Last chance to register for Friday’s IQSC Data Summit!



Last chance to register for the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation Information and Quality Services Center’s (IQSC) Third Annual Data Summit on November 15 at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch.

This year’s event themed “Data Driven Decisions” is loaded with 12 expert speakers, six educational sessions and 10 fascinating hospital abstracts detailing recent data projects.

Agenda highlights include:

• “Importance of Risk-Adjustment for Measuring and Reporting Healthcare Outcomes”
Katherine S. Rowell of HealthDataViz

• “Value-Based Healthcare: A Perfect Care Approach for Managing Acute Pancreatitis Patients”
Panel: Jimmy Shah of Methodist Health System; Dr. Brett Moran of Parkland Health & Hospital System; and Dr. William Daniel of UT Southwestern

• “Physician Performance Measures Panel”
Panel: Dr. Eugene Chu of Parkland Health & Hospital System; Dr. Brandon Pope of Baylor Scott & White Health; and Dr. Brian Kenjarski of Methodist Health System

You can see the full agenda here.

There will be 10 poster abstract presentations including:

• “The Effect of 3M Coder Data Analytics in Reinforcing Coding Behavior”
Auguy Kankwende at JPS Health Network

• “Value-Based Healthcare: A Perfect Care Approach for Managing Acute Pancreatitis Patients”
Jimmy Shah at Methodist Health System

• “Growth of a New Clinical Research Infrastructure at Urban Public Hospital”
Somer Blair at JPS Health Network

• “The Road to Behavior Change is Paved with Data”
Valerie Lund at JPS Health Network

• “Accidental Falls Among the Elderly: Visualizing the Associated Discharge Claims Data”
Lyndsay Miskell at Texas Woman’s University

• “Taming Healthcare Data – Practitioner’s View”
Priyanka Kharat at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

• “Improved Attending Response to Trauma Team Activations”
Mandy Fisk at JPS Health Network

• “Emergency Department Utilization in Formerly Incarcerated Individuals”
Mark Wang at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

• “AI-Powered Early Prediction of Post-Acute Care Need”
Albert Karam at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

• “Development and Implementation of a Hospital Medicine Dashboard to Drive Physician Performance”
Vidushi Golla at UT Southwestern Dallas

Tickets are available here.

For information, please contact Theresa Mendoza, the IQSC data guru at the DFWHC Foundation, at tmendoza@dfwhcfoundation.org.