Agenda

1 – HAS 22 Opening Session

Paul Horstmeier

Chief Operating Officer, Health Catalyst

Andrew Frueh

Senior Vice President, User Experience, Health Catalyst

Dan Burton

Chief Executive Officer, Health Catalyst

Your HAS journey starts here with an introduction to this year’s HAS app, an overview of what to expect, and other helpful tips to help you get the most out of your HAS 22 experience.

2 – Featured Speaker Session: Patrick McGill, MD

Patrick McGill, MD

Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer, Community Health Network

The winner of the 2020 Catalyst Flywheel award for the greatest success in data-driven healthcare, Dr. Patrick McGill will share the journey of how Community Health Network has become a data-driven healthcare system, with over $30 million of documented savings.

3 – Featured Speaker Session: Marzyeh Ghassemi

Marzyeh Ghassemi, MSc, PhD

Artificial Intelligence Professor and Researcher

Health is important, and improvements in health improve lives. However, we still don’t fundamentally understand what it means to be healthy, and the same patient may receive different treatments across different hospitals or clinicians as new evidence is discovered, or individual illness is interpreted.

Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi explores questions about eradicating bias in healthcare data and models, and understanding what it means to be healthy across different populations.

4 – Featured Speaker Session: Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor

Top Emotional Intelligence Speaker, Happiness Researcher, Bestselling Author of The Happiness Advantage

The most successive healthcare analytic organizations have discovered the importance of healthy, positive multi-team dynamics.

Shawn has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. A decade of research shows that training your brain to be positive at work first actually fuels greater success second. In fact, 75% of our job success is predicted not by intelligence but by your optimism, social support network, and the ability to manage energy and stress positively.

5 – Fireside Chat with Simone Biles

Simone Biles

Athlete and Advocate

Simone Biles is one of the greatest female athletes of all-time. The first woman to capture five All-Around World Championship titles, Biles is the most decorated gymnast in World Championships history – male or female – with 25 medals overall (19 gold) and is a seven-time Olympic medalist (four gold, one silver, two bronze). A three-time Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year, she has earned the rare distinction of having four skills named in her honor – The Biles – across beam, floor (two) and vault disciplines. Biles’ extraordinary accomplishments have received widespread recognition including TIME 100 Most Influential, Forbes 30 Under 30, Ebony Power 100, People Women Changing the World, USA Today 100 Women of the Century, and two-time Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year among others. Her autobiography – Courage to Soar – was a New York Times bestseller and developed into an award-winning tv special on Lifetime and her documentary series – Simone vs Herself – that streamed on Facebook Watch is nominated for a Sports Emmy Award. Biles utilizes her platform to help advocate for mental health and support initiatives that provide education and assistance for children and young adults associated with adoption and foster care.

6 – The State of the Union in 2022: Guideposts for Strategically Reshaping the Industry

Ford Koles, Jr.

Vice President and National Spokesperson, Advisory Board

The healthcare industry right now is facing an increasingly tough business climate, dominated by increasing costs and prices, tightening margins and capital, and staffing upheaval. The array of urgent, disruptive market forces today means that leaders must navigate an unusually high number of short-term crises and opportunities. These pressures are easily distracting: for some, they are overwhelming, while they tempt others into overambitious initiatives. Leaders’ strategic choices now will have an outsized impact—positive or negative—on their trajectory toward long-term goals. 

Specifically, we’ll focus the discussion on:

The disruptive market forces shaping the entire industry’s business environment for most healthcare organizations, including:

• The workforce crisis driving a realignment of staffing across the industry.
• The insurance coverage swings poised to continue dramatic shifting.
• The growing creation of vertical ecosystems with provider, plan, pharmacy, technology, and retail assets. 
• The tumultuous innovation investment capital flows into science and technology.

The strategic decision guideposts represent where leaders have the greatest agency to influence the future in multiple directions, including:

• How far the health equity business mandate will reach.
• Which commercial cost drivers the industry will target through value-based payment.
• Who will influence how physician partnership shifts patient volumes.
• What level of consumer navigation choices will be the most effective to curate.
• The business goals that will drive why organizations prioritize telehealth innovation.
• Where most of the industry will position their home-based care strategy.

