COVID

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. Epicenter and hotspot hospitals are using nearly 75+ different drugs to treat COVID-19...

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 redirect care for non-COVID-19...

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 hospital operations. How...

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 such as rolling forecasts,...

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. To address the rising number of cases of COVID-19, Stanford has been successful in rapidly scaling telemedicine capacity, creating drive-through testing, and building novel workflows for management of PUI...

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 members are collaborating to deliver...

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 to get implemented, and...

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...

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 Dr. Bhatt mentions during the...

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 his view from the...