Advancing Innovation: Embracing AI’s Role in Patient Safety.
The journey to zero-harm care must leverage new technologies in the service of patient safety. Artificial intelligence stands poised to bring significant change to health care – the ability to diagnose conditions earlier, to bridge language barriers, to revolutionize telehealth and discharge experiences, and more. It also raises equity and ethics questions.
With great potential comes great responsibility.
Join us as we explore the possibilities and challenges California hospitals face in deploying artificial intelligence. Hear from thought leaders and practitioners on the cutting edge how AI is already at work in health care, and where some of the greatest opportunities lie.
The information is critical, the location stunning, and the chance to connect with peers is not to be missed.
Scheduled keynote speakers:
- Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD — Professor of Medicine, University of Calif. San Francisco
- Diana Nyad — International Long-Distance Swimming Champion/Hall of Famer
- Stephen Shedletzky — Author, Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up
- Dennis Chornenky — Chief AI Advisor, UC Davis Health
- Sara Murray, MD — Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Francisco Health
- Karandeep Singh, MD — Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Diego Health
This educational activity is jointly provided by AXIS Medical Education and California Hospital Association.
Breakout Tracks:
Artificial Intelligence, Applied Data, Workforce Support, and General Patient Safety.
Who Should Attend:
Hospital and health care system CEO, CFO, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Patient Safety Executives and Frontline Quality Improvement Managers.
Hospital Council Leadership Summit
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Keynote | Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up (non-certified session)
Stephen Shedletzky
Stephen Shedletzky (“Shed”) helps organizations create a workplace environment where open and transparent communication is valued and actively encouraged. His book, Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up, has been called “a transformative guide that empowers leaders to foster environments where listening ignites action.” Shed motivates with engaging stories and lays out the steps for implementing a culture that empowers employees to voice their thoughts, ideas, concerns, and feedback. It’s a journey that leads to hospital cultures that are safer, more innovative, more engaged, and better-performing than their peers.
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Exhibitor Engagement
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Keynote | AI at Work in the UC Health System, followed by CEO Panel
Dennis Chornenky, Chief AI Advisor, UC Davis Health; Sara Murray, MD, Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Francisco Health; Karandeep Singh, MD, Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Diego Health
Not only is Artificial Intelligence coming to health care, it’s here and making tremendous impacts! Hear leaders from the UC Health System discuss how AI is integrating process flows, changing the patient experience, and providing much-needed resource relief. Speakers will also discuss AI governance and how technology being implemented today may set the stage for further advancements. Hear the challenging questions that accompany AI implementations and take home lessons from cutting edge.
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Reception
*Agenda subject to change.
7:45 – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast, Networking and Exhibitor Viewing
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks
Robert Imhoff, President, Hospital Quality Institute
Mack Dryden, Special Guest Speaker
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Opening Keynote Session | AI @ Health Care … and @ You
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
You’ve heard about AI, but how consistently are you using it? Are you willing to learn from it? In this session, Dr. Dhaliwal will use stories and case studies to illustrate what AI can and can’t do in health care, why we will always need human intelligence, and why the change curve, not the hype curve, is what matters most for health care providers.
