Workshops

Workshop 01

The Health IT Roadmap for Accountable Care
Jim Adams, Managing Director, The Advisory Board Company

Many health care organizations will have to make significant additional investments in IT-related capabilities to help address the shifting of risks for costs, quality and outcomes to providers and individual consumers under accountable care. This session describes the various types or levels of risk that organizations will likely assume under accountable care and the IT-related capabilities that they will need for each type of risk to be successful.

Workshop 02

ICD-10 Compliance and Clinical Document Improvement to support new reimbursement models
Terri McCubbin, RN, CPP, CPUR, CMC, Director, 3M Consulting
Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, FACP Chief Medical Officer, 3M

Health Information Systems Clinical performance determines patient outcomes, but the data used to describe outcomes is ultimately determined by a hospital's clinical documentation and coding functions. Accurate capture of patient severity, risk of mortality, and post-admission complications in physician documentation impacts payment, regulatory compliance, case mix index, and performance ratings. Quality outcomes data is even more critical under ICD-10 since the new coding standard will enable higher quality information for evaluating healthcare service, quality, and safety.

Learn an effective approach for ensuring the accuracy of quality outcomes data in the face of changing regulations and new reimbursement models that align payment incentives with high performance.

Workshop 03

Achieving Clinical/Financial Collaboration in an Accountable Care Setting
Melinda Hancock, Chief Financial Officer at Bon Secours RIchmond Health System

In this session, participants will hear from a CFO's perspective, the changing culture of one organization to bring clinical and financial teams together to help drive out variations in cost and quality. This partnership enables the organization to assess its readiness to support the myriad of payment designs.

Participants will hear many of the lessons learned in the process, focussing on how to:

  • Build a cross functional team of clinical, financial and administrative staff
  • Pair financial and clinical leaders to uncover variances, determine best practices and quantify cost savings
  • From an IT perspective create a roadmap for clinical/financial data integration for improved decision making, more accountable and better coordinated care

Workshop 04

Building the HIT Infrastructure for Patient Centered Medical Home and ACOs: The EHR is necessary but not sufficient
Charles DeShazer, VP Medical Informatics, Quality and Transformation, Dean Health System

Understand the HIT implications of the new emerging care models. HIT not only closes critical gaps in how care is delivered but will be essential to enabling higher levels of competitive performance. The EHR is essential but must be optimized and integrated into a complete HIT "ecosystem" and transformed culture to deliver on its promise.

  • Impact of current and expected government initiatives
  • HIT requirements for the PCMH and ACOs
  • Best practices for managing the data lifecycle
  • Understand "Big Data" analytics
  • Key strategies and tactics to implement the necessary HIT infrastructure