TRACK A - Keynotes & Health IT
TRACK B - Health IT
TRACK C - Health IT
TRACK D - Health IT
TRACK E - Revenue Cycle
TRACK F - Revenue Cycle
TRACK G - Revenue Cycle
TRACK H - Revenue Cycle
TRACK I - Thought Leadership
A. Driving Value in Precision Medicine with Health IT
-- Jonathan Hirsch, Founder and President, Syapse
Improvements in health IT have led to advances in genomics. Emerging methods for managing and analyzing large data sets have empowered providers and researchers to more accurately predict which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in which groups of people. This session will discuss:
- Opportunities gained by adopting precision medicine;
- Early research demonstrating improved patient outcomes and cost of care reduction from precision medicine;
- And examples of the adoption of precision medicine IT solutions by health systems such as Intermountain, Providence and more.
B. Leveraging Predictive Analytics Throughout the Entire Revenue Cycle
-- Steve Levin, Chief Executive Officer, Connance
From the front-end to the back-office, healthcare organizations need to maximize recoveries and find a way to actually improve relationships with patients. According to Connance’s 6th Consumer Impact Study, hospital business offices can have a significant impact on patients’ overall hospital satisfaction, their payment behavior and their recommendation patterns. Due to higher-deductible plans, business offices are increasingly interacting with patients after discharge, and with the challenge of dealing with outside agencies, healthcare organizations suffer from a lack of visibility into the revenue cycle process. According to a September 2016 Connance survey of senior healthcare finance executives, one of their top priorities is increasing collection rate among insured patients with balance after insurance responsibility. The need to focus business office teams on the best opportunities, to reduce low and no-value efforts, and yet maintain a positive patient relationship has never been more important.
In this session you will learn how your organization can apply best practices to your collections process, such as identifying which accounts will yield the most and which accounts will yield less than the cost to collect, and the activities to most appropriately resolve an account. Results from Conance’s 2016 Consumer Impact Study will be revealed. Learn strategies that will help impact net income by increasing cash collected, improving the patient experience, and reducing your cost to collect.
C. Zero Incident Enterprise Infrastructure: Key to Digital Transformation
-- Guru Bhoopala, Senior Vice President, GAVS Technologies N.A., Inc.
It is estimated that by 2020, 80% of customers will manage their relationships with enterprises without interacting with a human. And by the same time more than 70% of mobile professionals will conduct their work on personal smart devices. To keep up with this trend enterprise IT infrastructure must be, agile, responsive, digital and incident free. GAVS Zero Incident Framework, using automation and smart machine based tools will help customers achieve a Zero Incident IT enterprise
D. Changing Group Culture, Creating a Card-On- File Program
-- Joe Clark, MBA, CMGA, CMPE, Chief Executive Officer, Sierra Pacific Orthopedics
E. The Effects of an Electronic Hourly Rounding Tool on Nurses’ Steps
-- Aimee Burch, DNP, APRN-CNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist, CHI Health St. Francis - Katie Hottovy, Co-founder and Director, Client Services, Nobl
Hourly rounding is an evidence based nursing practice shown to decrease patient falls and call lights. Studies have often linked hourly rounding with a reduction in nursing steps. Join us as we share how CHI Health St.Francis utilized Fitbits® and a digital rounding tool to study the impact of hourly rounding and its effect on nurses’ steps, call lights, and fall rates.
Objectives:
- Learn how we utilized Fitbits® and other performance improvement data to research the impact of a digital hourly rounding tool
- Learn about the outcomes and correlations found from this study
F. Winning the Outsourcing Battle: Creating and Preserving Value
-- Sam Johnson, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
-- Kelly Baker, Vice President, Revenue Cycle Services, Novant Health
-- Moderated by Rakesh Gopalan, JD, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
G. Grief in the Workplace
-- Lisa A. Franqui-Calhoun, MAT, Bereavement Education Facilitator/ Thanatologist