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Exhibitor Viewing
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions (choose one)
- AI Enablement of Telehealth and Behavioral Health (AI)
Rebecca Messing Haigler, MPH, MBA, CEO, Noe Strategic Advisors & Fellow, The Kennedy Forum
The great promise of AI in health care may be actualized in providing clinicians much-needed resource relief while expanding patient reach and community engagement. See how advances in AI are being applied to telehealth and behavioral health, how patients and hospitals are both benefiting, and how existing AI applications may become the building blocks for promising future possibilities. - Leveraging AI to Minimize Hospital Revisits and Readmissions for Septic Shock and Sepsis (Data)
Aaron Koll, Data Scientist and Scott Masten, PhD, Vice President, Performance Analytics, HQI
In this session, we will explore newly developed metrics by HQI designed to monitor and analyze septic shock and sepsis revisits and readmissions. Specifically, we will cover 30-Day All-Cause Septic Shock and Sepsis (SEP-3) Readmissions and Missed Sepsis Opportunities (MSOs) – cases where patients with septic shock or sepsis (SEP-3) were discharged or had emergency department visits within the previous 30 days that did not address sepsis. The session will primarily focus on the outcomes of various AI modeling techniques aimed at understanding the reasons behind these readmissions and revisits, and discuss potential strategies for reducing them in the future. - Beyond Fiduciary Duty: Governing Safety & Quality in Health Care (General)
Lee Erickson, MD, LSSMBB, Chief Executive Officer, Adaptient, LLC
Are you struggling to get your leaders to commit to high reliability? Does it feel like financial reports overshadow safety and quality – until a serious event occurs? Many senior leaders and board members feel more at ease with the CFO’s spreadsheets than with data on clinical care. Learn strategies to capture their attention and enhance their skills in governing safety and quality. Discover how to effectively engage your executives and board members in leading the journey toward zero harm. - Nursing’s Blockbuster Moment: Building the Profession of the Future (Workforce)
Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN, Executive Director, Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation, Kaiser Permanente
Retaining good nurses has become increasingly difficult and the nursing profession itself stands at a crossroads. Nurse leaders should embrace disruption in the industry and prepare for a future where typical med/surge bed requirements fade to the past. Listen as Dr. Weberg discusses the forces driving changes in nursing, defines key traits innovative leaders must embody, and explores the role of culture in implementing innovation solutions.
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. | Break
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions (choose one)
- AI Applications for Providers and Medical Imaging (AI)
(Non-accredited session)
Ken Su, Sr. Outbound Product Manager, Cloud Applied AI, Google LLC
With so much talk over AI and its potential for providers and medical imaging the past few years, this session will focus on early success stories and what might a path may look like as we continue expanding on AI. See how AI has not only helped with administrative tasks to date, but also with complicated imaging tasks that the human eye may miss. Hear guidance around overcoming implementation challenges, and how to utilize AI and imaging today to improve patient quality and outcomes. - Emerging Programs, Data Resources, and Measures for Hospitals (Data)
Chris Krawczyk, PhD, Chief Analytics Officer, HCAI
Dr. Krawczyk will discuss the California Department of Healthcare Access and Information (HCAI) Healthcare Payments Data Program (HPD), health care workforce, and Hospital Equity Measures data and analytics programs, and conduct live demonstrations of HCAIs interactive data visualizations. He will identify publicly available data products focusing on newly released HPD data and products, SDoH, health disparities, and health workforce information. - Journey to Highly Reliable Care (General)
Allan Frankel, MD, Managing Principal, Vizient, Inc.
The data is in, there are definite correlations between organizational culture and patient outcomes! Addressing staff burnout really does save lives. Attend this session and see how your hospital’s safety culture measures up, learn how to use metrics to mitigate risk, and take home strategies for using unit-level learning systems to elevate quality. Great for leaders and frontline managers. - C-Suite Perspective: Investing in a Culture of Safety (Workforce)
Gigi Dhillon, Chief Operating Officer, San Antonio Regional Hospital, Siri Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Marshall Medical, Louis Ward, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Tahoe Forest Hospital District, and Al Duke, M.B.A., B.S.N., RN, CPHRM, CEN, CPPS, Director, Risk Management and Patient Safety, BETA Healthcare Group (Moderator)
Establishing a culture of safety comes with a cost – is it worth it? How do successful organizations overcome implementation challenges? How are patient outcomes and staff retention affected? Hear hospital leaders discuss the secret to securing key stakeholder buy-in, share insights on realizing unexpected benefits, and talk about the bottom-line returns from investing in safety.
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. | Hosted Luncheon
1:45 – 2:45 p.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions (choose one)
- Strengths and Limitations of AI in Health Care (AI)
Vinay K. Prasad, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
AI has shown tremendous promise in reading mammograms, or helping decide who should get knee replacement surgery. Yet, some limitations and challenges have arisen, particularly around the ethics of this technology. In this breakout session we explore the technical challenges and ethical issues - Will AI Alleviate or Exacerbate Burnout in Healthcare? (Data)
Joshua Proulx, Principal for Data Science & Member Insights, Vizient, Inc.
