Charting A New Course in Healthcare: How Organized IT Leadership Can Proactively Shape Healthcare’s Future
Russell Branzell, CEO, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, (CHIME)
Russell Branzell will share with Executive Summit attendees his vision of the healthcare IT executive role in helping to shape the policy landscape in the coming years, at a time of accelerating health system change.
Branzell, who in February was named incoming CEO of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), officially took on the role on April 5. Prior to that transition, Branzell served in a variety of key executive positions in healthcare IT leadership and healthcare executive leadership, including as CIO of the Poudre Valley Health System (now the University of Colorado Health), and, most recently, as CEO of Colorado Health Medical Group, a division of the University of Colorado Health. In addition to his executive leadership positions, Branzell has been an energetic and highly active volunteer leader in CHIME; among his accomplishments has been spearheading what has become CHIME’s state-level advocacy efforts. In 2005, the American College of Healthcare Executives honored him as Young Healthcare Administrator of the Year for the state of Colorado. In 2010, Branzell was honored with the CHIME State Advocacy Award.
R01 – Panel Discussion: The Journey to the New Healthcare
Sam VanNorman, Director of Business Intelligence, Park Nicollet Health System
Curtis Boehm, M.D., CMIO, Park Nicollet
Simon Jones. Director of Accountable Care Organization Information Technology and Program Strategy, Blue Shield of California
Mark Van Kooy, M.D., Aspen Advisors
Steve Tolle, Senior Vice President of Solutions Management, Merge Healthcare
Russell Branzell, CEO, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, (CHIME)
Nothing sets the stage for a summit like a high-level discussion on the definition of “The New Healthcare” with leading experts in the industry. Mark Hagland, Editor-In-Chief of Healthcare Informatics, will lead a discussion of some of the key concepts in the emerging landscape of healthcare, and how they all relate to each other, including population health, care management, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, the patient-centered medical home, analytics, clinical informatics, and of course, the healthcare reform and healthcare policy context in which these concepts are embedded.
Simon Jones has helped to coordinate groundbreaking private-sector ACOs in the heavily managed care-driven Northern California market; and Dr. Mark Van Kooy is a leader in thinking through how analytics, clinical informatics, data warehousing, and performance improvement all tie together.
Together, these industry leaders will examine some of the key concepts in the new healthcare, and will highlight the challenges and opportunities ahead for hospitals, medical groups, health plans, and employer-purchasers, as all those stakeholder groups move forward to create a more coordinated, conscious healthcare system in the United States.
Sponsored by Merge Healthcare
CS01 – Community-Wide Population Health Management in New Orleans
Harvey W. Kaufman, M.D., MBA, FCAP, Senior Medical Director, Quest Diagnostics
CS02 – Park Nicollet's Pioneer ACO Initiative
Sam VanNorman, Director of Business Intelligence, Park Nicollet Health System
Curtis Boehm, M.D., CMIO, Park Nicollet Health System
Sam VanNorman, director of business intelligence and Curtis Boehm, CMIO at Park Nicollet Health System will provide attendees with insights on how Park Nicollet, an integrated healthcare system located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, is moving forward as a CMS Pioneer ACO and what their organization has learned so far about accountable care and its data and information facilitation.
One insight for a successful initiative (provided by Mr. VanNorman at the 2011 Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit panel discussion): “The cultural change piece that is necessary for providers to implement an ACO, which involves team-based care and treating the whole patient, rather than the individual condition”.
Lunch Presentation - Provider Perspectives on Applying Analytics to Population-based Planning
Beth Hartquist, MD, Vice President, Care Redesign, Accountable Care Solutions, Optum
Matthew Wiandt, Vice President, Solution Development Accountable Care Solutions, Optum
As organizations transform from a volume-based payment model to a value-based payment model, they will need to utilize data and analytics to drive their transformation strategy. That fact is especially true in the area of population-based planning. Organizations, especially providers who aren't well-versed in population health management, need a strategic viewpoint of what's going on in their market from a population perspective so they can develop the right strategies to manage each specific population. What diseases are prevalent among the populations they serve? What are the needs around specificmarkets (e.g. Medicare, Commercial, Medicaid)? What types of care management and coordination programs are necessary? How should prevention and wellness factor in? These are all questions that can be answered with the help of analytics.
