Thursday, October 10th, 2019
9:15am - 11:45am CST
As technology rapidly advances, the healthcare landscape is shifting at a similar rate. Healthcare leaders must identify the specific barriers they face in providing strong, personalized and high-value care, and the optimal solutions available to address these. This summit will provide discussions on community health challenges, causes of burden for today’s clinicians and use of the EHR to build systems that produce the best outcomes.
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Breakfast (optional)
9:45 am - 10:30 am
A System Approach to Addressing Clinician Burden in Community Health Organizations
The health crisis of clinician burden and burnout must be addressed through a system approach. In this session, we’ll discuss what causes burden/burnout, how it impacts community/rural hospitals particularly, what’s being done about it now and what we can continue doing to address it.
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Building Health Communities: Population Health and Community of Care
As we move away from fee-for-service models, how do organizations succeed in this new paradigm? In this session, we’ll discuss how to manage patient populations to compete effectively in a value-based care environment, and how the use of population health solutions can yield the metrics that matter and overcome rural/community barriers.
10:45 am - 11:00 am - Networking Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Overcome EHR Challenges to Drive Organizational Change and Patient Outcomes.
The healthcare landscape today is defined by changing business models and merging organizations. In this session, we’ll discuss how to make your EHR a valuable tool to find opportunities to reduce organizational variation, and in doing so improve clinical outcomes and the care delivery process in community/rural hospitals.