7 – Managing Uncertainty in the Transition from Volume to Value

Deepak Sadagopan, MHCDS

Senior Vice President, Value-Based Care and Population Health Informatics, Providence

Significant healthcare policy reform, changes in payment models rewarding value and outcomes over volume, and market forces, such as the ever-increasing costs of healthcare premiums, force employers and groups to reduce healthcare costs. Providence Health System will share its decade-long journey to transition from volume to value. Beginning with 99 percent of its total revenue derived from fee-for-service arrangements, the organization now has 150 unique value-based care arrangements across all payer classes, covering one-third of the entire patient population served and influencing close to 40 percent of total revenue.

Join this session to:

• Discover how to build data-driven methods to identify risk, measure performance, and develop management levers designed to mitigate uncertainty.
• Identify critical components of a technology and information framework to manage risk effectively.
• Recognize the strategic ingredients for operational interoperability between payers and providers in a value-based care landscape.

8 – Data-Informed Patient Access Improvements Helps Drive $25M Increase in Revenue

Heather Monackey

Executive Director, Patient Access and Engagement, WakeMed

Charles Bissette

Director of Optimization and Integration, WakeMed

WakeMed, a 919-bed healthcare system based in Raleigh, NC, began a journey in 2020 to improve patient access. Learn how WakeMed’s patient-centered, data-informed approach delivered game-changing structure, technology, and process improvements. The final score? An increase in new patient visits, a decrease in cancellations without rescheduling, improved patient, staff, and provider satisfaction, and a $25.4 M increase in revenue.

Join this session to discover:

• Strategies to navigate change in a change-hesitant organization.
• How to use data to drive standard processes in a decentralized management structure.
• How the benefits of a centralized contact center go beyond improved phone response.
• Tips and tricks to building functional patient access dashboards and setting achievable goals and aims.

9 – Innovative Approach to Care Transitions: An Evolution of Whole Person Care

Emily Downing, MD

System Clinical Officer, Allina Health

Hospital readmissions cost Medicare $26B annually and are often a source of frustration for patients and providers. Allina Health describes its innovative, comprehensive approach to improving care transitions and preventing unnecessary readmissions. The organization uses its robust analytics to identify and understand factors influencing readmissions and improve the care provided. It addresses care needs as a collective, coordinated body of work, continually improving care transitions, reducing readmissions, and avoiding millions in excess costs annually. It has developed a sustainable path forward, offering care across the continuum with seamless connections and recognizing the factors affecting health—mind, body, spirit, and community.

Participants will:

• Identify critical technology and information framework components to effectively stratify patients at risk for transition failure, readmissions, and unwarranted care utilization.
• Describe coordinated care transitions that match the right level of care upon discharge to improve healthcare quality, safety, experience, access, and affordability.
• Explore success stories of care management for high-risk patients spanning the care continuum.

10 – Augmented Intelligence and a Physician-Forward Strategy Improve Quality Metrics and Transform Clinical Documentation

Kory Anderson, MD, CHCQM, FACP

Medical Director of Physician Advisor Services, CDI, Intermountain Healthcare

Kearstin Jorgenson, MS, CPC, COC

Physician Advisor Operations Director, Intermountain Healthcare

Clinical documentation integrity (CDI) programs help ensure that patient stories are fully documented, leading to appropriate reimbursement and improved quality measure performance. Traditional methods rely on retrospective queries, resulting in re-work as physicians must revisit patient records to respond. Physicians and CDI teams are invested in creating a complete, accurate patient record. Still, workflows are often misaligned, leading to inefficiencies and documentation gaps negatively impacting hospital quality measurement and reimbursement. Intermountain Healthcare will share how deploying augmented intelligence (AI) to connect siloed physician and CDI workflows transformed CDI efforts. AI delivers clinical insights to physicians as they document. CDI efforts are now focused on quality and building a patient-centric, physician-led CDI strategy, improving quality and financial performance, and generating efficiencies that free up CDI specialists to focus on other complex quality and mortality reviews.

Join this session and learn how to:

• Describe strategies for addressing physician/CDI silos with a physician-led approach.
• Explain successful approaches for aligning physician and CDI workflows to improve quality metrics and financial measures.
• Apply physician-forward practices for implementing physician-supportive augmented intelligence solutions.

