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Physician Engagement at Houston Methodist: Let Doctors be Doctors

Nicholas Desai, MD, CMIO, Houston Methodist, Arthur Sorrell, MD, Principal and Physician Executive, and Christina Boling, Advisor, Impact Advisors.  Physician engagement and preparedness are among the strongest factors influencing the overall success or failure of an EHR implementation.  Houston Methodist strongly believes that to achieve physician efficiency, they must identify human-centric versus computer-centric workflows, and […]

Community Outreach at Spectrum

Kenneth J. Fawcett, Jr, MD, VP Spectrum Health Healthier Communities.  Spectrum Health's Healthier Communities offers community outreach to vulnerable populations to improve health and reduce health disparities.  Infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes have been reduced by 50%; enhanced educational outcomes are supported through virtual health delivery augmenting onsite behavioral health, medical and dental services; […]

MACRA: Who Will Gain and Who Will Lose?

Erik Johnson, VP Value Based Care, Jay Hazelrigs, Jim Dolstad, Senior Director Actuarial Advisory, and Elena White, Optum.  Today's integrated health systems are increasingly engaged in Medicare risk management strategies, such as Medicare Advantage, MSSP, and MACRA. Strategies for managing risk in the Medicare population can cascade into commercial payer performance, and market competitiveness and […]

Immediate Access to Medical Images Saves Lives at Tampa General

Alexander Nieto-Avila, Imaging Systems Support Manager, Tampa General Hospital, and Lara Caldwell Stout, Director, Diagnostics, Nuance Communications. At Tampa General Hospital (TGH), the region's only Level I trauma center, radiologists and physicians treating the area's most critically ill patients are routinely faced with life or death decisions. For them, speed and information can literally make […]

Vertical Integration: Acquiring New Capabilities by Investing in Digital Health

Bryan Martin, Partner, and Michael Kleinmann, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Consolidation continues to take place across the healthcare value chain, but an emerging trend centers on the convergence of providers, health IT companies and digital health startups.  Confronted with greater responsibility for health outcomes, continued cost pressures, and a need for greater patient engagement, […]

Avera eCARE/eHELM Site Visit

At Avera eCARE, telemedicine professionals work together 24/7 in the eHELM, the virtual hospital hub. By staffing the central facility around the clock, partners and patients benefit from multidisciplinary collaboration of medical specialists any time, anywhere. Health system executives in IT, operations and clinical care from six SI Member organizations across the country gathered in Sioux […]

Rebooting Healthcare Information Technology Downtime Management at Spectrum

Julie Bulson, DNP, MPA, RN, NE-BC, Director, Emergency Preparedness, and Burt Smith, Director, Enterprise Operations, Spectrum Health.  The information technology department has worked closely with the emergency preparedness department to design a major incident management system that closely resembles the hospital incident command structure assisting in a rapid response to IS incidents while improving communication […]

MIPS & MACRA Proposed Rule: What’s Changed for 2018 and Beyond

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal Advisor, Henry Stokman, Principal, Jason Fortin, Senior Advisor, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session examines the new proposed 2018 Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule for MIPS/MACRA (released 6-20-17) and its implications, providing not only a review of the rule's provisions, but also an in-depth examination of how those provisions […]

KLAS Report: Outsourcing Your Revenue Cycle

Boyd Stewart, Research Director, KLAS.  Healthcare revenue cycle is complex: compensation for care can come from any of several different payers, and policies are constantly changing. When providers decide to place the care of their financial stream in the hands of a revenue cycle services (RCS) firm, they need that firm to be, first and […]

The 21st Century Cures Act and Your Reimbursement: What you Need to Know

Maria Balderas, PhD, Health Informaticist, IBM Watson Health. The 21st Century Cures Act is changing the relationship between your health information technology investment and your reimbursement from government payers. Dr. Balderas describes the intersection of the Cures Act and Quality Payment Programs, as well as the role that Certified EHR Technology, virtual groups and third-party […]

Telemedicine Solutions to Developing Workforce, Partners and Consumer Engagement at Avera

Jay Weems, Vice-President of Operations, Avera eCARE.  Avera Health journeyed into telemedicine in the early 1990s to assist the needs of the workforce and to better serve the population in rural and underserved communities.  Today, the telemedicine arm of the Avera Health system, Avera eCARE, has become an important solution to solve several complex healthcare […]

NLP Reveals Meaning from Unstructured Data in EMRs, Part I

Shaun J. Grannis, MD MS FACMI FAAFP, Director, and Chris Frederick, Senior Product Manager, Regenstrief Institute, Center for Biomedical Informatics. Extracting meaningful data from electronic health records in an accurate and efficient manner is challenging, with a significant portion of clinical information found only in unstructured, free-text clinical documents. Regenstrief Institute has developed and refined […]

Lessons Learned from a CyberCrime: The Unfortunate Realities of our Time

Satish Maripuri, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Healthcare.  The very nature of cyberattacks is changing; they are faster, more sophisticated and potentially more destructive. As the severity of incidents increases, the knowledge to address the technical aspects and leadership skills to manage through an attack have never been more important. After successfully managing […]

Customer and Provider Engagement and the Healthcare Experience

Urvi Shah, Manager, and Heather Nelson, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  As customers' expectations continue to mature, healthcare organizations must be prepared to support changing expectations. Focusing on the patient experience has multiple benefits for healthcare organizations - financially, and more importantly, quality outcomes. Hear about what's most important to customers and how providers can address and […]

SI 2017 Analytics Summit – Constructing an Analytics Strategy

The Scottsdale Institute 2017 Business Analytics Fall Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors gathered 10 analytics thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago October 4-5. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare analytics executives face in data analytics structure and governance, delivery and responding to market dynamics. Read Constructing […]

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