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If you’re headed to HIMSS20 in Orlando, you’re probably beginning to wonder what education sessions you should be planning to attend.
There is something for everyone when it comes to education at the conference and 2020 is yet another chance to further the conversation around healthcare’s relationship with any number of things, from blockchain to artificial intelligence systems to innovative data analytics solutions for payers and providers alike.
Sessions are broken down into categories, with each category being given an allotment of education sessions based on the popularity of topic, availability of speakers and the approval of proposed topics.
With so much to choose from, we’d be remiss if we didn’t offer a few of the ones we have our eyes on for
informatics or analytics professionals. We’ll be looking at analytics-focused sessions that anyone working in
healthcare analytics should be looking to attend.
This session will focus on efforts by the Institute for Human Caring (IHC) at Providence St. Joseph Health to create quality improvement reporting suites for clinical staff. The suites are designed to help staff examine practices which affect care planning, decision making, palliative and hospice care, and symptom management. IHC’s Executive Director of Measurement & Analytics, Nusha Safabakhsh, will portray how what is measured influences decisions and behaviors of caregivers.
It’s a well-established fact that the electronic health record holds a tremendous amount of data that could advance patient care, but do provider IT systems have the capability to interpret it into insights that can streamline operations and reduce burnout? In many cases, the answer is no due to any number of reasons, be it the cost or difficulty in doing so.
With that in mind, this session will showcase two different approaches to creating an analytics culture from two healthcare executives. The first is Stephen Morgan, CMIO of Carilion Clinic in Virginia and Stephanie Lahr, CIO & CMIO of Regional Health in South Dakota.
Most sessions at HIMSS20 will outline a success of some type and provide advice on how to mimic it. But in the case of this session, Community Health Network’s (CHNw) Chief Analytics Officer, Patrick M. McGill, will have a candid conversation about how CHNw’s analytics efforts were thwarted by varying methodologies and short-term results.
In the end, it took a systematic approach to achieve the 34.5% reduction in mortality rates for patients with sepsis prior to coming to the hospital. Aided by Neil Andersen, Senior VP of Professional Services for Health Catalyst, McGill will define a common framework for implementing improvement initiatives, describe a closed loop analytics process, outline how they assembled cross functional teams and more.
As the aging population grows, the roles of data, technology and policy in healthcare are vital to the care they will receive. In this session, Beth Connor from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be joined by Elizabeth Palena-Hall, LTPAC Coordinator for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the National Coordinator, for a chat about how to support cross-sector coordination and facilitate information exchange that supports caring for high-risk patients with chronic conditions in a value-based model.
There are a ton of data tools out there that can help someone analyzing data to comb through it and retrieve useful information, but adoption of these tools in medicine occurs at a lower rate than other industries.
This session will look at the establishment of a data-driven culture that helped clinicians adopt a system that reduced 30-day readmissions. Attendees will learn to identify opportunities and challenges in clinicians’ adoption of data science, and implement strategies for the successful promotion of advanced analytics and prescriptive analytics aimed at quality improvement.
Information technology and payment reform programs have been focused on social determinants of health (SDoH), as well as state and federal policy related to healthcare, in a widespread effort to address socioeconomic factors in healthcare delivery. SDoH data, however, has been difficult to document and share due to a lack of standards, something the ONC has been working to correct.
This session will focus on the Gravity Project, an initiative of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project, and how it has been able to engage stakeholders in establishing a core data set needed for interoperability.
Led by Jennifer Polello, Director of Clinical Data Integration & Social Determinants of Health for Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW), this session will focus on how CHPW’s network of providers have been sharing claims-based and EHR data through a shared analytics platform since 2011.
This allowed them to move toward a value-based payment model, and develop risk documentation and quality support, but has also enabled them to use SDoH data to deploy community resources. Attendees will come to understand how SDoH impacts clinical outcomes and learn how to overcome obstacles to capturing SDoH data for providers.
Dr. John Tollerson, CMIO of Kalispell Regional Healthcare, leads this session to reveal how Kalispell has been using analytics to alter their approach to care and improve clinical outcomes. Measurements they have prioritized include emergency room bounce back rates, for example. Attendees will see how they evaluated the value of analytics efforts, adapted workflows and documentation processes and created a working environment that is collaborative.
