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Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’24: The Acceleration of Healthcare with Jason Taylor

April 24: In this insightful episode, Drex DeFord, President, 229 Risk & Security at This Week Health is joined by Jason Taylor, Senior Vice President, Growth with Panda Health, who delves into the complexities and nuances of integrating digital health solutions within healthcare systems. With a rich background in tech and a deep understanding of healthcare's unique challenges, Jason shares his journey from IBM to leading efforts at Panda Health to demystify digital health for providers. But what drives a tech veteran to pivot towards healthcare, and why choose the path less traveled? Jason's narrative reveals a mission-driven approach, emphasizing the real, tangible impact digital health can have on both providers and patients. How does Panda Health stand out in a crowded marketplace, and what strategies are they employing to expand their reach and effectively serve health systems of varying sizes? Furthermore, Jason touches on the importance of collaboration within the healthcare industry, a sector where sharing knowledge can significantly uplift the entire community. This episode not only sheds light on Panda Health's innovative solutions and mission but also sparks a broader conversation on the future of digital health and its potential to transform patient care.Categories: AI Machine/Learning, Leadership, Cloud

April 24, 2024

Keynote: Cultivating Real Impact Through Leadership and Focus with Chuck Podesta

April 26, 2024: In this episode, Chuck Podesta, CIO of Renown Health, delves into the intricacies of healthcare IT leadership, particularly the challenges of budget management and the responsible implementation of emerging technologies like AI. Boicey shares his experiences and strategies for transitioning from a 7% to a 4% budget, emphasizing the importance of aligning IT investments with organizational goals. He also discusses the need for education, governance, and collaboration to ensure the successful integration of AI into healthcare systems. Thought-provoking questions arise: How can CIOs balance budget constraints while driving innovation? What role should education play in preparing healthcare leaders for the AI revolution? How can organizations navigate the pressure to adopt trendy technologies while prioritizing value and patient care? Join the conversation to explore these critical topics and more.Key Points:Healthcare IT BudgetingResponsible AI ImplementationOrganizational GovernanceLeadershipAt Home SolutionsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 23, 2024

TownHall: The Benefits and Challenges of AI in Medical Imaging with Larry Sitka

April 23: Today on TownHall Lee Milligan, MD, Chief Executive Officer at Asbury HealthTech Partners interviews Larry Sitka, EVP & CSIO Enterprise Imaging and AI at PaxeraHealth. Larry shares his insights on the revolutionary integration of AI in medical imaging, along with its challenges and risks. What does it take to get an AI product through FDA approval? What are the expected benefits of introducing AI into medical imaging? What does Larry perceive as some of the security risks of AI in today’s world? Furthermore, we explore the broader implications of AI in healthcare, particularly in improving diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes. This episode not only highlights innovative strides in AI but also prompts a deeper discussion on the future of healthcare technology.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 23, 2024

UnHack (the Podcast): Cybersecurity Threats and AI Solutions in Healthcare Featuring Shawna Hofer

Join host Drex Deford on this inaugural episode of "Unhack the Podcast" as he welcomes Shawna Hofer, CISO at St. Luke's in Boise, for an enlightening conversation on the evolving landscape of AI in healthcare cybersecurity. In this episode, Shawna shares her insights on how AI technologies are transforming both threat dynamics and defense mechanisms within the healthcare sector. Dive into real-world examples of AI applications, learn about the challenges and opportunities these innovations present, and discover what healthcare organizations can do to stay ahead in a rapidly changing cybersecurity environment. Whether you're a cybersecurity professional, healthcare administrator, or tech enthusiast, this discussion will equip you with valuable knowledge on the intersection of AI and healthcare security.Key Points:AI in Cybersecurity: Exploration of how AI is used by both defenders and attackers in healthcare cybersecurity.Threat Actors: Insight into the diverse groups targeting U.S. healthcare, including nation-states and ransomware criminals.AI for Defense and Offense: Discussion on AI’s role in automating defensive cybersecurity tasks and enhancing offensive strategies.Impact of Data Breaches: How AI processes stolen data to identify vulnerabilities and potential targets in healthcare systems.Shawna Hofer’s Insights: Key strategies and experiences from Shawna Hofer, CISO at St. Luke's, regarding AI's integration into cybersecurity efforts. Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 22, 2024

Keynote: Unpacking the Practical Impacts of Generative AI on Clinician Workflow with CT Lin

April 19, 2024: In this episode, Dr. CT Lin, CMIO of UC Health, engages in a thought-provoking discussion about the integration of generative AI in healthcare workflows, sharing insights from his conversations with industry experts. He explores the nuances of clinicians' perceptions of AI-generated notes, the potential impact on patient care, and the delicate balance between automation and human expertise. CT delves into the challenges of customization, the importance of teamwork in optimizing EHR usage, and strategies for mitigating clinician burnout. As the conversation unfolds, listeners are prompted to consider the evolving role of technology in healthcare and its implications for clinician well-being and patient outcomes. How can AI enhance efficiency without compromising quality? What strategies can healthcare organizations implement to foster effective collaboration and innovation? And how can clinicians navigate the complexities of automation while preserving their expertise and autonomy?Key Points:AI VoiceAI AcceptancePatient TransparencyClinician BurnoutSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 19, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: IT Solutions with CTG’s Christine Blanchard

April 18: We sat down with Christine Blanchard, Managing Director at CTG, to explore the company's pivotal role in transforming healthcare through technology. How has CTG managed to stay at the forefront of healthcare IT solutions for over 35 years? What are the key strategies that have enabled them to effectively address the diverse needs of their clients in healthcare systems, payers, and life sciences? Moreover, Christine discusses the recent initiatives CTG has undertaken to enhance patient engagement and streamline healthcare operations through advanced IT solutions. This episode not only provides a deep dive into CTG's successful strategies but also offers insights into the future of healthcare IT as envisioned by one of its leading players.CTG - https://www.ctg.com/

April 18, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’24: Phishing in Healthcare with Mick Coady

April 17: In this Interview in Action, Bill Russell talks with Mick Coady, a CTO from Armis, to discuss the innovative solutions and strategies Armis employs to tackle the complex challenges of healthcare cybersecurity. How does Armis prioritize and address the myriad of threats facing healthcare institutions today? What makes their approach to asset discovery and vulnerability management stand out in a crowded field of cybersecurity solutions? Furthermore, we explore how Armis recent acquisition of CTCI is set to revolutionize the way healthcare organizations prompt and respond to cyber threats. This conversation not only sheds light on the technical prowess of Armis but also offers a glimpse into the future of healthcare cybersecurity, where predictive models and actionable threat intelligence could significantly alter the landscape of digital health security.Categories: Cybersecurity/Privacy

April 17, 2024

TownHall: AI, Cloud Integration, and Cautionary Evaluation with Hamed Abbaszadegan, MD

April 16: Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health talks with Hamed Abbaszadegan, MD, Physician Executive at Stanson Health. We reconnect with our most popular guest from last year as he navigates us through the complexities of AI and machine learning, natural language processing, and the advancement of large language models. What does AI actually look like in the healthcare industry currently? How are health systems integrating it into their processes and where are they being hesitant? Is the cloud an essential part of this technological evolution and what does it mean for AI in healthcare this year? Could we be stepping into an era of 'cautionary evaluation'? Listen in to get answers to these thought-provoking questions and much moreSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 16, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS and VIVE ’24: Innovation With Didi Davis and Erica Williams

April 17: These interviews in action feature Drex DeFord, President, 229 Risk & Security at This Week Health with Didi Davis, VP, Informatics, Conformance & Interoperability of The Sequoia Project from HIMSS 2024 and Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer of Tivity Health is joined by Erica Williams, Regional Technology Officer of Ascension at ViVE 2024. Didi diving deep into the intricacies of healthcare IT, interoperability, and the transformative work being done at The Sequoia Project. With a rich background spanning 34 years in healthcare IT and a passion for improving data usability. But what does it truly take to make data more usable in the healthcare sector, and how can the Sequoia Project's initiatives, like the Interoperability Matters and the newly launched Data Usability Taking Root, pave the way for a more interconnected healthcare ecosystem? Moreover, how do these efforts contribute to the broader goals of provider-to-provider exchange, public health communication, and empowering consumers in their healthcare journey? Also, Erica Williams navigates through the complexities and aspirations of modern healthcare systems, Erica shares her professional development journey, emphasizing the unpredictable yet invaluable learnings from ViVE. The conversation takes a deep dive into the critical challenge of interoperability within healthcare systems. But how does this quest for interoperability intersect with the enhancement of clinician experiences, from physicians to nurses? And in what ways can ambient solutions and AI components revolutionize the provider landscape?

