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CareScience 2002 National Conference Session Details
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| Thursday,
April 25, 2002 |
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| 8:00am-8:50am |
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Opening
Address: "The 'Clinical Vertical' of Healthcare
Comes of Age"
David
Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman & CEO, CareScience
The
healthcare industry is continuing to recognize that
there are no easy answers to the challenges of improving
decision-making, care delivery execution, and accountability
to the consumer. The failure to transform the industry
on a wholesale basis have left many with a lack of direction
and sense of achievement. However, like many near-shifts
in paradigm, industry failures have forced everyone
to return their focus to the core business of healthcare:
delivering services to sick people and preventing others
from becoming ill. In his opening address, Dr. Brailer
will explore how CareScience views these industry changes
and how the return to the clinical focus is seen as
the essential framework in the industry to achieve new
levels of quality, efficiency, safety and security.
This "clinical vertical" will define a new
approach to managing the enterprise, delivering care
to the patient, and relating trading partners to each
other.
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| 9:00am-9:50am |
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"Santa
Barbara County Care Data Exchange: Collaboratively Reaching
the Point of Care"
Moderator: Sam
Karp
CIO, California Healthcare Foundation
Panelists: Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange
Participants
Sam Karp, CIO of the California HealthCare
Foundation will provide insight as to why the foundation
formed a partnership with CareScience to create the
Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange™, a community-wide
shared information services project that includes more
than 75 percent of leading healthcare providers in Santa
Barbara County, CA. Participants of the Santa Barbara
County Care Data Exchange are developing a set of initiatives
that demonstrate and deploy Internet-based technologies,
including business rules and data standards to guarantee
the appropriate and secure sharing of patient information
throughout the county. The panel discussion will include
key project leaders from the community and will address
the following issues: the challenges and advantages
of collaborating in a competitive environment, ethical
and legal issues surrounding privacy and security with
regard to data access and data sharing, project milestones
and recommendations for replication.
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"Building
Institutional Support for Care Management: Developing
Physician and Clinical Champions"
Lawrence
Layfer, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Medicine, Rush North Shore Medical
Center, Skokie, IL
Jill
Rogers, Ph.D., R.N., C.S.
Assistant Vice President, Medical, Psychiatric and
Geriatric Patient Care Services, Rush North Shore Medical
Center, Skokie, IL
A strategy for building institution-wide
support is critical to the successful implementation
of care management within an organization. This session
will describe the steps taken by Rush North Shore Medical
Center in Skokie, IL to develop a culture that recognizes
and uses the CareScience Care Management System™ as
a core means of supporting the achievement of organizational
goals. Strategies discussed will include: physician
engagement (obtaining active support from physician
and administrative leaders); identifying and educating
key stakeholders across multiple departments; using
the Care Management System as a primary means of supporting
performance improvement initiatives across the organization;
and creating structures and processes that facilitate
a continued focus on care management initiatives.
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"Negative
Inliers: Assessing the Cost/Quality Relationship"
Tarek
Salaway , M.H.A., M.P.H., M.A.
System Director, Clinical Performance Improvement,
Providence Health System, Seattle WA
Julie
McDonald, R.N.
The Heart Institute at Providence Everett Medical Center
This session describes an innovative approach
to identifying significant operational cost savings
opportunities. A sophisticated clinical and financial
comparative analysis of Providence facilities will be
presented as a means of identifying unprofitable Medicare
cardiac discharges across a multi-state health system.
Patterns of opportunities in clinical quality and resource
utilization will be reviewed via a clinical outcome
comparisons of sub-DRG sets of Medicare patients at
Everett Providence facility. Facility-specific measurements
of cost and clinical outcomes will be discussed as a
means of determining the impact of follow-up interventions.
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| 10:00am-10:50am |
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Keynote:
"Employers and Patient Safety: The Leapfrog Initiative"
Arnie
Milstein, M.D.
Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH)
National Health Care Thought Leader, Worldwide Partner,
William M. Mercer
This
keynote session will address the newly emerging changes
in healthcare purchasing, specifically, management of
high-risk enrollees, provider network performance tiering,
clinical re-engineering and healthcare consumerism.
Dr. Milstein will also discuss how these emerging changes
will impact healthcare providers and the healthcare
system overall.
