Threats to the privacy and security of patient information top the list of issues keeping the healthcare C-suite awake at night. Health systems are moving from the traditional reactive approach to data security strategy to a proactive one, embodied in a new C-suite title: the Chief Information Security Officer or CISO. CISOs are beginning to combine the heretofore split functions of security and privacy, balancing technology analytics, mobile and medical device initiatives with people-oriented  approaches like employee education. This session will describe a multi-pronged approach to cybersecurity that engages the entire health system ranging from IT firewalls to third-party security services and workforce education.

Moderator: Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics

 

The digital revolution is upon us, markedly changing the healthcare landscape and shaping the future of how we can better engage and empower patients to improve health outcomes. Through wearables and other emerging technologies, today’s connected digital devices enable us not only to improve overall wellness, but also to improve day-to-day treatment management for seniors and patients with chronic conditions. Doctors are able to stay closely connected to patients—whether at home or on the go—and ensure that treatments are working outside of the traditional healthcare setting and that patients are complying with treatment. Explore the impact—current and potential—of digital mobile technology and learn about why it’s a true game changer for the future of healthcare.

 

For more than a decade, Healthcare Informatics has honored those at the forefront of healthcare IT innovation with its Innovator Awards signature issue. Indeed, the Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations—hospitals, medical groups, integrated health systems, and other healthcare organizations—that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance.

 

Learn how at UT Southwestern,  clinician, clinical informatics, IT, analytics, and administrative leaders have come together to create an Ambulatory Quality Outcomes (AQO) Project that is improving processes and outcomes across 40 medical specialties, and using rapid-cycle improvement processes to improve care delivery and care management, physician collaboration, and the capability to participate in meaningful quality outcomes benchmarking. All of this is being supported by intensive development work on the part of IT and analytics leaders at the organization.

 

 

 

Take this opportunity to mingle with your peers in an intimate setting to build relationships and establish future partnerships.  Lunch will be served on the exhibit floor so make sure to stop by the vendor booths to learn which solutions can provide better care and service.

 

 

Presenting relevant information to providers during the course of care is a primary goal of biomedical informatics. This talk will discuss some of the principles of clinical informatics, the importance of developing meaningful human-computer interactions to reduce complexity and increase focus, and a prototype tool in use at the Mayo Clinic to support busy primary care providers.

 

Telehealth has not only matured in recent years, it’s also become integral to care and wellness for managing population health across regions and the community. New cloud-based, mobile telehealth solutions are emerging that integrate the data across the continuum using diagnostic quality input from acute-care devices, high-resolution imaging, secure video conferencing and simultaneous health-data streaming—all in a portable tablet. This session will address the newly emerging telehealth paradigm that incorporates anytime, anywhere diagnostics and communications across the continuum of care.

 

Healthcare Informatics is hosting this private dinner to wrap up the first day of the Health IT Summit. Guests include program attendees, speaker faculty and other participating senior healthcare leaders. As the dinner is a casual affair, we will be enjoying fine wine, cocktails, a wonderful dinner, and great company! Dinner will not feature long winded presentations but will be spent getting to know your peers, learning more about industry challenges and concerns so we all can better serve the community and help to improve the quality of our healthcare system.