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The ‘Combat Fatigue’ Impact of COVID-19
June 2 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTNancy Howell Agee, President & CEO, Carilion Clinic. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers in a manner that can be likened to “combat fatigue” given the unique circumstances in which this has played out i...
COVID-19 Financial Recovery Strategies
June 4 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTMichael Allen, CFO, OSF HealthCare, Christian Pass, CFO, John Muir Health, and Dan Michelson, CEO, Strata. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned hospital financials upside down, as hospitals put community needs first in the immedia...
Current and Future Ethical Challenges of Vaccination for COVID-19
June 17 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTArthur Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and Founding Head of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine. Many believe that the only solution to the COVID-19 plague is to find a vac...
Respond, Recover and Reimagine: Consumer & Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19 at IU Health
June 18 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTIan McDaniel, Executive Director Virtual Care, System Clinical Services, Indiana University Health, and Andy Penn, MBA, FACHE, SVP, Cerner. COVID-19 has demonstrated the urgent need for healthcare organizations to become more ...
Mental Health for Healthcare Providers
June 25 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTDanny Gladden, Director of Behavioral Health, Cerner.
Beyond the Crisis – Key Impacts of COVID-19 and Assessing the Path Forward
June 25 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTKeith Shah, SVP Strategy & Growth, and Sasha Preble, Senior Director Strategy, Growth & Transformation, Optum Advisory Services. The COVID-19 crisis has impacted nearly every facet of the healthcare industry. “Busine...
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Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19
May 27 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMichael Tutty, PhD, Group VP, Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association (AMA). In the last three months there have been tremendous changes and challenges to the physician profession arising from t...
Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedure Decision-Making at University of Chicago Medicine
May 21 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTKiran Turaga, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery & Director, Surgical GI Cancer Program and Regional Therapeutics Program, and Vivek Prachand, MD, Professor of Surgery & Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of Chica...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Our Nation’s Hospitals: What’s Next?
May 20 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTPaul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report; and Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), the University of Minnesota. Hospitals across the country have responded cou...
Protecting Revenue Cycle During COVID-19
May 20 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTBrian Junghans Jim Akimchuk Jim Akimchuk, VP, and Brian Junghans, VP, Impact Advisors. As healthcare providers have shifted focus to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, normal business operations have been interrupted causing significant fi...
Framing Social Determinants of Health … Differently
May 19 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJay Bhatt, DO, MPH, FACP, former SVP & Chief Medical Officer, American Hospital Association. Dr. Bhatt explores how to consider framing social needs, social determinants of health and health equity for hospitals and health systems. ...
COVID-19 Medication Management at Hotspot Hospitals
May 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTErin R. Fox, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, Senior Director Drug Information and Support Services, University of Utah Health, Benjamin Pennell, PharmD, MS, Manager Central Pharmacy Operations, Massachusetts General Hospital, Sharon Higgins, RPh, Clin...
Rapid Digital Health Transformation During COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond
May 13 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTSonia Samagh, MD, MBA, National Clinical Lead for Digital Health, OptumCare, and John Kontor, MD, SVP Provider Technology Services, Optum Advisory Services. While we are in a period of crisis response and uncertainty today, healthcare org...
Operating in the New Normal Post COVID-19
May 12 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTRossy Balmaceda, RN, MSN, Director & Client Leader, East Jefferson General Hospital, Matt MacVey, CHCIO, VP & CIO, Children’s National Hospital, and Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE, SVP, Cerner. The pace of change continues. Dick Flan...
CHRISTUS and COVID-19 Testing
May 12 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTSam Bagchi, MD, Executive VP & Chief Clinical Officer, CHRISTUS Health. For months, healthcare providers have been immersed in preparing for and responding to the situations created by COVID-19. But as some states begin to reopen, and...
Beaumont Health’s Rapid Response and Solutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 6 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTMarjorie Mathews, VP Healthcare Applications, and Joyce Oh, VP Business Systems / Enterprise Data Management / PMO, Beaumont Health. Beaumont Health has treated the most patients with COVID-19 in Michigan, which currently has the third high...