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| 11:00am-11:50am |
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"Real-Time
Information Flow Via the Clinical Information Architecture:
A CIO Report"
Brad
Block
CIO,
Doylestown Hospital
Mr.
Block will describe his organization's experience as
being one of the first organizations to use the new
CareScience Clinical Information Architecture, a communication
and integration platform that enables real-time data
updates and prospective care management. Mr. Block will
reveal from first-hand experience the challenges and
rewards of piloting this new architecture. In this session
he will address key technical and business considerations
of using the Clinical Information Architecture. Topics
discussed will include criteria considered when evaluating
rationale for the Clinical Information Architecture,
an overview of the gaps in the original batch submission
of data, a discussion of approach alternatives leading
to implementation priorities, specific integration milestones,
and expectations for future development. A case study
approach will also be presented which details the specific
steps taken to integrate into Doylestown Hospital’s
MEDITECH environment, a breakdown of resources required
to accomplish these steps, technology challenges encountered,
CareScience’s collaborative role in solving integration
complexities, and tactical and strategic benefits realized.
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"Developing
a System-Wide Data-Mining Model to Leverage Knowledge
Gained Through the Care Management System"
Phillip
Menashe, M.D., F.C.C.P.
Medical Director, Acute Care, Providence Health System,
Yakima Medical Center, WA
James
Kennedy, M.S.
Clinical Analyst, Decision Support, Providence Health
System, Central Washington Service Area
Case
Study: This session will describe an opportunity found
in a single Providence Health System facility for saving
costs for non-indicated respiratory therapy resources
and how the project was expanded to include additional
facilities across Providence Health System. The session
will include the system-wide study findings for nearly
5000 pneumonia patients which demonstrate a potential
cost savings opportunity of over $2,000,000; the lessons
learned from coordinating a cross-system study with
this degree of complexity; and achievement of cost savings
by redefining the care process. Further, risk-adjusted
outcomes associated with both indicated and non-indicated
use of Broncho-Dialator treatments will be discussed,
highlighting the strikingly significant adverse outcomes
associated with non-indicated use. This systematic approach
may be applied to an array of facility-level Care Management
System studies and used to improve patient outcomes
across the Providence Health System. The practical implications
of measuring the return on investment in the Care Management
System information technology will also be discussed.
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"Multi-Disciplinary
Team Approach for Improving Outcomes in the Tracheostomy
Population"
Case
Study: Patients falling into DRG 483 (Tracheostomy)
accounted for 15% of excess patient days in 2000 at
the Prince George's Hospital Center. This population
was identified by CareScience's Care Management System
to have significant opportunity in mortality, morbidity,
complications, and length of stay. This presentation
will describe the initial analysis and primary interventions
that were undertaken by a multi-disciplinary team to
improve the clinical and financial outcomes for this
challenging group of patients. Preliminary results,
including potential cost savings, will also be reviewed.
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| 12:30pm-1:20pm |
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Keynote: "Molding the Quality Improvement Initiative"
Kenneth
W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.
President
and CEO of The National Quality Forum
This
keynote address will identify three primary factors
that are at the root of the healthcare "quality chasm"
and describe the major forces that are driving the
quality improvement agenda. Dr. Kizer will cite examples
of changing purchaser and customer attitudes and describe
the role of the National Quality Forum in the U.S.
Healthcare System. Initiatives in quality such as
the Leapfrog Group, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative,
California’s Pay for Performance Initiative and the
Baldrige Competition will be discussed as examples
of quality improvement programs contributing to the
quality movement.
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| 1:30pm-2:20pm |
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"Legal
Issues and Solutions to Community-Wide Data Sharing"
Robb
Tretter, J.D.
General Counsel, CareScience
While the prospect of sharing clinical
data among healthcare constituents solves many operational
goals of healthcare providers and professionals, such
data sharing arrangements also bring up many legal issues.
The sharing of clincal data implicates federal and state
privacy laws, including HIPAA, as well as security regulations.
Cooperation among healthcare consitutents also leads
to other problems such as indemnification for other
participant's liabilities, coordination of privacy practices
and other legal implications. These problems can be
avoided by properly structuring the relationships among
the parties and using the proper technologies.
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"Patient-Centric
Information Redefined: Access Beyond the Enterprise"
Moderators:
Lori
Evans, M.P.H., M.P.P.
Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange Project Manager, CareScience
Panelists: Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange
Participants
This
session is a panel discussion on the significance of
patient-centric data access to the delivery of healthcare.
Specific discussion points include: patient identity
management issues and implications of being able to
correlate patients within the enterprise and across
the community; the operational impact of obtaining access
to longitudinal information; the efficiency gains and
care effectiveness potential with having more informed
patient care; and related cost-savings that can be achieved
with access to real-time information.
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"Transforming
a Culture: A Successful Strategy Toward Clinical Effectiveness"
Kevin
Jones, M.A.
Manager, Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement,
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Within the fiscal year 2001 and 2002,
the University of Pennsylvania Health System's (UPHS)
Office of Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement
(CEQI) has developed an approach to balancing the achievement
of financial goals which has resulted in a savings of
nearly $12,000,000. In addition to attaining financial
targets, this initiative, at a large, academic hospital
system, demonstrated continuous improvement in quality
of care. Presentation of the CEQI two-year, evolutionary
process will include organizational environment and
leadership, short and long-term goals, strategies/approaches
deployed, implementation and monitoring of performance,
and assessment of success.
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"Practice
Variation Analysis: A Model for Cost Reduction"
Monica
Arrowsmith, M.S.N., J.D.
Division Director, Adena Health System, Chillicothe,
OH
This
presentation will demonstrate how to use the Care Management
System to perform practice variation analysis. A step-by-step
process and its results will be provided. The presentation
will further provide a methodology to implement cost
reduction strategies based on the analysis and successes
to date.
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| 2:30pm-3:20pm |
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"Financial,
Operational, and Competitive Issues with Clinical Data
Sharing"
Julie
Vaughan, M.B.A.
Vice President of Services, CareScience
This
session addresses the key financial, operational and
competitive issues to community-wide data-sharing. In
working with several healthcare organizations across
Santa Barbara County, CA, CareScience has developed
an approach to resolving financial, operational and
competitive issues that impede successful clinical data
sharing. Key issues discussed will include: how a data-sharing
organization is structured and what mechanisms can be
used to expand participation and optimize value; what
the true cost and benefits of data sharing are; how
implementation works and who really gets to share data;
effective governance structures for setting cross-organizational
priorities, and enforcing realistic participation by
all parties.
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"Managing
a Chronic Co-Existing Condition: Reducing the Incidence
and Improving the Treatment of CHF"
Carol
Fridlin, R.N., B.S.N., C.P.H.Q.
Manager of Quality Management, St. Vincent Hospital
& Health Services, Indianapolis, IN
Case study: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
was the second highest complication hospital-wide. Patients
with CHF had a four day longer length of stay than patients
without CHF. Realizing the cost savings potential, St.
Vincent focused on the populations with the highest
incidence of this chronic condition: COPD, Pneumonia
and Cardiac Arrhythmia. St. Vincent's wanted to reduce
the incidence of iatragenic CHF as well as to evaluate
and improve the treatment of patients in whom CHF was
a chronic comorbid condition. Study findings, cost savings,
metrics, and a performance improvement plan will be
discussed.
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"Physician
Profiling and Re-Credentialing: What is Meaningful?"
(Runs additional 30 minutes)
Paul
P. Antonecchia, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Medical Director, Informatics, St. Vincent's Medical
Center, Bridgeport, CT
Theresa
Johnson, R.N., C.P.H.Q.
Director Patient Support Services, Providence Medical
Center
John
Jurica, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice President for Medical Affairs, Riverside Medical
Center (RMC), Kankakee, IL
This
session provides an interactive forum around the topic
of physician profiling, re-appointment, and engagement.
Presenters will discuss how the CareScience Care Management
System™ and other internal data sources are used to
share quality information with their physicians. Panelists
will discuss their strategies and processes, highlight
their successes and barriers to establishing buy-in,
and share examples of their reports. Participants will
be able to dialogue with the panelists during the Q&A
portion of this session.
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| 4:00pm-4:50pm |
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Keynote:
"The Future of Information Technology and Healthcare"
Jeff
Goldsmith
President, Health Futures, Inc.