April 16, 2024

Interview In Action @ HIMSS 24’: TEFCA, FHIR, and the Path to Seamless Data Exchange in Healthcare with Semira Singh

April 15, 2024: In this episode of This Week Health, Bill Russell interviews Samira Singh, Director of Informatics for Providence, at HIMSS 2024. They delve into the intricacies of value-based care contracts, data exchange frameworks like FHIR, and the evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability. With discussions ranging from the challenges of closing care gaps to the future potential of standardized data sets, listeners are invited to ponder the role of regulation in driving healthcare standards, the impact of FHIR on bidirectional data exchange, and the necessity of financial data inclusion in interoperability efforts. How can professionals navigate the complexities of value-based care while ensuring data accuracy and accessibility for providers and payers alike? Can standardized frameworks like TEFCA pave the way for a more streamlined and efficient healthcare ecosystem? And how might the integration of financial performance reporting reshape the provider-payer relationship in the era of value-based care contracts?

April 15, 2024

Keynote: AI Made Practical: Cost, Efficiency, and Clinician Experience with Michael Pfeffer

April 12, 2024: In this engaging keynote conversation, Dr. Michael Pfeffer, CIO at Stanford Healthcare, discusses the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in healthcare. Delving into topics like ambient clinical listening, generative AI, and computer vision, Dr. Pfeffer emphasizes the importance of collaboration and innovation in harnessing the power of technology to improve patient care. Thought-provoking questions arise, such as: How can AI enhance clinical decision-making while maintaining transparency? What are the ethical considerations of using AI in healthcare? And how can organizations prioritize their technological investments to maximize impact? Lastly, Michael discusses his thoughts on what makes a good leader in an industry as large as healthcare.Key Points:AI Made PracticalAmbient Clinical ListeningGenerative AIComputer VisionLeadership in InnovationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 12, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’24: The Safety of Healthcare Data with Vernon O’Donnell

April 11:This interviews in action features Drex DeFord, President, 229 Risk & Security at This Week Health with Vernon O'Donnell, President of Field Operations at Hypori. In this episode, they delve into the intricacies of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector. As they navigate through Vernon's journey from the military to leading Hypori mission, we uncover the critical role of cybersecurity in protecting sensitive healthcare data. How does Hypori’s innovative approach to cybersecurity redefine the safeguarding of data on edge devices, and what implications does this have for the healthcare industry at large? Vernon sheds light on the unique challenges and opportunities in transitioning cybersecurity technologies from defense to healthcare applications. How does Hypori’s solution ensure the protection of both enterprise intellectual property and individual privacy, especially in the context of HIPAA compliance? Moreover, we explore the significance of user experience in the adoption of cybersecurity technologies in healthcare. What lessons has Hypori learned from its defense background, and how are these insights shaping its offerings for the healthcare community? This episode not only highlights the evolving landscape of healthcare cybersecurity but also prompts us to consider the balance between technological innovation and user-centric design in protecting our most valuable data.Categories: Cloud, CyberSecurity & PrivacyDemo:https://go.hypori.com/Hypori80secs

April 11, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS 24’: DAX Copilot’s Impact on Efficiency and Clinician Burnout with Kenneth Harper

March 22: In this Interview in Action at HIMSS 2024, Bill Russell interviews Kenneth Harper, VP and GM from Nuance Communications. Harper discusses the revolutionary impact of DAX Copilot in healthcare documentation, highlighting its seamless integration into Epic and its ability to save clinicians valuable time. But with the democratization of technology, how do we ensure quality and accuracy? As organizations rush to adopt similar solutions, what distinguishes true innovation from mere imitation? Moreover, as AI continues to evolve, what new frontiers lie ahead in healthcare augmentation and automation?

April 11, 2024

Solution Showcase: How Baptist Health Enhanced Clinician Experience by 7 Million Clicks with DrFirst

April 10, 2024: In this engaging episode from VIVE 2024 in Los Angeles, we delve into the transformative journey of Baptist Health Jacksonville under the leadership of Stacey Johnston, Chief Application Officer, and their remarkable achievement of a ten-star EPIC implementation. The conversation also focuses on the clinician experience, specifically medication reconciliation (MedRec) challenges, as Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer with DrFirst, outlines the persistent hurdles despite advancements in interoperability and digitization. How can the gaps in medication history be filled, and what solutions can address the semantic interoperability problem to prevent manual data transcription errors? This episode not only sheds light on the complexities of healthcare IT implementations and optimizations but also presents innovative solutions to longstanding challenges in clinical workflows.Key Points:Ten-Star EPIC Implementation SuccessPost-Live Optimization StrategiesMedication Reconciliation ChallengesImproving Medication History AccuracyAI-Driven Process EnhancementsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 10, 2024

TownHall: Burnover, Virtual Training, and Culture of Wellness with Liz Griffith

April 9: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Liz Griffith, Director of EHR Education at uPerform. In their conversation they delve into the intertwined issues of burnout and turnover in the healthcare sector, a phenomenon Liz Griffith dubs as "burnover." Liz, with her extensive background in healthcare technology and EHR satisfaction research, sheds light on how the pandemic has drastically altered the landscape of training within healthcare systems. But how exactly do EHR systems contribute to this burnover? And more importantly, what innovative solutions can mitigate these challenges? How can healthcare systems better align their priorities with the needs of frontline workers to combat burnover effectively?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 9, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’24: AI & Governance with Justin Coran, Steven Ramirez, and Perry Welch

April 9: First, we join Justin Coran, Chief Analytics Officer at Renown Health, and Steven Ramirez, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer at Renown Health, at the HIMSS conference. The duo shares their ambitious initiatives for the year, focusing on transitioning to a multi-cloud environment with AWS and Azure, and the importance of building a sustainable infrastructure that ensures security and prevents data leakage. They emphasize the critical role of analytics maturity in healthcare systems, highlighting the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning to revolutionize clinical and administrative operations. Governance and data literacy emerge as pivotal themes, underscoring the need to prepare the workforce for an AI-driven future. Then, we dive in with Perry Welch, Chief Sales Officer at Airwavz Solutions, a company at the forefront of solving in-building connectivity challenges within healthcare facilities. As hospitals and healthcare institutions evolve into sprawling complexes, the issue of reliable cellular service becomes increasingly critical, not just for convenience but for essential medical operations. Welch delves into how Airwavz addresses this problem by creating custom-designed, carrier-agnostic networks that ensure seamless communication within these complex environments.Categories: Cloud, AI / Machine Learning

April 9, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS 24’: From Healthcare Problems to Innovative Solutions with Andy Chu

April 8, 2024: In this episode Bill Russell sits down with Andy Chu, Chief Product Officer at Providence Digital Innovation Group, to delve into the intricacies of healthcare product development. Andy explains the mission of his role, emphasizing problem-solving and innovation within Providence's digital landscape. Through thoughtful discussion, Andy articulates the complex process of identifying healthcare challenges, generating solutions, and ultimately building sustainable platforms. As the conversation unfolds, listeners gain insight into Providence's strategic approach to product development, including the significance of external validation, platform integration, and the long-term sustainability of ventures. Engaging questions arise: How does Providence navigate the vast landscape of healthcare problems? What factors influence the decision to pursue a particular solution? What challenges do health systems encounter in product development, and how can they be mitigated? Through Andy’s expertise and experiences, this episode offers a thought-provoking exploration of the dynamic intersection between technology and healthcare.