11 – Personal Health Data Mining: The Empowered Patient

Talithia Williams

Host of the PBS series NOVA Wonders

Dr. Williams makes a compelling case that healthcare providers should encourage patients to measure and record simple data about their bodies daily. Based upon her hit TED Talk, “Own Your Body’s Data,” Dr. Williams shares how patients should be monitoring their personal data by using both everyday technologies and high-tech wearables. With these devices, healthcare consumers can easily quantify everything from heart rate and sleep patterns to body temperature and fertility. However, what is the average patient to do with the massive amounts of data being collected? Dr. Williams believes empowered patients sharing this information with their healthcare providers not only strengthens doctor-patient dialog but also enhances patient outcomes.

12 – Expert Dialogue Series: Data and Analytics

Rhiannon Harms

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, UnityPoint Health

Yohan Vetteth, MBA

Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer, Stanford Health Care

Ray Gensinger, MD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS

Systems Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hospital Sisters Health System

Patrick McGill, MD

Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer, Community Health Network

Jason Jones, PhD

Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer, General Manager of Data and Analytics Platform, Health Catalyst

Have you ever learned a lesson the hard way and wished someone would have guided you BEFORE you developed a strategy and plan? Are you interested in learning from experts with decades of healthcare experience about what worked for them and what they recommend avoiding?  

Healthcare executives and leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, chief information officers, chief operations officers, chief medical officers, chief medical information officers, chief quality officers, and chief population health officers will each share their top three learnings, what to do to be successful, and pitfalls to avoid. The series will start with the experts sharing their learnings and best practices. You’ll have an opportunity to engage in a small group to share your learnings and questions and then the groups will be invited to ask the experts questions.

Five Expert Dialogue Series are available: data and analytics, technology, population health, clinical quality and operations, and revenue and cost.

Participants will learn:

• Top three learnings from each of the healthcare leaders.
• What to focus on to ensure success.
• How to identify and avoid common pitfalls.

13 – Expert Dialogue Series: Population Health

David Ingham, DO

Chief Information Officer, Allina Health

Amy Flaster, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, ConcertoCare; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Instructor of Medicine, Part-Time, Harvard Medical School

Joseph M. Taylor, CEBS, RHU, HIA

Senior Vice President, Redeemer Health

Manjit Randhawa, MD, MPH

Physician Data Scientist, MemorialCare

Edward Sheen, MD, MPH, MBA

Chief Population Health Officer and Senior Vice President, Health Catalyst

Have you ever learned a lesson the hard way and wished someone would have guided you BEFORE you developed a strategy and plan? Are you interested in learning from experts with decades of healthcare experience about what worked for them and what they recommend avoiding?  

Healthcare executives and leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, chief information officers, chief operations officers, chief medical officers, chief medical information officers, chief quality officers, and chief population health officers will each share their top three learnings, what to do to be successful, and pitfalls to avoid. The series will start with the experts sharing their learnings and best practices. You’ll have an opportunity to engage in a small group to share your learnings and questions and then the groups will be invited to ask the experts questions.

Five Expert Dialogue Series are available: data and analytics, technology, population health, clinical quality and operations, and revenue and cost.

Participants will learn:

• Top three learnings from each of the healthcare leaders.
• What to focus on to ensure success.
• How to identify and avoid common pitfalls.

14 – Expert Dialogue Series: Clinical Quality and Operations

Julie Watson, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, INTEGRIS Health

Stephanie Jackson, MD, FHM

Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, HonorHealth

Neal Chawla, MD, FACEP

Chief Medical Information Officer, WakeMed

William Holland, MD, MHA

Senior Vice President of Care Management and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Banner Health

Holly Rimmasch

Chief Clinical Officer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Quality, Health Catalyst

Have you ever learned a lesson the hard way and wished someone would have guided you BEFORE you developed a strategy and plan? Are you interested in learning from experts with decades of healthcare experience about what worked for them and what they recommend avoiding?  

