Clinical Informatics: The Fourth in a Series Highlighting Fall Forum Tracks
10.03.19
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 D: Clinical Informatics. Track A: Strategy & Leadership is available here; Track B: Business & Care Transformation here; and Track C: Emerging Issues in Healthcare & Health Information Technology here.
Monday, Nov. 4, 2:45-3:30 p.m.
Data Governance and the Data and Information Lifecycle Management
The presenters will take a deep dive into the widespread adoption of health IT tools such as EHRs to capture clinical and financial data to support care providers and operations. Organizations are struggling with how to explain the need for a coordinated strategy and effort for taking data from raw collection to true value and outcomes. They will share the approach at BJC HealthCare, a 15-hospital health system, and explore the development of a data and information lifecycle model, as well as a patient information flow model, which were part of BJC’s restructuring efforts. Defining the data and information lifecycle sets the stage for a look at the outcomes of reinvigorating data governance efforts and the overall data enterprise strategy.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn an approach for describing data as an asset, based on patient data flow and the data and information lifecycle
- Attendees will learn how to apply specific tools and processes bringing vision into reality within a healthcare organization
- Attendees will learn the foundation framework of the data and information lifecycle
Nicci Cosolo, Director, Solutions, emids
Keith Woeltje, MD, Vice President and CMIO, BJC Healthcare
Monday, Nov. 4, 4-4:45 p.m.
Data-Driven Process Redesign Reduces Complications and Improves Quality in Joint Replacements
Focused on the Institute of Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim of improving the quality of care, reducing the cost of providing care and providing a great patient experience, Thibodaux Regional Medical Center in Louisiana leveraged its enterprise data warehouse and analytics applications to identify its most costly and widely variable processes. This led to a Total Hip (THA) and Total Knee (TKA) Arthroplasty care improvement initiative that earned a national patient safety award. Using a collaborative, evidence-based approach, Thibodaux Regional established new standard care processes, created an educational program, redesigned order sets and workflows and deployed a joint replacement analytics application. As a result, the organization reduced complications by 76.5 percent, reduced length of stay by 38.5 percent for TKA and 23.3 percent for THA and lowered costs by $815,103 in less than two years.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the patient-safety and care-quality reasons why Total Hip (THA) and Total Knee (TKA) Arthroplasty processes need to be examined at any healthcare organization
- Explain how care variation can lead to greater costs, higher risk of surgical complications and decreased patient satisfaction
- Describe how analytics tools help identify care process variation and uncover opportunities for improvement
- Summarize how to develop a cross-functional team to address care variation and transform care processes toward greater standardization and efficiency
- List how data analytics applications providing real-time insight can help teams track progress while identifying and overcoming obstacles
Bernie Clement, CIO, Thibodaux Regional Medical Center
Amanda Rich, Vice President of Professional Services, Health Catalyst
Ryan Smith, Senior Vice President of Client Engagement, Health Catalyst
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2:45-3:30 p.m.
Doing More With Less – Let’s Marie Kondo Your Training Plan
Simply put, an engaged workforce is critical to deliver quality without waste. This presentation will describe how one organization transformed its onboarding and education processes to reduce the noise and help employees “find joy” in their learning. The presenters will share how they evaluated their previous program, how they measured success of the new program and what they were able to deliver to the organization as value-add by transforming this program.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how to prescribe your content delivery for different types of learners and for different types of information
- Be able to plan out staffing and rollout of a standard training program across all clinicians for your organization
- Be able to create a plan to transform your informatics from a walking helpdesk to strategic rounders helping to deliver value to patients across the health system through improved workflows
Robert Frieden, Vice President of Information Services and CIO, Genesis Health System
Polly Parrent, IT Executive, Genesis Health System
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 4-4:45 p.m.
Improving Population Health Through Enhanced Patient/Provider Engagement
In today’s fast paced world, the saying “it takes a village” has never been more true, especially in healthcare. Gone are the days of a 1:1 doctor/patient relationship. Now entire care teams assemble to improve outcomes and overall health for individuals and communities alike. Learn how University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) has successfully engaged their patients, providers and care teams through the use of population health data and innovative technology to help their patients and communities thrive.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the journey to implementing a population health platform across the care continuum
- Identify opportunities to engage the care team and patients with relevant, timely, personalized population health data
- Realize the impact of an engaged care team in improved population health outcomes
Bryan Bliven, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care
Thomas Selva, MD, CMIO, University of Missouri Health Care
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.