KLAS Events
Ever feel that you could solve the world’s problems if you could only get the right people in the same room at the same time? So do we. By bringing the best and brightest in healthcare together under the same roof, KLAS hopes to facilitate conversation that will create clarity out of complexity and ultimately improve the world’s healthcare.
Keystone Summit 2017
Enterprise Imaging
Place: Snowbird Resort, 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.
Cornerstone Workshop 2017
Interoperability
Place: Snowbird Resort, 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.
Digital Health Investment Symposium 2017
Place: Park City, UT
When: September 27-28, 2017
Attendees: 103 total, including KLAS – Representatives from 14 vendor organizations, 20 investor organizations, 11 provider organizations, 11 strategic organizations, and 3 sponsors.
Purpose: The inaugural KLAS Investment Symposium brought together healthcare-minded investment firms alongside providers and up-and-coming vendors for an opportunity to discuss where these three groups should focus their attention, efforts, and investments in the future.
Keystone Summit 2016
Population Health
Place: Snowbird Resort, 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 and recognize the vendors that have developed and widely implemented these solutions.
Cornerstone Workshop 2016
Interoperability
Place: Snowbird Resort, 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.
Keystone Summit 2015
Interoperability
Place: Zermatt Resort, 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.
Cornerstone Workshop 2015
Vendor Excellence
Place: Sundance Mountain Resort, 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.
Keystone Sumiit 2014
Magical Thinking
Place: Deer Valley Resort, UT
When: September 24, 2014
Attendees: 70 total, including KLAS – 21 providers, 12 vendor organizations (31 representatives total).
Purpose: Brought together providers and vendors and discuss issue of “magical thinking” by vendors (making wild goals/promises without a plan of how to get there), had vendor one-on-one sessions.