Healthcare executives and leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, chief information officers, chief operations officers, chief medical officers, chief medical information officers, chief quality officers, and chief population health officers will each share their top three learnings, what to do to be successful, and pitfalls to avoid. The series will start with the experts sharing their learnings and best practices. You’ll have an opportunity to engage in a small group to share your learnings and questions and then the groups will be invited to ask the experts questions.

Five Expert Dialogue Series are available: data and analytics, technology, population health, clinical quality and operations, and revenue and cost.

Participants will learn:

• Top three learnings from each of the healthcare leaders.
• What to focus on to ensure success.
• How to identify and avoid common pitfalls.

15 – Innovative Communication and Digitally Integrated Solutions Significantly Increase Patient Engagement

Emily Webber, MD, FAAP, FAMIA

Chief Medical Information Officer, Indiana University Health and Riley Children's Health

Angela E. Cromlich, MSN, RN-BC

Clinical Analyst, Clinical Interoperability Team, Indiana University Health

Patient engagement and communication can be difficult, particularly when parents, guardians, and loved ones want and need to be included. Even the ‘simple’ task of consistently and effectively communicating before and after a hospital visit can be challenging, especially for adolescents and children.

Find out how Riley Children’s Health and Indiana University Health, the largest NICU in the state with an average daily census of around 100 infants, tackled this problem by developing universally accessible communication pathways between caregivers. Improvements included increasing patient engagement and NICU education to over 90% and completed earlier in the patient stay and reducing cancellations in its anesthesia and OR pathway by over 20%.

Join this session to discover:

• Why patient engagement and education are critical, especially when the patient is dependent on their parents, guardians, and loved ones.
• What goals and attributes matter for patient engagement programs.
• How to improve patient satisfaction through communication.

16 – Navigating the Price Transparency Landscape: Pitfalls, Best Practices, and Planning for the Future

Dan Unger

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Financial Transformation Business, Health Catalyst

Pricing transparency regulations present a complicated—and potentially expensive—compliance problem for healthcare. Recent proposals would increase maximum penalties for violations of the Hospital Price Transparency rule up to $2M per hospital per year. Beginning in July 2022, CMS will also start enforcing the Payer Price Transparency rule that governs group health plans and health insurance issuers. This session will offer practical advice for navigating the price transparency landscape based on Health Catalyst’s experience working with 125+ clients at more than 300 hospitals.

Join this session to learn:

• The pricing transparency violations most likely to trigger CMS enforcement.
• Best practices for pricing transparency based on CMS feedback and client experiences.
• How the industry can guide CMS toward regulations that are both useful to consumers and easier for compliance.
• Long-term repercussions of pricing transparency at both the industry and the organization levels.

17 – Embracing Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trial Design

Jennifer Jones-McMeans, PhD

Divisional Vice President of Global Clinical Affairs, Abbott

Recruiting diverse participants to treat peripheral artery disease (PAD), a costly and dangerous medical condition with mortality rates three times that of breast cancer, is of significant importance. Discover how Abbott improves underserved communities’ access to clinical trials, better serving the patients most affected by vascular disease. PAD predominantly affects African Americans, who are twice as likely to have PAD as any other racial/ethnic group and four times as likely to require an amputation. Therefore, it is critical that both the doctors and patients who participate in this clinical trial reflect the underserved communities most in need of treatment.

Join this session to learn:

• Why clinical trials must embrace diversity and inclusion.
• Best practices for engaging diverse communities and encouraging participation in clinical trials.
• The benefits of designing clinical trials representative of the entire population.

18 – We Count Our Successes in Lives Improved: Turning Information Into Actions That Matter

Kedar Mate, MD

President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Brent James, MD, MStat

Clinical Professor, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Modern health care delivery can make a real difference to saving or improving lives.  Often, however, those with the greatest needs, and the largest potential gains, have been beyond our reach.  We have come to see differences as entrenched and inevitable.  The last several years has seen a growing conversation about the importance of health equity.  The real challenge, though, is transforming those “grand ideas” into actual change and real, measured, results.  This conversation will be a step in that direction – how to start the journey from data and analytics toward achieving the biggest impacts for those with the greatest healthcare needs.

19 – Day in Review and Sock Contest

Paul Horstmeier

Chief Operating Officer, Health Catalyst

Kicking off the final day of HAS 22, Paul Horstmeier will share highlights of this year’s summit, including, of course, the fan-favorite #SocksofHAS contest.

