Kenneth J. Fawcett Jr., MD, Vice President, Healthier Communities, Spectrum Health. Dr. Fawcett asks and attempts to answer how we can create equitable outcomes among disadvantaged populations in the context of an active pandemic. He describes strategies to reduce COVID-19 infections, explains how to proactively reach out to patients who are at greatest risk outside […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brian Wayling, MBA, Executive Director Development & Technology, Intermountain Healthcare Telehealth Services. Intermountain has always been a leader in using data to develop healthcare standards, monitor variance and improve processes to ensure clinical and operational results. This approach has been applied to Telehealth Services consistently over the years to measure success for each program and […]
Minneapolis has long been a “bellwether market” when it comes to managed care, and the creative partnership between Blue Cross MN and North Memorial Health CEOs is no exception. Most recently, they’ve collaborated to align incentives and shared governance to keep patients healthy, provide more home-based services and reduce overall healthcare
Scott Rissmiller, MD, EVP & Chief Physician Executive, and Kinneil Coltman, DHA, SVP, Chief Community & Social Impact Officer, Atrium Health. Atrium Health’s “Community Immunity For All” collaborative has a united goal to ensure equity in access to COVID-19 vaccines, acknowledge the history of health injustice in communities of color, listen to and collaborate with […]
Audra Bohannon, Senior Client Partner and Norm Miles, Senior Principal at Korn Ferry. Given the challenges in healthcare, change is paramount. We live in a complex and diverse world that requires recognition of the power of inclusion as a key business driver to address the current state. Diversity won’t make a difference without equity. Understand how diversity, equity and inclusion maximizes
John McConnell, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Despite an unprecedented scientific effort, uncertainties remain in our knowledge of COVID-19. Efforts to prevent and treat the COVID-19 pandemic have been further complicated by the spread of misinformation about the disease. This teleconference attempts to untangle myth from reality in what we
Stephanie Lahr, MD, CMIO and CIO, Monument Health, and Peter Durlach, SVP, Healthcare Strategy and New Business Development, Nuance Communications. Patients want the same conveniences from healthcare organizations that they enjoy from major consumer brands. To deliver voice and digital experiences to patients across their journey, Monument Health is partnering with Nuance to build an AI-powered […]
Mark Hohulin, MBA, SVP, Healthcare Analytics, and Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF OnCall, OSF Healthcare System. OSF Healthcare’s Virtual Advanced Care manages those at the highest risk for hospital or emergency care by offering chronically ill patients daily virtual care from a team of clinicians. Participants use at-home monitoring equipment to report vital signs […]
Bill Fera, MD, Principal; Urvi Shah, Senior Manager; Maulesh Shukla, Manager; and Casey Korba, Research and Policy Manager, Deloitte. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a dramatic adoption of virtual health. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions’ recent study examined how the healthcare system’s experience in 2020 changed the practice of medicine, how consumers and clinicians are […]