April 8, 2024

Keynote: The Impact of Cross System Communication with Brett Oliver, Lacy Knight, and Matthew Sullivan

March 5, 2024: In this episode, Brett Oliver, CMIO of Baptist Health System KY & IN, Lacy Knight, CHIO at Piedmont Healthcare, and Matthew Sullivan, CMIO of Atrium Healthcare, have open discussion around a variety of topics. Is AI at its current stage worth the challenges it poses in terms of cost, efficiency, and interoperability. They delve into the complexities of adopting AI platforms, the need for standardization in imaging technologies, and the role of clinical decision support in enhancing patient care. Thought-provoking questions arise, such as: How can healthcare organizations balance the rising costs of AI implementation with the imperative to drive down overall healthcare expenditures? What strategies can be employed to overcome the challenges of integrating disparate imaging systems and ensuring seamless data exchange? How can CMIOs leverage their influence to navigate organizational complexities and drive technological innovation in healthcare?Key Points:Smooth AI IntegrationImaging StandardizationClinical Decision SupportCross System Communication Large vs. Small System IssuesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 5, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS 24’: Meditech Expanse’s Impact With Dara Bartels

March 4, 2024: In this episode of This Week Health, Bill Russell discusses Meditech’s new advancements in EHR data systems with Dara Bartels, CEO of Mile Bluff Medical Center. They discuss the evolution of their EHR system, highlighting challenges faced with dual systems, interoperability issues, and clinician burden. The conversation focuses on the implementation of Meditech Expanse coupled with Google Health's search and summarization capabilities, offering insights into how it streamlines workflow, enhances data accessibility, and reduces burnout for both patients and clinicians. Throughout the dialogue, Dara navigates through the complexities of EHR integration, shedding light on potential future advancements and addressing the crucial role of technology in revolutionizing healthcare delivery

April 4, 2024

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’24: Data-Driven Healthcare with Kevin Field

April 4, 2024: In this insightful episode, Drex DeFord, President, 229 Risk & Security at This Week Health delves into the transformative world of healthcare data management with Kevin Field, President of Clearsense, recorded at HIMSS 2024. With a rich background in healthcare technology and a pivotal role at Clearsense, Kevin shares his journey from leading Epic implementations to focusing on making healthcare data a valuable asset. But what does it truly take to organize and utilize vast amounts of data from disparate systems effectively? How can healthcare organizations leverage this data to make informed decisions, and what role does data governance play in ensuring consistency and trustworthiness of data? Moreover, Kevin discusses the challenges and solutions in integrating legacy systems and the importance of creating a common data language within organizations. The conversation also explores the potential of AI and how foundational good data quality is for its application in healthcare. Through a blend of technology and advisory practices, Clearsense aims to empower healthcare providers with reliable, actionable insights. But how does this approach change the dynamics of data management and decision-making in healthcare? Join them as they uncover the complexities and innovations shaping the future of healthcare data management.

April 3, 2024

Interview In Action @ HIMSS 24’: Creating a Seamless Patient Experience with Ray Lowe & Kevon Kothari

April 2: In this Interview in Action from HIMSS ‘24 Ray Lowe, SVP of AltaMed, and Kevon Kothari, Chief Growth Officer at Certify, delve into the realm of patient experience. They discuss all things workflow optimization, shedding light on Certify's efforts to streamline patient intake processes and enhance the overall healthcare journey. Thought-provoking questions arise: How can technology like facial recognition improve accessibility for elderly patients? What role does automation play in optimizing workflows within healthcare facilities? And how do such innovations integrate with existing systems like EPIC, filling gaps and enhancing patient engagement? These questions prompt reflection on the evolving landscape of healthcare technology and its impact on patient care.

April 2, 2024

TownHall: The Benefits of Epic Site Visits with Peter Marks & Sacheen Mallette

April 2: Today on TownHall, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Peter Marks, Vice President and CIO at WakeMed and Sacheen Mallette, Director Application Services at WakeMed. They delve into the inception, execution, and remarkable benefits of organizing annual visits to Epic's corporate offices. How has this unique strategy fostered a deeper collaboration and understanding between WakeMed and Epic? How critical is C-suite involvement on these trips? Can a visit really make a difference in how healthcare technology is leveraged? From revenue cycle enhancements to operational efficiencies, find out the tangible benefits and outcomes of WakeMed's strategic initiatives with Epic.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 2, 2024

Keynote: Understanding the Patient Experience and Integrating New Technologies with Cris Ross

March 29, 2024: Join Cris Ross, CIO of the Mayo Clinic, as they delve into the future of health IT. From the integration of AI in radiology to the potential for patient dialogue with medical records, Ross shares insights on the transformative power of technology in healthcare. But as we embrace these advancements, how can we ensure patient-centricity remains at the core? And with the rapid evolution of technology, what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for aspiring IT professionals entering the healthcare sector? Cris also shares his personal experience as a patient in Healthcare and the changes it made in his perspective. Join the conversation as they explore the intersection of technology and patient care, and contemplate the ethical implications of AI integration in healthcare.Key Points:Patient Focused InnovationSystem IntegrationHealthcare TrendsVirtual Workspace CommunityWorkplace NecessitiesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 29, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: UPMC’s Epic Implementation with Chris Carmody & Tyler Bryson

March 28: Live from ViVE, Chris Carmody, CTO & Senior Vice President for UPMC, and Tyler Bryson, Corporate Vice President, Health & Public Sector Industries, US for Microsoft, delve into the innovative partnership between UPMC and Microsoft, focusing on the transformative power of AI in healthcare. Chris Carmody shares insights into how leveraging Microsoft's AI platforms has revolutionized their clinical analytics, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversation explores the critical role of data analytics in improving patient outcomes and operational efficiencies. How does UPMC's approach to AI and data analytics serve as a model for other healthcare institutions? What implications does this partnership have for the future of healthcare technology, and how might it influence patient care and operational strategies? This episode not only sheds light on UPMC's journey with AI but also prompts us to consider the broader impacts of technology on healthcare systems.Categories: AI / Machine Learning, EHR

March 28, 2024

Solution Showcase: The Journey of Automation at Children’s Health with SureTest

March 26, 2024: Live from HIMSS, Bill Russell joins Children’s Hospital CIO Chris Akeroyd and SureTest’s President & COO Mark Scruggs to talk about testing automation. How does the intersection of automation and healthcare redefine the roles of IT professionals within the industry, particularly in relation to human versus automated processes in testing and quality assurance? What strategies can be employed to build trust in automated systems among healthcare professionals, ensuring these technologies are viewed as partners in efficiency rather than replacements? How does the integration of automated testing in healthcare IT impact the overall quality of patient care, from diagnosis to billing accuracy? As healthcare systems expand through acquisitions, how can automation serve as a scalable solution to integrate and optimize operations across newly acquired facilities?Key Points:Automation in HealthcareTesting and EfficiencyBuilding Trust in AutomationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 27, 2024

