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Enjoy expert presentations focusing on these pertinent topic tracks:

  • Expanse
  • Population Health & Analytics
  • Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Support & Technology
  • Patient Care
  • Patient Engagement / Digital Front Door
  • Interoperability/Integration
  • Leadership & Culture

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100 - MUSE Website and Community Orientation

  • Track: MUSE
  • Presenter: Brett Wangman
  • Organization: MUSE International
Whether you’re new to MUSE or ready to take full advantage of everything the community offers, this interactive session will show you how to get real value from your membership – right away.

We’ll walk through the MUSE community experience from a practical, user-first perspective, including how to quickly find answers, connect with peers, and surface the most relevant content for your role. You’ll explore key resources like webinars, peer discussions, and event content – all within a streamlined, modern platform designed for busy healthcare professionals.

This year, we’ll go deeper with a live demonstration of MUSE’s AI-powered search and discovery tools. Learn how to ask better questions, uncover insights across community discussions and content libraries, and dramatically reduce the time it takes to find solutions. We’ll also highlight how your profile and activity help personalize your experience - making the community smarter and more relevant with every interaction.

If you’ve ever thought, “I know there’s something in MUSE that could help me, but I just can’t find it,” this session is for you. Come ready to explore, ask questions, and leave with practical strategies you can use immediately.
Learning objectives:
  • Navigate the MUSE community with confidence to access education, discussions, and event resources that support day-to-day challenges
  • Use AI-powered search tools effectively to find answers, best practices, and peer insights faster than traditional browsing
  • Leverage profiles, directories, and activity signals to build meaningful connections and discover relevant experts across the MUSE network
  • Apply practical engagement strategies to contribute, ask better questions, and get more value from the community on an ongoing basis
Brett Wangman is the Technology and Community Manager for MUSE.

101 - Workload Wizardry: Making Expanse Work for Us

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Courtney Grimm
  • Organization: Cascade Medical Center, Leavenworth, Washington
Learn how a rural family practice clinic optimized MEDITECH Expanse workloads through real-world trial, error, and redesign. This session highlights practical strategies for organizing patient communication, improving follow-up, and reducing patient safety risks – while sharing lessons learned, current workflows, and future enhancements to make Expanse work better for providers and staff.
Learning objectives:
  • How not to use the workload
  • Benefits of the workload
  • Future ideas to make it better
Courtney Grimm, MAC, EMT, is the Clinic Manager with 4.5 years of experience as a medical assistant working in the MEDITECH EMR. She is attending her third year at the MUSE Inspire Conference and is passionate about improving clinic workflows, patient access, and frontline staff support.

Selma Diaz MAC has been a Medical Assistant for 15 years and has worked at Cascade Medical since 2020. When the organization went live with the MEDITECH system in 2022, she became actively involved in informatics. Selma continues to work alongside a provider while supporting informatics initiatives, which allows her to stay closely connected with both providers and staff. This dual role helps her address system issues and concerns effectively, ensuring smooth workflows and improved patient care.

102 - The Relationship Between Data and Workflows (BCA, Leapfrog, Surveillance)

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Stephen Briggs
  • Organization: Catawba Valley Health System, Hickory, North Carolina
Modern healthcare produces massive amounts of data. The challenge lies in digesting all of this data and pinpointing workflow changes that move the needle. This presentation explores the relationship between data and workflows through previous successful initiatives at Catawba Valley Health System. The presentation touches on Business and Clinical Analytics Dashboards, Surveillance Status Boards, Order Sets, Leapfrog, and other fun things.
Learning objectives:
  • Understand the basics of Business and Clinical Analytics module
  • Identify workflows that could be improved with rule logic
  • Understand the basics of Surveillance Status Boards.
Stephen Briggs, Clinical Informatics Manager, completed his BS in Biology at Western Carolina University and Doctor of Pharmacy at Wingate University. He has worked at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory NC for the past 10 years. During his time at CVMC, he has worked as a Staff Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacist, and Informatics Pharmacist.

103 - Our Optimization Journey – Structuring a Governance Committee to Maintain Engagement

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenter: Ellen Dennehy
  • Organization: Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
As a CAH (Critical Access Hospital) and Maas (MEDITECH as a Service) site, we took a structured approach to optimization through our Governance Charter. This presentation will walk through our initial set up, policies, decision-making strategies, and change control, to maintain engagement and structure to optimization in a post live environment.
Learning objectives:
  • Describe benefits of a Governance Committee, ensuring we are aligning clinical, operational and technical priorities.
  • Provide guidelines for implementing optimization program.
  • Describe benefits of structured priority pack testing.
  • Explain the advantages of structured change management.
Ellen Dennehy, PA-C, DMSc is a Family Practice Physician Associate at Huggins Hospital. In additional to her clinical practice, she is the Medical Director of Provider Informatics and the President of Medical Staff. She is the co-chair for the Governance Committee and Provider Champion for Ambient Listening Project Charter.

104 - Charge Forwarding from the Ground Up

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Lindsey Gray
  • Organization: Meadville Medical Center, Meadville, Pennsylvania
This presentation will highlight the hurdles we met with initializing charge forwarding at our facilities. As well as the solutions we found to either correct or circumvent these opportunities. While this is primarily a revenue-based topic, but was driven by, and project managed, from a clinical perspective making it a learning experience on multiple levels. If it were (as with everything else) a straightforward application of the process it would be no problem. However, real world application and theory rarely line up. This is our experience with that and Charge Forwarding.
Learning objectives:
  • Understanding how it is contingent that workflow on the clinical side be fairly consistent to make the system recognize appropriate timings. Different days of documentation than date of service need addressed for CVW report.
  • Doc section can be hidden from all providers except the ones forwarding if necessary. Leaving the documents available to all providers regardless of charges on documentation or not.
  • Coding section can be addended with it updating the CVW/Coders.
Lindsey Gray, Clinical Informatics Specialist on the Clinical Informatics Application team at Meadville Medical Center has a clinical background as a Registered Nurse with over 10 years of experience in healthcare. In the role of Clinical Informatics Specialist, Lindsey has been involved in two system wide updates from MEDITECH 6.15 to Expanse 2.1, then Expanse 2.1 to Expanse 2.2 involving builds across web acute, clinical modules, and web ambulatory platforms. She has participated in project implementation related to the interface implementation of GE Fetal monitor and Spacelabs, facilitating the HTI-1 update, and MDS updates and maintenance, Charge Forwarding, QRM, and DMO. She has experience in building rules in MAT and NPR, templates, orders, and order sets.

105 - User Productivity: A Catalyst for BCA Utilization

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenter: Tyson Harness
  • Organization: Sierra View Medical Center, Porterville, California
Sierra View Medical Center embarked on a journey to leverage Business and Clinical Analytics (BCA) for improving operational efficiency and user productivity tracking. Initially, BCA adoption faced challenges due to discrepancies between Standard Content and existing RD reports, compounded by reliance on manual Excel-based workflows. These issues created skepticism about BCA’s accuracy and value.

The turning point came with the development of the HIM Productivity Dashboard, which consolidated multiple workflows - Release of Information, Record Locator, Incomplete Records, Scanning, and Coding - into a single, intuitive interface. This eliminated the need for multiple reports, streamlined processes, and provided actionable insights for department leaders.

The success of this dashboard catalyzed broader organizational interest, leading to the creation of additional dashboards for registration productivity, Emergency Department throughput, and clinical monitoring. These tools replaced manual reporting, improved compliance tracking, and supported initiatives such as Joint Commission survey readiness, provider credentialing, and clinical performance. Advanced dashboards also monitored documentation compliance for critical interventions.

Through these efforts, BCA evolved from an underutilized tool into a strategic asset, enabling data-driven decision-making, reducing manual workload, and enhancing transparency across administrative and clinical domains. This transformation demonstrates the power of understanding analytics in driving operational excellence and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Learning objectives:
  • Identify the current workflows and processes in your organization that could be tracked using BCA by learning from our journey. Foster a collaborative approach to using BCA when implementing or modifying current workflows and processes. Getting the buy-in from the different teams to move forward.
  • See an example of how utilizing Standard Content combined with custom datasets can open up the minds of nay-sayers in your organization.
  • See how you can use BCA to drive improvement process within your organization.
Tyson Harness is a Respiratory Therapist turned Data Analyst. He started his health care career as a switchboard operator while going to Nursing School to get my LVN license. Tyson worked in the RT department at Sierra View and decided to pivot to Respiratory Therapy. He earned his RT license and was utilized as a Subject Matter Expert for all things MEDITECH-related at the organization. After the 6.1 implementation, Tyson moved to the dark side into the world of Informatics and has loved every minute of it.

106 - Unlocking Efficiency: The Power of a Live Bed Board to Transform Productivity

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenter: Lauren Beason
  • Organization: Bartlett Regional Hospital, Juneau, Alaska
Healthcare organizations constantly strive for operational efficiency, yet often face challenges relating to lack of real-time visibility into bed occupancy, patient acuity, and staffing. Traditional reporting methods are often static and fail to provide the dynamic, real-time insights needed for effective decision-making. The primary objective of this initiative is to leverage Microsoft Power BI to transform disparate operational data into actionable insights.

Key outcomes include:

Providing real-time visibility into bed occupancy, patient acuity, and patient flow.
Visualizing patient acuities to support appropriate care planning and resource allocation.
Integrating timekeeping system data with operational metrics to analyze staffing levels against actual demand patterns.
Developing analytics for improving workforce productivity and optimizing resource utilization.

The implementation of the Power BI bed board has successfully transformed raw data into actionable insights, facilitating better resource management and enhancing overall operational efficiency. This data-driven approach allows for evaluation of patient acuities, not just census, driving at improved patient outcomes and providing a scalable solution for continuous performance monitoring within the healthcare environment.
Learning objectives:
  • Describe how the bed board and real-time information can facilitate improved communication and coordination of staffing.
  • Interpret how bed board and acuity analytics can be utilized to ensure appropriate allocation of resources.
  • Identify how background analytics of the bed board can improve data-driven decisions surrounding staffing and productivity.
Lauren Beason is the Training, Development & Business Intelligence Manager at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska. She has worked at Bartlett for nearly thirteen years, seven of those in leadership roles, including the Executive Director of Nursing. Lauren holds a Baccalaureate degree in nursing from Linfield College and has obtained numerous certifications in both clinical and leadership areas.

Lauren’s passion for health care began at an early age and led her to begin her career as a critical care and obstetrics nurse. After 11 years delivering clinical care, Lauren began working in data and analytics and has developed a deep passion for developing an organization-wide data-driven culture. Her unique background has allowed her to bridge the gap between business and clinical stakeholders, effectively leading data management and business intelligence initiatives, and ultimately helping drive key strategic decision making for the organization. Lauren is a born and raised Alaskan who spends every free moment outside the office hunting, fishing, and spending time at her family cabins.

107 - Don't Get Blown Away in the Windy City by Medication Conflict Alerts! Come Deep-Dish on Expanse Alert Optimization!

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: William Storey Cooper
  • Organization: HCA, Nashville, Tennessee
As HCA continues its conversion from MEDITECH Magic to Expanse Cloud, medication alerts have emerged as a key area for optimization. This presentation builds on prior conversations at MUSE and outlines how we have optimized approximately 18 million alerts per year (normalized) while adjusting alert usage to better support patient care. We will review our past alert optimization efforts, discuss our current state, and share our focus areas for the future. Attendees will gain practical insights and strategies that HCA has used to optimize medication alerts across the system.
Learning objectives:
  • Understand how over or under alerting can impact patient care.
  • Discuss strategies to optimize medication order entry alert conflicts in Expanse.
  • Review current efforts that have yielded successful alert optimization.
Will Cooper Pharm.D., CPHIMS works at HCA as a Manager of Clinical Pharmacy Informatics. He actively engaged with medication clinical decision support, maintains standards of HCA's EHRs including Expanse Cloud, and supports other areas of pharmacy and informatics. He has a passion for making sure healthcare continues to progress towards more effective, efficient, and safe care for patients.

108 - Traverse Overlay: TEFCA Health Information Exchange with Clinical Utility

  • Track: Interoperability/Integration
  • Presenter: Tina Whims
  • Organization: Frederick Health, Frederick, Maryland
In 2025, MEDITECH rolled out the Traverse Exchange Overlay to its US customer base. Frederick Health signed on as an Early Adopter. During this presentation we will share our experience with MEDITECH's onramp to National Health Data Exchange via the Health Gorilla TEFCA QHIN. We're now seeing clinical workflow benefits and are excited to explore use cases beyond Treatment.
Learning objectives:
  • Learn about the clinical and regulatory benefits of joining a TEFCA Health Information Exchange via MEDITECH's Traverse Exchange Overlay.
  • Become familiar with TEFCA exchange use cases which are available to ease data sharing burdens.
  • Learn about the challenges we experienced and how they were addressed as well as the open issues that may impact your implementation.
Tina Whims, Senior Applications Analyst, is a seasoned healthcare IT professional with extensive experience implementing, managing, and supporting ambulatory information systems. She is particularly interested in projects to improve access to clinical information for patients in our care.

109 - Improving Telemetry Patient Safety

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Robert Conn
  • Organization: Willis Knighton Health, Shreveport, Louisiana
The telemetry scanning at Willis Knighton Health addresses critical challenges in patient monitoring across five acute care hospitals. With 150–200+ patients monitored per facility, frequent transfers between bedside and mobile telemetry units created risks of incorrect device assignment, leading to inaccurate tracings and compromised patient safety.

To resolve these issues, a workflow redesign was implemented within the MEDITECH system. Key improvements included automated patient label generation, integration of labels onto telemetry units prior to deployment, and mandatory validation steps to ensure correct unit-to-patient matching. The revised process streamlined communication between providers, telemetry technicians, and nursing staff, reducing errors and enhancing accountability.

The technical build demonstrated seamless incorporation into existing documentation workflows, while outcomes highlighted improved accuracy, efficiency, and patient safety. Telemetry scanning exemplifies how thoughtful workflow modification and system integration can mitigate risks and strengthen clinical reliability in high-volume monitoring environments.
Learning objectives:
  • Identify the underlying risks associated with patient transfers between bedside and mobile telemetry units.
  • Evaluate the impact of improved communication between providers, telemetry technicians, and nursing staff on patient safety
  • Apply lessons learned from the presentation to their own clinical or technical environments.
Robert Conn is a Critical Care registered nurse. He stared working with MEDITECH Magic 4.4, and has experience with Magic, C/S and now Expanse. Robert has been Working at Willis Knighton since 2021.

110 - Designing and Implementing Patient Registries as a Caseload Management Tool

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Trishna Kamath
  • Organization: Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
Patient registries in MEDITECH are traditionally used for clinical tracking, but they can also serve as powerful tools for managing caseloads and optimizing workflows. This presentation describes the development of a registry designed to track patients who have completed initial assessments for specific programs, and its integration into clinician workflows through customized registry displays and manual worklists. By building qualifying rules around appointment history, the registry captures patients who are actively followed for ongoing care, supporting consistent follow-up and reducing the risk of patients being lost to follow-up with caseload transitions.

Customized registry displays allow clinicians to access key information at a glance – such as appointment attendance, questionnaires, reports, and select documentation queries – while providing direct links to patient charts, scheduling, and portal messaging. Manual worklists extend registry functionality for longitudinal caseload management, supporting team-based care across disciplines. The session will outline practical considerations for building and customizing caseload registries, writing qualifying appointment-based rules, and managing rollout considerations including workgroup management, training, and sustainability.

Attendees will learn how to structure registries to balance clinical relevance with operational efficiency, and how to make information actionable for frontline staff. Lessons learned from implementation will highlight both the benefits and challenges of using registries as caseload tracking tools, offering a framework adaptable to diverse organizational needs.
Learning objectives:
  • Learners will be able to design and build a qualifying rule around appointment history.
  • Learners will be able to create, maintain and transfer manual worklists for longitudinal caseload tracking.
  • Learners will be able to customize registry displays to support clinician workflows and evaluate considerations for registry rollout, structure, and framework.
Trishna Kamath is a Clinical Application Specialist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, bringing over 15 years of frontline healthcare experience to her role. She has led and supported key initiatives including the implementation of international diet terminology standards, the transition of user training to a hybrid virtual model, and quality and safety improvements that enhance patient care, clinician communication, and caseload management. Trishna’s work reflects a commitment to advancing healthcare technology and fostering collaborative solutions that strengthen both clinical practice and patient outcomes.

111 - Solving for Stability: How to Keep Immunization Interfaces Connected and Sustainable

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenter: Ashley Hall
  • Organization: White River Medical Center, Batesville, Arkansas

Summary: Immunization Information Systems (IIS) are vital to public health, yet effective data exchange with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is rarely seamless. Interoperability issues and data quality gaps frequently lead to incomplete records, vaccination discrepancies, and a heavier workload for healthcare providers.

If you’re tired of chasing down the same interface errors, join White River Medical Center and Tegria for a deep-dive, real-world case study that demonstrates how to transform your immunization data exchange process. This session moves beyond theory to provide you with a structured, proven approach to resolving frequent interface failures, so you can stop troubleshooting and start optimizing.

Results: Proactive monitoring is essential to ensure data accuracy and optimize clinical workflows. In this session, you will learn how to effectively manage frequent interface failures, transforming a daily frustration into a reliable, high-quality data exchange process.

Attendees will explore common challenges such as invalid patient demographics, gaps in health maintenance, and dictionary build issues. Through practical examples, we will walk attendees through error reporting workflows, data validation techniques, and collaborative communication protocols between clinical sites and public health agencies. The session will showcase how these strategies lead to measurable improvements at White River Medical Center, specifically, higher data completeness, increased provider satisfaction with integrated access, and enhanced clinical decision support.

