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Registration
Networking Reception
Registration
Breakfast and Networking
Opening Remarks & Keynote Presentation
Mini Break
CIO Panel
Panelists:
Luis Taveras, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Lehigh Valley Health Network
Shakeeb Akhter, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Edmund Siy, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Hunterdon Health
Tom Gordon, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Virtua Health
Break and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Technology and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
From 50 to 500 Patients Daily: Successfully Scaling Virtual Care
Speakers: Maria Brown, MSN, RN, PCCN, CNL, ChristianaCare and Michelle Collins, DNP, APRN, CNS, ACNS-BC, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, LSSBB, ChristianaCare
The nursing shortage impacts patient care and care delivery and is forecasted to be a consistent threat to the industry until after the year 2030. Throughout the country, strategic and innovative nursing care delivery models are being developed, piloted, and implemented to achieve high quality care that patients deserve while reducing the burden on clinical nurses. The implementation of a Virtual Acute Care Nurse (VACN) model has improved nursing workflow and satisfaction, patient experience, and other organizational outcomes. The VACN model allows experienced nurses to work in innovative ways, by using a bedside tablet with bidirectional communication capabilities. Beginning in July 2022, ChristianaCare created a roadmap to success by piloting VACNs to care for 50 medical and surgical patients, Monday through Friday, from 0700-1900. By June 2023, ChristianaCare had expanded this new technology and innovative care delivery model to impact over 500 patients, Monday through Friday, from 0700-1900 with further goals for scaling within the next year.
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Access and Equity
Is AI Helping or Hurting Health Equity? Yes, Let’s Discuss.
Speaker: Erin Sparnon, Senior Engineering Manager, Device Evaluation, ECRI
Purpose: This presentation serves as an introduction to health equity issues framed in examples relevant
to healthcare and patient care, intended to inspire attendees to care, provide links for further research, as
well as give a handful of concrete recommendations they can take home and do in their day jobs. It’s
intended for people new to the topic of health equity and new to AI/ML.
Summary: AI- and ML-enabled technologies are only as smart as the training and validation data they’re
built upon and the experience and internal biases of the researchers developing them. Historically, many
clinical care algorithms and decision tools included race as a determinant or as a factor to be “corrected
for”, often based on junk science, and often guiding decisions in ways that directed more attention and
resources to white patients. Unsurprisingly, AI algorithms developed and trained on biased care reflect
these biases in their results. But we’re getting better at questioning the science behind historical clinical
care algorithms and harnessing AI and ML-enabled tools to identify and mitigate health inequities and
disparities. We’re starting to know better, and it’s time to do better.
Breakout Sessions | Patient-Centered Care
Reviving the Code Narrator: Enhancing Patient Safety Through Streamlined Documentation
Speakers: Eric Jones, Stew Roberts, Lori Benedetti & Keith Brigley
Breakout Sessions | Future of Healthcare
The Future Of Healthcare Is Right Now And We Must Embrace It Urgently
Speakers: Rohan Kulkarni, Practice Leader Healthcare and Life Sciences, HFS Research
The planet and its human population are facing polymathic challenges, be it war, climate change, prevalence of disease, or more. Consequently, there is an unprecedented opportunity to address both health and care. To do so, we must better understand the challenges so we can optimize the opportunities and deliver sustainable results.
Let us begin by identifying specific challenges that need to be prioritized. The 21st century has brought both critical challenges but also options to address those challenges.
So let us begin to explore our options to address these challenges.
Lunch and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Technology and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
Balancing Health IT Innovation, Information Blocking & Patient Privacy
Speakers: Helen Oscislawski, Esq.
As the healthcare industry marches rapidly forward to allowing more ‘open’ APIs with EMRs, custodians of PHI will lose even more control over who is gaining access to confidential patient data and where it is going. While privacy laws and security frameworks continue to offer guardrails to try and prevent misuse and breaches of health information, the cold, hard truth is that its increased prevalence in an electronic medium and being shared more openly and easily makes it inherently more vulnerable. Hacking incidents may result in sensitive information of individuals being obtained by the hacker and potentially ‘sold’ to other third parties. Breaches caused by use of online tracking technologies have led to patients’ individually identifiable data being ‘scraped’ up and shared with or even sold to third parties like Google and Meta. Finally, the impact of ChatGPT and how such AI will impact and even disrupt healthcare and privacy even further is just beginning.
A “share-don’t share” dichotomy has arisen with privacy law and health data. On the one hand, federal laws, such as HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, and state laws continue to require health care providers to maintain the confidentiality of health information and under many circumstances continue to not permit it to be shared with third parties without the prior written consent of the patient. On the other hand, the CURES Act, Information Blocking Rule and Interoperability Rules make it impermissible to “interfere with” the sharing of health data and can result in monetary penalties and other enforcement for violations.
This session will delve into how relevant privacy laws impact Health IT and health information sharing, and touch on “best practices” for common data sharing use cases. Attendees will have a better understanding of:
Privacy Laws & Confidentiality:
Required Information Sharing:
Use Cases:
Mobile Apps:
Can we use ChatGPT? Creating Privacy Policies, Terms of Use, and HIPAA considerations.
