Rocky Mountain Health IT Summit Agenda

Monday, July 15, 2019
7:00 AM
Networking
 
 
 
7:45 AM
 
 
 
 
8:00 AM
Keynote Presentation
 
In 2018, the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI) and the eHealth Commission officially launched Colorado’s Health IT Roadmap with the support of communities and stakeholders. With this support and the leadership from OeHI and the eHealth Commission, funding was requested and appropriated by the State of Colorado and federal funding was requested from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to secure American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Health Information Technology (ARRA HITECH) funds to begin planning and implementation efforts.
 
Join Carrie Paykoc, the Interim Director of the Office of eHealth Innovation, and Rachel Dixon, Executive Director of Prime Health, as they share updates on statewide healthcare IT initiatives. 
 
       
 
 
8:45 AM
Tailboard Talk
 
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 from health information exchange leaders in Colorado and provider organizations as they discuss:
 
  • Unique initiatives in Colorado to provide higher quality and a higher volume of point-of-care information and historical patient data that allows clinicians to improve both outcomes and patient satisfaction
  • How federal policy is impacting data exchange
  • How improving the data sharing technological infrastructure with tools like FHIR compliant APIs can help providers jump the hurdles of interoperability in EHRs
 
 
 
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9:45 AM
Networking
 
Join your fellow attendees to discuss what you've learned in the morning sessions and make new connections.
 
 
 
10:15 AM
 
 
Join Jeff Coughlin, the Senior Director of Federal & State Affairs at HIMSS for a discussion with Mark Hagland on the changing healthcare policy landscape and how current and future policy changes may impact healthcare technology leaders.
 
 
          
 
 
10:45 AM
 
 
Have you wanted to create consistent patient and plan member consumer experiences? Or provide opportunities to lower the cost of care? A digital health strategy is will answer your needs. At the heart of a digital health strategy is data trusted, secure data that can be accessed by everyone in the organization. To reach this level of maturity, organizations are starting to leverage governance to foster and deliver trusted data to their line of business data consumers.
 
 
 
 
11:15 AM
Provider Spotlight
 
Barbara McAneny, MD, an oncologist/hematologist, and the CEO of the New Mexico Cancer Center will discuss how she developed the “Community Oncology Medical Home” project – an NCQA accredited medical home built around the patient and their support system – that reduced time spent in hospitals for patients and resulted in better care. 
 
Her presentation will focus on the development of a medical home model created outside the hospital, the healthcare IT challenges solved, data analytics tools deployed, and the clinical decision support modeling required to make the program successful.
 
 
 
 
11:45 AM
Networking
 
 
 
12:30 PM
Keynote Presentation
 
Ascension has been laser-focused on building a national approach and solution center for virtual care services, remote patient monitoring, central referral resources, call center services and delivering a smarter, more patient-centric, healthcare network.
 
Join Julie Reisetter as she discusses the intricacies of developing and implementing virtual care products and services in one of the largest health systems in the country.
 
 
 
 
1:00 PM
 
 
Modern clinical communication and collaboration systems can reduce care team stress and improve patient care. What are the industry trends and best practices on designing and implementing best-in-class processes and platforms that will achieve a high rate of adoption and deliver quick and lasting results? Join Michael in this session to discuss how communication processes can be automated, how to ensure HIPAA-compliancy and data security, and next steps in evaluating your clinical communications approach.
 
 
 
 
1:30 PM
Networking
 
 
 
2:00 PM
Provider Spotlight
 
In the midst of the national opioid epidemic, many organizations are still early in the development of their opioid stewardship efforts. Truman Medical Centers has empowered a leader within the Pharmacy team to expand the institutions pain management and opioid stewardship services. The pharmacist uses the EHR to review inpatient orders triggered by targeted drug reports, focusing on scheduled and long-acting opioid medications. This approach has led to safer administration of opioids and safer prescribing behaviors. Intermountain Healthcare has established a collaborative clinical/technical team focused on improving opioid safety across the organization. Multiple technical solutions have been or are being implemented.
 
