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Accelerating Outcomes: How AI Helps Command Centers Achieve More

Speakers

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Susan Grimwood
Executive Director, Logistics, Capacity and Patient Throughput, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
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Schiara Gonzalez Parker, MBA, BSN, RN
Senior Director of Patient Flow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Alicia Vermeulen, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CEN
Director of Patient Placement and Logistics, Avera Transfer Center, Virtual Patient Care, Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center

Summary

Healthcare systems have made tremendous strides in delivering quality care despite rising complexity and cost pressures. Their accomplishments speak to the skill and dedication leaders have invested in optimizing clinical and operational processes. Yet the most innovative recognize there are always new heights to reach. Guided by a commitment to continuous improvement and equipped with advanced analytics, these trailblazing systems are uncovering previously untapped potential, taking excellence to the next level.

In this panel, command center leaders at the forefront of advanced analytics adoption will share how it uncovers new potential by providing:

  • Enhanced system wide visibility to optimize existing processes and unlock hidden potential
  • Data-driven insights to guide staff decision making and empower them to anticipate challenges
  • Predictive capabilities to get ahead of operational challenges and mitigate risks
  • Alignment around shared goals across the system to rally leaders around unified objectives

Join us as healthcare leaders discuss leveraging advanced analytics to carry operational excellence to new heights in today’s complex environment.

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Chapter 1: The Looming Challenge

If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.

As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.

The pressures on healthcare

Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.

An aging population

By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.

The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.

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