This presentation will discuss how several physician groups have developed population health strategies using predictive analytics, as they developed their commercial value-based relationships. Attendees will learn how the organizations used data to build out care models around services, specialties and specific population needs
Sponsored by Optum
PD01 – How Will Population Health and Analytics Support ACOs, Bundled Payments and the Medical Home?
Panelists:
Keith Figlioli, SVP, Health Care Informatics, Premier Healthcare Alliance
Richard Bankowitz, M.D., MBA, Enterprise-Wide Chief Medical Officer, Premier Healthcare Alliance
Terry Carroll, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Transformation and CIO at Fairview
Dr. Ferdinand Velasco, M.D., Chief Health Information Officer, at Texas Health Resources
This panel will discuss the enormous opportunities and challenges involved in leveraging the information technology and strategies inherent in analytics and population health, to support accountable care organizations, bundled payment contracting, and the patient-centered medical home. Participants will discuss the lessons being learned in this fascinating area at the most advanced organizations nationwide.
Some food for thought for this panel discussion comes from Keith Figlioli in the Healthcare Informatics September 2012 cover story: “It Takes a (Big) Village: Laying the Foundations for Population Health”: “Everyone has been focused on analytics and rightly so, analytics will be essential to success in the new healthcare. But changing payment systems involves a great deal of change management, right? And yes, certainly analytics and infrastructure are extremely important—organizations will need core transactional systems, plus that analytical layer on top of it. But I think one of the unknowns is not only how you’re going to connect the data; but beyond that, how you’re going to connect knowledge and connect people.”
E01 – Data-Driven Collaboration to Improve Population Health
John K. Cuddeback, M.D., PhD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, American Medical Group Association
Adrian Rawlinson, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, Brown & Toland Physicians
During this session, Dr. Cuddeback and Dr. Rawlinson will share the discoveries being made and the lessons being learned through collaboration around data in the population health arena.
To gain insight into Dr. Cuddeback’s perspective, you’ll have to refer toHealthcare Informatics Editor in Chief Mark Hagland’s on-line article in October 2012:“Making the Leap: Medical Group Leaders Tackle the Enormous Strategic IT Challenges Ahead”. “When I first came to AMGA five years ago, medical directors and CIOs of medical groups were talking about the issues around creating patient registries and supporting population health. That’s essentially been the theme, just because this is so important to AMGA members” stated Dr. Cuddeback. “Accountable care is about medical groups working collaboratively with insurance partners—not just on their own. With regard to the infrastructure issues, it’s about being able to understand a patient’s entire healthcare experience. If you look at AMGA members, we’re seeing an increase in integrating organizations; and most of these are mergers of different groups.”
E02 – Private-Sector ACO Development in Northern California
Simon Jones, Director of Accountable Care Organization Information Technology and Program Strategy, Blue Shield of California
This session will provide a deeper insight into the May 2012 Healthcare Informatics article: “Secrets of Private-Sector ACO Innovation”, which discusses howBlue Shield of California (BSC) has been in the lead among health insurers nationwide in collaborating with hospitals and physician groups to establish private-sector accountable care. In the past few years, BSC executives have created several accountable care contracts, with hospital and physician leaders in the Sacramento metro market, in San Francisco, in Orange County, and in California’s Central Valley.