TownHall: AI Adoption, Risks, Operational Automation and Predictions with Vik Patel

March 26: Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health talks with Vik Patel, Chief Operating Officer at Tido. As we navigate through the complexities and potentials of AI adoption within health systems, Vik challenges listeners to think critically about the current landscape. How can AI not only enhance clinical applications but also streamline operational workflows in ways previously unimagined? And with the rapid evolution of AI technologies, what are the risks and considerations health systems must weigh to protect patient data and ensure the unbiased, accurate performance of AI models? This episode doesn't just scratch the surface; it delves deep into the practicalities and futuristic possibilities of AI in improving patient care, operational efficiency, and the overall healthcare landscape.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 26, 2024

Interview In Action @ HIMSS 24 Ordr’s Impact, Healthcare IT, and Cybersecurity Evolution with Wes Wright

March 26: In this episode of This Week Health, Wes Wright, Chief Healthcare Officer at Ordr, discusses cyber security. They explore the transformative power of Ordr's technology in addressing the critical needs of healthcare IT infrastructure. How does Ordr's asset visibility tool redefine the approach to network security, and what implications does this have for healthcare providers' ability to protect sensitive data? With the advent of Ordr AI Chasm, how will the landscape of cyber asset attack surface management evolve, and what does this mean for the future of healthcare cybersecurity? As Ordr paves the way for rapid, comprehensive network visibility, we're prompted to reflect on the broader implications: How will such technologies shape the strategies for managing healthcare IT infrastructure, and what lessons can be learned about the importance of network segmentation and vulnerability management?

March 25, 2024

Keynote: Cedars-Sinai’s Technological Transformation: ERP Systems and Beyond with Craig Kwiatkowski

March 22, 2024: Craig Kwiatkowski, CIO of Cedars-Sinai, shares the intricate balance of spearheading technology initiatives at one of the leading healthcare institutions in this keynote. As Kwiatkowski reflects on his journey from VP of application portfolio to the CIO chair, we delve into the transformative strides Cedars-Sinai has taken under his guidance, especially the monumental ERP system implementation. This conversation prompts us to ponder: How does a massive ERP project not only revolutionize back-office operations but also indirectly impact patient care? Furthermore, as we pivot to 2024's horizon, Kwiatkowski shares insights on prioritizing projects that center on not just technological advancements but the human element—patients and caregivers alike. But in the whirlwind of innovation, how does Cedars-Sinai remain anchored in operational excellence and ensure technology serves its foundational mission of healthcare delivery?Key Points:ERP System ImplementationCS Connect PlatformAI and InnovationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 22, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: Overcoming Provider Burnout and the Role of AI with Jeffrey Blade and Jason Swoboda

March 21: Join Sarah Richardson as she interviews Jeffrey Blade, VP of Applications with Fairview Health Services. Are operational efficiency and provider burnout being addressed at the forefront of healthcare innovation? What role do startups and mature companies play in filling the white space with new products? Then, Sarah engages with Jason Swoboda, Director of Innovation with Tampa General, and they dive deep into the heart of healthcare transformation. They discuss the potential of ambient listening technology to alleviate the burden on our healthcare providers. This episode not only highlights the importance of partnerships and the exchange of ideas but also touches on the personal side of technology with fun insights into who these healthcare leaders would choose as their fictional life coaches. Join us as they uncover the strategies that are setting the stage for the future of healthcare.

March 21, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: Innovating for Impact with Jeffrey Sturman and Joshua Titus

March 21: In this ViVE interview in action Join Jeffrey Sturman, CIO of Memorial Healthcare, and Joshua Titus, CEO/Founder of Gozio, as they delve into the transformative power of networking and innovation within the healthcare industry. How does embracing novel ideas and technologies promise to ease the complexities of healthcare management and patient experience? Jeff Sturman shares his insights on the imperative of thinking differently to improve healthcare workflows, leveraging technologies like CLEAR for MyChart interactions, and the potential of touchless monitoring and virtual nursing. The discussion shifts to Joshua Titus's perspective on the distinctions between consumers and patients in healthcare interactions, highlighting the importance of seamless, mobile-first experiences. But, in this digital transformation journey, how do we ensure that healthcare keeps pace with consumer expectations, drawing lessons from other industries? And as AI begins to play a more integral role, what are the implications for personalization and efficiency in patient care? Join as we unpack these critical questions, shedding light on the path to a more integrated and user-friendly healthcare future.

March 21, 2024

Solution Showcase: Navigating Application Rationalization and Application Archiving with Clearsense

March 20, 2024: In this solution showcase with Tanya Wrathell, Manager of IT Operations for one of the largest non-profit, faith-based health organizations, they delve into the complexities and strategic approaches to application archiving and rationalization within a sprawling healthcare system spanning 27 states. How did their partnership with Clearsense help to ease the transition? Wrathell shares invaluable insights into their journey towards becoming an Epic shop, revealing the nuanced decision-making processes involved in decommissioning outdated systems and embracing a single-instance EHR implementation. As we navigate through the discussion, questions arise: What are the tangible ROIs of archiving and decommissioning applications replaced by a unified EHR system? How does the organization's approach to data migration versus archiving impact end-user experience and access to crucial patient information? And, in the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT, how does the organization plan to leverage archived data for analytics and predictions? Key Points:EHR Implementation JourneyArchiving vs. Migration DecisionsEnd-User Experience ConsiderationsApplication Decommissioning ChallengesVendor Relationship ManagementSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 20, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24 – Pete D’Addio, Steve Eckert, & Zane Burke

March 19: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a triple Interview in Action live from ViVE 2024. First, Sarah Richardson speaks with Steve Eckert, Chief Technology Officer at Cook Children’s Health Care System. How does one navigate the overwhelming influx of projects while maintaining a stable, financially sound organization? Eckert discusses the delicate balance of innovation and operation, shedding light on the art of saying 'no' in a way that propels growth rather than hindrance. Furthermore, the conversation pivots towards the invaluable insights gained from networking and the pursuit of groundbreaking technologies at the conference.Next, Bill speaks with Zane Burke, CEO and Board Member of Quantum Health. How does Quantum Health's unique approach to healthcare navigation redefine the way providers, employers, and patients interact within the healthcare ecosystem? What drives a leading healthcare network like Vanderbilt to embark on this pioneering journey, and how does it align with their commitment to patient care?Last, Drex speaks with Pete D’Addio, Director of Enterprise Technology at Moffitt Cancer Center. Pete shares insights on how Moffitt is navigating the complexities of providing specialized care, emphasizing the importance of creating a seamless and compassionate experience for cancer patients. The discussion raises several thoughtful questions: How does the integration of technology in healthcare settings impact patient outcomes, especially in specialized care like oncology? In what ways can technology simplify the journey for patients undergoing emotionally and physically taxing treatments?Subscribe: This Week Health

March 19, 2024

TownHall: Hospital at Home, Digital Patient Access, and AI Enhancements with Jane Moran

