Operationalizing Telehealth Across Sites of Care at AMITA

Laura Messineo, RN, MHA, VP TeleHealth, AMITA Health. Telehealth has seen exponential growth across the country and many health systems have implemented interim solutions to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Laura provides an overview of AMITA Health’s centralized telehealth strategy which is focused on transforming the delivery of healthcare across the care continuum. […]

Meeting Patients Where They Are With Voice Technology

Jason Burum Freddie Feldman Jason Burum, VP, Patient Engagement, Clinical Effectiveness; and Freddie Feldman, Voice Design Director, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer.  Nearly 90 million adults in the US own a smart speaker, representing a powerful opportunity for providers to engage health consumers with voice technology. To that end, Wolters Kluwer and Amazon, through Amazon’s exclusive HIPAA-Eligible […]

WEBINAR | UChicago Medicine’s COVID Innovation Challenge 2020

Sharon Markman, MHA Craig Umscheid, MD, MS Sharon Markman, MHA, Administrative Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation and Craig Umscheid, MD, MS, Chief Quality & Innovation Officer and VP for Healthcare Delivery Science, University of Chicago Medicine. The University of Chicago's Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation's COVID19 Innovation Challenge was launched […]

IT/Marketing Partnership for Digital Customer Engagement at HonorHealth

Emily Borlas, MBA, AVP, IT Applications, and Craig Kartchner, MBA, AVP, Marketing and Customer Experience, HonorHealth.  Creating the best experience for healthcare customers is like making a delicious vinaigrette, and it’s difficult to do for similar reasons: How do you make the oil of IT mix (and stay mixed) with the vinegar of Marketing, without […]

Study: Robust T-Cell Immunity Found in Those with Asymptomatic, Mild COVID-19

Marcus Buggert, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.  Dr. Buggert is a viral immunologist that has focused his career on T cells in the context of HIV infection. During this teleconference, Dr. Buggert describes the most recent data on T cell immunity in COVID-19 patients. Additionally, he provides an update on […]

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 […]

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 […]