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 successful and failed PROMs clinic implementations.  This discussion also presents the […]

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 Elective Procedures in the COVID-19 era. Find out how you […]

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 influence their health. Learn how the partnership between Ancestry and […]

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 unprecedented investments of money, involvement by hundreds of research teams […]

Respond, Recover and Reimagine: Consumer & Virtual Health Strategies for COVID-19 at IU Health

Ian McDaniel, PT, MBA, Executive Director Virtual Care, System Clinical Services, and Michele Saysana, MD, FAAP, VP Safety, Quality & Patient Improvement and Chief Patient Safety & Quality Officer, Indiana University Health, and Andy Penn, VP Virtual Health, Cerner.   COVID-19 has demonstrated the urgent need for healthcare organizations to become more agile in finding new […]

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 going forward, from delivery to financing. In our new reality, […]

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 Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative in which a set […]

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, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.  Banner Health is using mobile chatbots […]

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. Aura M. Silva, BSN PHN ACM-RN Dana Codron, RN, MPH […]

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 physician dissatisfaction and potential burnout.  RWJBH has partnered with a […]

EMR Patient Safety Effectiveness Study: Medical Errors Still Persist

David Classen, MD, CMIO, Pascal Metrics, and Professor of Medicine, University of Utah, and A Jay Holmgren, Doctoral Candidate in Health Policy and Management, Harvard University and Harvard Business School. As reported recently in StatNews, a major reason for the widespread adoption of electronic health records was to reduce human error in prescribing medicines, as […]