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Consumer Patient Centricity This week I am talking to Sameer Badlani, MD (@SameerBadlaniMD) an Internist and the CIO for Fairview Health Services We explore his journey to becoming a CIO that started at the University fo Chicago where he was involved in teaching and started exploring his passion around informatics and its ability to bring […]
Unique Single Cask Whisky I was lucky to catch up with Tom Smith, the US Director of the Scottish Malt Whisky Society at a recent tasting – the October Outturn Preview Tasting at Jack Rose Dining Saloon in Washington, D.C. As he explains, the history of the society and the unique nature of the […]
Your Internet, Your Access We are dependent on our pipe/connection to the information highway, the internet. But who controls and manages that pipe continues to impact what you have access to, the information you see and hear and ultimately who gets to succeed in our new world. So it has been surprising to watch as […]
Small Steps to Innovation This week I am talking to Marla Hetzel (@hetzelmj), Director of Innovation and User Experience at Change Healthcare. I met Marla when she presented at the HealthTechNet group on innovation where she talked about the ways she and her team and helping bring innovation back into businesses and healthcare. We discuss the […]
Don’t Let Your Guard Down It seemed perfectly legitimate and was cleverly assembled into a request from someone I do know in my network, had met and we had communication in the past…. but it was not Over the course of the next 90 minutes, I managed to compromise 3 separate accounts of my own […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Thomas Cook Closed for Business How does a company in business for over 170 years suddenly go out of business? Thomas Cook revolutionized travel doing amazing things to increase access inventing the package holiday or tour. At one point it seemed like every high street had a Thomas Cook Office on it featuring the latest […]
This week I am talking to Allen Waziri, MD, Neurosurgeon and Translational Neuroscientist, CEO & Founder – iCE Neurosystems offering “Better Data to Save the Brain”. They have created some transformative EEG technology that derives from a different way of thinking about both data acquisition and what that means for the processing of that data. We discuss the current […]
AI and Wearables Wearables are everywhere and like many technical terms the early entrants have become synonymous and part of the vocabulary Are you Fitbit enough? But in the corridors of healthcare systems and doctors’ offices, there’s less excitement about the penetration of these devices and a healthy skepticism for the value of tracking the […]
This week I am talking to Kathleen Griggs, the President and Founder of Databuoy a unique and clever technology that uses acoustic sensor mesh networks to localize sounds to monitor activities and integrate with other information sources and makers of ShotPoint a gunshot detection mechanism that works indoors and outdoors. The company was founded in […]
Humans the Weakest Link in Security As humans, we are programmed with compassion and a desire to help but this human nature is the foundation of many of the risks that we are exposed to in the digital and cloud filled data world we all inhabit now. Our personal programming and desire to help […]
What is it about crisis and tragedy that inspires the human spirit to behave in the way that ultimately I think we all want to see? Think back to how you felt and behaved after 9-11 I know I can vividly remember where I was, who I was with, and the days that followed in […]
This week I am talking to Dr Bill dePaso, Chief Medical Officer for Twistle that focuses on Patient Engagement. Bill is an Internal medicine phsycian who spent his career focused on Pulmonary and Critical Care and sleep. He spent the early part of his career working in Public health in Chicago where communication was the key element […]
Speech Recognition is Hard Why did it take so long for speech and speech recognition technology to hit mainstream? You can trace the technology back at least as far as Bell Labs who claimed the first major success in the field in the 1930’s when telephone engineers developed the famous Voder a speech synthesizer that was unveiled to […]
This week I am talking to Kulmeet Singh (@kulmeets), the CEO of Twistle (@twistleapp). They are building a multi-functional platform patient engagement or put another way WordPress for Care Automation That is platform and device agnostic using whatever exists to power everything behind the scenes avoiding the dreaded “portalitis” using some of the experiences developed over years […]
Is this Reality Why is there so much focus on twitter and the list of influencers and how much does this really matter? It’s easy to get sucked into this “influencing” story and look for followers, highlight the impressions and even game the system by finding the publishers of influencer lists or maybe even making […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Your Hospital Bill is How Much? I’d like to tell you this is an unusual occurrence but this sorry tale is so common that I’ve come to expect these stories to emerge on a regular basis. This one striking just a little bit closer to home when a friend reached out for help. They were […]
Talking with Marck-Arthur Clerveau, the Innovation Manager for Inventor Services at the MedStar Institute for Innovation (@Mi2innovation) at Medstar Health. Marck works with inventors at MedStar to help set assess, fund, structure and ultimately to find a path for commercialize technology to improve healthcare. We discuss his journey to innovation that started in engineering but took a turn following a […]
The benefits of Fasting Intermittent fasting (IF) continues to be of major interest as evidenced by the number of views and comments. So to follow up on my original vlog on intermittent fasting, I wanted to offer some additional data on this area and the fancy name of Time-Restricted Fasting First off, like all things […]
The World is Not Imploding with Violence As if things were not bad enough already with the never ending news cycle that shares the terrible events of the last 1/2/12/24 hours I read this morning that Ring from Amazon and their associated Neighbors application are inking deals with local police and emergency services to gain […]
Do You Need to Take Supplements A recent editorial in the Annals of Medicine by my friend Dr. Eric Topol and his colleague Dr. Pandey caught my eye. Dispense With Supplements for Improving Heart Outcomes. In the United states, nearly 75% of people are taking some supplement or another with the supplement market set to […]
Fitness While Travelling Talking with Taylor Newcomb from Zeamo at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). Zeamo is a digital fitness platform allowing access to 1,300 gyms across the nation and world. No more lock into a single gym and their contract but rather access to multiple gyms all under one system, account and cost. They […]
Conversational Chatbots This week I am talking to Neal Sofian, CEO of Tuzag (@Tuzag_inc) a behavior optimization company and conversational chat bots. He was instrumental in setting up the “Free and Clear” smoking cessation program that managed to help so many quit smoking for life. We talk about the importance of culture and relationships and the way […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