20 – Featured Speaker Session: Penny Wheeler, MD

Penny Wheeler, MD

Former CEO, Allina Health

One of the highest-rated HAS keynote speakers ever, Dr. Penny Wheeler will share data, experiences, and stories of data-driven healthcare that embraces the human side of analytics.

21 – Featured Speaker Session: Matthew Luhn

Matthew Luhn

Former Lead Animator and Storyteller, Pixar Studios

The most effective analysts have learned that data is more memorable and actionable when wrapped in a story that is personal and impactful. Matthew is one of the most popular speakers in the U.S. today. He works with companies of all sizes to help professionals craft and tell stories that bridge the gap between business and heart to build strong brands and business communication.

23 – Expert Dialogue Series: Revenue and Cost

Migdalia M. Musler, MHSA

Chief Operating Officer, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine Medical Group

Adam Smith

Vice President, Decision Support and Financial Planning, Froedtert Health

Jim Balbach

Executive Director of Decision Support, Community Health Network

Mike Weed

Vice President, Financial Operations, INTEGRIS Health

Dan Unger

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Financial Transformation Business, Health Catalyst

Have you ever learned a lesson the hard way and wished someone would have guided you BEFORE you developed a strategy and plan? Are you interested in learning from experts with decades of healthcare experience about what worked for them and what they recommend avoiding?  

Healthcare executives and leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, chief information officers, chief operations officers, chief medical officers, chief medical information officers, chief quality officers, and chief population health officers will each share their top three learnings, what to do to be successful, and pitfalls to avoid. The series will start with the experts sharing their learnings and best practices. You’ll have an opportunity to engage in a small group to share your learnings and questions and then the groups will be invited to ask the experts questions.

Five Expert Dialogue Series are available: data and analytics, technology, population health, clinical quality and operations, and revenue and cost.

Participants will learn:

• Top three learnings from each of the healthcare leaders.
• What to focus on to ensure success.
• How to identify and avoid common pitfalls.

24 – Advanced Analytics and Innovative Care Delivery Helps Drive $31M in Shared Savings

Mandy Abbas, MPA

Analytics Manager, Value-Based Care, UnityPoint Health

Megan Romine, DO, MHA, FACP 

Interim Chief Executive Officer, UnityPoint Accountable Care

U.S. health care spending reached $4.1T in 2020, compelling payers and providers to look for more opportunities to reduce costs. UnityPoint Accountable Care is one of the longest-standing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ACO Model participants in the country. The organization will share how carefully tracking high-risk patients, targeting unnecessary costs, implementing innovative care delivery models, and leveraging population health analytics have enabled it to trim unnecessary spending and improve quality in key areas– receiving an average of $31M annually in shared savings from its value-based contracting efforts since 2012.

Participants will discover how to:

• Describe how data and advanced analytics are used to identify the patients who are most likely to benefit from additional support programs and resources.
• Identify a common set of measures and tools across the ACO network to drive patient care and improve performance.
• Articulate clear measures of success and celebrate high-performing facilities and providers through a shared savings incentive model.

25 – Achieving Health Equity: Measuring and Managing Disparities With Machine Learning

Wei Liu, PhD, PMP

Senior Data Scientist, ChristianaCare

Yuchen Zhang, MS

Data Scientist, ChristianaCare

As gaps in health grow larger and more persistent across the nation, health equity becomes a critical challenge faced by healthcare organizations. This year, ChristianaCare launched multiple initiatives focusing on health equity and closing the gaps between different racial groups. To better support the initiatives, ChristianaCare developed a platform to quantify, visualize, and interpret the current state of health equity on multiple health outcomes using machine learning algorithms.

Join this session to discover how to support your organization’s health equity initiatives by:

• Designing a scalable and flexible data architecture that includes machine learning.
• Architecting data processing workflows.
• Building user-centered visualizations designs optimized for interpretations and usability.

