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 […]

Outlook 2020: The Top Three Challenges for Hospital Pharmacy Teams

Dean Parry, RPH Daniel Teich PharmD Jennifer Wheeler Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Dave Ehlert PharmD, MBA, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Dean Parry, RPH, Associate VP Clinical Informatics, Care Support Services, Geisinger Health System, Daniel Teich, Pharm.D., VP Purchasing and Contracting, Fairview Pharmacy Services, Jennifer Wheeler Davis, Pharm.D., MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director […]

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 […]

Central Pharmacy Services Hub Delivers Patient-focused Care

Mark Sullivan, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Executive Director, Pharmacy Operations, and Michael O’Neal, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Procurement, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics.  Driven by a commitment to deliver enhanced patient-focused pharmacy services across the continuum of care, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics (VUHC) shifted many medication distributive and ancillary support functions to an off-campus centralized […]

COVID-19 Financial Recovery Strategies

Michael 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 immediate response to the disease outbreaks across the country. Financial management strategies for this kind of nimble, constantly-shifting operational decision-making include tactics […]

COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Addressing Health Disparities Now, Preparing for Vaccination and Beyond at CCHMC

Rob Kahn, MD, MPH Andy Beck, MD, MPH Rob Kahn, MD, MPH, Physician Lead, Community and Population Health, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, Associate Professor & Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.  The COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on disparities by race, ethnicity and poverty that have long been present across a range of health outcomes. To […]

Pharmacy Intelligence – Insights from Aggregate Benchmarking

Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS, VP Pharmacy Operations, OSF HealthCare System, Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  Recently aggregated nationwide drug data from hundreds of health systems, as well […]

Enterprise Management of Drug Inventory, Drug Shortages, and Drug Diversion at SCL Health

Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health.  Managing medication supply and inventory effectively across a health system is a constant challenge due to drug shortages, incongruent data structures across procurement and clinical systems, and the constant threat of drug […]

Data Intelligence and the Framework to Build the Autonomous Pharmacy of the Future

Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD, Assistant Professor, Department of Learning Health Science, University of Michigan Medical School, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP of Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  National leaders in health system pharmacy have joined together to create a framework for a fully autonomous pharmacy, […]

Expert Insights into National COVID-19 Vaccine Development

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, UT School of Public Health; Chair, Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital; and Co-Director, Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD). COVID-19 vaccine development, manufacturing, and distribution is […]