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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has developed a Comprehensive Opioid Response with the 12 steps as a solution to treating people with opioid addiction, which engages and activates community resources, providers, physicians, families, and the patient for optimal outcomes. Learn how they engaged physicians as a part of treatment, prevention, and pain management to reduce risk of developing Opioid Use Disorder.

This session will help you learn where your organization is on a consumerist journey and how to position the organization for success in this new world of the consumer.

As health system leaders, this means we’ve scoped our value proposition to address patient issues — when we should really be scoping our value proposition to engage and encompass entire lifetimes. Cue health care consumerism: moving past the limited focus on the inpatient experience to truly meet people where they are outside of hospital walls

This presentation will discuss how this framework can guide health system responses to the opioid epidemic, highlight insights from patterns in county-level geographic variation, and identify tactics health systems can deploy to improve performance.

This session will assess University of Michigan Health System’s approach to implementing virtual health, and present an evaluation framework and business case for a range of virtual health initiatives.

What needs to happen to replace health care consumer confusion and complexity with customer confidence and contentment? Learn more about the health care customer experience during this session.

It is hard for a consumer to pick up a postcard from their mailbox and attend a surgical weight loss seminar right away. Good marketers are thinking about call to actions "CTAs" that are easy to complete, are shareable and sticky!

Executive Leaders of three diverse health care providers share their recent experiences and efforts to expand the impact of their ambulatory networks.

Customizing care for seniors will gain significance as more and more baby boomers age into this varied group. Learn lessons from one health system in its multi-faceted approach to meeting the needs of Medicare/the senior population.

The speakers will discuss the design of a next-generation ambulatory care network that sustainably integrates services across the system and deploys them in the right geographies to bolster overall competitive advantage.

Patient access is a fundamental strategy that is vital for a healthcare system's success in both a volume and value based world. It is the core strategy that bridges both models. This presentation will focus on applying access transformation best practices from other industries to healthcare through case studies and potential application scenarios.

After a diagnosis of breast cancer, individuals are faced with several life-changing decisions about how to navigate treatment decisions, which are best made by an engaged and well-informed patient. Using proprietary software designed to collect patient inputs via a mobile device and marry those inputs with tiered decision-making algorithms, the Mayo Clinic breast cancer decision-support tool is changing the way breast cancer patients — and their providers — approach treatment.

Today, hip and knee replacement represents nearly half of all inpatient orthopedic service line volumes nationally. Over the next several years, Sg2 predicts aggressive outpatient procedural shifts that leave traditional inpatient providers feeling financially vulnerable and strategically stalled. Innovative organizations such as Unity Point are leveraging this trend to differentiate their program regionally and on a national scale.

Most people see a doctor about twice per year. The rest of the year, they make decisions every day that impact their health. Checking in between encounters has traditionally been a function of case managers dealing with high-risk patients; there aren't enough to reach out to the rest of the population. Automated chatbot conversations allow check-ins with all people in a community, gather health data, and provide information, all with a "cool" interface and phenomenal engagement.

Patient referrals are often a piece of paper with a specialist's name and phone number on them, which leaves patients with the burden of navigating the referral and coordinating their own care. This session will present novel ways to standardize referral management, provider data management, and patient access across a health system's multiple patient access points in order to improve the patient experience, increase patient conversion and retention, and fully leverage the clinical expertise within a network.