Jul 28
Policy Briefing: July 2022
Overview
Conflicting Rules of CMS’s Interoperability Rules and the No Surprises Act
Speakers
- Kevin Larsen, MD, Senior VP of Clinical Innovation and Translation, Optum
About the Member Policy Briefing
Federal legislators and regulators are working hard to ensure that all patients have quality healthcare. Often, important decisions about healthcare come down to trust and access to data. It’s no easy task to find a single solution to the myriad of hurdles that payers, providers, and vendors are...
Jul 27
Webinar: Ensure Your SDOH Efforts Lead to Real Results
What: During this event, experts from health systems, payers and community organizations will provide insights into their experiences implementing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Organizational Maturity Models, and how they applied these models to ensure their SDOH programs led to better health outcomes.
Background: The importance of SDOH data isn’t a mystery. Recent studies have found that only 20% of population health outcomes are determined by medical care — and the remaining 80% can be traced back to SDOH. Much of the healthcare industry...
Jun 02
Webinar: Using AI/Machine Learning for Patient Matching to Support Patient Safety and Improve Care
Overview
Access to accurate, complete, and timely data is one of the most valuable assets in any healthcare organization. Quality data improves care coordination, clinical outcomes, and saves lives but can only be achieved with accurate patient identification or matching across multiple sources. Interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) allow the electronic sharing of patient information between these difference sources, but sharing the data successfully requires the capacity to connect each patient with the correct record. Despite best practices in patient...
May 19
Webinar: Ensuring Provider Data Isn’t the Source of Surprises
Overview
The No Surprises Act (NSA) which went into effect on January 1, 2022, provides consumers federal protections from unexpected medical bills. One of the provisions of the No Surprises Act requires health plans to update their provider directories more frequently. This gets to the root cause of surprise billing, which is patients’ ability to easily identify which providers are in-network. If payers can update their directory in just 48 hours, as the law mandates, patients will have a much better chance of finding care that’s actually covered by their plans....
May 17
Webinar: Addressing Workforce Challenges in a Post-COVID World
Overview
The Covid-19 pandemic forever changed many aspects of daily life, including the way we work. Healthcare has arguably been the most disrupted industry during this time. Driven largely by increased consumer demand, workforce burnout, and staff shortages, hospitals and health systems are now facing a challenging task of rebuilding a new workforce. This unprecedented effort requires a reimagining of the way we hire, train, and retain workers.
During this timely and important event, you’ll hear from a group of diverse leaders who can speak from firsthand...
Apr 21
Webinar: Public Health Modernization Series: Health Equity & Public Health
Overview
A key goal of a modern public health system should be to advance health equity. In the fourth webinar in EHI’s Public Health Modernization Series, experts discussed how public health efforts should align to promote health equity, the importance of ensuring public health data is reflective of populations served, and how social determinants of health (SDOH) data impact public health.
Speakers
- Elizabeth Cope, PhD, MPH, Senior Director, Health Systems Improvement and Public and Population Health, AcademyHealth
- Tannaz...
Apr 20
Webinar: Future of Oncology Care: Delivering on Value-Based, Patient-Centered Care
Overview
We are amid a significant transformation in healthcare. The journey for patients, too often siloed and isolated, has moved from “traditional” to “smart,” creating a patient-centered and engaging approach to care. By leveraging virtual care platforms, interoperable data, remote care and monitoring, and predictive analytics and artificial intelligence, we are realizing the promise of a real, value-based, hybrid care model.
What You’ll Hear
True care coordination requires actual engagement, and meaningful, empathetic interactions...
Apr 05
Webinar: Use of Innovative Technologies in Public Health
OVERVIEW
The third webinar in EHI’s Public Health Modernization Series, experts discussed how innovative technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing are currently being used in public health, the potential for future uses, and steps stakeholders can take to advance innovation in public health.
Featured Speakers:
- Betsy Baker, MPH, PMP, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services, State and Local Government
- John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Jvion
...
Mar 29
Policy Briefing: March 2022
Overview
There has been a lot going here at EHI on health data privacy that you may be wondering – what are the key takeaways? This interactive discussion focused on all things privacy policy, including EHI & CDT’s two new consumer health data privacy reports, the status of EHI’s work to facilitate a self-regulatory data privacy system, and new, bipartisan legislation to update HIPAA.
Speakers
- Alice Leiter, Vice President and Senior Counsel, EHI
- Brett Meeks, Vice President, Health Innovation Alliance
- Catherine...
Mar 29
Webinar: EHR Usability and Optimization Solutions
OVERVIEW
Electronic health records (EHR) usability and interoperability have presented the public and private sectors both opportunities and challenges to delivering quality care.
Today, clinicians are inundated with a lot of data. Digesting large amounts of information is time consuming and can keep clinicians from delivering timely and efficient care. In addition, the data does not always include the information they need at the time they need it.