Learning objectives:
  • Improve immunization data quality and reliability by applying a structured troubleshooting methodology, addressing common VXU and QBP errors, and ensuring accurate HL7 vaccine build and configuration.
  • Confidently manage immunization message workflows by monitoring, validating, requeuing, and resubmitting both outbound reporting and inbound historical queries from immunization registries.
  • Enable sustainable immunization data exchange through stronger collaboration between IT, clinical teams, and public health agencies to support long-term interoperability and compliance.

Ashley Hall is an RN systems analyst at White River Health in Arkansas. Her main background is in clinical quality, which she uses in her current role to aid the organization in navigating the technical requirements of regulatory management.

Therese Hawes is a Clinical Analyst with more than 21 years of experience specializing in MEDITECH Expanse and legacy MEDITECH platforms. Beginning her career as a Med-Surg RN, she brings deep clinical insight to her work, enabling her to bridge the gap between frontline care and healthcare information technology.

Therese’s expertise includes interface development, end-to-end clinical workflows, nursing documentation, order entry, pharmacy processes, and surgical systems. She has played key roles in multiple system go-lives and has extensive experience implementing interfaces with state immunization registries. Known for her strong problem-solving skills, clear communication style, and talent for clinician training, she is passionate about workflow optimization and eliminating the “speed bumps” that impede daily clinical routines. With a career grounded in improving user experience, data integrity, and clinical efficiency, Therese continues to advance practical, human-centered approaches to EHR implementation and optimization.

112 - Weight, Workflow, and the Windy City: Pediatric Pharmacy Informatics Essentials

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Zahirah Ahmed
  • Organization: HCA, Nashville, Tennessee

Pediatric medication use presents unique challenges that require deliberate informatics design, governance, and continuous oversight. Unlike adult care, pediatric dosing is highly dependent on accurate weight, age, and developmental considerations, with small errors carrying significant risk. Informatic pharmacists play a critical role in translating pediatric clinical requirements into safe, standardized, and reliable clinical workflows.

MEDITECH Expanse offers functionality to support pediatric safety – including kilogram only weight management, weight-based dosing calculations, pediatric specific order sets, standardized concentrations, and clinical decision support. These tools are only effective when thoughtfully configured, tested, and governed. This presentation outlines the foundational pediatric concepts informatic pharmacists must understand, highlights Expanse capabilities, and reinforces best practices to ensure safe, efficient, and scalable pediatric medication-use systems across the enterprise.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify key differences between adult and pediatric medication use and recognize high-risk areas unique to pediatrics.
  • Understand informatics safeguards needed for pediatric patients and describe MEDITECH Expanse tools that support safe pediatric workflows.
  • Apply best practices when building, validating, and maintaining pediatric content and demonstrate strategies to excel as a pharmacy informaticist supporting pediatric populations.

Zahirah Ahmed is a Clinical Pharmacy Informatics Pharmacy Manager with over 12 years of experience in inpatient pharmacy. She currently serves at HCA Healthcare, where she collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to optimize electronic health record systems for improved patient care and medication safety. Zahirah Ahmed holds a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and a Masters of Management in Healthcare (MMHC). She has developed a keen interest in her new role in pharmacy informatics. She is excited to explore how leveraging informatics can transform the future of pharmacy practice and contribute to more efficient, patient-centered care.

113 - ED Big Boards in 2.2: Seeing What Matters Most

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: James McGarvey
  • Organization: Frederick Health, Frederick, Maryland

Emergency departments rely on rapid awareness to support timely, safe, and coordinated patient care. Status Boards, specifically Big Boards, are a central tool for communicating real-time information. Critical data and information can often fail to align with what frontline nursing and providers need most to make fast, high-stake decisions.

This presentation explores how thoughtfully Expanse 2.2 can design a Big Board that can improve clinical efficiency by highlighting the information that matters most to clinicians. Through frontline input and feedback, we can identify key data elements that support rapid prioritization, including patient acuity, pending tasks, and throughput barriers. Differences and overlaps in nursing and provider information needs are examined to demonstrate how a shared visual platform can enhance team communication while respecting role-specific workflows.

Attendees will learn strategies for optimizing Big Boards designed to improve situational awareness, and support faster, more informed care decisions. The session will also discuss common pitfalls of overcrowded monitor displays and offer recommendations for readability and usability in high-pressure emergency care environments.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify the most critical data elements needed on emergency department big boards to support faster care decision making.
  • Apply practical principals for optimizing big board displays to improve clarity, relevance, and real-time usability.
  • Describe how improved visual communication can enhance interdisciplinary collaboration and patient care outcomes.

James McGarvey, BSN, RN, is a Clinical Applications Analyst with the Information Services Department at Frederick Health Hospital (FHH) in Frederick, MD since 2019. He is responsible for supporting the EDM module and training on-boarding emergency providers to the hospital on Expanse. James regularly collaborates with interdisciplinary teams. He has been an integral part of implementing MEDITECH 6.1, Expanse 2.1 and most recently 2.2 at FHH. James has established a great rapport with nursing staff and providers in the ED looking for ways to improve patient satisfaction while keeping patient safety at the forefront of his mind.

Prior to joining the IS department, James worked as an RN at the Emergency Department of FHH with 10 years experience. He graduated from Frostburg State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. He also has an Associate Degree in Information Systems Management with a total of 16 years’ experience in IT.

114 - Windy City Wisdom: Staying Relevant with Continuing Education in the EHR Era

  • Track: Other
  • Presenter: Krupali Parikh
  • Organization: HCA, Nashville, Tennessee

As healthcare technology evolves rapidly, Electronic Health Record (EHR) users – both clinical and non-clinical – must keep their skills relevant. Continuing education is essential for career sustainability and organizational success, affecting everyone from frontline clinicians to leaders responsible for strategy and optimization. This session targets a diverse EHR user audience, including clinicians, analysts, informaticists, IT professionals, trainers, and healthcare leaders.

The presentation focuses on how targeted continuing education enables individuals to remain effective in their current roles while preparing for future opportunities in an increasingly data-driven, evolving, and automated healthcare environment. Attendees will receive an overview of high-value certifications, degrees, short courses, and vendor-specific training pertinent to today’s EHR landscape.

The session clearly differentiates the most beneficial educational options for clinical users, non-clinical users, and hybrid informatics roles. Key considerations include return on investment, real-world applicability, and employer recognition for both frontline staff and organizational leaders.

The session aims to prompt participants to reflect on their skill gaps, career aspirations, and learning preferences. Mid-level executives will learn how continuing education supports workforce development and system optimization, while frontline users will leave with actionable next steps for professional growth.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify certifications, courses, and degrees that provide significant career impact.
  • Recognize the importance of continuing education in modern EHR-driven roles.
  • Align learning investments with personal career goals and organizational needs.

Krupali Parikh currently works on the Clinical Pharmacy Informatics team for HCA Healthcare as a Pharmacy Informaticist. Krupali earned a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of San Francisco and a Masters in Business Administration with a Healthcare Management emphasis from Western Governor's University.

115 - From Hidden Data to Informed Decisions: How a Rural Hospital Leveraged Reporting to Unlock the Full Value of MEDITECH Expanse

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenter: Elizabeth Wright
  • Organization: McCurtain Memorial Hospital, Idabel, Oklahoma

Many healthcare organizations that implemented MEDITECH Expanse during the COVID era did so under accelerated timelines, prioritizing continuity of care and system stability. As organizations have continued to mature in their Expanse environments, many have recognized opportunities to further optimize how data is accessed, interpreted, and used to support operational and financial decision-making.

McCurtain Memorial Hospital (MMH), a rural facility, took a proactive approach to enhancing data visibility and reporting capabilities to support informed leadership decisions. By reviewing existing system views and workflows, the organization identified opportunities to expand insight into key operational and revenue-related data elements and strengthen confidence in system reporting.

Through targeted on-site analysis and collaborative reporting support, MMH worked to extract and analyze data elements that enhance and complement standard MEDITECH workflows, providing deeper insight into system behavior and data relationships. By leveraging Report Writer, Report Designer, and SQL-based extracts – without building a full internal reporting team – the hospital strengthened its understanding of workflows, data relationships, and system performance.

This session shares MMH’s optimization journey toward greater data transparency and actionable insight, demonstrating how strategic external expertise can help organizations maximize the value of their MEDITECH data, validate workflows, and build internal reporting confidence – even with limited resources.

Attendees will walk away with practical strategies for improving data visibility, asking more effective questions of their systems, and optimizing MEDITECH reporting capabilities without significant internal investment.

Learning objectives:
  • Recognize how optimized reporting can support clinical, operational, and financial decision-making without requiring advanced technical expertise or a dedicated analytics team.
  • Understand how collaboration between clinical leadership and reporting specialists can improve data visibility, strengthen workflow understanding, and support informed administrative decisions.
  • Apply practical strategies for asking better questions of their data and systems, enabling administrators to confidently use reports to validate workflows and support organizational goals.

Elizabeth Wright is a registered nurse with over five years of experience, including a background in dialysis, and currently serves as the Director of Informatics at McCurtain Memorial Hospital, a rural critical access hospital. With no prior MEDITECH experience, she stepped into this role and has since focused on optimizing our Expanse system, improving data visibility, and using key metrics to support informed clinical, operational, and financial decision-making. Elizabeth is passionate about bridging the gap between nursing, healthcare IT, and reporting to help rural organizations maximize the value of their data.

116 - MEDITECH 6.08 to Expanse 2.2 MaaS: A Transition Journey

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Judy Schmieder, RN, BSN
  • Organization: Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital (SGCMH) is an independent 25-bed critical access hospital located in Southeast Missouri. SGCMH has been a MEDITECH customer for more than 23 years, beginning with Magic in 2003, transitioning to MEDITECH 6.08 in 2014, and most recently implementing MEDITECH Expanse 2.2 MaaS in 2024.

In 2022, SGCMH initiated a comprehensive EMR selection process evaluating MEDITECH Expanse, Cerner, and Epic Community Connect solutions. With the support of a consulting partner, the organization conducted vendor demonstrations with an interdisciplinary team, completed structured vendor evaluations, and held discussions with surrounding tertiary care organizations using Epic. After careful consideration, SGCMH elected to remain with MEDITECH and transition to Expanse MaaS.

A key decision point following vendor selection was determining the future state of the technical environment – maintaining control through third-party hosting or on-premises servers versus contracting MEDITECH Expanse MaaS. SGCMH ultimately selected the MaaS model.

In addition to the Expanse implementation, SGCMH transitioned from the MEDITECH 6.08 Payroll application to a third-party Human Resources Information System (HRIS). The organization also significantly expanded its MEDITECH footprint, adding new applications including Patient Connect, Surgery, Oncology, Quality/Risk Management/Surveillance, Business and Clinical Analytics, Care Compass, electronically signed patient registration forms, an updated patient portal, and more than 85 interfaces with external vendors.

Despite the scope and complexity of these changes, SGCMH successfully went live on the originally planned implementation date, becoming the only one of three sites to do so.

This presentation will explore the challenges and successes encountered throughout the Expanse MaaS journey. Attendees will gain insight into lessons learned related to change management, communication strategies, branding and marketing, stakeholder engagement, and how SGCMH achieved organizational buy-in to successfully deliver a large-scale transformation.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe the key decision points and evaluation process involved in transitioning from MEDITECH 6.08 to Expanse 2.2 MaaS within a critical access hospital environment.
  • Identify common challenges & successes associated with large-scale EMR transitions, including infrastructure decisions, application expansion, and interface growth.
  • Apply practical strategies for stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management to support successful adoption of MEDITECH Expanse MaaS.

Judy Schmieder, RN, BSN is the Director of Clinical Informatics at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital, where she has served in informatics leadership for the past 11 years. She brings more than 21 years of informatics experience, following seven years as a bedside nurse. Judy is an experienced project manager and organizational leader, holding a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and having served as a Baldrige examiner. She has led numerous large- and small-scale initiatives, including MEDITECH 6.08, the Expanse MaaS implementation, and multiple third-party vendor integrations. She is currently leading SGCMH’s AI Governance, Forms, and Order Set committees.

117 - PCS/EDM Charges from Documentation: SGCMH’s Journey to Automating Charge Capture in MEDITECH Expanse

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Nicole Grein
  • Organization: Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital (SGCMH), a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Southeast Missouri, transitioned from MEDITECH 6.08 to MEDITECH Expanse 2.2 on May 1, 2024. Under the 6.08 system, nursing departments – including the Emergency Department, Med Surg, OB, and Wound Care – relied on a manual “Charge Sheet” intervention to capture charges at the end of each patient visit. This process was time-consuming, prone to missed or unsupported charges, and required significant staff effort.

During Expanse implementation, SGCMH aimed to modernize charge capture by shifting to real-time charges dropping directly from clinical documentation. However, limited standard content within the EDM and PCS modules created significant challenges. During Mock Live, two months before go-live, SGCMH identified that charge setup was incomplete and charges were not dropping as intended. To avoid revenue loss, the organization made the difficult decision to revert temporarily to the legacy “Charge Sheet” workflow for go-live.

Following stabilization after go-live, SGCMH partnered closely with MEDITECH through a series of optimization sessions to re-establish the goal of charges-from-documentation. The team began with Respiratory Therapy, Wound Care, and the Emergency Department – building detailed charge spreadsheets, mapping documentation queries, and identifying appropriate doc sections for charge linkage. Once these areas are fully implemented, SGCMH will expand the model to Med Surg and Oncology.

This session will share SGCMH’s decision-making process, challenges with missing standard content, strategies for charge-mapping across departments, and lessons learned in driving successful charge automation in MEDITECH Expanse. Attendees will gain practical insights for implementing charges-from-documentation workflows in their own Expanse environments.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe the key challenges associated with implementing charges-from-documentation workflows in MEDITECH Expanse, including limitations of standard PCS and EDM content.
  • Identify practical strategies for mapping clinical documentation to charge capture across multiple departments, using real-world examples from a Critical Access Hospital implementation.
  • Apply lessons learned and best practices to plan, validate, and optimize automated charge capture workflows in their own MEDITECH Expanse environments while minimizing revenue risk.

Nicole Grein is a Clinical Analyst at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital and a registered nurse with six years of neuroscience nursing experience. For the past ten years, Nicole has worked in SGCMH’s Clinical IT department, supporting and building within MEDITECH 6.08 and, most recently, contributing to the implementation of MEDITECH Expanse. She supports the Emergency Department Management, Patient Care System, Physician Care Manager (PAPD), Surveillance, Case Management, Promoting Interoperability – Hospital, and Order Management modules. Nicole also helps build and update electronic forms, onboard and train new providers, and assist clinical departments with workflow optimization.

118 - Pump It Up: Integration of BD Alaris IV Infusion Pumps into MEDITECH Expanse

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Jason Johnson
  • Organization: Willis Knighton Health, Shreveport, Louisiana

Willis Knight Health recently completed an integration project between the BD Alaris Infusion Smart Pumps and MEDITECH Expanse. During this presentation, we will review what this integration experience looks like for documentation within MEDITECH Expanse, our roadmap towards implementation, lessons learned to help others avoid potential pitfalls, and our end user feedback with having these pumps integrated.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe the experience of having the BD Alaris Infusion Smart Pumps integrated into MEDITECH Expanse.
  • Understand the roadmap for implementation and lessons learned from our experience.
  • Review end user feedback and benefits of having pumps integrated into the EHR.

Jason Johnson is an ED trained registered nurse turned clinical informatics nurse. He has been working in clinical informatics since 2021 and has been the manager of the clinical build team at Willis Knighton Health since 2024. Jason is passionate about the integration of technology into the healthcare experience to enhance clinical workflows and improve patient safety. When not working on the EHR, he is equally as passionate about traveling, board games, and movies.

119 - Implementing the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program in a MEDITECH Expanse MaaS Environment

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Chapman Lindsay
  • Organization: Moab Regional Hospital, Moab, Utah

The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program is a federally funded initiative that ensures access to ACIP-recommended immunizations for children from birth through age 18 who are uninsured or underinsured. While the program’s core mission is consistent nationwide, its operational and billing requirements vary by state. In Utah, VFC-enrolled facilities must navigate specific billing constraints, including eligibility screening, fee waivers, and strict limitations on patient billing practices.

This presentation explores the practical challenges and solutions involved in implementing a compliant VFC program within a MEDITECH Expanse ambulatory environment. Attendees will learn how our facility identified and addressed gaps in state interface functionality, updated HL7 mappings, and restructured documentation workflows to ensure eligibility data transmission. We will detail the creation of a patient status board for real-time insurance visibility, the refinement of reimbursement rules and charge matrices to align with Medicaid and self-pay scenarios, and the development of a proration check to prevent inappropriate billing or collections activity.

Through this case study, participants will gain insight into the full life cycle of vaccine charge management - from patient intake and eligibility verification to final billing and fee adjustment.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify common barriers to VFC program implementation.
  • Apply at least two strategies for accurate patient billing, compliant with a VFC program.
  • Describe the end-to-end workflow for vaccine charge processing in a clinical setting.

Chapman Lindsay is a Business Analyst at Moab Regional Hospital, where he has supported clinical and operational teams since July 2023. Having a background in physics and materials science, Chapman enjoys using data and out of the box problem solving, to optimize healthcare workflows and strengthen decision making. In the past year, Chapman has helped lead a variety of projects at Moab Regional Hospital including developing and rolling out the hospital’s Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, navigating regulatory requirements, EMR configuration, and cross-departmental coordination to build a compliant and efficient model for a rural critical access setting.

