Breakfast sessions
Make the most of your mornings with a healthy serving of knowledge. On Wednesday, June 17 and Thursday, June 18, start your morning early by connecting with colleagues at these optional breakfast sessions. The sessions will be held concurrently from 7:00 to 7:50 a.m. Attendees must register to participate in these sessions.
Strategic Implementation of QUEST (BW-A)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Patrick Falvey, Senior Vice President and Chief Integration Officer,
Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI
Creating improvement across multiple sites and multiple indicators requires an organized strategy to ensure the tactics achieve the required results. In addition, an improvement environment requires support from all levels of the organization. In this session, understand how an integrated delivery system developed a strategic implementation process to achieve improved results across many areas of Premier’s QUEST initiative, including quality, cost, satisfaction and mortality. Participants will also understand the importance of addressing change and consistency.
Presentation:
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, CPHQ, N
Advancing Quality: Sharing the experience (BW-B)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Jennifer Butterworth, Implementation Director,
Advancing Quality,
NHS Northwest, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Steve Henderson, MD, Associate Director of Clinical Engagement,
NHS North
West Strategic Health Authority, Manchester, United Kingdom
Steve Hodgson, FRCS (Orth), MD, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Royal Bolton
Hospital, Bolton, United Kingdom
This session highlights how Advancing Quality – Premier’s model of improving patient care while safely reducing costs with HQID – has been successfully implemented on the international stage. Launched in the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West, Premier’s partnership has worked to align positive financial incentives with improvements in patient care. Presenters will detail how this success was achieved by implementing evidence-based care practices in five clinical prevention areas along with data collection and performance improvement services. Participants will gain perspective on how to successfully improve patient care while safely reducing costs in a very different healthcare environment.
Presentation:
Slides (size exceeds1 MB)
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, CPHQ
Optimizing purchases of spinal products: An introduction to the new Premier contract portfolios (BW-C)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Michael Georgulis, Vice President, Sourcing, Premier
Donna Jansen, Clinical Field Specialist, Premier
Diane Ducat, Region Director, Premier
John Andreshak, MD, Physician advisor, Chicago, IL
Tom Andreshak, MD, Physician advisor, Toledo, OH
Premier has launched its new portfolios for spinal implants, bone tissue and implantable synthetics. In this session, members will understand how to implement the new agreements and introduce the suite of Premier tools available to estimate service line profitability. This session will be made available to members not able to attend Breakthroughs via a live broadcast. Registration details will be shared soon.
Presentation:
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, MM, N
Net Revenue Advisor: Harnessing hospital net revenue analytics (BW-D)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Mark Hiller, Vice President, Innovative Solutions, Premier
This session highlights Premier’s Net Revenue Advisor – a new tool developed to support members’ efforts to identify revenue cycle issues and minimize bad debt. Participants will understand how the tool provides insight into variations in net revenue, as well as the benefits of calculating net revenue at the patient account level. Net Revenue Advisor quickly delivers an analysis of prior periods’ impact on current month’s net revenue and bad debt. Enabling quick comparisons to historical reimbursement run rates allows members to proactively identify and address potential revenue cycle problems.
Presentation:
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE
VTE prophylaxis across the continuum of care (BW-E)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Alpesh Amin, MD, Chairman, Department of Medicine,
School of Medicine, University of California – Irvine
Healthcare providers are becoming more aware that the period of VTE risk in patients extends beyond the hospital stay. This session will highlight the results of a study that evaluated VTE prophylaxis patterns for U.S. patients across the continuum of care, from the hospital setting through the physician office visits. Patients in the analysis were evaluated on drug utilization, diagnoses and clinical practice patterns during and after hospitalization.
No presentation available.
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, ACPE, CME, CPHQ, N
Premier QualityAdvisor: Update and feedback (BW-F)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Barbara Doyle, Senior Manager, QualityAdvisor, Premier
This session is open to all Quality Manager and ClinicalAdvisor customers interested in seeing progress and providing feedback on the QualityAdvisor integration project. A live demo of current development will be featured.
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MyPremierSM portal: Efficiently leveraging all Premier applications (BW-G)
Wednesday, June 17
7:00-7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Hans Coffey, Product Director, Premier
Premier has recently launched the MyPremier portal for its members, allowing them to customize the portal for their needs to gain easy access to needed information. In this session, participants will learn how to login to MyPremier from the Premier Inc. homepage and learn how to leverage all of Premier's applications. You are encouraged explore and provide your feedback.
