Sponsored Breakfast
Unlock the Expert Opinions Locked Inside EHRs
- M. Turner Billingsley, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Officer
A discussion of the important information contained in free text/unstructured data (such as clinician notes), the challenges of natural language processing, and new approaches to capturing and using this data. In a world of health information overload, this can lead clinicians to vital insights, faster.
Presented by: InterSystems
E01 - Beyond the Data Warehouse: Strategizing the Use and Analysis of Clinical Data for Meaningful Use
Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- Bobbie Byrne, MD, Vice President and CIO, Edward Health Services Corporation
- George Reynolds, MD, MMM, VP, CMIO and CIO, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center
- John R Schooler, FACHE, FCHIME, Vice President and CIO, Orlando Health
- Patricia Skarulis, Vice President, Information Systems and CIO, Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center
This panel discussion will allow the CIOs of some of the hospitals and health systems that are pioneering the use of clinical data analytics for performance improvement to share their perspectives on what they’re doing. Among the topics to be discussed will be the creation of the continuous cycle of data-driven process change and performance improvement, and issues around the development of data foundations for intensive clinical and integrated data analysis.
E02 - ACOs: Policy Strategic and IT Issues
Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- Sam Van Norman, Director of Business Intelligence at Park Nicollet Health System
- Daniel Garrett, Principal, National HIT Practice Lead, PriceWaterhouse Coopers
- Jeffrey Rose, MD, Vice President of Clinical Excellence, Informatics Ascension Health
- Jeff Petry, Vice President Strategic Initiatives, Premier Health Alliance
As Medicare’s accountable care organization shared savings program gets underway, what have pioneering organizations learned already about accountable care and its data and information facilitation? Panelists will discuss the innovative contracting arrangements already emerging in healthcare markets across the country and the learning so far on this very complex and challenging journey.
Sponsored Lunch
VMware: Transforming the Cost, Quality and Delivery of Patient Care
- Neil Thompson, VMware Healthcare Industry Consultant
When we think in terms of the historic industry transformation underway perhaps no analogy is more fitting than the proverbial "changing the tires on a moving car". The only known constant for the Healthcare industry is change. Politics and policy aside the way patient care products and services are delivered and consumed will change. The question is how can the next generation of IT provide the agility and innovation of a start up while continuing to ensure a safe, stable patient service environment. VMware will discuss how it is working with the Healthcare ecosystem to bring a transformational new "IT stack" to bear on this opportunity.
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E03 - Leveraging CPOE Implementation to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety
- Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
- Jonathan P. Palma, MD, Fellow in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Stanford University
The clinical informaticists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University have been making industry-shaping breakthroughs in their leveraging of their organization’s computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system to improve patient safety, physician diagnosing, and clinical analytics. Find out from CMIO Christopher Longhurst, M.D., and Lisa Grisim, R.N., M.S.N., Director of Operations, Department of Information Services, about the exciting advances they’ve been making in these key areas.
E04 - The Journey Towards Evidence-Based Physician Ordering
Presenter: Jeffrey Rose, MD, Vice President of Clinical Excellence, Informatics Ascension Health
The St. Louis-based Ascension Health is one of the multi-hospital health systems that has made the greatest strides forward so far in implementing evidence-based physician ordering, system-wide. Find out from Jeffrey Rose, M.D., Ascension’s Vice President of Clinical Excellence Informatics the strategic and tactical steps that he and his colleagues have taken in order to make the breakthrough to system-wide evidence-based M.D. ordering, which will be a critical advance for patient care organizations nationwide to make.
E05 - Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management: Inpatient Hospital and Medical Group Perspectives
Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- Jose Rivera Corporate Director, Physician & Professional Services Central Business Office Orlando Health
- Thomas Yoesle, Chief Operating Officer, Orlando Health
- Kimberly Hollingsworth, Partner, IMA Consulting
- Colin Buckley, Director of Strategic Operations, KLAS
Out of necessity, leaders of patient care organizations of all types are moving towards optimizing their revenue cycle management processes. Find out what the most advanced strategies are right now among the healthcare and healthcare IT leaders at innovative organizations nationwide.
E06 - The Evolution of the CIO - CMIO Relationship and of the CMIO Role
Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- William Bria, MD, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children; Chairman, AMDIS
- Bobbie Byrne, MD, Vice President and CIO, Edward Health Services Corporation
- Brian D. Patty, MD, VP and CMIO, HealthEast Care System
- Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Vice President/CMIO, Texas Health Resources
- Linda B. Hodges, Senior Vice President, Information Technology Practice Leader Witt/Kieffer
Things are moving fast when it comes to the evolution of the CMIO (Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer) role in advanced patient care organizations. More and more, CMIOs are becoming not just facilitators of clinical IS implementations, but leaders of process change and care quality and patient safety improvement. Find out from industry leaders in this area how the CMIO role is changing in organizations across the country, and what the new frontiers are for this incredibly important role.
E07 - Readmissions and the Medical Home: Re-Visioning Care Management
Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- James L. Holly, MD, CEO, Southeast Texas Medical Associates, LLP
- Tina Buop, Chief Information Officer, Muir Medical Group IPA, Inc.
- Ferdinand Velasco, MD., Vice President and CMIO, Texas Health Resources
A small number of multispecialty medical groups, hospitals, and health systems are leading the way in evolving forward the patient-centered medical home concept, and have already documented concrete successes in this area. Learn from some of the leading industry pioneers in this area what the strategic IT challenges and opportunities are in this absolutely critical area.
E08 - Health Information Exchange: Strategies and Sustainability
Moderator: Jennifer Prestigiacomo, Associate Editor, Healthcare Informatics
Panelists:
- Russell Branzell, FACHE, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, Vice President and CIO, Poudre Valley Health System
- Christopher Henkenius, Program Director, HIOSS, Inc. and NeHII, Inc.
- Devore Culver, M.M. Executive Director and CEO, HealthInfoNet
Health information exchange is both one of the very most exciting, as well as one of the most complex and confusing, areas, of strategic healthcare IT development right now. Learn from industry leaders what is working strategically in HIE advancement, and the lessons being learned around sustainability, one of the most challenging aspects of HIE development.
The agenda, sessions and speakers are subject to change.
