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At Home Care Program-Cuts Costs-and-Improves Outcomes at Geisinger

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, and nurse triage to improve quality and manage...

Innovative Platforms for COVID-19 Frontline Care Coordination and Interoperability In Underserved Communities

Jennifer Stoll, EVP, Government Relations & Public Affairs, OCHIN, and Jackie Gerhart, MD, Clinical Informatics, Epic.  Jennifer and Dr. Gerhart discuss new platform tools being used to ensure care coordination and interoperability during the COVID-19 crisis in underserved and rural communities across the country. As state and federal partners are deploying alternate care sites across the country, many are using...

Using Analytics to Improve Care Management

Robert Crossey, DO, President, and Francis R. Colangelo, MD, MS-HQS, FACP, VP and Chief Quality Officer, Premier Medical Associates.  Improving care coordination for patients with multiple co-morbidities and chronic conditions is essential to increasing quality and reducing the total cost of care. These patients face unique challenges navigating the health system, but also oftentimes synthesizing the advice of multiple physicians.  Drs. Crossey and...

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 the recent changes to...