120 - Copy Less, Care More – Group Documentation

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Abigail Arku-Matey
  • Organization: Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

Clinicians at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital often see and treat both ambulatory and acute rehab patients in group settings, ranging from writing clubs for patients with brain injuries, to all-day and overnight camps that help youth with disabilities gain independence. Holland Bloorview has recently implemented the Group Documentation functionality, which lets clinicians document group session notes and patient-specific notes seamlessly in one template.

This presentation will provide a broad look at how we:

  • Schedule group sessions
  • Eliminated the need for clinicians to copy and paste the shared content for patients within a group into a separate documentation template.
  • Created group documentation templates
  • Adapted the group scheduling and documentation functionality in MEDITECH to our own workflows, including the need to add co-signers to group documentation
  • Implemented group documentation in defined phases
Learning objectives:
  • How we at Holland Bloorview setup groups.
  • How we built group documentation template.
  • Lessons learned and future state for our inpatient population.

Abigail Arku-Matey is an Application Specialist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital with over five years of experience in the health information field. A former patient of Holland Bloorview, Abigail began her career at the hospital as part of the scheduling team. In 2018, she became a key member of the Expanse implementation team, where she was responsible for building and supporting the CWS, REGM, AMBPM, and ADM modules. Since then, Abigail has contributed to numerous projects, including the launch of Patient Connect and the integration of the OCEAN eReferral platform with Expanse.

121 - Resiliency in Action: A Unified Clinical Downtime Strategy

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenters: Casey Jepsen, Alice Dufek, and Crystal Duffy
  • Organization: HCA, Nashville, Tennessee

Unplanned downtimes in healthcare whether caused by cyberattacks, infrastructure failures, or vendor outages pose significant risks to patient safety and operational continuity. At HCA Healthcare, we recognized downtime as a critical patient safety issue, not just an IT concern. This session will share how we developed and implemented the Enterprise Clinical Downtime (ECD) Program across 190+ hospitals to safeguard uninterrupted care during EHR outages.

Attendees will learn how our program integrates national frameworks such as Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert #67, CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule, and SAFER guidelines into practical tools and workflows. We will showcase strategies including downtime drills, the clinical downtime guidance, and innovative technological solutions. Real-world case studies will illustrate the financial and clinical impacts of recent cyber incidents and demonstrate how proactive readiness reduces risk.

Participants will leave with actionable insights, templates, and a roadmap to build resilience in their own organizations transforming downtime from a crisis into an opportunity for growth and safety.

Learning objectives:
  • Participants will be able to evaluate downtime readiness using metrics and governance models that support continuous improvement.
  • Participants will be able to apply national standards and best practices (Joint Commission, CMS, SAFER) to local downtime strategies.
  • Participants will be able to implement practical tools and workflows including downtime drills, playbooks, and technology solutions to enhance resiliency.

Casey Jepsen is the Corporate Director of Enterprise Clinical Downtime at HCA Healthcare, where he leads the organization’s enterprise-wide clinical downtime readiness program. This program standardizes downtime workflows, resiliency strategies, and technology solutions across more than 190 hospitals to ensure uninterrupted, high-quality patient care during system disruptions. With over 17 years of healthcare experience and fifteen years in clinical technology leadership, Casey has experience in healthcare IT, change management, and operational continuity. He is passionate about fostering a culture of readiness and resilience and has also advanced virtual care initiatives, including Virtual Nursing and telehealth partnerships, to enhance patient safety and clinician efficiency.

Alice Dufek is an accomplished Informatics Nurse with over ten years of experience in critical care nursing and clinical informatics. With a strong clinical foundation gained from working in intensive care units at prestigious institutions such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Michigan Health System, Alice has developed a deep understanding of frontline care and the vital role that reliable technology plays in supporting healthcare professionals. Currently serving as a Clinical Downtime Nurse Specialist at HCA Healthcare, Alice leads initiatives within the Enterprise Clinical Downtime Program. In this role, she focuses on identifying the real needs of clinicians during technology outages and translating those insights into practical, user-friendly solutions that enhance patient safety and care continuity. Her passion lies in making digital tools more effective for healthcare providers, reducing friction in workflows, and improving clinical readiness across the organization.

Crystal Duffy is a Senior Informatics Nurse Specialist at HCA, where she focuses on optimizing clinical workflows in the healthcare downtime space. She earned her Master’s in Nursing Informatics in April 2025 and joined HCA later that year. Crystal brings a strong clinical foundation from five years at the bedside, primarily in ICUs as a travel nurse and in the cardiac catheterization lab. She also has experience developing queries and managing projects for revenue integrity. Passionate about advancing nursing informatics, Crystal is preparing to sit for the Nursing Informatics Board Certification exam. Outside of work, she enjoys crocheting, Cricut crafting, and staying inspired through podcasts and audiobooks.

122 - Developing a Data Steward Program at Frederick Health

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenter: Aaron Clutter
  • Organization: Frederick Health, Frederick, Maryland

Data is a vital resource. In order to develop the best tools to deliver information that is timely, meaningful, and actionable across all areas of a healthcare organization, it takes more than just a team of SLQ programmers or an easy-to-use data visualization tool. Frederick Health has found success with the creation of a Data Steward team, a selection of individuals in many different areas of clinical and non-clinical disciplines. This presentation will discuss the purpose of and journey to establishing the Data Steward Program at Frederick Health, impacts of the program, and best practices found in the process.

Learning objectives:
  • Definitions of a Data Steward, the purpose of the Data Steward, and the process of selection and training for stewards at Frederick health. The goal is to present a process that can be easily replicated to help small SQL development/report writing teams provided the needed data tools to any size organization.
  • The One Data Request Process - a method of requesting data tools/reports that streamlines the process using the Data Stewards, Application Analysts in IT, and the Enterprise Analytics team. This process reduces redundant reports, helps to place clear definition around data requests, and maintains an organized queue of requests.
  • Use of MEDITECH Data Repository and the MEDITECH BCA module to establish data sets used by Enterprise Analytics team and the Data Stewards to develop data tools using SQL and other data visualization tools.

Aaron Clutter has worked in healthcare and with MEDITECH hospitals since 2000. With a background in finance and accounting, custom report development, and application support, he moved into a management role in 2012 overseeing a team that supported non-clinical MEDITECH modules and other areas of the healthcare organization. His team also included developing and expanding the use of the MEDITECH Data Repository. For the last four year, Aaron has been the Director of Enterprise Analytics at Frederick Health, a new role created to integrate IT, Data Analytics, and the organizational goals of being more data driven. Heading the Data Governance Office, Aaron has built a team of data analysts and data tool developers and has been working to build a network of Data Stewards at Frederick Health.

123 - Friends Don’t Let Friends Track in Excel – Our Journey from Spreadsheets to Registries

  • Track: Population Health & Analytics
  • Presenter: Rachel Parker
  • Organization: Moab Regional Hospital

Many healthcare teams track critical patient information manually – through spreadsheets, sticky notes, shared drives, or memory. While these workarounds may start small, they often become unsustainable as patient populations grow and regulatory demands increase.

This presentation explores how clinical registries within MEDITECH Expanse were leveraged at Moab Regional Hospital to transform manual tracking into scalable, automated workflows. Using the Recovery Center Registry and Colonoscopy Registry as case studies, we demonstrate how registries can support both large population health initiatives and small, high-touch specialty programs.

Attendees will learn practical strategies for building meaningful tracking tools, and aligning registry data with quality metrics, health management protocols, and provider workflows. With a frontline nursing perspective and an informatics lens, this session highlights how thoughtful registry design can improve efficiency, close care gaps, and strengthen patient outcomes, without adding burden to staff.

Learning objectives:
  • Compare two registry models (Recovery and Colonoscopy) and explain how population size influences workflow design.
  • Evaluate their own organization’s manual tracking processes and determine when a registry solution is appropriate.
  • Describe key design principles for building sustainable registries that support follow-up, documentation integrity, and care coordination.

Rachel Parker, MSN, RN began her nursing career 15 years ago with clinical experience in labor & delivery, emergency care, and clinical education. Her passion for improving systems and supporting frontline staff led her into Clinical Informatics, where she now serves as a Clinical Analyst at Moab Regional Hospital.

Rachel specializes in EMR optimization, registry development, workflow redesign, and provider training within MEDITECH Expanse. She brings a frontline nurse’s perspective to informatics work, ensuring that technology supports, not complicates, patient care.

125 - When Patients Push the Buttons: Designing Self-Administration & Patient Pump Workflows

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Tara Madigan
  • Organization: Wooster Community Hospital Health System, Wooster, Ohio

Modern clinical workflows increasingly rely on patients taking an active role in administering their own medications or operating personal medical devices – introducing a unique combination of autonomy, safety considerations, and technical complexity. For MEDITECH analysts, this means designing workflows that not only capture patient-driven actions accurately but also maintain consistency, compliance, and visibility across interdisciplinary teams. This session dives into the real-world build strategies and system behaviors that support dependable Self-Administration and patient-owned insulin pump workflows in the acute setting.

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how to translate clinical expectations into reliable system behavior – bridging the gaps between provider intent, nursing workflow, pharmacy verification, and MEDITECH’s technical capabilities. We will walk through the architectural differences between Self-Administration and Patient's Pump workflows, examine cadence-driven documentation requirements, and demonstrate how clear build governance can prevent downstream issues that impact safety, compliance, and data integrity.

Whether you're evaluating your current configuration or planning future optimization, this presentation provides actionable guidance to strengthen interdisciplinary alignment and ensure these high-variability workflows hold up in real-world acute care environments – even when patients are the ones pushing the buttons.

Learning objectives:
  • Apply reliable build strategies to support safe, patient-initiated actions: Learners will be able to configure key components such as orders, documentation logic, capacity assessments, and interdisciplinary visibility elements to create workflows that accurately capture patient-driven medication behaviors and enhance patient safety.
  • Distinguish the functional differences between Self-Administration and Patient Pump workflows: Learners will be able to differentiate how each workflow behaves in the system – including cadence, documentation requirements, linking rules, capacity logic, and MAR visibility – enabling analysts to build and maintain each pathway appropriately.
  • Evaluate workflow risks and identify configuration choices that enhance safety, accuracy, and interdisciplinary usability: Learners will be able to assess common points of failure in these workflows and select configuration strategies that reduce caregiver burden and improve reliability across roles.

Tara Madigan, BSN, RN is a Senior Clinical Systems Analyst who blends clinical insight with technical expertise to strengthen the MEDITECH Expanse environment. She has led initiatives that align interdisciplinary workflows into cohesive, high-reliability build strategies. Tara focuses on practical, scalable design patterns that reinforce safety, documentation integrity, and operational resilience. She is passionate about translating clinical needs into sustainable, workflow-safe configuration and empowering analysts to build with confidence.

126 - Optimizing SANE Documentation Workflows with MEDITECH Expanse Cam

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenter: Harvey Olascuaga
  • Organization: Ozarks Healthcare, West Plains, Missouri

This presentation explores the integration of Expanse Cam into SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) and WOUND documentation workflows, highlighting its role in improving image quality, documentation accuracy, and legal defensibility. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to optimize digital imaging documentation while supporting high standards of patient care and forensic integrity.

Learning objectives:
  • Explain the purpose and functionality of Expanse Cam within the context of digital wound imaging and clinical documentation in SANE and WOUND workflows.
  • Demonstrate correct documentation procedures using Expanse Cam to capture, store, and integrate images into SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) and WOUND assessment records while maintaining forensic and clinical standards.
  • Organization’s implementation experience with Expanse Cam, including workflow integration, challenges encountered and lessons learned.

Harvey Olascuagais is an IT Application Manager for Ozarks Healthcare. He began his nursing career in 1999, building a strong clinical foundation that continues to guide his work today. In 2004, he transitioned into Information Technology to focus on improving clinical systems and workflows. Since 2016, Harvey has supported Laboratory and Radiology applications and has also worked closely with Emergency Department physician workflows. Prior to becoming an analyst, he served as a Physician Liaison, strengthening collaboration between providers, operations, and IT teams.

Harvey holds credentials as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Registered Pharmacy Technician (RPhT), and Surgical Technologist. His combined clinical and technical experience allows him to bridge the gap between patient care and technology, with a focus on improving documentation accuracy, workflow efficiency, and overall quality of care.

127 - Anesthesia Information Management and Expanse: Preop to PACU and Everything In Between – Our Experience with Selecting, Implementing, and Supporting AIMS

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenters: Dr. Douglas Janowski and Joshua Robinson
  • Organization: Willis Knighton Health, Shreveport, Louisiana

The implementation of an integrated Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS) is a critical element to the continuum of a singular patient record within Expanse. MEDITECH offers a 14-point Anesthesia suite to enable a seamless environment that concurrently enables Anesthesia to provide care within a specialty-specific application while communicating directly into and from Expanse to ensure data integrity.

As MEDITECH does not offer its own Anesthesia module, the successful implementation of an AIMS applications requires a well-designed and staged project inclusive:

  • Designing a project mission and RFP
  • Assembling a selection committee with clearly defined goals and requisites
  • Upon selection (and contracting of the partner vendor), a systematic and tightly managed project plan for:
    • Governance
    • Full interface configuration and testing
    • Template configuration
    • Hardware acquisition, testing, and implementation to accommodate the unique workflows of Anesthesia
    • End-to-end testing to satisfy the necessary requirements of all engaged stakeholders, including Anesthesia (Anesthesiologists, CRNAs); Pharmacy; HIM; Nursing; Accounting / Revenue Cycle; Quality
    • Training
    • Go-Live Support
    • Post-Live Support and Optimization
Learning objectives:
  • Opportunities for success (and lessons from failures) for implementing an Anesthesia Information Management System in conjunction with MEDITECH Expanse leveraging the MEDITECH Anesthesia Interface Suite.
  • Approaches to selecting an AIMS vendor that engages the stakeholders (Anesthesia, Pharmacy, HIM, Revenue Cycle) beyond the selection and through the process of implementation. Approaches to Hardware configuration to optimize the mobile functionality of AIMS and the unique workflows of Anesthesiology Services.
  • Lessons learned to successfully complete your health system's journey to implementing an AIMS application.

Douglas Janowski, M.D. is the Senior Physician Advisor for Information Technology and Clinical Integrated Network at Willis-Knighton Health System in Shreveport, Louisiana. A Gastroenterologist since 2003, Dr. Janowski has worked as a physician executive with a focus on Informatics, Quality Metrics and Measures and Clinical Operational optimization. Recognizing the combined complexities and challenges of the convergence of health care and IT, Dr. Janowski focuses on optimizing the clinical IT infrastructure for providers and patients that promotes best practices, efficiencies, access and equity within a quality-based model. In his spare time, Dr. Janowski enjoys the beach, travel, and coaching ice hockey.

Joshua Robinson, MBA, CHCIO is the AVP IT at Willis Knighton Health.

128 - Implementation Project Killers: How to Plan Around Them?

  • Track: Interoperability/Integration
  • Presenter: Bob Gronberg
  • Organization: CereCore

This session explores four areas that are often over-looked, undervalued, or poorly planned in an EHR/EPI implementation. These areas are foundational and should have early and substantial focus. Learn how to navigate these areas and learn about tools and techniques to better plan and sequence your implementation project.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify four areas that EHR/EPI projects overlook and scramble to dedicate time, resources, and energies to address.
  • Expose participants to some tools and approaches to better handle these areas and functions.
  • Increase participant's knowledge through exposure to "other projects" struggles and lessons learned.

Bob Gronberg is the Assistant Vice President with CereCore’s MEDITECH Professional Services Group. Bob brings more that 35+ years of healthcare IT experience, having program and project managed dozens of successful MEDITECH implementations, Provided executive leadership for consulting and software organizations as well as lead hospital IT organizations in both community and pediatric medical centers.

129 - Access Isn't Only an App: Avoiding Information Blocking and Ensuring Patient-Centered Access Beyond the Portal

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenters: Elizabeth McElhiney and Nicole Brown
  • Organization: Verisma

The 21st Century Cures Act mandates healthcare organizations must not unreasonably interfere with, prevent, or discourage access, exchange, or use of electronic health information. Staying compliant requires proactive measures, including updating workflows, ensuring interoperability, and regularly reviewing policies to avoid inadvertent blocking of patient information. Information blocking risks regulatory penalties, erodes patient trust, and hinders empowering patients to take charge of their health.

Organizations can assess their legacy systems for barriers that may unintentionally restrict access, such as outdated interfaces, limited retrieval capabilities, or fragmented workflows. By prioritizing transparency and usability, and training staff on compliance requirements, healthcare providers can ensure they remain on the right side of the law while delivering secure, meaningful access to health information for every patient.

Integrating information blocking considerations into cybersecurity and interoperability strategies supports regulatory compliance and the broader mission of advancing patient engagement and care quality. As healthcare evolves, maintaining awareness of legislative requirements and adapting systems accordingly are essential for fostering trust and closing gaps in access across all platforms.

Access to health information empowers patients to actively participate in their own care, make informed decisions, and communicate effectively with healthcare providers. When patients have timely, secure access to their records, they can verify information, track treatment progress, and address discrepancies that may affect their health outcomes. Improved access also helps close gaps in care, supports transparency, and fosters trust between patients and providers, leading to better engagement and overall health management.

This session will explore the complex landscape of health information access, challenging the notion that patient engagement begins and ends with digital portals. We’ll discuss real-world barriers such as fragmented workflows, legacy electronic health record (EHR) vulnerabilities, and regulatory hurdles, and introduce strategies for achieving true interoperability and secure, patient-centered access.

