Morning Tech Webinar

Join leaders from GE Healthcare, Tampa General Hospital, Adventist Health, and Intel to learn more about how hospitals and the healthcare industry are innovating to address the challenges of COVID-19 today and how these trends could dramatically change the future of the industry. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists.

Panel 1: Rebuilding during the pandemic (11-11:30)

While the global spotlight remains fixed on COVID-19, the pandemic did not erase the myriad other chronic and acute diseases affecting people around the world. Medical professionals continue to balance caring for COVID-19 patients and delaying necessary screenings and procedures to protect others. These declines create a gap in medical care that could create long-term impacts on public health and is already causing immediate financial impact to health systems worldwide.

In this panel, Geoff Martin, CEO, Consulting, GE Healthcare Partners, will speak with John Beaman, chief business officer of Adventist Health, about how health care professionals are approaching rebuilding the health system, welcoming patients back for elective and preventative care – while the global pandemic rages on.

Pre-read material: GE Healthcare: Guide to Rebuild Post COVID-19 Outbreak.

Panel 2: Is AI the answer? (11:30-12)

Our fight against COVID-19 is far from over. As states like Florida, Texas and Arizona see record numbers of COVID-19 diagnoses, hospitals are once again preparing for overwhelming patient caseloads. To help, they’re putting modern technology to work today – using artificial intelligence and analytics to minimize burdens on overworked staff and maximize hospital resources to manage capacity and treat as many patients as possible. Uncertainty about increases in cases looms as non-essential workers return to offices and in-person gatherings become more commonplace. Having already worked through peak outbreak points in the past, hospitals will need to demonstrate renewed strategies for patient care and cost efficiency that can ebb and flow.

Going forward, one thing is clear: sharing resources and coordinating care among available providers is crucial. And the use of artificial intelligence and real-time analytics can help staff rapidly coordinate beds, resources and caregivers across multiple sites.

In this panel, Jeff Terry, GE Healthcare’s CEO of Clinical Command Centers, will speak to John Couris, CEO of Tampa General Hospital, about their first-hand experiences using AI and analytics on the front lines this spring – and discuss predictions for the future of the technology moving forward.

Pre-read material: Getting Smart: AI Apps From GE Healthcare To Help Dozens Of Oregon Hospitals Hit Back At COVID-19.

Panel 3: Building the intelligence-based health system (12-12:30)

The rapid adoption of technologies like telemedicine represent one of the most dramatic shifts in the healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients and healthcare providers alike have embraced the technology, while saving patients time and protecting the health of everyone involved – potentially changing how care is delivered in the future. Hospital CEOs report that in the last two months, they have progressed more in their thinking around mobile and virtual health than they had expected to in the next several years.

Going forward, COVID-19 has highlighted the need to build, invest in and scale a modern digitized infrastructure to better enable virtual care and an intelligence-based health system. Everett Cunningham, president and CEO of GE Healthcare, U.S. & Canada, will speak with Dave Ryan, GM of Health & Life Sciences at Intel, about the implications for this boom in digital technology and virtual care moving forward.

Pre-read material: COVID-19 transformed telehealth. Now it needs to transform other diseases.