26 – Expert Dialogue Series: Technology

Dave Ross

Chief Technology Officer, Health Catalyst

Peter Marks, PhD

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, WakeMed

Michael Jarjour, MBA

Senior Vice President, Informatics, Steward Health Care Network; Chief Information Officer, Steward Business Solutions

Chris Harper, CHCIO, MBAi, MPM

Joint Chief Information Officer, The University of Kansas Health System and KU Medical Center

John Henderson

Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Children's Hospital Orange County

Have you ever learned a lesson the hard way and wished someone would have guided you BEFORE you developed a strategy and plan? Are you interested in learning from experts with decades of healthcare experience about what worked for them and what they recommend avoiding?  

Healthcare executives and leaders, including chief data and analytics officers, chief information officers, chief operations officers, chief medical officers, chief medical information officers, chief quality officers, and chief population health officers will each share their top three learnings, what to do to be successful, and pitfalls to avoid. The series will start with the experts sharing their learnings and best practices. You’ll have an opportunity to engage in a small group to share your learnings and questions and then the groups will be invited to ask the experts questions.

Five Expert Dialogue Series are available: data and analytics, technology, population health, clinical quality and operations, and revenue and cost.

Participants will learn:

• Top three learnings from each of the healthcare leaders.
• What to focus on to ensure success.
• How to identify and avoid common pitfalls.

27 – How One Organization’s Innovative Mindset Supports Growth and Viability in Competitive Environment

Greg Stock

Chief Executive Officer, Thibodaux Regional Health System

Cindy Poiencot, RN

Director of Quality Improvement, Thibodaux Regional Health System

Learn how a commitment to data and analytics supports an innovation culture that outcompetes larger health systems. When a period of rapid growth revealed opportunities to improve its operational efficiencies, Thibodaux Regional Health System used data to identify and implement a series of improvement projects with a focus on improving patient access to care at its clinics. In one clinic, the dramatic results included a reduction in referral times from 35 days to 4 days and a patient experience rating that improved from the 34th to the 94th percentile. Across the system, Thibodaux saw an 81% increase in patient and physician encounters over four years, with a 52% growth in clinic net revenue.

Participants will learn:

• How to use process improvement to support future growth.
• Why you need real-time operational and strategic analytics.
• How to engage your physicians as partners in your data analytics projects.

28 – Creating Cultural Contagion Within Your Health System

Marcus Collins, DBA, MBA

Top Booked Speaker, DE&I Thought Leader; Head of Strategy, Wieden+Kennedy

The best data-driven insights don’t matter and don’t affect behavior unless they are communicated broadly and appropriately.  In today’s hyper-connected world, the allure of “going viral” continues to seduce idea-generators into investing significant time and resources toward the creation of content – videos, memes, tweets, posts, etc. – that spreads. Though there are benefits to “going viral,” one must wonder if virality is truly what we’re after or if perhaps there is something far greater worth pursuing. This session reframes the benefits of “going viral” and provides an alternative aim. It explores the impact of culture on consumer behavior and offers an actionable framework that enables you to create ideas/messages/products/content that not only spread but also take hold in the culture of your health system.

29 – “We’re #1”- The National Ranking Game: Another Exciting Tom Burton Interactive Game Session

Tom Burton

Co-founder and Strategic Advisor, Health Catalyst

Don’t miss this engaging 2-hour game-based session with Tom Burton, Co-founder and Chief Fun Officer of Health Catalyst. This year Tom will tackle the many challenges of improving national hospital ranking strategies, as many boards increase pressure on healthcare executive teams to do better on these highly visible ranking systems. Tom and his team have built an interactive game to explore various strategic approaches to these challenges. 

Join us in this session to find out:

• The impact of national hospital rankings on quality, market share, and recruitment.
• The best strategies for health systems to increase value to the communities they serve.
• How to best improve perceptions with BOTH the communities you serve AND the Health System’s board of directors.

30 – Creating Your Business Case for Integrated Data and Analytics: Learning From our Multi-Year Journey

Chris Harper, CHCIO, MBAi, MPM

Joint Chief Information Officer, The University of Kansas Health System and KU Medical Center

Most healthcare organizations have a defined data and analytics strategy. Some are just getting started, and others have been on the journey for more than a few years. Are you where you want to be in achieving your mission and objectives? If not, do you know why, or what to do about it? The University of Kansas Health System (UKHS) has been on an analytics journey for seven years, starting with the business case Chris Harper, CIO, developed for why an integrated data and analytics platform was required. Learn about UKHS’ ups and downs and what they’ve found that works—including UKHS’ 7-year benefit-cost analysis, pitfalls to avoid, and what the organization will focus on for the next 5-10 years.