Attendees will learn practical approaches to archiving, workflow redesign, and inclusive data retrieval, supported by case studies demonstrating how innovative solutions can bridge the digital divide and advance patient care. Participants will be equipped with actionable insights into balancing compliance, security, and usability, ensuring every patient has meaningful access to their health information, regardless of platform or provider. They'll also discover how ASTP and others in the government alphabet soup are doing enforcement now AND calling our data hoarders.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify persistent barriers to provider data retrieval, including fragmented workflows, legacy system vulnerabilities, and regulatory challenges, and assess their impact on patient access to health information.
  • Evaluate effective strategies for streamlining processes and enhancing interoperability across diverse EHR platforms promoting secure, patient-centered access.
  • Explore innovative techniques such as workflow redesign, data archiving, and inclusive retrieval methods through real-world case studies, bridging the digital divide and advancing patient care.

Elizabeth McElhiney, MHA, CPHIMS, CHPS, CDH-L, CRIS, CC, serves as Director of Government Affairs and Policy at Verisma. In this role, she partners with clients to navigate evolving regulatory and legislative landscapes at the state and federal levels. Elizabeth leads the implementation of evidence-based best practices and oversees the company’s thought leadership strategy. She also serves as Legislative Affairs Chair at the Alliance for Health Information Operations and Standards (AHIOS). Elizabeth holds a Master of Health Administration with a specialization in Health Informatics from Capella University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Nicole Brown, MHA, RHIA, CHPC, is Healthcare Privacy & Compliance Leader at City of Hope and Contingency War Planner/Health Services Administrator at the U.S. Air Force Reserve. She has a proven track record in healthcare privacy governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Nicole’s expertise spans multi-state health systems, complex regulatory landscapes, and emerging privacy challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) and research. She’s passionate about advancing privacy leadership in healthcare – ensuring organizations balance innovation with compliance and fostering privacy-first cultures in an evolving regulatory landscape. Nicole earned a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) in project management from Colorado State University Global, a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management from Herzing University, an Associates of Science in Health Services Management from the Community College of the Air Force, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration, Management and Operations at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

130 - Predicting Hospital Revenue Using Operational & Clinical Patterns at Northfield Hospital + Clinics

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenters: Andrew Soderlund and Claire Wennberg
  • Organization: Northfield Hospital + Clinics, Northfield, Minnesota; Acmeware

We partnered to develop a predictive analytics solution that accurately forecasts hospital revenue using MEDITECH-derived operational and clinical data. By modeling time-series trends, surgery volumes, and stratified appointment patterns, the project significantly improved forecasting accuracy (R² = .884), enabling leadership to proactively plan staffing, budgeting, and service line strategies. This collaborative initiative demonstrates how MEDITECH hospitals can leverage modern predictive methods – integrated directly into Power BI – to enhance financial stability, operational decision-making, and long-term strategic planning.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize how hospitals can use forecasting to improve financial planning, staffing decisions, and service line strategy.
  • Apply a replicable framework for predictive analytics that can be adopted by other MEDITECH hospitals seeking to improve financial stability and operational visibility.
  • Describe the benefits of a collaborative hospital–vendor approach to building, validating, and operationalizing predictive models.
Learning objectives:
  • Identify the key operational and clinical drivers that most strongly influence hospital revenue, including surgeries, appointment patterns, and time-series trends.
  • Explain how predictive analytics models are built and evaluated, including the use of R², RMSE, and feature selection to improve accuracy.
  • Understand how MEDITECH-derived SQL data can be transformed into actionable predictive insights using modern analytics and Power BI integration.

Andrew Soderlund is the Controller at Northfield Hospital + Clinics where he leads financial operations, reporting, and internal controls in support of the organization’s mission and long-term sustainability. He partners with executive leadership to strengthen financial strategy and operational efficiency. Prior to joining Northfield, Andrew held progressive roles in finance across various industries and companies including Fortune 5, building broad expertise in healthcare finance, budgeting, and audit coordination.

Claire Wennberg, MSN RN, Business Intelligence Manager, Acmeware Inc, has over 15 years of healthcare experience and is passionate about leveraging data-driven solutions to enhance patient care. With extensive experience in both acute and ambulatory settings, Claire brings a strong focus on quality improvement and patient safety. She excels in integrating data analytics to identify trends, optimize workflows, and support clinical decision-making. Claire is highly skilled in Power BI, including data modeling and visualization, enabling her to create interactive dashboards that provide real-time insights. Claire is dedicated to equipping healthcare leaders with the tools and knowledge to access and effectively utilize their data. She has successfully led cross-functional projects to meet regulatory requirements, improve population health management, and enhance patient experience. Claire holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University and a master's degree in nursing from the University of New Hampshire.

131 - Detection to Recovery: Hospital Ransomware Lessons

  • Track: Cybersecurity
  • Presenter: Tamra Durfee
  • Organization: Fortified Health Security

Ransomware attacks on hospitals don’t just threaten data – they put patient safety and the delivery of care at risk. This session dives into the real-world response and recovery from a disruptive ransomware incident at a healthcare facility, revealing the hard-won lessons that shaped the organization’s playbook. Attendees will gain actionable strategies to boost cyber resilience, avoid common pitfalls, and strengthen response plans with proven recommendations. Walk away ready to turn chaos into confidence when your hospital faces its next cyber crisis.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe the critical stages and organizational impacts of a ransomware attack on hospital operations.
  • Identify practical steps and top recommendations for preparing your organization to respond to ransomware threats.
  • Top 10 recommendations for responding to and preparing for ransomware incidents.

Tamra Durfee is Senior Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) at Fortified Health Security. With over 27 years of experience in IT, including a decade dedicated to healthcare cybersecurity, Tamra helps hospitals and health systems build resilience against threats that can disrupt care or compromise patient safety. Her expertise spans medical device security, vendor risk management, and building downtime procedures that protect patient care when technology fails.

Tamra’s work is hands-on and focused on results: she partners directly with organizations to strengthen cyber maturity and ensure controls work in real-life situations, not just on paper. She is also a mentor and advocate for women in healthcare IT, serving as a founding member of Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and an active member of Bluebird Leaders. In 2025, she was named to Becker’s “100 Women in Health IT to Know.”

Her certifications include CHCIO, CDH-E, CPHIMS, GIAC Security Leadership, and IBM Certified Solutions Architect. Tamra is a sought-after panelist and speaker at ViVE, HIMSS, CHIME, MUSE, and other prominent events, known for her calm, inclusive, and actionable approach to protecting care, as behind every system is someone who needs it most.

132 - From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Project Intake and Prioritization for Maximum Impact

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenters: Lisa Steen and Naomi Smith
  • Organization: Cascade Medical Center, Leavenworth, Washington; HealthNET

Effective project management is critical for your MEDITECH projects’ success, yet many teams struggle with challenges such as an absence of formal intake processes, competing priorities, limited resources, and lack of visibility into ongoing work. This presentation explores practical strategies to overcome these obstacles and create a structured, data-driven approach to priority, selection, and execution.

Attendees will learn how implementing a standardized intake process and prioritization framework can improve clarity in decision-making, foster team alignment, and ensure strategic focus. We will discuss methods for evaluating projects based on impact, effort, and organizational goals, including scoring models and weighted criteria, and give a real-world example. Additionally, the session will cover resource planning techniques and the benefits of organizing work into manageable sprints to enhance efficiency and collaboration across departments.

By the end of this session, attendees will gain actionable insights to streamline project intake, optimize resource allocation, and deliver high-value initiatives that align with your MEDITECH projects’ goals.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand the Challenges of Project Management - Identify common obstacles such as lack of intake processes, resource constraints, and competing priorities, and recognize their impact on organizational efficiency.
  • Apply a Structured Intake and Prioritization Framework - Learn how to implement a standardized intake process, scoring criteria, and prioritization methods to ensure projects align with strategic goals and deliver maximum value.
  • Optimize Resource Allocation Through Sprint Planning - Explore techniques for organizing projects into manageable sprints and coordinating resources across departments to improve collaboration and timely project completion.

Lisa Steen is a healthcare leader with more than 25 years of experience advancing operational excellence and revenue cycle performance across hospital and clinic settings. Her expertise spans Patient Access, Revenue Integrity, and system optimization. Lisa is known for her ability to translate complex data and workflows into strategic insights that drive executive decision-making. She is passionate about improving collaboration, communication, and performance across departments to strengthen organizational outcomes and financial health. Lisa currently serves as the Director of HIM and Revenue Integrity at Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth, WA.

Naomi Smith is a healthcare professional with over 20 years of MEDITECH and project management experience. Her expertise across multiple platforms and clinical modules, is key to her successful management of optimization and implementation projects.

133 - From Ownership to Partnership: Pathways to Success with Licensed and MaaS Implementations

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenters: Lisa Bitonti-Bengert and Stephanie Brooks
  • Organization: Healthtech Consultants

As healthcare organizations accelerate digital transformation, leaders are increasingly required to make strategic decisions not only about what technology to implement, but how it is delivered, governed, and sustained. MEDITECH Expanse offers organizations two distinct deployment models – traditional on premise and MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS) – each carrying different implications for leadership accountability, organizational culture, and change readiness.

This presentation compares and contrasts the real-world implementation of MEDITECH Expanse in both an organization managed environment and a cloud hosted MaaS model, drawing on both Canadian and American healthcare implementation experience in complex, policy driven settings.

Through a leadership and culture lens, the session explores how responsibility for infrastructure, security, uptime, and compliance shifts depending on a MaaS model or traditional on-premises implementation, fundamentally impacting the relationship between healthcare organizations and their vendor.

Using implementation milestones, leadership decision points, and early operational outcomes, this session highlights lessons learned in managing change fatigue, aligning organizational culture with operating models, and supporting clinical adoption during periods of significant transformation.

Attendees will leave with practical insights to support informed decision making when selecting an Expanse deployment model, along with leadership strategies to align culture, governance, and change management approaches to the chosen path.

Learning objectives:
  • Compare and contrast the leadership responsibilities, governance structures, and cultural impacts associated with implementing MEDITECH Expanse in an on-premise model versus Expanse MaaS.
  • Identify key leadership decision points and change management considerations unique to each implementation model.
  • Apply practical strategies to align executive sponsorship, organizational culture, and change readiness.

Lisa Bitonti-Bengert is a senior healthcare executive and Registered Nurse with over 28 years of leadership experience across clinical care, digital health, and health system transformation.

Stephanie Brooks is a Masters-prepared clinical social worker and Senior Practice Manager specializing in healthcare IT implementation, project management, and change management.

134 - More Than Security: Proving Healthcare Resilience Through Partnership

  • Track: Cybersecurity
  • Presenter: Sal De Masi
  • Organization: Teknicor

This presentation explores how MEDITECH healthcare organizations can move beyond traditional cybersecurity to achieve true operational resilience through strategic partnership with technology vendors.

As cyber risk increasingly becomes care continuity risk, downtime is no longer just an IT issue – it’s a clinical, operational, and reputational event. Learn how to reframe resilience as the ability to sustain care under abnormal conditions.

Through real-world perspective, the session demonstrates how an aligned partnership model between the right technology integrator and manufacturer reduces complexity and strengthens decision-making.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand resilience as the ability to sustain care under abnormal conditions.
  • Learn why aligned vendor partnerships are critical for protecting patient care.
  • Assess the right partnership model for your organization.

Sal De Masi is Vice President of Strategic Solutions at Teknicor and a global technology executive with nearly two decades of experience building secure, mission-critical infrastructure and cyber resilience platforms.

135 - The Modern Revenue Cycle: Insight Driven, Predictive, Resilient

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Marc Kellner
  • Organization: Quadax

This session explores how interoperability, predictive insights, and patient-centric engagement can reduce friction, minimize denials, and strengthen operational performance across the healthcare revenue cycle.

Attendees will learn how to identify data gaps that disrupt workflows, apply proactive automation strategies to address payer-specific risks, and redesign processes that support both staff efficiency and a smoother patient experience.

The session concludes with a practical framework organizations can use to build a more resilient, insight-driven revenue cycle capable of navigating evolving payer and regulatory demands.

Learning objectives:
  • Evaluate interoperability maturity and identify data exchange gaps.
  • Apply predictive analytics and rules-driven workflow design.
  • Implement patient-centric strategies that improve revenue cycle sustainability.

Marc Kellner is a transformational product leader specializing in AI, machine learning, and intelligent automation across the healthcare revenue cycle.

136 - The Intent-Driven Revenue Cycle: Beyond Rigid Billing Workflows

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Dustin White
  • Organization: Paymentus

As high-deductible health plans and transparent pricing become the industry standard, differentiation now lies in how patients experience billing, not just how claims are processed.

This session explores how revenue cycle leaders can move beyond rigid billing workflows toward intent-driven payment journeys powered by applied intelligence.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand how AI is reshaping patient billing and engagement.
  • Learn how digital interactions and self-service tools improve efficiency.
  • Explore strategies to increase collections and reduce bad debt.

Dustin White is Vice President of Healthcare Solutions at Paymentus with over 20 years of experience across clinical and administrative healthcare systems.

137 - Strategies for Success SUR Orders from AMB

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenters: Cory Lane and Grace Krause
  • Organization: Surgery Partners; CereCore

This session highlights strategies for successfully implementing and operationalizing AMB to SUR ordering in MEDITECH Expanse.

Topics include clinical impact, operational impact, financial implications, patient experience benefits, and governance considerations.

The presentation shares lessons learned, KPIs to track, and strategies to support scalable use of this functionality across multiple sites.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe new functionality enabling AMB orders to flow into surgical workflows.
  • Apply best practices for governance, ownership alignment, and workflow timing.
  • Identify change management strategies for successful adoption.

Cory Lane is Director of Hospital Applications at Surgery Partners specializing in enterprise EMR implementations.

Grace Krause is a Senior MEDITECH Project Management Consultant at CereCore.

138 - Improving Patient Check-In: Streamlining Workflows for Better Care

  • Track: Patient Engagement/Digital Front Door
  • Presenter: Shaan Khan
  • Organization: The Shams Group

Patient check-in is the front door to care and a critical foundation for clinical, operational, and financial workflows.

This session explores how streamlined check-in processes can improve operational efficiency, enhance data accuracy, support staff satisfaction, and create a more positive patient experience.

Attendees will review practical strategies to reduce bottlenecks, improve throughput, and support sustainable workflow improvements.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify common workflow bottlenecks in patient check-in.
  • Understand benefits of streamlined intake processes.
  • Apply strategies to improve efficiency and patient satisfaction.

Shaan Khan is a Business Analyst at The Shams Group specializing in workflow analysis, system optimization, and cross-functional collaboration in healthcare IT.

139 - You Can't Afford NOT to Have a CMIO

  • Track: Leadership & Culture
  • Presenters: Dr. Jason Butler and Robert Todd
  • Organization: Roseland Community Hospital; HealthNET Consulting

This candid session explores how small hospitals can achieve sustainable clinician adoption, reduce friction, and rebuild trust during and after MEDITECH Expanse implementations.

Attendees will learn why provider resistance is often structural rather than personal and how CMIO leadership helps align clinical workflows, governance, and organizational priorities.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify barriers to physician adoption.
  • Evaluate governance strategies that rebuild clinician trust.
  • Develop change management approaches clinicians will accept.

Jason Butler, MD, MPH is CMIO for Roseland Community Hospital and a nationally recognized informatics leader.

Robert Todd is Vice President at HealthNET Systems Consulting with more than 30 years of healthcare IT leadership experience.

140 - Aligning System Build with the MEDITECH Prototype Methodology

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenters: Tariq Regis and Alison MacDonald
  • Organization: Nordic Global

This presentation examines the cascading benefits of MEDITECH’s structured prototyping methodology.

The iterative prototype process enables build teams to understand how configuration decisions influence end-to-end patient workflows while improving implementation readiness and reducing rework.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify key benefits of the MEDITECH prototyping methodology.
  • Understand advantages of a structured prototype process.
  • Apply prototype methodology to future implementations.

Tariq Regis is a healthcare professional specializing in MEDITECH implementations and clinical workflow optimization.

Alison MacDonald is International Lead for Implementation at Nordic Global with over 20 years of informatics leadership experience.

141 - Close the Loop: Streamlining Data to Prevent Lost Orders

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Jessica Wutzer
  • Organization: St. Mary's Healthcare Amsterdam

This session shares a practical approach to closing workflow loops by modernizing automated communication and outpatient tracking within a MEDITECH environment.

Attendees will learn how rules-based automation and order-level tracking can reduce missed opportunities, improve scheduling conversion, and strengthen the referral experience.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify workflow breakdown points that cause delays and revenue leakage.
  • Demonstrate how automation supports closed-loop workflows.
  • Understand how order-based tracking improves scheduling and patient flow.

Jessica Wutzer is Director of Patient Access at St. Mary’s Healthcare Amsterdam with extensive experience in patient access operations and workflow optimization.

142 - Closing the Digital Divide: Leveraging AI in the Revenue Cycle

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Ken Jackson
  • Organization: SlicedHealth

This session examines how AI and automation are reshaping revenue cycle operations and creating a digital divide between automated payer processes and manual hospital workflows.

Participants will learn how strengthening revenue integrity, contract performance, and payment visibility can stabilize financial performance while supporting sustainable automation.

Learning objectives:
  • Evaluate readiness for AI-supported revenue cycle automation.
  • Identify operational and compliance risks associated with AI tools.
  • Analyze how automation supports revenue integrity and financial stability.

Ken Jackson is Chief Customer Officer at SlicedHealth and a former community hospital CFO/COO with 35 years of healthcare leadership experience.

143 - Operational Resilience for MEDITECH: Aligning CIO, Vendor, and Managed Services Perspectives

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenters: Tim Quigley, Eric Gasser, Nassim Abouzeid
  • Organization: CloudWave; Wooster Community Hospital Health System, Wooster, Ohio; MEDITECH

Community hospitals running MEDITECH operate with little margin for error. Minutes of downtime disrupt care, impact revenue, and strain already lean IT teams. As cyber threats intensify and infrastructure shifts toward hybrid cloud models, resilience now depends on coordinated execution between the hospital CIO, the EHR vendor, and the managed services provider.

