Bill Siwicki
Nursing and IT
The accomplishment puts the health system in a better position to attract and retain the talent that is so critical to its ability to serve its patients, says its VP of operations.
The patient's voice is clear – healthcare needs to be easier to navigate and digital channels are a great place to invest, says Chrissy Daniels, chief experience officer at Press Ganey, which has been focused on patient experience for more than 40 years.
Remote Patient Monitoring
Karin Schifter-Maor discusses how remote patient monitoring can bring the Acute Hospital Care at Home program to more people, make the program affordable and use centralized patient data to improve health outcomes.
AI & ML Intelligence
The health system's chief analytics officer discusses creating a rigorous data quality program for reliable and actionable insights, and the importance of developing an innovation ecosystem.
Nursing and IT
Trained on vast datasets, machine learning applications can spot trends and predict patient outcomes. A researcher details how these new approaches are giving nurses the evidence they need to make more informed decisions and deliver higher-quality care.
Remote Patient Monitoring
Clinical outcomes have shown 82% of patients experienced lowered blood pressure via remote patient monitoring at the health system, with severely hypertensive patients seeing a significant decrease after 90 days on the program.
Robert Slepin, a longtime IT exec at provider organizations who's now a top consultant at Epic, discusses his role, and how it helps the company prioritize problem solving in electronic health record deployments.
Success Stories & ROI
The provider saw a 22% decrease in one type of denial and an 18% decrease in another. Those improvements have resulted in more than 30 hours per week in eliminated work for follow-up staff.
Veronica Walk, senior director analyst, healthcare and life sciences, at the consulting giant offers an end-of-the-week look at the emerging technologies at the conference that provider organization C-suite executives must grasp.
A selection of the announcements made in the exhibit hall this week – from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, CenTrak, DT Research, Innovaccer, MDClone and MedeAnalytics.