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What was assumed to be a transformation journey stretching over several years has now shrunk to a matter of months, and the pace of change is accelerating. Paddy Padmanabhan and Ed Marx, the authors of the first book published on healthcare digital transformation since the pandemic hit us, discuss 5 major themes in healthcare's digital transformation, and what the next normal looks like. They will present findings from recent research on how mid-tier systems must approach transformation. 1. How COVID-19 accelerated the timelines for transformation 2. Why health systems must go beyond just telehealth 3. Why digital leaders must develop enterprise roadmaps 4. How CIO's can transform IT to support digital health 5. How technology decisions must deliver enterprise-level impact

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In short, it refers to the methods and mechanisms that help maintain the privacy and integrity of the clinical network and prevent the spread of attacks. All the devices connecting to your clinical network are part of your organization’s attack surface - if you don’t know everything in your network and the potential risk it poses to your environment, you can’t take the steps you need to take to effectively minimize that surface and protect your resources. Join us for this College Live where we’ll discuss what’s needed to execute an effective clinical cyber hygiene strategy, the questions you should ask and the components required from your IoT security solution to accurately assess the risks to your network. Learning Objectives:

• How to Maintain the Privacy of your Clinical Network
• Learn What is Connected to Your Network and Protect Your Resources
• Reducing Attack Surfaces

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A Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle isn’t something you install, it is a transformation of the way your organization is run. It takes more than a budget, a timeline and IT commitment. Transformation of your organization includes executive buy in and investment in change management. During this session we will go over six areas of consideration for organization to think about in preparing for or taking advantage of the adoption of a Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle. Learning Objectives:

• Describe the impact of executive behaviors to healthcare financial outcomes within a CDRC
• Identify barriers within your organization that prohibit collaboration among the revenue cycle stakeholders
• Apply strategies to promote vital behaviors, organizational collaboration

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Healthcare providers are increasingly talking about moving towards a “zero trust” security model. If done properly, it could provide an actionable framework to secure medical devices, IoT and IT assets without disrupting mission critical clinical workflows.T. Join Chase Cunningham, Forrester’s VP, Principal Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals and Jonathan Langer, CEO and Co-Founder of Medigate for a conversation on what zero trust should looks like in healthcare and how to build a strategy to achieve it. Learning Objectives:

• What does zero trust for healthcare look like
• What should a zero trust strategy include
• What are the steps to implement

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A real-time health system is a next generation health provider organization that relies on advanced analytics in order to achieve predictable excellence in clinical, operational, & financial outcomes. Learn how NLH uses advanced analytics and data visualizations to achieve system & cultural change. Learning Objectives:

• Define the concept of a real-time health system as a digital transformation strategy toward achieving predictable excellence
• Describe the use of advanced real-time analytics at various levels of a health system to achieve important operational outcomes such as improved patient throughput and health system capacity use
• Discuss concrete examples of how increased situational awareness allows health systems respond to and recover from unexpected events

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Hear from Theresa Meadows, CIO Of Cook's Children's Health Care System, about challenges of securing unmanaged & IoT medical devices, the lifecycle approach to securing these devices, and how to profile the risks and behaviors of your devices and rapidly respond to new vulnerabilities and threats. Learning Objectives:

• Challenges with securing unmanaged and IoT Devices
• Lifecycle approach to securing these connected devices
• Best practices from top healthcare organizations

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Electronic case reporting (eCR) is a key component of the data strategy for COVID-19 and routine reporting and outbreak management and reporting needs. When COVID-19 presented, eCR was just being rolled out by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), the American Public Health Laboratories (APHL), and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and it was in operation in a limited number of sites. The eCR team developed a strategy, eCR Now, for immediate and rapid deployment to meet COVID-19 needs now and full electronic case reporting in time. Since COVID-19 reporting began , eCR Now has brought on over 3000 clinical care sites and all state public health agencies have been connected to receive electronic case reports. In this webinar, the eCR Now strategy for onboarding health systems, the eCR Now FHIR App for providing eCR capabilities to EHRs that otherwise do not have it, and the policy framework for operating eCR will all be discussed.

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The digital assistant is a new solution category that aims to reduce the administrative workload from clinicians. A variety of digital assistants are available today, developed by large corporations to startups, and use advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to complete administrative tasks and EHR work more efficiently and accurately. The solutions vary from those that are software only to those that require hardware installations. This webinar will give an overview of the types of digital assistants and present an analysis of the impact of digital assistants on health system revenue. Learning Objectives:

• Become familiar with the different digital assistant solutions available today.
• Learn how digital assistants can help reduce administrative workload from clinicians
• Learn the impact digital assistants can have on health system revenue.

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Principle-Based Policy Governance aligns organizational expectations to mature and widely available standards while reducing the need for existing and legacy opinion-driven policy practices. We will define Principle-Based Policy Governance, identify its benefits, and review successful implementation. Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to align your cybersecurity program to recognized and mature cybersecurity standards, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls
• Learn how to replace opinion-based cybersecurity practices with a program aligned to a widely accepted and mature framework
• Learn how to integrate organizational principles and expectations throughout an organization, from board members to subject matter expert (Information Technology Administrators).

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Are you and your clinicians ready for the new evaluation & Management (E/M) code changes that go into effect January 1, 2021? CMS has streamlined the way clinicians code in the ambulatory setting. These changes are expected to reduce frustrations for clinicians, reduce documentation burdens, and save time. However, preparing for these changes is important and will have implications for the EHR use workflow. Join us as we dissect these changes and walk you through what is needed to be prepared.

  Rae Jimenez, CPC, CIC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CCS Senior Vice President, Product Rae has over 26 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. She is a nationally recognized speaker and thought leader in the business of healthcare. She serves as a coding liaison to the AMA CPT® Editorial Panel. Over the past 12 years at AAPC she has held a variety of responsibilities including leading the development of certification exams and exam preparation materials, overseeing the operations for the exam, distance learning and education licensing program departments. As the SVP of product, she oversees all AAPC product lines.   Zachary Hochstetler Director, CPT® Editorial and Regulatory Services American Medical Association Zach Hochstetler is the director of CPT Editorial and Regulatory Affairs in the American Medical Association’s Health Solutions unit. Zach’s work focuses on several key areas, including: leading and setting strategic direction for the CPT Editorial Panel and directing the communication of health care policies, through identification and resolution of national payment and reporting problems. He is also the secretary of the CPT Editorial Panel, ensuring that the process remains open and transparent. Zach has over 10 years of experience working on physician payment and policy issues. He spent seven years working in the Physician Payment and Policy unit of the American Medical Association, primarily tasked with managing the data acquisition and maintenance processes for the AMA RUC. [caption id="attachment_124750" align="alignright" width="200"] Zachary Hochstetler
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American Medical Association[/caption] [caption id="attachment_124749" align="alignright" width="222"] Rae Jimenez, CPC, CIC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CCS Senior Vice President, Product[/caption]