HIMSS24
Data Quality Theater
On-Demand Sessions
What’s Data Quality Got To Do With It?
Speakers: Michelle Dardis, MSN, MBA, RN, Director, Department of Quality Measurement, The Joint Commission; Dr. Michael S. Barr, President & Founder, MEDIS, LLC; Angie Glotstein, RN, BSN, Vice President Clinical Quality & Population Health, GEHA, Inc.
Tune in to this robust conversation about the impact of healthcare data quality on an organization from the payer perspective. Our panel discusses the limitations and opportunities associated with data quality and the steps organizations can take to improve data quality and access to structured clinical data. The conversation includes thoughts on how to efficiently use this high-quality clinical data to improve quality measure reporting and patient care.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
It’s Time to Get “PIQI” About Your Data
Speakers: Ryan Fung, Product Architect, Smile Digital Health; Rick A. Moore, Ph.D, Founder/CEO, Moore Than Consulting Group, LLC; Charlie Harp, CEO, Clinical Architecture
An engaging panel discussion on the transformative potential of a healthcare data quality framework called “PIQI” (Patient Information Quality Improvement). This panel explores the importance of standardized methodologies for assessing and reporting data quality, enabling data owners, users, patients, and policy makers to evaluate and communicate findings effectively.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
Value Sets in a Distributed Learning Context
Speakers: Joe Bormel, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Cognitive Medical Systems, Victor Lee, MD, Vice President of Clinical Informatics, Clinical Architecture
This presentation discusses the significance of value sets in standard clinical vocabularies for interoperable health information exchange. Our speaker, Dr. Joe Bormel addresses challenges in data quality, proposes solutions for improved data reuse, and explores NIH’s role in research and care delivery. He shares the need for community engagement and collaboration for successful implementation and adoption.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM
An AI Cure for Provider Burnout, Poor Outcomes, and Low Reimbursement
Speakers: Steven Charlap, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO, SOAP Health; Michael LaRocca, Founder and CEO, Ready Computing; Stephanie Broderick, Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Clinical Architecture
Can artificial intelligence make a tangible difference in healthcare delivery? Our panel discusses their collaboration on a project for the Department of Veterans Affairs. They review the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize physician time, visualize data in new ways, minimize misdiagnosis, and automate manual steps. They discuss the technical solution they developed that involves normalizing and analyzing data from various sources, using AI to infer possible diagnoses, and utilizing a virtual assistant for patient interviews.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
AI-based Clinical Decision Support in High Acuity Settings
Speakers: Kelly Sager, Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Decision Support Solutions, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics; Julia Skapik, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC); Debra Umlauft, MBA, CNMT, Global Senior Product Director, Cardiology Care Pathway, GE HealthCare; John Lee, MD, Emergency Physician, Edward-Elmhurst Health
This interactive panel discussion provides insights into the current state and future potential of AI-based clinical decision support solutions and how those tools can improve patient care in high acuity settings, emergency departments, ICUs, etc. Our speakers address the need for high-quality, standardized clinical data to power artificial intelligence solutions and close gaps in care. They also discuss the intersection of clinical decision support, clinical quality measurement, and AI, emphasizing the importance of analytics in measuring and improving outcomes.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 5:00 PM – 5:40 PM
The Use of Data Models and Terminology in Analytics
Speakers: Phil Lindemann, Vice President for Data and Analytics Informatics, Epic; Suzy Roy, Customer Relations Manager, Americas & Collaborations Specialist, SNOMED International; Ben Hamlin, DrPH, Senior Research Informaticist, NCQA
This discussion addresses the importance of data models and standard terminology for analytics and its real-world application in an electronic health record platform. Our panelists highlight the global impact that SNOMED CT has had on patient safety and outcomes and the need to address challenges in standardization and advocate for collaborative efforts to ensure data quality. Finally, our panelists close this session by answering the question: Which would you rather have: more data or better data?