March 19: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors welcomes back Jane Moran, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Mass General Brigham. Jane delves into her role and the impactful advancements her team is setting in motion for the future of healthcare technology. Jane's unique position, having transitioned from a non-healthcare background into leading digital initiatives at one of Massachusetts' most significant health systems, sets the stage for an examination of innovative approaches to patient care and satisfaction. How does a perspective from fintech and consumer goods translate to healthcare, and in what ways are these insights driving Mass General Brigham's strategies to enhance patient and researcher experiences? We explore the potentials and challenges faced in expanding Hospital at Home programs, the pivotal role of digital technologies in reducing administrative burdens for clinicians, and the leverage AI offers in automating clinical documentation and improving patient engagement. Moreover, Jane sheds light on the delicate balance between innovation and ethical considerations in AI deployment. Learn more about Hospital at Home and Mass General Brigham: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/home-based-cares-role-in-flattening-the-curve-of-healthcare-costs.htmlSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 19, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: Cybersecurity in the Zero Trust Age with Kate Pierce and Tamer Baker

March 18, 2024: In this 2024 ViVE IIA double feature health leaders Kate Pierce, Senior vCISO at Fortified Health Security, and Tamer Baker, CTO at Zscaler. Pierce delves into the complex landscape of healthcare cybersecurity, with a particular focus on third-party risks, the implications of the Change Healthcare breach, and the burgeoning field of zero trust. How are health systems navigating the murky waters of third-party risks, and what lessons can be drawn from recent breaches to fortify defenses? Then, Tamer explores the role of zero trust in safeguarding health data and systems in an era where traditional security perimeters no longer suffice. Further, the discussion sheds light on the significance of HHS's Cybersecurity Performance Goals and their potential impact on healthcare's cyber resilience. Through engaging conversations with experts Kate Pierce and Tamer Baker, this episode not only poses critical questions about the current state and future of healthcare cybersecurity but also offers valuable insights into the strategic approaches being adopted by leaders in the field.

March 18, 2024

Keynote: Leading the Charge with Technology Integration in Healthcare Systems with Donna Roach

March 15, 2024: In this insightful episode Donna Roach, CIO at University of Utah Health, engages in a deep conversation about the challenges and opportunities surrounding the implementation of innovative technology in healthcare settings. They delve into the intricacies of rolling out new systems to ambulatory doctors, the critical role of budgetary reviews, and the importance of demonstrating efficiency. Through anecdotes and practical examples, they explore the impact of technology on patient experiences and the evolving landscape of virtual care. Thought-provoking questions emerge, such as, "What technology will be indispensable in healthcare a decade from now?" and "What attributes contribute to the success of healthcare leaders in navigating complex technological transitions?" Join the discussion as they unpack the future of healthcare technology and the imperative for collaborative problem-solving.Key Points:Technology Implementation ChallengesBudgeting and InnovationEssential CIO AttributesChanging Role of the CIOPrioritizing Indispensable TechnologySubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 15, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24 – Mike Smith, KLAS and David Ting, Tausight

March 14: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from ViVE 2024. First, Bill speaks with Mike Smith, VP of Business Development at KLAS.As the healthcare landscape rapidly transforms, understanding how technological solutions are performing becomes paramount for advancing patient care. Mike shares how KLAS, through extensive provider feedback and analysis, identifies the "best in class" vendors, shining a light on who's excelling and who's faltering in delivering value to healthcare systems. In a world where technological categories are perpetually evolving, how does KLAS stay ahead, creating and adapting categories to fit the nuanced needs of healthcare providers? Next, Drex speaks with David Ting, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tausight. They delve deep into the complexities and advancements surrounding the integration and security of health information. As we explore the pressing question of how we can protect one of healthcare's most valuable commodities, PHI, from the incessant threat of cyberattacks, David sheds light on their innovative partnership with CrowdStrike and the pivot towards an event-driven database structure. How does Tausight leverage technology to not just react to threats but anticipate them by understanding the intricacies of PHI data movement and storage?This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

March 14, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: Jason Swoboda, Tampa General & Todd Felker, Crowdstrike

March 13: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from ViVE 2024. First, Sarah Richardson speaks with Jason Swoboda, Director of Innovation at Tampa General Hospital. Jason reveals the unique approach Tampa General takes in sourcing and fostering innovation within the health sector. How does such a strategy impact operational efficiency and provider burnout, topics that are top of mind for many in the healthcare industry? Next, Drex DeFord speaks with Todd Felker, Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike. With major shifts happening in the realm of cybersecurity, Todd provides an insightful overview of the impact with Change Healthcare and more. How can healthcare organizations understand their exposure when other systems get breached? How do we deal with the pressure of disconnecting for safety and reconnecting for providing care?

March 13, 2024

TownHall: Value-Based Analytics and Being Data Driven with David Vawdrey

March 12: In this TownHall Bill sits down with David Vawdrey, Chief Data and Informatics Officer at Geisinger. His insights into the complex world of data analytics, especially in the healthcare sector, provide a valuable lens into some of the current struggles and future ambitions in the industry. How does Geisinger turn a sea of data into a meaningfully useful resource? Can modern technology help healthcare providers transition from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model more efficiently, and what does a truly data-driven healthcare system look like?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 12, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24: Sameer Sethi, Hackensack Meridian Health & Jason Rose, Clearsense

March 11, 2024: In this Interview In Action double feature Sameer Sethi of Hackensack Meridian Health and Jason Rose of ClearSense explore the topics ranging from AI data organization analytics to improving platform technology in healthcare. How is Hackensack Meridian leveraging AI and RPA to predict patient needs and improve decision support within the clinical workflow? What role does Google's cloud platform play in accelerating access to vital health data? Then, Jason Rose addresses how ClearSense enables significant cost savings and operational efficiencies by streamlining data management and supporting value-based care initiatives. Dive into a discussion that navigates the intersection of technology and healthcare, revealing practical applications of AI that promise to reshape patient care, operational workflows, and the broader health ecosystem.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

March 11, 2024

Keynote: Highlights from ViVE Interviews in Action

March 8, 2024: Live from ViVE, Drex DeFord and Sarah Richardson hit the floor to interview healthsystem leaders across the board. Sharing top of mind and any innovative ideas, this episode covers quickfire answers to some prevalent questions. Highlights include interviews with Daniel Nigrin (CIO for MaineHealth), Theresa Meadows (CIO for Cook Children's), Jeffrey Blade (VP of Applications for Fairview Health Services), Jason Swoboda (Director of Innovation for Tampa General), Steve Eckert (CTO for Cook Children’s), Pete D’Addio (Director of Enterprise Technology for Moffitt Cancer Center), Terri Couts (CIO for Guthrie Clinic), Kate Pierce (Senior vCISO for LGH), Jeffrey Sturman (CIO for Memorial Healthcare), and...

