Practical strategies for
solving the health care puzzle
Track: Executive Leadership Lessons
- Health Care Cybersecurity Risks and Mitigations
- Climate and Health Resilience Planning, Capacity Building, and Tools
More than 30 percent of all major cyber incidents from 2016 to 2022 targeted health care organizations. Cyber attackers and defenders have started using artificial intelligence more broadly, and governments are now proposing legislation for minimum levels of cyber controls. Although cybersecurity is expensive, a cyber incident is even more expensive. This discussion focuses on key challenges health care organizations face and cybersecurity controls to answer those challenges. Discover the latest techniques, ethics, and trends changing the face of cybersecurity.
Presenter:
James Durkin
Information Security Officer
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
It is indisputable: Our climate is changing. The health impacts of climate change are numerous, severe, and prolific — and unequal in their reach. UC San Diego Health, in San Diego, and Health Care Without Harm will equip essential hospitals with a framework for building climate resilience within their existing programs and operations. Attendees will learn how to identify climate impacts and associated risk to their organization’s people, assets, and services. Following this session, attendees will return to their facilities with information and tools to begin crafting a step-wise strategy and a team for developing a health- and equity-focused climate resilience plan.
Presenters:
Nicole Poletto, MESM
Sustainability Analyst
UC San Diego Health
Grant Madden, PCP
Business Continuity Manager
UC San Diego Health
Winslow Dresser
Associate Director of Regional Climate Solutions
Health Care Without Harm
About Our Tracks
Sessions will focus on solutions to current public policy and financial issues unique to essential hospitals. Past topics have included Medicaid supplemental payments, waiver initiatives, telehealth policy, graduate medical education, and state-level 340B Drug Pricing Program policies.
Sessions will showcase new and promising programs that demonstrate groundbreaking initiatives in caring for vulnerable populations and ensuring equitable access to high-value care. Sessions may focus on innovative programs that integrate clinical practice into the health system’s overarching mission and goals, quality improvement, managing operations during a pandemic or other public health threat, and patient-centered care.
Sessions will target the hard and soft skills necessary to lead complex and evolving hospitals and health systems dedicated to serving their communities. Sessions may focus on lessons learned from leadership experiences and the importance of strategic partnerships, culture change, and reducing employee burnout.
Sessions will offer expertise on improving the health outcomes for a group of individuals by engaging internal and external stakeholders to serve community needs. Sessions may focus on leveraging policies and procedures at the hospital, local, state, and federal levels to support community well-being; innovative financing models; cross-sector partnerships; and aligning community benefit investment with population health efforts. Programs and practices that address social determinants of health and ultimately aim to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care will be highlighted.
Questions?
Contact us at events@essentialhospitals.org
America’s Essential Hospitals
401 Ninth St. NW, Suite 900,
Washington, DC 20004
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