Join this session to learn:

• The importance of developing a business case for an enterprise data and analytics platform investment.
• Why organizations need an integrated data and analytics strategy technology stack, including why/how/what EHR data is integrated to drive organization-wide improvement initiatives.
• Strategies for successfully changing technology, people, and processes to achieve tens of millions of tangible clinical, financial, and operational improvements.

31 – What You Can Learn from 100 Days of Rejection

Jia Jiang

Top Inspirational and Emotional Intelligence Speaker

Data-driven analytics can require tenacity, especially when faced with the inevitable failure of data, analytics, or interventions to make a positive impact.  Or when recommendations are rejected by leaders or teams. 

The fear of rejection can hold you back. Our natural tendency is to avoid it at all costs which can be detrimental to our businesses, careers, and lives. In 2012, to overcome his own fear of rejection, entrepreneur Jia Jiang started an experiment to be rejected every day for 100 days. The result became the basis of his #3 viewed TED talk of 2017 and bestselling book: Rejection Proof. In this engaging presentation, Jia shares stories from his rejection experiment to teach you the importance of becoming rejection-proof, the basic principles of turning a NO into YES, as well as how to get more YESes.

32 – How Analytics Help Achieve a 92.94 Composite MIPS Score and Increased Revenue and Efficiency

Sara Brown, MBA

Practice Optimization Consultant, Baptist Health Care

Robert Lambrisky, BSN, RN, CPHQ

Director of Quality Analytics, Baptist Health Care

Paul Brown, MSA

Quality Analytics Manager, Baptist Health Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) to incentivize healthcare organizations to provide excellent care. However, siloed reporting can make it difficult to identify improvement opportunities as it can take weeks for the data to make its way through the system. Learn how Baptist Health tackled this problem by using data to maximize MIPS scores and ensure the points assigned accurately reflected the expert care provided to patients. Improvements included a 92.94 composite MIPS score, achieving exceptional performer quartile performance, qualifying for the exceptional performance bonus, and increasing revenue.

Join this session to discover:

• How actionable data and analytics can help accelerate MIPS performance.
• How to gain a better understanding of MIPS measures, including the importance of documentation timing for diagnosis codes, medications, and exclusion and exemption criteria.
• How to standardize and streamline documentation expectations.

The Products and Services Showcase features 36 face-to-face demo stations including data and analytics platform, high-value analytics, high-value data, financial empowerment, quality improvement, population health, interoperability, and outsourced services. See the latest Health Catalyst products and interact with product development.

Take a look at all the stations available on the Showcases page.

29 – “We’re #1”- The National Ranking Game: Another Exciting Tom Burton Interactive Game Session

Tom Burton

Co-founder and Strategic Advisor, Health Catalyst

Don’t miss this engaging 2-hour game-based session with Tom Burton, Co-founder and Chief Fun Officer of Health Catalyst. This year Tom will tackle the many challenges of improving national hospital ranking strategies, as many boards increase pressure on healthcare executive teams to do better on these highly visible ranking systems. Tom and his team have built an interactive game to explore various strategic approaches to these challenges. 

Join us in this session to find out:

• The impact of national hospital rankings on quality, market share, and recruitment.
• The best strategies for health systems to increase value to the communities they serve.
• How to best improve perceptions with BOTH the communities you serve AND the Health System’s board of directors.

35 – How to Break Free of the Reporting Backlog and Meet Rising Demands for Data and Analytics

Yoshi Williams, MBA

Data Warehouse Manager & Principal Architect, MultiCare Health Systems

The need for data and analytics to support and inform strategic and operational decisions continually increases, generating massive data and report requests. At the same time, budgets and finite IT resources don’t always keep pace. As a result, it’s easy for analytics teams to feel overwhelmed and exhausted, leading to frustration, loss of productivity, and demoralization.

