Outlook for M&A in Healthcare and Delivering the IT Value

Nick Wong, Senior Manager, and Sam Vos, Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Healthcare providers are increasingly integrating through M&A and affiliations, and the most successful organizations are those that are able to achieve high levels of integration in a short period of time. Provider IT organizations are experiencing change at an increasingly faster rate, while having […]

The CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative at Centura Health

Tamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, Clinical Performance Coordinator, Centura Health Physician Group, and Will McConnell MBA, PhD, VP Operations and Outreach Strategy, Mercy Regional Medical Center.  The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, as well as several payer groups, invested in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative to drive change and prepare organizations for population […]

Advocate-Cerner Partnership Creates Big Data Analytics for Pop Health

Rishi Sikka, MD, SVP of Clinical Operations, and Tina Esposito, Vice President, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care.  This session covers an overview of the "Advocate Cerner Collaborative." The overarching objective of the Collaborative is to both data- and analytic-enable a population health strategy that includes a 'big data' platform, predictive analytics, and […]

Patient Outreach 2016: Driving Outcomes – From No-Shows to Better Health

Adam Cherrington, Research Director, KLAS, shares key insights from KLAS' newly published report.  Many patient outreach vendors claim to help providers, but not all solutions are created equal. Adam reviews the report and answers provider questions surrounding which solutions offer various outreach functionalities, which are driving the best outcomes, and which vendors best help providers […]

Integrating Behavioral and Mental Health into Primary Care and PCMH 2.0

Charles Coleman, PhD, CMPH, PHM Solutions Lead, Behavioral & Mental Health Programs, and Karen Handmaker, MPP, VP, Population Health Strategies, IBM Watson Health. Engaging people in their health and healthcare is a universal challenge - and even more so for people with behavioral health diagnoses. Now, with value-based incentives, new sources of data and expanded […]

Clinical Decision Support Governance and Analysis at Texas Health

Luis Saldaña, MD, MBA, FACEP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Maxine Ketcham, MBA, RN-BC, CPHIMS, CPHQ, Analyst Clinical Decision Support, and Kanan Garg, MA, MPH, CPHIMS, SSBB, Analyst, Clinical Decision Support, Texas Health. Dr. Saldana, Maxine and Kanan share their journey with developing and growing a robust Clinical Decision Support program. They discuss their framework, which includes […]

Building a Cyber Security Team at Partners

Jigar Kadakia, CISO and Chief Privacy Officer, Partners HealthCare. Until recently, many health care organizations haven't had the resources to stand up dedicated information security teams. However, with the changing regulatory and threat landscapes, many are now trying to create information security offices to provide focused effort on these critical functions. But even after securing […]

SI 2016 CMIO/CHIO Summit

"Managing Clinical Decision Support and Improving Workflow" The Scottsdale Institute and Deloitte co-sponsored a Summit of Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs) and Chief Health Information Officers (CHIOs) from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago on September 30, 2016 to share best practices and lessons learned regarding clinical decision support (CDS) and improving clinical […]

Going Digital: Identifying and Engaging the Newly Empowered Healthcare Consumer

David Betts, Principal, and Josh Nelson, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Healthcare consumers today are demonstrating higher expectations for the level of service that they receive from their healthcare providers.  Driven in part by our increasingly digital and mobile world, these expectations are pushing providers to react and "up their game" when it comes to engaging […]

SI 2016 Chief Data & Analytics Officer Summit

"Population Health: Organizational and Data Governance, and Analytics Strategies" The Scottsdale Institute 2016 Chief Data & Analytics Officers Summit sponsored by Health Catalyst gathered CDOs from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2016 to share best practices and lessons learned regarding population health, as well as underlying data and analytics […]

Preparing for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Maria Balderas, PhD, Health Informaticist, IBM Watson Health.  Earlier this year, CMS announced that multiple quality reporting programs were being streamlined into the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).  This will change the way Medicare links performance to payment. Dr. Balderas describes the potential impact the program will have on MIPS-eligible clinicians, and explains how […]

Geisinger Genomic Initiative

Marc Williams, MD, Director, Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System. Precision Medicine has the potential to transform the way care is delivered and, if realized promises to improve outcomes and value to the healthcare system. Geisinger Health System has implemented the GenomeFIRST™ program that analyzes whole exome sequencing data from tens of thousands of participants […]

Universal Care Center at UW Hospitals and Clinics: The Role of Technology Visioning and Planning

John Sheehan, President, UW Health American Center and SVP, UW Hospital and Clinics, and Carl Fleming, Principal, Impact Advisors. The Universal Care Center is a concept that creates a healthcare facility which is right-sized and presents a flexible, dynamic and 'appropriate venue of care.' Carl and John share insights and a business case for technology […]

SI 2016 CIO Fall Summit

"Achieving Value-Based Payment Success: Implications for IT and the CIO" The 2016 Scottsdale Institute Chief Information Officer Fall Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors gathered nine CIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago on October 14, 2016. What resulted was a lively discussion about the challenges today's healthcare CIOs are facing […]

Michiana Health Information Exchange

Waldo A. Mikels-Carrasco, Director of Population Health Research & Development, Michiana Health Information Exchange.  Waldo discusses the development of an HIE-driven solution that uses clinical and psychosocial data integration to extend beyond current operational models for avoiding readmissions of Medicare Shared Savings Plan Accountable Care Organizations (MSSP ACO) and Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BCPI) […]