Emerging Issues in Healthcare and Information Technology: The Third in a Series Highlighting Fall Forum Tracks

9.19.19
Steve Stanic, CHIME Planning Committee Chair, VP/CIO at Mississippi Baptist Health System

The track sessions at the 2019 CHIME Fall Forum provide a rare opportunity to learn from our peers. This year CHIME will offer four tracks: Strategy & Leadership; Business & Care Transformation; Emerging Issues in Healthcare & Health Information Technology; and Clinical Informatics. Here is the program for Track C: Track A: Strategy & Leadership is available here and Track B: Business & Care Transformation is available here. 

 

Monday, Nov. 4, 2:45-3:30 p.m. 

The Cloud Security Platform: Activating Business Agility and Responsible Growth 

Healthcare providers are seeking to touch more lives while reducing the cost of care. They must be ready to adapt their footprint, move into international markets, and accommodate an increasingly mobile and distributed workforce. Traditional security forces organizations into a difficult choice between capitalizing on opportunities for expansion and protecting the safety and privacy of their existing patients. Cleveland Clinic is attempting to eliminate the tension between value and risk, and position cybersecurity as a strategic business partner. By moving the security perimeter to the cloud, their program is accelerating time to value and preparing the clinic for the future of digital health. 

Learning Objectives 

  • How Cleveland Clinic uses cloud security services to accelerate new hospital integrations and expansion while managing their risk profile
  • How to push the boundaries of security strategy where there is no pattern to follow and no consulting firm to do it for you
  • How to make innovative security changes responsibly to ensure continuity of care
  • How other parts of IT and the business are crucial to adapting security for the future of healthcare

Julian Mihai, Deputy CISO, Cleveland Clinic 
Vugar Zeynalov, CISO, Cleveland Clinic 

 

Monday, Nov. 4, 4-4:45 p.m. 

From Idea to Implementation: Launching AI Initiatives Successfully into Your Organization 

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for healthcare but moving from idea to implementation is far from easy. The reality is that the majority of AI projects end up failing today. In this discussion, presenters will explore the best practices and provide specific guidance on how to successfully implement AI projects within your organization. They will talk about designing your AI strategy, selecting the best projects, building successful multifunctional teams and delivering results. This talk is based on decades of experience and hundreds of implementations. 

Learning Objectives 

  • Describe the best practices for successfully implementing AI projects
  • Explain how to choose the best AI projects to implement
  • Discuss how to build effective AI teams and deliver results

Steve DeMuth, Chief Technology Officer, Mayo Clinic  
Alex Ermolaev, Director of AI, Change Healthcare 

 

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2:45-3:30 p.m. 

HSS’ Leading Response to the Opioid Epidemic and Technology’s Influence  

This session will highlight the comprehensive approach Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) – the busiest orthopedic hospital in the U.S .– took to address the opioid epidemic and improve patient safety. It will also highlight the extensive role technology played in these efforts. These initiatives produced broad impacts on the culture of opioids at the institution. HSS aimed to reduce the volume of opioids prescribed, address prescribing variability, consistently identify and uniquely manage high-risk patients, educate prescribers and patients, and improve compliance with best practices. Results include a reduction of over 500,000 opioids prescribed at discharge since implementation of prescribing guidelines, a decrease in average monthly prescription volume of 27 percent for outlying prescribers, and standardization of best practice workflows and documentation. 

Learning Objectives 

  • Learn how, as the country struggles to deal with an opioid epidemic, HSS is managing the unique challenge of keeping patients comfortable throughout the perioperative period, while at the same time, encouraging and employing safe and conservative opioid prescribing practices
  • Identify and implement a variety of programmatic best practices to systematically address the opioid epidemic and enhance patient safety and outcomes at the learner’s own institutions
  • Understand how to more effectively and creatively utilize a centralized EHR and other technologies as a vital part of a robust clinical and educational program addressing opioid culture and prescribing through tools such as order sets, smartphrases, etc.

Steven Magid, MD, CMIO, Hospital for Special Surgery 
Jamie Nelson, Senior Vice President and CIO, Hospital for Special Surgery  

 

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 4-4:45 p.m. 

Risk Never Sleeps: Managing Threats to Patient Care Through Third-Party Risk Management  

In this session, the CEO and founder of Censinet will moderate a panel of CIOs from leading healthcare providers – Partners Health Care, Baystate Health and Cedars-Sinai Health System. The panel will feature discussions about the current third-party risk landscape and how it is impacting the healthcare industry. Panelists will provide real-world examples of how they engage with third-party vendors and speak to the current technologies that they have in place for managing vendor risk assessments. 

Learning Objectives 

  • Best practices of and lessons learned from vendor risk management programs at the largest health systems in the U.S.
  • How to eliminate antiquated processes associated with vendor risk assessment and move to real-time and dynamic systems
  • How to make your third-party vendors part of the solution through recommended risk remediation plans and other best-in-class techniques

Darren Dworkin, CIO, Cedars-Sinai Health System 
Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder, Censinet 
James Noga, Vice President and CIO, Partners Health Care 
Joel Vengco, Senior Vice President and CIO, Baystate Health  

Editor’s note: The 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum will be Nov. 3-6 in Phoenix. More information about the forum, including all track sessions, is available here. To register, go here.

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