Tanya Egbert, Research Director, KLAS. On a rudimentary level, Real-Time Location System (RTLS) products are used for asset tracking and temperature monitoring, but providers today are looking to go beyond the basics and leverage RTLS products to improve care quality, increase staff workflow efficiency, and improve their bottom lines. Join us as Tanya shares insights […]
Tony Oliva, DO, Chief Medical Officer, Nuance, and Shane Wolverton, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, CareChex. Evidence clearly shows the value of implementing Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) to improve Case Mix Index (CMI), but can it positively impact patient safety and care quality metrics - in a quantifiable, persistent way? An in-depth look at clinical […]
Ron Mehring, CISO, Texas Health Resources. Numerous industries that deal with life safety issues and critical infrastructure have adopted high reliability organizational principles and quality management to help manage risk and reduce negative outcomes. During this presentation, Ron covers high reliability based strategies and quality management techniques and how they can be used to drive […]
Kristin M. Jenkins, JD, MBA, FACHE, President, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation and Senior VP, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. The Foundation houses a voluntary health information exchange in which 98 acute care and post-acute care facilities share claims data. This data is analyzed to measure performance on AHRQ quality metrics, hospital acquired conditions and readmissions […]
Jason T. Schaffer, MD FAAEM, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Division of Informatics, IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Department of Emergency Medicine, and Keith Kelley, VP Solution Delivery, Indiana Health Information Exchange. The Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) has delivered community-wide clinical results into physician office EMR systems for years, and […]
Tina Esposito, VP, Center for Health Information Services, Darcy Davis, Data Scientist, and Fran Wilk, Clinical Process Designer, Advocate Health Care. With annual cost estimates as large as $300 billion, non-adherence to medications is an enormous opportunity in the Accountable Care era. As a large ACO, Advocate Health Care is working to more effectively intervene […]
Russell L. Jones, Partner, Raj Mehta, Partner, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, and Phillip M. Englert, National Director Technology Operations - Physical Asset Services, Catholic Health Initiatives. There has been a lot of interest and discussion on BioMed device security over the last couple of years. As part of cybersecurity concerns, Boards are asking questions on this […]
Qammer Bokhari, MD, VP/CMIO, and Loren Hauck, MD, CMO, Adventist Health System. Drs. Bokhari and Hauck share how Adventist Health System (AHS) established its vision on leveraging Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) to provide real-time clinical and financial surveillance across the care continuum. Participants will hear about the evolution of IDSS at AHS and how […]
Julie Hollberg, MD, CMIO, Emory Healthcare & Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. While EMR's offer robust potential to improve healthcare delivery, the initial versions have caused significant frustration. Originally Emory had just four different views of the EMR, yet what a urologist wants to see is different than a dermatologist or […]
Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD, Director for Interoperability Informatics, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System. NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) is an integrated delivery system in the New York City metropolitan area. Like all health care providers, NYP is responding to dynamics that are advancing value-based care and the need for efficiency in health care delivery. The value-based care landscape - and […]
Rich Pollack, VP & CIO, VCU Health. Rich discusses how a detailed review and benchmarking of IT revealed an excessive staffing in infrastructure roles to the detriment of adequate resources for applications support. Working with HR, a plan was developed to transition 40 positions to new roles and provide the training and mentoring needed to […]
Tonya Edwards, MD/MMM, Senior Physician Executive, and Joan Campbell, RN, Clinical Informaticist, Impact Advisors. Dr. Edwards and Joan discuss management of the tidal wave of changes necessary to be successful as health systems transition to value-based payment environments. They also cover developing true systems out of federated states to reduce clinical variation and cost, integration […]
Deborah Larkin-Carney, Corporate VP for Quality, RWJBarnabas Health, and Catherine Gorman-Klug, Director Quality Service Line, Nuance Communications, Inc. Beginning in February 2017, hospitals will be required to submit quality measures electronically to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While all electronic health records (EHRs) are required to be certified to submit the proper […]
Steven R. Lane, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy & Interoperability, Sutter Health. Taking a clinical perspective, Dr. Steven Lane reviews the foundations and recent history of interoperability and health information exchange. He focuses on the emerging Carequality Framework and the increasing participation in and use of Carequality supported exchange since the first transactions […]
Kelly Patrick, Managing Director, Nick Wong, Senior Manager, Mitchell Bailey, Senior Manager, and Alan Vitale, Specialist Master, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Seamless interoperability, both within an organization and externally-facing systems, is the "ideal state" healthcare enterprises are searching for. This capability paves the way for health systems to access all relevant information at the points of […]