This executive panel presents three complementary perspectives:

  • The Community Hospital CIO: Balancing cybersecurity risk, availability requirements, and cloud adoption while managing limited staff and budgets.
  • The MEDITECH Perspective: How application architecture, performance standards, and platform design influence secure deployment models, recovery planning, and operational risk.
  • The Managed Services Provider: How 24×7 security operations, monitoring, hybrid infrastructure, and disaster recovery services extend internal teams and operationalize resilience.

Through real-world examples, the panel will explore ransomware readiness, identity and access protection, backup integrity, hybrid cloud recovery strategies, and governance models that establish shared accountability across stakeholders.

Attendees will leave with practical guidance to reduce cyber risk, accelerate recovery, and align technology partners around a unified operational resilience strategy.

Learning objectives:
  • Attendees will learn to differentiate the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure responsibilities shared between healthcare organizations, EHR vendors, and managed services providers.
  • Attendees will understand and be able to assess hybrid and cloud-based recovery architectures that reduce ransomware impact and accelerate restoration of MEDITECH environments.
  • Attendees will learn how to implement governance and operational coordination practices that strengthen cyber resilience while supporting clinical and financial continuity.

Tim Quigley has held roles in healthcare on both the provider and service-delivery sides. Before joining CloudWave as Chief Client Officer, Tim was Interim CIO at Baptist Healthcare in Pensacola, Florida, managing IT strategy and services for the health system including three hospitals and several outpatient facilities. Tim also served in leadership roles focused on delivering managed and professional services to healthcare organizations at Perot Systems, Dell, and Allscripts.

Eric Gasser is the VP and CIO of Information Systems at Wooster Community Hospital Health. He has 18 years of experience in information systems and clinical informatics, with 15 years of experience working with MEDITECH. One of Eric’s most notable accomplishments was leading WCH to become the first MEDITECH hospital in Ohio to be approved by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy for CPOE.

Nassim Abouzeid is a Director, Technical Services in MEDITECH’s Client Experience division. During his 28+ years with MEDITECH, Nassim has worked and supported many different platforms in various roles at MEDITECH. In his current role, he oversees the System Technology organization, which consists of the Technical Account Managers (TAM), Technical Support, Technical Performance Analysts, and Computer Scientists. Nassim’s organization plays a role in many different facets of Technology. His group is responsible for system-level performance and stability, Build/support of MEDITECH infrastructure, and Technical related projects.

144 - Raising the Bar and Closing the Gaps: Keeping Referrals In-System with a Holistic Approach

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Zac Rice
  • Organization: Bingham Healthcare, Blackfoot, Idaho

Keeping referrals and imaging orders in system is a persistent challenge, especially when patients have nearby alternatives. This session shares how a regional health system improved in-system referral capture through focused operational changes and improved patient communication. You’ll learn how the team raised the percentage of eligible referrals staying within the system from 55% to 72%, with even stronger gains for imaging. MRI orders increased from roughly 30% referred in system to 80–90%, despite strong local competition. The session will cover the practical steps behind these results, including clearer patient outreach and supporting operational improvements, and how these early outcomes are setting the stage for future automation to drive even higher retention.

Learning objectives:
  • Discuss the importance of in-system referrals and preventing leakage to external systems for a community healthcare system.
  • Learn how service line updates, internal process improvements, and technology work together to encourage in-system referrals.
  • Understand opportunities to integrate patient-facing and back-end technology with MEDITECH Expanse for less manual provider work and more conversion.

Zac Rice is a healthcare operations leader at Bingham Healthcare, where he oversees operations for multiple clinics across family medicine, urology, urgent care, and sleep medicine. He leads staffing, accreditation, quality assurance, training, and EMR management, and partners closely with clinical and executive teams on analytics and process improvement initiatives.

Prior to its merge with Bingham Healthcare in 2017, Zac managed the Health & Wellness Sleep Institute independently for nearly a decade. That experience continues to inform his practical, data-driven approach to improving clinic operations, patient access, and system-wide performance.

145 - From Paper Chaos to Operational Control: Rethinking Downtime Readiness

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenter: Art Nicholas
  • Organization: Interlace Health

Community hospitals face unique exposure during EHR downtime, limited IT redundancy, staffing constraints, and regulatory scrutiny. Yet most downtime plans remain paper-based and operationally fragmented.

This session presents a modern downtime readiness framework built specifically for community hospitals. We will examine common failure points, revenue and compliance risks, and practical strategies to maintain operational continuity during outages. Attendees will leave with a structured approach to transforming downtime from reactive chaos into controlled resilience.

Learning objectives:
  • Identify operational risks unique to community hospital downtime events.
  • Quantify revenue and compliance exposure during extended outages.
  • Evaluate modern downtime governance models & develop a roadmap for upgrading legacy paper-based plans.

Art Nicholas, Chief Growth Officer at Interlace Health, has over 20 years of experience in launching and expanding technologies in the healthcare field. He was a pioneer in getting speech recognition used by both doctors and nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings. In every role, his teams have successfully implemented automated workflows which benefit patients, providers and the healthcare ecosystem. A strong believer in the healthcare IT community, he has been an active member of CHIME, HIMSS, and MUSE, sitting on a number of their committees. He is committed to improving the quality of patient care and lowering the cost of care delivery through well-designed and well-supported technology workflow solutions.

146 - Turning Frustration into Real Results: A Journey Through MEDITECH MaaS Adoption

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenters: Gabe Behling and Carol Muhlbauer
  • Organization: Box Butte General Hospital; Tegria

Critical access hospitals often face steep challenges when implementing new EHR platforms, including limited staffing, competing operational priorities, and the need to maintain continuity of care during the transition. In March 2023, Box Butte General Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility, completed their MEDITECH MaaS implementation transitioning from another vendor solution. Post LIVE, implementation challenges quickly surfaced, including workflow inconsistencies, build omissions, disengaged users, and growing frustration with labor intense workarounds.

Recognizing the need for a course correction, Box Butte stabilized the environment and rebuilt confidence in the system. Through a rapid change management and optimization approach, the team remediated the issues. In just eight months, Box Butte created a solid foundation to position themselves for more advanced development. This session demonstrates how a focused, partnership-driven approach can stabilize performance, improve adoption, and deliver measurable progress.

Learning objectives:
  • Gain insight into the blueprint that allowed Box Butte General Hospital to accelerate adoption, strengthen system performance, and prepare the organization for future optimization initiatives.
  • Discuss the partnership model required to achieve this amount of change in a compressed timeframe, and demonstrate the key benefits achieved throughout the organization.
  • Monitoring change adoption; Prerequisites to sustainability.

Gabe Behling serves as Chief Operating Officer at Box Butte General Hospital, where he provides strategic oversight of hospital operations, including leadership of the Information Systems Department.

Carol Muhlbauer, a Project Manager with Tegria, brings over 30 years of healthcare experience and expertise in MEDITECH solutions, guiding organizations through complex implementations and optimization initiatives.

147 - What is ASM? CMS's New Ambulatory Specialty Model Explained

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenters: Erin Heilman and Kristen Beatson
  • Organization: Medisolv

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), a five-year, mandatory payment program set to launch on January 1, 2027. This initiative aims to reform how specialists are reimbursed for treating Medicare patients with heart failure and low back pain by fostering direct competition and rewarding high performance. Unlike traditional models, ASM emphasizes peer comparison, with payment adjustments based on relative performance rather than fixed thresholds. Specialists will be evaluated across two primary categories, Quality and Cost, while Improvement Activities and Promoting Interoperability serve as penalty-only metrics.

This presentation will explore the program’s structure, including its selection criteria, payment methodology, and key differentiators from MIPS, highlighting how ASM represents a significant shift toward accountability and collaboration in specialty care.

The presentation will also delve into the broader implications of ASM for healthcare providers and systems. Attendees will gain insights into the program’s intent to incentivize specialists who embrace collaboration, accountability, and systemic quality improvement. Key topics will include strategies for preparing for ASM, such as understanding if your group has either of these types of specialists currently evaluating their episode volumes and costs, building primary care relationships for collaborative arrangements, investing in care coordination capabilities, and reviewing your current quality measure performance. By examining the substantial opportunities and risks associated with ASM, this session will equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate this new payment model, which, if successful, is expected to expand to other chronic conditions and specialties.

Learning objectives:
  • Explain the key components and objectives of the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), including its performance categories, payment adjustments, and selection criteria for specialists.
  • Analyze the potential implications of ASM on your healthcare practice/system by identifying if you have specialists who will be selected for participation, and if these specialists are prepared to evaluate their episode volume and costs.
  • Advocate for the importance of preparing for ASM within your healthcare practice/system and identify strategies to better embrace collaboration, accountability, and systematic quality improvement under the ASM framework.

Erin Heilman, CPHQ, is a distinguished leader in the healthcare quality regulatory space, known for her innovative approach to simplifying complex regulations. For over a decade, Erin has developed award-winning content, including articles, guides, and tools that empower quality leaders to excel in their reporting obligations. As the Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Advisory Services at Medisolv, Erin is responsible for collaborating with executive leadership to ensure regulatory compliance is seamlessly integrated into the company’s strategic objectives. Furthermore, Erin provides specialized strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations, utilizing her comprehensive knowledge to assist clients in navigating the intricate landscape of healthcare regulations.

Kristen Beatson, BSN, is an accomplished Healthcare IT leader with over 30 years of clinical, informatics and quality improvement experience. As the Senior Vice President of Clinical Quality Improvement at Medisolv, she is highly focused on helping customers harness the transformative power of digital data to optimize operational efficiencies and more importantly, to empower the delivery of superior healthcare. At Medisolv, she collaborates with executive leadership to guide our core mission of improving patient care. Additionally, she provides strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations, leveraging her knowledge to help customers meet compliance requirements while significantly enhancing the quality of care they deliver.

148 - MaaS Solutions for Behavioral Health EHR Challenges: Adapting Medically-Focused Platforms to Specialized Behavioral Healthcare

  • Track: Other
  • Presenter: Marcella Whooley
  • Organization: CereCore

This session provides attendees with practical, experience-driven insights into adapting MEDITECH MaaS, to meet the specialized needs of behavioral health organizations. Through real-world lessons learned from a behavioral health implementation, participants gain a clearer understanding of what it takes to successfully configure integrated workflows, manage multidisciplinary documentation requirements, and support clinicians in unique behavioral health environments.

Attendees will leave with actionable guidance to help them:

  • Anticipate the complexities and pitfalls common in behavioral health implementations, including documentation structures, treatment planning, group note functionality, and confidentiality needs.
  • Improve internal planning, communication, and collaboration across clinical, informatics, and operational teams.
  • Apply tested strategies that support smoother go-lives, more accurate documentation, and more efficient workflows, enabling teams to focus on patient care rather than system limitations.
Learning objectives:
  • Identify key challenges unique to implementing MEDITECH MaaS in behavioral health environments, including documentation complexity, workflow integration, and staffing constraints.
  • Apply strategies for optimizing multidisciplinary workflows, such as treatment planning, group notes, and collaborative documentation, to improve clinical efficiency and alignment with MEDITECH functionality.
  • Develop an approach for partnering with clinicians, consultants, and MEDITECH specialists to support successful implementation, training, and ongoing optimization.

Marcella Whooley is an experienced Registered Nurse with a rich background spanning numerous specialties across the healthcare landscape. She is a seasoned consultant bringing decades of hands-on expertise to complex MEDITECH Expanse implementations, optimizations, and workflow transformation. She is a passionate guide and collaborator, dedicated to empowering hospitals, clinicians, and project teams to navigate change and unlock the full potential of their MEDITECH systems.

150 - Ditching the 16-Character Password — A Practical Roadmap to Passwordless Authentication in Healthcare

  • Track: Cybersecurity
  • Presenter: Lee Howard
  • Organization: Forward Advantage

Clinicians authenticate into systems up to 80 times per day. In many MEDITECH environments, that means typing complex 16-character passwords dozens of times per shift which is time that could be spent on patient care. The result is predictable: password fatigue, sticky notes on monitors, shared credentials, help desk queues filled with reset requests, and a growing attack surface that puts patient data at risk. A recent industry survey found that 85% of healthcare IT and security leaders view passwordless authentication as "very important" or "mission-critical" to the future of healthcare and yet only 7% have fully implemented it across clinical and non-clinical staff.

The gap between aspiration and execution is real, and it's not just a technology problem. Moving to passwordless authentication requires organizations to rethink policies, retrain staff, coordinate across IT and clinical leadership, and navigate a phased transition that keeps operations running smoothly while reducing risk at every step. This session provides a practical, vendor-neutral roadmap for healthcare organizations at any stage of the passwordless journey.

Whether you're just starting to explore passwordless options or you're mid-journey and looking for strategies to accelerate adoption, this session delivers actionable guidance grounded in real-world healthcare environments.

Learning objectives:
  • A password maturity framework for assessing your organization's current state and planning a phased, realistic transition to passwordless authentication. How to prioritize which workflows, user populations, and access points to address first and why starting with the highest-impact clinical workflows delivers the fastest ROI.
  • Policy and governance considerations: what needs to change beyond the technology, including password policies, acceptable use agreements, and compliance documentation. Change management and training strategies that drive clinician adoption, including addressing the "but what if it doesn't work" fear factor and building confidence through phased rollouts.
  • The cybersecurity case for passwordless: how eliminating passwords reduces your exposure to phishing, credential stuffing, and brute-force attacks and how this connects to cyber insurance requirements and audit readiness. Practical metrics for measuring success: help desk ticket reduction, time-to-access improvements, clinician satisfaction scores, and security incident trends.

Lee Howard is Vice President of Client Services for Forward Advantage and has over 20 years of experience in healthcare information technology. Lee oversees the smooth communication between the company and its customers and associates. His teams focus on providing solutions and services for the company’s information exchange & faxing solutions, as well as identity & access management solutions.

151 - Beyond Ambient Documentation: Building a Sustainable Clinical AI Strategy

  • Track: Interoperability/Integration
  • Presenters: Dr. Yair Saperstein, Dr. William Gustin, and Chris Giroux
  • Organization: Avo; Moab Regional Hospital, Moab, Utah; Holyoke Medical Center, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Clinical AI tools – particularly ambient documentation – are rapidly entering MEDITECH hospital workflows. Yet the pace of advancement in large language models raises an important question for hospital leaders: how can organizations build an AI strategy that remains durable as technologies evolve?

In this educational session, we will share a strategic framework for future-proofing clinical AI investments. Participants will gain insight into how evolving large language models influence clinical AI capabilities, examine critical questions to consider when evaluating clinical AI solutions for sustainability and scalability, and understand why real-time EHR integration is essential to prevent workflow fragmentation and implementation fatigue.

Attendees will learn how to evaluate AI tools beyond surface functionality, define the data integrations required for common clinical use cases, and design an implementation and measurement approach that ensures efficiency gains without compromising quality or safety.

The session includes moderated discussion with MEDITECH hospital leaders who will share real-world implementation experiences, lessons learned, and the metrics that predicted sustained adoption and operational impact.

Learning objectives:
  • Formulate a concise set of evaluation questions to assess whether a clinical AI solution is sustainable and scalable in a MEDITECH environment.
  • Evaluate clinical AI solutions based on real-time EHR integration requirements, workflow alignment, and expected evolution as large language models advance.
  • Design an implementation and measurement framework that supports durable adoption while balancing efficiency, quality, and safety outcomes.

Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, is CEO and Co-Founder of Avo, the AI platform used by healthcare organizations to improve care and operational outcomes in a way clinicians love. He is also a dual board-certified physician in internal medicine and clinical informatics. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) and is a hospitalist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Saperstein graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with distinction in research in global health and from SUNY Downstate with a Master's in Public Health in hospital policy and management.

Before founding Avo, Dr. Saperstein served on the implementation team for multiple Epic go-lives and was the inpatient medicine Chief Resident at HHC’s Kings County Hospital, leading over 400 providers through New York’s first wave of COVID. As a dual board-certified physician and clinical informatician, Dr. Saperstein co-founded Avo to address an unmet need to standardize care while also reducing clinician burnout.

William Gustin, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer at Moab Regional Hospital, a role he began in 2024. He is an experienced physician informatics leader and a Physician Consultant with MEDITECH, where he has assisted dozens of client health systems with governance, workflow optimization, and EHR adoption since 2014. Earlier in his career, he worked as a hospitalist in Southern California, chaired his Physician Advisory Committee, and served as a physician champion for his health system’s Electronic Health Record implementation.

Dr. Gustin is board-certified in Internal Medicine. He earned his MD at the University of California, Irvine, where he also completed his internship and residency. Beyond his CMO duties, he frequently speaks and writes about clinician experience, care coordination, and value-based care.

Chris Giroux is the IT Director of Application Services at Holyoke Medical Center.

152 - Performance by Design: Infrastructure Strategies for MaaS Success

  • Track: Support & Technology
  • Presenter: Anthony Rienzo
  • Organization: CloudWave

MEDITECH MaaS performance depends heavily on the strength of the on-premises infrastructure that supports it. Network design, endpoint configuration, identity architecture, cybersecurity controls, and monitoring practices all directly affect system responsiveness, reliability, and clinician experience.

This session provides a practical roadmap for optimizing local infrastructure to ensure peak MaaS performance. Designed for both executives and technical leaders, it connects engineering best practices such as bandwidth planning, DNS optimization, secure traffic inspection tuning, and Wi-Fi performance with strategic priorities including clinician productivity, operational resilience, cybersecurity risk management, and cost discipline.

