2013 Teleconference Schedule
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January 11, Noon-1 pm CT
The Impact of the 2012 Election: What to Anticipate in 2013
Paul Keckley, PhD, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Dr. Keckley provides his insight into what’s on the post-election horizon, as well as implications of the fiscal cliff to providers and healthcare organizations.
January 15, 1-2 pm CT
Privacy & Security Outlook for 2013
Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek, Inc., and current Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force. Mac provides an overview and analysis of the key issues that could impact the healthcare industry in 2013. Doing a chronological analysis of events from security breaches to new rules to enforcement actions to lessons learned from OCR audits combined with the evolution of the threat and health IT ecosystem, a challenging terrain may be ahead for healthcare executives. Incident costs rob valuable resources from positive care initiatives and healthcare cannot continue to afford them.
January 16, 1-2 pm CT
Where Ethics, Economics and Effectiveness Intertwine: A New Look at Person-Centered Care
Michael Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors, LLC, and adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Terms like person-centered care, patient-centered care and medical consumerism are often used interchangeably. But the way individuals interact with the healthcare system is very different when they're a patient, a consumer or a clinical partner. For providers in a bundled payment, ACO-modeled world, understanding where these separate threads remain distinct and where they intertwine is critical.
January 21, 1-2 pm CT
SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 50: Wireless Connectivity Between Smart Pumps and Millennium
Bobbie Carroll, and Sarah Giga, Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota implemented a comprehensive bar code medication administration (BCMA) for all medications. Using BCMA for “pills, shots, drops, and IV medications” to validate 5-rights is not new. The innovation Bobbie and Sarah discuss is going to the next level for infusions by wirelessly transmitting the physician’s orders to pre-program the smart pump and automatically transfer infusion data back to the electronic medical record (EMR).
January 23, 1-2 pm CT
Using Technology to Reinforce Cybersecurity at Intermountain Healthcare
Jared Rhoads, Senior Research Specialist, CSC, and Karl West, Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Vulnerabilities with mobile devices, portable media, and medical devices give cybercriminals the opportunity to commit financial theft, identity theft or cause malicious damage to equipment. To protect patient information and ensure safety, organizations need to take decisive action. Jared and Karl discuss the newest risk areas facing healthcare organizations and share tips on how to use technology to bolster cybersecurity.
January 29, 1-2 pm CT
The National Quality Forum eMeasures Collaborative
Rosemary Kennedy, VP, Juliet Rubini, Senior Project Manager, and Beth Franklin, RN, MS, Senior Director, Health Information Technology, National Quality Forum. Rosemary, Juliet and Beth discuss the eMeasure Collaborative project, a public initiative bringing together stakeholders to advance knowledge and promote best practices surrounding development and implementation of electronic quality performance measures. The Quality Data Model (QDM), the standard structure for eMeasures, and Critical Paths project that looked at patient safety and care coordination are also presented.
January 30, 1-2 pm CT
The Future of Data Exchange: HIE and Direct
John Stanley, MBA, Principal, Impact Advisors. Meaningful Use and Accountable Care programs call for increased capacities for secure exchange of clinical and operational information between different settings and providers of services to drive increased efficiency and improved outcomes. Many HIE solutions have been developed to address this exchange, but the Direct Project has quickly emerged as an alternative for many use cases. This talk reviews the fundamentals of HIE approaches and Direct, and how they can augment each other in providing a comprehensive and effective data exchange solution.
February 1, 3-4 pm CT
PMO Collaborative No. 2: Project Prioritization Methods
John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator), Joel Verinder, PMP, Director, Portfolio Management Office, Texas Health Resources, Johnathan Nielsen, Senior Director, Programs & Projects Management Office, Dignity Health, and Ramon Martinez, Director, Project Management Office, BayCare Health System. This interactive discussion focuses on sharing existing practices to prioritize complex project portfolios. Topics include: which projects are prioritized; the project prioritization process “summary;” and criteria used to prioritize projects.
February 5, 1-2 pm CT
The Challenge of Clinical Data Integration
Michael Kamerick, Specialist Leader, and Aaron Abend, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Success in the accountable care world requires analytics that are fundamentally different than those used to succeed in the fee-for-service world. Integrating data to provide these analytical views requires the combination of data through a technical framework and institutional governance. Michael and Aaron describe work at various hospital systems facing different data integration challenges and explain how these institutions developed the organizational governance to begin the development of integrated data resources for accountable care. Use cases will include UCLA, the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative, and UMass Memorial Health Care.
