Effective Strategies for Driving Quality Advance Care Conversations at Centura Health

James Corbett, SVP Community Health and Values Integration, and Cynthia Latney, Chief Nursing Officer/Vice President of Patient Care, Penrose St. Francis, Centura Health, and Shara Cohen, SVP, Client Experience, Emmi.  While 90% of people claim doctors should have end of life conversations with their patients, only 17% say these conversations have actually occurred. To combat […]

Data Methodology at Memorial Hermann

Siraj Anwar, MBBS, MS, CPHIMS, Director of Clinical Informatics for Knowledge & Content, Clinical Decision Support and Quality Informatics, Memorial Hermann Health System. With the ever expanding use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions in the healthcare environment, there is a vast opportunity for improving and potentially solving common healthcare workflow issues. However, it […]

Challenges and Benefits of Application Rationalization and Consolidation at Mercy Health

Mike Hibbard, System VP, Chief Application Officer, Mercy Health.  Managing an application portfolio for a large health system can be very challenging.  Maintaining a balance of innovative and value-added systems within budgetary constraints is most challenging.  Mike shares Mercy Health's experiences and provides a model for successfully managing an application portfolio in healthcare.

Problem Management: An Innovative System to Improve Problem List Workflow at Intermountain

Kathryn Kuttler, PhD, Director of Clinical, Quality and Research Medical Informatics, and Chad Hodge, MS, PhD candidate, Software Engineer, Intermountain Healthcare.  Electronic problem lists are an integral component of the EMR, and serve as the patient's current health issues repository. Coded problems can be used to drive downstream activities such as decision support, evidence-based medicine, […]

Bringing OpenNotes to Inpatient and ICU Units at University of Minnesota

Craig Weinert, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Medical Director for Adult In-Patient Services, and Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota.  Drs. Weinert and Breuch share findings of a pilot study involving surveys and interviews […]

Becoming a Connected Health System

Tim Smith, Principal, Kelly Patrick, Senior Manager, Nick Wong, Senior Manager and Alan Vitale, Specialist Master, Health Information Technology Solutions (HITS), Deloitte Consulting, LLP. The changing landscape in our healthcare industry requires health systems to be "connected," both internally and externally, to achieve business value, address regulatory needs, engage patients in their health, and to […]

Patient/Consumer Engagement at Cedars-Sinai: It Takes a Village

Sharon Isonaka, MD, MS, VP of Clinical Transformation; Cynthia Litt Deculus, VP of Population Health; Omkar Kulkarni, MPH, Director, Healthcare Innovation Accelerator; and Cindy Levey, MPH, Associate Director, Community Benefit Systems and Planning, Cedars-Sinai Health System.  This team from Cedars-Sinai discusses their multi-pronged approach to Patient and Consumer Engagement which aims to meet patients and […]

Humanizing Efficiency In Healthcare

Sunitha Sastry, MPH, Director, Experience Improvement & Innovation, Director, Discharge Care Call Center, Patient Experience & Engagement Program, The University of Chicago Medicine, and Liz Boehm, Experience Innovation Network Director, Vocera.  A growing body of evidence points to patient, family and staff experience as key drivers for transforming healthcare. Yet, a study by Vocera's Experience […]

Tools for the Connected Medical Home at Partners HealthCare Part II

Joseph Kvedar, MD, Vice President, Partners HealthCare, Connected Health. The benefits of remote patient monitoring in better managing chronic disease, improving clinical outcomes and quality of care, increasing potential cost savings, and allocating resources are being achieved through a range of connected health devices and programs. Dr. Kvedar describes initiatives under way at Partners HealthCare, […]

Best In KLAS Awards

Jared Peterson, Senior VP of Operations and Taylor Davis, Director, KLAS. The annual Best In KLAS winners will be announced soon.  Join KLAS for a look at the overall winner, Best In KLAS, and Category Leaders in all the market segment categories.  Jared and Taylor discuss some of the larger categories.

OpenNotes at VCU

Susan Wolver, MD, Associate Professor Internal Medicine, Deborah Burgett, RN, MSHA, Director of Office of Clinical Transformation, Colin Banas, MD, MSHA, CMIO and Associate Professor Internal Medicine, and Rich Pollack, CPHIMS, CIO, VCU Health. Dr. Wolver and team discuss the VCU Health journey to improving patient engagement through the use of a patient portal and […]

Post-ICD-10 at Ascension Health

Mary Paul, VP Integration and Clinical Knowledge Management, Susan Wilson, BSN, MBA, Director, Clinical Information Systems, Meg McElroy, ICD-10 Program Manager, Ascension. Mary, Susan and Meg share key success factors, tools and processes that resulted in a successful post ICD-10 transition. They also discuss the shared benefits of strong alignment among clinical, revenue cycle and […]

The Alignment of Value Based Care and Population Health Technologies

Brian Flanigan, Principal, and Tony Jurek, Director, 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 Healthcare Technology Investments and Value Based Care requirements.  Join Brian and Tony to hear lessons from the field, along with […]

Analytics Excellence at Mosaic Life Care

Dr. Joe Boyce, MD, CTO and CMIO, and Andrew Bramlage, Architect, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Mosaic Life Care.  Mosaic Life Care has built an EDW and analytics system that has provided advanced clinical, financial, and operational data to front line users and caregivers, enabling success in our multiple ACOs and FFS arenas.  Analytics consolidation, architecture, governance, […]

New Technologies Help Transform the use of Big Data

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst.  The term "Big Data" emerged from Silicon Valley in 2003 to describe the unprecedented volume, variety and velocity of data that was being collected and analyzed by Yahoo, Google, eBay, and others. An affordability, scalability and performance ceiling had been reached with traditional relational database technology.  Through the Apache Open […]