March 8, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24 – Daniel Nigrin, MD, MaineHealth & Scott D’Entremont, Parlance

March 7: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from ViVE 2024. First, Drex speaks with Daniel Nigrin, MD, Chief Information Officer at MaineHealth. The complexities of advancing healthcare systems post-pandemic take center stage as well as the interplay between established vendors and emerging innovators at conferences like ViVE. Does this synergy hint at a new era of collaboration in health technology, offering a beacon of hope for more agile and innovative healthcare solutions? Next, Bill speaks with Scott D’Entremont, Chief Revenue Officer at Parlance Corporation. Delving deep into how Parlance leverages its AI platform to streamline patient access, we discuss the critical role of efficiency, the reduction of system waste, and the intricacies of implementing conversational AI within contact centers. Is the current healthcare landscape ready to embrace such technological advancements for improved patient navigation?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 7, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24 – Terri Couts, Laura O’Toole, and Michael Matthews

March 6, 2024: In this episode of This Week Health, it’s a double Interview In action with Terri Couts from the Guthrie Clinic and then Laura O’Toole of Suretest & Mike Mattews at Yale New Haven. They delve into the transformative journeys of healthcare institutions as they navigate through the complexities of modern IT challenges and innovations. From the expansive operations of the Guthrie Clinic to the intricate automation projects at Yale New Haven Health, our guests share their firsthand experiences. How does Guthrie Clinic defy the common perception of a 'clinic' with its extensive network and multifaceted services? What drives their focus towards IT efficiency and the creation of a data lake, and how do they manage the balance between cost and quality in healthcare IT? Yale New Haven Health's exploration into automation and its impact on operational efficiency and patient care further enriches our understanding. What lessons can we learn from their approach to automation in clinical systems, and how does this reflect on the broader trends in healthcare technology? These discussions not only provide insights into the challenges faced but also highlight the innovative strategies employed to overcome them.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

March 6, 2024

TownHall: AI Implementation, Clinician Burnout, and Meaningful Encounters with Josh Glandorf

March 5: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Josh Glandorf, Chief Information Officer at UC San Diego. Josh provides a comprehensive outline of UC San Diego Health's current initiatives, technology projects as well as talk about their future goals. They get into the innovative roles artificial intelligence is playing in current healthcare scenarios. They also navigate through how UCSD is tackling physician burnout and enhancing healthcare cybersecurity. But, how does UC San Diego ensure the responsible and ethical use of AI? And how do they tackle workforce challenges in the new age of hybrid remote work? Tune in to learn more about these and to better understand the strategic and technological approach they are adopting to revolutionize the healthcare sector. Read more on subjects from this episode:Karandeep Singh, MD, Named Inaugural Chief Health AI Officer at UC San Diego HealthThe Future of AI is NowSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 5, 2024

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’24 – Theresa Meadows and Toby Gouker

March 4: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from ViVE 2024. First, Drex speaks with Theresa Meadows, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Cook Children’s Health Care System. Delving into the realities of clinician burnout, her efforts towards a happier, more effective workforce are prominent. Theresa discusses a problem-based approach focusing on mitigating burnout and improving workflow efficiency. With a myriad of tech innovations floating around, how does one zero in on effectively targeting pain points? Next, Drex speaks with Toby Gouker, EVP, Government Health at First Health Advisory. As part of a company that strengthens digital health through cybersecurity practices, policy design, and resilience initiatives, Toby provides an insightful overview of the challenges and strategies involved in their operations. How do cyber threats affect the industry's strides towards improved patient care? Why is the matter of cybersecurity within healthcare gaining more relevance due to continuous technological advancements? What plans are set in motion to ensure a safe digital transition?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 4, 2024

Keynote: Bridging Mass Data to Rich Insights and Predictive Analytics with Shez Partovi

March 1, 2024: Join Shez Partovi, the Enterprise Informatics Chief Business Leader at Philips as they navigate the next curve of the health tech evolution. They delve into the ocean of data within the modern health landscape, raising the reflective debate: How do we transform mass data into real insights? With an in-depth look into the recent guidance AI is showing, especially in medical imaging, they consider what this future technology can unveil. What light does this shed on a path for untangling modern complexities in care? They challenge the goals, the 'what now' and the courses set out for an average health player by Partovi's deep assessment and front-line sites. Facing ahead, it's all about streamlining the healthcare process with technology without neglecting the patient. Key Points:Interpreting Mass DataReaching Underserved CommunitiesCreating a Positive Customer InteractionAI Interpreting Health RecordsAllocating Resources EffectivelySubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 1, 2024

TownHall: Medication List Interoperability & Adherence in Health IT with Colin Banas, MD

February 27, 2024: Today on TownHall we are taking a look back at a previously released episode. In this episode, Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, Inc. about medication list interoperability and medication adherence. How does DrFirst use data and AI to fill the gaps in medication lists? How do they fit into the medication adherence equation? What are some current challenges in medication data that Colin recognizes?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 27, 2024

UnHack (The Health Industry Cybersecurity Strategic Plan) with Greg Garcia

February 26th, 2024: In this special Sneak Peek for Season 1 of UnHack (the podcast) with Drex DeFord, we are excited to discuss The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) 5 year strategic plan with Greg Garcia, Executive Director. This conversation was just too good and timely to wait, so we are sharing it with you today! With this 5 year plan, the goal is to make it easy for hospitals to work together for effective cyber defense. So, are all organizations in the healthcare spectrum ready to rise to the call in implementing it? And how does this dovetail with the burgeoning areas of practice such as hospital-at-home, healthcare on-demand, and artificial intelligence, among others? We all have a part to play in achieving the strategic goals for safer, more effective healthcare delivery in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 26, 2024

Keynote: Balancing Technology Advancements and Legacy Data with Christian Carmody

February 23, 2024: Christian Carmody, CTO & SVP at UPMC, delves into the profound transformation of analytics and data use within healthcare, tracing the journey from the late 1990s to the present day. How has the advent of cloud technology redefined the way healthcare data is processed, and what does this mean for patient care? They explore the significant shift from traditional, time-consuming data aggregation methods to the rapid, cloud-enabled processes that now support predictive modeling and AI-driven analytics at UPMC. The discussion raises critical questions about the ongoing challenges of integrating legacy systems and the innovative solutions being implemented. How are AI and generative AI being leveraged to enhance patient outcomes, and in what ways are these technologies addressing the complexities of unstructured data and social determinants of health? Join us as they consider the implications of these advancements for the future of healthcare and patient management.Key Points:Cloud Technology ImpactAI Ethics in Patient CareData Aggregation ChallengesCreating Team CultureManaging Company Growth and CutsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 23, 2024

Conference Campaign: Revolutionizing Healthcare Testing with SureTest’s Automation Solutions

February 22, 2024: Amid ongoing growth and technological advancements, CEO of SureTest, Laura O'Toole, discusses the company's significant progress over the past year, including strategic partnerships and client successes with automation in healthcare testing. SureTest, known for its innovative EHR testing platform, has expanded its library and improved its services to save healthcare systems countless hours and resources. The solution, designed to streamline EHR and third-party application testing, is now aiding organizations like UNC and Novant in achieving new levels of efficiency and quality. Exciting developments include the adoption of testing automation during EHR implementation phases, enhancing the effectiveness of transitions to platforms such as Epic. Visit SureTest at ViVE, booth 1301, for a comprehensive demonstration and to engage with clients who have transformed their testing processes using SureTest's solutions.Key Points:Captain’s Campaign for CuresGrowth of SureTestTesting Automation JourneyMoving to EpicAutomation in productionSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 22, 2024

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and the Fight Against Pediatric Cancer with Liz Scott

February 21, 2024: In this stirring episode, they delve into the extraordinary life and legacy of Alex Scott, who at the tender age of four, chose to combat childhood cancer with a lemonade stand. We welcome Liz Scott, her mother and Co-Executive Director of the foundation born from Alex's dream, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This one-of-a-kind charity continues Alex's mission of raising funds for cancer research. Throughout our conversation with Liz, we raise pertinent questions, exploring the collective power of small acts to bring significant change. What inspired Alex to start her lemonade stand? What impact did the stand have on her family and the larger community? And how has this venture evolved to a national foundation influencing pediatric cancer research? Join us as we discover answers to these and reflect on the indelible mark left by a child's determination to make a difference.Key Points:Alex's Inspiring VisionFundraising for CancerAltering Pediatric ResearchCaptain CampaignSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 21, 2024

TownHall: Overhauling a Contact Center and Developing a New Campus with Dustin Hufford

