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John Bulger, DO, MBA, Chief Medical Officer Population Health, Geisinger Health System and the Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan. Making the move from volume to value requires fundamental changes. While there are tools and capabilities, most of the change is cultural. Dr. Bulger describes how Geisinger is aiming to change the way they think about caring for...

Kelly Hoover Thompson, CEO, and Joe Walker, Sr. VP of Technology Services for MyHealth Access Network. The Patient Centered Data HomeTM (PCDH) is a national initiative to deliver a cost-effective, scalable method of exchanging patient data among health information exchanges (HIEs) to access real-time information across state and regional lines and the care continuum. It puts into practice the vision...

Julia Adler-Milstein, Director, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, UCSF. Julie has spent the past decade studying the progress of electronic health information exchange (HIE) and EHR system interoperability in the U.S. She discusses the policy context and how federal policy efforts have sought to intervene to promote health information exchange. Despite substantial resources devoted to HIE, several...

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor Impact Advisors.  This session provides late-breaking information about what every provider needs to know now in order to successfully attest for 2017. Dan, Jason and Larry examine the implications of the recent clarification from CMS regarding the MIPS requirement that eligible clinicians must attest "that...

Brian Wayling, AVP TeleHealth Services, Angie Adams, RN, BSN, TeleHealth Program Manager, and Katherine Repko, RN, TeleHealth Operations Manager, Intermountain Healthcare.  Intermountain Healthcare has deployed a broad range of TeleHealth programs in just a few years that have facilitated over 330,000 patient interactions. Participants will hear how a central TeleHealth deployment team, and an integrated clinical and technology strategy...

Sam VanNorman, MS, CPHQ, General Manager Managed Analytics Programs (MAP), and Derek Pederson, MA, MBA, VP Medical Informatics Consulting, Optum.  See how innovative analytics helped to mitigate risks associated with diabetes severity, potentially avoidable ER visits, and palliative care across health systems.  Gain insights from three highly impactful case studies and see how advanced data analytics methodologies and evolving...

Peter Fleischut, MD, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Operating Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian.  NYP On Demand Is a comprehensive suite of digital services to get the right doctor to the right patient, nationally, regionally and locally. The On Demand program consists of second opinions in 80+ specialties, urgent care in four states, pediatric and adult ED express care, enterprise specialty...

Matthias Kochmann, MD, Clinical Informatics Fellow, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and Jason Schaffer, MD, IU Health. Drs. Kochmann and Schaffer discuss the Regenstrief "SMART on FHIR" pilots underway to standardize the process of integrating HIE data into different EMRs so that HIE data can be integrated into a physician's workflow to improve patient care. This is a "Part II" teleconference...

Don Lovasz, President, KentuckyOne Health Partners. While forming the health system 4 years ago, CHI's KentuckyOne also created its Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Currently the KentuckyOne Health Partners (KHP) ACO is ranked in the top decile nationally among over 400 ACOs across the country in terms of quality, total medical spend savings, and covered lives. Becoming a NextGen ACO...

John Roseman, MD, Behavioral Health Clinical Content Lead, Jennifer Gray, RN, Application Manager, Andrew Murphy, Application Coordinator, and Liann Devereux, Application Coordinator, Partners HealthCare System. After three years of enterprise discussion and consensus on workflows and content, Partners began a new EMR implementation process in 2015. This has resulted in the successful implementation of the Epic EMR at Partners...