Rapid Digital Health Transformation During COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond

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...

Migrating from MS Office to Google G-Suite at SCL Health

Steven Michaels, VP & CTO, SCL Health System.  The discussion centers around the advantages of selecting a strategic partner like Google and aligning organizational change culture with the benefits of the G-Suite platform. Steven also discusses embracing the agile benefits of the Google relationship and putting into action meaningful solutions that...

COVID-19 Medication Management at Hotspot Hospitals

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...

Framing Social Determinants of Health … Differently

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...

Protecting Revenue Cycle During COVID-19

Brian Junghans Jim Akimchuk Jim Akimchuk, VP, and Brian Junghans, VP, Impact Advisors.  As healthcare providers have shifted focus to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, normal business operations have been interrupted causing significant financial pressures. While the underlying variables at some institutions are relatively consistent...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Our Nation’s Hospitals: What’s Next?

Paul Keckley, PhD, Managing Editor, The Keckley Report; and Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), the University of Minnesota.  Hospitals across the country have responded courageously and admirably as the nation’s public health servants to address and...

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. Robert Crossey DO Francis R. Colangelo...

Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19

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...

The ‘Combat Fatigue’ Impact of COVID-19

Nancy Howell Agee Cathy Jennings, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, FNAP Nancy Howell Agee, President & CEO, and Cathy Jennings, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, FNAP, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Surgery, Carilion Clinic. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted healthcare workers in a manner that can be likened to “combat...

COVID-19 Financial Recovery Strategies

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...

Using Machine-Learning Algorithms to Prevent Drug Diversion at Mass General

Christopher R. Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare (Mass General Brigham).  Healthcare providers are vulnerable to serious legal, financial, operational and reputational risks - and regulatory fines - due to employee drug diversion and inadequate internal controls. COVID-19 has increased...