Healthcare information technology is interwoven
with many other threads that influence the way healthcare
is delivered. A leading expert on the future developments
of healthcare technology, Jeff Goldsmith will address
how connectivity and intelligent software will affect
hospitals, physicians, health plans, and in the future.
Goldsmith will also discuss newly available medical
and information technologies and how institutions will
have to adapt their policies to meet such technological
advances.
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| 4:50pm-5:00pm |
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| Friday,
April 26, 2002 |
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| 7:15am-8:15am |
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"CareScience
Core Measures Solution - Overview and Discussion"
Barbara
Doyle, M.S.N, C.R.N. P.
Product Manager, CareScience
Education and demonstration for current Care Management
System clients interested in Core Measures Reporting.
An informal breakfast session, key users will be introduced
to the latest CareScience Core Measures service. Topics
discussed will include file formats, front end data
collecting, sampling, the CareScience Data Management
Utility interface, and reporting timelines.
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| 8:30am-9:20am |
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Keynote:
"Inside HIPAA: What Comes Next?"
Janlori
Goldman, Ph.D., J.D.
Director, Health Privacy Project, Assistant Research
Professor, Georgetown University
HIPAAA
is one of the biggest mega-forces in the healthcare
industry today. As the Director of the Health Privacy
Project at Georgetown University, Dr. Goldman was intimately
involved with the formation of these regulations, and
has a unique insight about the political, academic and
commercial stakeholders that came together to create
this landmark legislation. Dr. Goldman will discuss
why HIPAA came to be, and how these forces will continue
to shape business practices and social expectations
for privacy and security in healthcare.
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| 9:30am-10:20am |
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"Data
Sharing: Market and Organizational Considerations"
Jim
Kalamas, B.S., M.S.
Principal,
McKinsey & Company
In
this session, Mr. Kalamas will share industry perspective
on how the market for clinical information exchange
is currently defined. Various models for solving the
problem of access to clinical data and information exchange
will also be discussed. Different business constructs
and the associated risks for leveraging clinical information
exchange technologies will be presented and the types
of delivery settings that benefit the most from these
data sharing models will be reviewed in detail.
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"The
Business Case for the Clinical Information Architecture"
Jim
Rourke
Director, Integration Services, CareScience
In
this session attendees will learn about the strategic
and tactical advantages of using streaming data and
how the CareScience Clinical Information Architecture
enables this capability. As we move closer towards prospective
care management, access to real-time clinical data becomes
critical. Combining the speed and efficiency of the
Clinical Information Architecture data flow with the
analytic power of the Care Management System offers
both the clinical user and the CIO immediate operational
benefits, while positioning their organization to take
advantage of new features in future versions of the
Care Management System.
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"Flow:
A Decongestant for Stuffed-Up Hospitals"
James
L. Reinertsen, M.D.
President, The Reinertsen Group
Flow:
Hospitals often experience congested flow between units,
leading to delays in care, suboptimal treatment in the
wrong units, staff dissatisfaction, and high costs.
Many of these problems can be managed using the following
principles: 1) Variation is the key to managing flow:
Natural variation must be managed by queuing theory,
and artificial variation must be understood and eliminated;
2) The goal is optimal throughput, which can not be
achieved at 100% occupancy of each unit and, 3) Just
because there's not a person in a bed doesn't mean it
can not be considered "occupied."
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"Service
Line Approach to Care Management: The Pneumonia Project"
Paulette
Van Dyke, R.N., B.S.N., C.P.H.Q.
Director of Quality Management, Hillcrest Medical Center
Kent
Towsley, M.D.
Medical Director, Regional Division HHS, Chairman CQI
HMC/HMS
Debra
Fluke, R.N., B.S.N.
Performance Improvement Coordinator, Hillcrest Medical
Center
The
session will demonstrate the importance of infrastructure
in implementing a successful quality program. A case
study on a pneumonia project that highlights Hillcrest
Medical Center's service line approach to successful
care management will be discussed. Key discussion points
include: presenting a patient population to a multi-disciplinary
team; the steps involved in the data analysis; the improvement
process; and the outcomes.
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Keynote:
"Lessons from Bringing Information to the Point
of Care"
Dr.
John Glaser, Ph.D,
CIO, Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
Many
new healthcare information technologies and advances
are being made today, and yet challenges in adoption
and acceptance remain. Leading organizations have been
able to impact care delivery with information technology
in profound ways, but are still seeking opportunities
to most effectively harness the power of new technology.
