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Clinical Informatics continues to advance through pioneering innovations at the intersection of people, technology, process, and data. In recent years the CMIO has been joined by Chief Health Information Officers, Chief Nursing Informatics Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief People Analytics Officers, and more. As the health and healthcare industry tackles emerging business models, social determinants of health, and more informed consumers, technologies such as wearable devices, remote patient monitoring, virtual care and other digital health apps and platforms are becoming more prevalent in delivering healthcare services, and promoting better health and wellbeing.

Chief Digital Officers and Chief Innovation Officers are becoming important members of the leadership team. Whether you aspire to be a Clinical Informatics/digital health leader, are new to your position or are seeking to move to the next level, this symposium will help you connect with peers, further define your responsibilities, develop practical skills to help you progress in your career, and partner with others for success.

For over fifteen years, the highly regarded AMDIS CRASH Course has provided participants the opportunity for joint problem-solving and exploration of common challenges in a conversation-based format. Participants are surveyed in advance regarding the topics they want to address. Through a combination of presentations and facilitated discussions, attendees share experiences with each other and discuss lessons learned with AMDIS pioneers and healthcare industry thought leaders.

Clinical Informatics continues to advance through pioneering innovations at the intersection of people, technology, process, and data. In recent years the CMIO has been joined by Chief Health Information Officers, Chief Nursing Informatics Officers, Chief Data Officers, Chief People Analytics Officers, and more. As the health and healthcare industry tackles emerging business models, social determinants of health, and more informed consumers, technologies such as wearable devices, remote patient monitoring, virtual care and other digital health apps and platforms are becoming more prevalent in delivering healthcare services, and promoting better health and wellbeing.

Chief Digital Officers and Chief Innovation Officers are becoming important members of the leadership team. Whether you aspire to be a Clinical Informatics/digital health leader, are new to your position or are seeking to move to the next level, this symposium will help you connect with peers, further define your responsibilities, develop practical skills to help you progress in your career, and partner with others for success.

For over fifteen years, the highly regarded AMDIS CRASH Course has provided participants the opportunity for joint problem-solving and exploration of common challenges in a conversation-based format. Participants are surveyed in advance regarding the topics they want to address. Through a combination of presentations and facilitated discussions, attendees share experiences with each other and discuss lessons learned with AMDIS pioneers and healthcare industry thought leaders.

Women in AMIA Networking Event (WINE)

Brought to you by the Women in AMIA - Networking/Mentoring and Lifecyle Sub-Committee.

Meet with other women to discuss various topics and network. We are looking forward to seeing you at WINE!

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Closed event for those that identify as female.

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This meeting is open to all health system leaders interested in AMIA’s health system membership and current AMIA health system members. Join us to learn more about health system membership, current and planned health system council activities, and an open discussion with AMIA’s education team about the education benefits included with membership.

This is a closed reception for C-suite and core health system leaders. Join health system leaders for an informal reception. Meet AMIA's board of directors, Health System Council members, senior staff, and industry peers.

Medication over-alerting and lack of patient-specific clinical decision support (CDS) can lead to alert fatigue, clinician burnout, and increased adverse drug events with resultant negative patient outcomes, financial, and reputational costs. Alert management solutions such as those provided by FDB (First Databank), can help proactively manage medication CDS, ameliorating many of the negative consequences of poorly targeted alerts.

While the benefits are relatively clear, building the internal case for adoption of an alert management solutions within a provider organization can be very challenging, due to competing initiatives, lack of alignment with central organizational goals, de-prioritization of alerting as an institutional priority, and challenges with establishing hard financial and clinical ROI.

In this focus group, Steve Miller, MD, MBE, a clinical informatician and pediatric gastroenterologist, will conduct a roundtable discussion on best practices for crafting of an internal business case to drive adoption of an alert management solution in the current era of constrained resources and competing priorities.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) documentation solutions have the power to improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes for health systems, but they must be evaluated carefully and implemented responsibly. During this session, we’ll discuss how leading health systems are evaluating the AI medical documentation landscape and implementing solutions to transform their clinical workflows. We’ll also explore the key considerations and priorities that organizations like yours may have when assessing new GenAI solutions. Breakfast will be provided.

This roundtable aims to address critical aspects of aligning generative AI models for safe use amidst the complex landscape of oncology care and research. Through a series of expert-led discussions, we will explore the frameworks and methodologies necessary to ensure that these powerful tools are developed, validated, and implemented with the utmost regard for patient safety and data integrity.

With the flurry and frequency of technology upgrades and changes, many health systems are challenged with delivering high-quality education programs to support caregivers using the technology daily. However, when done well, virtual training has proven to be a scalable solution that can help standardize and even improve the effective delivery of EHR training, enabling caregiver proficiency and satisfaction.

