SI 2019 Innovation and Digital Health Summit – Launching New Business Models

The Scottsdale Institute 2019 Innovation & Digital Health Summit sponsored by Cerner convened 23 innovation and digital health executives from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Chicago September 25-26. These executives gathered to explore “Launching New Business Models,” with specific focus on how innovation...

How Henry Ford Health System is Changing to Succeed in Direct-to-Employer Contracting

Susan Hawkins, FACHE Chelsea Pollet Susan Hawkins, FACHE, Senior VP Population Health, and Chelsea Pollet, Director Direct-to-Employer Relationships, Henry Ford Health System.  In January 2019, Henry Ford launched a new, direct contracting relationship with General Motors for medical and surgical services.  This value-based contract applies...

SI 2019 Analytics Summit – Driving Innovation and Transformation with Analytics

The Scottsdale Institute 2019 Analytics Summit sponsored by Optum convened 21 leading analytics executives from 19 health systems across the country September 26-27 in Chicago. These executives gathered to explore "Driving Innovation and Transformation with Analytics," to discuss how analytics investments help their organizations achieve...

Tapping Into the Potential of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare

Wendy Chapman, PhD, Director of the Centre for Clinical and Public Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne, and Mike Dow, Senior Director of Data Science, Health Catalyst.  Gathering insight from clinical notes remains one of the areas of untapped healthcare intelligence with tremendous potential,...

Leveraging Analytics to Drive Greater Value from your EMR Platform

Brian Doty Casey Graves Dan Kinsella Brian Doty, Principal, Casey Graves, Principal, and Dan Kinsella, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP.  Digitization of the electronic medical record from 2010 to the present was largely driven by economic incentives of the HITECH Act.  These "too big to...

Applying AI Across Industries into Healthcare

Kenneth Harper Kenneth Harper, VP and GM, Healthcare Virtual Assistants and Ambient Clinical Intelligence, Nuance Communications.  While healthcare has been slower to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) compared to other industries, AI is now being applied in full force to drive workflow efficiencies for providers and...

Telehealth Services that Accelerate Program Maturity

Jay Backstrom Jay Backstrom, VP and Telehealth Practice Leader, Impact Advisors.  While many organizations have implemented telehealth over the years, some are realizing significant success while others are failing with low adoption and little to no realized benefits. The difference between success and failure is...

Utilizing Social Determinants of Health at Centura

Tamra Lavengood, RN, BSN, MSN Katie Korte Rodney Gardner, RN Tamra Lavengood RN, BSN, MSN, CPC+/SIM Coordinator Mercy Primary Care, Katie Korte, Community Health Advocate, and Rodney Gardner, RN, Care Coordinator, Centura Health.  Looking at a patient’s "Social Determinants of Health" has been gaining traction...

SI 2019 CIO Summit – Enabling the Future: Self-Service, SaaS, Mobility, Cloud

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Is the future CIO the CEO─Chief Experience Officer─ or the CKO─Chief Keep-the-Lights-On Officer? How do consumers define High Availability? These and other topics were explored at the Scottsdale Institute’s 2019 CIO Summit sponsored by Impact Advisors, which convened 15 chief information officers (CIOs) and other...

SI 2019 CISO Summit – Cybersecurity Impact of Cloud/Virtual/Mobility

The 2019 SI CISO Summit sponsored by Deloitte was held October 24 & 25. Co-hosts CHRISTUS VP and CISO Fernando Blanco and BayCare VP and CISO Thien Lam welcomed 21 chief cybersecurity officers and other healthcare IT security executives from across the country to the...

How AI is Transforming Care Delivery at Partners

Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director Innovation, Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs.  AI has transformed most aspects of how we live today. Healthcare systems are beginning to realize this potential and are trying to harness its power - but to what end?...