These include interventions designed to:
 
  • Identify patients at high risk of opioid induced respiratory depression
  • Reduce over-prescribing of opiates for acute pain
  • Increase safety in ordering and administering opiates in hospital settings
 
          
 
 
2:45 PM
Tailboard Talk
 
Join leaders from the Colorado Health Institute and their community partners to learn about ground breaking work, using social determinants of health data, to improve the health of patient populations across the state. 
 
 
 
 
3:30 PM
Networking
 
Join your fellow attendees to discuss what you've learned in the morning sessions and make new connections.
 
 
 
3:45 PM
Provider Spotlight
 
The care for medically complex children can be confusing for families. It can also consume large amounts of healthcare resources and can be very costly. Social determinants of health can also complicate an already complex situation. Children's Hospital Colorado set out to improve outcomes, increase patient and family satisfaction and reduce costs through the utilization of health information technology. Children's Hospital Colorado layered risks due to social determinants with a medical complexity algorithm to create what we believe to be a more accurate measurement of complexity. This risk scoring helps to determine resource assignment and utilization for our most complex patients.
 
 
 
4:15 PM
 
 
Learn and be inspired by new innovations in healthcare during the Innovation Power Hour. This session isn’t a sales pitch. It’s an opportunity to experience emerging technologies and solutions from some of the brightest, most innovative digital health organizations from right here in Denver. 
 
The Innovation Power Hour will kick off with a presentation from local community builder Mike Bisselli. Following Mike’s presentation we’ll hear from Wes Williams, Vice President and CIO of the Mental Health Center of Denver share his innovation story in a fast-paced session.
 
Power "Hour" Schedule: 
4:15 PM – 4:40 PM – Innovation Talk with Mike Bisselli
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM – Lightning Round Presentations with the Mental Health Center of Denver
 
 
       
 
 
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
7:00 AM
Networking
 
 
 
7:45 AM
Networking
 
 
 
8:00 AM
Keynote Presentation
 
The Community Resource Network (CRN) is a person-centric, SDOH-focused Community Information Exchange (CIE) which is integrated with the Quality Health Network (QHN) Health Information Exchange (HIE), and gives Medical, Social Service, and Behavioral Health providers a rich, shared, 360˚ ‘whole person’ view to better communicate, collaborate, share and analyze data, and improve client outcomes.
 
The system’s self-organizing Care Team model features lightweight yet powerful Care Coordination and Consent tools that reduce the friction and burden of navigating through the healthcare and social service ecosystems – essentially ‘filling in the gaps’ of a process that is vastly silo’d and fragmented today.
 
Dick Thompson, QHN CEO, will discuss at a high-level the CIE Platform’s value proposition for its stakeholders based upon four key capabilities:
 
  • Its ability to collect and attribute data (e.g. diagnostics, encounters, care plans, assessments, etc.) via a wide variety of modalities on clients in need of services, as well as attribute those services to the purveyors of such services from any or all of three broad domains: social, behavioral, and physical health
  • Stratify/identify the population of individuals most at risk across the three domains through predictive modeling and flexible reporting capabilities
  • Facilitate the community-wide (or region-wide) referral and coordination of services and/or interventions across all three domains for those at risk or in need of such services
  • Report on the outcomes of those services in such ways that sustainable funding for ongoing Community Information Exchange operations can be achieved
 
 
 
8:30 AM
 
 
Join Morgan Honea, CEO of CORHIO and Dr. Timothy Dudley, Chief Medical Officer for Colorado Care Partners, to learn more about how health information exchange data is informing accountable care quality.
 
The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, one of Colorado’s health information exchanges, is partnering with Colorado Care Partners, a HealthONE accountable care organization, to provide meaningful data for their front-line care management initiatives. 
 
CORHIO is sending real-time notifications of hospital visits (admit, discharges, or ER) for active patients in the ACO’s patient roster. The Colorado Care Partners care managers use CORHIO to gather pertinent data on the patients managed by the ACO and to close gaps in care, recognize rising risk and better manage high risk. In addition, data is used for practice scorecards, which track avoidable ER utilization, transitions of care follow-ups and disease management. 
 
