API/Sunquest Webinars
2020 API/Sunquest Webinars:
RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Informatics Virtual Conference
April 01, 2020 | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming and disruptive to most, if not all healthcare organizations across the globe. Collaboration and communication are key to building best practices and responsiveness.
Join us for a special virtual discussion with leading healthcare leaders to learn what you can do to overcome the operational setup, communication and analytics challenges health systems face – today – with responding to coronavirus.
Speakers:
Mark Tuthill, MD
Division Head, Pathology Informatics
Henry Ford Health SystemJoseph Sirintrapun, MD
Director of Pathology Informatics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUlysses Balis, MD
Director, Division of Pathology Informatics
University of Michigan Health System
Moderated by:
Bruce Friedman, MD
Emeritus Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Riding the Surge - Informatics Virtual Conference
April 15, 2020 | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming and disruptive to most, if not all healthcare organizations across the globe. Collaboration and communication are key to building best practices and responsiveness.
Watch the recording of a special virtual discussion with healthcare leaders to learn what you can do to overcome the operational setup, communication and analytics challenges health systems face – today – with responding to coronavirus.
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Part 2:
RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Informatics Virtual Conference
April 29, 2020 | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming and disruptive to most, if not all healthcare organizations across the globe. Collaboration and communication are key to building best practices and responsiveness.
Join us for a special virtual discussion with leading healthcare leaders to learn what you can do to overcome the operational setup, communication and analytics challenges health systems face – today – with responding to coronavirus.
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Part 3:
RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Informatics Virtual Conference
May 13, 2020 | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming and disruptive to most, if not all healthcare organizations across the globe. Collaboration and communication are key to building best practices and responsiveness.
Join us for a special virtual discussion with leading healthcare leaders to learn what you can do to overcome the operational setup, communication and analytics challenges health systems face – today – with responding to coronavirus.
The May 13 virtual conference will focus on key topics including molecular testing for SARS-CoV-2, telecytology, and the use of analytics and business intelligence managing the disease.
Speakers:
Liron Pantanowitz, M.D. | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
Daniel Herman, M.D., Ph.D. | University of Pennsylvania |
Michael Bachman, M.D., Ph.D. | University of Michigan |
Moderated by:
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D. | Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan |
Part 4:
RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Organizational and Strategic Insights for Clinical Lab Part 1
Recorded: July 29, 2020 | 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Drs. Grenache, Tuthill, and Jackson are nationally known experts in clinical pathology and pathology informatics. Like other laboratory professionals, they face unrelenting COVID-19 pressure on a daily basis.
In a new webinar on July 29, each of our experts will discuss some of organizational and strategic dilemmas they face from three unique perspectives; a reference lab supporting testing for the entire state of New Mexico, a health system encompassing eight hospitals and 29 medical centers in Michigan, and a national reference lab with over 4,000 employees and clients in all 50 states. This webinar will be high energy, fast-paced, and conversational. Questions will be solicited from the webinar audience.
Speakers
David G. Grenache, PhD, MT (ASCP)
Dr. Grenache is the chief scientific officer for TriCore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In that role, he leads the TriCore Research Institute and works cooperatively to develop and implement TriCore’s scientific research strategy. He is also the medical director of the chemistry, immunology, and esoteric analytic chemistry labs, a clinical professor of pathology at the University of New Mexico, and president-elect of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
J. Mark Tuthill, MD
Dr. Tuthill is head of the Division of Pathology Informatics at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. His areas of practice interest include digital imaging and image databases, development of Internet applications for laboratory information services, anatomic pathology and clinical laboratory information systems, laboratory outreach technology solutions, electronic health records and informatics training and education.
Brian R. Jackson, MD
Dr. Brian Jackson is the medical director of support services, IT, and business development and the executive editor of ARUP Consult at ARUP Laboratories. His research interests include economic analysis of diagnostic testing, physician utilization of laboratory tests, and corporate social responsibility in healthcare.
