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Reducing Transmission of COVID19 This months episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 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 form on my […]
Precision Joint Replacement Surgery This week I am talking with Jim Pierrepont, Ph.D., Chief Innovation Officer at the Corin Group, where they are bringing data to bear for improved outcomes in Orthopedic joint replacement. Jim has spent his entire career in the world of orthopedics, starting with his first degree Biomedical Engineering and ultimately a doctorate. […]
Unlocking Data Potential In this special episode I am talking with David Lareau, CEO, Jay Anders, MD Chief Medical Officer and Toni Laracuente, RN Chief Nursing Officer all from Medicomp Systems. We discuss the challenge in healthcare of getting data to the clinical team that need it – so much of the content that has been created in the […]
Clinical Pattern Recognition This week I am talking with Dave Lareau, CEO of MediComp (@MedicompSys) who has been solving the problem of too much data but not enough information. Dave was involved in the early solutions that became the Lotus Notes platform moving from an early billing solution to a clinically focused solution designed to […]
Connecting the Dots This week I am talking to Matthew Michela, President, and CEO of Life Image a company trying to navigate the deluge of information and connecting the dots in the data-rich world of healthcare that remains knowledge poor. Matthew has been in the healthcare industry for an extended period of time and shares […]
How to Identify the Right Patient (and Whisky) With only a few weeks to go to the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando I took the opportunity to catch up with Vince Vitali, the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Nextgate to review the current trends and hear about their special event planned at the […]
Operating Room Efficiency This week I am talking to Dr. Bala Nair, Ph.D. CTO and Co-Founder of Perimatics and an Associate Professor at the University of Washington along with Dr. Rajeev Saxena, MD, MBA Anesthesiology Resident at the University of Washington. They are authors on the paper: Improving Operating Room Efficiency: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Case-Time Duration that […]
This week I am talking to Brian Powers, MD, (@brianwpowers) resident physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As you will hear he has already achieved a great deal as an emerging voice in Amerian Medicine but we focused on the recently published paper “Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health […]
National Patient Identifier This week I am talking to Dan Cidon (@dcidon), Chief Technology Officer at NextGate (@Nextgate) who is a mechanical engineer by training but found himself on a path of identification of people in the support of the delivery of healthcare. We talked about what some consider a “third-rail” topic – a national patient identifier. […]
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 […]
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 […]
How do We Validate Innovation Talking with Linda Riddell, Poverty Educator and in charge of validation reviews at the Validation Institute at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). The validation institute is used by vendors with outcomes, promises, and results that they are offering and they check the claim. They check the claims, the source, and reliability of […]
Moneyball for Medicine This week I am talking to Richard Milani, MD, (@rvmilani) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health System and Preventative Medicine and Clinical Epidemiologist and Cardiovascular specialist. We met at the HIMSS 2019 AMDIS Pre-Conference: Reengineering Healthcare Delivery through Innovation. His presentation resonated with me as he focused on the importance of the underlying […]
Imagination from InspiRen This week I am talking to Mike Wang, CEO and Founder of Inspiren and Paul Coyne, Co-Founder, and President. In case you are wondering about the company name Inspiren is a combination of Inspiration and the Chinese word ren a Confucian virtue denoting the good feeling a virtuous human experiences when being altruistic […]
I was lucky to catch the ever insightful Dr. Atul Butte (The Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco and TEDxSF Presenter ) following his presentation at Health Datapalooza. He had just come off stage from his presentation: Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, […]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Lisa Simpson, the President and CEO of Academy Health who are the host organization for Health Datapalooza We had some fun with our memes from the Simpsons We discuss the unique nature of the conference that brings together the public and private sector to use data to transform […]
Saving Healthcare Quality This week I am talking to Fred Trotter (@fredtrotter), CTO CareSet Systems – the first commercial Medicare Data company. Fred has a long and fascinating background that unlike many healthcare Cybersecurity experts started in the security field and transitioned to healthcare and healthcare data. You can read his musings on Hacking Healthcare […]
The Bluebutton Innovator This week I am talking to Mark Scrimshire (@eKiveMark) a fellow Walking Gallery member and Entrepreneur in Residence at NewWave and on assignment as Medicare Blue Button 2.0 Innovator at CMS where he is designing and implementing the new API to enable 53 million Medicare Beneficiaries to share their claims information with the […]
Getting to Nationwide Interoperability Unfortunately, the existing healthcare system incentives behavior that is in opposition to the goal of scalable, nationwide, vendor-neutral interoperability. Our model has multiple groups who have a vested interest in the control and ownership of data (for example Payors, Providers, Patients). Each has their own economic and commercial drivers and in […]
Incremental Steps to Health This week I am talking to Dr Khan Siddiqui (@DrKhan ) radiologist, programmer, serial entrepreneur, and Founder, CTO, and CMO of HIGI – the company that is taking the concepts of consumer engagement and tracking to the next level and creating actionable insights that patients and their care team can use […]
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – Better More Rewarding Medicine It was great to catch up with colleague and friend Dr. Anthony Chang (@AIMed_MD) Pediatric Cardiologist, Founder of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) and Director of Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3) . How did a pediatric cardiologist find his way into the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine and […]
What are my BigIdeas2018 for the healthcare industry? They revolve around 3 topics: Security, Data, and Virtual care Technology continues to move at an exponential pace, leaving virtually no industry untouched. Healthcare is no exception – the technological progress in this space is offering incredible opportunities to improve the health of our population, reduce costs […]
