COVID19
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This week 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 and cleaning guidance with […]
Affordable Equitable Healthcare for Everyone This week I am talking to Miles Romney, CTO and co-founder of eVisit (@eVisit). Miles has an unusual and interesting background, he is a health IT expert who also produces Broadway musicals and has even won a Tony Award. His diversity brings some unique insights to the world of healthcare where […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May. 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 the contact […]
This week Fred and I discuss the concerns regarding variants including a recently pre-published article (Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individuals). That has some people worried that they can still get infected with COVID19 – the so called ‘Breakthrough’ infections. We review the details of the […]
Clincal Data from the Home This week I am talking to Arvind Thiagaraja, founder and CEO of HD Medical (@HDMedicalGroup) that is saving patient lives through early diagnosis. Arvind’s journey into healthcare started from a young age when he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and he and his family went through an extended period waiting to […]
Monitoring in the Medical Home This week I am talking to Tom Hale, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at VirtuSense a company providing monitoring in healthcare settings for automated fall detection and is now adding biometrics sensors for broader insights and opportunities for intervention in the medical home. Tom’s early work found him heading up Mercy […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April. 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 […]
Health Information Exchanges This week I am talking to Lisa Bari, Interim CEO for the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC). Lisa started her career in the Bay area in digital marketing for Practice Fusion, and winding through CMS where she worked on the interoperability rules. Along the way discovering the incremental insight that for policy changes you […]
This week Fred and I dive into SARS-CoV-2 variants, what they are, what they mean and how they work. We discuss why some of these variants appear to be more infectious and review the ongoing stream of news around variants and how you should interpret this news and its impact on your businesses, employees, students […]
Shared Care Solutions This week I am talking to Dr Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health (@OrionHealth), a population health and precision medicine company focused on data to support the delivery of the best possible care. Chris started out working in hospitals medicine for 6 years and spent time in primary care in New Zealand before […]
This week Fred talks about his personal vaccine experience and some of the challenges of coordination that need to be resolved so as many people as possible get access to vaccination as quickly as possible. Different states and counties have different processes some work well, others create difficulties for people at different stages. We also […]
The First in the Breech This week I am talking to Luis Saldana, MD (@lsaldanamd), an Emergency room physician and CMIO Clinical Informaticist who was at the center of the first Ebola case that reached US shores in 2014. He is a clinician first but like many in the profession went through a period of […]
Looking Back This week we reached a milestone of our 50th Episode on COVID19 and we take a look back at our predictions of what we got right: 📏Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) key to mitigation 🛑There is no return to normal – we return to something different 🧪Testing critical to mitigation 🌮Office considerations including for employees, […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February where we saw a reduction in the number of cases of COVID19 occurring but still crossing a somber milestone of 500,000 people dying from COVID19 in the United States You can read more […]
Thanks to the extensive bubble created by the NBA and daily testing that included genomic analysis scientists were able to take a detailed look at the variants. Their early work with the SWISH study (Surveillance with Improved Screening and Health), the study validated the saliva test for SARS-CoV-2, (I’m sure millions of noses thank them!) […]
Accurate Tracking This week I am talking to Mehdi Bentanfous, CEO of Kinexon (@kinexon) a company providing real-time intelligence and automation with precise localization and edge analytics and underlying technology used by the NFL for their successful COVID19 mitigation program that was featured in this published paper: Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and […]
This week Fred reviews the latest school recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that released a new Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools to incorporate the best available evidence at this time. The evidence suggests that many K-12 schools that have strictly implemented mitigation strategies have been able to safely open for […]
The COVID Czar This week I am talking to Peter Granick, Associate Vice President Business Services and Chief Procurement Officer for Baylor University (@Baylor), and for the last several months COVID19 czar for Baylor University coordinating their response. Peter was excited to join the Baylor community on their procurement process but found his role changed in the early […]
Winter Weather What? There is no doubting the challenges over the last several months with the COVID19 pandemic that has affected so much of our work and lives. Many have struggled with the changing advice around face coverings which in the very early days of the pandemic were discouraged as seen in this transcript from […]
This week’s discussion centers on the latest trend of “Vaccine Shopping”. What’s that you ask – I had the same question. For some who are struggling with accessing appointments, worried that their appointment might be canceled, or even thinking they want to pick and choose the vaccine they get, they are booking multiple appointments. While […]
This week’s discussion centers on contact tracing and some of the complexities of doing this in a workplace or college setting. The Johns Hopkins Contact Tracing Course is a good starting place but as anyone who takes the course will discover understanding the basic principles is just a starting point and there are many factors to […]
Vaccine Logistics This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovation in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach […]
Soundcloud Meets Rap Genius This week I am talking to Shiv Rao, MD (@ShivdevRao) is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge (@ABridgeHQ), which uses groundbreaking machine learning to help people understand the details of their care and follow through on their doctors’ advice. He is also a faculty member and practicing cardiologist at UPMC’s Heart and Vascular Institute. Shiv […]
Returning Ultimate Control of Care to the Patient This week I am talking to Rob Kowal, MD, PhD Chief Medical Officer, of Medtronic (@Medtronic/@MDT_Cardiac) and a cardiac electrophysiologist who has been part of the incredible progress and innovation that have taken place in implantable cardiac devices. He talks about the progress from the early days of external pacing […]
The History of US Healthcare This week I am talking with Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (@UMBC) and author of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System that dives deep into the US Health care system tracing the […]
