Migrating from MS Office to Google G-Suite at SCL Health

Steven Michaels, VP & CTO, SCL Health System.  The discussion centers around the advantages of selecting a strategic partner like Google and aligning organizational change culture with the benefits of the G-Suite platform. Steven also discusses embracing the agile benefits of the Google relationship and putting into action meaningful solutions that expand beyond G-Suite (i.e. Google Cloud, Pixels).

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 […]

Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19

Michael Tutty, PhD, Group VP, Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association (AMA).  In the last three months there have been tremendous changes and challenges to the physician profession arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.  From those clinicians working on the frontlines to those struggling with reduced clinical workloads, healthcare is in turmoil.  Michael presents […]

E-notifications at Atrium Health and Preparing for the New Condition of Participation

Matt Sullivan, MD, Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Erica Hetrick, AVP, IAS, Atrium Health, and Jay Desai, CEO, PatientPing. The clock is ticking! Matt Sullivan, MD Jay Desai With the publication of the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule published in the federal register on May 1, hospitals have 12 months to comply […]

Using Machine-Learning Algorithms to Prevent Drug Diversion at Mass General

Christopher R. Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Healthcare providers are vulnerable to serious legal, financial, operational and reputational risks - and regulatory fines - due to employee drug diversion and inadequate internal controls. COVID-19 has increased employee’s feelings of stress and burnout has spiked to new […]

PROMs at Every Clinic?  It Depends.  Applying Lessons of Over Five Years of PROMs Implementations at Partners

Peter Meyers, Director, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Peter presents the findings of Medical Director Rachel C. Sisodia’s recent study of Partners six years of implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) across their Harvard-affiliated health system.  This teleconference reviews the factors behind both successful and failed PROMs clinic implementations.  This discussion also presents the […]

Ancestry and UpToDate Enhance Genetic Testing Value for Providers and Patients

Catherine Ball, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Ancestry, and Peter Bonis, MD, CMO, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer, Health. As millions of consumers choose to take DNA tests to gain greater insight into their health and wellness, healthcare providers must be prepared to help patients understand how their genes influence their health. Learn how the partnership between Ancestry and […]

Respond, Recover and Reimagine: Consumer & Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19 at IU Health

Ian McDaniel, PT, MBA, Executive Director Virtual Care, System Clinical Services, and Michele Saysana, MD, FAAP, VP Safety, Quality & Patient Improvement and Chief Patient Safety & Quality Officer, Indiana University Health, and Andy Penn, VP Virtual Health, Cerner.   COVID-19 has demonstrated the urgent need for healthcare organizations to become more agile in finding new […]

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, […]

Bundled Payments at Partners

David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Kyan C. Safavi, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Healthcare Systems Engineering, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  In 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative in which a set […]

It Takes a Community to Deliver Whole Person Care at Providence

Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN, Manager, Care Management, CARE Network, Community Outreach, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Providence Health, Dana Codron, RN, MPH, Regional Director, Community Health Investment, St. Joseph Health, Providence Health, and David S. Fanara, MBA, Chief Revenue Officer, Activate Care. Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN Dana Codron, RN, MPH […]

EHR Innovations Reduce Clinician Time by 50%

Stephen O’Mahony, MD, FACP, VP & CHIO, RWJBarnabas Health & Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  EHRs are essential to healthcare transformation and quality improvement, however, lack of optimization for clinician workflow has led to their identification as a major contributor to physician dissatisfaction and potential burnout.  RWJBH has partnered with a […]

EMR Patient Safety Effectiveness Study: Medical Errors Still Persist

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah, and A Jay Holmgren, Doctoral Candidate in Health Policy and Management, Harvard University and Harvard Business School. As reported recently in StatNews, a major reason for the widespread adoption of electronic health records was to reduce human error in prescribing medicines, as […]

Rapid Transformation of IT During COVID-19, and What’s Next at Beaumont Health

Ken Septer, VP Infrastructure & IT Service Delivery, Patricia Plata West (DeCamillo), MS, BSN, RN, Customer Relationship Manager, IT CRM, Colette Calliea, IT CRM (Troy & Grosse Pointe), Andrea Judd, IT CRM (Royal Oak), and Michele Ruppal, IT CRM (Dearborn & Farmington Hills), Beaumont Health.  National COVID-19 impact data have shown that Michigan was one […]