AI has the potential to both increase and alleviate burnout in health care professionals – the key lies in understanding AI’s effects on workload, stress, and job satisfaction. Attend this session and learn how AI may impact relationships within healthcare teams and walk away with practical approaches to minimize AI’s negative effects on burnout while enhancing its potential to support health care workers. - Delivering Quality with Strained Budgets – A Panel Discussion (General)
Dawn Evans, Director, Patient Safety, Quality, Infection Prevention and Population Health, Barton Health, Clint Purvance, MD, CEO, Barton Health, Elizabeth Stork, Chief Human Resources Officer, Barton Health, and Robert Imhoff, President, Hospital Quality Institute (Moderator)
Rural hospitals facing significant financial and workforce retention challenges must be creative, innovative, and persistent in their commitment to elevating quality. Hear from leaders at our host hospital as they share steps they have taken to ensure patient safety remains a top priority amid shifting budget concerns. Lessons learned will focus on the rural hospital experience and also apply to urban facilities. - Identifying and Protecting Patients at Risk for Violence (Workforce)
Lynda Enos, RN, BSN, MS, COHN-S, CPE, Certified Professional Ergonomist, HumanFit, LLC
Metrics proven to help identify patients at risk for violence and strategies to protect those patients? Yes, to both! See how to leverage evidence-based tools to assess risk and proven steps you can take to mitigate workplace violence threats. Ms. Enos also will discuss the pros and cons of different approaches to keeping staff informed about patient-safety threats.
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. | Exhibitor Viewing & Raffle
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Closing Keynote Session | Never, Ever Give Up
Diana Nyad
At age 60, Hall of Fame swimmer Diana Nyad began planning for her white whale of distance swims: the 110-mile ocean crossing between Cuba and Florida. She’d tried it in her 20s, and severe jellyfish attacks had defeated her. With a new commitment and respect for what it takes to build a high-performing team, she accomplished this incredible feat 30 years after she first tried. In this moving conversation, Diana shows us that it is never too late to chase our dreams and shares the key steps we all need to take in order to accomplish our goals, no matter how big.
Dennis Chornenky, MBA, MPH, MS
Chief AI Advisor
UC Davis Health
Dennis Chornenky is a former senior advisor and strategy consultant in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology for the White House, has been named the first chief AI advisor to UC Davis Health. Chornenky, with his consulting and technology firm, Domelabs AI, is leading efforts to establish an AI strategy and governance framework that ensures the UC Davis health system’s approach to AI is safe and ethical. He also assures all AI efforts meet emerging regulatory compliance standards.
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal (Keynote Speaker)
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He sees patients and teaches medical students and residents in the emergency department, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he directs the internal medicine clerkship. Dr. Dhaliwal studies, writes, and speaks about how doctors think – how they make diagnoses, how they develop diagnostic expertise, and how they interface with technology to augment their thinking. He is a nationally acclaimed expert on artificial intelligence in health care.
Lynda Enos, RN, BSN, MS, COHN-S, CPE
Certified Professional Ergonomist
HumanFit, LLC
Ms. Enos is a certified occupational health nurse and certified professional ergonomist with over 30 years of experience in industrial and health care ergonomics and safety including prevention of workplace violence. Ms. Enos has developed and deployed a comprehensive toolkit for prevention of violence in health care. She holds an undergraduate degree in nursing and a graduate degree in human factors/ergonomics from the University of Idaho.
Lee Erickson, MD, LSSMBB
Chief Executive Officer
Adaptient, LLC
Dr. Erickson has over 25 years of experience working to improve the delivery of patient care. Prior to creating Adaptient, LLC, she served in executive roles at Tufts Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She is a Lean Sigma Six Master Black Belt and has extensive expertise in quality and patient safety, process improvement methodologies, and health care transformation. She advises executive teams and boards on how to evolve their management operating models into adaptive systems that can meet the complexity of 21st-century health care.
Allan Frankel, MD
Managing Principal
Vizient Inc.
