Enabling AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support: View from the “C” Seats!

Healthcare institutions can anticipate reaping clinical, operational and financial benefits from enabling their clinicians with AI-powered decision support solutions to make informed decisions along patients’ disease pathways. To get there, alignment and teamwork between information technology, clinicians and service lines is essential. During this informative presentation, University of Missouri Health Care’s CIO and Associate CMO share perspectives from their “C” seats on the challenges clinical decision support solutions can address, the coordination needed to implement these AI-powered solutions into clinical practice, and how partnering with industry can lead to the development of best-practices for other institutions to follow.

Learning Points:

Describe how AI-powered clinical decision support solutions can address the challenges of decision making along complex disease pathways and drive improvements in quality of care and patient outcomes
Discuss ways that key stakeholders within a healthcare institution can align to work through the implementation of clinical decision support solutions into routine practice
Share perspective on how healthcare institutions and industry can partner on the development of interoperability best practices to enable clinical decision support at the point of care

Bryan Bliven

Chief Information Officer, University of Missouri Health Care
Vice President, Tiger Institute for Health Innovation

Bio info: As chief information officer of MUHC, Bryan Bliven focuses on leveraging information technology as a strategic...

As chief information officer of MUHC, Bryan Bliven focuses on leveraging information technology as a strategic asset. He also serves as the vice president and executive director of Tiger Institute for Health Innovation. In this role, he collaborates with executives and health care leaders to create strategic roadmaps for content development, physician education, system implementation, system adoption, and alignment with quality and regulatory initiatives. Bryan and his team strive to create value by streamlining patient care, improving the patient experience, and reducing health care costs using technology.

Dr. Liana Romero

Head Global Marketing, Clinical Decision Solutions
Digital Health Siemens Healthineers

Bio info: Dr. Liana Romero is Head Global Marketing, Clinical Decision Solutions within Digital Health at Siemens Healthcare....

Dr. Liana Romero is Head Global Marketing, Clinical Decision Solutions within Digital Health at Siemens Healthcare. In her position, Dr. Romero is focused on driving global market awareness, sales enablement, and thought leadership of an AI-enabled portfolio of clinical decision support solutions designed to support informed decision along clinical pathways. In addition to a PhD in Public Health Epidemiology, Dr. Romero holds a Masters in Global Business Management, and an undergraduate degree in clinical biochemistry.

Dr. Mark Wakefield

Associate Chief Medical Officer and Chief of the Division of Urology
University of Missouri Health Care

Bio info: Dr. Mark R. Wakefield is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for the University of Missouri Health Care (MUHC)....

Dr. Mark R. Wakefield is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for the University of Missouri Health Care (MUHC). Appointed in March 2017, he is responsible for coordinating ambulatory clinic initiatives, stewarding quality and safety for surgical services, and assisting in physician engagement and development. He is the Chief of the Division of Urology and program director for the urology residency. Dr. Wakefield joined the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Medicine in the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery in September 2004. He also has a urologic oncology practice at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and is the director of the renal transplant program at MUHC and has been active in multiple transplant organizations.

With a wide range of interests, Dr. Wakefield has collaborated in multi-institutional research assessing methods to improve medication adherence in renal transplant patients. He has also participated in research projects related to renal transplantation, brachytherapy for prostate cancer, and clinical urology of all aspects. In addition to clinical trials for urologic oncology, Dr. Wakefield has collaborated on investigating immunologic pathways for several malignancies.

Dr. Wakefield served in the United States Air Force. He completed his urologic residency at University Hospital and Clinics in Columbia and attended medical school at the University of Missouri, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1994.