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Fellow BONfires!
Fellow + Fire. A mix between meet & greets and fireside chats. Come join the community of fellows for a monthly deep learning session from experts and thought leaders in our community. Join a bit earlier and get to know other fellows.
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September's BONfire: Dashboards and Discipline: Making Analytics Matter at Scale
Too often, analytics platforms generate dashboards that describe problems without solving them. At Baylor Scott & White Health, that wasn’t good enough. Enter the Value Achievement Program, a systemwide effort to turn fragmented reports into unified, results-driven action.
Join ACHDM Fellow Dr. Sally Barlow as she shares how BSWH built a scalable framework for analytics that delivers measurable clinical and operational value. From saving 47,000 staff hours to driving $11 million in improvements, this BONfire will explore what happens when governance, clarity, and clinician engagement move analytics from passive reporting to proactive transformation.
Discussion Topics: Building a Systemwide Analytics Program, Governance for Data-Driven Improvement, Clinician Engagement & Workflow Integration, Financial and Operational Impact, Cultural Change in Analytics Adoption, Scaling Measurable Results.
2025 Lineup
March
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March BONfire (ON DEMAND): Surfing Data & Digital Transformation Waves
Healthcare’s digital transformation waves often prioritizes adoption over optimization, leaving critical stakeholders behind. ACHDM Fellows explore how to better manage change, align tech with workflows, and prepare for future disruptors like Agentic AI and quantum computing. Are we ready for what’s next?
April
April BONfire: Transforming Public Health Through Data: A New Era for Chronic Respiratory Disease.
Join José Luis Castro, WHO Special Envoy Director-General he spotlights the power of data to drive public health innovation, from smart tech and air quality monitoring to data-informed policies that change lives. He'll also confront challenges like inequity, fragmented data, and weak governance as well as call for cross-sector collaboration to close critical gaps.
June
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June BONfire: How SDOH Data is Powering Community Health Solutions
Join Dr. Kim Byas, Brian Lane and Endrit Meta, Fellows of the College and Leaders at The Center for Health Affairs, as they discuss the groundbreaking SDOH research and approach which identified a correlation between firearm-related suicides and factors including housing insecurity, lack of transportation and unemployment.
July
July BONfire: Behind the curtains of AI in the clinical workflow.
Come engage with Dr. Ryan Sadeghian, drawing on 25 years of experience at the intersection of medicine, informatics, and technology, Dr. Sadeghian will share insights from developing over 600 AI algorithms and authoring three influential books on AI’s role in healthcare transformation.
August
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August BONfire: Leaving a lasting legacy by leaning into data and care equity.
Join ACHDM Fellows Leigh Williams, Daisy Rodriguez, Holly Davis and Janet Desroche as they share how hospitals in vastly different communities are spotlighting real-world efforts that are turning equity into action.
September
September BONfire: Dashboards and Discipline: Making Analytics Matter at Scale
Join ACHDM Fellow Dr. Sally Barlow as she shares a scalable framework for analytics that delivers measurable clinical and operational value. Explore what happens when governance, clarity, and clinician engagement move analytics to proactive transformation.
2024 BONfires
July 2024
Watch July's BONfire: AI is Changing Learning and Integrity in Healthcare
This session offers valuable insights into the effectiveness of AI in educational settings and its detectability by faculty and AI tools. Leaders in healthcare will learn how AI can be leveraged to enhance continuous learning, maintain professional integrity, and adapt to technological advancements.
August 2024
Watch August's BONfire: The generation of intelligent care delivery.
This session offers valuable insights into what the next generation of intelligent care delivery is starting to look like. Clinical data into actionable insights, enhancing health equity, and precision medicine. Innovations in AI, interoperability, and genomics are being integrated into clinician workflows.
September 2024
Watch September's BONfire: Advancing International Genomics: Bridging Research and Clinical Practice.
This session highlights the critical role of global collaboration in genomic data sharing, which accelerates discoveries, enhances our understanding of population diversity, and identifies clinically significant variants.
October 2024
This session explores the critical need for an always checked, never assumed 'Five Rights of Secure Health Data', what they are, why they're essential, and how to check them every time. Fellows will highlight innovative and new strategies to do so, enabled by new, production level, open source, ISO standards-track technology. These new strategies are aimed at mitigating risks of phishing, ransomware, and patient privacy violations.
2025: YOU
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Do you have expertise that you can share with the fellow community to enrich us all? We would love to host you as you as a presenter in 2025. Please email publishing@achdm.org and let us know you are interested.