Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report. Noted futurist and healthcare politics insider Dr. Keckley, and national healthcare finance resource leader Joe Fifer, bring their combined expertise in assessing the near-term impact on the nation’s hospitals as the Stimulus Bill continues […]
Jason Joseph, MBA, SVP & CIO, Spectrum Health. In this presentation, Jason outlines Spectrum Health’s stages of COVID-19 preparation and response, and how the organization has adapted and advanced since March. He also discusses some of the IT-related activities, the shift to “digital” everything, and some of the methods Spectrum has been using to deal […]
Samuel C. Thomas, MD, MS, Fellow Population Health, Delivery Science, Primary Care, and Maja Artandi, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, and Christopher (Topher) Sharp, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medicine. Christopher Sharp MD Maja Artandi MD Samuel C. Thomas MD To address the rising number of cases of COVID-19, Stanford has been successful in […]
Jamie Nelson, CIO, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) shares the unique response of the Hospital for Special Surgery to the New York experience with the COVID-19 crisis. Jamie describes how HSS recognized the risk and identified its responsibility to support the greater need of its New York City community. What started with an intent to […]
John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Brian Anderson, MD, Chief Digital Health Physician, The Mitre Corporation. Drs. Halamka and Anderson share the vision behind a private-industry led healthcare coalition combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss specific progress to date, identified best practices, particularly around critical COVID-19-related supply chain issues, and areas where coalition […]
Bala Hota, MD, MPH, VP & Chief Analytics Officer, Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Hota shares the background of how Rush developed predictive models to track the COVID-19 spread across Illinois (one of the U.S. states with the most coronavirus cases) and in particular the impact of Illinois’ shelter-in-place policies. The state, which has reported […]
Kristin Myers, Senior VP – Technology, Ken Koppenhaver, Senior Director – IT, and Paul Francaviglia, Director – IT, Mount Sinai Health System. As US COVID-19 cases continue to surge, New York has emerged as the epicenter of the American coronavirus outbreak. This has taken a tremendous toll on the people, needed resources, frontline staff, and […]
Marjorie Mathews, VP Healthcare Applications, and Joyce Oh, VP Business Systems / Enterprise Data Management / PMO, Beaumont Health. Beaumont Health has treated the most patients with COVID-19 in Michigan, which currently has the third highest deaths from COVID-19 in the country. Joyce Oh Beaumont’s Research Institute has launched the nation’s largest serological testing study […]
Rossy Balmaceda, RN, MSN, Director & Client Leader, East Jefferson General Hospital, Matt MacVey, CHCIO, VP & CIO, Children’s National Hospital, and Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE, SVP, Cerner. The pace of change continues. Dick Flanigan, MBA, FACHE Matt MacVey, CHCIO Rossy Balmaceda, RN, MSN As many health systems continue to surge, others are still watching […]
Erin R. Fox, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP, Senior Director Drug Information and Support Services, University of Utah Health, Benjamin Pennell, PharmD, MS, Manager Central Pharmacy Operations, Massachusetts General Hospital, Sharon Higgins, RPh, Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and David Berkowitz, PharmD, Performance Center Field Consultant, Omnicell. David Berkowitz PharmD Benjamin Pennell PharmD, MS Erin […]
Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, FACP, former SVP & Chief Medical Officer, American Hospital Association. Dr. Bhatt explores how to consider framing social needs, social determinants of health and health equity for hospitals and health systems. He also discusses the intersection between these social factors that affect overall health and the power of community partnerships in the wake of COVID-19. Link to the article […]
Brian Junghans Jim Akimchuk Jim Akimchuk, VP, and Brian Junghans, VP, Impact Advisors. As healthcare providers have shifted focus to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, normal business operations have been interrupted causing significant financial pressures. While the underlying variables at some institutions are relatively consistent (e.g., the impact to non-COVID patient volumes), others are dramatically […]
Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report; and Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), the University of Minnesota. Hospitals across the country have responded courageously and admirably as the nation’s public health servants to address and manage the international COVID-19 pandemic. Michael T. Osterholm PhD, MPH […]
Michael Tutty, PhD, Group VP, Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability, American Medical Association (AMA). In the last three months there have been tremendous changes and challenges to the physician profession arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. From those clinicians working on the frontlines to those struggling with reduced clinical workloads, healthcare is in turmoil. Michael presents […]
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 […]
