CHRISTUS Health

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We will actually continue to talk about trust.

We'll be doing a session, uh, with CHRISTUS Health and Parkland in Texas to talk a little bit about how they build trust at their own organizations with patients when collecting, sharing, and using social determinants of health data.

But in addition to that, we'll have a slew of different sessions on a variety of different topics, including artificial intelligence, of course, which is the, the name of the game these days in healthcare, um, and how you implement it and what are the challenges associated with that, but also around privacy, security, um, all those tough issues that we're trying to work our way through, uh, in the health information space.

So encourage your listeners to check out AHIMA.org, uh, to find out more information about the conference.

But behind every test result is an entire system designed to answer one critical question.

Can patients trust the results? For Christus Health in Northeast Texas, ensuring consistent, reliable lab results across multiple locations presented them with a challenge.

I don't want to be selfish, but navigating three or four accrediting agencies is a lot of work.

And I wanted to standardize not only the main hospital, but all the smaller hospitals, the 35 plus clinics that we have that are Christus Trinity clinics, all under one accrediting agency.

Behind the scenes

are multiple quality checks.

A key component of the quality journey for Christus Health involved choosing a proficiency testing provider.

Of course, College of American Pathologists has a long history with quality measures, proficiency testing, working with pathologists at multiple laboratories in different environments, including hospital environments and outpatient laboratories, large and small and far and wide.

I'm Stan Weiner.

I'm the medical director of electrophysiology at Christus Health in Tyler, Texas.

I'm a practicing electrophysiologist.

Wonderful.

There was a gentleman by the name of John Maness.

He's the CIO at Christus Health in Texas, and he was giving a talk on a brave new world.

He was talking all about what it could look like Five years from now, and it's it's it's remarkable.

And, you know, in the United States, one of the things that it got me thinking about was the dynamics of change.