M Health Fairview, a pioneer in virtual learning, will share the benefits they’ve witnessed taking a new approach to EHR education, including:
 

• Expedited Onboarding: While facing one of the largest nursing strikes in the nation, Fairview used self-directed eLearning to guide 1,500 nurses through 18 different nurse learning paths in just 5 days, getting new hires caring for patients faster, without sacrificing the quality of training.
• Smooth Go-Lives and Upgrades: Fairview prepared affiliates to use new technology by scaling training across sites virtually and delivering role-based simulations during a double Epic upgrade.
• Digital At-The-Elbow Support: Faced with a limited number of trainers and a geographically dispersed workforce, Fairview increased adoption of their Epic® eConsent workflow from 7% to 87% by embedding role-based simulations in the flow of work. Epic ASAP, Optime and Coverage also have embedded “how do I” questions, learning materials and insurance information to support users in the workflow.
• Effective Communication: Fairview instills confidence and readiness amongst clinicians by fostering collaboration, multi-channel communication and proactive training strategies, ensuring they feel empowered and well-equipped for change.
• Increased Provider EHR Satisfaction and Positive Feedback: Physicians at Fairview who utilize uPerform self-directed learning have significantly increased satisfaction over physicians who have not.

Join Fairview and uPerform as they share strategies on empowering caregivers with just-in-time learning, saving time in training and getting caregivers back to what matters most — delivering exceptional patient care.

We've only begun to see what ambient AI assistants in healthcare can achieve. For the past year, they have shown great promise in mitigating clinician burnout, enabling deeper patient-clinician connections, and enhancing the quality of care. Wondering what ambient AI implementation looks like from the inside, from initial consideration to large scale deployment? In this panel, you'll learn from pioneering physician executives from some of the most prestigious health systems in the country on how they have implemented ambient AI technology in their organization.

The following topics will be addressed:

1. Exploring the Investment Landscape: Understand the investments required for integrating ambient AI in clinical documentation and assess ROI in terms of time saved and patient care.
2. Tracking Success: Identify performance metrics and strategies for continuous improvement in ambient AI implementation.
3. Lessons from Real-World Implementation: Navigate challenges and share practical insights for successful ambient AI integration in clinical settings.
4. Managing Change with Clinical Teams: Address cultural shifts and adoption strategies to seamlessly integrate ambient AI into clinical workflows.
5. User Feedback Loop: Establish mechanisms for collecting and incorporating user feedback to improve ambient AI systems.
6. What’s Next: Envision the future of ambient AI in healthcare and its evolution within organizational frameworks.

Clinical decision support has been a part of clinical technology from the beginning. Now there are interoperability standards, regulatory requirements, and computing advances that open new frontiers for clinical decision support. Working in a health system, the government and now at Optum, I will describe the current state of CDS from those 3 vantage points. I will highlight work we are doing for scaling CDS using FHIR and HL7 standards. I will also look to the future of machine learning, artificial intelligence and large language models and their use in clinical decision support.

Health informatics leaders are at the forefront of integrating data, information technology, and digital tools in healthcare. With the swift incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into this field, effective oversight and governance becomes crucial. This panel seeks to bridge the gap in AI governance guidance within the U.S. healthcare sector, focusing on principles of responsibility, effectiveness, safety, security, information privacy, equity, transparency, explainability, and accountability. Our panel comprises of Health Informatics leaders such as Chief Health Informatics Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers, and the Chief of Staff for the National Artificial Intelligence Institute for the Veterans Health Administration. Leveraging a blend of national and international AI frameworks as a foundational guidance, the panel conducted virtual discussions beginning in the summer of 2023. The result is a set of strategic insights aimed at guiding healthcare informatics leaders with conceptualizing and creating proper AI oversight for their respective organizations.

In the past couple of years AI has become a major consideration in all industries. In healthcare AI is already being touted as a major disruptor. In practice health systems have found that the value of AI products may not be as clear cut as the hype would suggest. In this roundtable panel session sponsored by the Health Systems Council, informatics leaders from a variety of health systems will describe their own uses of AI in clinical care. They bring a variety of perspectives to help distinguish the hype from what is actually helpful, as well as pitfalls to avoid when working to implement AI solutions. There will be ample time for audience questions.

Hear from multiple healthcare organizations about their successes, challenges and recommendations for large scale implementation of ambient documentation. We will share approaches to vendor assessment and implementation, impact analyses, and how to convince your CFO to pay for this technology.

In this session, members of the AMIA 25X5 Task Force, will describe recent policy and advocacy efforts to reduce health professionals’ documentation burden. This will include a review of the two policy briefs on reforms to reduce documentation burden and recommendations to reform prior authorization. The group will also provide an update on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) commissioned evidence on Documentation Burden as part of their Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) Program.