As an anchor institution, University Hospitals is in a unique position to influence population health and advance economic opportunities for its communities. UH is now building on its 156-year legacy of caring for Northeast Ohioans by implementing an innovative Community Health Investment strategy that allocates resources where needs are greatest. This new community benefit strategy emphasizes focus in three areas:

• Anchor & Social Venture Investment
• Regional Community Health Investments
• Social Service Investment

Come learn how one organization is acting on its pledge to enhance partnerships with its community, better promote health equity and wellness, and maximize health care value.

Malware continues to be a major problem and the problem is only getting worse. It is one of the top 3 problems for companies, still organizations are not confident in their ability stopping an attack. Not only is malware a top concern for CISO’s it it has became a global problem and a major source of income for organized hacking groups. 
Key takeaways include: 
•    The impacts of Malware and Ransomware
•    Why Malware remains a top security concern
•    How organizations are responding to ransomware
•    Ways threat actors get into your organization and how to stop them

Even as leaders at the most pioneering patient care organizations are moving quickly into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other advanced analytics strategies, there remains much confusion over which strategies—and technologies—are valuable, and which aren’t. Find out from a panel of experts what’s working and what’s not—and where data analytics is really headed in the next few years.

In this session, Judith Welsh, M.D., Associate Chief Experience Officer at Cleveland Clinic, will share with the audience the story of how she and her colleagues have been evolving forward their approach to optimizing the patient experience by starting with how clinicians approach issues in their workflow, and the operational issues that she and her team have been working to resolve, to provide for a friction-less patient experience across the length and breadth of their integrated health system.
 

The devastation from the global COVID-19 pandemic may thankfully be waning, but the lessons health systems learned from two years of keeping patients safe are likely to have a profound impact on the way we deliver health care in decades to come. No evolution, perhaps, is more promising than the rapid growth of home-based care models, which deliver first-rate care to patients in the comfort of their own living rooms while increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and removing many of the inconveniences and hurdles long associated with a trip to the doctor's office. In this lively and informative presentation, Rachit Thariani, chief administrative officer for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Post-Acute and Home-Based Care Division, joins Healthcare Innovation Editor-in-Chief Mark Haglund to share more about this health system transformation trend.

The session that will be talked about for month’s after the Midwest Summit concludes. Do not miss the Ask the Experts interactive networking session. Have your questions answered and help attendees tackle their greatest challenges. 

At a time when cyber threats against patient care organizations are intensifying, where should healthcare IT security leaders place their bets—and their resources—when it comes to investing in protective technologies and strategies? In this panel, respected cybersecurity leaders will help audience members sort through the noise and the hype

The final hour of Day 1 at the Healthcare Innovation Summits will feature 4 dedicated focus group style workshops taking place. Each workshop will explore unique content created by the HI editorial team. The Summit audience will be split up into 2 groups and every 15 minutes the groups will move to the next workshop.

As the organized cybercrime ecosystem continues to evolve, the combination of motive, means, and opportunity—plus easy access to already-developed tools to execute attacks—has led cybercriminals to relentlessly target HDOs. This has resulted in an ever-increasing volume of attacks and a range of costly consequences, including the disruption of critical patient care.
In the event of a security breach, you need an Incident Response (IR) partner that can react with industry-leading speed and efficacy. Without the support of 24/7 data backups and a team of IR experts, healthcare institutions are likely to pay the extortion or ransomware demands to avoid massive operational disruption.
Join eSentire’s John Irvine, VP, Digital Forensics for a discussion on the most common attack vectors for healthcare, the importance of adopting a risk-based approach towards cybersecurity, and how eSentire brings rapid control and stability to your organization when a breach occurs.
 

Pioneering patient care organizations are moving ahead to develop strategies to integrate the social determinants of health (SDOH) into their population health management initiatives. A panel of experts will discuss the complexities, challenges, and opportunities in moving forward in this leading-edge area of activity.

Patrick McGill, M.D., the Chief Transformation Officer at the seven-hospital Community Health Network, based in Indianapolis, has been helping to lead his colleagues on a highly successful journey into value-based care delivery and contracting, succeeding in the rigorous Next Generation ACO program (now transitioned to the Medicare Shared Savings Program), and in several major value-based contracts with private payers, all of them involving two-sided risk. What’s Community Health Network’s secret of success? Dr. McGill will share his perspectives on what he and his colleagues have learned so far on what the critical success factors are in this absolutely key area of activity in U.S. healthcare.

What does it mean to create community-wide partnerships to enhance the health of entire communities? Leaders in Cleveland are evolving forward just one such partnership, the Cleveland Innovation District. The Cleveland Innovation District involves partnership between and among JobsOhio, the Ohio Department of Development, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, The MetroHealth System, Case Western Reserve University, and Cleveland State University, encompassing work that is creating a center of excellence that acts as a catalyst for ongoing investment in Northeast Ohio, including attracting and creating new businesses and talent needed to ensure the state is a leader in the healthcare and IT sectors. Included in that work are increases in investment in biomedical research with commercial promise; the creation of new research, education, IT, and supply chain jobs; targeted increases in enrollment in STEM education; and the development of technologies to enhance support for cancer research. 

Join panelists Michael Goldberg, Executive Director, Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University; James Merlino, M.D., Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Cleveland Clinic; Joanne Belovich, Ph.D., Professor, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland State University; Brook Watts, MD, Senior Vice President – Chief Quality and Safety Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Community and Public Health at The MetroHealth System; and David Sylvan, President,  University Hospitals Ventures, for this important discussion.

Health IT infrastructure is constantly changing as IT staff build and deploy new health systems. While end-users may not always notice when their devices are running smoother or connecting faster, they will notice when things aren’t working the way they’re meant to.  This session will reveal trends and their meaning, as well as explain how healthcare facilities should use their computing infrastructure more efficiently. This session will describe how to reduce costs while delivering a superior experience to administrative staff and clinicians alike. 

While predictive analytics holds the promise of transforming both clinical care and healthcare operations, achieving a successful outcome is not always guaranteed. Whether installing third-party models or developing your own algorithms, deployment of these tools requires careful and deliberate integration into existing workflows. Learn how a leading children’s hospital developed and implemented cutting-edge predictive models to successfully improve patient safety, care coordination and clinical outcomes.

At a time of extreme pressure and stress for practicing physicians, one of the key areas of focus around the topic of EHR optimization has become the overall effort to avert physician burnout. Among the issues involved:

• First of all, what is physician burnout, in the context of EHR use? What do we know about its causes, and sources of relief?
• What are the key areas in which EHRs can be optimized in the physician workflow, but which still require ongoing effort and strategy?
• What are the leading-edge organizations doing in this area?
• What are the biggest challenges to EHR optimization to improve workflow and ease physician burnout?
• What are the biggest lessons learned so far in this area?
• What does this journey into EHR optimization look like, healthcare system-wide, in the next few years?