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Customizing the Predictive Model

DST Health Solutions Customizing the Predictive Model Amy Salls

Using the ACG System for population segmentation and casemix adjustment

NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit Using the ACG System for Population Segmentation and Casemix Adjustment Chris Morris Principal Analyst

Monday(C1)-A Model for the Risk of Unplanned Inpatient Readmission-Lemke

A Model for the Risk of Unplanned Inpatient Readmission-Klaus Lemke

Sunday-Workshop: Wrapping Your Hands Around the ACG System Advanced Reporting Options – Steve Sutch

Workshop: Wrapping Your Hands Around the ACG System Advanced Reporting Options – Steve Sutch – ACG International – Product Management Director

Using Case Mix To Improve Equity and the Delivery of Primary Care

Goals of Presentation To introduce concepts surrounding population-based case-mix and “predictive risk” modeling. To show examples of applications worldwide where case-mix has proved information to […]

Population Health Management: A Focus On Analytics Using ACGs

Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC   Population Health Management: A Focus On Analytics Using ACGs Martha Sylvia, PhD, MBA, RN

Monday(C2)-The Association between Patient Sharing among Physicians and Cost of Care-Lemke

The Association between Patient Sharing among Physicians and Cost of Care-Klaus Lemke

Tuesday(C6)-Do Real Time Clinical Measures Improve the Performance of ACG Based Predictive Models?-Fishman

Do Real Time Clinical Measures Improve the Performance of ACG Based Predictive Models? Paul Fishman, PhD  Robert Reid, MD, PhD 

AcademyHealth 2015 HSR Impact Awardee Summary description of the ACG System

2015 HSR Impact Awardee The Johns Hopkins ACG Case-Mix System

Health Care Reform In the US and England

The Johns Hopkins University Health Care Reform In the US and England: Commonalities and potential contribution of case-mix & predictive risk modeling tools Jonathan Weiner, […]

Applying the ACG® System to a Retrospective Electronic Database

Applying the Johns Hopkins ACG Applying the Johns Hopkins ACG Casemix Casemix System to a Retrospective Electronic Database: A 5 to a Retrospective Electronic Database: […]

Patient Identification with Incomplete Data

DST Health Solutions Patient Identification with Incomplete Data Kelsey Rauch

Tuesday(C6)-Refining Patient Risk Assessment with Clinical Lab Results-Lemke

Refining Patient Risk Assessment with Clinical Lab Results-Klaus Lemke

Tuesday(P3)-Moving the Chronic Care Model into the Future-Wagner

Moving the Chronic Care Model into the Future Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, MACP  MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation  Group Health Research Institute 

Case-Mix Information Uses and Health Services Sustainability

Iasist Casemix Information Uses and Health Services Sustainability: A Few Examples From Current Spanish Downturn Mercè Casas Carles Illa

Options for Concurrent Risk Assessment

DST Health Solutions Options for Concurrent Risk Assessment Amy Salls

Monday(C2)-Steep Increase of Registered Diagnosis Due to New Primary Care Funding Model-Martin Fredriksson

Steep Increase of Registered Diagnosis Due to New Primary Care Funding Model —Martin Fredriksson Region Västra Götaland Medical Advisor at Healtcare Department M.D. Ph.D.

Wednesday(P4)-Population Health Emerging Risk-Medscheme

Population Health Emerging Risk-Medscheme

PREDICTING HEALTHCARE COSTS IN VENETO REGION WITH ACG SYSTEM: VALIDATION AND COMPARISON OF DIAGNOSIS-BASED AND DRUG-BASED MORBIDITY GROUPS IN A NORTHERN ITALIAN POPULATION 

F. Avossa, 1, M.C. Corti, 2 , E. Schievano1, C. Abrams, 3 , N. Alba,  4 , S. Elvini, 5 , P. Gallina,  5, C. […]

Cost Risk Scores: Amy Salls, DST Health Solutions

ACG System The Johns Hopkins ACG® System Cost Risk Models Amy Salls

Poster: Morbidity Burden Resource Use and Quality of Care of Diabetic Patients

Morbidity burden, resource use and quality of care of diabetic patients: A 4-year cohort analysis at a regional hospital in Thailand. Roongkarn Pannarunothai, Buddhachinaraj Hospital, […]

Embedding ACGs in Berkshire

NHS Berkshire Embedding ACGs in Berkshire Karen Grannum Primary Care Business Intelligence Lead

