General Session Speakers
Friday, September 30 — Saturday, October 1
Our featured speakers will share their experiences and address some of the most pressing issues facing our members, including: health equity, population health, leadership priorities driving change in health care, and emerging technologies.
Opening Keynote: Exploring Emerging Technology to Accelerate Your Organization’s Digital Strategy
Opening Keynote: Exploring Emerging Technology to Accelerate Your Organization’s Digital Strategy
Friday, September 30, 2022 | 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
The onset of the pandemic ushered in an era of rapid healthcare technology development and transition. Over the next five years, health systems will increase their investments into this digital space in response to a growing demand from patients looking for more digital tools and support to fit their needs. In this opening session, Fred Bazzoli will explore the emerging trends in digital health technology and discuss what successful organizations are doing to foster innovation, while preparing their organizations to improve the odds of a successful implementation, and optimizing the potential benefits for the organization, users of technology, and the communities it serves.
Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
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Assess an organization’s adaptability to incorporate, learn and optimize new technology
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Assess appropriateness of technology for an organization, users and patients
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Identify which technologies offer the most upside for healthcare organizations, and which conditions must be met to ensure the highest potential for success
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Understand the importance of returning benefit to users to enable them to improve care delivery and reduce workload, thus diminishing opportunities for burnout
Credit hours: CME 1.5; ACHE 1.5
As editor in chief, Fred Bazzoli, M.A., coordinates Health Data Management’s editorial operations, with oversight of digital news, print publications and special projects. Fred was most recently senior director of communications at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), an organization of health care CIOs and other IT professionals, where he produced research reports and supported CHIME’s education and certification efforts. He also has an extensive background in covering healthcare IT.
Fireside Chat: Leveraging Our Collective Strengths to Build a Stronger Healthcare System
Fireside Chat: Leveraging Our Collective Strengths to Build a Stronger Healthcare System
Friday, September 30, 2022 | 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The past two years have exposed cracks in the foundation of how health care is delivered but have also presented an opportunity for healthcare leaders to respond to the most pressing issues facing patients across the country. In this fireside chat, AMGA President and CEO Dr. Jerry Penso and Dr. Shantanu Agrawal will discuss leadership priorities that must be addressed to achieve the necessary changes in health care.
Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
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Re-orient our healthcare system to promote health rather than provide healthcare
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Solve problems through new levels of collaboration
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Center equity in every effort to improve health
Credit hours: CME 1.25; ACHE 1.25
Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., M.Phil. is chief health officer at Elevance Health, where he oversees the enterprise whole health strategy, including medical policy, clinical quality, and delegation oversight, as well as our industry-leading work to address health-related social needs and health equity. Passionate about improving health outcomes and reducing disparities, Agrawal draws on his clinical and business expertise to push for a more equitable health space for the people Elevance Health serves. Accordingly, he also leads Elevance Health’s community health strategy and the Elevance Health Foundation. Outside of Elevance Health, Agrawal serves on numerous boards and committees that deepen his commitment to advancing health. Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Morning Keynote: A Health Care Provider’s Mission to End Racism as a Social Determinant – A Story of RWJBarnabas Becoming an Anti-Racist Organization
Morning Keynote: A Health Care Provider’s Mission to End Racism as a Social Determinant – A Story of RWJBarnabas Becoming an Anti-Racist Organization
Saturday, October 01, 2022 | 08:30 am – 9:45 a.m.
In this session, DeAnna Minus-Vincent will share her organization’s journey and commitment to advance health equity by becoming an anti-racist organization. This included starting, maintaining, and holding employees accountable to the same vision across a large hospital system, and designing the nation’s first universal social determinants of health program.
Ms. Minus-Vincent will describe how leadership overcame challenges by making racism a business case that aligned a large organization to a new culture shift. She will also share details about the Ending Racism, Together initiative, which includes patient and clinician care, addressing workforce inequities, building upon social impact in the community, and revising operational practices to ensure support of their efforts.
Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
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Understand the process that was undertaken to create a sustainable structure and strategy to address systemic racism in a large healthcare system
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Demonstrate the social, moral and business case for dismantling systemic racism
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Provide concrete example of ways in which systemic racism exists in health care and tangible strategies that have been employed to begin its eradication
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Discuss the criticality of accountability in what has previously been seen as a “softer discipline” and the need create and measure tangible metrics
Credit hours: CME 1.5; ACHE 1.5
DeAnna Minus-Vincent, M.P.A., currently serves as the executive vice president, chief social justice and accountability officer for RWJBarnabas Health. In this role, DeAnna works across the system with internal and external stakeholders to co‐design strategies that improve health outcomes, promote health equity and eliminate health disparities.
Specifically, her portfolio includes leading the system’s anti‐racism efforts, which seek to develop a strategy to ensure that patients, employees, and communities in which RWJBH serves are equitable, anti‐racist, and free from discriminatory practices that promote poor health, social, and economic outcomes. Additionally, DeAnna designed and leads Health Beyond the Hospital, which integrates social factors into the clinical setting by overcoming barriers for both providers and patients. Funded by the Walmart and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, this effort offers culturally and linguistically appropriate social determinant of health screening and connection to services for patients.
Closing Keynote: Saving Health Care Through Population Health
Closing Keynote: Saving Health Care Through Population Health
Saturday, October 1, 2022 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
America’s healthcare establishment resisted reform for decades, mired in waste and avoidable errors. Now, the pandemic crisis has exposed its flaws for all to see, creating the opportunities for systemic changes.
COVID-19’s market disruption encouraged rapid adoption of new technology that paved the way for long-sought advances in remote healthcare. Integrated health care organizations gained ground, working to manage patients’ total wellness. And we saw accelerated changes in medical education to make doctor training more equitable and better aligned to the skills needed.
Upon completion of this session, attendees should be able to:
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Trace Jefferson Health System’s history of failures with an emphasis on disparities
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Connect unexplained variation to the $1 trillion of waste within Jefferson Health System
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Define population health and offer examples
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Demonstrate how the tenets of population health can drive improvement
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Outline the role of the future healthcare consumer
David B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A. is the founding dean emeritus, and remains on the full-time faculty as the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH). His 11-year tenure as dean completes more than 30 years on the university faculty.
A board-certified internist, Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. More recently, he has achieved wide acclaim for his COVID-19 thought leadership and has been named as the chief health advisor for the Philadelphia Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL). He served on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.