The results so far have been very encouraging. For example, the Sacramento ACO (accountable care organization), which BCS created in January 2010 with the San Francisco-based multi-hospital system then known as Catholic Healthcare West (now Dignity Health) and the San Ramon-based Hill Physicians Medical Group, created a 15-percent reduction in inpatient readmissions, a 15-percent decrease in inpatient days; a 50-percent decrease in inpatient stays of 20 or more days; and saved nearly $25 million in healthcare costs in 2010-2011. It has allowed BCS to reduce premiums to CalPERS-based Blue Shield members (BCS members enrolled in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System) – the health plan members who have participated in the program. The San Francisco, Orange County, and Central Valley ACO programs are all beginning to reap similar results.
Thursday, May 16, 7:30 am-8:15 am
Breakfast Session: Leveraging Analytics to Drive Improved Quality and Efficiency Across the Care Continuum
Paul Katz, Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Healthcare
Clinical analytics is becoming increasingly important to hospitals and other providers as they enter into risk-based payment models. According to Oliver Wyman, nearly 31 million people or roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population receives care through public and private Accountable Care Organizations. These numbers should increase as hospitals attempt to offset decreasing revenue. The cornerstone to successfully navigate accountable care, any quality and/or any efficiency initiatives is having the right data and the right insights for physicians to take action upon. Join this session at the Healthcare Informatics Executive Summit to learn more on how to catalyze your ACO and other initiatives with clinical integration and analytics.
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CS03 – Improving Care Transitions in Real Time with Predictive Analytics
Panelists:
Susan Heichert, R.N., Vice President, Health Information Systems, Allina Hospital
Mike Doyle, Director of Health Care Intelligence, Allina Health
Karen Tomes RN, MA, PHN, Director, Hospital Care Management, Care Management and Coordination, Allina Health
At the Minneapolis-based Allina Health, a multidisciplinary team has created a groundbreaking dashboard tool for assessing the readmissions risk of individual inpatients—before they’re discharged into the community. The session will go behind the development of a project that made Allina’s Patient Census Dashboard Team a semi-finalist in the HCI Innovator Awards Program in 2012. Most importantly, the leaders at Allina have been able to leverage dashboard technologies to give them actionable data to successfully assess patient status at the point of care and care transition, and to prevent avoidable readmissions. Find out what they’ve learned, and how their initiative might be replicated elsewhere.
To understand why we have included this session at this year’s Summit, you’ll have to refer to the August 2012 Healthcare Informatics on-line article, “Allina’s Pioneering Move Forward on Population Health Risk Stratification and Management.”
CS04 – Readmissions Initiatives in Texas
Ruben Amarasingham, MD, MBA, President and CEO, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ferdinand Velasco, M.D., Chief Health Information Officer, Texas Health Resources
This session will look at how Parkland Hospital and Texas Health Resources have pursued a collaborative approach to one of the first-ever community-wide initiatives around avoidable readmissions reduction.
The staff at Healthcare Informatics have been actively monitoring the progress being made by these innovative leaders – and for good reason. The groundbreaking effort between two major Dallas hospital organizations is yielding results that could provide a model for hospital organization-based work in medical group-driven readmissions optimization.
CS05 – Case Study: Colorado Beacon Consortium
Patrick Gordon, Associate Vice-President for Community Integration, Rocky Mountain Health Plan
Marc Lassaux, Director of New Technical Initiatives at the Quality Health Network, Technical Director of the Colorado Beacon Consortium, Quality Health Network
The Colorado Beacon Consortium (CBC), a not-for-profit collaborative of four organizations, including a hospital, a physician group, a health plan, and a health information exchange, has been working for more than three years to share data and information among its member organizations in order to improve care management and care communications across the far-flung region of western Colorado. Excitingly, the leaders at CBC have been using the advanced HIE architecture of the health information exchange organization within the consortium to deploy a state-of-the-art decision support tool across multiple independent primary care sites that are operating on multiple independent EHRs throughout western Colorado, in order to perform data analytics to proactively assess patients’ health risk and intervene to improve their care management and their health. Patrick Gordon and Marc Lassaux, leaders of the CBC who are based in the collaborative’s health plan and HIE member organizations, respectively, will share with Summit attendees the lessons being learned in this truly groundbreaking work.”
