Summit Speakers

TOPIC: Strategic Shift: The Changing Landscape Around Analytics in Health Care

How is the landscape around the use of analytics in health care changing? Mark Hagland will describe the policy, industry, and strategic shifts taking place that are shifting the context around the use of analytics in the industry. How will health care reform-related mandates under Medicare, and the meaningful use requirements under the HITECH Act, force the leaders of patient care organizations to rethink what types of analytical work are done, and how they're done. The Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics will share insights from his publication's current research and reporting.

About Mark:

Mark Hagland is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics, the leading monthly magazine in the health care IT leadership space. He has spent over 20 years in health care as a writer, editor, and speaker, having edited several prestigious publications, and having authored two books on quality in health care. After a decade-long relationship with HCI as a contributing writer, Mark became Editor-in-Chief of the magazine in January 2010. Mark received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

TOPIC: Individualized Guidelines: A Tool to Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs in an Accountable Care Environment

There has been ongoing debate about the best way to improve outcomes and control costs in health care. Proposals range from expanding coverage to the uninsured to reducing reimbursements to physicians and hospitals. Physicians' decisions dictate how the vast majority of health care dollars are spent annually; it is the content of care that dictates the quality and cost of health care.

The content of care today is largely based on clinical guidelines. Guidelines assist physician decisions by reducing very complex problems to relatively simple rules or steps. Guidelines also form the basis of many performance measures, disease management tools, and incentive programs, which gives them even greater influence over how decisions are made. But there are limitations to current population based guidelines as they are designed to be clinically simplistic, they focus generally on one risk factor, and use sharp thresholds to distinguish between persons who should and should not receive treatment.

Recent improvements in mathematical modeling and the increasing availability of information in Electronic Health Records (EHR), enable us to move from population-based guidelines to those that are based on each person's risk for outcomes and expected benefit from treatment and that take into account a more complete spectrum and the continuous nature of risk factors. This more person-specific, quantitative approach of individualized guidelines has been evaluated in real practice settings to improve shared decision making, increases adherence, and lower risk.

About Peter:

Peter E. Alperin, MD, Medical Director at Archimedes, is responsible for implementing mathematics-based simulations of physiology and the healthcare system with industry clients. He is also involved in product strategy and development of the Archimedes Model.

Prior to joining Archimedes, Peter was Director of Medical Informatics at Brown and Toland Medical Group. Before that, he was a director at ePocrates, a privately held healthcare technology company based in San Carlos. There he was responsible for developing the most widely used handheld formulary support tool for physicians.

After finishing his residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF in 1997, Peter built a successful hospitalist program at Mills-Peninsula Hospital. Additionally, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and has authored several papers and book chapters. He currently practices at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Peter received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley.

TOPIC: Connecting the Dots: Developing a Data Model to Support Hennepin County's Accountable Care Organization

About Sam:

Sam VanNorman, MBA, CPHQ, co-directs the Center for Healthcare Innovation at Hennepin County Medical Center and is involved in HCMC's ACO development, as well as HCMC's analytics strategy. Sam has a varied background in healthcare, including work in finance, operations, quality improvement, and economics at payer, provider, and consulting organizations. Sam also teaches graduate health economics at St. Cloud State University. Prior to working in healthcare, Sam designed microchips for IBM and several failed startups. In his spare time, he plays with his two crazy children, brews beer, and tries not to destroy his house with home improvement 'projects'.

TOPIC: CMS Discusses Meaningful Use

As the first measurement year comes to an end many questions still exist about how to execute on the meaningful use measures. Representatives from CMS will be answering questions in an open Q & A format for all interested healthcare practitioners who intend of completing meaningful use measures and have questions about requirements, processes or procedures.

About Jason:

At the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Jason McNamara currently serves as the Health Information Technology Coordinator on the national CMS Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) team. In his role, he is responsible for the coordination and oversight of the States' implementation of the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. Throughout his healthcare IT career, McNamara has implemented and integrated healthcare information system technologies and polices across the public and private sector enterprise. McNamara has also worked with many of the industry's leading EHR/EMR, LIS, and PM vendors. His teams have implemented and managed a wide range of technology solutions developed to improve patient care and maximize clinical efficiencies in a wide breath of clientele, ranging from single provider practices to worldwide healthcare systems. McNamara is excited to assist providers, hospitals and States in this critical transition to Electronic Health Records. McNamara is also a combat veteran and is proud to have honorably served in the United States Marine Corps.

About Nicholas:

Nicholas Blake has been focused on Health Information Technology initiatives since the inception of the American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009. Nicholas began his career in Health Information Technology at Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration serving as the State EHR incentive program coordinator and EHR incentive program subject matter expert. Since then, Nicholas has transitioned from the State level (as well as the warm sunny weather and ample supply of golf courses) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, regional office in Chicago. Here he serves as a Coordinator for Health Information Technology incentives and is part of a dedicated team responsible for the coordination and oversight of States' implementation of the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. Coming from the State level, Nicholas understands many of the challenges States' currently face with respect to the EHR Incentive Program. He is excited and determined to help States' achieve their Health Information Technology goals.