Participants will gain a clear framework for identifying bottlenecks, aligning security with usability, and prioritizing targeted infrastructure investments that enhance performance and protect continuity – maximizing the value of their MaaS EHR environment.

Learning objectives:
  • Attendees will learn to identify key infrastructure components that directly impact MaaS performance and user experience.
  • Attendees will understand how to evaluate performance risks and security tradeoffs that affect responsiveness and operational stability.
  • Attendees will be able to prioritize optimization strategies that align infrastructure investments with clinical, operational, and financial goals.

Anthony Rienzo began his career as a hands-on technologist and now leads with the practical insight gained from years of delivering the CloudWave portfolio of services to healthcare clients. He oversees CloudWave’s engineering and service delivery teams, ensuring strategy translates into reliable, secure, high-performing infrastructure and cloud solutions. With his deep experience working with hospital clients and their complex healthcare IT environments, Tony connects technical architecture to executive priorities, helping organizations strengthen performance, manage risk, and support clinical and operational excellence.

153 - The Rural Technology Paradox: How Grant Funding Bridges the Gap

  • Track: Other
  • Presenter: Art Nicholas
  • Organization: Interlace Health

Rural and community hospitals face mounting pressure to modernize technology, meet interoperability mandates, strengthen cybersecurity, and participate in value-based care. At the same time, constrained capital budgets and workforce limitations continue to widen the digital divide between rural facilities and larger health systems. With new federal focus on rural healthcare sustainability and innovation funding, many organizations are asking a critical question: how can grant programs be strategically leveraged to accelerate meaningful transformation?

This session examines how federal and state funding initiatives, including HRSA, USDA, and emerging rural health legislation, are enabling community hospitals to advance key technology priorities without relying solely on capital budgets. Panelists will share practical examples of how grant funding has supported initiatives such as telehealth expansion, revenue cycle improvements, interoperability enhancements, and modernization of clinical and documentation workflows.

Attendees will gain a clear framework for identifying relevant funding opportunities, aligning grant strategy with MEDITECH roadmaps and operational priorities, and translating grant dollars into measurable outcomes. Rather than viewing grants as supplemental funding, this session positions them as a strategic lever for advancing innovation, strengthening compliance readiness, and improving long-term financial sustainability in rural healthcare environments.

Learning objectives:
  • Align grant-funded initiatives with MEDITECH roadmap priorities, including interoperability, telehealth expansion, revenue cycle optimization, and clinical workflow modernization.
  • Evaluate real-world examples of how rural health systems have leveraged grant funding to advance digital transformation while protecting critical revenue streams and improving care access.
  • Develop a strategic framework for incorporating grant planning into long-term operational, compliance, and financial sustainability efforts.

Art Nicholas, Chief Growth Officer at Interlace Health, has over 20 years of experience in launching and expanding technologies in the healthcare field. He was a pioneer in getting speech recognition used by both doctors and nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings. In every role, his teams have successfully implemented automated workflows which benefit patients, providers and the healthcare ecosystem. A strong believer in the healthcare IT community, he has been an active member of CHIME, HIMSS, and MUSE, sitting on a number of their committees. He is committed to improving the quality of patient care and lowering the cost of care delivery through well-designed and well-supported technology workflow solutions.

154 - Building for 2030: Modernizing a Leading Regional Health System

  • Track: Patient Engagement / Digital Front Door
  • Presenter: Jon Moores
  • Organization: Citizens Memorial Hospital, Bolivar, Missouri

Workforce challenges and aging infrastructure are common challenges for regional health systems, that only stand to grow as the United States population ages – needing more healthcare services – and experienced healthcare staff and clinicians retire. But for leading regional health systems, continuing to grow and innovate is also a strategic imperative. In this session, we share how Citizens Memorial Hospital is building for future growth with updates to physical care spaces, patient-facing technology, and back-end administrative workflows to support a more efficient, modern health system for the years ahead. You'll learn how CMH takes a holistic approach in partnership with clinicians to pinpoint and solve inefficiencies, like fax workflows or no-shows, and learn how to replicate their results.

Learning objectives:
  • Discuss the link between a long-term business strategy and near-term enhancements to the patient experience to keep your system competitive.
  • Learn how a regional health system is rethinking – not just incrementally updating – physical space, workforce constraints, and the consumer journey.
  • Understand opportunities to integrate technology with MEDITECH Expanse for more efficiency, both behind the scenes and patient-facing.

Jonathan Moores is Director of IT at Citizens Memorial Hospital, with 17 years of extensive expertise in system analysis, project implementation and management, and a love for helping others. He has a proven track record of enhancing electronic health records and interoperability, and has been recognized for award-winning innovative solutions like digital whiteboards. He is committed to leveraging advanced IT strategies to drive organizational success and improve healthcare delivery.

155 - The Future of Safety Measures: The Transition from PSI-90 to Hospital Harm eCQMs

  • Track: Business Intelligence, Quality Management and Reporting
  • Presenters: Erin Heilman and Kristen Beatson
  • Organization: Medisolv

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is about to make a pivotal shift in how hospital safety is measured and improved as it prepares to transition from Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) to Hospital Harm electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs). While PSI-90 has long served as a composite measure of safety performance, its reliance on claims data has been criticized as retrospective, coding-dependent, and less actionable.

In contrast, Hospital Harm eCQMs leverage real-time clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs), offering a more precise and timely view of patient safety. Now, hospitals face mandatory reporting of the following Hospital Harm eCQMs in the next three years:
2026: Hospital Harm (HH) Hyperglycemia and HH-Hypoglycemia
2027: HH Opioid-Related Adverse Events
2028: HH-Acute Kidney Injury and HH-Pressure Injury

CMS has also more definitely communicated its intent to move away from PSI-90 with the launch of its new TEAM model. In its first year (2026), TEAM will reference PSI-90 within its safety domain. But beginning in year two, PSI-90 drops out entirely and is replaced instead by the hospital harm eCQMs (HH-Falls with Injury and HH-Postoperative Respiratory Failure). That shift alone confirms that CMS views PSI-90 as a stopgap, not a long-term safety measure, and it is already structuring new payment models around the harm measures that will replace it.

In addition, CMS recently announced significant changes to the Hospital Quality Star Rating system established by the Calendar Year 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule. Beginning in 2026, hospitals in the lowest quartile of Safety of Care measures will face a cap of four stars, regardless of performance in other categories. By 2027, this approach will intensify, with hospitals in the lowest safety quartile seeing their star ratings reduced by one star. This means that hospitals that aren’t prepared to align with this next generation of safety measurement will put their star ratings and public reputations at risk.

This presentation will delve into the implications of this transition, highlighting the limitations of PSI-90 and the advantages of Hospital Harm eCQMs in driving safety improvements. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the new Hospital Harm eCQMs, the steps required to integrate them into their hospital’s data collection and reporting efforts, and the operational and cultural shifts required to improve their results on these critical safety measures. Finally, attendees will learn how to design an effective eCQM management plan to position their hospitals for success in an era where safety is measured with clinical precision and accountability.

Learning objectives:
  • Evaluate your hospital’s current safety measurement practices, including your reliance on PSI-90 and any gaps in your current safety measurement processes. This will enable your team to transition effectively to Hospital Harm eCQMs and align your data collection and reporting efforts with CMS's new requirements.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive eCQM integration and management plan, including strategies for integrating Hospital Harm eCQMs into your hospital’s workflows, to help your facilities improve data accuracy, enhance real-time monitoring, and drive meaningful safety improvements.
  • Lead organizational change for safety improvement within your hospitals by educating your teams on the implications of CMS’s transition from PSI-90 to Hospital Harm eCQMs, implementing effective harm prevention strategies, and positioning your hospitals to maintain strong star ratings.

Erin Heilman, CPHQ, is a distinguished leader in the healthcare quality regulatory space, known for her innovative approach to simplifying complex regulations. For over a decade, Erin has developed award-winning content, including articles, guides, and tools that empower quality leaders to excel in their reporting obligations. As the Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Advisory Services at Medisolv, Erin is responsible for collaborating with executive leadership to ensure regulatory compliance is seamlessly integrated into the company’s strategic objectives. Furthermore, Erin provides specialized strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations, utilizing her comprehensive knowledge to assist clients in navigating the intricate landscape of healthcare regulations.

Kristen Beatson, BSN, is an accomplished Healthcare IT leader with over 30 years of clinical, informatics and quality improvement experience. As the Senior Vice President of Clinical Quality Improvement at Medisolv, she is highly focused on helping customers harness the transformative power of digital data to optimize operational efficiencies and more importantly, to empower the delivery of superior healthcare. At Medisolv, she collaborates with executive leadership to guide our core mission of improving patient care. Additionally, she provides strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations, leveraging her knowledge to help customers meet compliance requirements while significantly enhancing the quality of care they deliver.

156 - Leading Through the Inevitable: Executive Readiness, Response, and Recovery from Cyberattacks in MEDITECH Enabled Healthcare Organizations

  • Track: Cybersecurity
  • Presenters: Eric Gasser
  • Organization: Wooster Community Hospital Health System, Wooster, Ohio

Cybersecurity incidents have become an operational certainty for healthcare leaders, demanding more than technical controls – they require decisive, informed executive leadership. This MUSE Inspire Executive Session brings together senior healthcare executives to share practical, experience-based insights on preparing for, navigating, and recovering from cyberattacks within MEDITECH supported environments.

The discussion will focus on executive accountability before, during, and after an incident: aligning cyber preparedness with clinical operations, establishing clear governance and decision rights, and ensuring patient safety during extended downtime events. Panelists will examine how leadership teams can partner effectively with MEDITECH, internal IT, clinical leaders, and third-party support to sustain operations and accelerate recovery when systems are disrupted.

Attendees will gain a leadership level perspective on building organizational resilience – moving beyond compliance to embed cybersecurity readiness into enterprise strategy, operational planning, and executive culture. This session is designed to equip healthcare leaders with the confidence and frameworks needed to lead their organizations through cyber events and emerge stronger, more prepared, and more resilient.

Eric Gasser, RN, CHCIO, is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Information Systems at Wooster Community Hospital Health System (WCH) in Wooster, Ohio. Eric began his career at WCH in 2006 as a clinical systems analyst, where he played a pivotal role in implementing Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and electronic physician documentation.

Over his 18-year tenure at WCH, Eric has held various positions, including Supervisor of Applications and Director of Information Systems, before assuming his current role in 2017. Under his leadership, WCH has successfully utilized Expanse 2.2, running the web-based version of Ambulatory, ED, Acute, PCS, and Oncology. Prior to his current role, Eric led WCH to become the first MEDITECH hospital in Ohio approved by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy for CPOE.

157 - Interoperability That Works: Executive Strategies to Turn TEFCA/QHINs and Exchange Networks into Clinical & Operational Value

  • Track: Cybersecurity
  • Presenters: Jackie Rice
  • Organization: Frederick Health, Frederick, Maryland

Interoperability is no longer a technical side initiative – it’s a leadership mandate tied to clinician efficiency, care coordination, and the organization’s ability to thrive in a rapidly expanding data-sharing ecosystem. Industry momentum around TEFCA/QHIN participation, evolving USCDI requirements, and modern exchange approaches is pushing health systems to move beyond one-off interfaces toward scalable, repeatable exchange that is truly usable in workflow. In this MUSE Inspire executive panel, healthcare IT and clinical leaders will share practical lessons learned while advancing interoperability strategies across governance, technology, and operations.

Discussion will focus on how organizations are assessing interoperability maturity, selecting exchange pathways, and operationalizing the “last mile” realities that determine success—identity and consent alignment, data quality and reconciliation, directory integrity, and clinician adoption.

Panelists will also address what executives care about most: how to define measurable value (time saved, reduced record-chasing, better transitions of care), how to create governance models that scale, and how to keep privacy and security expectations front and center while expanding external data access.

Attendees will leave with an executive playbook: key decision points, common pitfalls, and a practical roadmap to move interoperability from “connected” to “clinically effective.” This is not a “how to session”, it is a candid conversation about what worked, what didn’t, and what we wish we had known sooner.

Jackie Rice, BSN, RN is the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Frederick Health. She provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment for Frederick Health. The primary responsibilities of her office encompass a wide variety of strategic technology issues.

Frederick Health is the only hospital in Frederick County, Maryland. It has 269 licensed beds, employs a staff of nearly 3,300, and offers services in 26 locations through a network of primary care and specialty providers. Jackie’s team provides support for and delivery of IT infrastructure and services, information security systems, administrative systems, and client support services.

Jackie serves on the Maryland HIMSS Chapter Board of Directors as past president. Prior to joining Frederick Health, Jackie served in multiple healthcare roles, starting with a nursing background of 20 years which led her to a career path in Information Services. She follows the mission of Frederick Health to positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.

158 - Simplifying Revenue Cycle: Strategies for Improved Cash Flow with Automation

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenters: Grant Norton and Ted Dinsmore
  • Organization: St. Mary's Healthcare, Amsterdam, New York ; SphereGen

Healthcare revenue cycle teams continue to face increasing operational pressures driven by rising patient financial responsibility, staffing shortages, and highly manual claim-processing workflows. St. Mary’s Healthcare, a long-standing community hospital serving a predominantly Medicare and Medicaid population, confronted these challenges as complex contractual allowance workflows, backlogs, and lengthy payment cycles strained resources and slowed cash flow. To address these issues, the organization partnered with an intelligent automation provider to redesign processes, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance staff productivity.

This presentation outlines St. Mary’s journey from initial problem identification to fully deployed automated solutions that streamline insurance payment validation, contractual allowance calculations, and adjustment posting. By implementing targeted bots capable of handling more than 10,000 monthly transactions, the organization significantly reduced A/R days – from 55 to 39 – lowered denied claims, accelerated patient statement cycles, and saved over 8,000 labor hours annually. Additional insights highlight improvements in clean-claim rates, reduced backlog, enhanced accuracy, and preservation of institutional knowledge amid workforce turnovers.

Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the strategic considerations, implementation steps, measurable outcomes, and lessons learned that guided St. Mary’s successful automation initiative. The presentation concludes with next steps for scaling automation across the revenue cycle and practical guidance for organizations beginning their own intelligent automation.

Learning objectives:
  • Participants will be able to explain how intelligent automation streamlines complex workflows – such as contractual insurance allowances, claim validation, and adjustment processing – and how this leads to reduced A/R days, fewer backlogs, and improved cash flow.
  • Participants will be able to describe major barriers in the revenue cycle (manual processes, staffing burdens, inefficiencies, loss of tribal knowledge) and match them with automation-based strategies that address them, including the use of bots to perform high-volume, rules-based tasks.
  • Participants will be able to summarize the quantifiable impact of automation initiatives – Including reduction of A/R days, significant FTE savings, improved clean-claim rates, and faster patient statement cycles – and articulate how these improvements support staff productivity and long-term scalability.

Grant Norton is the Director of Patient Accounting at St. Mary’s Healthcare. Norton joined St. Mary’s in February 2023 and quickly earned recognition for both his collaborative approach and ability to identify and improve billing processes. Previously, he was a senior business analyst at the local, independent healthcare provider. Norton also has held positions at other Capital Region hospitals and healthcare-related organizations. He has served as practice manager for system outreach at the Albany Med Health System, performance consultant for the Healthy Alliance social care network, and manager of pediatrics for Ellis Medicine.

159 - A Staged Approach to Modernizing and Automating Document Workflows

  • Track: Other
  • Presenters: Audrey Brislin
  • Organization: Forward Advantage
Does it seem your staff is always buried with multi-step and time-consuming document processing? Whether it's managing inbound documents, routing documents to other workflows or getting information to outside providers, most MEDITECH organizations are still spending way too much staff time on these workflows, but they are critical to care coordination and rev cycle.
 
Luckily, technology is advancing quickly to offer AI-powered, automated workflows, intelligent routing capabilities and agentic processes.  But are your workflows actually ready to be automated? There’s a lot to consider. If your underlying processes are inconsistent, undefined, or full of undocumented workarounds, automation doesn't fix them – it scales them. You end up automating broken processes faster, and the results are predictably messy.
 
In this panel, IT leaders from MEDITECH hospitals share how they are approaching improving document workflows and will share what they discovered when they mapped and refined their workflows, the exceptions they uncovered, how they determined where automation made sense and where it didn't, and the practical steps they took to get their processes ready before introducing technology.

Learning objectives:
  • A practical framework for auditing your inbound and outbound document workflows to first identify:
    - The document lifecycle and all of the touchpoints, decision criteria and exceptions
    - Where manual effort is costing you the most time, accuracy, and care quality
    - Where tribal knowledge exists, and what inconsistencies occur among processes
  • How to evaluate document types or workflows that are good candidates for a fully automated workflow, and which might still need a form of “Human in the Loop”.
  • Why process consistencies are critical to automation effectiveness.
  • How to set measurable outcomes to benchmark against daily time savings, filing error reduction, faster HIM record fulfillment, and staff freed to focus on patient care.

Audrey Brislin is Vice President of Marketing & Product at Forward Advantage.

160 - Orchestrating Care: MEDITECH’s AI Portfolio

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Joseph Cordone
  • Organization: MEDITECH

As healthcare organizations face increasing documentation burdens and administrative complexities, MEDITECH is expanding its AI portfolio to transform the clinician experience and maximize financial performance. MEDITECH has been strategic in its application of artificial intelligence, focusing on areas where it can improve care delivery most. This presentation explores the latest native AI solutions designed to serve as an "orchestrator of care" by integrating intelligence directly into existing workflows.

