The industry seems to have an oversimplified view of interoperability based on a seemingly rational observation that one simple approach is the right approach. In truth, interoperability is more complex and is not one thing. It is a broad combination of use cases that is specific to your organization’s needs.  In this presentation, I will address our view of national interoperability, its challenges and opportunities, and how new technology such as FHIR and API play a role.  We’ll follow the presentation with a panel discussion to hear the perspectives of industry leaders. 

 

 

One of healthcare’s biggest challenges continues to be data exchange. Leveraged correctly, health information technology can help automate efforts, increase transparency, and reduce miscommunication between health plans, providers, and healthcare organizations. Join leaders from health information exchanges and provider organizations as they discuss:

 

 

 

 

 

This session will focus on best practices from healthcare organizations who are utilizing analytics and aggregation tools to make their data meaningful and extract value from it.

 

 

Join Healthcare Innovation in honoring the 2019 Innovator Award winners and presentation from one of the first place organization. The Healthcare Innovation Innovator Awards Program recognizes leadership teams from patient care organizations—hospitals, physician groups, clinics, integrated health systems, payers, HIEs, ACOs, and other healthcare organizations—that have effectively deployed information technology in order to improve clinical, administrative, financial, or organizational performance.

 

 

We’re dedicating the afternoon to a deep dive discussion on the incredible work being done by healthcare leaders in our area.

 

Presenters include:

 

 

Ed Marx joins us to kick-off day two of the health IT summit and his new book. Ed is widely recognized as a leading CIO in healthcare and focus is known for being a community builder, his expertise in strategic planning, governance experience, his ability to drive optimal resource utilization, team development, and organizational support.

 

 

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) remains an enigma for organizations nationwide, as few organizations have been able to satisfy Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements to retain cost savings.
 
In the 2016 performance year, MetroHealth Care Partners ACO performed at 8.1 percent below the CMS benchmark, saving CMS a total of $9.1 million.  Through its 96 percent quality score, and its breakthrough approach to data exchange and infrastructure, MetroHealth received $4.3 million as its share of the CMS savings.  
 
In this keynote presentation, hear from MetroHealth CMIO Dr. David Kaelber, and a senior member of the MetroHealth Care Partners ACO team, as they share their three-year journey that built the foundation for this year's success.  Find out the key IT strategic approaches, clinical informatics, and the critical technology-supported care management processes that resulted in this resounding success story that has made MetroHealth a track 3 advanced payment model ACO.

 

 

In the new and constantly evolving healthcare landscape, patient care organization leaders are now coming to a near-universal acceptance that paying more attention to social determinants of health data has become vital to improving care and lowering costs. You will learn how healthcare organizations are investigating the most effective means for connecting medical care and social service needs to discover how health outcomes are influenced by factors such as social circumstances, behavioural patterns and environmental exposures.

 

 

• Provide an overview of the key findings and insights from the HIMSS Analytics Patient Experience Study
• Understand the technology strategies providers are using to improve the patient experience and drive improved patient satisfaction
• Share disparities between the reality of the patient experience and the provider perception of care

 

 

Renowned Healthcare Innovation and KLAS Enterprises (KLAS) have partnered to bring exclusive education sessions to the Midwest Health IT Summit. Join Mitch Josephson, Vice President of Strategic Relations at KLAS for in-depth discussion on KLAS' research work on acute and ambulatory EMR usability coming out of the KLAS Arch Collaborative. Mitch will provide findings from KLAS' recent research and participate on an in-depth panel discussion on EMR usability. Attendees will also receive a summary report detailing recent findings of the Collaborative. 

 

 

EMR usability as well as the efficiencies of a well-built EMR are hugely important for physicians. Join our panelists to discuss how they build a culture of partnership between physician and clinician users, and IT personnel, to drive a quality EMR experience, increase EMR engagement and helping users focus on opportunities for EMR success in their organizations. Discussion topics include:
 

 

There is a flurry of regulatory activity surrounding and supporting value-based care, including payment model redesign, data interoperability, security and technology certification to name a few. Regulatory policy is directly and indirectly driving technological and operational innovation in value-based care. How do organizations distill the deluge of policy revisions to isolate and leverage those with the greatest impact and innovation potential? For instance, what reimbursement or compliance changes open sustainable windows of opportunity to gain competitive advantage? We review examples of and methods for finding the opportunities in value-based care policy which can affect short and long-term plans.

 

 

Join our esteemed panel of physician group and health system leaders as they discuss the strategic, cultural and technological transformation required to move their organizations forward into population health management and value-based care.