Chris D. Van Gorder FACHE Ghazala Q. Sharieff MD, MBA Becky G. Fox MSN, RN-BC Chris D. Van Gorder, FACHE, President and CEO, and Ghazala Q. Sharieff, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Excellence and Experience, Scripps Health, and Becky G. Fox, MSN, RN-BC, VP & CNIO, Atrium Health. As the COVID-19 outbreak began in […]
Bala Hota, MD, MPH, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Hota shares the background of how Rush developed predictive models to track the COVID-19 spread across Illinois (one of the U.S. states with the most coronavirus cases) and in particular the impact of Illinois’ shelter-in-place policies. The state, which has reported […]
Kristin Myers, Senior VP – Technology, Ken Koppenhaver, Senior Director – IT, and Paul Francaviglia, Director – IT, Mount Sinai Health System. As US COVID-19 cases continue to surge, New York has emerged as the epicenter of the American coronavirus outbreak. This has taken a tremendous toll on the people, needed resources, frontline staff, and […]
Paul Casey, MD, FACEP, Acting Chief Medical Officer, and Jordan Dale, MD, Associate CMIO, Rush University Medical Center. The Rush University System for Health (RUSH) is a regional and national resource of emergency preparedness, opening the Rush Tower hospital building in 2012 which was the first Chicago area hospital specifically designed to provide treatment for […]
Michelle Conger, MSW, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare and CEO, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Jennifer Junis, RN, MSN, SVP, OSF, Saint Gabriel Digital Health; Becky Buchen, SVP OSF Innovation; John Vozenilek, MD, FACEP, VP & Chief Medical Officer, OSF Innovation and Saint Gabriel Digital Health; and Melinda Cooling, DNP, MBA, APN, NEA-BC, VP Advanced Practice, […]
Marjorie Mathews, VP Healthcare Applications, and Joyce Oh, VP Business Systems / Enterprise Data Management / PMO, Beaumont Health. Beaumont Health has treated the most patients with COVID-19 in Michigan, which currently has the third highest deaths from COVID-19 in the country. Joyce Oh Beaumont’s Research Institute has launched the nation’s largest serological testing study […]
Sam Bagchi, MD, Executive VP & Chief Clinical Officer, CHRISTUS Health. For months, healthcare providers have been immersed in preparing for and responding to the situations created by COVID-19. But as some states begin to reopen, and as government restrictions on pre-scheduled procedures are relaxed, healthcare systems are beginning to consider how they might better […]
Rossy Balmaceda, RN, MSN, Director & Client Leader, East Jefferson General Hospital, Matt MacVey, CHCIO, VP & CIO, Children’s National Hospital, and Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE, SVP, Cerner. The pace of change continues. Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE Matt MacVey, CHCIO Rossy Balmaceda, RN, MSN As many health systems continue to surge, others are still watching […]
Sonia Samagh, MD, MBA, National Clinical Lead for Digital Health, OptumCare, and John Kontor, MD, SVP Provider Technology Services, Optum Advisory Services. While we are in a period of crisis response and uncertainty today, healthcare organizations must implement solutions that simultaneously drive rapid progress and ensure long-term benefit for all. The pivot to virtual care […]
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).
Erin R. Fox, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, Senior Director Drug Information and Support Services, University of Utah Health, Benjamin Pennell, PharmD, MS, Manager Central Pharmacy Operations, Massachusetts General Hospital, Sharon Higgins, RPh, Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and David Berkowitz, PharmD, Performance Center Field Consultant, Omnicell. David Berkowitz PharmD Benjamin Pennell PharmD, MS Erin […]
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 […]
Brian Junghans Jim Akimchuk Jim Akimchuk, VP, and Brian Junghans, VP, Impact Advisors. As healthcare providers have shifted focus to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, normal business operations have been interrupted causing significant financial pressures. While the underlying variables at some institutions are relatively consistent (e.g., the impact to non-COVID patient volumes), others are dramatically […]
Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report; and Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), the University of Minnesota. Hospitals across the country have responded courageously and admirably as the nation’s public health servants to address and manage the international COVID-19 pandemic. Michael T. Osterholm PhD, MPH […]
Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery & Director, Surgical GI Cancer Program and Regional Therapeutics Program, and Vivek Prachand, MD, Professor of Surgery & Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 created an incredible strain on health systems worldwide, leading to postponements of elective surgeries. Kiran Turaga […]
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 […]
Nancy Howell Agee Cathy Jennings, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, FNAP Nancy Howell Agee, President & CEO, and Cathy Jennings, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, FNAP, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Surgery, Carilion Clinic. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers in a manner that can be likened to “combat fatigue” given the unique circumstances in which this has played […]
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 […]
