IV Automation + Cloud Technology = Increased Patient Safety

Jeff Brittain PharmD, BCPS Mark Neuenschwander Jeff Brittain, PharmD, BCPS, Director Pharmacy Support Services, MUSC Health, and Mark Neuenschwander, Founding Director, THRIV.  Manual IV compounding is fraught with patient safety risks. Studies show one in ten IV preps have errors. Yet, just one in four...

Outlook 2020: The Top Three Challenges for Hospital Pharmacy Teams

Dean Parry, RPH Daniel Teich PharmD Jennifer Wheeler Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Dave Ehlert PharmD, MBA, FASHP Patrick Yoder, PharmD Dean Parry, RPH, Associate VP Clinical Informatics, Care Support Services, Geisinger Health System, Daniel Teich, Pharm.D., VP Purchasing and Contracting, Fairview Pharmacy Services,...

CommonHealth: Collecting, Storing and Sharing Health Records on Android Devices

Ida Sim, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO, Stanford Children’s Health, and JP Pollak, PhD, Chief Product Officer, The Commons Project.  In April 2018 Apple introduced Health Records functionality to Apple Health, providing iOS users the ability to use their EMR...

Deciphering Clinical IT at Baystate, Rush and Banner

Joel Vengco Brian Patty MD, CHCIO Eligible Sherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS Joel Vengco, SVP & CIO, Baystate Health, Brian Patty, MD, CHCIO Eligible, VP & CMIO Clinical Information Systems, Rush University Medical Center, and Sherri Hess, MS-IS, BSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS, CNIO, Banner Health. ...

Cyber Student Staffing Boosts Productivity at Sentara, Part II

Dan Bowden Daniel Bowden, VP & CISO, Sentara Healthcare.  Dan discusses some of the very positive impact that the student staffing program has had. Sentara’s cybersecurity program has made major improvements to training, process documentation, and drastically improved on-boarding time for not only new students,...

Equity Lens / Tableau at University of Chicago

Michael Wall PharmD, MBA Mary Kate Springman, Director of Quality Analytics, Mark Connolly, BI Lead, and Michael Wall, PharmD, Chief Analytics Officer, University of Chicago Medicine.  UChicago Medicine deployed a quality scorecard in 2013 to track the health system’s performance across each domain of the...

Innovation Group and Chatbots at Banner

Christy Anderson Steve Lindsey Christy Anderson, Executive Director, and Steve Lindsey MBA, Operations Director, Banner.  Christy and Steve discuss the Banner Innovation Group (BIG) and how they are implementing emerging and novel ideas that shape the future model of healthcare, earn loyalty, and drive strategic...

Intermountain at Home and Virtual Care

Joel Macey, Executive Director Intermountain Homecare, and Nick Bassett, VP Population Health Services, Intermountain Healthcare.  As more health systems transition to value-based care and risk-based contracts, moving care upstream and out of traditional health centers has become increasingly prevalent. Providing care in the home is...

Consumer Frontdoor at AdventHealth

David Oakley Duncan Grodack, Senior Vice President/COO AdventHealth IT, and David Oakley, Vice President, Digital Group, AdventHealth IT.  Duncan and David discuss how AdventHealth is addressing the growing consumer demand for transparency and next-generation digital experiences while bridging the complexity of a multi-EMR environment.  Learn how AdventHealth has created...

Pop Health Management Strategy and Framework at Providence

Rhonda Medows MD, FAAFP Rhonda Medows, MD, FAAFP, President, Population Health Management & CEO Ayin Health Solutions, Providence St. Joseph. Providence St Joseph Health is the third largest non-profit health system in the country, spanning 7 western states. With this much diversity in populations served,...

Workplace Violence Policies at THR: How Does it Impact our Clinical Staff?

Mary Beth Mitchell RN Mary Beth Mitchell, RN, CNIO, and Myrna Correa Sierra, M.Ed, Program Manager Employee Safety, Texas Health Resources.  Mary Beth discusses the concerns in the hospital environment around aggression or violence by patients and/or family and visitors.  She focuses on the problem...