Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Workflow

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF.  Recording patient reported outcomes (PROs) in real time between visits, versus by patient recall during visits, allows patients to monitor and self-manage their health and capture a more comprehensive picture of their health status and overall health experience.  Despite the value of this clinical information, PRO use […]

SI 2020 Innovation Virtual Summit – Transforming the Way We Work: How Innovation Becomes the Next Normal

The Scottsdale Institute convened 46 health-system innovation leaders for a virtual summit moderated by Deloitte on November 18, 2020, to discuss how innovation is transforming the way health systems operate. Representing myriad medical centers across the US, these professionals came together to share leading innovation practices and left with the following key takeaways. Increase focus […]

WEBINAR | Implementation of Virtual Urgent Care Across an Entire Health System at Advocate Aurora Health

Michael Ries, MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director System Critical Care, Tele-ICU, Patient Command Center, and Advocate Intensivist Partners; and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, FACHE, VP System Adult Critical Care, TeleICU, VPMS, Advocate Intensivist Partners, Central Telemetry-IL, Advocate Aurora Health. Michael Ries, MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, FACHE The COVID […]

Top 10 Factors to Consider when Developing Your Growth Strategy: The role IT can play in 2021

Leslie Schatz, Director of Client Services; Danny Fell, Director of Client Services; Nick Fromell, Subject Matter Expert, Optum; and Carol Chouinard, Vice President, Optum Advisory Services.  As hospital leaders begin to prepare for 2021, it is important to balance long term growth plans, while also working to recover from revenue losses. Carol Chouinard Nick Fromell […]

Leverage a Digital Practice to Advance Consumer Engagement amid COVID-19 and Beyond 

Tom Pacek, CIO, Inspira Health, and David Harse, VP and GM, Consumer Engagement, Cerner.  As the healthcare industry undergoes a shift in consumer behavior patterns, providers are challenged with finding new opportunities to meet consumer expectations in delivering quality care.  Rising healthcare costs, a desire for more transparent health data, and the influence of digital […]

The Commons Project’s CommonPass

JP Pollak, PhD, Chief Product Officer, The Commons Project.  Major airlines will soon roll out apps to check the COVID-19 test and vaccination status of passengers, likely followed by employers, college campuses, sports venues, and cruise ships. CommonPass, developed by the non-profit Commons Project, lets individuals access their lab results and vaccination records, and consent […]

Predictive Models, Bias, Health Equity, and COVID-19

Michael Pencina, PhD, Vice Dean for Data Science and IT & Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine. Modern health systems stand to derive substantial benefit from employing algorithm-based clinical decision support (ABCDS) tools. However, adoption has been slow and recent high profile failures have raised concerns about bias and inequity, lack […]

Leveraging the Power of Crowds: How Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub is taking Aim at Everyday Problems

Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Caroline Coy, MPH Callie Patel, MBA Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Managing Director, Digital Health Innovation; Caroline Coy, MPH, Manager, Strategy Implementation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Callie Patel, MBA, Director, Healthbox. Healthcare delivery is too often saddled with cumbersome, redundant, and inefficient activities. While home to some of the […]

UH4YOU: Building Resilience During COVID-19 and Beyond at University Hospitals

Francoise Adan, MD, ABIHM, Director of Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals. Burnout and compassion fatigue are serious concerns for caregivers across the healthcare industry and we are seeing their effects now more than ever before. To respond to the additional professional and personal stressors, losses, and challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, University Hospitals […]

Streamlining Operations with AI at Tampa General Hospital

Scott Arnold Peter Chang, MD Scott Arnold, EVP & CIO, and Peter Chang, MD, VP Care Transitions and CMIO, Tampa General Hospital. Join Scott and Dr. Chang for Tampa General Hospital’s journey through the ideation and implementation of a command center.   They discuss why it was conceived, who was a part of the decision to implement […]

Telehealth Data Model at Intermountain

Brian Wayling, MBA, Executive Director Development & Technology, Intermountain Healthcare Telehealth Services. Intermountain has always been a leader in using data to develop healthcare standards, monitor variance and improve processes to ensure clinical and operational results. This approach has been applied to Telehealth Services consistently over the years to measure success for each program and […]

COVID-19 Community Immunity for All Initiative at Atrium Health

Scott Rissmiller, MD, EVP & Chief Physician Executive, and Kinneil Coltman, DHA, SVP, Chief Community & Social Impact Officer, Atrium Health. Atrium Health’s “Community Immunity For All” collaborative has a united goal to ensure equity in access to COVID-19 vaccines, acknowledge the history of health injustice in communities of color, listen to and collaborate with […]

Healthcare AI/ML Confidential Computing Platform

Mary Beth Chalk, Business Development, Center for Digital Health Innovation, UCSF Innovation Ventures. Cyberattacks on healthcare data are a clear and present danger resulting in constricted access to high fidelity clinical data. At the same time, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms utilized in care delivery must access this type of data to ensure the algorithms […]

Less Classroom “Training,” More Learning at Froedtert

Stephanie Lenzner, VP, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin; Tom Burton, Co-Founder; Jill Terry, Chief Learning Officer; and Eric Denna, SVP, Health Catalyst.  Learn how health systems such as Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin are leveraging the latest learning science to significantly improve the analytics and improvement […]