February 20: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Dustin Hufford, SVP and CIO at Cooper University Health Care. With an impressive tenure since 2019, Dustin gives us an insightful overview of Cooper's current focus and future outlook. Given Cooper's exceptional growth and financial strength, how does Dustin plan to align IT strategies with Cooper's overall growth trajectory? With Cooper on the brink of integrating a second hospital, how will Dustin navigate the technological implications of such a significant expansion? As traditional workflows give way to increasingly flexible and powerful technologies, how does Dustin plan to leverage these changes in the service of better patient care? Join us for an engaging exploration of these questions and more. Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 20, 2024

Keynote: Ambient Solutions and Privacy in Modern Healthcare with Seth Hain

February 16, 2024: In this keynote episode of This Week Health, Seth Hain, SVP of R&D at Epic, delves into the transformative power of ambient technologies in healthcare and the profound impact of artificial intelligence on patient care and clinician experience. They explore the nuances of integrating AI into healthcare workflows, from the reduction of menial tasks to the enhancement of patient-physician interactions. How does AI already contribute to healthcare efficiency, and what does the future hold for its role in diagnostics, treatment planning, and patient engagement? They also ponder the ethical considerations of patient data privacy in the age of AI-driven healthcare solutions. This episode invites listeners to reflect on the evolving relationship between technology and healthcare, and the potential of AI to revolutionize patient outcomes and clinician workflows without compromising personal data security.Key Points:Ambient Technologies ImpactFuture Healthcare Predictions Patient Data Privacy Data Security Experimenting with AISubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 16, 2024

TownHall: Technical Debt, Patient Adoption, and AI with Rick Schooler

February 13: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Rick Schooler, CIO at Lee Health. In this episode Sue and Rick discuss the use of AI and new technology, the fostering of a consumer-centric strategy, the need for governance and digitalization in healthcare, and the challenges faced in regard to remote work arrangements. Throughout the conversation, Rick offers insightful advice to vendors, emphasizing the importance of honesty and understanding client needs. Above all, he urges provider organizations to have effective policies for the adoption of AI. Moreover, Rick discusses technical debt, a subject that he passionately believes should not be overlooked. Maintenance and upgrades hold high importance, and an eye should always be on the future to keep up with rapidly changing technologies. Finally, they shed light on patient adoption, a less discussed but substantial part of the healthcare transformation journey. Is your health system ready to navigate these complexities?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 13, 2024

Keynote: AI Announcements, Patient Engagement, and the Future of Emergency Medicine with Kevin Maloy

February 9th, 2024: In this episode of This Week Health Dr. Kevin Maloy, Professor of Innovation at Georgetown University School of Medicine. As they explore the innovative applications of OpenAI API in medical projects at MedStar, questions arise about the potential of conversational technologies to redefine patient engagement and the traditional call center model. How can the integration of AI in call centers shift the focus towards patient-oriented outcomes? With the advent of GPT and other AI models, what are the implications for prompt engineering and the ease of accessing medical information? And as healthcare IT evolves, how might the ambient listening technologies and AI-assisted documentation change the landscape of emergency medicine and patient care? This episode not only highlights the current projects and insights from Dr. Maloy also prompts a broader discussion on the future intersection of AI, healthcare, and patient interaction.Key Points:Patient Engagement CentersAmbient Listening TechnologyAI Advancements Responsible Technology Use Unique Emergency Medical ChallengesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 9, 2024

TownHall: Mission Trip to Tanzania with Sanjeev Sah

February 6: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Sanjeev Sah, SVP, IT Strategy & Cyber at CommonSpirit Health. Sanjeev shares his humanitarian journey from Nepal to Tanzania. How does the mission of providing healthcare in developing countries translate to his work in IT? How is he leveraging technology not just for operational efficiency, but as a tool to save lives and deliver care? Sanjeev discusses the stark contrasts and similarities in operational technology needs between hospitals in developing versus developed countries, and how these insights can provide an atypical perspective on the future of healthcare technologies, such as AI and data-driven decisions.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 6, 2024

Keynote: Welcome to This Week Health Drex DeFord

February 2, 2024: In this special keynote of This Week Health, Bill Russell converses with Drex DeFord, the newly appointed president of the 229 Project, Risk and Security. They delve into Drex’s new role at This Week Health and the evolving landscape of cybersecurity in healthcare, discussing its challenges and innovative solutions. The conversation pivots to the importance of community and collaboration in the field, underscoring the critical role of shared knowledge and experience in advancing cybersecurity measures. How can healthcare systems effectively navigate the complexities of cybersecurity? What role does community play in strengthening the collective defense against cyber threats? And how can new approaches in information sharing transform the future of healthcare cybersecurity?Key Points:Community and CollaborationSecurity InnovationCyber Attacks229 Project’s FutureSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 1, 2024

TownHall: Navigating Epic and Community Connect Implementation with Laszlo Pook

January 30: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Laszlo Pook, VP and CIO at National Jewish Health. Laszlo walks us through his journey with National Jewish Health and the various roles he has held, including working in the US Department of Agriculture to help track diseased cattle. He provides insights into the numerous projects they have engaged in at National Jewish including one significant project – implementing Epic’s Community Connect in collaboration with Intermountain Health. How did the implementation of Epic impact their patient care and internal operations? How did they navigate the challenges of system consolidation, and how did the pandemic, having begun after they initiated the project, throw a wrench in their plans? What lessons were learned and what unexpected benefits did they reap?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 30, 2024

Keynote: Encouraging Positive Innovation and Securing the Future of Healthcare with Hal Baker

January 26, 2024: Hal Baker, CIO of Wellspan Health, joins Bill to explore the dynamic interplay between technology and patient care, focusing on the integration of electronic health records, ambient listening technologies, and AI advancements. How is Wellspan Health harnessing these technologies to enhance patient experience and clinical efficiency? What insights can Dr. Baker provide from his extensive career in healthcare? The discussion also navigates the challenges and opportunities of implementing healthcare technology while maintaining a patient-centric approach. This episode invites listeners to contemplate the future of healthcare IT: what will be the next significant breakthrough, and how will it transform patient care and clinical practice?Key Points:Building a Constructive CulturePatient-Focused IT SolutionsEthical Health RecordsGenerating Lasting ImpactClinician Burnout and AISubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 26, 2024

TownHall: Being Brilliant at the Basics with William Walders

January 23: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with William Walders, SVP and CIO at BayCare Health System. William shares his journey transitioning into his new role and the challenges he faced. He reflects on how his military background shaped his leadership approach, emphasizing on how 'being brilliant at the basics' has been an influential mantra. He touches on the technological strides at BayCare, highlighting the exploration into AI and voice technologies as initiatives towards cost reduction and efficiency improvements. William also spotlights the need for better adoption of technology within the healthcare industry. How can healthcare systems better manage across major transitions? What does it mean for a health system to be "brilliant at the basics"?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 23, 2024

Keynote: The CIO’s New Role in Healthcare and Predictive Medicine with John Halamka

January 19, 2024: John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic, delves into the evolving role of technology in healthcare, particularly focusing on the integration of AI and the transformation of the CIO role. How is AI shaping the future of healthcare, from reducing administrative burdens for doctors to enhancing patient care through predictive algorithms? They explore the challenges and opportunities presented by generative AI, its impact on healthcare professionals, and the ethical considerations that accompany its adoption. They discuss the transition of healthcare from reactive to proactive, with a special emphasis on genomics and molecular medicine. How will these advancements redefine personalized medicine, and what does this mean for the future of patient care? This episode provides a thought-provoking look into the intersection of technology, medicine, and leadership within the healthcare sector.Key Points:AI and Clinician BurnoutCIO Role EvolutionPredictive Healthcare ModelsShared DataCross Country HealthcareSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 19, 2024

