Marking Up Our Agendas For Medical Informatics World 2017
By Clinical Informatics News Staff
March 23, 2017 Earlier this week, the National Academy of Medicine released a report outlining vital directions for health and health care. Nineteen recommendations emerged from a panel of 150 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from across the United States. They came together to assess and provide expert guidance on U.S. health policy. The vision of the Vital Directions Initiative: “A health system that performs optimally in promoting, protecting, and restoring the health of individuals and populations, and helps each person reach their full potential for health and well-being.”
Among the four priorities for action, the report highlights connected care—using technologies to link health data and improve patient experience. We agree that health technologies, connected care, and interoperability are vitally important work, and the Medical Informatics World conference in Boston in May will delve into many of those questions.
The event will be held May 22-23, 2017, at the Renaissance Waterfront Hotel, Boston. Each day begins with strong keynote panels. Kicking off the event, Andrea Ippolito (Department of Veterans Affairs) and Saurabha Bhatnagar (Harvard Medical School) will discuss their efforts to build an Innovators Network within the $60 billion VA integrated healthcare system where new ideas can be cultivated and diffused across the country. On Tuesday, the always-engaging John Halamka (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) has a warning: “we must innovate or die.” He’ll reveal how Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare System is managing $1.5 billion in risk contracts with novel quality measures, care management, and patient facing apps.
The keynotes will set the stage for two full days devoted to each of five tracks: Population Health Management, Risk Modeling, and Patient Stratification; Pharma-ACO Data Collaboration for Healthcare Innovation; Telehealth Integration and Implementation; Achieving Global Interoperability in Healthcare Datasets and Systems; and Sensors for Medical Applications.
Our agendas are well-marked across all five tracks. Here are just a few of our favorites.
-- The Editors
Mark Davies (formerly NHS) and Simon Jones (NYU Langone Medical Center) plan to “tag team” a talk on why population health is a contact sport. The two will draw on international examples and illustrate the impact of population health from both a clinical and epidemiological perspective. Monday, May 22, 11:00 am
Without proper alignment between technology, provider workflows, and organizational structure, investments in data and analytics alone will not achieve the desired outcomes. Adrian Zai (Massachusetts General Hospital) plans to discuss strategies to combine clinical workflow, data, and technology to create effective interventions based on clinical studies conducted at MGH. Monday, May 22, 2:40 pm
Powered by the HIE’s real-time clinical database of over 1.3 million people, Maine’s HealthInfoNet offers real-time predictive risk scores to help providers improve care coordination and drive down unnecessary use. HealthInfoNet CEO Devore Culver will discuss lessons learned and several use cases for predictive analytics tools in both the ambulatory and inpatient settings. Monday, May 22, 2:35 pm
Katherine Vandebelt (Eli Lilly and Company) will discuss Eli Lilly’s collaborations in healthcare to drive clinical research as a care option, and how they are using that data to improve drug discovery and development. Monday, May 22, 2:10 pm
Drug response and demographics is always a fascinating topic. John Whyte (FDA) plans to discuss the Drug Trial Snapshots program, created by FDA in November 2014. With more details on who participated in the pivotal trials and whether there were any observed differences in safety and efficacy by demographic subgroups of sex, race, and age, the Drug Trial Snapshots raise important questions about population-based drug development and variability in response to drugs overall. Tuesday, May 23, 11:30 am
Rebecca Kush (CDISC) will explore Healthcare Link, the initiative designed to make it easier for physicians to conduct clinical research, collect data only once in an industry standard format for multiple downstream uses, and improve data quality and patient safety. Tuesday, May 23, 3:05 pm
Telehealth is more than just old care models digitized. Kicking off the telehealth program, Seth Feuerstein (Yale and Magellan Health) and Lynn Hamilton (Talkspace) will examine entirely new modes of care that are only available as a result of new digital platforms. These include text-based care delivery and computerized clinical programs that are offered without a clinician directly involved. Monday, May 22, 11:25 am
Alexis S. Gilroy (Jones Day) with delve into the strategies for evaluating and managing multi-jurisdictional laws and regulations while scaling your digital health business. From whether telehealth has changed the standard of care to whether a second opinion is the practice of medicine, Gilroy will propose possible theories for the next frontier of legal and policy modifications expected to drive further change and business opportunity in digital health. Tuesday, May 23, 3:05 pm
The Ohio Governor’s Office of Health Transformation has organized public and private payers to financially reward better primary care and value in high cost episodes of care. These value-based reimbursement models are creating market demand for data sharing and practice transformation supports associated with 11 million covered lives. Greg Moody will recount how the Governor’s Office engaged private sector partners to minimize uncertainty and create a path to transform from volume-based fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement, and how this transformation is creating new market demand for technology. Monday, May 22, 11:30 am
Blackford Middleton (Apervita, formerly American Medical Informatics Association) will highlight three federally funded efforts for knowledge sharing and clinical decision support: the PCOR CDS Learning Network; Project Locus at the CMS Alliance for Modernization of Healthcare at MITRE; and the National Academies of Medicine Optimizing CDS Strategies efforts supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. These three related projects aim to create a marketplace for the sharing of computable knowledge, and an industry ecosystem for the execution of advanced analytics and cognitive aides in healthcare IT at scale. Monday, May 22, 2:10 pm
Perena Gouma (University of Texas at Arlington) will explore some of the newest in sensors: diagnostic breathalyzers and wearable gas detectors. Breathalyzers and gas detectors may assist in the early detection of flu or other infections, and have applications for animal health and food quality. Tuesday, May 23, 3:35 pm
March 23, 2017 Earlier this week, the National Academy of Medicine released a report outlining vital directions for health and health care. Nineteen recommendations emerged from a panel of 150 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from across the United States. They came together to assess and provide expert guidance on U.S. health policy. The vision of the Vital Directions Initiative: “A health system that performs optimally in promoting, protecting, and restoring the health of individuals and populations, and helps each person reach their full potential for health and well-being.”