Dr. Frankel is an internationally recognized high reliability expert with a deep focus on leadership and culture change. Over his career he has practiced pediatric, general, and cardiac anesthesia in community and urban settings, and held senior executive positions in the Harvard healthcare systems. Dr. Frankel has been an active clinical researcher and has assessed more than 1000 organizations and trained and certified more than 5000 healthcare leaders and managers in safety and reliability.
Robert Imhoff (Conference Host)
President
Hospital Quality Institute (HQI)
Robert Imhoff, President of the Hospital Quality Institute, has held positions of responsibility within the health care, non-profit and higher education fields. Mr. Imhoff currently serves on the executive committee of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, the Board of Cal Hospital Compare and Alliance for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AQIPS). He is a staunch patient safety advocate.
Aaron Koll
Data Scientist
Hospital Quality Institute
Aaron Koll has more than 20 years of experience leveraging advanced analytical techniques to find useful insights in data. With 4 years of hospital focused health care experience, Aaron is currently a Data Scientist for the Hospital Quality Institute. In this role, Aaron collaborates closely with hospitals to help craft and track new quality metrics and applies artificial intelligence techniques to data to provide perspective on the latest trends affecting hospitals.
Christopher Krawczyk, PhD
Chief Analytics Officer
California Department of Health Care Access and Information
Dr. Christopher Krawczyk is Chief Analytics Officer with the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), Information Services Division. Dr. Krawczyk oversees strategic direction for analyses of health care quality, outcomes, utilization, and cost. Dr. Krawczyk also oversees data services and facilitates stakeholder engagement to increase the usefulness and impact of HCAI data products.
Scott Masten, PhD
Vice President, Measurement Science & Performance Analytics
Hospital Quality Institute (HQI)
In his work for HQI, Dr. Masten focuses on improving health care data quality and reducing patient injury, including the development of both data intake and data analytics platforms. He does this by bringing over 20 years of applied research and data experience including teaching research methods and statistics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Rebecca Messing Haigler, MPH, MBA
CEO, Noe Strategic Advisors & Fellow, The Kennedy Forum
Rebecca ‘Becky’ Messing Haigler is an experienced health care executive, entrepreneur, strategist and board director. As CEO of Noe Strategic Advisors, Rebecca guides health systems, health tech start-ups and VC firms to develop health economics fundamentals to succeed in the global payor landscape. She also currently serves as a Fellow for the Kennedy Forum focused on data models and outcomes measurement to define value in Behavioral Health. Rebecca was previously Health Economics Lead at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company.
Sara Murray, MD, MAS
Vice President, Chief Health AI Officer
UCSF Health
Sara Murray, MD, MAS, is Vice President, Chief Health AI Officer for UCSF Health. She also serves as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Inpatient Care at UCSF Health. She is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Chief for Health System Partnerships in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT).
Diana Nyad (Keynote Speaker)
25 million people worldwide rooted for Diana Nyad as she reached the Florida shore on September 2, 2013, becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. Diana’s amazing record: 110.86 miles in 52 hours, 54 minutes, 18 seconds. A prominent sports journalist and uniquely inspiring public speaker, Diana has been inducted into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. She accompanied President Obama on his peace visit to Havana in 2014, and “NYAD”, a feature film based on Diana’s life, was released in fall 2023.
Vinay K. Prasad, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Vinay K. Prasad, MD is a hematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author of over 500 academic articles, and the books Ending Medical Reversal, and Malignant. He hosts the oncology podcast Plenary Session, and the general medicine podcast The VPZD Show.
Joshua Proulx
Informaticist and Healthcare Technologist
Joshua Proulx is an informaticist and healthcare technologist with expertise in bioinformatics, electrical engineering, and medical software. He has led pioneering projects such as developing one of the first wireless Bluetooth EKG sensors, building a clinical decision support system at TheraDoc, and creating NLP-based tools for analyzing medical records at the University of Utah. Joshua’s work has spanned cancer drug simulation, malaria research, and genomics platforms.
