As the leaders of hospitals, medical groups and health systems peer forward into the future, they are finding that long-existing and newer strategic health IT challenges are everywhere, and posing obstacles to optimized operations—and finances. IT governance and project prioritization are becoming more important than ever, as the need to fund, resource, and staff imperative health IT initiatives is complicating the path forward. In this session, attendees will find out what some of the very top issues are right now, and how the leaders of the pioneering patient care organizations are addressing them going forward.

Grab a snack or two out in the foyer, refresh your beverage, and network with your fellow conference attendees and solution provider partners. Exchange meetings will also be conducted during this 30 minute break. 

This interactive session gives all attendees the opportunity to ask questions and talk openly about their challenges and potential solutions around key areas of focus for healthcare leaders. The audience will be assigned groups based on data collected at registration and at scheduled intervals attendees will move to other topic tables for a brand new discussion.

Even as the need to dramatically improve the management and manipulation of data has become more vital than ever, so too have the challenges and obstacles been piling up for healthcare leaders. One organization, a collaborative of provider organizations, is taking a new approach. Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland speaks with Jennifer Brown, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel at Graphite Health, to discuss some of the most complex challenges facing data leaders in healthcare, and the new approaches being trained on those approaches.

The Velatura Public Benefit Corporation (Velatura) represents a highly experienced team of nationally recognized Health Information Technology (HIT) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) experts and senior consultants. Velatura is an industry leader in providing HIT and HIE consulting, development, implementation, and operations services in states across the nation.  Velatura extends the Michigan Health Information Network’s (MiHIN) nationally recognized modular and scalable interoperability products and services for access and use outside of Michigan. 

In this session, Tim Pletcher, Velatura’s CEO, will share his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of health information exchange going forward, and where he sees Velatura’s place in the evolving landscape of HIE.

Rishi Sud, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer of Esse Health, a 200-provider multispecialty medical group based in St. Louis. He and his colleagues at Esse Health have achieved sustained success in the accountable care organization (ACO) and Medicare Advantage (MA) worlds. Hear him share his organization’s success story, and his perspectives on where the U.S. healthcare system must go, going into the future.
 

Grab a snack or two out in the foyer, refresh your beverage, and network with your fellow conference attendees and solution provider partners. Exchange meetings will also be conducted during this 30 minute break. 

Mark Hoffman, Ph.D., Chief Research Information Officer at Children’s Mercy Health in Kansas City, will share his perspectives on the research initiatives he’s helping to lead that are incorporating health equity principles into their very design, and will share his perspectives on ways in which patient care organization leaders can incorporate health equity principles into both applied and academic research.

Where is the U.S. healthcare system right now in terms of advanced analytics and emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)? Observers note that the notion held by some in the industry early on, that AI algorithms would very quickly be developed at scale and implemented very broadly across the entire healthcare system, has not played out as such; instead, individual leaders are leading forward advanced analytics work, and implementing algorithms one at a time, and collaboratively, with clinicians and other on-the-ground stakeholders. Find out what the pioneers in this area are learning as they move forward.                
 

The emergence of work around the social determinants of Health (“SDOH”) has advanced very rapidly in just a few short years, as the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide begin to create the architectures necessary to determine the SDOH-related needs of their patients, and collaborate with health plans and with community service organizations to improve the health status of patients in lasting, deep ways unavailable in purely clinical settings. Hear from industry leaders on the challenges and opportunities in this exciting area, and what’s being learned about how to create connections that really work.