The Draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: What’s in it, and Why it’s Important

Dan Golder, DDS, MBA, Principal, and Larry Katzovitz, Senior Advisor, Impact Advisors. The draft “2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan” from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlines federal health information technology (health IT) goals, objectives and strategies for the next five years.  Once finalized, the plan “will serve as a roadmap for […]

Central Pharmacy Services Hub Delivers Patient-focused Care

Mark Sullivan, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Executive Director, Pharmacy Operations, and Michael O’Neal, PharmD, MBA, Director of Pharmacy Procurement, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics.  Driven by a commitment to deliver enhanced patient-focused pharmacy services across the continuum of care, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics (VUHC) shifted many medication distributive and ancillary support functions to an off-campus centralized […]

EMR Adoption Training for Providers at Northern Light Health

Michael Ross, MD, FAAP, FACMI, Regional Medical Information Officer, Northern Light Health.  Dr. Ross discusses the process at Northern Light Health (NLH) which focuses on increasing provider adoption through post-adoption training classes.  We’ll discuss the use of survey and EMR-user-experience tools to gather data on those attending adoption classes, demonstrating improvements in provider efficiency and patient access.  He also […]

Pivoting to Quickly Operationalize Telehealth for COVID-19

Jay Backstrom, VP, Impact Advisors.  Health systems across the US are mobilizing to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth has become a vital tool to meet the critical needs for virus screening, patient triage, and care coordination services for at-risk patients. This teleconference addresses the types of high-impact, low-friction telehealth solutions for COVID-19, how to quickly operationalize solutions and navigate […]

Tech Transformation Becomes Real in the COVID-19 Crisis

Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Providence, shares lessons learned to date from ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providence is embracing technology and lowering regulatory barriers to flatten the curve and ultimately transform healthcare. Dr. Compton-Phillips will explain how Chat-Bot triage, virtual visits and centralized, remote monitoring are reducing PPE use and keeping patients […]

Mobilizing Workstreams from Surge Capacity to Supply Chains in Response to COVID-19

Cheryl Hertel, MBA, RN-BC, FACHE, CHCIO John W. McLendon, CPHIMS, MBA Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE Cheryl Hertel, MBA, RN-BC, FACHE, CHCIO, VP & CIO, CoxHealth, John W. McLendon, CPHIMS, MBA, VP & CIO, Circle Health, and Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE, SVP Cerner. Cheryl, John and Dick summarize how health systems are responding to COVID-19, the financial […]

Atrium Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Hospital

Scott Rissmiller, MD, EVP & Chief Physician Executive, Atrium Health.  Atrium Health announced a new and innovative program to help appropriate patients who have been diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to receive safe and convenient treatment while they recover, in the comfort of their home. Atrium Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Hospital is designed to protect the […]

Intermountain Leveraging Analytics to Inform Capacity Management During COVID-19 Outbreak

Albert Marinez, Chief Analytics Officer, Amy Christensen, MSN, RN, NE-BC, FACHE, VP & CNO Specialty Based Care, Seraphine Kapsandoy, PhD, RN, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and Diego Ize-Ludlow, MD, CHIO, Intermountain Healthcare. COVID-19 has put a renewed focus on actionable and real-time intelligence. Hospital administrators and operational leaders required the support of real-time situational awareness […]

Managing Demand and Capacity During COVID-19 Pandemic

Angela Tiberio, MD Angela Tiberio, MD, Physician Executive, Katherine Rosengren, RN, Senior Clinical Advisor, and John Klare, Practice Leader & Board Member, Impact Advisors. As the COVID-19 Pandemic continues to evolve, healthcare organizations need to prepare to increase capacity and to manage demand. During this session, John briefly reviews the latest information and projections for […]

Immediate Guidance for Care Teams in Documenting and Coding COVID-19

Robin Friday RN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer Reid Conant MD, FACEP Jared Pelo MD, FACEP Reid Conant, MD, FACEP, CMIO, Jared Pelo, MD, FACEP, CMIO, and Robin Friday, RN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer & Director of Clinical Content, COE, Nuance. Physicians and nurses are caring for a rising number […]

Digital Health Response to COVID-19 at Providence

Sara Vaezy, MHA, MPH, Chief Digital Strategy & Business Development Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health, presents on Providence’s digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming at it from multiple angles, including leveraging the chatbot for assessment, triaging to virtual visits for further screening, identifying appropriate testing locations, and serving as a partner on the pathway […]

Anatomy of an Outbreak

Christopher Kerns, VP, Executive Insights, Advisory Board. The COVID-19 pandemic has roiled nearly every facet of life in every country to which it has spread. In this presentation, Christopher, who oversees all of Advisory Board’s research for healthcare executives, outlines not only the progression of the virus in the US, but also proven tactics for […]