Delivering Better Outcomes by Insourcing Complex Processes in Pharmacy Operations

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD, VP Clinical Operations, Tidal Health, and Dennis Wright, Senior Director, Omnicell. The healthcare industry often turns to software as a service (SaaS) to increase software versatility and accessibility without having to install and run applications on multiple computers and data systems. Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD Dennis Wright Yet, when considering capital […]

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 […]

Thriving Together: Community Health Partnerships for Equitable Recovery and Resilience

Monte Roulier Somava Saha, MD Bobby Milstein Bobby Milstein, Director, System Strategy, ReThink Health and Visiting Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management; Somava Saha, MD, Founder and Executive Lead, Well-being and Equity in the World; and Monte Roulier, President, Community Initiatives Network.  Communities across the country have an immense reservoir of energy, courage, and imagination […]

WEBINAR | Retail COVID Vaccine Distribution Strategy Update

Troyen Brennen, MD, MPH, EVP & CMO, CVS Health.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been working with national retail pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreens to provide COVID-19 vaccines once the inoculations are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and distributed in coordination with the Centers for Disease […]

Data-Driven Analytics Transformation at Edward-Elmhurst Health

Raj Iyer, MBA, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Edward-Elmhurst Health, and Ben Wolfe, PMP, Principal, Impact Advisors. Raj and Ben share the vision, roadmap, recent results, and lessons learned from Edward-Elmhurst Health's "Data-Driven" journey. Raj Iyer, MBA Ben Wolfe, PMP Highlights include EEH’s plan to optimize the foundational culture, talent and tools that enable the […]

A Self-Assessment Tool for Achieving the Autonomous Pharmacy at Baptist Health

Nilesh Desai, MBA, BS, RPh, CPPS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Baptist Health, and Ken Perez, VP, Healthcare Policy and Government Affairs, Omnicell. Overreliance on manual processes and siloed technology in pharmacy operations are among the biggest challenges facing health systems today. Furthermore, there are no standardized benchmarks available to guide pharmacy leaders in their quest to […]

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 […]

WEBINAR | Inclusion: Making it Real – Why is it Vital?  The Immediacy of Now

Audra Bohannon, Senior Client Partner and Norm Miles, Senior Principal at Korn Ferry. Given the challenges in healthcare, change is paramount.  We live in a complex and diverse world that requires recognition of the power of inclusion as a key business driver to address the current state.  Diversity won’t make a difference without equity.  Understand how diversity, equity and inclusion maximizes

WEBINAR | COVID-19: What Do We Really Know about Emergence, Treatments and Vaccines?

John McConnell, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Despite an unprecedented scientific effort, uncertainties remain in our knowledge of COVID-19. Efforts to prevent and treat the COVID-19 pandemic have been further complicated by the spread of misinformation about the disease. This teleconference attempts to untangle myth from reality in what we

WEBINAR | Sharing Insight: SI Member Vaccination Efforts

Ferdinand Velasco, MDJennifer Fogel RNJennifer Fogel, VP & Regional Nursing Informatics Officer, Northern Light Health; Ferdinand Velasco, MD, CHIO; Joni Padden, DNP, APRN, BC, CNIO, Texas Health Resources; Joyce Oh, VP, Web/Mobile, Enterprise Data Management, ERP, and IT Business Office, Beaumont Health; and Janice Wurz, Senior Director, Strategy

WEBINAR | Provider-Owned Health Plans: Moving Forward with Wisdom

Today's sponsored health plan offerings have dwindled to major, long-time providers who have achieved critical mass… but their journey has entailed navigating changing regulatory environments, experiencing competition from industry consolidation and negotiating with inside and outside providers across the markets they serve. Yet in an environment that

Developing Future Ready IT Leaders

Scott Arnold, EVP & CIO, Tampa General Hospital, and Judy Kirby, CEO, Kirby Partners.  Health systems are morphing into technology companies who deliver healthcare.  With this major change in mindset, CIOs and the leaders who support them are now at the forefront of every critical decision made in their organization.  Scott and Judy share insights, […]

Transforming Analytics Capabilities at Boulder Community Health

Jeremiah Reuter, VP, Enterprise Strategic Services, Boulder Community Health, and David Jackson, VP Advisory Services, Optum. For hospitals and health systems to achieve their growth, clinical and financial objectives, they must effectively utilize data and analytics. However, most provider organizations can agree it is challenging to get the expected value and potential out of their […]

Stabilizing the IV Medication Supply Chain Using Robotic-and-Labor Subscription Model

Marisol De Leon, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Operations, and Yevgeniya Kogan, PharmD, Sterile Compounding Operations Manager, University of Maryland Medical Center. Many health systems rely on 503B pharmacies to provide the vast majority of their pre-mixed, compounded sterile products (CSP). But the 503B supply chain has become unpredictable, fraught with product shortages, price fluctuations, […]