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Access and Equity
Community Outreach – Helping Those Who Help Others
Speaker: Lori Yackanicz, Vice President – Knowledge Management – Technology Division, Lehigh Valley Health System
Lehigh Valley Health Network was recently awarded a grant to provide analytics to help community partners with the development/expansion of community programs. The Pool Center for Health Analytics was formed to provide analytics tools for community leaders to use. The Strategic Vision for this initiative includes the following:
Breakout Sessions | Patient-Centered Care
Implementing Sex, Gender and Names Functionality in an EMR
Speakers: Dawna Benanchietti, Joesph Pettit and Claire Walton
Breakout Sessions |Future of Healthcare
The Promise and Pitfalls of Virtual Reality Training
Speakers: Carol Okupniak, DNP, RN, BC-NI, Director of Simulation at the Center for Advanced Education, Simulation, and Innovation (CAESI), Thomas Jefferson University
Virtual Reality (VR) has seen increasing interest in education and healthcare to simulate medical procedures and generate realistic patients. Integrating VR into the training of nurses is becoming more popular with a litany of commercial products available, or one can create custom-made VR productions to meet specific program objectives. Thomas Jefferson University’s Jefferson College of Nursing (JCN) prepares tomorrow’s nursing workforce. Merging VR into JCN’s well-established nursing simulation program was a logical alliance. Simulation principles can easily be adapted to VR. Real-life settings created for healthcare simulation can be recreated for VR virtual worlds. Filming a scenario using a 360-degree camera and viewing that film using a VR head-mounted display (HMD) creates an observational simulation for the learner. VR can also use live-action film with augmented reality overlays, making a 360-degree video interactive. By embedding objects or computer-generated images into a video or computer-generated image (CGI), objects can be manipulated with hand-held controllers or the participant’s hands during the simulation. Completely computer-generated VR is improving in realism and expanding its offering in all areas of healthcare education.
Jefferson College of Nursing acquired 50 Oculus Quest 2 head-mounted displays to kickstart a VR program for nursing education. An Insta Titan 360-degree camera was acquired to film high-definition video. The In the United States, incidents of mass casualty shootings have increased. The Gun Violence archives (GVA) reported a record 690 mass casualty shootings in 2021 and 647 in 2022. A mass casualty shooting is defined by the GVA as an incident that results in the shooting or death or 4 or more individuals not including the shooter(s). A mass casualty shooting can be considered a high-risk low- frequency event. After the Pulse Nightclub shooting it was determined that mass casualty events require extensive hospital resources, and recommends that all hospitals institute a plan to respond to these events. In this study, JCN created a series of 360 high-definition virtual reality videos for learners to observe a hospital’s response to a mass casualty shooting. A research study was conducted to determine if VR can improve knowledge acquisition of concepts related to a hospital’s response to a mass casualty disaster using a pretest/posttest strategy. Scores from these tests were compared to student satisfaction scores from a survey, the Simulation Effectiveness Tool – Modified (SET-M). The study was conducted with 97 nursing students over one semester in the student’s Population Health course. Data was collected over six days at the end of each simulation. Data analysis was completed during the following semester.
Mini Break
Breakout Sessions | Technology and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
Prior Authorization for Burden Reduction CMS Regulation – Payer Provider Collaboration
Speakers: Rakesh Mathew & Dinil Devassey
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Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Access and Equity
Addressing SDOH Using an Innovative Data Strategy, AI and Machine Learning
Speakers: Ishani Ved, Director Transformational Population Health and Outcomes, Saint Peter’s University Hospital
A stand-alone 400 bed teaching hospital, driven by the Catholic ministry serves to address the social determinants of health in its most vulnerable patient population. 60% of the health outcomes of individuals are attributable to social and environmental factors, and individual behavior compared to 10% which is attributed to healthcare interventions. The main problem is being able to screen and help patients with limited time and resources. Due to high volume in the adult clinic, screeners are unable tosee every patient between clinical workup and provider intervention, so a tool was needed to better risk stratify these patients, to prioritize those who needed social services the most. The tool, called Jvion Individual level insights is powered by datasets from the US Census Bureau, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Housing and Urban Development, the EPA, CDC and National Provider Identifier.
The hospital screened 2400 individuals in 12 months using the PRAPARE screening tool in the outpatient EMR to better identify those that would benefit from connecting with local social support organizations. In addition, the organization partnered with an AI driven tool that leverages large publicly available datasets in order to risk stratify patients in to high and medium risk categories, who may benefit from further screening and intervention with social support services. The organization also may benefit from further screening and intervention with social support services. The organization also leveraged other IT solutions to help this population including Roundtrip and Uber Health, to facilitate patient transportation, used ride data to advocate for augmentation of county transportation services. Simultaneously decision support helped identify areas of focus to reduce the percentage of individuals who select “other” or declined to answer race and ethnicity questions at registration. Getting clean, digestible data by 2024 has been a key driver in our population health strategy. The large dataset generated also gives administration a bird’s eye view of issues faced by the population that can be focused on for future improvements. CMS is also working towards changing reimbursement of hospitals based on identified social determinants of health, using z-codes. We hope to be ahead of the curve by the time that policy change occurs.
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Breakout Sessions | Patient-Centered Care
Implementation of a HIPAA Compliant Messaging Service for Clinicians and Non-Clinicians
Speakers: Meaghan Harper
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Breakout Sessions | Future of Healthcare
Speakers:Katherine A. Collard, MS, RN-BC, NP (NYS), Chief Nursing Information Officer Information Technology, ChristianaCare
Break and Networking
Keynote Session
Reception and Networking
Registration
Breakfast and Networking
CNIO RoundTable
Panelists:
Katherine A. Collard, MS, RN-BC, NP (NYS), Chief Nursing Information Officer Information Technology, ChristianaCare
Elizabeth (Betty) Craig, DNP, RN, FACHE, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Main Line Health
Marianne Everett, AVP IT Enterprise Clinicals & CNIO, Virtua Health
Mary Jo Louglin, Chief Nursing Officer & Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services, Hunterdon Health
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