Thriving Together: Community Health Partnerships for Equitable Recovery and Resilience

Monte Roulier Somava Saha, MD Bobby Milstein Bobby Milstein, Director, System Strategy, ReThink Health and Visiting Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management; Somava Saha, MD, Founder and Executive Lead, Well-being and Equity in the World; and Monte Roulier, President, Community Initiatives Network.  Communities across the country have an immense reservoir of energy, courage, and imagination […]

WEBINAR | UChicago Medicine’s COVID Innovation Challenge 2020

Sharon Markman, MHA Craig Umscheid, MD, MS Sharon Markman, MHA, Administrative Director, Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation and Craig Umscheid, MD, MS, Chief Quality & Innovation Officer and VP for Healthcare Delivery Science, University of Chicago Medicine. The University of Chicago's Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation's COVID19 Innovation Challenge was launched […]

IT/Marketing Partnership for Digital Customer Engagement at HonorHealth

Emily Borlas, MBA, AVP, IT Applications, and Craig Kartchner, MBA, AVP, Marketing and Customer Experience, HonorHealth.  Creating the best experience for healthcare customers is like making a delicious vinaigrette, and it’s difficult to do for similar reasons: How do you make the oil of IT mix (and stay mixed) with the vinegar of Marketing, without […]

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 […]

Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Clinical Workflow

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF.  Recording patient reported outcomes (PROs) in real time between visits, versus by patient recall during visits, allows patients to monitor and self-manage their health and capture a more comprehensive picture of their health status and overall health experience.  Despite the value of this clinical information, PRO use […]

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 […]

WEBINAR | Implementation of Virtual Urgent Care Across an Entire Health System at Advocate Aurora Health

Michael Ries, MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director System Critical Care, Tele-ICU, Patient Command Center, and Advocate Intensivist Partners; and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, FACHE, VP System Adult Critical Care, TeleICU, VPMS, Advocate Intensivist Partners, Central Telemetry-IL, Advocate Aurora Health. Michael Ries, MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, FACHE The COVID […]

Top 10 Factors to Consider when Developing Your Growth Strategy: The role IT can play in 2021

Leslie Schatz, Director of Client Services; Danny Fell, Director of Client Services; Nick Fromell, Subject Matter Expert, Optum; and Carol Chouinard, Vice President, Optum Advisory Services.  As hospital leaders begin to prepare for 2021, it is important to balance long term growth plans, while also working to recover from revenue losses. Carol Chouinard Nick Fromell […]

WEBINAR | Retail COVID Vaccine Distribution Strategy Update

Troyen Brennen, MD, MPH, EVP & CMO, CVS Health.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been working with national retail pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreens to provide COVID-19 vaccines once the inoculations are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and distributed in coordination with the Centers for Disease […]

Leverage a Digital Practice to Advance Consumer Engagement amid COVID-19 and Beyond 

Tom Pacek, CIO, Inspira Health, and David Harse, VP and GM, Consumer Engagement, Cerner.  As the healthcare industry undergoes a shift in consumer behavior patterns, providers are challenged with finding new opportunities to meet consumer expectations in delivering quality care.  Rising healthcare costs, a desire for more transparent health data, and the influence of digital […]

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 […]

COVID-19 Immunity Research at Mass General Brigham

Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is relatively well-known that the immune system produces antibodies in response to COVID-19 infection, but how long these antibody responses last continues to be unclear, and the heterogeneity of immune responses to COVID-19 makes it difficult to […]

Predictive Models, Bias, Health Equity, and COVID-19

Michael Pencina, PhD, Vice Dean for Data Science and IT & Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine. Modern health systems stand to derive substantial benefit from employing algorithm-based clinical decision support (ABCDS) tools. However, adoption has been slow and recent high profile failures have raised concerns about bias and inequity, lack […]

Leveraging the Power of Crowds: How Brigham and Women’s Innovation Hub is taking Aim at Everyday Problems

Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS Caroline Coy, MPH Callie Patel, MBA Santosh Mohan, MMCi, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Managing Director, Digital Health Innovation; Caroline Coy, MPH, Manager, Strategy Implementation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Callie Patel, MBA, Director, Healthbox. Healthcare delivery is too often saddled with cumbersome, redundant, and inefficient activities. While home to some of the […]

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 […]