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Combating the Rise in Cloud-based Threats

As the cloud migration continues, securing data and critical infrastructure is going to require new approaches. Organizations have struggled to maintain control of critical data and ensure real-time threat intelligence, giving cloud-based threats the ability to multiply. Data buckets being misconfigured, or inadequately secured increases the risk of a breach. Being able to manually manage security for large web application infrastructures has become a thing of the past. As such, organizations are being pushed to reevaluate their approach to web application security. 

Takeaways: 

• The rise of cloud migration means security will need to adapt 
• Many organizations have struggled to secure data 
•  Cybersecurity threats will only increase and become more complex

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Interoperability

One of the most significant requirements to provide high-quality care also is one of the most difficult to achieve true interoperability between healthcare providers, systems, technology and the information each of needs in order to achieve their respective goals. Interoperability is a problem throughout healthcare as disparate vendors, complex processes and clinical standards create tremendous barriers to delivering improved patient experiences and better outcomes. Lack of interoperability is perhaps the largest contributor to medical errors, the 3rd leading cause of death in the US 

Presented by:

Jordan Tannenbaum, CIO/CMIO, Saint Peter\'s Healthcare System

 

 

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The Expansion of Telehealth

Telehealth services are offered by a wide array of doctors, health systems and medical specialties. A senior citizen recovering in post-acute care, for example, can receive an on-camera consultation without the physical and financial toll of travel. The benefits will become more and more evident as more insurers move to cover telehealth consultations.  Such exchanges will increasingly go beyond a patient's typical providers to encompass a wide range of care needs. This will be pivotal for people in outlying or underserved areas who require the care of a specialist.

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Michelle Stansbury, Vice President, Innovation and IT Corporate Systems, Houston Methodist Hospital

 

 

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Digital Medicine and Digital Exhaust

Digital medicine is now medicine and every health system is in the digital business. AI and telemedicine are creating greater efficiencies for patients and the data generated creates opportunities and carries risk.

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Biomedical Devices- Top 5 Cyber Security Challenges / Opportunities

Medical device security will become an increasing concern for healthcare organizations, particularly as more of these devices are connected to the Internet, internal networks, and Wi-Fi. The increasing connectedness these medical devices will force more and more healthcare organizations to implement security solutions. 

Pre-market challenges: 

1. Insecure product development 
2. Lax FDA approval process especially for patient safety devices with internet connectivity 

 Post-market challenges: 

1. Ineffective procurement processes 
2. Lack of central management and real time visibility 
3. Decoupled management by IT and Biomedical Engineering.

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Increasing Customer Value with RPA (Robotics Process Automation)

CIOs are turning to an emerging technology practice called robotic process automation (RPA) to streamline enterprise operations and reduce costs. With RPA, businesses can automate mundane rules-based business processes, enabling business users to devote more time to serving customers or other higher-value work. Looking at HCSC's Intelligent Automation will illustrate how this is possible. 

Takeaways: 

1. What is Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
2. What are the benefits and pitfalls of RPA
3. What enterprise models/companies are successfully using RPA

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Creating a Virtual Care Program For Complex Populations

While telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual health modalities have seen significant growth in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has supercharged that growth. Providers and patients alike see it as a way to deliver necessary care while helping to protect the safety of both sides. Nevertheless, creating a virtual health program for populations with complex needs requires organizations to take a more flexible and expansive approach to meet patients where they are. This conversation will explore best practices and challenges from the lens of those on the front lines of building such programs. 

Takeaways  

1. What are the various modalities available to deploy virtual care, and the benefits and challenges of each 
2. What are the needs of individuals with complex medical and behavioral issues, and how they can be addressed through virtual care options? 
3. How should social determinants be taken into account when deploying a virtual care program?

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Steering Cultural Change

An IT executive's role, goals and objectives have drastically changed over the years. Most leaders supervise teams and units beyond their IT department. Due to these changes in responsibilities, their success is measured in greater business metrics. As a result, these roles have become both more attractive and more demanding. 

Takeaways: 

• What are the significant changes regarding the role of the IT Executive  
• How to keep up with the changing requirements  
• How to properly measure an IT executive's success

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Accelerating Transformation Through Crisis

In this interactive presentation we will explore how crisis like COVID-19 can help to accelerate transformation. Drawing on real-world examples from Wiley as well as other companies across multiple industries we will look at short- and long-term transformation opportunities. This talk will also draw on the experience of remote-first companies to examine the future of work in a post-COVID world. 

Key takeaways:  

• Learn from other companies about how they have responded to the COVID-19 crisis. Key challenges and how they were addressed. 
• Look at how crisis such as COVID-19 can accelerate transformation. 
• Examine learnings from remote-first companies to envision options for the future of the workplace.

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Big Data Analytics - A Fundamental Shift

We have moved from an information-poor to an information-rich society. Practically unlimited availability of data, computing, networking and socio-mobile connectivity are fundamentally altering our world. In particular, they are enabling businesses to become more effective The increasing connectedness of using big data analytics - collecting all relevant data and automating their processing to drive decision making. This represents a fundamental shift from traditional business analytics, where limited amount of structured data is batch-processed to produce standard Business Intelligence reports. We will assess the current state of big data analytics, technology and business trends, and their enormous implications to the future of all businesses. 

Takeaways: 

1. How Big Data analytics is different from traditional business analytics 
2. What businesses are getting out of Big Data analytics 
3. Why Big Data analytics will become

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Janos Hajagos, Chief of Data Analytics, Stonybrook Medicine

 

 

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How Deep and Shallow Learning can Work Together to Create Cost Savings

How deep and shallow learning can work together to create cost savings Applying artificial intelligence to patient data enables efficiencies and better outcomes for its Medicaid patients. For all the hype and excited pronouncements about the impacts it can have driving healthcare efficiencies, artificial intelligence is still not deployed as widely (or wisely) as it could be.But many health systems are working in earnest to roll out AI-driven analytics projects - even if their particular payoff isn't quite yet in sight - with the understanding that the technology is evolving at a dizzying pace, and big improvements could be just around the corner. 

Takeaways:

1. Potential for AI and machine learning for better population health outcomes 
2. Utilizing shallow learning - gain similarly useful insights from smaller data sets with less heavy lifting than we are using with deep learning 
3. Predicting hospitalization, emergency room use, or predicting high-cost patients versus low-cost patients
4. Predicting the risk for the populations we are managing.

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Simon Lin, Chief Research Information Officer, Nationwide Childrens Hospital

 

 

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"Patient Security, Privacy and Compliance" It's MORE than Just a Video Conference!

"Once considered a complementary mode of care, during the COVID crisis and continuing after, telehealth has and will become essential. Clinicians and IT teams -regardless of location or specialty - are scaling up virtual care offerings to conserve supplies, reduce exposure to their patients and deliver future patient oversight and preventative care and monitoring."

In this session we will cover: 

• What is the difference between Telemedicine and Telehealth? 
• How does the telehealth service differ for In-patient, Out-patient and Ambulatory Care? 
• Patient Security, Privacy and Compliance Requirements (HIPAA, OCR, CMS, HHS) 
• What are some of the solutions? 
• Telehealth Etiquette Overview.

Presented by:

Tim Swope, Chief Information Security Officer, Catholic Health Services of Long Island