OSF HealthCare’s COVID-19 Digital Response
May 5 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTMichelle Conger, MSW, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare and CEO, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Becky Buchen, SVP OSF Innovation; John Vozenilek, MD, FACEP, VP & Chief...
Rush Supports McCormick Field Hospital & COVID-19 Testing
May 5 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTPaul Casey, MD, FACEP, Acting Chief Medical Officer, and Jordan Dale, MD, Associate CMIO, Rush University Medical Center. The Rush University System for Health (RUSH) is a regional and national resource of emergency preparedness, opening ...
New York’s Fight Against COVID-19 – Mount Sinai Health System
April 30 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTKristin Myers, Senior VP – Technology, Ken Koppenhaver, Senior Director – IT, and Paul Francaviglia, Director – IT, Mount Sinai Health System. As US COVID-19 cases continue to surge, New York has emerged as the epicenter of the Amer...
Rush Analytics for Modeling the Impact of Shelter in Place
April 29 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTBala Hota, MD, MPH, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Hota shares the background of how Rush developed predictive models to track the COVID-19 spread across Illinois (one of the U.S. states with the most ...
Field Hospital Experience from Scripps and Atrium Health
April 28 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTChris D. Van Gorder, FACHE, President and CEO, and Ghazala Q. Sharieff, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Excellence and Experience, Scripps Health, and Becky G. Fox, MSN, RN-BC, VP & CNIO, Atrium Health. As the COVID-19 outbre...
Navigating the Supply Chain During COVID-19
April 23 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTJohn Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Brian Anderson, MD, Chief Digital Health Physician, The Mitre Corporation. Drs. Halamka and Anderson share the vision behind a private-industry led healthcare coalition combatting the C...
Tales from New York: HSS Shifts Mission to Respond to COVID-19
April 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTJamie Nelson, CIO, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) shares the unique response of the Hospital for Special Surgery to the New York experience with the COVID-19 crisis. Jamie describes how HSS recognized the risk and identified its respo...
Stanford’s Primary Care Rapid Response to COVID-19 and Beyond
April 22 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTSamuel C. Thomas, MD, MS, Fellow Population Health, Delivery Science, Primary Care, and Maja Artandi, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, and Christopher (Topher) Sharp, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medicine. Christo...
Spectrum Health’s COVID-19 Response
April 21 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTJason Joseph, MBA, SVP & CIO, Spectrum Health. In this presentation, Jason outlines Spectrum Health’s stages of COVID-19 preparation and response, and how the organization has adapted and advanced since March. He also discusses so...
COVID-19, CARES Act and Cash: What’s Next for America’s Hospitals?
April 16 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTJoseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report. Noted futurist and healthcare politics insider Dr. Keckley, and national healthcare...
Managing Your Expanding Remote Workforce During COVID-19 and Thereafter
April 15 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTShefali Mookencherry, Principal & VCISO, and Erik Gerard, Principal & VCTO, Impact Advisors. Shefali and Erik discuss the tactical approaches many organizations have taken to quickly scale a large remote workforce. They provide ob...
COVID-19 Telehealth Program Funding Opportunity
April 14 @ 11:15 am - 12:15 pm CDTDan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. In this session Dan and Larry examine the recent “FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program Funding Opportunity,” and provide a high-level overview of the pr...
Innovative Platforms for COVID-19 Frontline Care Coordination and Interoperability In Underserved Communities
April 14 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTJennifer Stoll, EVP, Government Relations & Public Affairs, OCHIN, and Jackie Gerhart, MD, Clinical Informatics, Epic. Jennifer and Dr. Gerhart discuss new platform tools being used to ensure care coordination and interoperability dur...
Anatomy of an Outbreak
April 8 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTChristopher Kerns, VP, Executive Insights, Advisory Board. The COVID-19 pandemic has roiled nearly every facet of life in every country to which it has spread. In this presentation, Christopher, who oversees all of Advisory Board’s resear...
