Media and Analyst Coverage
Business Elevated Podcast Interview with Dan Orentstein (Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development)
Listen to Interview January 25, 2021 This podcast series features business and government leaders discussing what it’s like to live and work in the great state of Utah. This episode includes a conversation between April Young Bennett, industry director of life sciences and healthcare innovation GOED, and Dan Orenstein, general counsel at Health Catalyst. The Business Elevated podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. Listen to Interview
How Activity-Based Costing Can Boost Hospital Finances (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Read Full Article In collaboration with Health Catalyst | January 21st, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has strained hospital revenue because of reduced patient volumes and expenses related to the virus. To improve their financial picture, organizations must make cost-reduction decisions based on credible patient-level cost and quality data using the most accurate cost management method. Some cost management methods are obsolete, but activity-based costing can accurately measure and assess clinical costs by providing insights into how resources are used, and by whom, Rob DeMichiei, retired executive vice president and CFO of Pittsburgh-based UPMC, said during a Jan. 20 session at the Becker's Healthcare CEO + CFO virtual forum, sponsored by Health Catalyst. Five takeaways from…
Business Radio X: Trudy Sullivan Interview
Listen to Interview Listen as Trudy Sullivan, Chief Communications and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at Health Catalyst, speaks with Lee Kantor of Business Radio X, about how we are advancing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Health Catalyst and in healthcare. Listen to Interview
Utah Companies Recognized for Leadership, Training and Creativity (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Read Full Article By Kathy Stephenson | Dec. 10, 2020 The Salt Lake Tribune’s Top Workplaces report annually selects three top executives — one each from a large, midsize and small company — for leadership awards. It also recognizes companies for their work in specific areas such as employee training, encouraging new ideas and promoting a work-life balance. The annual survey, conducted by Energage, a Philadelphia-based research and consulting firm, resulted in these leadership and special awards...Read Full Article Read Full Article
Farhana Nakhooda COVID-19 Role of Data Interview (Channel News Asia)
View Interview Here Channel News Asia | Dec. 11, 2020 Farhana Nakhooda, Senior Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences (Asia Pacific), Health Catalyst, interview on Channel News Asia on the role of data in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations. The interview runs from time stamp 1:06:58 to 1:13:00...View Interview Here View Interview Here
As Pfizer Vaccine Gets Emergency Approval, Experts Say It’s Time to Face Challenges (International Business Times IBT)
Read Full Article Farhana Nakhooda and Gary Chua spoke to IBTImes Singapore about the challenges ahead and how world governments can solve vaccine-related issues. By Bhaswati Guha Majumder | Dec. 12, 2020 Days after the UK became the first country to begin mass vaccination using Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has authorized the vaccine for emergency use and called the announcement a "significant milestone". The vaccine has also received regulatory approval in Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But according to experts, challenges are not over until people all around receive a vaccine within time and the clock is ticking. Farhana Nakhooda, Senior Vice President, Healthcare & Life…
How Data and Analytics Can Help Rapidly Identify High-Risk Patients and Prioritise Covid-19 Immunisation Efforts 9 (MoneyFM 89.3 Radio)
Listen to Interview MoneyFM 89.3 Radio | Dec. 7, 2020 With more than 200 potential Covid-19 vaccines being developed globally, the world is filled each day with news on the latest developments. While the world is busy looking out for the ‘right’ vaccine for themselves, how can nations prioritise immunisation efforts? Farhana Nakhooda, Senior Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences (Asia Pacific), Health Catalyst shares some of the challenges with Covid-19 data collection, and how data and analytics can help identify high-risk patients and prioritise immunisation efforts. Listen to Interview Listen to Interview
The 30 highest-rated US and UK CEOs during the coronavirus pandemic, according to employees (FNTalk)
Read Full Article Nov. 21, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has been, and continues to be, a major test for corporate leaders. The public is watching whether CEOs lay off or furlough workers, as well as how they treat their employees during this time. As billionaire Mark Cuban said in April, customers who see companies laying off employees will send those brands "to the toilet." Employees themselves are taking note, too. Bank of America's Sheri Bronstein, the company's chief human resources officer, recently told Business Insider that employees are paying close attention to the benefits their employers choose to give them or not, such as added mental health benefits or childcare benefits. So which CEOs…
