VBC

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 care, improve quality, and...

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 patient-provider connectivity "anytime and...

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 model, to a more...

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 will track quality measures...

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 by which this transformation...