2023-10-17 8:00:00
Golf
Registration
Networking Reception
Registration
Breakfast and Networking
Opening Remarks & Keynote Presentation
Speaker: Dr. Liz Kwo, Chief Commercial Officer, Everly Health; Physician, Cambridge Health Alliance Hospital; faculty lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Mini Break
CISO Panel
What to expect!
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare technology, cybersecurity remains a critical concern. This panel brings together leading Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from top healthcare organizations to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and strategies in protecting sensitive patient data and maintaining the integrity of healthcare systems.
We will cover:
Moderator: Charles Aunger, CEO, HEAL Security
Panelists:
Break and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Analytics & Interoperability: using data to empower our clinicians and patients
The New Frontier of Clinical Transformation: Enhancing Care through Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Presented by: RWJ Barnabas Health (RWJBH) and Montefiore Health System (Montefiore)
RWJ Barnabas Health (RWJBH) and Montefiore Health System (Montefiore) are leveraging AI and Machine Learning (ML) to provide next generation decision support capabilities to tackle key care delivery challenges. In our presentation, moderated by Digital Health Strategies LLC, RWJBH’s Regional VP of Informatics and Montefiore’s Director of Informatics and Data Analytics share their journey and several examples of how they are optimizing care delivery with AI and ML.
With $100M in R&D grants, Montefiore has developed and deployed AI apps, ML models and LLMs (Large Language Models) across the health system for over a decade. Over a dozen ML models, integrated within Montefiore’s EHR, have already been implemented providing predictive decision support to clinicians in real-time and at the point of care. With a system-wide focus, Montefiore also leverages LLMs to ease documentation burden while improving operational workflows such as automated chart abstraction, clinical trials matching and PHI de-identification. With industry leading results, MHS is now pursuing commercialization opportunities for its IP.
RWJBH is a high reliability organization focused on patient safety by leveraging ML and AI in different aspects of clinical care. RWJBH’s focus on early identification of clinical deterioration, sepsis and reduction of hospital acquired infections highlight that 2 key ML and digital health tools can drive improved patient outcomes. RWJBH also recognized that clinician burdens affect patient safety and experience. Initiatives leveraging clinical documentation through ambient AI tools and coding support round out the holistic approach to implementing ML and AI tools for optimized clinical clinical care.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Policy & Regulatory: translating process and governance into to practice
Lessons learned after year 2 SAFER guide attestation
After attending this session, attendees will have a better understanding of the effort and resources required to comply with CMS’s SAFER Guide attestation requirement for a large, multi-hospital health system. This session will help leaders plan and recognize the importance of having explicit and transparent cost-benefit scorecards with future health informatics policy legislation and regulations.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Beyond Hospital Walls: innovations to expand the care horizon
Virtual Checkout: Enhancing Patient Discharge with Telehealth Innovations
Presented by: Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health’s “Virtual Checkout” program revolutionizes patient discharge by leveraging telehealth technologies. In our state-of-the-art 19-story advanced outpatient facility, patients experience seamless, personalized, and equitable care. Through virtual checkout, patients receive discharge instructions, schedule follow-up appointments, and ask questions—all from the privacy of their exam room. This approach eliminates the need for in-person interactions at the front desk, significantly reducing wait times and enhancing patient satisfaction. We have done over 30,000 virtual check outs and are now doing 600 per day. Our data shows an average wait time of 20 seconds to connect with a virtual agent and a call duration of 2 minutes and 26 seconds.
There have been meaningful improvements in time to scheduling appointments, and improvements in multiple care coordination Jefferson Health ambulatory and urgent care locations, offering a more efficient and patient-centered discharge process.