Tech Talk Interview: Farhana Nakhooda, SVP of Healthcare & Life Sciences
LISTEN: Farhana Nakhooda, Senior Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences (Asia Pacific) at Health Catalyst How can a data-driven integrated healthcare platform help healthcare providers achieve measurable and data-informed healthcare improvement, ultimately reducing healthcare costs and waste in the long run? LISTEN TO INTERVIEW
Family-Friendliest Award: Organizations Seek to Be the Calm in the Storm for Employees During Pandemic
Read Full Article By Steven Ross Johnson | October 8, 2020 For places like Marimn Health, addressing the needs and well-being of their more than 200 employees was a key component to handling the fiscal pressures caused by COVID-19. Located on an Indian reservation and owned and operated by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, the Idaho-based health system had established an employee benefits program that provided workers and their families a number of supports to address stress, anxiety issues or financial concerns well before the pandemic. But as the threat of COVID-19 led to schools closing throughout the area, Marimn considered hiring its own teachers who could provide a makeshift school for employees’ children. “If…
Covid As an Accelerant: On Value-based Care (Yes), On Telemedicine (Partly), on AI (Not So Much) (Managed Healthcare Executive)
Read Full Article By Peter Wehrwein and Briana Contreras | Sept 5, 2020 Improved medical management of acute respiratory disease and a shift toward value-based care will be two of the last effects of COVID-19 pandemic, according to Brent James, M.D., M.Stat. “We are seeing the financial model shift,” James said in a video interview this past week with Managed Healthcare Executive®. “And if anything, Covid has accelerated the shift to provider-at-risk, pay for value, population health — all names for the same thing.” James has been a leader in taking a systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety t and became well known for his work in that area at Intermountain Healthcare…
Balance Lacking in the COVID-19 Response (Managed Healthcare)
Read Full Article By Peter Wehrwein and Briana Contreras | Sept 3, 2020 Brent James, M.D., M.Stat., doesn’t want to be misunderstood. COVID-19 is a big deal. But… “How do I nuance this? Covid is a very important disease, it has had a major impact,” James said in video interview with Managed Healthcare Executive® this week. “But not to the extent that some of the news media and some of our political leaders have pumped it. This is well within our scale as it turns out.” James, an international leader in quality improvement and patient safety who became well known for his work at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, said the initial reaction…
Plasma should not be considered standard care for coronavirus, NIH panel says (CNN)
Read Full Article By Maggie Fox | Sept 2, 2020
(CNN)A National Institutes of Health panel said there's no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and that doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done.
"There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19," the panel of more than three dozen experts said in a statement posted on the NIH website Tuesday. The statement, which was posted quietly, contradicts the Trump Administration's characterization of the treatment as "historic" and a "major advance" and directly refers to…Real-World Data: US FDA Gets 2 Out Of 10 In Abernethy’s Self-Assessment Of COVID Usage (Pink Sheet)
Read Full Article By Sue Sutter | Sept 2, 2020 Executive Summary But principal deputy commissioner gives FDA an ‘8 or 9 on vision’ of how to use RWD to address the pandemic and other challenges. The low ‘execution’ score is due to the large amount of effort needed to understand what datasets are available, how they can be used with confidence and what questions they can answer, Abernethy says... View Full Article Read Full Article
3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare (Forbes)
READ FULL ARTICLE By Konstantine Buhler | Aug 4, 2020 It’s no secret that healthcare costs have risen faster than inflation for decades. Some experts estimate that healthcare will account for over 20% of the US GDP by 2025. Meanwhile, doctors are working harder than ever before to treat patients as the U.S. physician shortage continues to grow. Many medical professionals have their schedules packed so tightly that much of the human element which motivated their pursuit of medicine in the first place is reduced. In healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) can seem intimidating. At the birthday party of a radiologist friend, she gently expressed how she… View Full Article