Based on his experience as the Chief Information Officer
of Partners Healthcare System (Boston, MA), Dr. Glaser
will discuss the lessons learned by Partners HealthCare,
over the last decade, from its implementation of clinical
information systems such as provider order entry, computerized
medical records, imaging systems and telemedicine. The
presentation will review the impact of these systems
on care and the strategies and approaches that have
been utilized in bringing information systems closer
to the point of care.
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| 11:30am-12:20pm |
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"Developing
a Hospitalist Program"
Robert
M. Wachter, M.D.
Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine,
University of San Francisco,
Chief of the Medical Service, Moffitt-Long Hospitals
This
session will first describe the hospitalist model of
inpatient care and then focus on key organizational,
financial, political, and logistical issues that can
spell success or failure for hospitalist models. How
the hospitalist model fits into the overall framework
of the value equation in healthcare will be discussed
as well as the forces promoting the use of hospitalists
and key issues facing the movement. Published data on
costs, outcomes, and satisfaction associated with hospitalist
care will be presented.
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"Empowering
the Consumer: A New Role in Care Delivery"
Lori
Evans, M.P.H., M.P.P.
Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange Project Manager, CareScience
Panelists: Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange
Participants and Consumer Representatives
This session will focus on the patient's
new role in the healthcare delivery process. Presenters
will discuss the impact that Internet-based clinical
data sharing has on the patient experience. Product
features of the CareScience Care Data Exchange™ that
specifically enable the patient to be more informed
will be discussed. Other issues that will be covered
are: the implementation of federal regulations and how
the patient will gain more control as HIPAA becomes
a reality; increased patient rights and how they will
improve physician-patient communications via the Care
Data Exchange.
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"Enabling
Access, Analysis and Application of Clinical Information"
(repeated
Friday, 2:30 pm)
LeRoy
Jones, B.S., M.S.
Chief Technology Officer, CareScience
Barbara
Doyle, M.S.N. C.R.N.P.
Product
Manager, CareScience
This
session will review how CareScience is operationalizing
its philosophy of turning clinical data into actionable
information, allowing users to improve care processes
and outcomes not only at the system and facility levels,
but also for individual patients undergoing active treatment.
The session will review the evolution of the CareScience
Clinical Information Architecture and the next generation
of the Care Management System (version 2.0), the combination
of which truly brings better information closer to the
point of care. The Clinicial Information Architecture
empowers care provider organizations to consistently
assemble clinical information on a real-time or near
real-time basis for patients across the continuum of
care. Incorporating the Clinical Information Architecture's
data flow with the back-end analytic power of the Care
Management System Version 2.0 is how CareScience is
working towards turning clinical data into actionable
information. The next version of the Care Management
System will intelligently exploit continuous data feeds
in the form of dashboard reporting, alerts and reminders,
built-in indicators, and "one-click" reporting to support
the function of care managers, quality professionals,
executives, and others who shape the treatment of patients.
With this next version, users will be able to study
patterns of care for populations of patients, as well
as have the ability to intervene proactively with patients
on a real-time basis when necessary.
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"Engaging
Physicians in an AMI Initiative: Strategic and Tactical
Approaches"
Carol
Smith, R.N., M.S.A.
Director of Performance Improvement, Riverside Regional
Medical Center
Kimberla
Jones, R.N.C.
Cardiology Outcomes Manager, North Mississippi Health
Services
A
key strategy for a successful performance improvement
project is to engage physicians in the process. Establishing
physician trust with data can present a challenge in
an organization. Two hospitals share their strategic
and tactical approaches to partnering with physicians
to improve outcomes in the AMI population.
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Disruptive
Technologies in Healthcare: The Future of Patient Care
and Clinical Practice
Molly
Coye, M.D.
Founder
and CEO, Health Technology Center
As
the pace of new technologies accelerates, healthcare
leaders are challenged to decide how and when to adopt
new innovations. Delivery systems and health plans face
aging infrastructures and service models, rising concerns
about the quality and cost of healthcare, and a bulging
pipeline of medical products and services under development.
Against this backdrop, Dr. Coye will discuss how industry
leaders joined together in 2001 to create The Health
Technology Center (HealthTech),a cross-industry, objective
source of information about emerging technologies. Dr.