Flattening the Curve while Raising the Bar: Reducing Barriers to Care Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 8 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTJackie Gerhart, MD, Clinical Informatics, Epic. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations and clinicians are ramping up care on two fronts. As part of expansion and surge efforts, they are adding beds to existing faci...
Digital Health Response to COVID-19 at Providence
April 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDTSara Vaezy, MHA, MPH, Chief Digital Strategy & Business Development Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health, presents on Providence’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming at it from multiple angles, including leveraging the...
Immediate Guidance for Care Teams in Documenting and Coding COVID-19
April 7 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTReid Conant, MD, FACEP, CMIO, Jared Pelo, MD, FACEP, CMIO, and Robin Friday, RN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer & Director of Clinical Content, COE, Nuance. Physicians and nurses are caring for a rising number of patie...
Managing Demand and Capacity During COVID-19 Pandemic
April 2 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTAngela Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive, Katherine Rosengren, RN, Senior Clinical Advisor, and John Klare, Practice Leader & Board Member, Impact Advisors. As the COVID-19 Pandemic continues to evolve, healthcare organizations need to p...
Intermountain Leveraging Analytics to Inform Capacity Management During COVID-19 Outbreak
April 1 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CDTAlbert Marinez, Chief Analytics Officer, Amy Christensen, MSN, RN, NE-BC, FACHE, VP & CNO Specialty Based Care, Seraphine Kapsandoy, PhD, RN, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and Diego Ize-Ludlow, MD, CHIO, Intermountain Healthcare. ...
Atrium Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Hospital
April 1 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDTScott Rissmiller, MD, EVP & Chief Physician Executive, Atrium Health. Atrium Health announced a new and innovative program to help appropriate patients who have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to receive safe a...
Mobilizing Workstreams from Surge Capacity to Supply Chains in Response to COVID-19
March 31 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm CDTCheryl Hertel, MBA, RN-BC, FACHE, CHCIO, VP & CIO, CoxHealth, John W. McLendon, CPHIMS, MBA, VP & CIO, Circle Health, and Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE, SVP Cerner. Cheryl, John and Dick summarize how health systems are responding to C...
Tech Transformation Becomes Real in the COVID-19 Crisis
March 26 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDTAmy Compton-Phillips, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Providence, shares lessons learned to date from ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providence is embracing technology and lowering regulatory barriers to flatten the curve and ultimately ...
Pivoting to Quickly Operationalize Telehealth for COVID-19
March 24 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDTJay Backstrom, VP, Impact Advisors. Health systems across the US are mobilizing to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth has become a vital tool to meet the critical needs for virus screening, patient triage, and care coo...
SI Members in the News on COVID-19
May 14 - May 18, 2020
Houston Methodist – Chief executives chart paths forward in uncertain times
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses across industries to think not only about how they react to crises in the immediate term, but how...
VIDEO | Houston Methodist – Innovating on the front lines of a pandemic
Across the globe, doctors, nurses, and hospital staff are on the frontlines providing care to
COVID-19 patients. Other healthcare workers are helping patients navigate telemedicine
appointments...
VIDEO | Stanford – Trump: Testing may be overrated. Experts: Testing is critical.
Dr. Lloyd Minor, the Dean of Stanford School of Medicine joins to discuss the importance of
coronavirus testing.
Beaumont, UChicago – Ford to provide COVID-19 testing for symptomatic employees in SE Michigan,...
Ford today announced it had signed contracts with health systems in four metro areas with
major company facilities to quickly test hourly and salaried employees...
AUDIO | Avera – A COVID-19 Update
The coronavirus pandemic began a couple of months ago and as time passes by, our health
professionals are learning more and more. We've been talking...
Trinity Health CEO Eadie: The unintended consequences of ‘stay at home’ campaigns
To better understand the impact of this messaging, we have the responsibility to drill down with further questions that have data-supported answers. We can...
