Past Hot Topic Webinar Recordings

  • Original Air Date - Friday, May 7
    Time: 2PM EASTERN
    Speakers:
    Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, FACSM, FTOS, FNAK
    Karen Wonders, PhD, FACSM

  • Original Air Date - Thursday, May 6
    Time: 2:00PM EASTERN

    Speakers:
    Andrew Shogan - Senior Vice President and President, Multi-Disciplinary Oncology, Varian 
    Deepak “Dee” Khuntia, M.D. - Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Varian 
    Stacy Stordahl - Vice President, Reimbursement & Market Access Govt Affairs

  • Original Air Date March 3, 2021
    Time: 2:00PM EASTERN

    How do oncology care teams align to improve patient throughput and care efficiencies? Learn how Lafayette Family Cancer Institute, part of Northern Light Cancer Care, manages continuous improvement efforts by using data to fuel change. Hear practical advice for gaining buy-in from staff, tips for mitigating exposure risks and optimizing patient safety, using data to assess performance, and sustaining patient flow improvements.

    Speaker: Brenda Farnham, MBA, BSN, RN, OCN, Associate Vice President, Oncology Services, Northern Light Cancer Care

  • Original Air Date: Thursday, October 15th
    Time: 10:00AM (EDT)

    This session will cover Immunotherapies and Radio-sensitizers used in Radiation Therapy, how they affect treatment, outcomes and research for the Abscopal Effect.  In addition, we will discuss innovative treatment techniques that are on the horizon for widespread use if alternative payment methodologies are adopted involving adjunct treatment with surgery. The financials and benefits will be discuss for community outreach using a hub and spoke approach. 

    Presenter: Ron DiGiaimo, MBA, FACHE, Chairman of the Board, RCCSinc.

  • Original Air Date: Thursday, August 27th
    Time:     1:00 PM (EDT)

    In this session, the SCCA infusion team will share several of the scheduling and staffing challenges they faced stemming from the unique layout of their center, and their solution for maintaining a balanced infusion workload across multiple staff, specialties and spaces.

    Presenters:

    • Rachel DuPree, RN BSN works as a Nursing Supervisor in the Infusion Department at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. She also has experience as a Hematology Oncology RN, an outpatient infusion RN and as a charge nurse. Rachel works closely with the Infusion Charge Nurses to develop patient care assignments that are safe and optimize nursing care.

    • Emily Kowalski, MHA has worked as Patient Access Supervisor at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance since 2017. Emily received her Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from Colorado State University in 2017. Emily oversees the Infusion scheduling and works closely with the access staff and nursing team to support the Infusion and Clinical Trials operations.

    • Angela Rodriguez, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, OCN, SANE-A is the Associate Director of Clinical Operations at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, overseeing outpatient oncology infusion, clinical trials, acute evaluation, and hematology. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Winona State University in 2005, and her Master’s Degree in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University in 2009. She has been a nurse for 15 years with experience in multiple specialties, focusing in operational leadership for the last 8 years.

  • Original Air Date: Monday, August 17th
    Time: 12:00PM (EDT)
    Presenters:

    • Srulik Dvorsky - CEO/Co-Founder, TailorMed

    • Dr. Mark Soberman, Executive at Ethicon, Former President of ACCC

    • Michael Trapani, Patient Financial Services Manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    The pandemic has affected every stakeholder in the healthcare ecosystem from the patient to provider team. At the helm of managing and mitigating the change are administrators. In this session, we will discuss how oncology administrators and executives have led their organizations through this time period, the longer term impact on care delivery and financial stability, and leave participants with practical advice on how to leverage technology to build a more sustainable practice for the future.

  • Original Air Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
    Time: 1:00 PM EDT
    Presenters: Sophie Clamon, Practice Manager, Chartis Oncology Solutions; Ryan Langdale, MBA, Principal, The Chartis Group & Kelley D. Simpson, MBA, Director, The Chartis Group
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts

    With the U.S. healthcare ecosystem severely disrupted by COVID-19, many providers are quickly designing and executing plans for financial recovery. With oncology usually providing 25-40% of a health system’s margin, oncology recovery is critical for health system recovery.  In this session we will identify the key initiatives providers should explore across service lines to close the margin gap, and for each consider the role oncology can play. Specifically, we will provide an oncology lens to demand recapture, reducing the cost base, reviewing the physician enterprise, transforming the clinical operating model and building partnerships.

  • Original Air Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2020
    Presenters:     Matt Sturm, Principal, ECG Management Consultants & Jessica Turgon, Principal, ECG Management Consultants
    Moderator:     Nancy Bookbinder
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts

    As cancer programs in the United States return to the “new normal,” ECG will present industry best practices from across the country for the ramp up of operations.  This session will provide practical guidance, based on lessons learned from leading institutions, addressing how to both how ramp up operations to meet the anticipated surge in patient volumes while also continuing to ensure the safety of patients and staff at the center.  The session will explore a myriad of strategies impacting virtually all areas of the cancer center, including: clinical operations, facilities, research operations, workforce management, financial management, and patient communications.  This not-to-be missed webinar will provide you with the information that you need today.