Coye will describe HealthTech's work to forecast the
market trajectory and the impact emerging technologies
will have on healthcare delivery. She will also discuss
the development of new public and private policies to
propel the adoption of beneficial and cost-effective
technologies, and how these new technologies may close
the technology gap for underserved populations and safety
net providers.
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"Enabling
Access, Analysis and Application of Clinical Information"
(repeated
Friday, 11:30 am)
LeRoy
Jones, B.S., M.S.
Chief Technology Officer, CareScience
Barbara
Doyle, M.S.N. C.R.N.P.
Product
Manager, CareScience
This
session will review how CareScience is operationalizing
its philosophy of turning clinical data into actionable
information, allowing users to improve care processes
and outcomes not only at the system and facility levels,
but also for individual patients undergoing active treatment.
The session will review the evolution of the CareScience
Clinical Information Architecture and the next generation
of the Care Management System (version 2.0), the combination
of which truly brings better information closer to the
point of care. The Clinicial Information Architecture
empowers care provider organizations to consistently
assemble clinical information on a real-time or near
real-time basis for patients across the continuum of
care. Incorporating the Clinical Information Architecture's
data flow with the back-end analytic power of the Care
Management System Version 2.0 is how CareScience is
working towards turning clinical data into actionable
information. The next version of the Care Management
System will intelligently exploit continuous data feeds
in the form of dashboard reporting, alerts and reminders,
built-in indicators, and "one-click" reporting to support
the function of care managers, quality professionals,
executives, and others who shape the treatment of patients.
With this next version, users will be able to study
patterns of care for populations of patients, as well
as have the ability to intervene proactively with patients
on a real-time basis when necessary.
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"What
Consumers Want: The Patient's Perspective"
Barbara
Lackritz, B.A., M.A.
Cancer Survivor, Patient and Consumer Advocate
As
a cancer suvivor patient and consumer advocate, Ms.
Lackritz will focus this session on understanding patients
needs, including identifying what patients' needs are,
how they can be addressed, common patient concerns,
and factors associated with their concerns. Ms. Lackritz
will also examine the medical process and help identify
how this process can be put into simplified terms so
they are easily understood by the patient and his/her
caregivers. The session will also detail how caregivers
can give their patients the tools to understand the
correct party to turn to for information on a variety
issues such as insurance coverage. Participants will
come away with a new understanding of patients' needs
and will be able to work with patients so that they
understand the medical system and its processes better.
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"Exploring
and Sharing Solutions: The Stroke Collaborative"
Gary
Frank, M.D.
Chief
Medical Officer, St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, NM
Bill
Ricketts, R.N., C.E.N.
Clinical Outcomes Manager, North Mississippi Health
Services, Tupelo, MS
Donna
Mahoney, B.S., C.P.H.Q.
Care Management Processes Data Coordinator, Christiana
Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware
Chris
Murphy
Senior Applications System Analyst, Seton Health System,
TX
This
session will highlight the benefit of networking and
collaborating with various organizations on analyzing
and improving care delivery. Several CareScience Care
Management System™ client facilities joined forces to
analyze care delivery in the stroke population. Each
hospital shared information, experiences and findings
with their counterparts and actively participated in
the analysis of outcome variations and practice patterns.
Participating facilities shared comparative findings
with a multi-disciplinary team at their hospital and
developed an action plan specific to their hospital
improvement goals.
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Keynote: Multicultural Healthcare Delivery
Robert
K. Ross, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, The California
Endowment
Dr.
Robert K. Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer
for the California Endowment, a $3.4 billion health
foundation established in 1996 to address the health
needs of Californians will review the role of culturally
appropriate health approaches in improving health outcomes.
Dr. Ross will define the importance of community-based
prevention strategies in improving health access and
health outcomes with emphasis on patient-safety and
improved quality of care.
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| 4:20pm-5:30pm |
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CareScience
Client Awards Presentation
Meg
Horgan, R.N., M.S.N.
Director of Consulting Services, CareScience
Lori
Evans, M.P.H., M.P.P.
Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange Project Manager, CareScience
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Closing
Remarks
David
Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman & CEO CareScience
Closing
remarks and interactive Q&A.
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