Discover how MultiCare Health System, a comprehensive health system and a CHIME Digital Health Most Wired award winner, tackled overwhelming data and analytics requests, redesigning processes, and eliminating waste, allowing the analytics team to be more productive while simultaneously improving department morale and customer satisfaction.

Join this session to learn:

• How to make pragmatic and incremental improvements to tackle waste, improve processes, and generate capacity to meet the organization’s data and analytics needs.
• How to align the right talent with the right work.
• How to identify opportunities to enhance and improve self-service analytics.

36 – How to Use AI to Improve Leadership Decisions and Motivate Change

Julie Watson, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, INTEGRIS Health

Jason Jones, PhD

Chief Analytics and Data Science Officer, General Manager of Data and Analytics Platform, Health Catalyst

With “healthcare” and “AI” in a sentence, most people immediately think of point of care decisions or predictive models such as identifying which patient is more likely to be readmitted. But have you considered using AI to establish executive compensation and other operational decisions? Learn how INTEGRIS Health, ranked as one of the top 25 healthcare systems in the U.S., uses augmented intelligence to enable leaders to improve their decisions, align the organization, and motivate change.

Join this session to discover:

• How AI can be applied in leadership decision-making to transform the organization.
• How to use AI in a way that makes human judgment and value more important, not less.
• How to demonstrate actual, achievable improvement in a transparent and reproducible way that motivates change.

37 – What Is Making AI Fail? Is it the Humans or Algorithms?

Taylor Davis, MStat, MBA

President, KLAS Research

Efforts to embed AI and analytics into healthcare have been hit and miss. Why?

After thousands of customer interviews, what is the KLAS anticipation for the future state of healthcare analytics and AI.

What will successful healthcare organizations need to focus on? How will vendors support this revolution?

38 – Data Science as Interstitial Fluid: Lessons and Experience from a Growing Neuroscience Biotech

Nirmal Keshava, PhD

Vice President, Data Science and Innovation, Cerevel Therapeutics

The integration of data science into the fabric of the medical industry is ongoing. Biotechs are unique as they typically work with very limited resources but can use data-centric approaches in the early stages of drug development, where they can impart a substantial downstream impact. However, using data science effectively depends on having a constellation of opportunities, resources, and internal champions. The chances for success are further improved by human factors and a strongly human-centric approach to engagement and solution development.

Find out how Cerevel has tackled this by establishing a data science organization early that has since permeated many organizations—beginning the process of establishing data-centric platforms, technologies, and algorithms as a kind of interstitial fluid that is reducing uncertainty in decision making and increasing efficiency.

Join this session to learn:

• Benefits of applying data science to a wide variety of problems.
• Steps you can take to insert data science into your organization.
• Use cases across pre-clinical research and development, clinical development and operations, and strategic business development.

The Products and Services Showcase features 36 face-to-face demo stations including data and analytics platform, high-value analytics, high-value data, financial empowerment, quality improvement, population health, interoperability, and outsourced services. See the latest Health Catalyst products and interact with product development.

Take a look at all the stations available on the Showcases page.

40 – Featured Speaker Session: Elana Meyers Taylor

Elana Meyers Taylor

Five-Time Olympic Medalist, USA Bobsled

Elana Meyers Taylor is a five-time Olympic Medalist and the most decorated athlete of color to ever compete in the Olympic Winter Games. She was elected by Team USA to carry the American flag at both the opening and closing ceremonies, becoming the first athlete in history to be named Flag Bearer for both. She will share a stunning story of resilience through childbirth trauma, caring for her newborn son with special needs, isolating with COVID, all while training and competing for the Olympic Games.

41 – Final Survey and Summit Winners

Dan Burton

Chief Executive Officer, Health Catalyst

We’ll kick off our final session with an overall end-of-summit survey where we ask for your feedback on what went well and what we can improve.  Then we’ll recognize the top 10 HAS gamification point winners, who will all be eligible for our Grand Prize drawing.  We’ll have our analysts randomly draw the winner and recognize the winner on stage.  Finally, we’ll hear from Dan Burton, the CEO of Health Catalyst, who will present the top-rated featured speakers and breakout sessions and give some final reflections on our overall experience at HAS 22.