Using the ACG Toolkit to Support Population Monitoring

DST Health Solutions Using the ACG Toolkit to Support Population Monitoring Lisa Kabasakalian

Monday(C3)-Identifying Potentially Actionable Chronic Disease Patterns From Diagnoses Reported in Administrative Claims-Dave Bodycombe

Identifying Potentially Actionable Chronic Disease Patterns From Diagnoses Reported in Administrative Claims —Dave Bodycombe, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday(C6)-Integration of claim-based diagnoses with diagnoses from General Practitioners (GPs) clinical database records improves the comorbidity description”-Corti

 Integration of claim-based diagnoses with diagnoses from General  Practitioners (GPs) clinical database records improves the comorbidity description” Maria Chiara Corti,  E. Schievano F. Avossa, K. Kinder, […]

What causes ’poly-morbidity’? Searching for triggers of multi-morbidity: tracing patient record 30 years back

Lennart Carlsson, PhD; Gunnar H Nilsson, Professor; Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Beyond Risk Scores: Lisa Kabasakalian, DST Health Solutions

ACG System DST Health Solutions Beyond Risk Scores: Identifying “High-Risk” and “At-Risk” Populations Lisa Kabasakalian

07 Using Predictive Models to Support Case Finding – David Brown & Peter Glover

Dr. David Brown Peter Glover Farnham Integrated Care Services

08 Risk-Adjusted Resource Allocation in Leicester – Mark Pierce

Mark Pierce Senior Strategy & Implementation Manager Leicester City CCG

Conference Welcome – Amy Salls

ACG Training Conference WelcomeAmy Salls Director, Population Health Strategy DST Health Solutions 

Welcome & Introduction – Jonathan Weiner & Mark Cochran

Welcome and IntroductionJonathan Weiner Professor and Director, Center for Population Health IT  Mark Cochran Executive Director, Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions

01 Welcome & Introduction – Alan Thompson

Alan Thompson Director of User Support Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions

02 Population Health Management – Ming Tang

Ming Tang Director of Data & Analytics Data, Analysis and Insights Service (DAIS) NHS England and NHS Improvement

03 Complex Case Management Programme – Jim O’Donnell

Dr. Jim O’Donnell Slough Locality Lead, NHS East Berkshire CCG Frimley ICS Clinical Commissioning Lead EBCCG Reducing Variation Workstream Clinical Lead Deputy Chair Slough Wellbeing […]

04 Advances in Population Health Sharing Insights – GE Healthcare & Sollis

Pat Nichols, GE Sarah Ouanhnon, GE Graham Head, Sollis

05 From Cake-mix to Case-mix – David Shepherd

Dr. David Shepherd GP & HNN Lead Leicester City CCG

06 Working Together to Deliver Population Health – Chris Roche

Chris Roche Information Manager Gloucestershire STPPlease note: There are three buttons below. One will link to the presentation slides. One will link to a separate […]

01 Karen Kinder Welcome Presentation

ACG System Dr. Karen Kinder Executive Director

01 David Shephard – Casemix Adjustment in Primary Care

Dr. David Shephard GP and Health Need Neighbourhood Chair, Leicester South

Session 1: Brad Myers – Version 12 Supplementary Data

Version 12 Supplementary Medical ServicesBrad Myers DST Health Solutions 

Keynote I – Jonathan Weiner – Analytics & Big Data in Support of the Social and Medical Health of Populations

Analytics & Big Data in Support of the Social and Medical Health of Populations: The ACG System Today and TomorrowJonathan P. Weiner, DrPH Professor and […]

02 David Colin Thome – Primary Care Home

The Primary Care Home (PCH) David Colin-Thomé Independent Healthcare consultant Visiting Professor Manchester Business School Former General Medical Practitioner and National Clinical Director for Primary […]

Session 1: Mitchell – Assessing Patient Morbidity: Risk Factors

DST Health Solutions Assessing Patient Morbidity: Risk Factors Anna-Marie Mitchell Senior Product Consultant

Session 2: Don McGaw – Version 12 JHU ED Visit Classification

Version 12 JHU ED Visit ClassificationDon McGaw DST Health Solutions 

03 Nick Harding – Challenges Faced By Primary Care

NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group The challenges faced by primary care and the need for good quality information Professor Nick Harding OBE FRCGP […]

Session 3: Anna-Marie Mitchell – Version 12 Laboratory Measures

Version 12 Laboratory MeasuresAnna-Marie Mitchell Senior Analytic Product Consultant DST Health Solutions 