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Leveraging the QUEST Clinical Innovation Program: Identifying the suppliers' role in achieving clinical improvements (BTH-A)
Thursday, June 18
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Deb Adams, Clinical Resource Manager,
Summa Health System, Akron, OH
Peggy Orr, Clinical Resource Specialist,
Summa Health System, Akron, OH
Andy Brailo, Vice President,
Strategic Accounts,
Premier
This session will highlight Summa's efforts to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and describe how they have partnered with suppliers to improve clinical outcomes. The project demonstrated significant improvements resulting in a decrease in VAP rates to zero and capturing annual savings of $724,000. The team from Summa will describe their "a-ha moment" when they realized that the supplier could play a crucial role in helping them achieve the organization's clinical objectives. The session will also describe Premier's QUEST Comparative Innovation Program (CIP) and Summa's success in supporting this initiative. CIP tests the effectiveness of new healthcare products and technologies through the QUEST program. Participants will understand how to apply CIP findings to their own clinical improvement initiatives.
Presentation:
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CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, CME, CPHQ, N
Advancing Quality: Accelerating improvement through case management and prospective data collection (BTH-B)
Thursday, June 18
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Claire Forsyth, Advancing Quality Case Manager,
Wirral University Teaching Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Upton Wirral, United
Kingdom
Christine Kennedy, Assistant Divisional General
Manager For Medicine,
Wirral University Teaching Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust,
Upton Wirral, United Kingdom
Through Premier’s Advancing Quality program, hospitals in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service North West are translating the success of the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project to their organizations. Beginning in January 2008, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust implemented an active case management model by developing a process to identify patients using prospective, real-time data collection to enhance care planning. In this session, presenters will describe the process for educating staff at all levels to create superior clinical engagement, enthusiasm and ownership. Specific data for heart failure and pneumonia will also be presented and all tools that have been developed will be shared.
Presentation:
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, CME, CPHQ, N
CANCELED: 9th Annual Collaborative Breakthrough Series: Refreshed and revitalized! (BTH-C)
Thursday, June 18
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Dawn Terry, Principal, Collaborative Breakthrough Series,
Premier Consulting Solutions
We invite your organization to learn more about participating in Premier’s 9th Annual Collaborative Breakthrough Series (BTS) program. Modeled after IHI’s “Model for Improvement,” a proven breakthrough system, participants work collaboratively with peers from other leading healthcare organizations committed to accelerating breakthrough improvements. More than 250 teams have taken part in Premier’s BTS program, capturing cumulative savings of more than $150 million – a return on investment of 35:1 based on an average team savings of $750,000. Premier’s Collaborative BTS program and methodology will be reviewed as well as the methods and strategies used by previous participants to achieve savings and clinical and quality improvements.
Cost and quality advantages of pharmaceutical anticoagulation (BTH-D)
Thursday, June 18
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Greg Wise, MD, Vice President, Medical Affairs,
Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH
This session will highlight an analysis of actual outcomes and utilization data of pharmaceutical anticoagulant agents. The presentation will focus on a retrospective study led by Kettering Medical Center that leveraged data from Premier's Perspective database. The information presented will help hospital practitioners determine if there are differentiating and statistically significant differences in clinical outcomes, utilization patterns and costs across patients receiving anticoagulants during a cardiac catherization procedure.
Presentation:
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CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, ACPE, CME, CPHQ, N
Advancing Quality: From heart failure service to NHS Beacon Service (BTH-E)
Thursday, June 18
7:00–7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Angela Colquhoun, Cardiac Nurse
Practitioner
University Hospital
- Aintree, NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jenny Leigh, Cardiac Nurse
Practitioner
University Hospital - Aintree, NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool,
United Kingdom
Through Premier’s Advancing Quality program, hospitals in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service North West are translating the success of the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project to their organizations. In this session, participants will understand the development of Aintree’s heart failure service, which is led by cardiac nurse practitioners and over time has demonstrated a 50 percent reduction in hospital readmissions. Presenters will describe the program’s data-driven approach to assessing and managing patients with heart failure while promoting the highest standard of quality care. Data presented will include an investigation of wait times and treatment rates, as well as clinical audit findings and early evidence supporting the effectiveness of the service – including reduction of hospital readmissions and improved quality of life for patients. Results and overall feedback from patient satisfaction surveys will also be shared.
Presentation:
CEUs approved:
CEUs applied for: ACHE, CME, CPHQ, N
Washington Update (BTH-F)
Thursday, June 18
7:00-7:50 a.m.
Presenters:
Blair Childs, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Premier
Healthcare reform is one of the top priorities of the new administration. In this session, hear about the latest legislative and regulatory updates on: health technology funding provided by the stimulus package, Medicare and Medicaid reform, pay for performance, never event issues, etc.