Among the four priorities for action, the report highlights connected care—using technologies to link health data and improve patient experience. We agree that health technologies, connected care, and interoperability are vitally important work, and the Medical Informatics World conference in Boston in May will delve into many of those questions.
The event will be held May 22-23, 2017, at the Renaissance Waterfront Hotel, Boston. Each day begins with strong keynote panels. Kicking off the event, Andrea Ippolito (Department of Veterans Affairs) and Saurabha Bhatnagar (Harvard Medical School) will discuss their efforts to build an Innovators Network within the $60 billion VA integrated healthcare system where new ideas can be cultivated and diffused across the country. On Tuesday, the always-engaging John Halamka (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) has a warning: “we must innovate or die.” He’ll reveal how Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare System is managing $1.5 billion in risk contracts with novel quality measures, care management, and patient facing apps.
The keynotes will set the stage for two full days devoted to each of five tracks: Population Health Management, Risk Modeling, and Patient Stratification; Pharma-ACO Data Collaboration for Healthcare Innovation; Telehealth Integration and Implementation; Achieving Global Interoperability in Healthcare Datasets and Systems; and Sensors for Medical Applications.
Our agendas are well-marked across all five tracks. Here are just a few of our favorites.
-- The Editors
Mark Davies (formerly NHS) and Simon Jones (NYU Langone Medical Center) plan to “tag team” a talk on why population health is a contact sport. The two will draw on international examples and illustrate the impact of population health from both a clinical and epidemiological perspective. Monday, May 22, 11:00 am
Without proper alignment between technology, provider workflows, and organizational structure, investments in data and analytics alone will not achieve the desired outcomes. Adrian Zai (Massachusetts General Hospital) plans to discuss strategies to combine clinical workflow, data, and technology to create effective interventions based on clinical studies conducted at MGH. Monday, May 22, 2:40 pm
Powered by the HIE’s real-time clinical database of over 1.3 million people, Maine’s HealthInfoNet offers real-time predictive risk scores to help providers improve care coordination and drive down unnecessary use. HealthInfoNet CEO Devore Culver will discuss lessons learned and several use cases for predictive analytics tools in both the ambulatory and inpatient settings. Monday, May 22, 2:35 pm
Katherine Vandebelt (Eli Lilly and Company) will discuss Eli Lilly’s collaborations in healthcare to drive clinical research as a care option, and how they are using that data to improve drug discovery and development. Monday, May 22, 2:10 pm
Drug response and demographics is always a fascinating topic. John Whyte (FDA) plans to discuss the Drug Trial Snapshots program, created by FDA in November 2014. With more details on who participated in the pivotal trials and whether there were any observed differences in safety and efficacy by demographic subgroups of sex, race, and age, the Drug Trial Snapshots raise important questions about population-based drug development and variability in response to drugs overall. Tuesday, May 23, 11:30 am
Rebecca Kush (CDISC) will explore Healthcare Link, the initiative designed to make it easier for physicians to conduct clinical research, collect data only once in an industry standard format for multiple downstream uses, and improve data quality and patient safety. Tuesday, May 23, 3:05 pm
Telehealth is more than just old care models digitized. Kicking off the telehealth program, Seth Feuerstein (Yale and Magellan Health) and Lynn Hamilton (Talkspace) will examine entirely new modes of care that are only available as a result of new digital platforms. These include text-based care delivery and computerized clinical programs that are offered without a clinician directly involved. Monday, May 22, 11:25 am
Alexis S. Gilroy (Jones Day) with delve into the strategies for evaluating and managing multi-jurisdictional laws and regulations while scaling your digital health business. From whether telehealth has changed the standard of care to whether a second opinion is the practice of medicine, Gilroy will propose possible theories for the next frontier of legal and policy modifications expected to drive further change and business opportunity in digital health. Tuesday, May 23, 3:05 pm
The Ohio Governor’s Office of Health Transformation has organized public and private payers to financially reward better primary care and value in high cost episodes of care. These value-based reimbursement models are creating market demand for data sharing and practice transformation supports associated with 11 million covered lives. Greg Moody will recount how the Governor’s Office engaged private sector partners to minimize uncertainty and create a path to transform from volume-based fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement, and how this transformation is creating new market demand for technology. Monday, May 22, 11:30 am
Blackford Middleton (Apervita, formerly American Medical Informatics Association) will highlight three federally funded efforts for knowledge sharing and clinical decision support: the PCOR CDS Learning Network; Project Locus at the CMS Alliance for Modernization of Healthcare at MITRE; and the National Academies of Medicine Optimizing CDS Strategies efforts supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. These three related projects aim to create a marketplace for the sharing of computable knowledge, and an industry ecosystem for the execution of advanced analytics and cognitive aides in healthcare IT at scale. Monday, May 22, 2:10 pm
Perena Gouma (University of Texas at Arlington) will explore some of the newest in sensors: diagnostic breathalyzers and wearable gas detectors. Breathalyzers and gas detectors may assist in the early detection of flu or other infections, and have applications for animal health and food quality. Tuesday, May 23, 3:35 pm
