Rural healthcare organizations face growing challenges, including limited resources and manual data collection, which hinder effective quality improvement. Without timely, efficient processing of complete clinical and claims data, providers lack the insights needed to achieve meaningful outcomes.

This session highlights how Clay County Medical Center (CCMC), in partnership with The SSI Group and KONZA Health, addressed these obstacles by automating the management of clinical and claims data.

Join Austin Gillard, CEO of CCMC, as he shares the organization’s digital transformation journey. He will provide firsthand insights into how real-time visibility into patient-level metrics enables CCMC to proactively identify care gaps, streamline workflows and increase preventive visit completions. Additionally, Gillard will discuss how the organization achieved data integration and met rigorous digital quality standards by integrating data using NCQA FHIR® and Clinical Quality Language (CQL) protocols with minimal resources.

For healthcare leaders looking for practical strategies to modernize quality programs and deliver better outcomes with fewer resources, this session is a must attend.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate how automated quality processes enable earlier identification of care gaps and support more effective preventive care.
• Describe how data process standardization reduces administrative burdens and improves quality measurement accuracy. 
• Explain how improved visibility into results can strengthen payer–provider alignment and support long-term quality improvement and readiness for value-based care programs.