PROMs at Every Clinic?  It Depends.  Applying Lessons of Over Five Years of PROMs Implementations at Partners

Peter Meyers, Director, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Peter presents the findings of Medical Director Rachel C. Sisodia’s recent study of Partners six years of implementing Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) across their Harvard-affiliated health system.  This teleconference reviews the factors behind both...

COVID-19 Procedural PPE Utilization Forecast Tool at Sharp

Jon McManus Dan Exley Jon McManus, VP Enterprise Analytics, and Dan Exley, Principal Data Architect, Sharp HealthCare.  Jon and Dan explain how Sharp HealthCare has integrated data from across the organization to forecast detailed PPE requirements related to the resumption of Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive and...

Ancestry and UpToDate Enhance Genetic Testing Value for Providers and Patients

Catherine Ball, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Ancestry, and Peter Bonis, MD, CMO, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer, Health. As millions of consumers choose to take DNA tests to gain greater insight into their health and wellness, healthcare providers must be prepared to help patients understand how their genes...

Current and Future Ethical Challenges of Vaccination for COVID-19

Arthur Caplan, PhD, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and Founding Head of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine.  Many believe that the only solution to the COVID-19 plague is to find a vaccine.  Efforts to speed that discovery involve...

Beyond the Crisis – Key Impacts of COVID-19 and Assessing the Path Forward

Keith Shah, PhD, SVP Strategy & Growth, and Sasha Preble, Senior Director Strategy, Growth & Transformation, Optum Advisory Services.  The COVID-19 crisis has impacted nearly every facet of the healthcare industry. “Business as usual” has taken a back seat to rethinking the U.S. healthcare model...

Bundled Payments at Partners

David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Kyan C. Safavi, MD, MBA, Medical Director of Healthcare Systems Engineering, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  In 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Bundled...

Rethinking Virtual Physician Visits at Banner

Christopher Stallings, Senior Director Digital Consumer, Banner Health.  In the wake of COVID-19, healthcare providers have needed to rethink the traditional waiting room experience. Banner Health has launched a virtual waiting room across its Banner Medical Group practices, encompassing 300 clinics across Arizona, California, Colorado,...

It Takes a Community to Deliver Whole Person Care at Providence

Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN, Manager, Care Management, CARE Network, Community Outreach, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Providence Health, Dana Codron, RN, MPH, Regional Director, Community Health Investment, St. Joseph Health, Providence Health, and David S. Fanara, MBA, Chief Revenue Officer, Activate Care....

EHR Innovations Reduce Clinician Time by 50%

Stephen O’Mahony, MD, FACP, VP & CHIO, RWJBarnabas Health & Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  EHRs are essential to healthcare transformation and quality improvement, however, lack of optimization for clinician workflow has led to their identification as a major contributor to...