefits. Dr. Ries and Cindy discuss how tele-ICU has enabled Advocate Health Care to...

Jim Bender, MD, Medical Director Clinical Informatics, Virginia Mason. Engaging patients in the use of an online portal has been a key strategic goal at Virginia Mason in Seattle for the last several years. To date, half of current patients have active portal accounts. Join Dr. Jim Bender in a discussion that reviews the history of the project, and...

Trushna Dave, Manager of Data Sharing at NewYork-Presbyterian and affiliated medical schools, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center. In the past several years there has been an increase in the number of healthcare organizations joining forces to provide integrated and standardized clinical care along the continuum. As a result, the demand for access to data has...

Michael Reagin, VP and CIO, Sentara Healthcare, and Timothy Zoph, Client Executive and Strategist, Impact Advisors. Digital Health is destined to harness a new generation of technology and a wealth of new data, transforming our healthcare delivery system towards a new patient-centered and modern services industry. Although "digital" is still emerging in healthcare, we can gain insights from the...