Conference Agenda

8:00 am

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Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am

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Welcome

Travis Heider, President & CEO, Pandion Optimization Alliance

 

9:05 - 10:05 am

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Keynote Speaker

“High-Impact Regional Healthcare Innovations through Challenging Collaborations”

Bryan J. Bucklew, President & CEO, The Hospital Council of Northern and Central California

 

10:05 - 10:45 am

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Panel Discussion: Rochester Innovations

Moderator: Al Kinel, President, Strategic Interests

• Rami Katz, COO at Excell Partners
• Art Papier, MD, CEO at VisualDx
• Matt Hurlbutt, President & CEO at Greater Rochester Enterprise

 

10:45 - 11:15 AM

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Break - Vendor Displays Open

 

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

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Breakout Sessions (pick one)

• Stroke Care Delivery in the Modern Age - The Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit: A New Systems Concept; 
  Tarun Bhalla, MD, PhD

  UR Medicine has recently unveiled the nation’s 13^th and Upstate and Central NY’s first Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU), a high-tech ‘emergency room on wheels’ that is designed to provide life-saving care to stroke victims.  Dr. Tarun Bhalla will describe how the availability of this state-of-the-art stroke care in our region, will improve outcomes for stroke victims in our community, reduce disability and lower long-term health care costs.

• The Value of Health Informatics  and How You Pay for It:
  Matt Phillips and Balazs Zsenits, MD

• Telemedicine Unlocks Doors to Your Medical Home: Connecting to Schools and Childcare Centers:
  Neil Herendeen, MD

  Telemedicine holds great potential to deliver healthcare to meet a wide variety of needs (urban and rural, primary care and subspecialty visits, acute and chronic conditions).  This talk will outline the current capabilities for telemedicine and review some of the safety and efficacy data from Rochester’s pediatric telemedicine program.

• Telehealth and Mobile Measures in Parkinson’s Disease:
  Jamie Adams, MD

  Technology provides an opportunity to engage anyone, anywhere in clinical care and research.  Dr. Adams will discuss the use of technology, including virtual visits and mobile measures, in transforming how we conduct clinical research and care for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.

 

12:00 - 12:45 pm

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Guided Tours of UR Medicine Mobile Stroke Unit

Where: Rochester Riverside Hotel traffic loop

 

12:15 - 1:15 pm

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Lunch

 

12:30 - 1:00 pm

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Update on the State of Healthcare in New York State

Bea Grause, RN, JD – Healthcare Association of New York State

 

1:00 - 1:30 pm

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Break - Vendor Display & Presentation

 

1:30 - 3:00 pm

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Breakout Sessions (pick one)

• Improving Clinician Wellness in Rochester and the US

  • Moderator: Christopher Bell, MS, MBA., Monroe County Medical Society
  • Michael R. Privitera, MD, MS University of Rochester
  • Arthur S. Hengerer, MD University of Rochester

• Improving Medication Safety- The Pharmacy Now and in the Future:
  Dave Webster, RPh & Lisa Nelson, PharmD

  The presentation will explore patient safety risks in the medication use system specific to the increasingly complex processes in hospital pharmacy.  Strategies to reduce or eliminate these risks will be the focus, including current and emerging technology targeting the highest risk areas.  Current experience and results with innovative clinical programs and technology will be discussed, as well as future plans to expand these safety strategies.

• The Perfection of Surgical Practice:
  Ahmed Ghazi, MD

  Dr. Ahmed Ghazi speaks about his experiences utilizing an innovative new technology that could change the face of surgery forever yet is still underutilized. What is this new tool and why has it not reached the mainstream? Dr. Ghazi answers these questions and more in his insightful talk.

 

3:00 - 3:15 pm

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Break - Vendor Displays

 

3:15 - 4:15 pm

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Breakout Sessions (pick one)

• Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care Through Technology:
  Adam Tatro, DNP, RN

  An integrated behavioral health program within primary care was establish to address the issue of 60-70% of behavioral health (BH) Medicaid patients not receiving any BH services.  Integration of iPads with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) was developed to screen patients and provide real time notification of patients needing BH services or suicide ideation.  Data collected examined number of depression screenings and Emergency Room (ER) utilization.  Depression screening rates doubled from 14% to 38% for the Medicaid population using iPads integrated with the EHR as well as a 40% reduction in ED utilization for the high utilizer population.

• Repairing Vessels from Within: A Look Inside:
  Ian Wilson, MD