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, […]

Bundled Payments at Partners

David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Kyan C. Safavi, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Healthcare Systems Engineering, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  In 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative in which a set […]

Rethinking Virtual Physician Visits at Banner

Christopher Stallings, Senior Director Digital Consumer, Banner Health.  In the wake of COVID-19, healthcare providers have needed to rethink the traditional waiting room experience. Banner Health has launched a virtual waiting room across its Banner Medical Group practices, encompassing 300 clinics across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.  Banner Health is using mobile chatbots […]

It Takes a Community to Deliver Whole Person Care at Providence

Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN, Manager, Care Management, CARE Network, Community Outreach, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Providence Health, Dana Codron, RN, MPH, Regional Director, Community Health Investment, St. Joseph Health, Providence Health, and David S. Fanara, MBA, Chief Revenue Officer, Activate Care. Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN Dana Codron, RN, MPH […]

EHR Innovations Reduce Clinician Time by 50%

Stephen O’Mahony, MD, FACP, VP & CHIO, RWJBarnabas Health & Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  EHRs are essential to healthcare transformation and quality improvement, however, lack of optimization for clinician workflow has led to their identification as a major contributor to physician dissatisfaction and potential burnout.  RWJBH has partnered with a […]

EMR Patient Safety Effectiveness Study: Medical Errors Still Persist

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah, and A Jay Holmgren, Doctoral Candidate in Health Policy and Management, Harvard University and Harvard Business School. As reported recently in StatNews, a major reason for the widespread adoption of electronic health records was to reduce human error in prescribing medicines, as […]

Rapid Transformation of IT During COVID-19, and What’s Next at Beaumont Health

Ken Septer, VP Infrastructure & IT Service Delivery, Patricia Plata West (DeCamillo), MS, BSN, RN, Customer Relationship Manager, IT CRM, Colette Calliea, IT CRM (Troy & Grosse Pointe), Andrea Judd, IT CRM (Royal Oak), and Michele Ruppal, IT CRM (Dearborn & Farmington Hills), Beaumont Health.  National COVID-19 impact data have shown that Michigan was one […]

Revolutionizing COVID-19 Research: An EHR-enabled Learning Health Network

Ann Marie Navar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine & Strategic Advisor, Cerner Corporation, and Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute & Strategic Advisor, Cerner Corporation. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for EHR data access for […]

The Future State of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Michael Hyter Tom Giella Doug Greenberg Katie Bell Mitul Modi Michael Hyter, Chief Diversity Officer, Tom Giella, Vice Chairman Healthcare Services, Doug Greenberg, North America Market Leader - Healthcare, Katie Bell, Senior Client Partner - Healthcare, Mitul Modi, Senior Client Partner - Healthcare, Korn Ferry.  The panel discusses inclusive leadership and how it can meaningfully […]

Accelerating Adoption of Machine Learning Algorithms at Mass General Brigham

Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM Ittai Dayan, MD Karen Holzberger Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, Chief Data Science Officer and Chief Executive, Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), and Ittai Dayan, MD, Executive Director of Strategy, Research & Clinical Operations, CCDS, Mass General Brigham, and Karen Holzberger, SVP & General Manager, Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance.  […]

Geisinger’s Genomics and Precision Health Initiative, Part II

John B. Bulger, DO, MBA David Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG John Bulger, DO, MBA, Chief Medical Officer Population Health, Geisinger Health System and Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan, and David Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG, Executive VP & Chief Scientific Officer, Geisinger Health System.  After extensive experience with DNA sequencing of patient-participants in a research setting, […]