Stephen Shedletzky
“Shed” to his friends and author of Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up (October 2023) — helps leaders make it safe and worthwhile for people to speak up. He supports leaders who know they are both a part of the problems they experience and the solutions they can create. Shed has led hundreds of keynote presentations, workshops, and leadership development programs globally. As a thought leader on psychological safety in the workplace, he supports leaders and organizations in all industries where human beings work.
Karandeep Singh, MD
Chief health artificial intelligence (AI) officer
UC San Diego Health
Karandeep Singh, MD is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health’s first chief AI officer. Dr. Singh is implementing changes that advance safety and health outcomes in acute and ambulatory settings, and is leading efforts to integrate AI into clinical workflows, reduce documentation time, and improve efficiencies and patient experiences.
Ken Su
Sr. Outbound Product Manager, Cloud Applied AI
Google LLC
Ken oversees the outbound Applied AI product portfolio for the healthcare industry. He is responsible for product growth and GTM strategy, and helps product teams tailor the latest AI innovations for provider, payer, and life science / med device organizations. Prior to Cloud, he worked on healthcare features in Google, he started at Google by applying early AI/ML research models in medical imaging, scribe, and Care Studio.
Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, RN, FAAN
Executive Director, Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
Dr. Dan Weberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and an expert in nursing, health care innovation and complex systems leadership. He has extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings, and academia. Dan supports Kaiser Permanente as the Executive Director of Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation and has held leadership roles at KP in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy.
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Members: $279
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Members are: CHA member hospitals, members of HQI or CHPSO, and/or a member of an AQIPS PSO. Nonmembers are non-hospital health care providers, clinics, and post-acute facilities that serve hospitals.
Cancellation Policy
A $75 non-refundable processing fee will be retained for each cancellation. Cancellations must be made in writing seven or more days prior to the scheduled event and emailed to education@calhospital.org.
No refunds will be given after these dates. Substitutions are encouraged. Cancellation and substitution notifications may be emailed to education@calhospital.org. In the unlikely event that the program is cancelled, refunds will be issued to paid registrants within 30 days.
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Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and California Hospital Association. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 7.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Credit Designation for Physicians
AXIS Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Credit Designation for Nursing
AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 7.0 contact hours.
Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.
Quality Professionals
This program is pending approval by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) to provide CPHQ CE credit.
Healthcare Executives
ACHE Qualified Education credit must be related to healthcare management (i.e., it cannot be clinical, inspirational, or specific to the sponsoring organization). It can be earned through educational programs conducted or sponsored by any organization qualified to provide education programming in healthcare management. Programs may be sponsored by ACHE, chapters, or other qualified sources, whether the programming is face-to-face or distance offerings (webinars, online seminars, self-study courses, etc.). You will receive a certificate of completion for 7.0 hours.
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Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, peer reviewers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all personal financial relationships they may have in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant financial relationships are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity.
AXIS has mitigated and disclosed to learners all relevant financial relationships disclosed by staff, planners, faculty/authors, peer reviewers, or others in control of content for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation or activity. Disclosure information for faculty, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, and/or relevant staff is provided with this activity.
