Knowledge on the Go: Emergency Medicine of the Future, Part 1 from Knowledge on the Go

Knowledge on the Go: Emergency Medicine of the Future, Part 1

16 minutes Posted Apr 7, 2020 at 12:23 am.

– 03:15] Current state of Emergency Medicine

– 06:14] Emergency Room efficiency model and its effect on overcrowding and finances

– 07:27] Challenges with behavioral health patient needs

08:00] Challenges with geriatric population

08:31] Challenges with workforce issues

10:54] What lies ahead: flattening of low acuity patient and growth in higher acuity patients

– 14:13] Operational efficiency, adopting operations management, system reliability

16:41] Emergency department functioning as a diagnostic center and patient hub

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency medicine departments faced a myriad of challenges. In the first of a three-part series, Dr. Thomas Spiegel from the University of Chicago and Dr Martin Lucenti from Vizient summarize factors shaping emergency medicine today and offer their thoughts on what will be different in the future. Their broad-ranging discussion covers everything from emergency room current challenges, to implementing operational efficiency, operations management and functioning as a diagnostic center and patient hub for an organization.

Guests:

Thomas Spiegel, MD, MS, BA, ED

Medical Director

University of Chicago Medicine

Martin Lucenti, MD, PhD

SVP & CMO, Solution Architecture

Vizient

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