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 […]

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 […]

2021 Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule Overview

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 Golder DDS, MBA Dan and Larry provide a high-level overview of the proposed rule, and its potential implications and impacts for providers, hospitals and […]

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 […]

Study: Robust T-Cell Immunity Found in Those with Asymptomatic, Mild COVID-19

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 […]

Using Self-Insured Data as a Foundation for Value-based Payment Strategy at Adventist Health

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 […]

The Commons Project’s CommonPass

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 […]

UH4YOU: Building Resilience During COVID-19 and Beyond at University Hospitals

Francoise Adan, MD, ABIHM, Director of Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals. Burnout and compassion fatigue are serious concerns for caregivers across the healthcare industry and we are seeing their effects now more than ever before. To respond to the additional professional and personal stressors, losses, and challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, University Hospitals […]