COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Addressing Health Disparities Now, Preparing for Vaccination and Beyond at CCHMC

Rob Kahn, MD, MPH Andy Beck, MD, MPH Rob Kahn, MD, MPH, Physician Lead, Community and Population Health, and Andy Beck, MD, MPH, Associate Professor & Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.  The COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on disparities by race, ethnicity and poverty that have long been present across a range of health outcomes. To […]

Accelerating Transformation and Automating the Service Now Experience in Epic at SCL Health

Stephanie McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC Stephanie H. McIntyre, MBA, RN-BC, VP Applications, and Nick Iannoni, Director Shared Application Services, SCL Health. Speed, agility and collaboration are the hallmarks of how COVID-19 has transformed the way we work in healthcare. At SCL Health, this transformation had already been in process, building on five major platforms: Google, Epic, […]

SI 2020 CMIO Virtual Roundtable

Voice technologies and ambient intelligence hold promise for improvements and efficiencies in clinical workflow. During the past few years vendors and services have emerged from both within and outside healthcare.  The Scottsdale Institute convened 24 chief medical informatics officers (CMIOs) for a virtual roundtable on August 20, 2020, to discuss the current technologies and use […]

The Art of Balancing Cost and Quality at Advocate Aurora Health

Carrie Nelson, MD, MS, FAAFP, CMO & System VP, Population Health and Health Outcomes, Advocate Aurora Health.  Rising healthcare expenditures and shrinking margins, in addition to the recent pause on elective procedures due to COVID-19, has put cost containment at the forefront of many healthcare organizations’ strategies. Advocate Aurora Health has turned to data to […]

COVID-19-related Diagnostic Errors

Tejal Gandhi, MD, Chief Safety and Transformation Officer at Press Ganey, and Hardeep Singh, MD, Chief of Health Policy, Quality and Informatics at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.  The COVID-19 pandemic increases the risk of diagnostic error because the disease itself is new and knowledge of its clinical manifestations is still evolving.  In addition, both […]

Pharmacy Intelligence – Insights from Aggregate Benchmarking

Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Sandy Salverson, PharmD, BCPS, VP Pharmacy Operations, OSF HealthCare System, Staci Hermann, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  Recently aggregated nationwide drug data from hundreds of health systems, as well […]

Mercy Virtual and COVID-19: Healthcare Redefined

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 […]

Predictive Analytics at UW Health

Brian Patterson, MD, MPH Frank Liao, PhD Sabrina Adelaine Brian Patterson, MD, MPH, Physician Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics; Frank Liao, PhD, Director of Data Science and Advanced Analytics; and Sabrina Adelaine, PhD, Applied Data Scientist, UW Health.  Predictive analytics holds the promise of improving healthcare by harnessing data at the frontlines of healthcare delivery, […]

Enterprise Management of Drug Inventory, Drug Shortages, and Drug Diversion at SCL Health

Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP Jennifer Davis, PharmD, MBA, MISM, BCPS, FASHP, System Director of Pharmacy & Technology Initiatives, SCL Health.  Managing medication supply and inventory effectively across a health system is a constant challenge due to drug shortages, incongruent data structures across procurement and clinical systems, and the constant threat of drug […]

Physician-directed Cost Savings Reinvestment Program (CSRP) at Stanford

Paul Maggio, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Surgery & ACMO of Operational Effectiveness, Stanford University Hospital, and Stacie M. Vilendrer, MD, MBA, Instructor and Family Physician, Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine. Stanford Health Care is continually looking to improve the delivery of high-value care – improved patient outcomes at lower cost. […]

Lessons Learned in Addressing Community Health and SDOH

Jacob Reider, MD, CEO, Alliance for Better Health. The State of New York initiated a program to encourage community coalitions to collaborate together to address the underlying social determinants of health (SDoH) that have been shown to result in higher healthcare costs and reduced life expectancy. The Alliance for Better Health in Troy, NY is […]

SI 2020 Analytics Virtual Summit – The New Standard for Analytics Value

The Scottsdale Institute 2020 Analytics Virtual Summit sponsored by Optum convened 31 health-system analytics executives from prominent healthcare systems across the country on September 9, 2020. These executives gathered to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on analytics at leading health-delivery organizations. As SI’s first Executive Virtual Summit during the COVID crisis, it cast […]

SI 2020 Social Determinants of Health Virtual Summit: Addressing Community Health

The Scottsdale Institute 2020 Social Determinants of Health Virtual Summit sponsored by Epic convened 31 social determinants of health executives (SDoH) from prominent healthcare systems across the country on September 10, 2020. These executives gathered to discuss the challenges of integrating SDoH into health delivery and health-system operations, effectively connecting patients with resources and improving […]

Data Intelligence and the Framework to Build the Autonomous Pharmacy of the Future

Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP Allen Flynn, PhD, PharmD, Assistant Professor, Department of Learning Health Science, University of Michigan Medical School, and James Stevenson, PharmD, FASHP, FFIP, VP of Medication Systems Strategy, Omnicell.  National leaders in health system pharmacy have joined together to create a framework for a fully autonomous pharmacy, […]