Celebrating Our Presenting Partners at HIMSS

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At Health Catalyst, we are committed to being your partner for proven solutions. We are honored to share that the following innovative organizations will present at HIMSS to share their success in leveraging data and analytics to improve health outcomes.

ChristianaCare

In the presentation, “Closing Health Equity Disparity Gaps With AI-Enhanced Health Technology,” Yuchen Zhang, Senior Data Scientist at ChristianaCare, will share how her organization identified critical predictors of health outcome disparities.

In her presentation, Zhang will explore how her team identified that their current data collection processes produced inconsistent data and created a barrier to identifying health equity disparities for different communities. To understand where differences existed and effectuate more significant health equity, Zhang and her team implemented standardized data collection and leveraged a robust data analytics platform to quantify health equity outcomes and identify which factors contributed to health gaps.

Full presentation details are below.
  • ChristianaCare: Closing Health Equity Disparity Gaps with AI-Enhanced Health Technology
  • Yuchen Zhang, MS
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Central
  • Wednesday, April 19
  • South Building, Level 1 | S105A

UnityPoint Health

In the presentation, “Reducing Healthcare Waste Through AI-Enabled Care Management,” Mandy Abbas, Manager of Value-Based Care Analytics at UnityPoint Health, and Wendy Mortimore, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at UnityPoint Health, will detail how a standard set of measures and tools can be used across an organization to drive patient care and improve performance.

UnityPoint Accountable Care has received an average of $31 million annually in shared savings from its value-based contracting efforts since 2012. The organization will share how carefully tracking high-risk patients, targeting unnecessary costs, implementing innovative care delivery models, and leveraging population health analytics have enabled it to trim excessive spending and improve quality in critical areas.

Full presentation details are below.
  • UnityPoint Health: Reducing Healthcare Waste Through AI-Enabled Care Management
  • Mandy Abbas, MPA & Wendy R. Mortimore, MD
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Central
  • Thursday, April 20
  • South Building, Level 4 | S401

WakeMed Health & Hospitals

In the presentation, “Data-Informed Patient Access Improvements Drove System-Wide Transformation,” Charles Bissette, Director of Optimization and Integration at WakeMed, and Heather Monackey, Executive Director of Patient Access and Engagement at WakeMed, will explain how their organization used the Health Catalyst data and analytics platform to visualize patient access key performance indicators, including internal and external conversions rates, schedule utilization, new patient visits, cancellations, no-shows, visit type, and patient portal activation rates.

After learning from the data, WakeMed created a new patient contact center, upgraded, and improved the patient scheduling process, optimized the patient referral process, and increased the number of outpatient visits by 15 percent. These patient-centered access improvements led to a $25.4 million increase in revenue within a year.

Full presentation details are below.
  • WakeMed: Data-Informed Patient Access Improvements Drove System-Wide Transformation
  • Heather Monackey, Charles Bissette
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Central
  • Friday, April 21
  • South Building, Level 1 | S103
Are you attending HIMSS23?

Be sure to visit Health Catalyst at Booth #2812 and the patient engagement 365 pavilion at Kiosk #8300-05.

Health Catalyst is proud to be your partner for proven outcomes. Visit our HIMSS site to learn about the opportunities to connect with us at the show. You can also submit a form to schedule a meeting with a Health Catalyst leader or subject matter expert. See you in Chicago!