The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships they have with ineligible companies of any amount during the past 24 months:
| Name of Faculty/Presenter | Reported Financial Relationship |
| Stephen Shedletzky | Nothing to disclose |
| Dennis Chornenky | Nothing to disclose |
| Sara Murray, MD | Speakers Bureau: The Doctor’s Company (relationship has ended) |
| Karandeep Singh, MD | Nothing to disclose |
| Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD | Nothing to disclose |
| Rebecca Messing Haigler, MPH, MBA | Pending |
| Aaron Koll | Nothing to disclose |
| Scott Masten, PhD | Nothing to disclose |
| Lee Erickson, MD, LSSMBB | Nothing to disclose |
| Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN | Nothing to disclose |
| Ken Su | Nothing to disclose |
| Christopher Krawcyzk, PhD | Nothing to disclose |
| Allan Frankel, MD | Nothing to disclose |
| Siri Nelson | Nothing to disclose |
| Louis Ward | Nothing to disclose |
| Al Duke, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHRM, CEN, CPPS | Nothing to disclose |
| Vinay K. Prasad, MD, MPH | Research Grant: Arnold Ventures. Consultancy roles with UnitedHealthcare and OptumRX. Royalties from Johns Hopkins Press and MedPage and the Free Press. Revenue from media: Patreon, YouTube, and Substack for the podcasts Plenary Session, VPZD, Sensible Medicine, the newsle7ers Sensible Medicine, the Drug Development Letter and VP’s Observations and Thoughts, and the YouTube channel Vinay Prasad MD MPH |
| Joshua Proulx | Nothing to disclose |
| Dr. Clint Purvance | Pending |
| Dawn Evans, DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, PHN, CPPS, CPHQ | Nothing to disclose |
| Elizabeth Stork | Pending |
| Lynda Enos, RN, BSN, MS, COHN-S, CPE | Nothing to disclose |
The following directors, planners, managers, peer reviewers, and relevant staff reported no financial relationships they have with any ineligible company of any amount during the past 24 months:
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
Requirements for credit:
- Attend/participate in the educational activity and review all course materials.
- Complete the CE Attestation/Evaluation form online by 11:59 pm ET on November 21, 2024. Instructions will be provided. If you do not complete the online evaluation by this date, you will not be able to get CME/CE credit for this event.
- Upon successful completion of the online form, your statement of completion will be presented to you to print.
- Outline how implementing a ‘speak up’ culture and empowering employees to voice their ideas and concerns, will lead to improved hospital-wide quality and safety performance.
- Describe three strategies for encouraging executives to implement programs to measure quality improvement trends and launch communications techniques shown to improve patient safety.
- Explain two primary governance challenges to be considered when implementing AI solutions in hospital environments
- Discuss at least three situations in which AI has been deployed to provide relief for healthcare workers.
- Analyze the pros and cons of utilizing AI to integrate process flows in critical access hospitals.
- Demonstrate how AI can be applied to telehealth and behavioral health services to improve patient outcomes and extend a hospital’s reach into its community.
- Explore how the national focus on health care leadership is shifting from traditional fiduciary duties to a proactive approach to safety stewardship, necessitating a re-appraisal of the key responsibilities of healthcare executives and board members.
- Outline the ways in which AI can have a positive impact on health care worker burnout, and the ways in which AI can exacerbate health care worker stress.
- Articulate at least three strategies for capturing executive attention and enhance leadership skills in governing safety and quality.
- Review developments in analytical capabilities, current HCAI programs identifying health disparities, and strategies for using analyses to improve healthcare quality, access, and overall outcomes for individuals in California.
- Discuss four significant influences driving changes in nursing and illustrate how embracing those changes can lead to improved workforce retention rates.
- Explain how early AI implementations have helped automate hospital administrative tasks and been applied to imaging practices to improve patient diagnostics and outcomes.
- Summarize the latest data-driven resources available from the California Department of Healthcare Access and Information (HCAI) to help hospitals streamline healthcare payment processing and address health disparities in diverse populations.
- Outline clinical factors in which an AI model might be used to make predictions around sepsis outcomes.
- Use natural language processing systems at the unit level to monitor quality metrics and improve quality performance at the hospital level.
- Explain how data related to septic shock and sepsis revisits can be analyzed and utilized to reduce hospital readmissions.
- Summarize how to leverage evidence-based tools to asses risk
- Discuss proven steps that can be taken to mitigate workplace violence threats and identify and protect patients at risk.
| Opening Keynote Session | Transforming Lives: The Heart and Soul of Health Care
Presenter: Allison Massari
A Day at the Improv: Preparing for Critical Conversations After Harm
Presenter: Dr. Tim McDonald; Deanna Tarnow
Healing After Harm: How an Organization’s Response Impacts Patient and Family’s Ability to Heal After Medical Error
Panelists: Steve Burrows; Leilani Schweitzer; Jack Gentry
Resiliency Resources – Keys to Avoiding Caregiver Burnout
Presenter: Dr. Bryan Sexton
| Closing Keynote Session | Patient Safety and System Failures
Presenter: RaDonda Vaught
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