Healthcare Innovation's Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland will welcome attendees, lay out the schedule for the day and provide a critical update on the healthcare landscape. Reporting for nearly 35 years in healthcare, Mark has covered every aspect of the US Healthcare industry, from federal and state healthcare policy, to operational issues across the industry, to quality improvement, to strategic information technology issues.
 

In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization.
 

Joe Diver, Senior Vice President and CIO at Signature Healthcare, will lead a panel discussion on the current operational landscape facing CIOs, CMIOs, and other senior leaders in patient care organizations, and will describe the challenges and opportunities facing senior health IT leaders in a moment of change and challenge.
 

Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland will engage with a panel of payer and provider leaders on the lessons being learned in value-based contracting.

Industry Partner Spotlights feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system.
 

Attendee meetings with sponsors will take place during this time period.

Internationally recognized cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings will lead a panel discussion around the biggest threats facing the leaders of patient care organizations in a moment in which cyber threats are intensifying, and the panel will discuss which advanced incident response strategies are working in patient care organizations nationwide.
 

What are the opportunities to improve the orchestration of processes in the emergency department? A provider leader and a leader from X by 2 will describe the issues at hand, and how providers are addressing those issues, in order to improve processes and patient outcomes.

How will hospitals, health systems, medical groups, and health plans work together to birth the connected healthcare system of the future? Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland will sit down with Denny Brennan, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC), who will share with the audience the broad efforts that MHDC is involved in right now in order to help lead healthcare delivery in Massachusetts forward into a future of improved health equity, engagement, quality, cost, and effectiveness. They will discuss the data science and analytics, data standardization and data exchange, and interoperability initiatives that MHDC is involved in statewide.
 

A look at a key emerging technology.
 

A conversation with Charles Binkley, M.D., Director of AI Ethics and Quality at Hackensack Meridian Health n New Jersey, about the whole range of issues that clinician leaders like himself are wading though right now, as they establish and expand artificial intelligence programs nationwide.
 

In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key  strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization.
 

Attendee meetings with sponsors will take place during this time period.

Erin Pelletier, Vice President of Operational Excellent at Care New England, will share about her health system’s journey into EHR optimization, care delivery and operational transformation, and the role of change management in making it all happen. Erin will describe the challenges that have faced Care New England, and how she and her team are creating change.
 

A conversation with Stephen Dorner, M.D., Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer of Mass General Brigham’s Healthcare at Home program, about the important lessons learned so far in the creation and expansion of this pioneering program.
 

Keely Benson, Director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI), will share with the audience the progress that she and her colleagues are making in advancing the digital infrastructure across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to funding important startup organizations. What’s been learned so far on the journey?
 

An opportunity for attendees to extend their networking activity, post-educational sessions.