VBC

Gary Wainer, DO, Medical Director Northwestern Medicine Physician Partners, Eric Finocchiaro, Managing Director, and Tony Jurek, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  With the current MACRA reporting year underway, organizations continue to focus on 2017 metrics while simultaneously turning attention to the 2018 reporting requirements and beyond. As the MACRA requirements change, so must each participating organization. Join Dr. Wainer,...

Scott Weingarten, MD, SVP, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System. Dr. Weingarten describes Cedars-Sinai's four-year journey to "hard wire" CDS into the EHR related to value-based payments in the inpatient and ambulatory settings, and to evaluate the resulting impact on quality and cost of care.  He also discusses the performance of commercial accountable care organizations during the time...

Brent Steineckert, Director, EMR, Access and Health Information Management, Sharp Rees-Stealy, and Marcy Mishiwiec, Director, IT Ancillary Services, Sharp HealthCare. For more than two years, Sharp Rees-Stealy (SRS) medical centers have been connecting patients with their primary care physician or specialist through the use of telemedicine.  Patients have the option to receive care for certain conditions through a telephonic...

Brian Yeaman, MD, CEO, Yeaman & Associates and Coordinated Care Health Network, and Ray George, Director, Business Development, Nuance.  Early in 2017, Coordinated Care of Oklahoma (CCO), a multi-state HIE, announced its dissolution and the launch of Coordinated Care Health Network (CCHN), a nationwide secure data exchange network with image sharing. Like many HIE organizations, CCO struggled with governance...

David Betts, Principal, and Sarah Thomas, Lead, Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions and Managing Director, Deloitte Services LLP.  In the future, value in health care will likely be captured by those who can play a role in reducing costs and improving health outcomes. New MACRA regulations further compound these pressures to reduce costs and improve quality. Join David and...

Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD, Director for Interoperability Informatics, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System.  NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) is an integrated delivery system in the New York City metropolitan area.  Like all health care providers, NYP is responding to dynamics that are advancing value-based care and the need for efficiency in health care delivery.  The value-based care landscape - and the information systems requirements...

Deborah Larkin-Carney, Corporate VP for Quality, RWJBarnabas Health, and Catherine Gorman-Klug, Director Quality Service Line, Nuance Communications, Inc.  Beginning in February 2017, hospitals will be required to submit quality measures electronically to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While all electronic health records (EHRs) are required to be certified to submit the proper data files, problems may...

Tony Oliva, DO, Chief Medical Officer, Nuance, and Shane Wolverton, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, CareChex.  Evidence clearly shows the value of implementing Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) to improve Case Mix Index (CMI), but can it positively impact patient safety and care quality metrics - in a quantifiable, persistent way?  An in-depth look at clinical quality outcomes data pre-...

L. David Harlow, III, BS, Pharm D, Assistant VP for Professional Services Clinical Pharmacy, Clinical Laboratory and Disease Management, Martin Health System. Dr. Harlow defines the significance of pharmacy services embedded in primary care that focuses strategically on Complex Multi-Comorbid patients with a history of therapeutic failure. This service leverages pharmacist talent in the context of team-based care to...

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, general internist and clinician investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School. Providing hospital-level care at home to acutely ill adults who would normally have been admitted to Brigham & Women's Hospital, one of the original founding members of Partners HealthCare, offers the opportunity to deliver...