Jean-Claude Saghbini Jean-Claude Saghbini, Chief Technology Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health. COVID-19 has exposed cracks in healthcare delivery systems worldwide. In doing so, it has also catalyzed forces for innovation that systems need now and in a post-pandemic world. This teleconference looks at five ways we must build on momentum for change.
Rupal Badani, MD, Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Medical Network. COVID-19 has transformed the way we live and work, and that has certainly been true in how patients receive healthcare. The Cedars-Sinai Medical Network had already been engaged in a lean-based redesign of primary care practices, called "practice transformation", looking at ways to streamline workflow, redesign physical […]
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 […]
Peter Winkelstein, MD, MS, MBA, FAAP, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, VP and CMIO, Kaleida Health, Executive Director, University at Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics, and CMIO, UBMD; and Randall Wald, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, Cerner. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged hospitals to make careful use of resources, especially for patient subpopulations which are clinically complex. […]
Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This session examines the recent “2021 Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule,” released on August 4, 2020. Larry Katzovitz Dan and Larry provide a high-level overview of the proposed rule, and its potential implications and impacts for providers, hospitals and health systems. Highlights include […]
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 […]
Michael Thompson, MS, Executive Director of Enterprise Data Intelligence, Cedars-Sinai. Over the past three years, Cedars-Sinai has merged together its analytics capabilities across finance, clinical informatics, and IT to form an enterprise data intelligence function, encompassing an enterprise data warehouse, data science team, end-user content delivery, and an advisory team to teach others how to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
John Beaman Allen Miller John Beaman, Chief Business Officer, Adventist Health, and Allen Miller, Principal, COPE Health Solutions. As CMS and employers continue to push for more premium risk contracts and value-based payment, a key to success is accurate data on the total cost of care for attributed or assigned membership. There is a growing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is relatively well-known that the immune system produces antibodies in response to COVID-19 infection, but how long these antibody responses last continues to be unclear, and the heterogeneity of immune responses to COVID-19 makes it difficult to […]