The Keckley Report – COVID-19 Unintended Consequences: Unflattering Attention to the Gap Between “Haves”...
The coronavirus has exposed major flaws in the U.S. health system: our lack of pandemic preparedness and the vulnerability of our entire economy are...
Providence – US primary health care can be cheaper and more equal. Here’s how.
Americans across the country have joined forces in fighting a common enemy: the Covid-19 pandemic. But one question starkly divides us during this crisis:...
Rush and Partners – Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients: Flip Them Over
Turning ventilated patients onto their stomachs, called proning, helps them by opening their lungs. Now doctors are testing to see if it can keep...
Providence – How transformative change could rise from the virtual ashes of the Covid...
As Act I of the crisis comes to a close, Providence St. Joseph Health's Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips looks ahead to the next phases of...
News Archives
Tampa General, Advent, Baycare – 51 Florida hospitals form COVID-19 data exchange: 4 things to know
Tampa General Hospital and AdventHealth are among a group of 51 Florida hospitals that have developed a joint interactive dashboard to share COVID-19 clinical...
Ascension hospitals launch mobile labs, bring testing to patients
St. Louis-based Ascension is sending mobile COVID-19 testing labs to patients' homes in Texas, according to The Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
Ascension, Atrium, Common Spirit – The Doctor Will Zoom You Now
The pandemic lockdown is proof of concept for mass telemedicine.
Ascension – This is Why We Serve in Catholic Health Care
As the world and our nation come together to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic health care is at the point of care and...
AMITA Health – Arlington Heights COVID-19 Patient Tests Negative for Virus After New Plasma...
...a new emergency trial of convalescent plasma therapy through the Mayo Clinic, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The treatment...
Atrium Health ramps up antibody testing
A local hospital’s groundbreaking plan is meant to make reopening the local economy as safe as possible.
Atrium Health to offer new treatment option to patients seriously ill...
Atrium will be the first healthcare systems in the Charlotte region to offer the drug Remdesivir, developed to treat the ebola virus.
Ascension, Atrium, Common Spirit – The Doctor Will Zoom You Now
The pandemic lockdown is proof of concept for mass telemedicine.
100 iPads donated to Atrium Health so patients can connect with...
The Atrium Health Foundation and AT&T donated 100 iPads to Atrium Health so its patients could still connect with family members virtually, under the...
Atrium Health Begins Daily Testing For Coronavirus In Black And Latino...
After testing hundreds of Black and Latino residents for the coronavirus, Atrium Health will increase the number of mobile testing sites focused on those...
Atrium Health opens its first clinical trial for COVID-19
The first clinical trial for patients with COVID-19 is officially open at Atrium Health.
Atrium Health Begins Daily Testing For Coronavirus In Black And Latino...
After testing hundreds of Black and Latino residents for the coronavirus, Atrium Health will increase the number of mobile testing sites focused on those...
10 things to know about Atrium Health’s coronavirus response
As the novel coronavirus – known as coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 – spreads across the United States, we understand that many people are...
Atrium Health | The COVID-19 Effect: How the Coronavirus Pandemic is...
We are very excited to have a special guest host for the next HCLDR Tweetchat – Dr. Zeev Neuwirth! Dr. Neuwirth is an amazing...
COVID-19: How Does Telemedicine Work?
Telehealth expert, Chase Feiger and Chief Physician Executive at Atrium Health, Scott Rissmiller break down how telemedicine works amid the coronavirus outbreak on ‘Fox...
VIDEO | Dr. Rissmiller breaks down the barriers to virtual health...
Dr. Scott Rissmiller, Atrium Health chief physician, discusses the barriers to virtual health visits amid the rise of telemedicine due to COVID-19 outbreak.
AUDIO | Avera – A COVID-19 Update
The coronavirus pandemic began a couple of months ago and as time passes by, our health
professionals are learning more and more. We've been talking...
