AI and ML: Advancing Clinical Intelligence Initiatives

As the director of Clinical Intelligence, Cole Erdmann is focused on the advancement of Cerner systems to better the development and deployment of intelligence and knowledge. He is responsible for the creation of systems to automate the intelligence behind population health programs to support the person and care team to improve outcomes. He makes an impact on clients by systematically enabling our clients with intelligence providing early detection of various types of risk, proposed actions to mitigate risk, and ongoing surveillance for future trends. Cole joined Cerner in 2009 as an analyst. He has held roles accross the company such as Global Research strategist, lead client partnerships like the Advocate Cerner Collaboration, and Intelligence Development teams. He has worked on a number of large scale initiatives at Cerner both in the U.S. and globally.

Featured in numerous industry publications including as one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT by HealthData Management and on the January 2016 cover of their magazine as an "agent of change", Tina Esposito is system vice president and Chief Health Information officer at Advocate Aurora Health. Tina has served in various system roles at Advocate Aurora since joining Advocate Health Care in 1999; Tina and her team are responsible for system data strategies, measurement, and analytics in support of improved patient outcomes and organizational performance. Tina serves as the Advocate executive for strategic oversight of the Advocate Cerner Collaborative (ACC), which has leveraged Cerner and legacy Advocate resources to jointly create a population health management platform for Advocate Aurora Health. This platform includes a big data strategy, advanced analytical models, and deployment of these models into clinical workflow. Tina also is currently serving as an appointed member of the Office of the National Coordinators HIT Advisory Committee.