Learning objectives:
  • Dive into the practical applications of ambient listening for both physicians and nurses,
  • Learn how agentic AI and conversational interfaces are being used to streamline revenue cycles and enhance patient self-service
  • Review MEDITECH’s existing AI Capabilities

Joe Cordone is a Product Manager specializing in AI Initiatives at MEDITECH. He brings over 18 years of experience in Electronic Healthcare Record implementations and service. Joe is currently concentrating on how MEDITECH Expanse can further reduce clinical burden, leverage AI to support more efficient and accurate documentation, and enable more connected, interoperable care across settings and geographies.

161 - Breaking Down Barriers: Expanding Patient Access with MEDITECH

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Siobhan Warner
  • Organization: MEDITECH

Come join us to hear how MEDITECH is breaking down barriers in Patient Access through innovative Guest Features and Remote Patient Monitoring solutions. As healthcare continues to evolve beyond traditional walls, organizations are seeking smarter, more connected ways to reach patients wherever they are. Let’s discover what we can accomplish together to promote equitable, efficient access to healthcare – anytime, anywhere.

Learning objectives:
  • Explore how digital tools streamline registration and engagement, simplify access points for patients and families
  • Learn how to extend care into the home through remote monitoring capabilities
  • Learn how these advancements reduce friction, enhance communication, and support better outcomes across care settings

Siobhan Warner has been with MEDITECH for over 28 years, holding key roles across Implementation, Marketing, and Strategy. For the past ten years, she has served as the Product Manager for Patient Engagement within the Strategy Division. In this capacity, Siobhan collaborates closely with customers and industry thought leaders to shape the roadmap for future initiatives.

163 - A Seat for Every Patient: Boone Health’s Journey Using Predictive Analytics and Patient Connect

  • Track: Patient Engagement/Digital Front Door
  • Presenter: Brenda Sexson
  • Organization: Boone Health

Discover how Boone Health leveraged MEDITECH’s AI-driven predictive no-show modeling and Patient Connect to transform patient access. By integrating real-time risk scoring into daily workflows, Boone Health achieved 93% prediction accuracy and reduced its no-show rate from 7% to 3%, optimizing provider schedules while ensuring patients never miss a chance for care..

Brenda Sexson is the Information Services Director at Boone Health. Brenda oversaw the implementation of MEDITECH Expanse as well as several additional clinical applications. Brenda has over 30 years of health IT experience, 25 of which were with BJC Healthcare. She started her career in health care as a Medical Technologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Brenda has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Emporia State University, a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology from the University of Kansas and a Master of Healthcare Administration from Webster University.

164 - The Path Forward: Essential MEDITECH Enhancements Over the Last 12 Months

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Christine Silva
  • Organization: MEDITECH

This presentation will highlight key development advances over the last 12 months to the Expanse platform. We will explore the direct, practical impact of these improvements on your daily workflow, demonstrating how our latest software advancements optimize operations and enhance the quality of care. Discover how these critical developments establish "The Path Forward" for your organization’s continued success.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand key software enhancements to the Expanse Platform and benefits to your organization
  • Identify availability of key changes, both from a timing and release perspective (where available)
  • Early successes from Early Adopters

Christine Silva is the Senior Director of Field Marketing Operations at MEDITECH, where she plays a critical role in accelerating the sales cycle and increasing competitive advantage. She and her team achieve this by engaging with prospects to identify business challenges, crafting custom value propositions, and delivering tailored proposals, presentations, and customized demonstrations that showcase value. Additionally, Christine's team strategically matches qualified prospects with existing customers to build trust, validate solutions, and address specific buyer pain points.

Bringing almost 30 years of experience across MEDITECH’s Implementation, Client Services, Marketing, and Strategy divisions, Christine offers deep expertise in the company’s product landscape. She previously served as a Senior Director of Product Managers within MEDITECH’s Strategy Division, overseeing the strategic direction for key areas including Patient Engagement, Population Health, Analytics, Quality Reporting, Oncology, Anesthesia, Revenue Cycle, Standard Content, and Physician products. Christine is certified by AIPMM as both a Product Manager and a Product Marketing Manager.

165 – From First-Movers to the Future of Expanse: Current solutions with Early Adopters and a Look at Future Strategy

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Jennifer Ford
  • Organization: MEDITECH

This session examines the evolution of MEDITECH’s latest innovations, tracing their trajectory from pilot programs and early adoption toward general release over the coming year. We will explore how these solutions empower organizations to achieve measurable excellence, while providing a transparent look at our long-term roadmap – bridging current development with our broader vision for the future of healthcare technology.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand the software solutions currently in Pilot and Early Adopter
  • Evaluate how upcoming solutions and feature sets can be leveraged to drive clinical efficiency and measurable operational excellence within your organization
  • Align institutional goals with MEDITECH’s long-term strategic roadmap, gaining insight into active developments and future-state innovations

Jennifer Ford is the Manager of Product Management at MEDITECH, where she works with the leadership of MEDITECH, development, marketing, and service as well as customers and industry representatives to drive the future strategy of solutions within Electronic Health Records. Jennifer believes that it is necessary for EHRs to take a leading role in providing access to the newest technologies in order to drive efficiencies, satisfaction, and minimize burn out across the board.

After spending nearly a decade working on the forefront of customer collaboration with MEDITECH solutions, and devoting many years working across the industry to bring advanced data such as Genomics into the EHR, Jennifer understands the needs of the community from many different facets.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Marketing and an MBA with a focus in Management from Providence College. She also holds Certificates of Genetics, Cancer Genomics and Precision Medicine, and Genetic Testing and Sequencing Technologies from Harvard Medical.

166 - The $50 Billion Opportunity: Navigating Rural Health Transformation with MEDITECH Expanse Accelerators

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Janet Desroche
  • Organization: MEDITECH

The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), authorized under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), has introduced a historic $50 billion federal "bridge" to secure the future of rural healthcare. For health systems to access these state-distributed sub-awards, they must navigate technical rubrics. Success requires more than just clinical need; it requires a strategic alignment with the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) pillars.

In this session, we will provide a practical roadmap for MEDITECH leaders to translate these federal requirements into actionable EHR strategies. We will explore how MEDITECH Expanse solutions – specifically designed for workforce stabilization, chronic disease management, behavioral health, telehealth and maternal health – map to the RHTP funding guardrails and opportunities. From deploying Ambient Listening to reduce clinician burnout to implementing chronic disease and maternal health management programs, attendees will learn how to utilize their existing Expanse ecosystem to align with the program at the federal, state, and provider organization levels. Join us to discover how MEDITECH is partnering with its customers to turn this unprecedented funding into lasting rural transformation.

Learning objectives:
  • Decode the RHTP Funding Formula: Gain a clear understanding of the $50B federal-to-state distribution model, including how the competitive scoring methodology designed by CMS impacts state allotments and the specific eligibility criteria for CAHs, REHs, and FQHCs.
  • Operationalize the "At Least 3" Rule: Identify how to satisfy the RHTP requirement of funding projects across three transformation categories (Chronic Disease, Workforce, Infrastructure/Tech, or Right-Sizing) by leveraging pre-built MEDITECH Expanse Accelerators.
  • Execute MAHA-Aligned Clinical Workflows: Learn to implement specific high-impact toolkits – such as Metabolic Health and Chronic Disease Registries, Maternal Health IT enablers such as the Obstetric Hemorrhage safety workflows, and tools to address behavioral health (e.g., identifying, managing and improving suicide risk) and substance use disorder – that directly satisfy the "Make America Healthy Again" technical scoring bonuses.

Janet Desroche is the Associate Vice President of Customer Experience at MEDITECH, where she leads strategic initiatives to ensure that healthcare organizations maximize the value of their EHR investment. With a career dedicated to fostering strong client partnerships and driving clinical excellence, Janet focuses on aligning MEDITECH’s innovative solutions and services with MEDITECH’s health organization customer needs and opportunities, particularly for rural health.

167 - Charting Made Easier for Providers

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Brian Pereira
  • Organization: MEDITECH

Discover how small configuration changes can make a big impact on daily workflows. This session covers chart viewer and search tools, widget customization and layout, chart prep strategies, and more to create a chart that’s organized, intuitive, and specialty-aligned.

Learning objectives:
  • Enhance efficiency in chart navigation and foster personalization by learning to effectively incorporate Custom Widgets and My Widget within standardized templates.
  • Efficiently locate data and manage orders simultaneously by utilizing advanced navigation tools like Chart Viewer and Chart Search. This allows you to access information in less commonly navigated areas without interrupting your active documentation in other screens.
  • Implement structural chart optimizations, applying layout and performance strategies to decrease scrolling and enhance the overall chart review experience.

Brian Pereira is a Senior Analyst in MEDITECH’s Client Services Division with over 10 years of experience within the Physician Products. He serves as a subject matter expert for the Physician Ordering products and all integrated applications, specializing in Hold Queue, Other Vendor projects, and a variety of Acute/AMB workflows. Brian has led numerous customer visits and optimizations to improve MEDITECH processes at organizations across the country and has a passion for improving the user experience. Brian advocates for superior customer service and improving physician processes across all applications.

168 - Order Smarter: Optimizing the Provider Experience

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Brian Pereira
  • Organization: MEDITECH

This session covers the "how-to" of streamlining provider orders through smart optimization. We’ll cover everything from personalizing favorite order sets and leveraging Top Rules to implementing problem-based ordering. Attendees will walk away with a toolkit of build resources designed to reduce alert fatigue, improve searchability, and ensure that the right orders are always just a click away.

Learning objectives:
  • Master order search optimization and the use of favorites to slash navigation time
  • Explore the power of Top Rules, suggested order sets, and available build resources

Brian Pereira is a Senior Analyst in MEDITECH’s Client Services Division with over 10 years of experience within the Physician Products. He serves as a subject matter expert for the Physician Ordering products and all integrated applications, specializing in Hold Queue, Other Vendor projects, and a variety of Acute/AMB workflows. Brian has led numerous customer visits and optimizations to improve MEDITECH processes at organizations across the country and has a passion for improving the user experience. Brian advocates for superior customer service and improving physician processes across all applications.

169 - Implementing MEDITECH Expanse & Reinventing the Wheel: The Irish Outlook

  • Track: Expanse
  • Presenter: Cliona Byrne
  • Organization: Bon Secours Health System, Ireland

Attend this presentation to learn from the Irish market regarding Bon Secours Health Systems’ ongoing journey with MEDITECH Expanse. Where a plan that was in place with a specific scope, timeline and budget had to pivot and regroup at an organisational level to ensure the programme could continue to move forward. We highlight the importance of ownership, stakeholder engagement, and transparency, while balancing the impact of standardisation and the level of effort required at ground level.

Cliona Byrne is the Group IT Programme Director at Bon Secours Health System in Ireland. She is an MBA graduate, Information Technology Executive, Change and Project Manager with extensive experience in IT and the private healthcare industry. Cliona is an effective leader at ease in dynamic and challenging environments, having led many complex multi-disciplinary projects. She is committed to ensuring strategic and operational IT transformation and development is of benefit to her organisation, her colleagues and most importantly patients. Her current main focus is on delivering MEDITECH Expanse 2.2.

170 - Nursing Workflow Wins in Expanse 2.2

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Alyson Silva
  • Organization: MEDITECH

Is your organization fully leveraging Expanse 2.2? This session focuses on practical adoption strategies to increase utilization, improve workflows, and enhance the clinician experience. Walk away with actionable ideas to evaluate and optimize your own environment.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand the most commonly underutilized nursing features in 2.2
  • Understand the efficiency impact of implementing such tools.
  • Explore strategies to roll out such features and increase adoption.

With over a decade of expertise in MEDITECH’s nursing products, Alyson Silva currently serves as a Senior Analyst in the Marketing Division. After supporting the initial Expanse Patient Care early adopters, Alyson spent the next five years translating that experience into successful customer migrations and the development of key educational and project planning resources. As a Subject Matter Expert, she has led IV Smart Pump integration projects, KLAS Arch Collaborative survey reviews, and provided high-level optimization support across the nursing suite. Today, she is a dedicated advocate for nurses, focused on unlocking the untapped potential of MEDITECH’s technology to enhance clinical workflows and elevate the nursing profession.

171 - Beyond the Microscope: Expanse Pathology Early Adopter Insights & Future Roadmap

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Michelle Cochran and Jennifer Ford
  • Organization: Goshen Health, Goshen, Indiana; MEDITECH

During this session, Goshen Health will share their successes and feedback regarding the Expanse Pathology solution, offering guidance on how to best prepare for deployment. We will also discuss our future strategy, including the newly released Digital Pathology.

Learning objectives:
  • Gain insights from early adopters on their experience with the Expanse Pathology solution.
  • Receive feedback on the best steps to take when preparing to deploy the solution.
  • Learn about the overall strategy, including the latest updates on Digital Pathology.

Michelle Cochran is the Senior Manager, IT Applications at Goshen Health.

Jennifer Ford is the Manager of Product Management at MEDITECH, where she works with the leadership of MEDITECH, development, marketing, and service as well as customers and industry representatives to drive the future strategy of solutions within Electronic Health Records. Jennifer believes that it is necessary for EHRs to take a leading role in providing access to the newest technologies in order to drive efficiencies, satisfaction, and minimize burn out across the board.

After spending nearly a decade working on the forefront of customer collaboration with MEDITECH solutions, and devoting many years working across the industry to bring advanced data such as Genomics into the EHR, Jennifer understands the needs of the community from many different facets.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Marketing and an MBA with a focus in Management from Providence College. She also holds Certificates of Genetics, Cancer Genomics and Precision Medicine, and Genetic Testing and Sequencing Technologies from Harvard Medical.

172 - Bridging the Gap: Real-World Training Strategies for Long-Term EHR Success

  • Track: Patient Care
  • Presenter: Jessica Miarecki
  • Organization: MEDITECH

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare technology, the "go-live" is only the beginning; the true challenge lies in sustained proficiency and user satisfaction. This interactive session features a panel of professionals from four organizations that successfully navigated the complexities of EHR education in a post-live environment.

By moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach, panelists will detail how they strategically blended asynchronous e-learning, immersive classroom environments, and targeted elbow-to-elbow support to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. This discussion explores site-specific use cases, lessons learned, and tailored nursing education plans – balancing continuous post-live optimization for user efficiency with the targeted functional requirements of a 2.1 to 2.2 upgrade. Attendees will hear practical strategies to reduce documentation burden and establish scalable frameworks that can be immediately adapted to their own organizations.

Learning objectives:
  • Develop a Hybrid Learning Strategy: Identify how to successfully blend asynchronous e-learning (foundational) with immersive classroom and instructor-led training to address diverse workforce needs.
  • Optimize Post-Live Nursing Education: Create a structured education plan for nursing staff that focuses on clinical optimization and sustained EHR mastery following the initial implementation phase.
  • Implement Scalable Performance Frameworks: Apply evidence-based successes and scalable frameworks to reduce documentation burden, manage content, and measure long-term learner outcomes.

Jessica Miarecki serves as the Director of Customer Experience, Training, Education & Integration Architects at MEDITECH, where she oversees strategic educational initiatives. She is joined by clinical and IT leaders from organizations who have each spearheaded large-scale EHR upgrades and optimization projects with a focus on nursing & provider education and sustained clinical proficiency in a post-live environment.

Panelists:
  • Lauren Small, IT Director of Applications, Frederick Health, Frederick, Maryland
  • Kaitlyn Kohlenberger, IT Manager of Acute Care and Ambulatory Services, Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  • Beverly Sanders, Director of Applications, St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc., Savannah, Georgia
  • Amber Lusk, RN-EHR Nurse Champion/Clinical Applications Analyst, Northfield Hospital and Clinics, Northfield, Minnesota

173 - Beyond Traditional Outsourcing: How Huggins Hospital Built a Blended Revenue Cycle Partnership to Transform MEDITECH Performance

  • Track: Revenue Cycle and Patient Access
  • Presenter: Erika Running and Josh Upham
  • Organization: Tegria; Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Critical Access and community hospitals face mounting pressure to improve financial performance while navigating workforce shortages, regulatory shifts, and increasingly complex EHR ecosystems. Faced with these headwinds in 2025, Huggins Hospital recognized that the status quo was unsustainable. Refusing to choose between under-resourced internal teams or losing control through full outsourcing, they decided to adopt a new approach.

Rather than relying on a traditional outsourcing model, Huggins Hospital built a blended revenue cycle partnership, integrating on-site leadership, outsourced billing support, and collaborative MEDITECH optimization into a single, unified operating model.

In this session, we share the blueprint for how a unified operating model was co-designed to strengthened revenue integrity, accelerated cash, and modernized key components of the MEDITECH environment. Attendees will gain insight into redesigning claim workflows, optimizing MEDITECH billing rules, recalibrating the chargemaster, leveraging denial management to uncover missed revenue, and strengthening communication between and across clinical, financial, and technical teams.

Attendees will learn how their hospital can maintain ownership and control of its revenue cycle while strategically, and seamlessly, layering in external expertise to stabilize operations, enhance system performance, and deliver sustainable financial improvement.

Learning objectives:
  • Learn how to redesign claim workflows and optimize billing rules within the MEDITECH environment to reduce manual touches and speed up processing.
  • Understand the framework for a "unified operating model" where internal teams and external partners work under a single set of KPIs.
  • Apply protocols for improving communication between clinical, financial, and technical teams to ensure that clinical documentation accurately supports financial billing requirements.

Josh Upham joined Huggins Hospital in March of 2016. He currently oversees finance, revenue cycle operations, patient access, human resources, food/nutrition and environmental services. Josh received his undergraduate degree in Finance from Franklin Pierce University with minors in both Marketing and Management. He received his MBA from Southern New Hampshire University with a specialization in Finance. He previously worked in finance for over a decade in other New Hampshire healthcare organizations.