 
          
 
 
9:15 AM
 
 
Advanced health systems are increasingly turning to third-party clinical and operational applications for a variety of goals from improving patient flow to remote patient follow-up.  Join Joe in this session to learn about new tools for seamless integrations of applications that can drive outcomes in your health systems.  In collaboration with a leading academic center, we have developed a scalable, secure & flexible architecture that provides access to clinical & other healthcare data to improve care delivery with clinical-grade apps.  Learn how this platform is built using best-in-class open source tools and is designed to work with Suitable Medical Applications & Reusable Technology (SMART) along with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
 
 
 
9:45 AM
Networking
 
 
 
10:15 AM
 
 
Imagine the internet before the web browser. Mountains of useful information, inaccessible to “users.” That problem exists today within every hospital in the form of doctors’ Electronic Health Records (EHR) notes that are not available to patients or available but uninterpretable by patients and their families.
 
Increasingly patients now have access to their medical information via patient portals however the notes and information are not in a form patients and families can easily understand given they are written with the purpose of communicating with other providers and for documentation. By harnessing the power of the EHR and AI, these records can be translated to language that patients and families can understand with the goal of increased usability of the medical record with the hopes of increasing comprehension, improving provider and patient relationships, and empowering our patients with knowledge about their medical issues and plan. This session will focus on an artificial intelligence pilot conducted by members of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital that utilized this new technology to simplify patient notes while preserving key content. We will describe this novel technology and patients’ perceptions of the translated note.
 
 
          
 
 
10:45 AM
 
 
As threats have become more advanced and the healthcare industry has been increasingly targeted by cyber-attackers, security teams are struggling to keep up. The security skills shortage coupled with limited resources magnifies the challenges already posed by machine-speed attacks, insider threats, and low-and-slow attacks. Cyber AI serves as a force multiplier for organizations’ security teams, triaging alerts, prioritizing the most important threats, and even taking action on behalf of security teams to interrupt threats. In this session, hear about: 
 
•    Discuss how to detect and respond to threats using AI and machine learning 
•    Explore real-world examples of AI augmenting security teams
•    Provide best practices to keep up with today’s rapidly evolving cyber attacks
 
 
 
 
11:15 AM
 
 
The problem of out of date legacy hardware, operating systems and applications across the healthcare industry is endemic. This is especially so at small hospitals and clinics where tiny IT and security staffs and highly constrained budgets, prevent the upgrading of end-of-life and often vulnerable technologies. Aggressive sun-setting of Windows versions by Microsoft and near constant patching requirements compound the pressure on small IT staffs to support and secure their health IT infrastructure. Poor coordination between HIT vendors and Microsoft causes healthcare applications to break if patched or remain vulnerable if unpatched. This situation introduces risk into the healthcare delivery environment as IT systems continue to operate with unpatched CVEs and unsupported hardware and software.
 
With limited budgets and no panaceas on the horizon, how can CIOs and CISOs of small or critical access facilities get away from continuing to support dangerous legacy hardware and software? 
This session looks at the complexity of problems and explores options to reduce risk and solve the legacy hardware and OS problem for good. 

Learning Objectives
  • Learn about the problem of legacy technology and why it is so pervasive in healthcare organizations
  • Understand what risk mitigation options are available to IT teams?
  • Develop ideas for a long term strategy that healthcare leaders can adopt to finally solve the legacy technology problem
 
         
 
 
12:00 PM
 
 
This presentation will cover the current cybersecurity landscape in healthcare and best practices for how to mitigate cyber threats in your facility.
 
 
 
 
12:30 PM
Networking
 
 
 
1:15 PM
 
 
Renowned Healthcare Innovation and KLAS Enterprises (KLAS) have partnered to bring exclusive education sessions to the Rocky Mountain Health IT Summit. Join Mitchell Josephson , VP Arch Collaborative 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.
 
 
 
1:45 PM
Tailboard Talk
 
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:
 
  • Developing a non-bureaucratic governance structure that allows for changes to be made quickly to the EMR when needed
  • How they developed initial training programs, recognizing that the quality and duration of initial training are the top predictors of an individual’s EMR success
  • Building a culture of sharing, continuing education to support mastery of the EMR and helping clinicians become superusers by training them not only to successfully get data into the EMR but also to efficiently get data out of the EMR
  • Building a quality EMR – cutting through the hype and choosing a vendor that work for their organization, based on best practices and feedback from the users
 
 
 
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