February 12, 1-2 pm CT
The Role of Information in Managing Healthcare Delivery
Dan Carmel, Head of Enterprise Content Management Strategy and Solutions at Autonomy, an HP company. Dan describes and provides case studies of how organizations can augment electronic health records with a searchable, patient-centric view of all unstructured information, and automate content centric processes such as admissions, case management, remediation of insurance claims, clinical trials, satisfaction and other surveys to improve patient care, outcomes and operational efficiency.
February 18, 1-2 pm CT
SI-Cerner Users Collaborative No. 51: Developing and Implementing a Cloud-based SIRS Alert
Chris DeFlitch, MD, CMIO, Vice-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Co-Founder, CIHDS (Penn State Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems), and Matthew Loser, Lead Analyst, Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Penn State Hershey Medical Center worked with Cerner to help develop and test their “cloud” solution to send alerts to staff warning of patients with potential for SIRS or Sepsis. The solution went live in September and the feedback has been very strongly positive. Chris and Matthew discuss the process used to customize the solution for their location and how it can work for you.
February 21, 1-2 pm CT
Business Intelligence: Influencing Change?
Joe Van De Graaff, Research Director, Business Intelligence, KLAS. With each passing day business intelligence (BI) becomes more important in healthcare. Join Joe for a discussion about BI to learn about vendor performance, recent BI projects, and the influence of BI in healthcare.
February 26, 1-2 pm CT
Patient Registries and Analytics - Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital
Andrew Weier, Director of Quality Analysis and Decision Support, Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Tracking patients across the continuum of care is complex, and is more difficult when the care crosses organizations. Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital has worked with Marshfield Clinic to assure high quality of transparent care for decades. Andrew reviews internally developed registries to track patients, as well as dashboards used to track performance and outcomes across the system. He also reviews analytic works to estimate the impact of Value Base Purchasing on MHC.
February 27, 1-2 pm CT
The IOM Report: Best Care at Lower Cost
Jim Conway, Principal, Pascal Metrics and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health, and David Classen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah and CMIO, Pascal Metrics. In September 2012, the IOM Committee on the Learning Health Care System in America released the product of its deliberations with the report “Best Care at Lower Cost.” Identified are three major imperatives for change: The rising complexity of modern health care, unsustainable cost increases, and outcomes below the system’s potential. Emerging tools like computing power, connectivity, team-based care, and systems engineering techniques make the envisioned transition possible, and are already being put to successful use in pioneering healthcare organizations. A review of the findings and the journey forward will be presented by a member of this committee and a member of IOM Committees on Patient Safety and Health IT.
February 28, 1-2 pm CT
Clinical Intelligence - How Do We Get There From Here
Richard Gibson, MD, Chief Healthcare Intelligence Officer, Providence Health & Services, and Dale Sanders, Senior VP, Healthcare Quality Catalyst, provide an overview of the two organizations’ partnership to deliver the data warehousing technology, data visualization, and framework for data exploitation to support the Providence mission of improving quality, increasing access, and reducing the cost of care in the communities it serves - from Alaska to southern California. Including the recent affiliation with Swedish Health Services, the combined scope of services includes 32 hospitals, 350 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and many other health and educational services. The combined health system employs more than 64,000 people and provides over 7,000 licensed beds. Dale provides an overview of the technology and methodology while Dr. Gibson discusses Providence's vision and goals for data-driven healthcare, and the role that their data approach is playing in that vision, including lessons-learned so far.
March 7, 1-2 pm CT
Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, Weill Cornell Medical College
Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, Executive Director Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy, Weill Cornell Medical College. Healthcare informatics is an important component of federal healthcare policy. The new Weill Cornell Medical College Center for Healthcare Informatics Policy aims to improve health and healthcare through the research, education, innovation and use of informatics and technology. Learn about what we can expect to see from this new program.