Beaumont, UChicago – Ford to provide COVID-19 testing for symptomatic employees in SE Michigan,...
Ford today announced it had signed contracts with health systems in four metro areas with
major company facilities to quickly test hourly and salaried employees...
VIDEO | Dr. Emily Landon Speaks About COVID-19 at Illinois Governor’s Press Conference
University of Chicago Medicine infectious diseases expert Dr. Emily Landon spoke during the Illinois governor's COVID-19 press conference on March 20, 2020. Hear her...
Tampa General, Advent, Baycare – 51 Florida hospitals form COVID-19 data exchange: 4 things to know
Tampa General Hospital and AdventHealth are among a group of 51 Florida hospitals that have developed a joint interactive dashboard to share COVID-19 clinical...
Beaumont, UChicago – Ford to provide COVID-19 testing for symptomatic employees...
Ford today announced it had signed contracts with health systems in four metro areas with
major company facilities to quickly test hourly and salaried employees...
Beaumont CEO: Whitmer’s stay-home order saved lives in Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's original Stay Home, Stay Safe Executive Order saved numerous lives and helped reduce the number of patients seeking care in our...
Beaumont Health says it will test workers’ blood in study on...
Beaumont Health announced Monday that it is launching “America’s largest” serological testing study to help answer questions surrounding the spread of COVID-19 and potentially...
Cedars-Sinai doctors treat coronavirus with lab-grown human heart cells
Some critically ill COVID-19 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center showed significant improvement after receiving an experimental treatment of lab-grown human heart tissue, researchers reported...
Providence, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, Common Spirit – Providence Partners With Providers Across SoCal...
Providence has partnered up with five other health care systems with a mission to encourage community members to put health first and access care...
Podcast: This Week in Health IT – Cedars-Sinai with Darren Dworkin,...
Bill Russell's Field Report with Darren Dworkin, CIO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Cedars-Sinai Joins Clinical Trial For Possible Coronavirus Treatment Drug
With tens of thousands of people across the world dying from the novel coronavirus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has become the latest hospital to take...
The toolkit CommonSpirit sent its 137 hospitals for resuming elective surgeries
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health outlined the steps it wants its hospitals to take when resuming elective surgery.
Providence, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, Common Spirit – Providence Partners With Providers Across SoCal...
Providence has partnered up with five other health care systems with a mission to encourage community members to put health first and access care...
Ascension, Atrium, Common Spirit – The Doctor Will Zoom You Now
The pandemic lockdown is proof of concept for mass telemedicine.
Video: Centura Health taking commercial plastic and turning it into gowns...
This is putting staff to work who wouldn't be working normal since elective surgeries are suspended at the hospital.
Centura Health offers COVID-19 testing for first responders
Centura Health opened seven locations all across Colorado for them on Wednesday, including one in Colorado Springs, off North Circle and Union.
Emory Healthcare – Video: Experience with Ebola helps Atlanta hospital handle coronavirus
As part of the NBC News series On the Front Lines, senior investigative and legal correspondent Cynthia McFadden reports on Emory University Hospital in...
Henry Ford Health System – Innovation at Michigan State University allows...
The partnership with Sparrow Health System, Henry Ford Health System, and the MSU Animal Care Program is using an available animal research facility to...
Henry Ford Health System – Kimberle Crenshaw: ‘The political process has...
Columbia University law professor Kimberle Crenshaw and Henry Ford Health System North Market CEO Denise Brooks Williams on the failure to address racial health...
Henry Ford Health System – Video: Why this Detroit doctor sees...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday that the growth rate of new COVID-19 cases in her state may be starting to flatten. But already,...
Henry Ford – As Crisis Worsens, COVID-19 Strains Michigan’s Health System
NPR’s David Greene talks to Dr. Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, about how the Detroit metro area is preparing for...
Henry Ford researchers develop protocol to sterilize certain masks
A team of dermatologists at the Henry Ford Health System realized that their expertise with UV light might be helpful in easing the shortage...
