COVID-19 SPECIAL EDITION

HPI will be focusing the next several issues on the current healthcare crisis

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In this Issue

C-Suite Spotlight: Jon Harol, President of Lighthouse Labs discusses solving lab challenges through recruiting innovations

Healthcare Partner: Dr. Darrel Weaver, Vice President of Network Services at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama discusses providing value-based care in a pandemic through telehealth and data resources

Profoundly Impacting Healthcare: Katie Castree, Operations Excellence Manager talks about the application of process improvement principles in healthcare

HPI Interactive Blog

Should 3D post-processing be recognized as its own radiologic certification and career path?

In the Spotlight

Solving Lab Challenges through Recruiting Innovation: HPI connects with Lighthouse Lab Services President, Jon Harol

Jon Harol, President of Lighthouse Lab Services discusses three key market challenges that he built the business around in order to meet current and projected market needs. +More

Providing Value-Based Care in a Pandemic through Telehealth and Data Resources

An HPI exclusive with Dr. Darrel Weaver

Dr. Darrel Weaver, gives a detailed overview of how Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama continued to meet the needs to their physicians and patients during the change of the healthcare landscape in the wake of COVID-19. +More

Dr. Jane Dickerson discusses Lab Stewardship: where the health system, payer, and patient all benefit from successes

Dr. Jane Dickerson, Director of Chemistry, Director of Reference Lab Services and the Medical Director at the North Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital, shares her affinity of the word stewardship as it communicates a feeling of being on a team, with a shared responsibility to manage a limited resource which she notes, has never been more true than now. +More

If you can‘t measure something, you cannot improve it. Data empowers physicians, patients, and health plans to work together to build better outcomes. If you measure what’s going on and provide data as close to real time as possible, decisions can be made and acted upon.

-Dr. Darrel Weaver, Vice President of Network Services at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama

Industry News

Testing rates fall for 1st time new research points to lasting immunity – 7 COVID-19 updates +More
The Future is Here Now: How COVID-19 has Changed Consumers, Now and In the Future +More
Forty percent of U.S. COVID-19 tests come back too late to be clinically meaningful, data show +More

Current Events

Northwestern Medicine First in Illinois to Utilize Advanced Imaging System During Heart Rhythm Procedure. +More

North Carolina finds major reporting error in COVID-19 test numbers. +More

Expert Excerpt

In a recent news article with WIRED Dr. Anthony Fauci gives his clinical perspective on why the U.S. has done a poor job managing the pandemic, whether schools should open up and social responsibility. +More

Profoundly Impacting Healthcare

Katie Castree, Operations Excellence Manager at Accumen shares her insights on process improvement principles in healthcare and the impact of her work in the midst of the healthcare crisis. +More

The Healthcare Performance Insider Podcast Series

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Mara Aspinall, CEO of HealthCatalyst and Diagnostic Evangelist and Healthcare Performance Insider have a season of episodes called, “COVID-19 Myth Busting”
Kim Zunker, diagnostic expert and Laboratory Consulting Manager and the Healthcare Performance Insider have COVID Convos discussing all things related to COVID-19.
Alvarez & Marsal, a global professionals services firm, provides and overview to the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund in a 3-part mini series. Episode 1 can be found here!

Interesting Fact

On average about 733,000 people have been tested each day in August, down from nearly 750,000 in July, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

Monthly Metric

3,063,252

Over 3M people of the 5.7M that have been infected by COVID-19 have recovered.

Announcements

Accumen CEO, BG Porter, Joins Executive War College Faculty to Discuss COVID-19 Challenges and the Future of the Clinical Laboratory. Read Full Release Here.

Join Accumen and Lighthouse Lab Services for a webinar titled, “Asymptomatic COVID-19 Testing – The FDA’s New Requirements and Other Implications on Wednesday, August 26th at 1pm EST. Registration is required!

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