With 25 years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle management, Erika Running specializes in optimizing operations, improving patient-centered processes, and maximizing financial performance for diverse clients, including large organizations and critical access hospitals. Currently serving as the Senior Director of Revenue Cycle Management at Tegria, Erika has also held leadership roles such as Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management at Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions, where she worked with rural and community healthcare organizations to implement efficient workflows and leverage predictive analytics. A dedicated mentor and active member of HIMSS and HFMA, Erika is passionate about driving operational excellence and fostering growth in the healthcare industry.

Product Showcases

501 - EHR Insights: Eliminating Disruption with Operational Intelligence

  • Presenter: Jacob Wheeler
  • Organization: CloudWave
  • Scheduled: Wednesday May 20 at 1:15 pm

Every minute of EHR disruption directly impacts both patient care and hospital revenue. Despite the critical nature of these systems, IT teams are often hindered by cryptic EHR alerts that lack context, forcing them into time-consuming manual investigations and exhausting cycles of "alert noise".

This showcase introduces EHR Insights, an intelligent translation layer designed to bridge the gap between application behavior and infrastructure health. By utilizing AI agents to correlate real-time infrastructure telemetry with MEDITECH alert data, EHR Insights provides immediate clarity into the root cause of performance issues. The platform goes beyond traditional monitoring by adding application-aware operational intelligence, transforming raw data into actionable, guided remediation steps.

Attendees will learn how this service:

  • Accelerates Resolution: Reduces Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Resolution (MTTR) through automated root cause identification
  • Enhances Staff Efficiency: Empowers teams to act confidently with custom resolution playbooks and intelligent alert consolidation
  • Protects Revenue and Care: Minimizes downtime risk, ensuring uninterrupted hospital operations and predictable system performance
  • Drives Leadership Visibility: Provides a centralized, real-time dashboard for historical context and trend analysis, essential for executive-level oversight

Jacob Wheeler is the Director of Solutions Engineering for CloudWave. He leads the solutions engineering team and regularly meets with healthcare organizations to design technology and cybersecurity solutions to meet their unique needs and manage their IT infrastructure's availability, performance, and security. Before this role, Jacob led the Product Management of CloudWave’s portfolio since 2014. Jacob regularly presents to healthcare audiences about how to mitigate cybersecurity threats and educates them about cybersecurity strategies.

502 - Improve Patient Medication Understanding with Meducation

  • Presenter: Jeff Flake
  • Organization: FDB (First Databank, Inc)
  • Scheduled: Friday May 22 at 9:25 am

Improve Patient Engagement, Reduce Readmissions and Improve patient understanding of and adherence to medications – regardless of language barriers, age, or complexity.

Meducation is a Smart on FHIR application that provides a tool for clinicians to create custom Regimen schedule views for patients with all of their medications displayed and translated into over 30 languages. The Meducation smart on FHIR application is integrated into MEDITECH Expanse to allow easy access within your clinical workflow.

Jeff Flake has been a project manager and implementation consultant working in healthcare for over 20 years. He leads large enterprise projects for healthcare systems as well as small projects for independent pharmacies. Helping provide clinical teams with better solutions to improve patient outcomes has been a theme throughout my career.

Jeff currently leads the implementation team for FDB's Meducation solution. Our team works closely with clinical and IT teams to integrate Meducation into various clinical workflows. Meducation helps improve patient health literacy and adherence to medications by providing the patient’s medication regimen and individual medication information in over 30 languages.

503 - Using AI Automation to Reshape Non-Clinical Operations

  • Presenter: Ted Dinsmore
  • Organization: SphereGen Technologies
  • Scheduled: Thursday May 21 at 2:45 pm

AI is rapidly becoming the force multiplier that is redefining how work gets done. Our presentation highlights how AI-driven automation is transforming workflows by multiplying productivity, reducing manual effort, and unlocking new levels of efficiency to deliver ROI.

Gain a clear understanding of the AI journey through the stories of our customers’ use cases. From initial exploration to successful adoption and measurable outcomes, this session offers a realistic perspective on how organizations evolve with AI. We will highlight what implementation truly involves – identifying the right use cases, aligning resources, navigating common pitfalls, and building momentum for broader adoption. Participants will learn how to navigate the AI landscape, maximize productivity, and drive sustainable operational improvements.

Ted Dinsmore is the President of SphereGen Technologies located in New Haven, Connecticut, Toronto, Canada and Pune, India. SphereGen is a software consulting firm that develops and supports custom software solutions for clients in the U.S., Canada and Europe, in AI/Automation, Application Development and Extended Reality (AR, VR, MR). His experience in the world of IT spans over 30 years.

When Ted started his first consulting firm, he became invested in developing and supporting Microsoft solutions for large multinational companies. Wanting to stay at the forefront of emerging technologies, his current company SphereGen embraced the world of AI/Automation and Mixed Reality (MR). SphereGen focuses on improving processes for healthcare and manufacturing organizations by leveraging innovative technologies, along with partners Microsoft and UiPath, to solve business problems.

Ted often speaks at industry gatherings to educate organizations about AI and Automation and the positive impact to productivity. His presentations include actual case studies which demonstrate working automations.

504 - The Autonomous Shift: How Auxo Can Plan, Prioritize, and Help Execute Your Revenue Cycle Strategy

  • Presenter: Terry Reinsager
  • Organization: Revology
  • Scheduled: Wednesday May 20 at 2:15 pm

Everyone is talking about AI’s potential in RCM, but Revology is actually making it happen with Auxo. We’ve moved past hype with a platform that plans, prioritizes, and executes work autonomously. By reading payer behavior and system signals, Auxo doesn't just react – it adapts.

In this session, Revology Chief Revenue Cycle Officer Terry Reinsager dives into how Auxo uses Generative and Agentic AI to quickly uncover trends and suggest solutions that really work. See how it transforms A/R follow-up by automating the heavy lifting – from claim status and coding triage to drafting appeals – so your team can focus on what matters.

Terry Reinsager serves as the Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at Revology, where he leverages over two decades of deep operational expertise to bridge the gap between complex RCM challenges and innovative technology. With a career overseeing large-scale healthcare operations, Terry has a proven track record of managing high-performance RCM teams. At Revology, he is instrumental in the strategic vision for Auxo, ensuring that the platform innovations are focused on solving real-world revenue cycle challenges.

505 - What Happens in the OR Shouldn’t Stay in the OR: AI That Helps Your Whole Hospital Know It Now and Know It’s Right

  • Presenters: David Owen and Jeffrey Oliver
  • Organization: LiveData
  • Scheduled: Friday May 22 at 10:20 am

MEDITECH knows it all. As the system of record, it stores surgical history with precision and compliance. But the OR is the nexus of hospital revenue and risk – and knowing it all is not the same as knowing it now, or knowing it’s right.

When a scheduled case runs long, the cascade is immediate. The rest of the day’s cases get pushed and surgeons complain. Anesthesia, SPD, patient units, and environmental services fall behind. Leadership asks why first case delays spiked this week, and pressures Informatics to build a report.

Know It Now. Know It’s Right. That is the gap LiveData was built to fill – and the value IT can bring to the department that drives the most revenue in the hospital. Through best-in-class display boards and AI-powered analytics, LiveData will extend your MEDITECH Expanse investment, not replace it, across three integrated layers.

  1. Know It’s Right with OR-Dashboard, using a one-touch Clicker that captures surgical documentation in real time at the point of care.
  2. Know It Now with real-time schedule boards that keep anesthesia, imaging, nursing units, and families in sync.
  3. Know it Now using LiveData Insights, with secure AI-powered chat that lets OR leaders ask conversational questions of their own operational data, like “Which surgeons have improved or declined in block utilization compared to this time last year, and by how much?”

Results: OR delays reduced by 25%. Impactful workflow transformation, without the need for an onsite integration server. Staff are satisfied without a call to IT for another report or drilldown, based on data validated across 2M+ surgical cases at 100+ hospital systems. You’ll leave this showcase with both the technical confidence and business language to share transformative possibilities with hospital leadership.

Learning objectives:
  • Describe how Live Capture, Live Distribution, and Live Intelligence together give every department that depends on surgery - and the families who wait - the ability to Know It Now, while giving OR leadership AI answers they can trust because the data architecture supporting them is accurate.
  • Build a low-risk, no-new-server path implementation model for verified perioperative AI, including language to make the case to clinical and financial leadership.
  • Draw on Sauk Prairie Healthcare’s recent experience to explain the information architecture for extracting more perioperative reporting from MEDITECH Expanse.

Jeffrey Oliver, Lt Col, Ret., CCNS, CNOR has over 30 years of nursing experience and has served in a variety of nursing roles throughout his career. He was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1995. He was deployed three times during his twenty-five-year career. Jeff was assigned as faculty at the Uniformed Services University Graduate School of Nursing and served as the Perioperative Nursing Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General before retiring from the Air Force in March 2021. Jeff then served as the Director of Surgical Services at a community hospital in South Carolina before joining LiveData as a Clinical Support Specialist.

David Owen, Chief Product Officer, leads LiveData’s product strategy and innovation initiatives, driving the company’s mission to improve patient safety and operating room efficiency through intelligent workflow solutions. With deep expertise in healthcare technology and artificial intelligence, David is building a product culture centered on continuous learning and customer value. When he’s not advancing LiveData’s mission, David can often be found racing sailboats on Boston Harbor.

506 - Axe the Fax: How AI Reduces Staff Burden and Finds the Untapped Value in Your Fax Queue

  • Presenters: Aditya Bansod, Debra Carpenter, Suzanne Mock, and Zac Rice
  • Organization: Luma Health; TriState Health; Bingham Healthcare, Blackfoot, Idaho
  • Scheduled: Thursday May 21 at 9:00 am

Every day, clinical staff manually sort through referrals, prior auths, and clinical notes arriving by fax, triaging by hand and hoping nothing falls through the cracks. It's a slow, invisible drag on capacity. But there are hidden opportunities if you can axe the manual fax work, while acting on the data within the fax.

This session goes beyond fax automation to show what becomes possible when AI acts on what's inside a document. TriState Health's Debra Carpenter and Suzanne Mock and Zac Rice of Bingham Healthcare join Luma’s co-founder Aditya Bansod to share how Luma's operational AI transforms inbound documents into a driver of access, revenue, and value-based care performance. A referral becomes a scheduled appointment. A prior auth gets routed without human intervention. A care gap surfaces in time to close it.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for identifying where their own fax workflows are hiding unrealized value.

Aditya Bansod is co-founder and president of Luma Health, where he has led product innovation since 2015. With a background spanning software development, product management, and product marketing at Microsoft, Adobe, and multiple venture-backed startups, Aditya brings a technologist's perspective to some of healthcare's toughest problems.

Bansod leads Luma's strategic direction for an AI-native platform that removes bottlenecks and completes healthcare workflows end to end, for better patient outcomes and improved staff experience. With a decade of experience working closely with health systems, he has developed a vision for operational AI that solves health system challenges end to end. Luma’s platform moves beyond surface-level insights to AI that actually drives outcomes, reduces administrative burden, and ensures patients get the care they need.

Debra Carpenter, Ph.D., CIO is a healthcare IT leader with more than 30 years of experience helping hospitals and health systems use technology to improve care and operations. She currently serves as CIO at TriState Health and also works as a consultant, guiding executives on digital strategy, optimization, and corporate change management. Debra holds a Ph.D. in Leadership along with advanced degrees in Data Analytics and Organizational Leadership. She is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified and recognized for her expertise in project governance, regulatory compliance, and analytics-driven decision-making.

507 - Patient Scheduling Augmented by Agentic Technology: Modernizing the Front Door to Revenue

  • Presenter: Rod Christensen
  • Organization: Experis Health Solutions
  • Scheduled: Friday May 22 at 8:30 am

For MEDITECH health systems operating in increasingly competitive markets, patient scheduling has become one of the most critical, and most fragile, points in the revenue lifecycle. As patients encounter friction during access and appointment scheduling, they rarely complain; instead, they seek care elsewhere or delay care altogether, resulting in revenue leakage, missed visits, and downstream financial impact.

Traditional scheduling models remain constrained by limited staffing, manual processes, clinic-specific rules, and restricted coverage outside standard business hours. For organizations committed to cost discipline and operational efficiency, simply adding staff is neither sustainable nor effective.

This session explores how agentic technology, when thoughtfully integrated into MEDITECH workflows, can transform patient scheduling from a bottleneck into a strategic asset. Attendees will learn how Experis Health Solutions augments scheduling operations using a hybrid model that blends advanced conversational technology, real-time MEDITECH integration, and trained human schedulers to improve access, consistency, and revenue protection without replacing existing systems.

Learning objectives:
  • Understand how patient scheduling functions as a primary driver of patient retention, access, and revenue protection within MEDITECH health systems.
  • Learn how agentic technology can be safely and effectively integrated into MEDITECH scheduling workflows to increase access, consistency, and first-contact resolution.
  • Identify how a hybrid AI and human scheduling model can reduce cost per interaction, support staff sustainability, and scale access during peak demand while preserving patient experience and operational control.

Rod Christensen is a healthcare technology and operations leader focused on patient access, service desk operations, and the practical application of agentic technology within EMR environments. With extensive experience supporting MEDITECH health systems, he specializes in modernizing scheduling, registration, and patient facing support while preserving existing clinical and revenue workflows.

Rod partners with IT, revenue cycle, and access leaders to integrate agentic AI and human support models that improve access, consistency, and first contact resolution, helping organizations scale services and reduce operational strain.

508 - Comprehensive EHR Learning Management: Driving Success with MedPower

  • Presenters: Nathan Retelle and Matt Downing
  • Organization: MedPower
  • Scheduled: Wednesday May 20 at 3:15 pm

Implementing Expanse or managing version upgrades and endless onboarding are significant undertakings for any health system. To ensure these projects and efforts succeed, your organization needs a comprehensive understanding of learner/clinician readiness and a platform that helps deliver role-based, bite-sized education seamlessly.

This session explores how informatics leaders use the complete MedPower learning management suite – spanning our intuitive LMS, specialized microlearning courses, and IQ Analytics – to manage the full EHR lifecycle. We will demonstrate how delivering the right content at the right time improves proficiency, while simultaneously providing the C-suite with transparent training intelligence that moves beyond simple percentages to track course relevance and measure proficiency by cohort. Showcase attendees will learn how to utilize a holistic training approach to improve learning outcomes throughout their organization.

Key session highlights include:

  • Complete Learning Management: Discover how our specialized healthcare LMS automates enrollments, tracks compliance, and simplifies the onboarding process.
  • Targeted Microlearning: See how bite-sized, role-based education keeps clinicians focused on patient care rather than the classroom.
  • Executive Visibility: Use automated reporting to provide CMIOs and CNOs with high-level metrics and peer benchmarking.
  • Voice of the Learner: Using survey feedback to address misassigned roles or content challenges and/or gaps immediately.
  • Reduce Training Costs: Learn how, by leveraging a hybrid training model, your organization can optimize delivery, free up trainers to focus on quality and outcomes, and even reduce in-person training time by up to 50%.

Join us to see a live demonstration of the MedPower platform and learn practical strategies to improve leadership visibility and clinician satisfaction across your organization.

Nathan Retelle is the Director Customer Success at MedPower.

Matt Downing is the CMO/CIO at MedPower.

509 - More Than Ambient: A Deep Dive with Bethany Children's

  • Presenters: Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune and Dr. Darin Brannan
  • Organization: Commure; Bethany Children's Health Center, Bethany, Oklahoma
  • Scheduled: Thursday May 21 at 10:00 am

Dr. Brannan and the team at Bethany Children's have pushed ambient AI far beyond its original promise, pioneering novel use cases that are now shaping the next generation of clinical tools, including Commure's Ambient AI nursing scribe.

In this session, Dr. Brannan shares the real-world journey of driving adoption, navigating seasonal utilization patterns, and building a device strategy that makes ambient a true standard of care. Walk away with a blueprint for turning a productivity tool into an enterprise-wide care transformation platform.

Dr. Jean-Luc (“JL”) Neptune is a physician executive with 20+ years of experience in the health innovation space, including roles as a startup founder, ecosystem builder, investor in dozens of digital health companies, licensed direct care provider, and clinic operator. Dr. Neptune currently serves as Clinical Commercial Leader at Commure, Inc. where he leverages his clinical and commercial background to drive revenue growth and profitability for Commure’s suite of AI-powered products. Dr. Neptune is actively licensed to practiced medicine in the state of New York, board-certified through the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and earned an MBA from the Wharton School.

Dr. Darin Brannan is the Chief of Clinical Innovation, Pediatrician at Bethany Children's Health Center in Bethany, Oklahoma. Has has specialties in Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics.

Education:

  • Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical & Preventive Medicine & Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt” Lima, Peru, South America
  • Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology), University of Oklahoma College of Public Health
  • Chief Pediatric Resident, Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma
  • Pediatric Residency, Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma
  • M.D., University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Certifications:

  • American Academy of Pediatrics, Board Certification in Pediatrics
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine, Board Certification in Clinical Informatics
  • Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Certificate in Travel Health-International Society of Travel Medicine

510 - Suki + MEDITECH Expanse: Smarter AI, Built for How Physicians Actually Work

  • Presenter: Katie Prevas
  • Organization: Suki AI
  • Scheduled: Thursday May 21 at 3:45 pm

What's live, what's coming, and what makes purpose-built AI different. AI is moving fast in healthcare – and so is Suki. In this session, we'll demo the latest capabilities live in MEDITECH Expanse – ambient documentation, automated E/M coding, structured ICD-10 submission, and streamlined note submission – then preview what's ahead: clinical Q&A at the point of care, and full inpatient support. Come see what AI looks like when it's designed around the physician, not just the platform.

Katie Prevas is the Medical Director at Suki.