This esteemed panel, representing the Veteran Affairs Medical Centers and the private sector, addressed...
Mar 24
Webinar: EHI & CDT Release Second Phase of Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data
OVERVIEW
Hosted by Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), this webinar was the culmination of a project spearheaded by EHI and CDT and generously funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), which aims to protect consumer data that is both held and used by companies that are not bound by the obligations of HIPAA.
The EHI and CDT Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data (the Framework) was Released in February 2021. The report...
Mar 24
Workgroup: Health Equity & SDOH
Open Exclusively to EHI Members
Overview
In 2019, EHI developed the Ethical Uses of SDOH Data Framework. Since then, we have held various webinars and roundtables to discuss the importance of collecting, evaluating, and reporting data in ways that are innovative and impactful. Throughout the pandemic, data was at the center of contract tracing, vaccination efforts, and mortality which exposed the variable health outcomes as result of...
Mar 22
Webinar: Can the Interoperability Rule Change Healthcare Integration Forever?
VERVIEW
As FHIR APIs become more commonplace and new regulatory mandates loom, it could be useful to find multiple uses for your APIs. If we can move from creating stand-alone APIs to repurposing existing APIs, we can accelerate project delivery, reduce project costs, and create new experiences for patients and partners.
During this webinar, an esteemed panel of experts dug into the opportunities and roadblocks associated with the reuse of APIs, including:
- Do you need patient consent to reuse APIs?
- Do you need additional security to make...
Mar 17
Webinar: Data Privacy & Public Health: The Impact of COVID-19 & Where We Go From Here
OVERVIEW
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a number of issues in our health care system, not least of which was patient data privacy. On a normal day, questions around which rules apply to which data, at what time, and to what extent are difficult to answer – and it is only more complex in the midst of a global pandemic, when access to timely data is critical.
The second event in EHI's Public Health Modernization series, a panel of experts discussed ocurrent privacy requirements related to public health data, how this impacts our public health system, and...
Mar 15
Policy Briefing: March
Open Exclusively to EHI Members
About the Member Policy Briefing
Each month (the third Tuesday), Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) host a member-only monthly policy briefing featuring policymakers, staff, and health policy experts. This is a great opportunity to learn about timely issues and their impact on health IT and digital health. The 30-minute interactive discussion is held virtually and is a great opportunity to engage directly with experts on policies directly impacting your organization.
To learn more, contact...
Mar 09
Webinar: HIPAA for Dummies
OVERVIEW
You’re not dummies! But the legal protections surrounding health data are complicated, and we’re here to help. During the webinar, we broke down the HIPAA law, its regulations, and detailed the “wild west” landscape of protections for health data once it leaves the traditional healthcare system.
Speaker:
Alice Leiter, Vice President & Senior Counsel, Executives for Health Innovation (EHI)
Mar 03
EHI Leadership Council Meeting - Q1
About the EHI Leadership Council
Decisions that executives make are far-reaching and complex. The need for alignment on critical issues is paramount. Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) brings the top executives in healthcare together through its prestigious Leadership Council. Leaders in the EHI community know what their industry peers are thinking, while simultaneously building alignment with other stakeholder counterparts around big issues. The group puts forward recommendations to help move both the public and private sector.
Executives for...
Mar 02
Task Force: Public Health Modernization
Open Exclusively to EHI Members
Public Health Modernization Task Force
The COVID pandemic has highlighted challenges with the nation’s public health system. EHI formed a Public Health Modernization (PHM) Task Force to explore these issues and develop specific policy recommendations that will help move toward a more modern, data-driven system.
Open to EHI members, the Task Force meets biweekly to develop policy recommendations and participate in advocacy activities. The Task Force provides an opportunity for EHI members to identify specific asks...
Feb 24
Webinar: The Great Workforce Burnout: How Can We Provide Relief?
OVERVIEW
Clinician burnout is at an all-time high. The strain is fueling an already tremendous worker shortage in nursing, as well as contributing to significant resignations among physicians. The challenges are well known.
This important and timely webinar aimed to address what can be done to provide these critical frontline workers, including physicians and nurses, the necessary relief to increase their job satisfaction, and ultimately improve patient care.
The panelists addressed their experience deploying an intuitive predictive workflow system,...
Feb 23
Webinar: What the Pandemic Exposed and Taught Us About Our Public Health System
OVERVIEW
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call to much of the healthcare industry. It quickly became clear that public health systems, regulations, technology, and standards currently being relied on were outdated and, in some cases, leading to dangerous delays in reporting and tracing the spread of the virus.
EHI hosted the first webinar in the Public Health Modernization series titled, What the Pandemic Exposed and Taught Us About Our Public Health System. Speakers reviewed the current landscape of public health, what their organization...