HonorHealth announces clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment
PHOENIX - Three Valley hospitals are beginning a clinical trial, combining two different drugs, to hopefully treat coronavirus.
Houston Methodist – Chief executives chart paths forward in uncertain times
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses across industries to think not only about how they react to crises in the immediate term, but how...
VIDEO | Houston Methodist – Innovating on the front lines of...
Across the globe, doctors, nurses, and hospital staff are on the frontlines providing care to
COVID-19 patients. Other healthcare workers are helping patients navigate telemedicine
appointments...
Houston Methodist – Most of coronaviruses circulating in Houston are strain reported...
Most of the novel coronavirus strains circulating in the Houston area are a type that a controversial report recently said had mutated to become...
Intermountain – Mobile testing units travel to Utah coronavirus hot spots
In an effort to help address COVID-19 hot spots that have been identified in Utah County, the Intermountain Healthcare Coronavirus Mobile Testing Unit has...
Intermountain – “How COVID-19 is Reframing Healthcare in America,” with Kevan...
Our focus this week will be on the rapid transition, or perhaps immersion, of healthcare into a consumer-centric era. There are very few people...
[Audio] Lurie Children’s – Dr. Anne Rowley explains why some children...
Dr. Anne Rowley, pediatric infectious diseases at Lurie Children’s, joins Ji to explain what is Kawasaki disease and how it is related to COVID-19.
Lurie Children’s – Are Immune-Compromised Kids at Greater Risk From COVID-19?
One of the few bright spots in the COVID-19 pandemic has been the perception that children are mostly spared from its worst effects. But...
Lurie Children’s Hospital Loaning Out Ventilators For Adults With COVID-19
"Our ventilators are off to help save grown-ups," the hospital said in a Facebook post on Saturday.
MSKCC – Why Some COVID-19 Patients Crash: The Body’s Immune System Might Be To...
It's a strange and tragic pattern in some cases of COVID-19: The patient struggles through the first week of illness, and perhaps even begins...
Munson – Community members line up in cars to show appreciation for healthcare workers
Bells rang Monday evening in Traverse City to show support for Munson Healthcare workers.
Northwestern, AbilityLab at work on COVID detection device
Northwestern and AbilityLab are developing a wearable gadget that could flag early signs of the disease and monitor infected patients.
Northwestern Medicine – ‘No miraculous recovery’: Some ICU doctors say hydroxychloroquine...
Many doctors suspect that if the drug does turn out to be beneficial, it may work better early on in the course of the...
Mass General, CHOP, Northwestern Med receive federal approval for COVID-19 tests
Massachusetts General Hospital, the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Diagnostic Molecular Laboratory at Northwestern Medicine, have received federal...
Rush and Partners – Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients:...
Turning ventilated patients onto their stomachs, called proning, helps them by opening their lungs. Now doctors are testing to see if it can keep...
Partners – MGH adapted to the coronavirus surge early. Now it’s planning...
As the numbers of new cases plateaus at the state's largest hospital, MGH has begun turning its attention to what happens on the other...
Partners – The hospital room of the future: Dr. Alistair Erskine’s...
Alistair Erskine, MD, chief digital health officer of Mass General Brigham in Boston, outlined how he sees hospital rooms changing in the future as...
Partners – Researchers release COVID-19 symptom tracker app
A consortium of scientists with expertise in big data research and epidemiology recently developed a COVID Symptom Tracker app aimed at rapidly collecting information...
Partners – Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital Advancing...
AAVCOVID technology is unique in the vaccine field in its ability to scale and adapt rapidly.
Aiming to enter clinical testing later this year.
Partners – After the surge: Hospitals prep to bring back regular patients...
Thousands of procedures have been pushed back because of COVID-19. Now hospitals have to make it safe for those patients to return.
Partners Healthcare – MGH coronavirus simulator suggests Mass. fatalities would spike...
As some states across the country begin loosening restrictions meant to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a new interactive online tool from...
Partners – Gov. Baker, Army Chief Of Staff Visit New...
