Revolutionizing COVID-19 Research: An EHR-enabled Learning Health Network

Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine & Strategic Advisor, Cerner Corporation, and Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute & Strategic Advisor, Cerner Corporation. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for EHR data access for […]

Accelerating Adoption of Machine Learning Algorithms at Mass General Brigham

Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM Ittai Dayan, MD Karen Holzberger Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, Chief Data Science Officer and Chief Executive, Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), and Ittai Dayan, MD, Executive Director of Strategy, Research & Clinical Operations, CCDS, Mass General Brigham, and Karen Holzberger, SVP & General Manager, Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance.  […]

Geisinger’s Genomics and Precision Health Initiative, Part II

John B. Bulger, DO, MBA David Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG John Bulger, DO, MBA, Chief Medical Officer Population Health, Geisinger Health System and Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan, and David Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG, Executive VP & Chief Scientific Officer, Geisinger Health System.  After extensive experience with DNA sequencing of patient-participants in a research setting, […]

Telehealth Strategy at Cleveland Clinic

Peter A. Rasmussen, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, CCAW JV, LLC, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.  Digital health and telemedicine had made some inroads into traditional healthcare delivery systems prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Innovative strategies have existed for quite some time to use internet connected devices to promote virtual chronic disease monitoring.  By removing regulatory barriers, reimbursement gaps, and privacy […]

Real Life Patient & Community Engagement through Technology at Atrium Health

Ruth Krystopolski, SVP Population Health, Atrium Health, shares two use cases providing insight into how Atrium uses technology to engage its patients and communities. The implementation and integration of social care networking and real-time notification platforms spurred strategic outreach and helped facilitate solutions to improve value across Atrium Health and throughout the communities it serves.

Utilizing CRM for Patient Outreach at Virginia Mason

Ellen Wiegand Mani Nair, IT Director of Software Engineering and Business Intelligence, and Ellen Wiegand, VP & CIO, Virginia Mason Health System. Virginia Mason patients are very engaged with online tools, and approximately 70% of Virginia Mason’s patients are active users of the patient portal. Virginia Mason patients have expressed that they expect to be […]

Pre, During and Post-COVID-19, The Future of Healthcare Analytics is Now

Soyal Momin, SVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and Liam Bouchier, Principal, Impact Advisors.  Soyal and Liam discuss Presbyterian Healthcare’s analytics strategy, developed over the last five years, which supported their preparation for, management through, and future planning beyond COVID-19.  The analytics ecosystem and supporting data allowed Presbyterian Healthcare Services to support its own patients, […]

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 […]

The Art of Balancing Cost and Quality at Advocate Aurora Health

Carrie Nelson, MD, MS, FAAFP, CMO & System VP, Population Health and Health Outcomes, Advocate Aurora Health.  Rising healthcare expenditures and shrinking margins, in addition to the recent pause on elective procedures due to COVID-19, has put cost containment at the forefront of many healthcare organizations’ strategies. Advocate Aurora Health has turned to data to […]

COVID-19-related Diagnostic Errors

Tejal Gandhi, MD, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey, and Hardeep Singh, MD, Chief of Health Policy, Quality and Informatics at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.  The COVID-19 pandemic increases the risk of diagnostic error because the disease itself is new and knowledge of its clinical manifestations is still evolving.  In addition, both […]

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, […]

Physician-directed Cost Savings Reinvestment Program (CSRP) at Stanford

Paul Maggio, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Surgery & ACMO of Operational Effectiveness, Stanford University Hospital, and Stacie M. Vilendrer, MD, MBA, Instructor and Family Physician, Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine. Stanford Health Care is continually looking to improve the delivery of high-value care – improved patient outcomes at lower cost. […]

5 Forces for the Future: Reimagining Healthcare

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.

Addressing the Rapidly Rising Behavioral Health Needs of Caregivers and Communities at Sharp and Baptist (AL)

Mary Kay Shibley, MSN, RN, Manager, Clinical Informatics, ECT Services and Technologies, Sharp Mesa Vista and Sharp McDonald Center; Ginger Henry, COO, Baptist Medical Center (AL); and Danny Gladden, MSW, LCSW, Director of Behavioral Health, Cerner.  This year has seen an unprecedented rise in the behavioral health needs of both caregivers and patients as a […]