Pop Health Management Strategy and Framework at Providence

Rhonda Medows MD, FAAFP Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, President, Population Health Management & CEO Ayin Health Solutions, Providence St. Joseph. Providence St Joseph Health is the third largest non-profit health system in the country, spanning 7 western states. With this much diversity in populations served,...

Workplace Violence Policies at THR: How Does it Impact our Clinical Staff?

Mary Beth Mitchell RN Mary Beth Mitchell, RN, CNIO, and Myrna Correa Sierra, M.Ed, Program Manager Employee Safety, Texas Health Resources.  Mary Beth discusses the concerns in the hospital environment around aggression or violence by patients and/or family and visitors.  She focuses on the problem...

Utilizing SaaS ERPs at Advocate Aurora

Amy Olson Lydon Neumann Amy Olson, VP for ERP & Corporate Applications, Health Informatics and Technology, Advocate Aurora Health System, and Lydon Neumann, VP, Impact Advisors.  A new generation of cloud-based (SaaS) healthcare Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are emerging as strong transformation tools for healthcare organizations. ...

Getting More out of Analytics with NLP

Rebecca Jacobson MD, MS, FACMI, VP Analytics, UPMC Enterprises.  Measuring healthcare quality is foundational to improving it. However, measuring quality is difficult and expensive, with some of the most important data buried in free text fields and clinical notes. This session focuses on the use...

Combining Physician Engagement, Data Integration and Payor Partnerships

Patrick R. Young, President Population Health, Hackensack Meridian Health. The transition from volume to value-based care is transforming healthcare.  Patrick discusses how the largest health system in New Jersey is making this transition through physician engagement, data integration, and payor partnerships. Hackensack Meridian Health is...

Enhanced use of EMRs at Ascension

Meena Iyer, MD, CMO, Dell Children’s Medical Center, Ascension Health.  Electronic medical record (EMR) use in healthcare has come a long way in today’s health systems.  There are several features in the EMR that make patient care easy, efficient and safe. One of the biggest...

Predictive Modeling:  Hypoglycemia Study

Michael Weiner, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Associate Director, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and Director, HSR&D Center for Health information and Communication, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Hypoglycemia causes symptoms including cognitive impairment, but important contributors, such as intake of food...

The Draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: What’s in it, and Why it’s Important

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. The draft “2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan” from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlines federal health information technology (health IT) goals, objectives and strategies for the next five years. ...

Central Pharmacy Services Hub Delivers Patient-focused Care

Mark Sullivan, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Executive Director, Pharmacy Operations, and Michael O’Neal, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Procurement, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics.  Driven by a commitment to deliver enhanced patient-focused pharmacy services across the continuum of care, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics (VUHC) shifted...

EMR Adoption Training for Providers at Northern Light Health

Michael Ross, MD, FAAP, FACMI, Regional Medical Information Officer, Northern Light Health.  Dr. Ross discusses the process at Northern Light Health (NLH) which focuses on increasing provider adoption through post-adoption training classes.  We’ll discuss the use of survey and EMR-user-experience tools to gather data on those attending...

Pivoting to Quickly Operationalize Telehealth for COVID-19

Jay Backstrom, VP, Impact Advisors.  Health systems across the US are mobilizing to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth has become a vital tool to meet the critical needs for virus screening, patient triage, and care coordination services for at-risk patients. This teleconference addresses the types of high-impact, low-friction telehealth...