KLAS Events

Place: Utah

When: November 6, 2020

Purpose: Interoperability is the core element required to power the digital health care revolution. The industry is maturing in the use of electronic solutions and the conversation on interoperability is expanding. Part of this is from the government is making a concerted effort to push the interoperability conversation beyond EHR to EHR patient record sharing to include patient empowerment and application innovation. However, the measurement of interoperability remains siloed leaving the truth of the interoperability landscape muddied and confusing. If we are going to accelerate progress, we need to have a more comprehensive measurement that holds all vendors accountable – both EHR vendors and application vendors. With provider success at the heart of this summit, the goal is to create a comprehensive interoperability framework that provides clarity on EHR and applications vendors complete interoperability performance.

Place: Park City, UT

When: October 28, 2020

Purpose: The pandemic has emphasized other important enterprise imaging topics that are especially relevant in the current climate (e.g., RFPs in and out of a remote world, reduced volume and recovery, and a unified imaging committee, and others). With bumps, bruises, and triumphs, many organizations have gained valuable knowledge through experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic that have continued to push their enterprise imaging strategies forward. This is knowledge that should be shared for benefit during and after the pandemic. The KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2020 Virtual Gathering will deliver value on these important enterprise imaging topics and others by facilitating collaborative discussions, roundtables with experts, and interactive presentations. Providers will learn from each other and from some of the most highly adopted organizations related to enterprise imaging. In culmination of the 2020 summit, attendees will receive a summary of best practices discussed.

Place: Grand Summit Lodge, Park City, UT

When: November 11-12, 2019

Purpose: The summit gathers passionate healthcare leaders who will set aside personal and organizational concerns to solve industry-level problems. Attendees of this patient engagement summit create the parameters for KLAS to measure vendors offering patient engagement platforms. This summit—and subsequent whitepaper—helps providers develop and improve their patient engagement strategies.

Place: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, Utah

When: October 2-3, 2019

Attendees: 85 total, including KLAS - 18 providers, 5 payers, 23 vendor organizations (39 representatives total).

Purpose: Due to misaligned incentives, payers and providers are often resigned to a complex system of processing and paying claims and addressing denials. While payers foresee value-based care bringing providers and payers together in unity, providers see a moving target. KLAS accepted the challenge to help these groups find common ground. The 2019 KLAS Keystone Summit brings payers, providers, and vendors together to collaborate on solutions for eliminating the unnecessary churn between payers and providers.

Place: Embassy Suites Rosemont, Chicago, Illinois

When: March 4-5, 2019

Attendees: 80 total, including KLAS. 56 providers and 16 vendor organizations (17 vendor representatives).

Purpose: Poised to fundamentally change healthcare, precision medicine is an emerging market in need of definition. In partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem, KLAS brought together precision medicine leaders to identify implementation best practices and highlight software and services tools for building and scaling an applied genomics program.

Place: Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

When: November 13-14, 2018

Attendees: 85 total, including KLAS - 18 providers, 5 payers, 23 vendor organizations (39 representatives total).

Purpose: The goal of any population health effort is to achieve better outcomes both clinically and financially. As the industry shifts from defining what population health is to creating consistent, positive outcomes, providers wanted to learn early best practices. The 2018 Cornerstone Summit on population health brought together passionate providers, payers, and vendors to discuss ways to drive real outcomes.

Place: Grand Summit Lodge, Park City, UT

When: October 1-2, 2018

Attendees: 80 total, including KLAS – 20 providers, 17 vendor organizations (30 representatives total).

Purpose: Continuing KLAS’ tradition of Keystone Summits, the 2018 Patient Engagement Summit gathered together leaders in healthcare to discuss how to advance the market. In 2018, this group consisted of payer, provider, vendor and patient advocates working to further define the framework of patient engagement success.

Place: Grand Summit Lodge, Park City, UT

When: April 4-5, 2018

Attendees: 86 total, including KLAS – 20+ providers and 10+ enterprise imaging vendors.

Purpose: The 2018 Cornerstone Summit brought together leaders in the imaging world to share insight and work together through the transition from siloed imaging systems to enterprise imaging systems.

Place: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT

When: August 23-24, 2017

Attendees: 93 total, including KLAS – 25 providers, 14 vendor organizations (19 representatives total), 13 organization representatives.

Purpose: The 2017 Cornerstone Summit on Interoperability was a follow-up to the previous year’s interoperability event. Leaders from the ONC, provider organizations, and vendor organizations gathered to discuss the results from KLAS’ most recent interoperability study and how best to incorporate post-acute care into the interoperability discussion.

Place: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT

When: June 28-29, 2017

Attendees: 79 total, including KLAS – Executives from 24 healthcare provider organizations, 10 enterprise imaging vendors.

Purpose: The 2017 Keystone Summit brought together leaders in the imaging world to craft the Enterprise Imaging White Paper in an effort to help the industry identify the key components of an enterprise-wide imaging suite.

Place: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT

When: September 27-28, 2016

Attendees: 80 total, including KLAS – 34 providers, 19 vendor organizations (37 representatives total).

Purpose: Brought together providers and vendors to create a population health framework that would define core competencies of a population health IT solution, as well as recognize the vendors that have developed and widely implemented these solutions.

Place: Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT

When: August 24-25, 2016

Attendees: 60 total, including KLAS – 18 providers, 15 organization representatives (ONC, CHIME, CommonWell, etc.), 15 vendor organizations (30 representatives total).

Purpose: Follow-up from 2015 Keystone, a continuation of an effort started last year at the KLAS Keystone Summit where KLAS, with input from IMAT, was charged with measuring clinical end users’ experience with clinical data received from outside their organization. During the 2016 Cornerstone Summit, results of that study will be presented and additional conversations will be held as to how to improve and, where beneficial, expand interoperability measurement and reporting efforts.

Place: Zermatt Resort, Midway, UT

When: October 1-2, 2015

Attendees: 60 total, including KLAS – 36 providers, 12 vendor organizations (36 representatives total).

Purpose: Bringing together providers and vendors to help define Interoperability in HIT market and how KLAS should measure successful interoperability. Created road map and Interoperability Measurement Advisory Group, consisting of both providers and vendors, who continue to work with us today.

Place: Sundance Mountain Resort, Sundance, UT

When: May 7-8, 2015

Attendees: 50 total, including KLAS – 8 providers, 5 vendor organizations (26 representatives total).

Purpose: A unique blend of the most passionate and hungry healthcare IT vendors and provider leaders and the KLAS team. The goal of this day together was simple: to raise the bar on vendor performance in the industry.

Place: Deer Valley Resort, Park City, UT

When: September 24, 2014

Attendees: 70 total, including KLAS – 21 providers, 12 vendor organizations (31 representatives total).

Purpose: Brought together providers and vendors to discuss the issue of “magical thinking” by vendors (making wild goals/promises without plans for how to accomplish them). We also had vendor one on one sessions.