IV Automation + Cloud Technology = Increased Patient Safety

Jeff Brittain PharmD, BCPS Mark Neuenschwander Jeff Brittain, PharmD, BCPS, Director Pharmacy Support Services, MUSC Health, and Mark Neuenschwander, Founding Director, THRIV.  Manual IV compounding is fraught with patient safety risks. Studies show one in ten IV preps have errors. Yet, just one in four health systems use IV workflow technology proven to significantly increase […]

Outlook 2020: The Top Three Challenges for Hospital Pharmacy Teams

Dean Parry, RPH Daniel Teich PharmD Jennifer Wheeler Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Dave Ehlert PharmD, MBA, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Dean Parry, RPH, Associate VP Clinical Informatics, Care Support Services, Geisinger Health System, Daniel Teich, Pharm.D., VP Purchasing and Contracting, Fairview Pharmacy Services, Jennifer Wheeler Davis, Pharm.D., MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director […]

Cyber Student Staffing Boosts Productivity at Sentara, Part II

Dan Bowden Daniel Bowden, VP & CISO, Sentara Healthcare.  Dan discusses some of the very positive impact that the student staffing program has had. Sentara’s cybersecurity program has made major improvements to training, process documentation, and drastically improved on-boarding time for not only new students, but all new team members. Further, the security team’s capabilities […]

Intermountain at Home and Virtual Care

Joel Macey, Executive Director Intermountain Homecare, and Nick Bassett, VP Population Health Services, Intermountain Healthcare.  As more health systems transition to value-based care and risk-based contracts, moving care upstream and out of traditional health centers has become increasingly prevalent. Providing care in the home is the model for the future, especially for high risk patients […]

Pop Health Management Strategy and Framework at Providence

Rhonda Medows MD, FAAFP Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, President, Population Health Management & CEO Ayin Health Solutions, Providence St. Joseph. Providence St Joseph Health is the third largest non-profit health system in the country, spanning 7 western states. With this much diversity in populations served, local market dynamics, and underlying social infrastructures, managing a comprehensive population […]

Utilizing SaaS ERPs at Advocate Aurora

Amy Olson Lydon Neumann Amy Olson, VP for ERP & Corporate Applications, Health Informatics and Technology, Advocate Aurora Health System, and Lydon Neumann, VP, Impact Advisors.  A new generation of cloud-based (SaaS) healthcare Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are emerging as strong transformation tools for healthcare organizations.  Healthcare providers continue to face margin pressures, talent leakage, M&A […]

Central Pharmacy Services Hub Delivers Patient-focused Care

Mark Sullivan, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Executive Director, Pharmacy Operations, and Michael O’Neal, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Procurement, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics.  Driven by a commitment to deliver enhanced patient-focused pharmacy services across the continuum of care, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics (VUHC) shifted many medication distributive and ancillary support functions to an off-campus centralized […]

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 […]

COVID-19 Financial Recovery Strategies

Michael Allen, CFO, OSF HealthCare, Christian Pass, CFO, John Muir Health, and Dan Michelson, CEO, Strata.  The COVID-19 pandemic has turned hospital financials upside down, as hospitals put community needs first in the immediate response to the disease outbreaks across the country. Financial management strategies for this kind of nimble, constantly-shifting operational decision-making include tactics […]

Move Faster in Your Digital Journey: Best Practices for Avoiding Common Missteps in Linking Digital to Strategy

Michelle Conger, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare, and Jeanette Flom, SVP Client Engagement - Central, AVIA.  Building a point of view for what digital health success should look like is easy. Michelle Conger Jeanette Flom Where many health systems stumble is in the next several steps - connecting a digital point-of-view to the organization’s overall […]

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, […]

Home Hospital: New Evidence and New Adoption at Brigham Health

David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, general internist and clinician investigator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Delivering hospital-level care at home for acutely ill adults is an evidence-based care model that results in reduced cost and readmission. Join us for key updates […]

At Home Care Program-Cuts Costs-and-Improves Outcomes at Geisinger

Andrea Harding Anthony Wylie Andrea Harding, Sr. Director Operations & Strategy, and Anthony Wylie, DO, Sr. Medical Director, Geisinger at Home.  Geisinger at Home provides team-based comprehensive and acute care in the home for Geisinger Health Plan’s most complex members across Northeast and Central Pennsylvania. Geisinger’s approach combines in-person, facilitated telemedicine, telemonitoring, outbound care coordination, […]