  • Original Air Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2020
    Panelists:     Melissa Childress, Winship Cancer Institute, Joel Helmke, City of Hope & Dr. Vijay Trisal, City of Hope
    Moderator:     Nancy Bookbinder

    This webinar covered the following topics:

    • Involvement of infectious disease team

    • New policies and procedures required

    • Integration with overall facility entry requirements

    • Staff training requirements

    • Communications Plan for Staff, Patients and Family

    • Acquisition of additional PPE

  • Speaker: Feyi Olopade Ayodele, co-founder and CEO of CancerIQ
    Original Air Date:     Tuesday, May 12, 2020

    Hospitals have been right to discourage patients from in-person visits because of COVID-19. But discouraging people from seeing their providers in the short term can have unintended consequences in the long term — including delayed cancer diagnoses.

    To avoid late stage diagnoses and immunocompromising treatment options, now is the time to shift the models of delivering important preventative care to a virtual model. This will have immediate and cascading benefits, including better patient outcomes, fewer inequities and lower costs. 

    In this webinar, Feyi Olopade Ayodele will walk attendees through how to deliver virtual family history screenings and risk assessments, virtual genetic counseling, and visually or interactive patient engagement. The presentation will highlight how real-life CancerIQ clients have already done so successfully and offer examples that every cancer administrator can apply in their program, now. Here’s a sneak peek.

  • Presented By: Leslie J. Waltke, PT, DPT, Cancer Rehabilitation Specialist, Waltke Cancer Rehabilitation Academy
    Original Air Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020

  • Presenter: Prof. Didier Verhoeven, Medical Oncologist, Chair Breast Clinic Voorkempen, Guest Professor University of Antwerp
    Original Air Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
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  • Presented by: Teresa Heckle, MBA, Project Director, Clinical Programs, Sarah Cannon
    Original Air Date:     Wednesday, December 11, 2019
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts.

    Developing and implementing a High-Risk Breast Program can be challenging as there is no "one size fits all" approach. This presentation will focus on some key considerations in developing, justifying and operationalizing a top-notch High-Risk Breast Program.

  • Presented by: Matt Mulherin, MBA, Vice President, Practice Solutions, Advanced Center for Cancer Care (AC3) & Kim Woofter, RN, EVP, Strategic Alliances & Practice, Advanced Center for Cancer Care (AC3)
    Original Air Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts.

    We will discuss four specific ways we are leveraging data in our practice to streamline costs and make the practice more sustainable:

    1. Transparency of patient-specific drug cost and reimbursement as context for clinical decisions

    2. Identification and correction of billing and payment issues

    3. Balanced staffing based on patient acuity/ clinical complexity

    4. Driving physician engagement with practice financials through KPI dashboards

    We will discuss what we are doing as well as the challenges and results of rolling them out to our physicians and teams and getting the organization aligned around them.

  • Presented by: Dr. Lijo Simpson, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, OncoLens & Dr. Leigh Webb, Cancer Data Quality & Accreditation Manager, WellStar Health System
    Original Air Date:     Wednesday, September 25, 2019
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts.

    Under the relatively new CoC accreditation guidelines for rectal cancer, many cancer centers are scrambling to better understand what is required to achieve NAPRC accreditation. In addition to following evidence-based procedures, more clinical data is required, and more specialists must participate in tumor board sessions to meet the new criteria.

    Join Oncologist Lijo Simpson, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of OncoLens, and Leigh Webb, cancer data quality and accreditation manager at WellStar Health System as they break down the NAPRC accreditation criteria and discuss how technology can automate much of the data collection and workflow processes required for this highly coveted accreditation.

    The content of this webinar will be geared toward cancer center administrators and business leaders who are looking to differentiate their centers through innovative strategies and accreditations. Attendees will learn:

    • What’s Different: What you need to know about NAPRC accreditation

    • How to Get There: Modern technology can help expedite the path to accreditation

    • Lessons Learned: Hear from other cancer centers who are currently pursuing accreditation

  • Presented by: Nancy Harris, VP of Oncology, Sharp HealthCare
    Original Air Date: July 18, 2019
    Please click HERE to download the webinar handouts.

    Patients deserve timely access to genetic counseling. This is challenging due to increasing demand, complex workflow, and a shortage of genetic counselors. Learn how Sharp HealthCare is using innovative technology to make the most of their team’s valuable genetic expertise. Nancy Harris, VP of Oncology at Sharp, will explain how program leaders can make the business case for this type of investment, and highlight how it has helped to:

    • Maximize genetic counselors’ productivity

    • Ensure standardization and evidence-based care

    • Streamline referrals

    • Gain visibility into performance

    • Dramatically improve patient access to genetic counseling

    • Increase downstream utilization and revenue