U.S. Army chief of staff Gen. James McConville compared efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus to a battle against an invisible enemy...
VIDEO | CNN: Hospital Presidents – ‘Almost a war-like stance’ to...
Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System and Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Providence – US primary health care can be cheaper and more...
Americans across the country have joined forces in fighting a common enemy: the Covid-19 pandemic. But one question starkly divides us during this crisis:...
Providence – How transformative change could rise from the virtual ashes...
As Act I of the crisis comes to a close, Providence St. Joseph Health's Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips looks ahead to the next phases of...
Providence, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, Common Spirit – Providence Partners With Providers Across SoCal...
Providence has partnered up with five other health care systems with a mission to encourage community members to put health first and access care...
Providence – Saving a city: How Seattle’s corporate giants banded together...
When the city became the first U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Costco, and others found themselves on the frontlines.
Providence – “No Good Choices”: At the First U.S. Hospital Network...
Early in January, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington ran an elaborate pandemic training simulation. Less than three weeks later, doctors and nurses there...
Providence Offering Telebehavioral Health Services For Healthcare Workers
Behavioral Health Concierge offers telebehavioral services to the Providence health system's employees and their dependents.
Providence – ER’s have been quiet during COVID-19. What happens when...
Among the unexpected phenomena of the COVID-19 crisis: Emergency departments have seen their volumes plummet.
Providence | PODCAST : Wall St. Quietly Telling Companies Not to...
We get the Businessweek Agenda with Bloomberg News Cross Asset Reporter Sarah Ponczek and Bloomberg Stocks Editor Dave Wilson. Dr. Rhonda Medows, President at...
Providence | Medical Experts Q&A on LinkedIn Live
Medical experts do Q&A on LinkedIn Editors Live Business As Usual featuring Dr. Rhonda Meadows of Providence Health.
Providence | VIDEO: CNN – Health Workers Risk Exposure Amid Pandemic
Amy Compton-Phillips MD with Chris Cuomo on CNN.
A Providence executive offers lessons for U.S. hospitals on coping with...
Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, is executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Providence, a 51-hospital system that serves seven states. Providence is the largest...
VIDEO | CNN: One-on-One with Doctor Who Treated First U.S. Patient
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips interviewed by Chris Cuomo.
How the Health System that treated U.S. Coronavirus Patient 1 has...
Amy Compton-Phillips, MD: Triage, Test, Treat. The health system at ground zero of the U.S. novel coronavirus epidemic is taking a three-pronged approach to...
VIDEO | CNN: Only 75,000 testing kits nationwide? This doctor says...
Chief clinical officer at Providence St. Joseph Health Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips discusses.
Rush and Partners – Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients:...
Turning ventilated patients onto their stomachs, called proning, helps them by opening their lungs. Now doctors are testing to see if it can keep...
Rush University Medical Center was built for a moment like this....
Dr. Yanina Purim-Shem-Tov shoulders a lot as she helps lead the emergency department at Rush University Medical Center amid the coronavirus crisis. The grueling...
Rush participates in clinical trial to test remdesivir as potential treatment...
Rush University Medical Center is participating in a new clinical trial to test the effectiveness of the drug remdesivir in the treatment of coronavirus...
Rush University Medical Center | Preparing for the worst in a...
The United States is ranked number one in the world for pandemic preparedness, according to the Global Health Security Index. Still, hospitals and medical...
Scripps, Stanford working with Fitbit to assess wearables’ COVID-19 tracking abilities
The Scripps Research Translational Institute recently launched an app-based research program called DETECT that can analyze wearable health data – such as activity levels,...
Scripps – How the best workplaces in health care and biopharma...
As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, health care and biopharmaceutical companies are on the front lines of treating victims, advising the public and pursuing effective...
Scripps Health – Tackle COVID-19 With Fellow Front-Line Leaders
Join ACHE and Chris Van Gorder, FACHE, president and CEO of Scripps Health, for a free webinar on COVID-19, April 3, 12:30–1:15 pm CT. During...
