Quality and Safety
The tools available to help payers and providers come together to achieve the goal of value-based care, according to Inovalon SVPs Kristopher Volrath and Karly Rowe.
Verana Health uses large amounts of structured and unstructured de-identified patient data, including medical images, to inform value-based care models, explains Lawrence Whittle, CCO.
Targeted alerts for specific drugs can help clinicians make the right treatment decisions for their patients, says Anna Dover, director of product management at First Databank, who discusses those and other automation innovations.
In a preview of her HIMSS23 panel, Suchi Saria, founder and CEO of Bayesian Health, offers perspectives on building more dependable machine learning models and making them easier for clinicians to use.
At HIMSS23, Evelyn Gallego, CEO and founder of EMI Advisors, will highlight with fellow panelists the opportunity to develop a standardized data exchange to improve maternal care coordination and planning.
In a preview of his HIMSS23 session, Christopher Girardo, fellow, clinical informatics/PRN staff, pathology, at LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health, dives into health IT's role in fighting sepsis.
By analyzing crowdsourced patient experience data with NLP, it's possible to enhance care quality measurement and reporting, says Jennifer Gaudet Hefele, senior scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, a speaker at HIMSS23.
Juan Nanez, a speaker at HIMSS23 and director of Programs at Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, says when clinicians can access past patient history to guide decisions, hospital readmissions and ER visits decrease.
Previewing his HIMSS23 panel, Dr. Manish Kohli, board member of Wings of Hope and chief digital health officer and global head of humanitarian programs at Securra Health, explains how Wings of Hope uses tech to aid isolated communities.
Tom O'Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group, says boards need to think hard about how machine learning models are approved and deployed, since big issues related to safety, efficacy and transparency are at stake.