Clinical quality improvement is a hot topic in today’s health care marketplace. For organizations looking to prioritize improved clinical outcomes, data analytics is paramount to success. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we're joined by Brian Kay, director of clinical effectiveness at Rogers Memorial Hospital, a behavioral health care hospital in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Rogers offers inpatient, residential, partial-hospitalization and intensive outpatient services for behavioral health conditions. Brian discusses some of the challenges and successes he’s encountered on the path to clinical quality improvement in the health care industry.

The YMCA defines community-integrated health as the effort to strengthen the linkages between traditional health care and community-based prevention to help individuals prevent, delay, or live better with chronic conditions. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we're joined by Dr. Daphne Bascom, senior vice president and medical director at the YMCA of Greater Kansas City and professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine. Daphne discusses community-integrated health and its role in reshaping the way the health care industry thinks about the whole person.

In a search for health care news online, the common thread across all of the news stories are the significant changes facing health care providers. From the influx of demand created by aging baby boomers to on-again, off-again health care reform legislation in the United States, health care provider organizations are grappling with how to plan for an uncertain future. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we're featuring Rachel Maguire, research director for the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit think tank that helps organizations plan for the long-term future. Rachel discusses how future-thinking can help solve health care issues for today and tomorrow. She also explores the future of caregiving and how we can reimagine the role of the caregiver.

According to the CDC, suicide is the second leading cause of death among persons aged 10–24 years in the United States. After experiencing increases in pediatric suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in the emergency department, Seattle Children's Hospital implemented a suicide risk screening tool within their EHR workflow. On this episode of The Cerner Podcast, Elaine Beardsley, clinical nurse specialist in the emergency department at Seattle Children’s, and Julie Geiger, senior clinical systems analyst at Seattle Children’s, discuss how health IT can help maximize the efforts of mental health professionals to improve patient safety.

In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, Dr. Josh Mandel, the lead architect on the SMART Health IT platform, discusses how open, standards based technology and the SMART library of apps can help improve clinical care, research and public health.

On this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we hear from Dr. Seth Krevat, assistant vice president for Safety at MedStar Health and a faculty associate at MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. Under Dr. Krevat’s guidance, MedStar has gone through massive culture change, implemented the tools and behaviors of a High Reliability Organization, implemented a new event review process to evaluate serious safety events through the lens of safety science and leveraged the value of increasing numbers of incident reports submitted by MedStar’s workforce.

In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we hear from Dr. Susan Mosier. Susan serves as Secretary of Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Here, Susan shares her insights around the Medicaid conversation and what we can expect in the future.

Emil Peters, president of Cerner Global, discusses the challenges of providing and funding health care around the globe.

The 21st Century Cures act was passed in December 2016 with the goal of improving EHR interoperability through information blocking provisions and streamlining of standards development. It’s legislature intended to have real and immediate impact on the health IT industry. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we're joined by Dr. Donald Rucker, the national coordinator for Health Information Technology. The ONC is considered the beating heart of American health care policy, and one of its primary platforms is the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care. In this episode, Rucker will discuss the health IT provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act and what else we can look for from the ONC.

In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we hear from Captain James Ellzy, deputy program executive officer for the program executive office with the U.S. Defense Healthcare Management System. CAPT Ellzy has been practicing family medicine for more than 20 years, and previously served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the U.S. Navy.