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 […]

Utilizing CRM for Patient Outreach at Virginia Mason

Ellen Wiegand Mani Nair, IT Director of Software Engineering and Business Intelligence, and Ellen Wiegand, VP & CIO, Virginia Mason Health System. Virginia Mason patients are very engaged with online tools, and approximately 70% of Virginia Mason’s patients are active users of the patient portal. Virginia Mason patients have expressed that they expect to be […]

Pre, During and Post-COVID-19, The Future of Healthcare Analytics is Now

Soyal Momin, SVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and Liam Bouchier, Principal, Impact Advisors.  Soyal and Liam discuss Presbyterian Healthcare’s analytics strategy, developed over the last five years, which supported their preparation for, management through, and future planning beyond COVID-19.  The analytics ecosystem and supporting data allowed Presbyterian Healthcare Services to support its own patients, […]

Building an Analytics Ecosystem that Drives Performance at Carilion Clinic

Stephen Morgan, MD Michael Clark Stephen Morgan, MD, SVP & CMIO, Carilion Clinic, and Michael Clark, SVP, General Manager Provider Solutions, Nuance.  The vast amount of health data generated and stored in the EHR and other IT systems offers opportunities for clinical and operational advancement. Using analytics to interpret data into actionable insights is helping Carilion Clinic to streamline operations, […]

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, […]

COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Addressing Health Disparities Now, Preparing for Vaccination and Beyond at CCHMC

Rob Kahn, MD, MPH Andy Beck, MD, MPH Rob Kahn, MD, MPH, Physician Lead, Community and Population Health, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, Associate Professor & Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.  The COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on disparities by race, ethnicity and poverty that have long been present across a range of health outcomes. To […]

Accelerating Transformation and Automating the Service Now Experience in Epic at SCL Health

Stephanie McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC Stephanie H. McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC, VP Applications, and Nick Iannoni, Director Shared Application Services, SCL Health. Speed, agility and collaboration are the hallmarks of how COVID-19 has transformed the way we work in healthcare. At SCL Health, this transformation had already been in process, building on five major platforms: Google, Epic, […]

SI 2020 CMIO Virtual Roundtable

Voice technologies and ambient intelligence hold promise for improvements and efficiencies in clinical workflow. During the past few years vendors and services have emerged from both within and outside healthcare.  The Scottsdale Institute convened 24 chief medical informatics officers (CMIOs) for a virtual roundtable on August 20, 2020, to discuss the current technologies and use […]

The Art of Balancing Cost and Quality at Advocate Aurora Health

Carrie Nelson, MD, MS, FAAFP, CMO & System VP, Population Health and Health Outcomes, Advocate Aurora Health.  Rising healthcare expenditures and shrinking margins, in addition to the recent pause on elective procedures due to COVID-19, has put cost containment at the forefront of many healthcare organizations’ strategies. Advocate Aurora Health has turned to data to […]

COVID-19-related Diagnostic Errors

Tejal Gandhi, MD, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey, and Hardeep Singh, MD, Chief of Health Policy, Quality and Informatics at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.  The COVID-19 pandemic increases the risk of diagnostic error because the disease itself is new and knowledge of its clinical manifestations is still evolving.  In addition, both […]

Pharmacy Intelligence – Insights from Aggregate Benchmarking

Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS, VP Pharmacy Operations, OSF HealthCare System, Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  Recently aggregated nationwide drug data from hundreds of health systems, as well […]

Mercy Virtual and COVID-19: Healthcare Redefined

Keith M. Starke, MD, FACP, SVP & CQO; Joseph Kelly, EVP Office of Transformation; Gavin Helton, MD, SVP Population Health; and Ashok Palagiri, MD, Physician Lead for Virtual Hospital Medicine, Mercy Health. Mercy Virtual was established over a decade ago, initially as a centralized teleICU monitoring center, supporting 38 hospitals spread across Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas […]

Predictive Analytics at UW Health

Brian Patterson, MD, MPH Frank Liao, PhD Sabrina Adelaine Brian Patterson, MD, MPH, Physician Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics; Frank Liao, PhD, Director of Data Science and Advanced Analytics; and Sabrina Adelaine, PhD, Applied Data Scientist, UW Health.  Predictive analytics holds the promise of improving healthcare by harnessing data at the frontlines of healthcare delivery, […]