Nicholas is proud to have been born and raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

TOPIC: Healthcare Analytics From Waiting Room to Treatment Room: Decision Support in Action

Recent advances in healthcare information technology (HIT) have resulted in a massive increase in the volume and complexity of data available for gaining insight into healthcare operations. Given the growing pressures on the healthcare system, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must leverage this influx of data to radically improve quality, safety, and efficiency to be viable, competitive enterprises. Leading HCOs promote the widespread, innovative use of analytic applications to drive decision-making and quality improvement initiatives at all levels throughout the organization. This presentation will showcase real-world examples of how business intelligence and analytics applications are venturing beyond the corporate office and into the hands of front-line management and staff to enable real-time data-driven decision making. We will discuss strategies for and lessons learned from initiatives that use front-line analytics to improve quality, enhance efficiency, and enable sustainability. The strategies discussed will include finding the right balance between IT- and business-lead innovation and development, how to engage staff with analytics, and recruiting and retaining the "right" analytics resources for healthcare. The creative use of analytics from the waiting room to the bedside will help enable the transparency and cross-silo sharing that HCOs need to break down the barriers to achieve true healthcare transformation.

About Trevor:

Trevor Strome MSc, PMP Trevor is the Informatics and Process Improvement Lead for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Emergency Program and is responsible for developing and implementing innovative analytics tools for use in healthcare quality improvement initiatives. He is also Assistant Professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, where he participates on clinical and operations research projects and teaches statistics, informatics, and quality improvement to Emergency Medicine Residents as well as Emergency nursing staff. Trevor has co-authored three book chapters and numerous articles on healthcare topics.

Having obtained undergraduate training in computer science and neuroscience, and graduate training in Epidemiology, Trevor has broad experience in health informatics implementation, healthcare quality improvement, and healthcare analytics development. In addition to a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Trevor has achieved certifications in Lean and Six Sigma. Trevor has been involved in the successful commercialization of health informatics technology, including an Emergency Medical Services data system launched in cooperation with the University of Alberta and other commercial partners.

Trevor is the founder/editor of HealthcareAnalytics.info blog, and can be reached at trevor@healthcareanalytics.info.

TOPIC: Claims & Diagnostic Analytics - Going Beyond the Data Warehouse

Effective healthcare as measured by economic advantages and better outcomes for patients, providers and payers depends on information discovery that goes far beyond the data warehouse. The ability to access, search and visualize claims submission information by diagnosis code groupings, location, providers, as well as other related records and data source attributes promises to allow for side-by-side analysis that will create new perspectives for identifying risks, trends and opportunities. Join Endeca and H2H Solutions to learn how agile business intelligence can complement your existing claims analysis infrastructure and watch a live demonstration of a self-service application that allows business end users to conduct ad-hoc querying and analysis over a range of claim information dimensions with virtually no training.

About Milan:

Milan has been associated with the managed care industry for over 18 years, fulfilling senior executive roles encompassing marketing, sales, provider and hospital network contracting, customer support services, public relations, as well as directing all forms of electronic and print media communications. He developed three successful health care service companies during his career, and is a 1992 graduate of the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia, PA, Leonard Davis School of Health Economics, Masters Program in Managed Care.

TOPIC: True Enterprise Intelligence & Care Analytics

Healthcare Business Intelligence is changing both in applications and analytics. There is a new emphasis on accessing data from various data silos in seconds rather than hours. Mobile computing represents a new BI paradigm that must be considered by providers and payers. This presentation will discuss current developments in knowledge capital and enterprise intelligence and describe the role of mHealth in the process. Examples of successful healthcare BI applications and practical future strategies will be described.

About C. Peter:

C. Peter Waegemann is President of mHealth Initiative, Boston, and author of the upcoming book Knowledge Capital - Managing Intelligence, Human Software, and the Net. Until 2009 he was CEO of the Medical Records Institute, a Boston-based organization involved in applied research and functioning as an educational clearinghouse. Since the 1980s, Waegemann has been a visionary and promoter of electronic medical record systems (EMRs). As a leader in health informatics, he chaired ANSI Health Informatics Standards Board for two terms, was one of the fathers of ISO TC 215 on Health Informatics and CORBAmed, and helped to create the CCR (Continuity of Care Record). For twenty-five years, he chaired the conference Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR), which annually drew several thousand attendees. He is an acknowledged international leader in health informatics, with a special interest in intelligence systems, electronic patient record systems, standards, networking, and mHealth. In 2007, Waegemann was cited as one of 20 outstanding people who make healthcare better (HealthLeaders).