March 13, 1-2 pm CT
How Social and Mobile Technologies are Transforming Healthcare
Harry Greenspun, MD, Senior Advisor for Health Care Transformation and Technology, and Quinn Solomon, Senior Manager, Deloitte Digital, Deloitte Consulting LLP. The convergence of technology growth with the rollout of ACA has caused a healthcare digital revolution. Mobile and social technology are being utilized to increase healthcare convenience, promote overall health, and reduce costs. From improvements in care coordination and patient-focused mobile apps to remote patient monitoring and video appointments, this technological transformation offers many benefits to healthcare.
March 14, 1-2 pm CT
BI Analytics: Creating the Enterprise Competency Center
Jason Joseph, Director, Informatics and Analytics, Spectrum Health, and Tina Esposito, Vice President, Center for Health Information Services, Advocate Health Care. One of the more important yet challenging aspects of establishing a strong Business Intelligence program is aligning people and priorities across functions (analytics and informatics) around a common organizational vision. Viewpoints are provided from both Spectrum Health and Advocate Health Care’s respective approaches to collaboration, organizational design, and communication across IS, analytical teams, and business units in aligning with business needs and organizational vision. Challenges and tactics to overcome obstacles and align support in a complex and rapidly evolving space are highlighted.
March 21, 1-2 pm CT
Can the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement Advance Your Quality Improvement Efforts?
Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, TMIT Consulting, LLC. More than 200 participants (including many SI members) are engaged in the CDS Collaborative for Performance Improvement, which is focused on helping many inter-dependent stakeholders accelerate the successful use of clinical decision support (CDS) to improve care delivery and outcomes. The Collaborative is supporting the ONC CDS4MU project (developing tools and resources for CDS-enabled quality improvement for Meaningful Use), and also the CHCF-funded 'Closing the Gap' project (to address CDS recommendations in a recent IOM report). Dr. Osheroff, (the Collaborative's founder), will provide an overview of the initiative and the offshoots mentioned above, outline opportunities for SI members to engage, and facilitates a discussion to help participants take advantage of these opportunities.
March 27, 1-2 pm CT
Trends in Clinical Quality Measurement
Ferdinand Velasco, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Texas Health Resources, and Maggie Lohnes, HIMSS. As progress toward healthcare reform continues, clinical quality measurement will grow in importance. This teleconference reviews the key roles of measure stewards, the National Quality Forum, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with other key stakeholders. Important trends in clinical quality measurement, including the movement toward electronic measures, are also discussed. And Dr. Velasco and Maggie outline implications for healthcare provider organizations.
March 28, 1-2 pm CT
Capturing and Reporting Pricing and Outcomes Data
Melinda Ashton, MD, FAAP, Vice President, Patient Safety and Quality Services, Hawai’i Pacific Health. High levels of quality improvement coupled with significant savings as Hawai’i Pacific Health, a Stage 6 facility on the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scale, changed the way it provided care and started tracking gains, both clinical and financial. They have demonstrated an annual ROI from EHR of nine percent over 10 years. Beyond inpatient and outpatient, IT supports patients viewing lab results, educational materials, appointment scheduling and health maintenance reminders. Results include: reduced write-offs by $23.2 million, reduced transcription costs by $15.4 million, and improved documentation which led to $14.2 million in savings. HPH changed the model of care by changing the center to the patient, helping clinicians provide better, less fragmented care - team care, with guidelines and protocols, and everyone on the same page.
April 2, 1-2 pm CT
Evolving View of MU: Lessons from the Field
Eric Finocchiaro, Director Deloitte Consulting and Ryan Haggerty, Senior Manager Deloitte & Touche LLC. Eric and Ryan provide an overall perspective on providers’ journey towards Meaningful Use Stage 2. Based on their experiences and observations from various client engagements, they highlight the evolving view of Meaningful Use over the past 4-plus years since the HITECH Act was passed. They also discuss the new challenges presented by Stage 2 and lessons learned as the provider community attests to new measures and adapts to new certified technology.
April 9, 1-2 pm CT
Moving from Clinical Documentation to Clinical Insight
Alan Stein, MD, PhD, VP, Healthcare Technology at Autonomy, an HP company, describes the role of unstructured information in healthcare, and how new technologies enable meaningful analysis of clinical narratives and unstructured data. Through a variety of use-cases, Dr. Stein illustrates how clinical taxonomies such as SNOMED CT can be used for semantic search on medical information, and conceptual extraction of relevant structures for clinical insight, business intelligence or research activities.