Moderated by:
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Pathology; University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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RESPONDING TO COVID-19: Organizational and Strategic Insights for Clinical Lab Part 2
Recorded: September 22, 2020 | 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
On September 23 at 1:00pm ET,
The entire clinical lab industry is under scrutiny during this pandemic on multiple counts such as long test-result turnaround times and confusion on the part of consumers about the value and efficacy of lab testing. Part of these problems are due to a continuing onslaught of test samples to regional and national labs and part due to the fragmentation of the lab industry in the U.S. These problems have been exacerbated by the absence of a coherent federal lab policy and set of directives.
Speakers
Sam Terese
Laboratories in Hammond, IndianaAlvernoPresident and Chief Executive Officer of
Stan Schofield
Managing Principal at The Compass Group Scarborough, Maine
Moderated by:
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School
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2019 We
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New 2019 webinar series on pathology informatics and DRIVING LABORATORY EFFICIENCY and EFFECTIVENESS in large multi-hospital systems
Value based care, consolidations, and staffing challenges continue to put pressure on today’s laboratory. How do you to manage your business with the move from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, while also managing the change in staffing and testing requirements – to not only survive, but thrive?
Learn how to increase efficiency and effectiveness within your laboratory by attending this free webinar series hosted by API and Sunquest.
Part 1: Tuesday, February 26, 1pm ET / 10am PT
Moderated by:
Bob McGonnagle
Publisher, CAP Today
Part one of this two-part webinar series (Feb. 26 at 1pm ET/10am PT) will focus on ways you can improve workflow, reduce costs and improve outcomes, while delivering value-based care for your organization.
Our first speaker, Dr. Anil Parwani, will step through the logistical challenges of a multi-hospital digital pathology deployment, and will then guide you through various scenarios, including core histopathology processing and centralized pathologist review, that can result in a reduction in processing and resource redundancies, and improve pathologist collaboration and review.
Next, Dr. Brian Jackson will discuss the various pro’s and con’s of the insourcing and outsourcing of tests – from the routine to the more specialized esoteric testing – and help you identify what you need to consider when developing centers of excellence expertise, and support the reduction in send out costs and improve workflow.
Part 2: Tuesday, March 26, 1pm ET / 10am PT
Part two of the series, scheduled for March 26, 1pm ET/10am PT, will focus on encouraging innovation in the clinical and pathology laboratories, including the support for quality laboratory reporting throughout a large health system environment.
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2018 Webinars
The Challenges of Enabling Precision Medicine Diagnostics
Date Published: 02/25/2018 The Challenges of Pathology Informatics in Large Health Systems:
Walter Henricks, M.D., Vice-Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute Medical Director, Cleveland Clinic
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The Challenges of Pathology Informatics in Large Health Systems:
2017 Webinars
HIT from the Regulatory Point of View
Date Published: 5/11/2017
Presenter: Walter Hendricks, MD, Cleveland Clinic
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Primary Diagnosis Using Digital Pathology - Are We There Yet?
Date Published: 3/22/2017
Presenter: : Liron Pantanowitz, MD, UPMC
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Consumerism in Diagnostics: Retail Testing and the Future of Providers
Date Published: 02/16/2017
The Shifting Value Equation Between Hospital Labs and Reference Labs
Date Published: 01/26/2017
2016 Webinars
Leveraging Informatics in the Clinical Laboratory
Date Published: 09/28/2016 Presenter: Jason Baron, MD, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Computational Pathology IT Support for Research in Pathology
Date Published: 09/27/2016Deploying Analytic Software in your Lab for Management Support
Date Published: 09/19/2016Presenter: Hal Weiner, Weiner Consulting Services, LLC
Pathology Informatics - A Key Element for Navigating through Healthcare Reform
Date Published: 09/19/2016EHR and IT Issues in Genomic Driven Healthcare
Date Published: 09/19/2016The University of Pathology Informatics
Date Published: 07/06/2016Big Data in Healthcare
Date Published: 03/17/2016Integration of Radiology-Pathology Diagnostics at UCLA
Date Published: 02/19/2016Clinical Informatics Fellowships and Opportunities for Pathology Informatics
Date Published: 01/27/2016
2015 Webinars
Informatics Connectivity to Enhance Point of Care Testing
Date Published: 12/16/2015How Digital Pathology Will Change the Workflow of Surgical Pathology
Date Published: 10/15/2015ONC’s Laboratory Results Interface (LRI) and Laboratory Orders Interface (LOI)
Date Published: 10/07/2015
Digital Pathology Meets Surgical Pathology
- Digital pathology is being used for consultation, and has substantial benefits in research applications
- The success of digital pathology requires additional applications to enable and improve the efficiency of the pathologist
- Adoption of digital pathology for primary sign-out will be driven by economic factors
