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 […]

The Cures Act Final Rule: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program

Larry Katzovitz Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. This teleconference will examine the recent "21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program Final Rule" (referred to now as simply the "Cures Act"), a follow up to CMS’ and ONC’s earlier proposed rules. Dan and Larry provide a high-level […]

Framing Social Determinants of Health … Differently

Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, FACP, former SVP & Chief Medical Officer, American Hospital Association. Dr. Bhatt explores how to consider framing social needs, social determinants of health and health equity for hospitals and health systems. He also discusses the intersection between these social factors that affect overall health and the power of community partnerships in the wake of COVID-19. Link to the article […]

Using Analytics to Improve Care Management

Robert Crossey, DO, President, and Francis R. Colangelo, MD, MS-HQS, FACP, VP and Chief Quality Officer, Premier Medical Associates.  Improving care coordination for patients with multiple co-morbidities and chronic conditions is essential to increasing quality and reducing the total cost of care. Robert Crossey DO Francis R. Colangelo MD, MS-HQS, FACP These patients face unique challenges navigating the […]

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 […]

Beyond the Crisis – Key Impacts of COVID-19 and Assessing the Path Forward

Keith Shah, PhD, SVP Strategy & Growth, and Sasha Preble, Senior Director Strategy, Growth & Transformation, Optum Advisory Services.  The COVID-19 crisis has impacted nearly every facet of the healthcare industry. “Business as usual” has taken a back seat to rethinking the U.S. healthcare model going forward, from delivery to financing. In our new reality, […]

Home Hospital: New Evidence and New Adoption at Brigham Health

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, general internist and clinician investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Delivering hospital-level care at home for acutely ill adults is an evidence-based care model that results in reduced cost and readmission. Join us for key updates […]

At Home Care Program-Cuts Costs-and-Improves Outcomes at Geisinger

Andrea Harding Anthony Wylie Andrea Harding, Sr. Director Operations & Strategy, and Anthony Wylie, DO, Sr. Medical Director, Geisinger at Home.  Geisinger at Home provides team-based comprehensive and acute care in the home for Geisinger Health Plan’s most complex members across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania. Geisinger’s approach combines in-person, facilitated telemedicine, telemonitoring, outbound care coordination, […]

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 […]

Accelerating Transformation and Automating the Service Now Experience in Epic at SCL Health

Stephanie McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC Stephanie H. McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC, VP Applications, and Nick Iannoni, Director Shared Application Services, SCL Health. Speed, agility and collaboration are the hallmarks of how COVID-19 has transformed the way we work in healthcare. At SCL Health, this transformation had already been in process, building on five major platforms: Google, Epic, […]

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 […]

Mercy Virtual and COVID-19: Healthcare Redefined

Keith M. Starke, MD, FACP, SVP & CQO; Joseph Kelly, EVP Office of Transformation; Gavin Helton, MD, SVP Population Health; and Ashok Palagiri, MD, Physician Lead for Virtual Hospital Medicine, Mercy Health. Mercy Virtual was established over a decade ago, initially as a centralized teleICU monitoring center, supporting 38 hospitals spread across Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas […]

Predictive Analytics at UW Health

Brian Patterson, MD, MPH Frank Liao, PhD Sabrina Adelaine Brian Patterson, MD, MPH, Physician Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics; Frank Liao, PhD, Director of Data Science and Advanced Analytics; and Sabrina Adelaine, PhD, Applied Data Scientist, UW Health.  Predictive analytics holds the promise of improving healthcare by harnessing data at the frontlines of healthcare delivery, […]

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, […]