telehealth

Laura Messineo, RN, MHA, VP TeleHealth, AMITA Health. Telehealth has seen exponential growth across the country and many health systems have implemented interim solutions to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Laura provides an overview of AMITA Health’s centralized telehealth strategy which is focused on transforming the delivery of healthcare across the care continuum. She shares outcome measures...

Jim Roxburgh, CEO Banner Telehealth, and Michael Simons, MD, Medical Director of Banner Telehealth, Banner Health.  Banner’s telehealth program encompasses a comprehensive approach to patient care across the continuum of care. Services reach across 6 states and 28 hospitals. Banner Telehealth’s approach to care is designed to support easy access for virtual care in the acute, ambulatory and home...

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...

Peter A. Rasmussen, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, CCAW JV, LLC, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.  Digital health and telemedicine had made some inroads into traditional healthcare delivery systems prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Innovative strategies have existed for quite some time to use internet connected devices to promote virtual chronic disease monitoring.  By removing regulatory barriers, reimbursement gaps, and privacy concerns, COVID-19 has accelerated...

Sonia Samagh, MD, MBA, National Clinical Lead for Digital Health, OptumCare, and John Kontor, MD, SVP Provider Technology Services, Optum Advisory Services.  While we are in a period of crisis response and uncertainty today, healthcare organizations must implement solutions that simultaneously drive rapid progress and ensure long-term benefit for all. The pivot to virtual care has changed the fabric...

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...

Jackie Gerhart, MD, Clinical Informatics, Epic.  In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations and clinicians are ramping up care on two fronts. As part of expansion and surge efforts, they are adding beds to existing facilities and setting up temporary hospitals and pop-up screening sites to deal with the influx of new infections. Under social distancing guidelines,...

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...

Jay Backstrom, VP and Telehealth Practice Leader, Impact Advisors.  While many organizations have implemented telehealth over the years, some are realizing significant success while others are failing with low adoption and little to no realized benefits. The difference between success and failure is directly attributed to having a mature telehealth program with the right alignment of services that flex...