COVID

Sara Vaezy, MHA, MPH, Chief Digital Strategy Officer; and Ari Robicsek, MD, Chief Medical Analytics Officer, Providence. MyCovidDiary is a clinical research project that uses technology to learn and document COVID-19 onset and disease progression. The goal is to collect and analyze first-person accounts of COVID-19 from thousands of individuals, with the hope of accelerating the medical identification, understanding...

Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health.  Managing medication supply and inventory effectively across a health system is a constant challenge due to drug shortages, incongruent data structures across procurement and clinical systems, and the constant threat of drug diversion.  SCL Health has deployed a variety of tools and processes...

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 and Oklahoma, with the...

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 as outpatient prescription data, show COVID-19 response and post-recovery have had dramatic impacts on medication availability, utilization...

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 physical and psychological safety...

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 help control costs while...

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, ServiceNow, SalesForce, and Oracle Cloud ERP.   For the...

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 respond to COVID-19, from surge to vaccine, strategies that promote health equity must be identified...

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, improve performance, reduce burnout, and increase the direct impact on...

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, members and providers, as...