Safety
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Virtual Surgical Training This week I am talking to Raimundo Sierra, PhD, CEO & Founder of VirtaMed (@VirtaMed) who are empowering surgeons to reach proficiency by integrating intelligent simulation into medical education. Raimundo original experience focused on electrical engineering and medical image analysis that led him on a path to simulation technology and focusing on surgical simulation In […]
This week I am talking to David Hunt, Founder & President of the Cosán Group – which is Gaelic for path, a path that David has been on since growing up in the Boston area with a tight knit family. His career started out in the Medicare world which provided some early insights into the challenges […]
This week I am talking to Rachael Grimaldi, MD (@cardmedic), Founder and CEO of CardMedic and an Anesthetist working in the NHS who founded the company while stranded out of her home country at the height of the pandemic on maternity leave. Born from a desire to help and long term desire to improve health literacy […]
This week I am talking to Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9), Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, and Director of the UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and Medical Director of “Ward 86” HIV Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital. She has many articles published on the pandemic, details of our immunity […]
Medical Data Navigator This week I am talking to Maneesh Juneja, (@ManeeshJuneja) Digital Health Futurist who has been exploring the future and how emerging technologies can make the world a healthier and happier place. We share some common interests and passions around sensors, wearables and even intermittent fasting (IF) aka Time Restricted Feeding/Fasting (TRF) He was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The latest data is creating additional concerns with the rising incidence of the Delta variant that is running through communities, especially those that are unvaccinated. There are a number of factors at play with increased transmissibility that appears to be attributable to the virus shedding in infected individuals earlier and at high rates (Viral infection […]
National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) This week I am talking to Kelvin Coleman, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) (@StaySafeOnline) that is building lasting public/private partnerships to create and implement broad-reaching education and awareness efforts to help enable us all to be cyber aware and cybersafe Kelvin describe himself as the Forest Gump […]
COVID kills more Americans than guns, cars and flu….combined We are fortunate and have widespread availability of vaccines yet we find that the overwhelming majority of deaths caused by COVID19 are to be found in unvaccinated people We discuss how businesses should approach these challenges focusing on the local data and emerging cases and providing […]
This week saw the extraordinary coming together of the CDC, FDA and NIH in the fastest response we have seen in a while If you live in the U.S. and have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you don't need a booster shot, FDA and CDC said in a joint statement today pic.twitter.com/F8RfvBPwke — APHA (@PublicHealth) […]
