Today's sponsored health plan offerings have dwindled to major, long-time providers who have achieved critical mass… but their journey has entailed navigating changing regulatory environments, experiencing competition from industry consolidation and negotiating with inside and outside providers across the markets they serve. Yet in an environment that
Scott Arnold, EVP & CIO, Tampa General Hospital, and Judy Kirby, CEO, Kirby Partners. Health systems are morphing into technology companies who deliver healthcare. With this major change in mindset, CIOs and the leaders who support them are now at the forefront of every critical decision made in their organization. Scott and Judy share insights, […]
Jeremiah Reuter, VP, Enterprise Strategic Services, Boulder Community Health, and David Jackson, VP Advisory Services, Optum. For hospitals and health systems to achieve their growth, clinical and financial objectives, they must effectively utilize data and analytics. However, most provider organizations can agree it is challenging to get the expected value and potential out of their […]
JP Pollak, PhD, Chief Product Officer, The Commons Project. The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired the most ambitious immunization effort in history, and along with it an immediate need to produce trustworthy digital records of vaccination. The Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) aims to enable individuals to access a verifiable and portable copy of their vaccination records […]
Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital. Advancements in healthcare technology and science are disrupting the paradigm for the most expensive hotel in town—the hospital. Further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are re-thinking how to enable the home as a key site of acute healthcare […]
DJ Skalsky, VP, and Mike Garzone, VP, Impact Advisors. There is no shortage of pressure that hospitals and health systems are facing today. Though COVID-19 created completely new challenges for health delivery organizations, the pandemic also exacerbated existing issues like clinician burnout and financial uncertainty for many organizations. At the same time, pressures such as […]
Marisol De Leon, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Operations, and Yevgeniya Kogan, PharmD, Sterile Compounding Operations Manager, University of Maryland Medical Center. Many health systems rely on 503B pharmacies to provide the vast majority of their pre-mixed, compounded sterile products (CSP). But the 503B supply chain has become unpredictable, fraught with product shortages, price fluctuations, […]
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, and Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, EVP & Chief Clinical Officer, Providence. Health systems are looking to diversify revenue sources as wages rise faster than patient care reimbursement. In response, many health systems launched or contributed to venture funds, which flooded the digital
Scott Gaydos, VP Product Management, Optum, and Mike Rogers, Director of Cybersecurity, Optum Technology. As healthcare organizations continue to barrel toward modernization, cyber-attacks will only continue to rise. Web-based solutions, complex environments, large volumes of data, and a shortage of specialized security staff have all contributed to a perfect storm of cybersecurity challenges. For healthcare […]
Marcus Shipley, MBA, SVP, Innovation and CIO, Trinity Health. Health systems have amassed an amazing amount of data, yet no one system has enough data in size or diversity to generate the level of insights required to materially improve health outcomes. That is why earlier this year, Trinity Health joined 14 other health systems in […]
Audra Bohannon, Senior Client Partner and Norm Miles, Senior Principal at Korn Ferry. You know you need to do something. Not sure what to do. What are the critical requirements one must embrace if they are serious and ready to create a culture of inclusion? This webinar addresses the most significant diversity-related challenges research has identified that
Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report. Join Paul Keckley and Joe Fifer as they debate what’s in store for health systems in the years ahead, including their continued public health role, payer/provider incentives to improve health, consumer
Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH, Internal Medicine Hospitalist and Clinician Scientist, Mass General Hospital (MGH). The C-CAT (Community CAre Transitions) initiative was structured as a randomized controlled trial in 2017-2019, focused on reducing readmissions prior to transitioning to being operationalized by MGH for internal medicine adult patients in 2019. The C-CAT initiative prioritizes best practice by focusing on […]
Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS, CEO, EMI Advisors and Program Manager and SME, HL7®Gravity Project, and Cheyenne Santiago, RN, MSN, Managing Editor, MCG Health. The impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) on the healthcare journey has been a growing conversation in the past few years, but how this patient-specific data can be leveraged within […]
Jamin Engel, PharmD, MBA, BCSCP, Western Region Director of Pharmacy, Sentara Healthcare. In a hospital setting, the safe and efficient distribution of medications is among the most fundamental responsibilities of the central pharmacy. Which medication distribution model a hospital chooses to employ – a centralized, decentralized, or hybrid – is reflected in the desired outcomes, […]