Speakers:
Break and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Analytics & Interoperability: using data to empower our clinicians and patients
Predictive Model for Early Sepsis Detection Integrated with Clinical Workflow
Presented by: Virtua Health
The objective of this project was to develop and integrate a machine-learning model into the clinical workflow for early sepsis detection before the sepsis hour zero so that the sepsis compliance bundle is initiated. The target audience is clinicians who can intervene early based on the generated alerts to start the sepsis protocol. The innovation lies in the systematic design and deployment of the model, which utilizes gradient-boosting trees for prediction and SHAP values for interpretability. This integrated approach not only enhances early sepsis detection but also minimizes alert fatigue, thereby optimizing clinical decision-making and patient care.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Policy & Regulatory: translating process and governance into to practice
Presented By: Lehigh Valley Health
Consent to Treat Strategic Measure
Networkwide consent to treat strategic initiative was to eliminate paperwork across specialties eliminating use of Topaz devices and enabling providers and patients to sign documents anytime anywhere. Specialties ranging from Family Practice, Rehabs, Telehealth, Narcotics, In Patient, 0BGYN, NICU, Remote Patient Monitoring, Interpreter services and much more resulting in great savings in resource time and money facilitating improved workflows, electronic storage and retrieval of consents, mitigating room for any legal issues with loss in paper consents.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Beyond Hospital Walls: innovations to expand the care horizon
Presented By: Atlantic Health
Extending Care Beyond Boundaries: Advancing Healthcare Delivery through Remote Patient Monitoring
At AHS we have successfully implemented a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program that extends patient care beyond traditional hospital settings. This program leverages cutting-edge technologies to provide comprehensive medical treatment at home, enhancing patient outcomes, improving quality of life, and reducing healthcare costs. Our RPM initiatives are particularly impactful in managing chronic diseases, maternity care, and diabetes management. Through telehealth, remote monitoring devices, and personalized care plans, we have facilitated continuous health monitoring, timely interventions, and personalized care, significantly advancing healthcare delivery while reducing clinician’s burden.
Speakers:
Lunch and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Analytics & Interoperability: using data to empower our clinicians and patients
Empowering Clinicians to Combat Burnout: Streamline EHR Workflows and Eliminate Unnecessary Tasks
Presented By: Hackensack Meridian Health
Clinician burnout, fueled by excessive EHR administrative tasks, negatively impacts patient care and satisfaction. A structured program for clinician feedback on EHR optimization is proposed to address this. Inspired by Hawaii Pacific Health’s “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff” initiative, this program utilizes Google Suite tools to collect and evaluate feedback through surveys and rounding sessions. The team implemented a robotic process automation to reduce 40 hours per month of data collection and analysis work needed to identify KPIs from the nursing efficiency and assessment tool. This tool helps us to guide our rounding, identify areas for intervention, and monitor improvements. A review committee was created to prioritize suggestions based on impact, feasibility, and burnout reduction potential. By implementing these changes, the program aims to reduce administrative burden, improve satisfaction, and ultimately enhance patient care. This initiative represents a proactive step towards addressing clinician burnout and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the healthcare system.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Policy & Regulatory: translating process and governance into to practice
Sharing Health Information Under the NEW 42 CFR Part 2 Rules!
The session will educate the audience on the NEW Final Rule modifying the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records Rule (referred to often as “Part 2”) and offer practical use case examples to illustrate how these new changes can be used to allow Part 2 data to be shared in ways that were not possible before. Topics to be covered include: a new TPO consent; a new Intermediary consent; Qualified Service Organizations (QSOs) and overlap with HIPAA Business Associates; new obligations for “Lawful Holders” of Part 2 information; new breach reporting obligations; new changes to the Part 2 Privacy Notice; new enforcement levers, and much more!
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Beyond Hospital Walls: innovations to expand the care horizon
Remote Monitoring to Address Disparities and Post Partum Readmission and Improving Cardiac Health overall for High-Risk Patients by Reducing Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia.
