The ‘Combat Fatigue’ Impact of COVID-19

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 […]

E-notifications at Atrium Health and Preparing for the New Condition of Participation

Matt Sullivan, MD, Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Erica Hetrick, AVP, IAS, Atrium Health, and Jay Desai, CEO, PatientPing. The clock is ticking! Matt Sullivan, MD Jay Desai With the publication of the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule published in the federal register on May 1, hospitals have 12 months to comply […]

COVID-19 Financial Recovery Strategies

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 […]

Using Machine-Learning Algorithms to Prevent Drug Diversion at Mass General

Christopher R. Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Healthcare providers are vulnerable to serious legal, financial, operational and reputational risks - and regulatory fines - due to employee drug diversion and inadequate internal controls. COVID-19 has increased employee’s feelings of stress and burnout has spiked to new […]

Move Faster in Your Digital Journey: Best Practices for Avoiding Common Missteps in Linking Digital to Strategy

Michelle Conger, Chief Strategy Officer, OSF HealthCare, and Jeanette Flom, SVP Client Engagement - Central, AVIA.  Building a point of view for what digital health success should look like is easy. Michelle Conger Jeanette Flom Where many health systems stumble is in the next several steps - connecting a digital point-of-view to the organization’s overall […]

PROMs at Every Clinic?  It Depends.  Applying Lessons of Over Five Years of PROMs Implementations at Partners

Peter Meyers, Director, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Peter presents the findings of Medical Director Rachel C. Sisodia’s recent study of Partners six years of implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) across their Harvard-affiliated health system.  This teleconference reviews the factors behind both successful and failed PROMs clinic implementations.  This discussion also presents the […]

COVID-19 Procedural PPE Utilization Forecast Tool at Sharp

Jon McManus Dan Exley Jon McManus, VP Enterprise Analytics, and Dan Exley, Principal Data Architect, Sharp HealthCare.  Jon and Dan explain how Sharp HealthCare has integrated data from across the organization to forecast detailed PPE requirements related to the resumption of Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive and Elective Procedures in the COVID-19 era. Find out how you […]

Ancestry and UpToDate Enhance Genetic Testing Value for Providers and Patients

Catherine Ball, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Ancestry, and Peter Bonis, MD, CMO, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer, Health. As millions of consumers choose to take DNA tests to gain greater insight into their health and wellness, healthcare providers must be prepared to help patients understand how their genes influence their health. Learn how the partnership between Ancestry and […]

Current and Future Ethical Challenges of Vaccination for COVID-19

Arthur Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and Founding Head of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine.  Many believe that the only solution to the COVID-19 plague is to find a vaccine.  Efforts to speed that discovery involve unprecedented investments of money, involvement by hundreds of research teams […]

Respond, Recover and Reimagine: Consumer & Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19 at IU Health

Ian McDaniel, PT, MBA, Executive Director Virtual Care, System Clinical Services, and Michele Saysana, MD, FAAP, VP Safety, Quality & Patient Improvement and Chief Patient Safety & Quality Officer, Indiana University Health, and Andy Penn, VP Virtual Health, Cerner.   COVID-19 has demonstrated the urgent need for healthcare organizations to become more agile in finding new […]

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, […]