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. Cyber Crime
-- Marlowe Schaeffer-Polk, JD, DO, Chief Medical Officer, DoctorsDoDigital; Riddle Memorial Hospital
- Attackers are infecting medical devices with malware and then moving laterally through the hospital networks to steal confidential data
- Medical Device cybersecurity – the weakest link in the chain
- Target diagnostic equipment (PET scanners, CT scanners, MRI) and therapeutic equipment (infusion pumps, medical lasers) and even life support equipment (ventilators, dialysis units, pacemakers)
- Data contained within is traditionally not encrypted so that any form of manipulation of the unencrypted data stored and flowing through this device is possible
- Potential not only to obtain data, but in the deadlier circumstance to change data, with possible horrible medical errors made when decisions are based upon erroneous data
- Doctors often treat the data, not the patient, so the threat is very real
- Devices often running on insecure operating systems such as Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP
- Healthcare IT teams cannot access the internal software in medical devices so they depend on manufacturers to build and maintain security in these devices
- Device manufacturers are functionally prevented from making changes quickly because FDA medical device certification is predicated upon customers using the exact software versions tested to achieve certification.
- Perfect storm = weak medical device security + high value of medical data
B. Interdisciplinary Approach to Structuring Information Security
-- Mitchell Parker, CISSP, Executive Director, Information Security and Compliance, IU Health
Information Security has been a part of the “IT Department” since its inception. However, with regulatory and accreditation changes, starting with HIPAA and HITECH, its scope now includes the whole of the organization. This session describes how to structure your Information Security program to include touchpoints and integrate with the rest of the enterprise.
Three learning goals:
- Understand the regulatory/accreditation requirements of hospitals and health care environments.
- Demonstrate how Information Security can augment and help fulfill them.
- Show how Information Security can benefit from adopting standard risk management practices
C. The Job Market in Health IT
-- James T. Gibson, President, Gibson Consultants
-- Stacey McCreery, President, ROI Research Group
-- Moderated by Scott Becker, JD, CPA, Publisher, Becker’s Healthcare; Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
Experts discuss recruiting strategies, employment prospects and what skills hospitals are looking for in IT personnel.
Recommended for: CEOs, CIOs, CMIOs, Chief HR Officers
D. The Yin and Yang of Finance and Clinical Operations: Competing Forces or Harmonious Partners? Two Perspectives on Achieving Financial, Patient and Provider Value Concurrently in a Changing Business
-- Kash Patel, Vice President, Population Health and Analytics, Mount Sinai Health
This session will outline the need to think about an ambulatory business scorecard that measures success across core financial, patient and provider outcomes. In this this session, attendees will be introduced to trends in the ambulatory space and learn how to align population health and physician practice goals to drive value for the patient and provider. Solutions, including ways to identify and target specific pre-visit changes to scheduling, top of license resource use and visit preparation to create meaningful value across all constituents, will be shared.
Learning objectives:
- Where opportunities exist to better align goals to positively impact your ambulatory business across practice finances, population health, provider retention and patient satisfaction goals
- How to measure the success of your ambulatory business across fee for service and value-based contracts, provider satisfaction and patient outcomes
- Specific ways to identify and target meaningful changes to improve visit value for patients and providers
E. TBD
F. Claim Status Innovations: Appeal faster, work smarter
-- David J. Reid, Senior Director, Provider Services, Medical Payment Exchange
-- Melissa Smith, MBA,MHA,CRCE, Senior Director, Patient Financial Services, INOVA Health System
Technology is changing the way we live and do business ― and at an increasingly rapid pace. Forward thinking organizations are leveraging automated technology in their revenue cycle to better serve their patients and gain a competitive edge. Join this session to learn:
- How automated technology can help providers gain major work-flow efficiencies;
- Strategies to significantly reduce denials and days A/R and increase cash on hand;
- The latest claims processing tools to deploy on the back-end.
G. Leading to Zero: The Key Role of Leadership in the Journey to High Reliability
-- Paul Barach, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Despite serious and widespread efforts to improve the quality of health care, many patients still suffer preventable harm every day. High-reliability science is the study of organizations in industries like commercial aviation and nuclear power that operate under hazardous conditions while maintaining safety levels that are far better than those of health care. This session will highlight how healthcare can learn from high reliability organizations (HRO) how to succeed in avoiding catastrophes and patient harm in an environment where normal accidents can be expected due to risk factors and complexity.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to adapt and apply the lessons of HRO science to healthcare to enable hospitals to reach levels of quality and safety that are comparable to those of the best high-reliability organizations.
- Appreciate that innovations focused on individual processes do not address the larger and often intangible systemic, organizational and cultural factors that create vulnerabilities throughout the entire healthcare system.
- Appreciate how HRO discourse can bring people together to discuss not only unexpected events but also unexpected and untoward responses to their actions.
- Describe successful strategies available to health plans, organized health systems, and medical practices to better engage provides, improve performance and service quality.
H. Perspectives on Blockchain in Healthcare
-- David George, Principal, Coalition Partners; Board Advisor, Supirb; Board Advisor, Helium Advisors
-- Andreas Freund, PhD, Head TCS Blockchain Advisory, Tata Consultancy Services Limited
-- Chad Brisendine, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, St. Luke’s University Health Network
-- Jason Goldwater, MA, MPA, Senior Director, National Quality Forum
-- Alonzo Sexton, MD, Partner, Athens Orthopedic Clinic
-- Moderated by TBD
Blockchain is being posited as the next frontier in health IT that will help solve some of the industry's interoperability challenges. Panelists discuss the opportunities and challenges of blockchain in healthcare, as well as their experiences with the technology.
Recommended for: CIOs, CMOs, CMIOs, IT Project Managers/Directors
I. Value Based / Population Health
-- Deepak Pahuja MD MBA FACP FHM, Chief Medical Officer, Aerolib Healthcare Solutions LLC
-- Elizabeth Johnson, Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, The Christ Hospital Health Network
-- Bryan Becker, MD, Chief Medical Officer, DaVita Village Health
-- Michael P. Jeremiah, MD, FAAFP, Senior Vice president , Professor and Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Virginia Tech- Carilion School of Medicine and Carilion Clinic; Senior Medical Director of Population Health, Carilion Clinic
-- Moderated by TBD
A high-level look at how health systems are preparing for and approaching value-based care and population health, including analytics, digital health and cloud technology.
Recommended for: CEOs, CNOs, CMOs