Spectrum Takes on the Future of Healthcare with MedNow

Joseph M. Brennan Joseph M. Brennan, Sr. Director, MedNow, Spectrum Health. With 60,000+ virtual encounters over a four-year period, Spectrum Health has learned that telehealth innovation in healthcare is much less about technology and much more about the willingness to evolve an industry to focus on consumers about their health care needs - engaging with […]

New Technology Options for EHR Desktop Delivery at Sentara

Dale Smith Erik Gerard Dale Smith, IT Director, Sentara Healthcare, and Erik Gerard, Principal, Impact Advisors. Until recently, the choices of products capable of delivering electronic health record (EHR) applications to the desktop were limited. There are now several supported options that can successfully accomplish this task, each with its own trade-offs relative to cost, ease […]

Technical Lab for Medical Interoperability

Ed Cantwell, President and CEO, and Aaron Goldmuntz, SVP Comprehensive Interoperability, Center for Medical Interoperability. Ed and Aaron introduce the Center for Medical Interoperability, a non-profit organization led by health systems with a vision to accelerate the seamless exchange of information to improve healthcare for all. They discuss how this approach, modeled after other industry centralized […]

Centralized Scheduling Center to Improve Patient Access at Sutter

Albert Chan, MD, MS Steve Chambers Albert Chan, MD, Sutter Health VP, Chief of Digital Patient Experience, and Steve Chambers, General Manager & VP, Patient Access Solutions, Sutter Physician Services, Sutter Health. Patients have more choices in healthcare than ever before. Today's patients want consistent and seamless care when it is convenient for them, which […]

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ACT Learning Network at Cincinnati Childrens

Rob Kahn, MD, MPH Andy Beck, MD, MPH Rob Kahn, MD, MPH, Physician Leader, Community and Population Health, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, Associate Professor & Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Drs. Kahn and Beck describe their experience working to help make Cincinnati's 66,000 children the healthiest in the nation through strong community partnerships. […]

Next Generation Interoperability

Kelly Patrick Tony Jurek Mitch Bailey Alan Vitale Kelly Patrick, Managing Director, Tony Jurek, Managing Director, Mitch Bailey, Senior Manager, and Alan Vitale, Specialist Master from Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Technology advancements, many developed outside of the traditional healthcare technology organizations, have the ability to both advance and disrupt how healthcare plans and providers interact with their employees, partners […]

Interoperability at Ascension

Julie Henslee, Senior Director Data & Insights, Ascension Health. Large, multi-state health organizations with significant variability continue to struggle with system interoperability. The development of new interoperability standards and adherence to traditional standards is a must when accounting for the flexibility necessary to tackle large, heterogeneous ecosystems. As the market continues to grow in population […]

IT-Enabled Strategies to Help Fight the Opioid Crisis

Jackson Tate, Director of Opioid Research, and Alex McIntosh, Senior Analyst, KLAS. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. As opioid management has become a focus of federal and state governments, the pressure to control overprescribing, as well as patient […]

Data Science Applied to EMR Data

William W. Feaster, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP William W. Feaster, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP, CHIO, Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). Dr. Feaster discusses why CHOC Children's Hospital prioritized the development of both population health management technologies and data science capabilities, describes how data science can be used to improve quality and safety and reduce […]

CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative at Centura Health, Part II

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Steve Lavengood, MD Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN, Coordinator for Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Mercy Family Medicine and Steve Lavengood, MD, CPC+ Medical Director, Mercy Family Medicine, Centura Health Physician Group. The landscape is changing in Primary Care, evidenced by CMS's expansion of the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative to […]

Are We There Yet? A Clinical Decision Support Journey at Memorial Hermann

Siraj Anwar, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS Siraj Anwar, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS, Associate CMIO, Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann began their clinical decision support journey 12 years ago when they set out to implement Computerized Physician Order Entry across the entire health system. Over the years, with the help of the clinical decision support alerts, they […]

Business Relationship Management Journey at Henry Ford Health System

Mike Murphy Patrick (Pat) Anderson, MSIS, CHCIO, PMP Mike Murphy, Director, Business Relationship Management, and Patrick Anderson, Senior Consultant, Business Relationship Management, Henry Ford Health System (HFHS). At HFHS, the Business Relationship Management (BRM) team was created to be a liaison between Corporate IT and their customers across the health system. Much like patients can […]

How Embedding Care Standards into EHR Empowers Clinical Variation Reduction At Cedars-Sinai

Harry C. Sax, MD, FACS, MHCM, FACHE John Kontor, MD Harry C. Sax, MD, FACS, MHCM, FACHE, Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and John Kontor, MD, Executive VP, Optum Advisory Services. Cedars-Sinai Health System partnered with Optum Advisory Services and Stanson Healthcare to design and execute an observational study to show that […]

CMS Draft Specifications for 2019 QPP and IPPS Final Rule

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA Larry Katzovitz Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. Dan and Larry examine the recent draft specifications for both the CMS' 2019 Quality Payment Program (QPP) and the 2019 IPPS Final Rule, providing a high-level look at both pieces of legislation, how they interrelate, and what […]

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Update on MACRA and VBC Regulations and Social Determinants of Health

Anne Phelps Brian Flanigan Anne Phelps, Principal, and Brian Flanigan, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The changing landscape of Value-based Care, as it exists through regulatory, market or technological shifts, can make it difficult to connect the dots between regulation and value-based care. Join Anne and Brian to receive a view from the market on emerging […]

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