Patient Opioid Abuse Detection and Prevention: New Discovery Analytic Approaches

Derek Pederson, MA, MBA, Vice President Medical Informatics, and Peter N. Toensing, MD, Medical Director for Episode Analytics, Optum.  The increasing power of data and analytics capabilities to help providers identify, address and prevent opioid abuse can be augmented by combining pharmacy utilization and benefit claims data to create a holistic view of opioid abuse […]

Blockchain Technology at Saint Lukes Health Network

Chad Brisendine, VP/CIO, St. Luke's University Health Network, and Rob Faix, VP Technology Services, Impact Advisors, LLC, introduce the fundamentals of blockchain technology, practical application, impacts, and benefits to the healthcare industry.  Blockchain technology, most notably associated with the digital currency Bitcoin, continues to be explored as a technology framework for the trusted sharing of […]

SI 2017 CISO Summit

"Best Practice Standards in Cybersecurity Risk Management" The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Chief Information Security Officers Fall Summit brought together 13 CISOs from prominent health systems across the country to Chicago. What resulted was a lively discussion about perspectives, experiences and strategies to tie cybersecurity metrics into business impacts and business risk and to monitor and […]

Preventing Physician Burnout

Paul DeChant, MD, Senior Advisor, IBM Watson Health. Physician burnout affects more than 50% of physicians, impacting every specialty, and reducing the capability to deliver safe and effective patient care. Lean management provides an excellent way to reduce the barriers and frustrations that drive physician burnout. In this session, learn how Lean management systems address […]

SI 2017 CIO Fall Summit

"The New World of Healthcare IT" The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Chief Information Officers Fall Summit brought together seven CIO (and a CISO) thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country to Chicago. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare CIOs face in their changing roles, IT integration and governance across […]

Leveraging Intelligent Process Automation for Shared Services at Ascension

James Jordan, CIO, Ministry Service Center (MSC). The MSC was founded in 2011 to deliver Shared Services in support of HR, Finance and Supply Chain for Ascension Health. James discusses the 3-year journey to leverage Intelligent Process Automation to streamline operations, where they are empowering information workers with "Next Best Step" assistance based on prescriptive […]

SI 2017 Population Health Summit

"Getting Pop Health Right" The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Population Health Fall Summit brought together ten population-health thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country to Chicago. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare executives face having to manage various risk models while straddling traditional fee-for-service and value-based care. Read Getting Pop […]

Partners Showcases Wearable Tech that Enables Hospital to Deliver Care at Home

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 […]

SI 2017 CMIO Fall Summit

"The CMIO's Emerging Role in Enterprise Leadership" The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Chief Medical Information Officers Fall Summit brought together 17 CMIOs from prominent health systems across the country to Chicago. What resulted was a lively discussion about the emerging role of the CMIO as an enterprise-wide change agent, as a thought leader regarding EMR optimization […]

NLP Reveals Unstructured Data in EMRs, Part II

Chris Frederick, Senior Product Manager, Regenstrief Institute, Center for Biomedical Informatics, and Mike Dow, Director of Product Development, Health Catalyst. Health systems can leverage the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) today by utilizing scalable NLP solution at the front lines. Using information extracted from text, combined with the discrete coded data, health systems can […]

Leveraging Patient Reported Data to Improve Patient Outcomes at Intermountain

Lee Pierce, Chief Data Officer, and Stephen Hunter PT, DPT, OCS, Intermountain Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare developed a system for collecting and reporting clinical outcomes for patients receiving physical therapy called ROMS (Rehabilitation Outcomes Management System).  Using patient reported outcomes in clinical decision making, collected over the past 18 years using this application, the practice has […]

Onward and Upward: Ascension Moves Speech-based Clinical Documentation to the Cloud

Clark Headrick, DO, Mid-Michigan CMIO, Ascension Mid-Michigan, and Justin Hubbard, MD, Director of Product Management, Nuance. To enable providers at Ascension's St. Mary's of Michigan, St. Joseph and Genesys facilities to improve documentation workflow and content, the health system migrated provider documentation to their EHR using a Cloud-based speech platform. High provider adoption compliance (93%) […]

The Future of Work in Healthcare

    Debora Hays, Specialist Executive, David Sklar, Specialist Leader, Quinn Solomon, Principal, and Jennifer Radin, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  The rapidly shifting ways in which work will be performed in the future is a major concern for many leaders of healthcare provider organizations, who may anticipate that the scale and pace of change will overwhelm […]

A Population Management Strategy: Primary Care Pharmacy Services for the Complex Patient

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 […]

Patients, Providers, Open Notes: Current Lessons and Future Directions at UCLA

John Mafi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCLA Health. Movement towards fully transparent care is spreading rapidly across the United States. In this discussion, we update the progress on the acceptance and extension of the OpenNotes initiative across the country, and assess its impact on patients, physicians, and the quality of health care.  Clinical Decision […]