Here's a snapshot of what's on deck for each session:
State of the Health Care and IT Union: Health System and IT Strategy in the Post-ACA Era
This session will:
- Highlight the key impacts of health care trends on Medicaid, Medicare, and employer-sponsored insurance;
- Analyze stakeholder responses to rising health care costs; and
- Identify key developments and changes in technology to meet escalating demand for affordability, accessibility, and reliability of care.
Interoperability: Can You Hear Me Now? Bringing Health Care into the 21st Century
This session will:
- Explain why interoperability is a strategic investment right now;
- Identify the range of available integration approaches and discuss their strengths and weaknesses; and
- Explore new skills and processes necessary to reap the benefits of next generation integration technologies.
Clinical Decision Support: Light at the End of the Tunnel
This session will:
- Review sources of CDS performance failure and ways of minimizing their effects;
- Identify the impact of new interoperability standards on CDS evolution; and
- Explore new forms of CDS including extra-EMR methods, analytics-driven CDS, and the potential value—and challenges—of employing genomics/pharmacogenomics-based CDS.
Quality Reporting Office Hours: A Workshop with Our Experts
This session will:
- Address the most-pressing quality reporting frequently asked questions and action items;
- Explain how the Quality Reporting Roundtable helps members with these challenges; and
- Offer an open forum for you to interact with QRR experts.
Turning Attention to Ambulatory IT: The Intersection of IT and Clinical Best Practices
This session will:
- Review trends in the ambulatory market and the technology used to fuel ambulatory expansion;
- Identify missed business opportunities that stem from common health IT challenges and their associated clinical challenges; and
- Describe "on-the-ground" best practices for addressing these challenges.
Digital Health Systems: An Ongoing Journey to an Ever-Changing Destination
This session will:
- Provide context and background on digital health systems;
- Highlight examples and possible uses of exponential or potentially disruptive technologies; and
- Explore a Digital Maturity Model to help assess and plan for digital health systems.
Security and the C-Suite: Leadership's Role in Building a Cyber-Resilient Organization
This session will:
- Examine how executive leadership can help prepare for health care's key security vulnerabilities;
- Analyze critical areas of the cybersecurity ecosystem in which executive leadership can impact organizational resilience; and
- Introduce a cybersecurity maturity model to gauge and track progress toward a higher maturity security posture.