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. And 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: Drex DeFord, Founder and Independent Consultant, drexio digital health

 

Erika Barber, JD, CHC, Privacy Manager, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Take this opportunity to mingle with your peers in an intimate setting to build relationships and establish future partnerships. Make sure to stop by the vendor booths to learn which solutions can provide better care and service in 2016 and beyond.

Healthcare is about delivering quality care. But as the United States healthcare system moves to value-based care, new financial requirements make achieving this goal harder.

 

New reimbursement models requiring understanding quality and other healthcare performance data and add additional quality measurement and reporting requirements such as MACRA and MIPS. As a result, providers will be even more challenged. Primaris has helped hundreds of providers realize Medicare and Medicaid quality and meaningful use goals and reporting requirements as well as supported their ability to prove to regulators that they have met requirements. Primaris CEO Richard A. Royer will share proven, real-world lessons and best practices about delivering quality care and meeting quality reporting requirements. He will cover what are likely future quality management, measurement and reporting regulations and how Health IT such as EHRs, HIEs, and telehealth can be used to meet these requirements.

Richard A. Royer, Chief Executive Officer, Primaris

 

Recent developments, including the ransomware-based hijacking of the entire clinical information system architecture of a California hospital, are throwing a spotlight on the emerging, intensifying threat of direct hacks of EHR and HIS systems in hospitals and health systems. In this deeper-dive session, healthcare IT leaders will look at where the core threats are coming from and what CIOs, CISOs, and other healthcare IT senior leaders in patient care organizations need to do to protect their organizations, their patients, and the data of both.

 

Attendees will leave the session with a clearer understanding of the broader context of hacker threats in the current healthcare IT environment, and the issues that CIOs, CISOs, and other healthcare IT leaders need to address and tackle in order to withstand the growing wave of cybersecurity threats facing their organizations.

 

Moderator: Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor, Healthcare Informatics

 

 

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.

Explore the journey undertaken by Independence Blue Cross and its Independence Center for Health Care Innovation as they work to innovate around culture, capability, collaboration, and investment within a 75-year-old not for profit health plan.   The interactive discussion will discuss programs developed and lessons learned as the Independence innovation team evolved from building an “innovation-aware” culture to use of their proprietary Human Centered Innovation methodology to test and implement programs that deliver strategic impact to the organization.

Thomas Olenzak,
Managing Director Strategic Innovation Portfolio, Independence Blue Cross

 

 

T2 Talks feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system.

Janice Young,
Research Director, Payer-Provider Partnerships, Data Sharing, Chilmark Research

Zen Chu, Co-Founder and Lead Faculty Advisor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hacking Medicine

In the current healthcare environment, most organizations are trying to determine how to make better use of data and analytics to lower cost, improve quality, assess risk, and better manage patient populations. Panelists will discuss strategies to improve outcomes and coordination of care with analytics; explore how to use data analytics and population health management tools to deliver positive ROI; and develop a strategy to coordinate care with patient data across acute and ambulatory care settings for PHM.

 

Moderator: Mark W. Stevens, Principal, ARRAHealth Consulting, Inc.

 

Cathy Dimou, MD, Associate Dean of Medical Sciences and Services , Former Chief Medical Officer, Rush University Medical Center

Stanley Hochberg, MD, Senior Vice President for Quality, Safety and Technology/Chief Quality Officer, Boston Medical Center

 

At a time when the entire U.S. healthcare system is shifting away from an unquestioned volume-based care delivery and payment system and towards one focused on value, one key component of that shift is the growing collaboration between payers and providers around accountable care and population health management. Attendees will hear from industry leaders on both sides of the aisle, as they discuss the landscape of collaboration, what is working in collaborative work on data, and where payers and providers are headed, together, in this area.

 

Moderator: Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor, Healthcare Informatics

 

Karen Bell, MD, MMS, Director, Center for Sustainable Health and Care, JBS International

Craig Jones, MD, Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health

Qi Zhou, Vice President, Performance Measurement, Data Analytics & Quality Management, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Josephine Porter, MPH, Director, Institute for Health Policy and Practice, University of New Hampshire

Healthcare interoperability is portrayed by providers and government leaders as a failure of the Meaningful Use program.  Yet, compared with other industries, the pace of healthcare interoperability growth isn’t slow at all.  Why is there such a gap between perception and reality?  Micky Tripathi will provide his perspective on the current state of interoperability, how we got to where we are today, and some scenarios of how interoperability might take shape in the future.