Session 2: Myers – Hospitalization Risk

DST Health Solutions Hospitalization Models Brad Myers Predictive Modeling Product Consultant

Session 4: Amy Salls – Assessing Candidates for Care Coordination

Assessing Candidates for Care CoordinationAmy Salls Director, Population Health Strategy DST Health Solutions 

Session 3: McGaw – Care Coordination

DST Health Solutions Care Coordination and Care Density Donald D. McGaw Jr. Client Relations Consultant

Session 4: Salls – Assessing Candidates for Care Management

DST Health Solutions Assessing Candidates for Care Management Programs Amy Salls Director, Population Health Strategy

Hospitalization Risk Scores: Amy Salls, DST Health Solutions

ACG System DST Health Solutions Hospitalization Models Amy Salls

Session 5: Sokchay Chiv & Kate Hollidge – Catching a Breath Program for COPD

Catching a Breath Program: Implementing and Expanding Clinical ProgramsSokchay Chiv Director, Population Health Strategies Meridian Health PlanKate Hollidge Senior Manager, Population Health Programs Meridian Health […]

05 Lizelle Steenkamp – Segmentation and the Impact of Vitality

Discovery Health Vitality Segmentation and impact of Vitality (Population Health Management) Lizelle Steenkamp

Data Validation: Lisa Kabasakalian, DST Health Solutions

ACG System DST Health Solutions The Johns Hopkins ACG® System Data Validation Lisa Kabasakalian

Session 5: DiLorenzo – An Analysis of Risk Scores of Patients with Less Than Twelve Months of Claims History

MVP Health Care Analysis of Risk Scores of Patients with Incomplete Claims History Tyson DiLorenzo, PhD. Manager, Finance & Actuarial Analytics at MVP

Session 6: Brad Myers – Version 12 Opioid Markers

High Risk Opioid Use MarkersBrad Myers DST Health Solutions 

06 James Barrett – The Benefits of an Integrated Dataset When Predicting Future Risk

James Barrett Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions Johns Hopkins ACG System

Assessing the Impact of Incomplete Date: Kelsey Rauch, DST Health Solutions

ACG System DST Health Solutions Patient Identification with Incomplete Data Kelsey Rauch

Session 5: Khomenko – Health Questionnaires and Population Risk Indexing

DataSmart Solutions Health Questionnaires and Population Risk Indexing Bernard Khomenko, CEBS Vice President of Client Services

Session 7: Sokchay Chiv & Kate Hollidge – Opioids Among the Masses

Opioids Among the Masses: Using Advanced Analytics to Drive Clinical ProgramsSokchay Chiv Director, Population Health Strategies Meridian Health PlanKate Hollidge Senior Manager, Population Health Programs […]

07a Mark Pierce – Applying the ACG System in Whole Population Management

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Teams Mark Pierce

07 Alan Thompson – Segmentation: Exploring the Relationship Between Frailty and Other High-Risk Groups

Alan Thompson Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions Johns Hopkins ACG System

Session 8: Philip Bruns – Population Health Management for Non-Clinical Analysts

Population Health Management for Non-Clinical AnalystsPhilip Bruns BenefitFocus 

09 Population Segmentation and Risk Stratification – Kelechi Nnoaham

Kelechi Nnoaham Director of Public Health Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Wales

Program Evaluation: Amy Salls, DST Health Solutions

ACG System DST Health Solutions Using The Johns Hopkins ACG® System for Program Evaluation Amy Salls

Session 6: Terrell-Hoxter – The Challenge of Visualizing Diagnostic Conditions in the Population

Lightbeam Health Solutions The Challenge of Visualizing Diagnostic Conditions in the Population Mike Hoxter, Tim Terrell

07b David Cochrane – Applying the ACG System in Whole Population Management

Conrane International Health Solutions (IHS) Whole Population Management- What to do about it David Cochrane

Session 1 – Ines Vigil & Martha Sylvia – Achieving Population Health Surveillance with ACG System Outputs

Achieving Population Health Surveillance with ACG System OutputsInes Vigil MD, MPH, MBA VP, Advanced Analytics Priority Health   Martha Sylvia PhD, MBA, RN President ForestVue Healthcare […]

Session 9: Nathan Cohen – Leveraging Data to Improve Outcomes and Delivery of Care

Leveraging Data to Improve Outcomes and Delivery of CareNathan Cohen Philips Population Health Management 

10 Features in the Next Version of the ACG System – Steve Sutch

Dr. Steve Sutch Product Management Director Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions