Behavioral Components of Shared Decision Making at Sentara

Jordan Asher MD Jordan Asher, MD, MS, SVP and Chief Physician Executive, Sentara Healthcare. Patient engagement through shared decision-making between providers and consumers of healthcare sounds so easy. However, there are a great number of behavioral characteristics that elevate the need to understand different dynamics that are in play. Dr. Asher discusses the behavioral components […]

IV Automation + Cloud Technology = Increased Patient Safety

Jeff Brittain PharmD, BCPS Mark Neuenschwander Jeff Brittain, PharmD, BCPS, Director Pharmacy Support Services, MUSC Health, and Mark Neuenschwander, Founding Director, THRIV.  Manual IV compounding is fraught with patient safety risks. Studies show one in ten IV preps have errors. Yet, just one in four health systems use IV workflow technology proven to significantly increase […]

Cyber Student Staffing Boosts Productivity at Sentara, Part II

Daniel Bowden, VP & CISO, Sentara Healthcare.  Dan discusses some of the very positive impact that the student staffing program has had. Sentara’s cybersecurity program has made major improvements to training, process documentation, and drastically improved on-boarding time for not only new students, but all new team members. Further, the security team’s capabilities and performance […]

Intermountain at Home and Virtual Care

Joel Macey, Executive Director Intermountain Homecare, and Nick Bassett, VP Population Health Services, Intermountain Healthcare.  As more health systems transition to value-based care and risk-based contracts, moving care upstream and out of traditional health centers has become increasingly prevalent. Providing care in the home is the model for the future, especially for high risk patients […]

Utilizing SaaS ERPs at Advocate Aurora

Amy Olson Lydon Neumann Amy Olson, VP for ERP & Corporate Applications, Health Informatics and Technology, Advocate Aurora Health System, and Lydon Neumann, VP, Impact Advisors.  A new generation of cloud-based (SaaS) healthcare Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are emerging as strong transformation tools for healthcare organizations.  Healthcare providers continue to face margin pressures, talent leakage, M&A […]

Mobilizing Workstreams from Surge Capacity to Supply Chains in Response to COVID-19

Cheryl 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 COVID-19, the financial impacts of the pandemic, and how checklists must continually change to adapt to the rapidly […]

Intermountain Leveraging Analytics to Inform Capacity Management During COVID-19 Outbreak

Albert 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. COVID-19 has put a renewed focus on actionable and real-time intelligence. Hospital administrators and operational leaders required the support of real-time situational awareness […]

Immediate Guidance for Care Teams in Documenting and Coding COVID-19

Robin Friday RN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer Reid Conant MD, FACEP Jared Pelo MD, FACEP Reid 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 […]