Sentara Healthcare opens in-house COVID-19 testing lab; tests repurposing PPE supplies
The initiative will allow Sentara Laboratory Services to expand patient testing within all Sentara hospitals across Virginia and North Carolina.
Spectrum Health ‘in good shape’ with protective masks thanks to innovative cleaning technique
Spectrum Health says it’s using a new system to clean and reuse facemasks, putting the healthcare system “in good shape” as it contends with...
VIDEO | Stanford – Trump: Testing may be overrated. Experts: Testing...
Dr. Lloyd Minor, the Dean of Stanford School of Medicine joins to discuss the importance of
coronavirus testing.
Stanford – Rapid System Transformation to More Than 75% Primary Care Video...
Stanford Primary Care scaled a nascent video visit program in two Express Care urgent care centers to cover more than 80% of clinic visits...
Scripps, Stanford working with Fitbit to assess wearables’ COVID-19 tracking abilities
The Scripps Research Translational Institute recently launched an app-based research program called DETECT that can analyze wearable health data – such as activity levels,...
Stanford – Coronavirus: How to tell if your misery was really...
Within two months, Stanford University antibody test available for public use.
Coronavirus Pandemic Spurs Stanford Researchers to Create Hospital Resource Calculator
Tools factor in local population, number of acute-care and ICU beds, and other parameters to project ventilator, staffing and other requirements down to the...
Armed with computers and iPads, Stanford doctors see patients while protecting...
Telemedicine is saving Stanford hospitals thousands of precious masks and gowns.
VIDEO | Stanford Health Care CEO David Entwistle on testing for...
David Entwistle, Stanford Health Care president and CEO, joins “Squawk on the Street” to discuss drive-through testing of coronavirus.
Tampa General Hospital workers in clinical trial using hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19...
Frontline healthcare workers in Tampa are participating in a clinical trial to see if a drug being used to treat COVID-19 can actually prevent...
Tampa General, Advent, Baycare – 51 Florida hospitals form COVID-19 data exchange: 4...
Tampa General Hospital and AdventHealth are among a group of 51 Florida hospitals that have developed a joint interactive dashboard to share COVID-19 clinical...
Tampa General Hospital becomes COVID-19 research site
Due to its testing abilities and academic connection, Tampa General Hospital is now one of the first hospitals in the state to run clinical...
Tampa General Hospital offers new options for COVID-19 testing
Tampa General Hospital is offering two convenient ways for community members to be screened and tested for COVID-19.
Trinity Health CEO Eadie: The unintended consequences of ‘stay at home’ campaigns
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Providence, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, Common Spirit – Providence Partners With Providers Across SoCal...
Providence has partnered up with five other health care systems with a mission to encourage community members to put health first and access care...
UC Health launches online dashboard of COVID-19 cases, testing at its...
UC Health officials say the updates will help state and federal officials see the rates of increase and geographic spread of COVID-19 cases in...
VIDEO | CNN: Hospital Presidents – ‘Almost a war-like stance’ to...
Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System and Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
UK Healthcare – Update: Work Under Way on Nutter Fieldhouse
In an update on a story from Friday, the University of Kentucky is wasting no time in turning Nutter Field House into a 400-bed...
Beaumont, UChicago – Ford to provide COVID-19 testing for symptomatic employees...
Ford today announced it had signed contracts with health systems in four metro areas with
major company facilities to quickly test hourly and salaried employees...
VIDEO | Dr. Emily Landon Speaks About COVID-19 at Illinois Governor’s...
University of Chicago Medicine infectious diseases expert Dr. Emily Landon spoke during the Illinois governor's COVID-19 press conference on March 20, 2020. Hear her...
UW Health to start clinical trial to treat some serious and...
UW-Health will begin treating some coronavirus patients next week. Some of the most serious and critically ill will be offered the chance to be...
10 months of work in less than a week: UW Health...
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