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This week I am talking to Neil Clauson, Regional CISO, at Mimecast, a company focusing on stopping “bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to work protected”. We talk about the unique challenges that healthcare faces in securing its attack surface and the ongoing problem of balancing what is possible with what is […]
Design for Your Target User We navigate through life interacting with a variety of systems that have been designed by others. Most of the time these designs have been optimized to make our life easy and many are the results of years, sometimes even centuries of thinking and design input. Some designs have a lasting […]
This week is a special week to celebrate the New Year and I am talking to some of my fellow show hosts to get their take on what to expect in the coming year in healthcare. In alphabetical order, I was joined by Matt Fisher (@Matt_R_Fisher), General Counsel at Carium and Host of Healthcare de Jure […]
CES 2023 It is that time of year again. Well, actually the show has not taken place fully in person for a few years. It was the last show I attended before the Pandemic in January 2020. In hindsight, it was probably one of the early spreader events based on what I heard after the […]
This month is our final episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2022 and a close-out to the year As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We discuss the latest news out of China which is grappling with […]
2 hits, 0 starter, 2 Misses and 3 Maybe’s 2 Hits Speech enablement, despite the experience of Amazon and the losses it has from the Alexa solution, remains a central solution and capability that continues to offer new and exciting capabilities. It’s not just navigation and clinical documentation but is increasingly showing promise for clinical […]
Its the end of the year In the artificially created system of healthcare, thousands if not tens of thousands of people are scurrying to get as much of their healthcare crammed into the last few days left in the year. Is this because they need healthcare and there is some seasonal need? Sadly not – […]
Who Will be the Tom Hanks Actor of Healthcare This week I am talking to Elizabeth Delahoussaye, The Chief Privacy Officer at Ciox (@cioxhealth). Elizabeth is an expert in health information management aka as Medical Records. We dive into the history of healthcare information and track back to the HiTech Act from 2009 and the […]
This week I am talking to Kim Biddings, VP of Product for BIO-key (@BIOkeyIntl) a company focused on providing tools to uniquely and securely identify individuals to allow secure access. Kim is an expert in cybersecurity, biometric identification, and Identity and Access Management, and also a pastry chef in the making. We talk about the importance of security in […]
Conference Season Opens This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of November 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This week we discuss the recent spate of conferences and some of the highlights and positives […]
Each and every year, I watch the movie Planes Trains and Automobiles. I don’t remember exactly when I first saw the movie but based on the release date of 25 November 1987 I probably saw this in a cinema in London. At the time I was living and working in London. I did not follow […]
Popular Demand Driving Telehealth to New Heights This week I am talking to Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH (@RoySchoenberg), President and CEO at Amwell (@Amwell) a telemedicine company based out of Boston with one of the largest telehealth ecosystems in the world. Like me, Roy found his path through medicine and into technology launching a series of companies […]
HLTH is an integrated show, When I say integrated I am not talking about virtual and in-person integration but rather a different approach and style of a conference setup. In the case of HLTH they have a large floor setting with stages in the four corners and the main stage that is situated just off […]
So conference season is in full swing and I’ve found myself in more places and in more planes than the whole of 2020 in the last few weeks There’s good and bad to all of that. The good is it’s really nice to see and meet people. Not just healthcare but people in general. As […]
This week I am talking to Ankit Rohatagi, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, AssureCare (@AssureCareLLC) an innovative, patient-centered, connected care platform that is trying to increase access to care while reducing cost. We dive into Ankit’s background traversing multiple clinical systems and countries providing him with useful and important insights into what works for healthcare and what […]
Attending the CHIME 2022 30th Anniversary celebration was a real trip back through memory lane A reminder of what was going on 30 years ago included the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Endeavor (now in the California Science Center) and AT&T launching their first “VideoPhone 2500” (it sold for $1,500 per unit). Also notable […]
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We review the current state of public health in the context of the rising number of cases of COVID-19, […]
This week I am talking to Jeff Ruby, Founder Newtopia (@newtopia), a company using a combination of genetic testing, nutrition, and personal, technology-enabled coaching can change habits that modify life-impacting behavior as a critical part of the solution Jeff shares his origin story of when his father was diagnosed with abdominal cancer and how this […]
This week I am talking to Tom Stanis (@TomStanis), CEO of StoryHealth (@StoryHealthAI), a company that combines virtual care, remote monitoring, and AI to bridge the data gap between health system specialists, primary care doctors, and patients to extend care for patients with severe conditions with their first focus around heart failure, as they return […]
This week I am talking to Trevor Cabrera, MD, The Nomadic Pediatrician who choose to pursue locum tenens with CHG Healthcare, straight out of residency. This unusual route comes with a range of benefits and its own set of challenges. We explore Trevor’s career path and how he ended up chasing to take a non-traditional path once he finished […]
3 Minutes to Financial Ruin This past week I found myself subject to a SIM Jacking attack. A reasonably sophisticated attempt to wrestle control of someone’s life, typically for money, although in some cases it can be for high-value digital assets (like a Twitter handle back in 2012). But even in those cases […]
This week I am talking to Micha Breakstone, (@michabreakstone) CEO and Co-FOunder of Neuralight.ai (@neuralight) a company using novel objective and sensitive neurological biomarkers to accelerate neurological trials and increase their success rates Micah has an unusual background and history who thought he would be a novelist but found his way into serial entrepreneurship successfully launching […]
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We dive into the recently published The Lancet COVID-19 Commission that reviewed the worldwide response to the Pandemic. As […]
This week I am talking to Mark Dorner, Co-Founder and CEO PreciseMDx, a company that is rethinking the diagnostic testing journey for patients and working to create the best and most efficient diagnostic service for everyone. The company was founded right at the beginning of the pandemic based on personal experiences with testing for cancer which had […]
This week I am talking to David Stern, MD CEO of Experity (@experityhealth) who is working to change the way urgent care works for patients by rethinking the offerings delivered in this setting. With a focus on medicine and the user experience David looked for a technical solution to help capture, document, and automate the […]
