The electronic health record has become a critical part of the patient, provider, and data care triad.  However, the aspirations of advocates for the advancement of the EHR have led to an unwieldy and, more often than not, disappointing present state. This talk will discuss the rationale for and trajectory of the evolving partnership between patients, providers, and data, describe factors contributing to the current state of electronic health records and provide some predictions about the future direction of electronic health records.

 

 

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has developed a voice user interface prototype for the electronic health record (EHR). This interaction modality allows caregivers to naturally interact with the EHR through speech and easily surface information needed for patient care. Using artificial intelligence and natural language processing, the Vanderbilt EHR Voice Assistant (V-EVA) accepts voice request inputs, translates voice into text and then uses the natural language understanding engine to map the text to intents and synthesize results. V-EVA returns results to the user as voice replies, textual information and graphical data representations. These design principles support the busy caregiver workflow and decrease the EHR burden on providers.

 

Join your fellow attendees to discuss what you've learned in the morning sessions and make new connections.

 

 

John Bass joins our editor-in-chief, Mark Hagland to talk about the use of the blockchain in healthcare and how it will drive innovation, now, and in the future. John is CEO of Hashed Health, a healthcare blockchain innovation firm focused on building the new digital infrastructure for healthcare. John has over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology with expertise in shared operating systems that build trust, transparency, and incentives across health networks.
 

 

Have you wanted to create consistent patient and plan member consumer experiences? Or provide opportunities to lower the cost of care? A digital health strategy is will answer your needs. At the heart of a digital health strategy is data trusted, secure data that can be accessed by everyone in the organization. To reach this level of maturity, organizations are starting to leverage governance to foster and deliver trusted data to their line of business data consumers.

 

 

Hyper-convergence is a oft-used buzzword now within health IT circles, especially as the advent of new technologies around flexible infrastructure continue to disrupt the marketplace. However, hyper-converged computing represents a unique area of opportunity for healthcare IT teams, especially in the face of demands from leadership for greater flexibility, and lower time-to-market for new built or merged facilities or locations. So what exactly is hyper-convergence and how does it fit into the IT roadmap?

 

 

The information services (IS) team at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UI Health) was challenged by the executive team to improve customer service, to incorporate service delivery standardization, to simplify processes, to improve transparency, and to implement best practice ITIL workflows. Accepting the challenge from the Executive Team, over the course of many months the IS department embarked on a process to completely overhaul the service delivery program. During the course of this program, we struggled with how to change the IS department culture from an old “help desk” paradigm to an integrated, service-oriented culture. We found that we needed to do a complete process re-design, embracing transparency, implementing best practice workflows, and overall simplifying and standardizing. During this program implementation, the group worked to overcome many preconceived notions by the department, including a mindset of “this is how we’ve always done it.".

 

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The signs of disruption in the healthcare industry are everywhere: Massive mergers. Major employers test driving new data-driven employee-based population health and preventive care programs. A major online retailer acquiring a pharmacy benefits administrator.

 

It’s an exciting and transformational time for the healthcare market. Patients can benefit from better information about health choices. Physicians can be more confident about treatment plans with greater visibility into outcomes. Even the potential to realize the promise of personalized medicine and targeted therapies without risking patient privacy.

 

Faced with all of the challenges and complexities of today’s healthcare environment, how can you accomplish your mission?

 

One theme is clear: Data is the future of healthcare. During this session, I’ll help you understand:

 

 

• Provide an overview of the key findings and insights from the HIMSS Analytics Patient Experience Study
• Understand the technology strategies providers are using to improve the patient experience and drive improved patient satisfaction
• Share disparities between the reality of the patient experience and the provider perception of care

 

This panel discussion will focus on ways healthcare organizations can reduce their overall IT spend and still deliver best in class solutions to their end users.

 

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Join Rudy Hausler, Information Security Manager at Siskin Hospital for Rehabilitation for a deep dive discussion on a very unique and innovative password security project that resulted in a better-protected organization and an increase in cybersecurity awareness throughout his organization. This project is a perfect example of how Siskin innovated with tools they had to improve their cyber risk posture. 

 

 

Join your fellow attendees at the end of the day to toast what you've learned and the new connections you've made.

 

 

Join Erin Holt Coyne, the Tennessee Department of Health Chief Public Informatics Officer for a discussion with Mark Hagland, editor-in-chief, of Healthcare Innovation, to learn how the Department of Health is working with healthcare providers across the state to increase data exchange and create healthier populations. Discussion topics include:

 

 

 

When disaster strikes and families are relocated to shelters in their community or even further afield, prescription refills and other healthcare needs become more challenging. The Sequoia Project is leading the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE), a nationwide health IT disaster response platform that can be deployed at the city, county or state level to authenticate disaster healthcare volunteer providers. It was conceived by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) following experiences in Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. Well-meaning physicians and providers flocked to shelters to help, but the shelters could not confirm medical credentials of the volunteers, and the volunteers could not access evacuee health records. Learn how your community can leverage health IT and existing connectivity in your disaster planning.

 

 

Creating a data-driven culture of continuous improvement requires more than a string of buzzwords. Mission Health has successfully embedded this culture across both clinical and operational teams, leading to dramatic improvements in patient outcomes and more efficient hospital and clinic operations.  This presentation will walk attendees through Mission’s journey to instill continuous improvement through analytics.

 

Thanks to advancements in technology, Artificial Intelligence is enabling enterprises to drive innovation, efficiency, customer experience and productivity, while fundamentally transforming the nature of human work. Now that we have access to this technology, we need to shift the burden of monotonous tasks and free humans from the button Olympics they are used to performing. Join Sean Lane, CEO of Olive, as he discusses taking the robot out of the human and building a digital workforce to bring down administrative costs in healthcare.

 

 

Healthcare is no place for slackers. It’s a fast-paced industry that ups the game every chance it gets. And that’s for good reason, of course, because when you’re in the business of saving lives, you expect a lot of yourself and everyone around you. Now it’s time to expect more from your healthcare informatics solutions. To make sure they’re intelligent and interoperable, intuitive and extensible, sound and secure, and more.

 

Healthcare informatics hold great promise for helping us deliver on many of healthcare’s boldest aspirations -- advanced analytics, decision support, streamlined workflows, seamless care, and most importantly, improved outcomes. But too often, we settle for far less than the full value these innovative solutions can provide. During this session, Paula Cobb will explore ways to put powerfully productive healthcare informatics to work for you.

 

 

Renowned Healthcare Innovation and KLAS Enterprises (KLAS) have partnered to bring exclusive education sessions to the Midwest Health IT Summit. Join Mitch Josephson, VP Arch Collaborative at KLAS for in-depth discussion on KLAS' research work on acute and ambulatory EMR usability coming out of the KLAS Arch Collaborative. Mitch will provide findings from KLAS' recent research and participate on an in-depth panel discussion on EMR usability. Attendees will also receive a summary report detailing recent findings of the Collaborative.

 

 

EMR usability as well as the efficiencies of a well-built EMR are hugely important for physicians. Join our panelists to discuss how they build a culture of partnership between physician and clinician users, and IT personnel, to drive a quality EMR experience, increase EMR engagement and helping users focus on opportunities for EMR success in their organizations.

 

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