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Physician Leadership
Anthony F. Oliva, DO, MMM, FACPE 4 Reid Coleman, MD, FCAP, CMIO 5 Reid Conant, MD, FACPE, CMIO 6 Victor Freeman, MD, MPP 7
Clinical Documentation Improvement
Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS, CDIP 8
Quality Measures
Cathy Gorman–Klug, RN/MSN 9
Mobile Healthcare/Intelligent Systems
Jonathon Dreyer 10
Risk Adjustment
Angela Carmichael, MBA, RHIA, CDIP, CCS,
CCS-P, CRC 11
Outpatient CDI
Industry thought leaders.
Hospital stakeholders.
Physicians and nurses.
Healthcare informaticists.
Recognized speakers and
authors.
Certified futurists.
These are the Subject Matter Experts and
Esteemed Facilitators who make up the
Nuance Speakers Bureau.
During this transformative time in healthcare,
we’re dedicated to sharing our unique insight
and best practices, and to apply case studies
with those who need to understand the
business of the hospital enterprise the most—
Chief Officers and Physician Leaders. Our speakers
are presenting at major industry conferences on
the innovative ways hospitals can generate revenue
and operating savings, all while improving the
quality of patient care.
Anthony F. Oliva, DO, MMM, FACPE
Vice President and CMO at Nuance’s J.A. Thomas & Associates (JATA), Dr. Oliva draws on over 15 years of CMO experience. Previously serving as CMO for Borgess Health, he continues as a Physician Executive consultant. Dr. Oliva is board certified in Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. He continues to practice clinically as faculty for a Family Medicine Residency Program. As CMO he personally has been involved with the implementation and expansion of clinical documentation programs since 2004.
Speaking topics:
– Physician engagement and healthcare transformation
– How hospitals can leverage CDI to manage care transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value
– Value-based reimbursement
– New payment models
Reid Coleman, MD, FCAP, CMIO
In his leadership role as Chief Medical Information Officer for Evidence-Based Medicine at Nuance Communications, Dr. Coleman has worked with large and small health systems in the US to improve the quality and safety of healthcare by implementing information technology solutions in the clinical setting. He is currently investigating the use of natural language processing of big data sets to enhance evidence-based knowledge and clinical decision support. Dr. Coleman’s other achievements include receiving the Physician
Achievement Award from AMDIS in 2005 and being named as the NE HIMSS “Speaker of the Year” in 2006.
Speaking topics:
– Computer assisted physician
documentation, computer assisted CDI – Physician engagement with Information
Technology, ICD-10 – Population healthcare
– Speech recognition and EMRs
Reid Conant, MD, FACPE, CMIO
Dr. Conant is an actively practicing board-certified emergency physician, a Senior Physician Advocate with the Office of the CMIO for Nuance Healthcare, and Chief Medical Information Officer of Tri-City Emergency Medical Group in Oceanside, CA. Dr. Conant has provided medical direction and leadership to his hospital through the deployment and optimization of CPOE and physician documentation solutions. These include Dragon® Medical and other IT-related process improvement initiatives, which have resulted in increased provider productivity, improved provider
satisfaction, and increased organizational compliance in an advanced EHR and clinical practice environment.
Speaking topics:
– Physician engagement
– Optimizing EMRs with speech recognition technology
– Best-of-breed EMR implementations
Victor Freeman, MD, MPP
Currently the Regional Medical Director for Nuance, Dr. Freeman brings many years of medical practice to bear to engage physician leaders and MD advisors on the adoption of hospital quality initiatives and clinical healthcare information technology, clinical
documentation improvement, medical coding, and ICD-10. A frequent speaker, author and lecturer worldwide at industry events, Dr. Freeman is a recognized expert in hospital quality improvement, clinical engagement information technology, and health policy/data analysis.
Speaking topics:
– Understanding how federal and state mandates on clinical documentation impact your medical practice
– Advancing pediatric clinical documentation improvement
– How to implement a successful CDI program in the emergency department – Physician engagement
Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS, CDIP
As Senior VP of Clinical Services and Education at Nuance’s J.A. Thomas & Associates (JATA), Mel has been instrumental in leading healthcare clients in the development of clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs, particularly customized profile analysis and clinical documentation education focused on continuous quality improvement. Mel has over 25 years of experience in multiple healthcare arenas as a provider, clinical manager in a large academic facility, and as an expert in clinical documentation improvement.
Speaking topics:
– Strategies in risk adjustment for ACOs – Advanced practice CDI: strategies and
project management – Clinical revenue integrity
under VBP, ICD-10
– CDI analytics: case mix, VBP, patient outcomes, severity of illness
– Enabling CDI technology (CA-CDI, CAPD)
Clinical Documentation
Improvement
Cathy Gorman–Klug, RN/MSN
Cathy is Director of the Quality Service Line and Product Manager for Nuance’s Quality Management Suite. She is responsible for developing educational programs for provider clients on quality performance measures and on the increasing role that hospital report cards play in healthcare delivery systems. She alsomonitors the regulatory landscape to ensure Nuance quality management products and hospital clients are in compliance with regulations including HIPAA, value-based purchasing, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, pay-for-performance, and
e-measures.
Speaking topics:
– Role of quality linked to fiscal performance
– Quality: The secret weapon for fiscal performance
– Quality measures, the patient experience and the bottom line
Jonathon Dreyer
As Director of Cloud and Mobile Solutions Marketing at Nuance Communications, Jonathon has a deep understanding of technology, medicine, and healthcare IT. Additionally, he has authored several articles on clinical decision support, physician documentation, speech recognition, business intelligence, electronic health records, Meaningful Use and mHealth. Jonathon is an active blogger, contributor to standards and interoperability projects, and published author.
Speaking topics:
– Mobile health; What’s here and what’s next
– Mobile EMRs
– Speech-based, conversational interfaces in healthcare
– Intelligent systems, virtual physician assistants
– Patient experience, wearables
Angela Carmichael, MBA, RHIA,
CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, CRC
Angela is an AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/ PCS Trainer, and Director of HIM at Nuance Communications. She has over 25 years of experience in the Health Information Management field. Her extensive
experience includes leadership roles such as Vice President of Health Information Management for several large global organizations as well as Director of HIM, Coding Manager, Consultant and Educator. She is an MBA specializing in business development. Areas of expertise include various payment methodologies, including risk adjustment, coding education,
compliance and management. She has experience working in a variety of settings including acute care hospitals, physician’s offices, consulting and insurance settings.
Speaking topics:
– Building an operational model for the capture of HCCs in outpatient, ambulatory settings
– Outpatient CDI
– Risk adjustment payment methodologies
Kimberly Hopey, PHD, RN
Dr. Hopey is Director of Professional Services at Nuance’s J.A. Thomas & Associates, and possesses extensive experience in the hospital/health system setting. During her 15 years of leadership at the hospital and system level, she implemented a highly successful and sustainable Clinical Documentation Improvement program from the ground up. Areas of expertise include program/ process development and redesign, systems thinking and integration,
performance improvement and outcomes management as well as innovation and integration of technology. She possesses extensive experience with managed care and governmental payers, revenue cycle operations, denial management, regulatory audits, and patient quality and safety.
Speaking topics:
– Outpatient healthcare primed to benefit from CDI: Are you ready?
– Implementing CDI in the outpatient arena
– Risk adjustment methodologies, HCCs
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