Population Health Outcomes, Medication Adherence, and Pharmacy Management Services

Sharrel Pinto, BS Pharm, DMM, MS, PhD Sharrel Pinto, BS Pharm, DMM, MS, PhD, Hoch Family Endowed Professor for Community Pharmacy Practice, South Dakota State University. Dr. Pinto shares the results of the STOMPP study, a Study to Measure the Impact of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Services (STOMPP) on Medication Non-Adherence: Medication Adherence and Clinical Outcomes. […]

The Baycare Story: Empowering Patients Post-discharge to Improve Care Transitions

Amy Cain, MSN, RN, Director of Quality East Region, BayCare Health System. BayCare connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 14 hospitals and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the Tampa Bay and West Central Florida regions. They were facing a challenge common to most, if not all providers, which was […]

Combating the Opioid Crisis using Clinical Decision Support at Atrium Health

Matt Sullivan, MD Alan Staples Matt Sullivan, MD, CMIO, Atrium Health, and Alan Staples, Senior Strategist, Cerner. Atrium Health utilizes clinical decision support alerts within the electronic health record that are triggered by selected risks for opioid abuse. The alerts might include a history of prior opioid overdose, or whether he or she had tested […]

Utilizing AI in the Clinical Workflow at Rush

Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, FCHIME, CHCIO Kali Durgampudi Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, FCHIME, CHCIO, Senior VP and CIO, Rush University Medical Center, and Kali Durgampudi, VP Innovation, Mobile Architecture and R&D, Nuance. Rush University Medical Center is one of the first medical centers to adopt AI-powered virtual assistant solutions as a stepping stone toward ambient […]

Best Practices to Identify and Control Drug Shortages

Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS Michael Ganio PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, Senior Pharmacy Specialist, Yale New Haven Health System, Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS, Associate Director Clinical Pharmacy Services at UChicago Medicine, Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, Director Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American […]

Strategies and Technologies for Advancing Patient Engagement

Colin Buckley Adam Cherrington Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, and Adam Cherrington, Director of Patient Engagement Research, KLAS.  Patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is just taking shape. Broad visions and experimentation abound, but pathways are still being cleared, and there is a lack of consensus […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System CISO Case Studies Workshop

BayCare Health System’s VP & CISO, Thien Lam, along with CIO Tim Thompson and CTO Scott Patterson, hosted a very focused one-day SI CISO Case Studies Workshop at their headquarters in Clearwater, Florida in January 2019. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other healthcare IT security executives (individuals and teams) from 12 SI Member organizations […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit

SI Members were able to experience the powerful combination of digital and retail healthcare, January 17-18, at SI's first site visit of the year. Read our SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit report to discover how an innovative partnership between BayCare Health System and Publix Super Markets is changing the healthcare landscape in Florida.  […]

Demographics, Burnout, and Technology: From Frustration to Friend

Michael Tutty, PhD, MHA Michael Tutty, PhD, VP Professional Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association.  The demographics of the United States are shifting as the population ages and the number of workers per retiree shrinks.  The resulting changes will put a heavy strain on the healthcare system.  There is a projected physician shortfall of […]

Driving EHR Adoption: Looking Beyond Go-Live for Long-term Success at Scripps

Shane Thielman, FACHE Joseph B. Stein, MD, FACC Bret Shillingstad, MD Shane Thielman, FACHE, AVP of Information Services, Joseph B. Stein, MD, FACC, Director of EHR, Scripps Health, and Bret Shillingstad, MD, CMIO of EHR Optimization Services, Nuance Communications.  Preparing members of the Scripps care team to adopt and utilize their EHR effectively was a […]

Managing Cyber Threats and Protecting Patients: An HHS and Industry-led Response

Erik Decker Erik Decker, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, University of Chicago Medicine, and Julie Chua, Risk Management Branch Chief, HHS Office of Information Security.  Learn about mitigating common threats to the healthcare industry through a deep dive of the 405d cybersecurity guidance document. This guide (written for small-, medium- and large-sized organizations) posits […]

Diagnostic Errors and Health Informatics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Paul L. Epner, MBA, MEd Paul Epner, CEO and Co-Founder, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.  Diagnostic Errors, i.e., failures to provide an accurate and timely explanation for a patient’s problem, are the most significant patient safety issue today, causing more morbidity and mortality than all other patient safety problems combined.  Informatics will certainly have […]

Microhospitals: Alternative Strategies for Clinical Services Delivery at CHRISTUS

Jennifer Varnadore Randy Osteen Jennifer Varnadore, Administrator, CHRISTUS Bossier Emergency Hospital, Randy Osteen, VP Applications Services, and Dana Smelser, Director of Marketing and Communications, CHRISTUS Health.  As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, provider organizations are seeking lower-cost alternatives to providing traditional clinical services through creation of facilities that are scalable in design to provide […]

Digital Patient Engagement at Partners

Kamal Jethwani, MD Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs.  Evidence suggests that patients engaged in their own care have better clinical outcomes and lower total medical expenses. However, engaging patients in meaningful ways requires high levels of coordination within care teams, along with the availability of well-designed, intelligent tools to […]

2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule from CMS

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Larry Katzovitz Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors.  This session focuses on the 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) Final Rule from CMS, and provides a high-level overview of the significant components of the legislation, how they interrelate, and what providers and health care organizations need […]