https://www.himsslearn.org/connected-communities-care-during-times-crisis

In the first of three webcasts, we see that as the pandemic continues to unfold, it is painfully clear that underserved populations are at greater risk for COVID-19.  As such the importance of connections between clinical and community-based organizations is more important than ever.  This session will delve into how communities with operational connected communities of care have responded to the current crisis and will provide insights that can be leveraged in other communities. This webcast features Healthbox and PCCI leaders:

Please have a look at the full set of HIMSS Webcasts featuring PCCI and Healthbox discussing how to implement SDOH principles via connected communities of care:

• WEBCAST: NEW PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED BETWEEN PCCI & HEALTHBOX TO LEAD SDOH INNOVATION

 

• HIMSS WEBCAST II: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES OF CARE AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT (CHNA)

 

• HIMSS WEBCAST III: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES OF CARE AND BENDING THE COST CURVE

Leslie Wainwright, PhD, PCCI’s Chief Funding and Innovation Officer will bring her expert insights to a panel at the prestigious 2020 ONC Tech Forum at on August 11, 1:15 p.m.

Track 4: Tech in the Continuum of Care
Advancements in Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data
ONC supports collecting and sharing social determinants of health (SDOH) data through standards and certification, policy, and coordination across agencies and various stakeholders. This session will discuss standards gaps related to the collection of SDOH data and opportunities for enhanced interoperability. Panelists will discuss practical implementation examples, including development and use of FHIR for standardized exchange, tools to enable enhanced communication between provider and user types, and challenges of implementation of electronic referrals between health care and human services providers.

For more information to go: https://www.healthit.gov/news/events/2020-onc-tech-forum

About ONC

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is at the forefront of the administration’s health IT efforts and is a resource to the entire health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. ONC is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information. The position of National Coordinator was created in 2004, through an Executive Order, and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.

 

The experts at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) will be out in force at the HIMSS20 Convention in Orlando in March. At the event, PCCI will launch its new book, “Building Connected Communities of Care,” which is currently available in pre-sale. There will be several events where show attendees can meet with the authors and learn more about the book. These events include  book signings and presentations (see below).

Additionally, PCCI experts will deliver presentations on their cutting-edge programs at HIMSS20. See below for all of the PCCI activities.

If you are attending HIMSS20 and would like to meet with PCCI’s experts, please contact us HERE.

• Fireside Chat: Community Partnerships Sustain SDOH Initiatives
  • CEO Steve Miff
  • Monday, March 9, 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Rosen Centre Junior Ballroom G

 

• Author Meet & Greet, Book Signing
  • CEO Steve Miff and VP Keith Kosel (book authors)
  • Tuesday, March 10, 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
  • Orlando – Orange County Convention Center, Level 2 – Lobby B

 

• Building Connected Communities of Care – A Presentation with PCCI
  • CEO Steve Miff and CIO Leslie Wainwright
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2:30 p.m. – 3 p.m., Exhibit Fl – HIMSS Analytics – Hall B, Booth #2731 (Healthbox)

 

• Building Connected Communities of Care Book Release Reception
  • Tuesday, March 10, 3-4 p.m.
  • Exhibit Floor, Hall B, Booth #2731 (Healthbox)

• Author Meet & Greet, Book Signing
  • CEO Steve Miff and VP Keith Kosel (book authors)
  • Wednesday, March 11, 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
  • Orlando – Orange County Convention Center, Level 2 – Lobby B

 

• ML/AI: Driven Digital Outreach Improves Health Outcomes
  Albert Karam, Senior Manager, Data Science, PCCI
  Tuesday, March 10, 4:15pm – 5:15pm, OC Convention Center W414A

 

• AI-Powered Early Prediction of Post-Acute Care Need
  • Jacqueline Naeem, MD, Medical Director, PCCI
  • Friday, March 13, 10:45am – 11:45am, OC Convention Center W204A

 

In mid-February, the University of Texas at Dallas’s Computer Science Department hosted presentations by PCCI experts Akshay Arora and Priyanka Kharat at their weekly Community Outreach program. The presentations were delivered to UT-Dallas students, clinicians, health data scientists and technology officers from different companies interested in PCCI’s predictive models and healthcare research.

Priyanka presented “Harnessing Healthcare Data using AI/ML”; and Akshay presented on “Using Natural Language Processing in Clinical Applications.”

The audience was engaged and asked insightful questions about Sepsis prediction and post model deployment feedback from clinicians noted in Priyanka’s presentation. The design of PCCI’s cloud platform (Isthmus) and the way the company created a healthcare domain specific platform for machine learning was very well received.

During Akshay’s presentation, he discussed how PCCI leveraged clinical NLP for understanding the VTE prophylaxis and SDOH to understand our patient cohorts.  The audience was particularly inquisitive about the extension and the generalization of PCCI’s clinical NLP models for multiple hospitals.

PCCI’s Medical Director, Jacqueline Naeem, MD, will be presenting at HIMSS20 on Friday, March 13 at 10:45 a.m., in Room W414A. Her presentation “AI-Powered Early Prediction of Post-Acute Care Need” offers her expert insights on early identification of patients who require post-acute care upon discharge. She will discuss how through the early identification, transition care team productivity is increased, medically unnecessary length of stay and likelihood of readmission is reduced. Click the image below for all the details:

Recently, PCCI’s CEO, Steve Miff gave a talk, “Artificial Intelligence for SDOH,” at the 2020 Florida Osteopathic Medical Association’s annual convention. The talk, sponsored by Florida Medicaid Drug Therapy Management Program for Behavioral Health at USF, delivered Steve’s expert views on leveraging SDOH to better help under-served communities.

HIMSS20

On Monday, March 9 at 11:55 a.m. in the Rosen Centre Junior Ballroom G, Healthbox President Neil Patel sits down with Steve Miff, president and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation to discuss the launch of the center’s Building Connected Communities of Care: A Playbook at HIMSS20 this year.

The CCC Playbook is based on the experience of Dallas, Texas, one of the first metropolitan regions to develop a comprehensive foundation for partnerships between a community’s clinical and social sectors using web-based information exchange.

Click on the image below to get all the details:

At HIMSS20 in Orlando on March 10, PCCI’s Senior Medical Director, Yolande M. Pengetnze, MD, will present on how machine-learning and artificial intelligence-driven algorithms guide targeted and tailored educational for high-risk Medicaid children with asthma and Medicaid pregnant women at risk for preterm delivery. Click on the image below for all the details.