Presented By: Main Line Health
Remote Blood Pressure monitoring programs have been well-studied and have shown promising improvements in maternal health outcomes. Main Line Health recognizes the need to address readmission rates and adverse outcomes, reduce racial disparities in postpartum monitoring, improve patient adherence to recommendations and provide opportunities to support and engage patients and clinicians with educational resources to reduce cardiovascular events. The multidisciplinary team at MLH included IT Analysts, Cardiology and Obstetrics Specialists to design, build, implement, and optimize a program using current EMR tools without additional costs to the health system or patient. Our local city hospitals benefit from the grants awarded to them for similar third-party vendor programs. Main Line Health has a proven success rate with the remote monitoring program going beyond hospital walls. We are meeting The Amercian College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) standards for
metrics, and we are making patients active participants in their care by having them collect their own blood pressure readings and communicating with their providers electronically.
Speakers:
Break and Networking
Breakout Sessions | Healthcare Analytics & Interoperability: using data to empower our clinicians and patients
Empowering Nursing Care Through Informatics with Data-Driven Innovation
Presented By: CHOP
Data and dashboards are part of everyday life for healthcare leaders and providers. They provide information regarding hospital operations, patients, staffing, performance, etc. Dashboards are often focused on a singular topic, and users are usually required to view multiple dashboards to get a complete picture. Dashboard updates may occur at various times, preventing data from syncing. A lack of standardized dashboard design can cause cognitive burden and usability challenges for users viewing different dashboards. Many key data elements, such as nursing disciplinary data (education, certifications, initial licensure), may be missing, providing an incomplete picture of the workforce. Several critical nursing-specific metrics, like how much nursing care a patient will need, are not well-measured and are challenging to display. Often, users have not had training to use a data platform efficiently and may lack the analytic literacy to effectively leverage the data they are viewing. This presentation will describe the
collaborative efforts behind an enterprise nursing platform project that pulls clinical, workforce, patient and family, and clinician satisfaction data to support nursing operations management and inform nursing practice, driving excellent patient outcomes.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Policy & Regulatory: translating process and governance into to practice
Use of HIPAA-Compliant Text Messaging for Critical Lab Value Communication
Presented By: Chester County
While our lab administrators were completing a self-inspection checklist, it was realized that our process for reporting Critical lab values was not in compliance with College of American Pathologists (CAP) regulations. Critical values must be called to a licensed provider. Lab technicians were calling values to the unit coordinator, who in turn would pass the message to the patient’s nurse. Lab Administrators notified our regulatory department and began working with nursing and providers to bring us into compliance. A taskforce was set up comprising of representation from lab, nursing, providers, informatics and pharmacy. A new evidence based, closed-loop process was developed that met the CAP requirements. This process utilized HIPAA compliant text messaging functionality that already existed within the EHR, that allowed for the lab staff to send a patient specific message directly to the nurse caring for the patient, with the critical lab value.
Speakers:
Breakout Sessions | Beyond Hospital Walls: innovations to expand the care horizon
SNF at Home Versus Hospital at Home: Are They Different?
Presented By: New Jersey Innovation Institute
The presentation focuses on comparing two home care models: Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) at Home and Hospital at Home. It explored the differences between these models, successful technology solutions to improve communication and collaboration among healthcare team members, and the regulatory changes needed for future success in New Jersey. The session aims to help attendees understand the concept of “At Home” care models, the impact of regulatory and payer systems, and the technological advancements supporting these care models.
Speakers:
Keynote Session
Speaker: Malik Brown
Reception and Networking
Registration
Breakfast and Networking
Technology Leadership Panel
What to expect!
As healthcare organizations continue to adopt digital technologies to improve patient care, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiencies, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become increasingly pivotal. This panel brings together esteemed CIOs from leading healthcare institutions to discuss their experiences, challenges, and strategies for leveraging technology to drive organizational success. We will cover:
Moderator: Paul Contino, CIO, University Hospital
Panelists:
Networking Break
Keynote Session
Speaker: Kaitlan Baston
Closing Remarks and Giveaways
Copyright HIMSS © 2023