10 Years of Direct Access Genetics: What Have We Learned?
Over the past ten years, direct access genetics has impacted many facets of the healthcare system, playing a critical role in personalized medicine and accelerating research. The journey to make genetic information accessible and affordable for all has not been without challenges. Dr. Jill Hagenkord will discuss the importance of DTC and big data to further medical advancements. This presentation includes:
- 23andMe: An overview
- 10 years of research on the impact of DTC genetics
- Changing the research paradigm
- Forces influencing a consumer genetics market
- Looking ahead: the impact of “genetics abundance”
Deploying Analytic Software in Your Lab for Management Support
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at 12 PM EDT/9 AM PDT
With reduced reimbursement, laboratories are under increasing pressure to optimize business practices, improve utilization and cut costs. Business Intelligence is a set of analytic software that provides organized, well-structured and understandable views of laboratory operational and financial data. business intelligence can greatly assist management to better understand their laboratory operations and make well-founded, prudent decisions to meet laboratory objectives. This presentation will describe the characteristics of business intelligence, explain why it is important, provide examples of business intelligence capabilities and offer considerations for system selection and some guidelines for implementation of a business intelligence system in your laboratory. Attendees will be able to:
- Determine the potential value and benefits of business intelligence software for their laboratory
- Assess and evaluate the characteristics and capabilities of various business intelligence alternatives
- Describe the key differentiators in selecting the best fit business intelligence system for their laboratory
2014 Webinars
Crossing Omic Chasm - Why Is It So Hard?
This talk will discuss:
- How genomic data differs from conventional EHR data
- The architecture and function of an Ancillary Genomic System
- Workflow challenges in Genomic Decision Support
Utilizing Informatics to Improve Laboratory Test Selection
- Technical and administrative barriers to implementing enhanced clinical decision support for laboratory testing
- Strategic approaches to overcoming these barriers
- Examples to illustrate available decision support tools and how these can be implemented to enhance diagnostic value
Computational Pathology: IT Support for Basic Research in Pathology
- Defining computation pathology
- Defining components for Pathology research IT support and their relationship to computational pathology
- Discussing the approach the University of Pittsburgh has taken over the years to develop a robust research IT infrastructure in Pathology to support biomedical research
Using Pathology Informatics to Optimize Lab Efficiency and Quality in an Era of Healthcare Reform
Laboratory Information System Functionality Assessment Toolkit (LIS-FAT): What you need to know about your LIS solution
The objectives of this webinar are to:
- Understand the origin and drivers for development of the LIS-FAT
- Review the history of the toolkit's development, design and organization
- Examine the toolkit components (appendices) using detailed, real world examples
Integrated Disease Reporting: Order from (Almost) Chaos
Problems of Mislabeled Specimens in U.S. Clinical Laboratories and Practical Solutions
After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- List the many steps in the pre-analytical sequence at which labeling errors can occur
- Understand the need to measure labeling errors in his/her own institution
- Implement several actions to reduce labeling errors in his/her own institution
- List the key elements of the CLSI AUTO12-A standard for specimen labels
Significance and Practical Applications of ATA Clinical Guidelines for Telepathology
- Liron Pantanowitz, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology & Biomedical Informatics, Director of Cytology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Shadyside, Director Pathology Informatics Fellowship, Department of Pathology, UPMC Shadyside, UPMC
- Andrew Evans, MD, PhD, Staff Pathologist and Associate Professor, Director of Telepathology, University Health Network, Laboratory Medicine Program Toronto General Hospital
- The current state of telepathology and its various modalities
- Overview of ATA telepathology guidelines
- Significance and practical applications of guidelines
- Points to be addressed in future versions of the guidelines
2013 Webinars
Can We Resurrect the Autopsy in the High Tech/IT World?
The Meaning in “Meaningful Use” of EHRs – an Update for Laboratories and Pathologists
Biospecimens, Biorepositories, and Biobanking Informatics – Practical Pearls for Pathologists