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Shrinking the Surgeon into the Body This week I am talking to Adam Sachs (@AdamSachsVS), CEO and Co-Founder of Vicarious Surgical (@vicarioussurg) a company that is rethinking surgery. Adam is a mechanical engineer by training who studied at MIT focusing on biomedical engineering and robotics. This is where he met his co-founders Sammy Khalifa, Dr. Barry Green. They […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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 direct via […]
Do you Have a Doctor in the Family This week I am talking to Walter Jin, CEO at Pager (@getpager) a virtual care company that integrates care across different platforms and channels wit the goal of democratizing access of healthcare to the widest possible population, nationally and internationally, as possible. Walter’s journey started out as an investor […]
I read somewhere that there are 3 major distractions we suffer from at home The refrigerator The Television, and The Bed I’m not so sure about the last one especially in light of the continued data that emerges (Nap Time for Everyone! – Freakonomics) that demonstrates the value of napping during the day for airline […]
Supporting a Caring Health System This week I am talking to Collin O’Neill, the CEO of Pilleve (@Pilleve1) and Gautam Chebrolu, the Founder and CTO of Pilleve a company addressing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis with innovative technology built to work within the existing pharmaceutical distribution systems. The company’s early roots came from personal experiences bound […]
This week I am talking to Jeff Fallon, (@IamJeffFallon) Chairman and CEO of eVideon (@evideonhealth) who are delivering solutions to engage with patients using one of the few patient facing tools to be found in hospital rooms. Jeff spent the early part of his career in the medical device and pharmaceutical space but like myself […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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 direct via […]
Death of Advertising An article on the death of advertising was interesting relative to the future of Digital Health and the potential impact it will have to our lives in the coming years. The perfection of data will eventually give rise to a world in which every consumer can be paired with goods that meet […]
Designing a Resilient Healthcare System This week I am talking to Margaret Lozovatsky, MD (@DoctorLozo), SVP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Novant Health (@NovantHealth). Margaret came into medicine with a computer science degree right at the time Electronic Health Records were being rolled out giving her an edge in both understanding as well as seeing the […]
Tracking my Vitals I recently was sent wearable device that is now recording a wide range of metrics about me – all at a fraction of the cost of some of the devices on the market. Expect more news on this in the future. In fact I am now able to track on a regular basis […]
Telehealth Week This week is Telehealth awareness week so it was great to catch up with Ann Wood Johnson (@AnnMondJohnson), CEO of the American Telemedicine Association – ATA (@AmericanTelemed), the only organization completely focused on accelerating the adoption of Telehealth. Ann started out focused on early stage companies and joined the ATA before the Pandemic and has […]
Solving Problems with Clinical Data This week I am talking to Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, Associated CMIO at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center at Penn State Health. Dick is a professor in Internal medicine, a career choice made in his 4th year of medical school as he was looking to solve the mystery […]
Reporting from HIMSS This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September and was recorded at the HIMSS 2021 show that took place in Las Vegas from August 9 to 13 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping […]
There has been a trend, especially in European countries and on certain airlines to mandate a requirement of a “Medical” mask: Cloth masks banned by airlines, governments, and healthcare facilities. As COVID-19 continues to surge, accelerated by the delta variant, several European governments and companies are banning cloth masks, arguing that they are not as […]
Advancing Scientific Knowledge and COVID19 ICYMI Fred and I discuss the advancing scientific knowledge and how this has impacted both the understanding but also the mitigation of COVID19. We highlight the key changes to the guidance that has taken place over the last year or more that includes 💦Transmission path – droplet vs aerosol 🚿Surfaces […]
Healthcare Data Finally Freed This week I am talking to Jay Sultan, Vice President of Strategy, Healthcare, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, who arrived into healthcare as a technologists and software. His intersection with healthcare started out with personal frustration and disbelief of the lack of sharing of information and systems thinking that was pervasive. The great news […]
ICYMI: Fred and I look into our crystal ball and tease out some of the changes we will see in our world that will stay with us post the COVVID19 pandemic 😷Are masks here to stay? 🤧What about Sick Leave policy ♻️Surveillance and Wastewater Monitoring 🏙Building Re-Design 🧠Brain Health Challenges especially for Children “Not to […]
Technical Support Done Right This week I am talking to Chris Wickersham, Director, CereCore who provide EHR implementations, IT and application support. In Chris’ case his origin story and underlying personal driver was a woman looking for help to get a hospital bound patient to their son’s wedding before they died. They managed to help and make […]
This week we Fred and I discuss the long tail of COVID19 that is impacting many people with “Long COVID” discussing some of the theories, what symptoms people see with Long COVID which was characterized by symptoms of fatigue, headache, dyspnea and anosmia and was more likely with increasing age and body mass index and […]
Consensus Cloud Solutions This week I am talking to John Nebergall, Chief Operating Officer of Consensus Cloud Solutions which we recorded live from HIMSS 21 in Las Vegas. Consensus is a spin off from J2 and eFax and they provide interoperability and streamlined workflows in a simple platform that keeps you connected through each patient’s continuum of care […]
This week we Fred and I discuss the challenge of vaccine resistance in the US and around the world, some of the history behind the myths, snakeoil, mis and dis-information that circulates misleading people. We address the safety concerns that some have and highlight the long scientific foundation of the vaccines (On the Shoulders of […]
This week I find myself in Las Vegas to attend the HIMSS 2021 conference that was postponed from the beginning of the pandemic and it has been an interesting experience. There are so many elements of deja vu in the run-up arriving at the 2020 conference that I had advice to offer for those […]
This week I am talking to James Mault, MD, CEO of BioIntelliSense (@BioIntelliSense), who started out as a Cardiopulmonary technician and found his path and career by way of a mentor, Bob Bartlett with the father of ECMO to become a Cardiothoracic surgeon. His early experiences drove his desire for more complete monitoring, closer to the experience […]
This week we discuss the importance of mask wearing which as one observer noted When the CDC issued its mask guidance two months ago, it got the science right, but the policy and communication wrong…..the backsliding of the United States’ pandemic progress necessitated the return of indoor masking. This has happened because of those who […]
We can’t escape the rising tide of COVID19 cases occurring in hot spots around the country driven by the Delta variant. There is disagreement on the best mitigation strategies with some places requiring vaccines, some requiring face coverings, as int eh Case of HIMSS in Las Vegas and some outright rejecting any mitigation. We […]
