Culinary Medicine at Spectrum Health

Leanne Mauriello, PhD Leanne Mauriello, PhD, Director, Behavioral Science & Lifestyle Management, Spectrum Health, and Tim Harlan, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical Services at Tulane University School of Medicine. Spectrum Health partnered with Tulane University's Health Meets Food to teach culinary medicine to medical residents, clinicians, and patients. Dr. Harlan discusses the Health Meets Food curriculum […]

Personal Digital Assistants: Using Electronics to Improve Quality of Life for Seniors at Ascension

Christine Way, Senior Director Experience Products, and Ravi Kosaraju, Director Ascension Technologies, Ascension Health. Saturday Night Live's many-times-viewed skit about seniors using Amazon's Echo got it mostly right: seniors are using personal digital assistants more than ever before, but with much better results. Christine and Ravi share how Ascension is using personal digital assistants to help […]

Aligning the Digital Customer Experience with Business Objectives

David Betts Josh Nelson Quinn Solomon David Betts, Principal, Josh Nelson, Principal, and Quinn Solomon, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Healthcare organizations are working to meet and exceed the expectations of their increasingly digital and engaged customers while simultaneously meeting their business objectives. As organizations explore various digital tools and technologies to meet these expectations, they […]

Strategic Initiative Office at Intermountain

Daniel Liljenquist Dan Liljenquist, SVP/Chief Strategy Officer, Intermountain Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare's Enterprise Initiative Office functions as an internal strategy consulting resource to Intermountain's Executive Leadership team. It is responsible for developing, resourcing and implementing key system-wide strategic initiatives, and is expected to generate a 10X return in the investment in the team each year. In […]

Pharmacy Dashboards and Scorecards at Adventist Health West

Terry Webb, PharmD, MBA Terence ("Terry") Webb, PharmD, MBA, VP Pharmacy Services, Adventist Health West. Data can be assembled in different ways to become actionable information, and Adventist Health uses a variety of dashboards and scorecards to help with operational and strategic actions/decisions that support reporting to senior executives and monitoring operations and initiatives. Terry […]

After 10 Years of Safety Testing of Operational EHRs What Have We Learned?

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine report "To Err is Human" revealed that 98,000 people die every year due to medical errors. The Leapfrog Group founders partnered with the Business Roundtable, leading researchers and academics, and top quality and patient safety experts […]

Population Health Outcomes, Medication Adherence, and Pharmacy Management Services

Sharrel Pinto, BS Pharm, DMM, MS, PhD Sharrel Pinto, BS Pharm, DMM, MS, PhD, Hoch Family Endowed Professor for Community Pharmacy Practice, South Dakota State University. Dr. Pinto shares the results of the STOMPP study, a Study to Measure the Impact of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Services (STOMPP) on Medication Non-Adherence: Medication Adherence and Clinical Outcomes. […]

The Baycare Story: Empowering Patients Post-discharge to Improve Care Transitions

Amy Cain, MSN, RN, Director of Quality East Region, BayCare Health System. BayCare connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 14 hospitals and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the Tampa Bay and West Central Florida regions. They were facing a challenge common to most, if not all providers, which was […]

Combating the Opioid Crisis using Clinical Decision Support at Atrium Health

Matt Sullivan, MD Alan Staples Matt Sullivan, MD, CMIO, Atrium Health, and Alan Staples, Senior Strategist, Cerner. Atrium Health utilizes clinical decision support alerts within the electronic health record that are triggered by selected risks for opioid abuse. The alerts might include a history of prior opioid overdose, or whether he or she had tested […]

Utilizing AI in the Clinical Workflow at Rush

Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, FCHIME, CHCIO Kali Durgampudi Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, FCHIME, CHCIO, Senior VP and CIO, Rush University Medical Center, and Kali Durgampudi, VP Innovation, Mobile Architecture and R&D, Nuance. Rush University Medical Center is one of the first medical centers to adopt AI-powered virtual assistant solutions as a stepping stone toward ambient […]

Best Practices to Identify and Control Drug Shortages

Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS Michael Ganio PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Lina Saliba, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, Senior Pharmacy Specialist, Yale New Haven Health System, Samantha Bastow, PharmD, BCBS, Associate Director Clinical Pharmacy Services at UChicago Medicine, Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, Director Pharmacy Practice and Quality at American […]

Strategies and Technologies for Advancing Patient Engagement

Colin Buckley Adam Cherrington Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, and Adam Cherrington, Director of Patient Engagement Research, KLAS.  Patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is just taking shape. Broad visions and experimentation abound, but pathways are still being cleared, and there is a lack of consensus […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System CISO Case Studies Workshop

BayCare Health System’s VP & CISO, Thien Lam, along with CIO Tim Thompson and CTO Scott Patterson, hosted a very focused one-day SI CISO Case Studies Workshop at their headquarters in Clearwater, Florida in January 2019. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other healthcare IT security executives (individuals and teams) from 12 SI Member organizations […]

SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit

SI Members were able to experience the powerful combination of digital and retail healthcare, January 17-18, at SI's first site visit of the year. Read our SI 2019 BayCare Health System/Publix and HealthHub Site Visit report to discover how an innovative partnership between BayCare Health System and Publix Super Markets is changing the healthcare landscape in Florida.  […]

Demographics, Burnout, and Technology: From Frustration to Friend

Michael Tutty, PhD, MHA Michael Tutty, PhD, VP Professional Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association.  The demographics of the United States are shifting as the population ages and the number of workers per retiree shrinks.  The resulting changes will put a heavy strain on the healthcare system.  There is a projected physician shortfall of […]