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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Enterprise Management of Drug Inventory, Drug Shortages, and Drug Diversion at SCL Health

Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health.  Managing medication supply and inventory effectively across a health system is a constant challenge due to drug shortages, incongruent data structures across procurement and clinical systems, and the constant threat of drug […]

Data Intelligence and the Framework to Build the Autonomous Pharmacy of the Future

Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD, Assistant Professor, Department of Learning Health Science, University of Michigan Medical School, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP of Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  National leaders in health system pharmacy have joined together to create a framework for a fully autonomous pharmacy, […]

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.

Acute Care Transformation at Cedars Sinai

Rupal Badani, MD, Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Medical Network. COVID-19 has transformed the way we live and work, and that has certainly been true in how patients receive healthcare. The Cedars-Sinai Medical Network had already been engaged in a lean-based redesign of primary care practices, called "practice transformation", looking at ways to streamline workflow, redesign physical […]

Expert Insights into National COVID-19 Vaccine Development

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, Dean, School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, UT School of Public Health; Chair, Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital; and Co-Director, Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD). COVID-19 vaccine development, manufacturing, and distribution is […]

Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify COVID-19 Patients at High Risk of Clinical Deterioration

Peter Winkelstein, MD, MS, MBA, FAAP, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, VP and CMIO, Kaleida Health, Executive Director, University at Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics, and CMIO, UBMD; and Randall Wald, PhD, Senior Data Scientist, Cerner. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged hospitals to make careful use of resources, especially for patient subpopulations which are clinically complex. […]

Addressing Patient Hospital Concerns Post-COVID with Precision Marketing at AdventHealth

Anthony Cadieux, Executive Director, Strategy and Digital Marketing, AdventHealth; Jason Brown, CEO, BPD Advertising; and Tyler Ford, Director, Optum. Many health systems around the country have been impacted by shutdowns related to COVID and rising consumer concerns regarding the use of healthcare services during a pandemic. Tyler Ford Jason Brown Anthony Cadieux Learn how AdventHealth […]

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 […]

Operationalizing Telehealth Across Sites of Care at AMITA

Laura Messineo, RN, MHA, VP TeleHealth, AMITA Health. Telehealth has seen exponential growth across the country and many health systems have implemented interim solutions to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Laura provides an overview of AMITA Health’s centralized telehealth strategy which is focused on transforming the delivery of healthcare across the care continuum. […]

Delivering Better Outcomes by Insourcing Complex Processes in Pharmacy Operations

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD, VP Clinical Operations, Tidal Health, and Dennis Wright, Senior Director, Omnicell. The healthcare industry often turns to software as a service (SaaS) to increase software versatility and accessibility without having to install and run applications on multiple computers and data systems. Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD Dennis Wright Yet, when considering capital […]

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 […]