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM
Partner Spotlight: Clinical Architecture and Verato Combine Forces for Comprehensive Data Quality
Speakers: Reggie Wells, MHA, MBA, Senior Technical Sales Consultant, Verato; Bonnie Bruner, MSN, RN-BC, Client Success Manager, Director of IDN Accounts, Clinical Architecture
Our panelists from Clinical Architecture and Verato showcase a successful implementation within a major health system that incorporates data normalization and data quality with patient matching and a healthcare MDM solution. They share the roadmap for the implementation and the architecture for how data is managed and transformed into a reliable asset that the enterprise can use to improve patient outcomes and better inform operational initiatives.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
The Sequoia Project: Advancing Data Usability in Healthcare
Speakers: Didi Davis, Vice President Informatics, Conformance and Interoperability, The Sequoia Project; Dr. William Gregg, MD, MS, MPH, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer & Vice President, HCA Healthcare; Charlie Harp, CEO, Clinical Architecture
This session focuses on the initiatives undertaken by the Sequoia Project to improve data usability. Didi Davis, Vice President of Informatics Conformance and Interoperability for The Sequoia Project, explains that the project aims to address interoperability issues in the US healthcare system. The panel discusses the importance of data quality and usability and the incremental improvements that will be necessary in the future to achieve the goal of high-quality healthcare data interoperability.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Value Set Quality And Emerging Novel Approaches
Speakers: Jim Shalaby, CEO, Elimu Informatics; Victor Lee, MD, Vice President of Clinical Informatics, Clinical Architecture
In this panel discussion, the focus is on the current state of value sets in the VSAC repository and the potential for using AI to create and maintain value sets. Jim Shalaby, CEO of Elimu Informatics, shares his experiments using AI engines to create value sets and highlights the importance of metadata for discoverability and maintainability. The panel presents a joint offering between Clinical Architecture and Elimu to provide a managed service for comprehensive, clinically curated value sets.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM
Data Quality in Public Health Standards
Speaker: Nakia Eldridge, PharmD, MBA, Director, Healthcare Patient Safety Information, US Pharmacopeia
Nakia Eldridge, Director of Healthcare Patient Safety Information Team at the US Pharmacopeia Convention, underscores USP’s role in applying public health standards to the digital environment. Nakia emphasizes the significance of data quality in the digital sphere and USP’s efforts in digitizing datasets and improving data quality using Clinical Architecture’s Symedical software. She discusses USP’s work on a data model for compounded drugs and personalized medicine, including plans for unique codes for compounded formulations.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Advancing Data Quality in Public Health Through AI: The Datapult ELR Use Case
Speakers: Patina Zarcone-Gagne, Director of Datapult, an APHL Company; Sarah Brumley, MHA, Client Success Manager, Director of Federal & Public Health Accounts, Clinical Architecture
This presentation highlights how Clinical Architecture worked with Datapult, an APHL subsidiary to address data quality challenges in electronic lab reporting (ELR) in public health. They discuss the expanded ELR that was created and discuss the vision for the future – seamless data exchange during public health emergencies and the use of quality data to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM
Are you Content With Your Content?
Speakers: Victor Lee, MD, Vice President of Clinical Informatics, Clinical Architecture; Charlie Harp, CEO, Clinical Architecture
This discussion focuses on Clinical Architecture’s content offerings. Dr. Lee explains the two types of content that Clinical Architecture makes available to clients. The first being third-party content, for example, SNOMED, LOINC, and RxNorm. And the second being content developed and maintained by Clinical Architecture. He provides insight on how a healthcare enterprise can benefit from these streamlined assets.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
Top 5 Impactful Use Cases for Improving Data Quality
Speakers: Sarah Brumley, MHA, Client Success Manager, Director of Federal & Public Health Accounts, Clinical Architecture; Bonnie Bruner, MSN, RN-BC, Client Success Manager, Director of IDN Accounts, Clinical Architecture, Shaun Shakib, MPH, PhD, FAMIA, Chief Informatics Officer, Clinical Architecture
Our Clinical Architecture panelists walk the audience through the top five impactful use cases for improving data quality.
- Content acquisition
- Reference data management
- Master data management
- Data normalization
- Content authoring
They provide real-world examples of how Clinical Architecture has helped clients improve their enterprise data quality. They also discuss the potential role of artificial intelligence in these use cases, emphasizing the need for human intervention and validation.