TownHall: Making Data Accessible with Traci Follett

January 16: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Traci Follett, Director Clinical Informatics/Education at Sierra View Medical Center. They discuss the transformative impact that data-driven approaches have had on their organization. How has the accessibility and efficiency of data been revolutionized through the use of their Expanse Business and Clinical Analytics solution? What key improvements have been observed through the utilization of comprehensive dashboards and how has this impacted team resources? What positive influences has this approach brought to tackling clinical and business decisions? We also explore Traci's unique journey from bedside care to a leader in IT and informatics and how this shapes her perspective on the implementation and advancement of these tech solutions.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 16, 2024

Keynote: TEFCA Release, Information Blocking, and IT Regulation Challenges With Micky Tripathi

January 12th, 2023: This conversation with Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at ONC, explores the intricate balance between policy, technology, and business within healthcare. How is the intersection of these domains reshaping healthcare IT, and what challenges and rewards come with navigating this nexus? They also touch upon the implications of the 21st Century Cures Act and the role of information blocking in modern healthcare. What does the future hold for health IT professionals in the wake of these regulatory changes, and how will these adjustments impact patient care and provider interactions? Furthermore, the discussion highlights the potential of TEFCA (The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) in revolutionizing health information exchange. Could TEFCA be the key to overcoming previous communication barriers in public health emergencies? Join us as we explore these pivotal topics and their implications for the future of healthcare.Key Points:Home Based CareInformation Blocking RegulationsTEFCA and Public HealthPatient and Provider InteractionEthics of Sharing InformationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 12, 2024

TownHall: Knowing Yourself, Your Team, and Your Business with Susan Ibanez, MD

November 7: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Susan Ibanez, MD, Chief Information Officer at Southeast Georgia Health System. They discuss Susan’s method to building a successful leadership path by knowing yourself, your team, and your organization. Susan discusses adapting to change, understanding the inherent strengths and weaknesses within oneself, and lifelong learning opportunities. What other paths for continual educational growth are there outside of the time commitment of formal education? What key questions does she ask as part of her listening tours? How does she approach conversations with leaders in her organization that work outside of IT staff?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 9, 2024

Keynote: Weathering Financial Winters and Innovation Improving Patient Care with Neal Patel

January 5, 2024: Dr. Neal Patel, CIO, Health IT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, delves into the intricate challenges and advancements in health IT. They explore the impact of AI in healthcare, discussing its potential to alleviate burnout and enhance patient care. How can AI be harnessed to optimize staffing and labor in healthcare facilities? The episode also reflects on the role of virtual care and its integration into patient experience. Furthermore, they examine the delicate balance between technological efficiency and maintaining a personal touch in patient care. The conversation also touches on the importance of data security in AI applications. In what ways can healthcare institutions safeguard patient data while embracing AI's benefits? This episode is a deep dive into the dynamic and evolving landscape of health IT, prompting listeners to consider the future of healthcare technology and its profound impact on both patients and providers.Key Points:Virtual Care IntegrationData Security ConcernsWeathering Financial WintersQuick Technology ImplementationClinician Burnout AlleviationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 5, 2024

TownHall: Challenges for an Integrated Academic Medical Center & AI Strategy with Jeff Gautney

January 2: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Jeff Gautney, Senior Vice President and CIO at Rush University System for Health as a follow up to their last conversation in September. They delve into Jeff's diverse career, his approach to integrating artificial intelligence within a healthcare setting, and the challenges of an integrated academic medical center. How can we ensure that AI-driven patient care and future integration is conducted in a safe, efficient, and holistic manner? How does the integration of university functions with healthcare systems add layers of complexity to identity management and more?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 2, 2024

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Jaun Vado, Executive IT Site Director, RWJBarnabas Health

December 30: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Juan Vado, Executive IT Site Director at RWJBarnabas Health. Juan shares his journey of achieving the 'Most Wired Level 10' status for his organization. This recognition has come from years of strategic efforts, systematic improvements, and digital innovation aimed at transforming patient care. How can we not explore possible implications of this achievement on the overall patient experience? Does it not make patients feel safer knowing they're in the hands of an organization at the forefront of digital healthcare? Juan dives into these very questions outlining how this honor translates into enhancing the patient experience and making their hospital stay feel like being home. We also delve into the exciting future of AI in healthcare. Can successful AI implementation indeed get regulated without a robust governance system?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 30, 2023

Keynote: CIO Review of ’23

December 29, 2023: In this end of year keynote episode, several healthcare leaders share their highlights from 2023. From EHR implementations to integrating new AI technologies, there is a lot to celebrate. They share some future prospects, like new hospitals or generative technology, they are looking forward to in 2024. Finally, they share a moment of gratitude, acknowledging something they are thankful for from this season of life. Check out this episode featuring Matt MacVey, Theresa Meadows, Myra Davis, Jeff Tweed, Shakeeb Ahkter, Zafar Chaudry, Joseph Hales, and John Henderson.Key Points:2023 Accomplishments2024 ProspectsGratitudeSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 29, 2023

Keynote: Practical AI In Healthcare

December 28, 2023: David Baker, CIO at Pacific Dental, Reid Stephan, CIO at St. Luke's, and Lee Milligan delve into the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in healthcare. With a focus on practical AI applications, they discuss the transformative impact of AI in medical imaging, the role of AI in enhancing healthcare operations, and the challenges of integrating AI into clinical practice. How will AI redefine the roles of healthcare professionals and the patient experience? What strategies are being employed to govern AI use in healthcare settings, and what are the ethical implications? These critical questions highlight the intersection of technology and healthcare, offering a glimpse into a future where AI is an integral part of medical care.Key Points:AI in Imaging Ethical Implications with AIBalancing innovation and safetyInnovation CentersExpectations for Future CliniciansSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 28, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Barbara Franta, UChicago Medicine

December 27: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. In this episode Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Barbara Franta, Executive Director, Applications & Digital Solutions at UChicago Medicine. They discuss AI, CIO priorities from last year, and the future of work. What does the unexpected surge in focusing on AI mean for other priorities like cybersecurity? Barbara also addresses the crucial question of workforce adjustment as AI has the potential to take over certain roles.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 27, 2023

Keynote: October webinar: Interoperability Outcomes, A Discussion of What’s Possible

December 26, 2023: Mariann Yeager, CEO of The Sequoia Project, Aneesh Chopra, co founder and president of CareJourney, And Mark Knee, Deputy Director at ONC, delve into the intricacies of healthcare data interoperability, discussing the transformative potential and challenges of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and its impact on healthcare data sharing across different networks. The conversation highlights the remarkable progress in EHR adoption and the ongoing efforts to bridge gaps in the U.S. healthcare system. The panel also touches on the critical role of AI in healthcare, exploring how it's reshaping data usage and patient care. As we contemplate the future of healthcare IT, one must consider: How will TEFCA's evolution influence patient data accessibility? What are the real-world implications of AI integration in healthcare data analysis? And how will these advancements redefine the landscape of health information exchange?Key Points:Clinician EfficiencyEthical Implications with AIHealthcare Data SharingTEFCA Implementation ChallengesSoothing AI Worries Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 26, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Khalid Turk, County of Santa Clara & Lisa Esch, NTT Data Services

December 25: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Saad Chaudhry, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Luminis Health speaks with Khalid Turk, Chief Healthcare Info Tech Officer at County of Santa Clara. What does Khalid like most about a gathering such as CHIME? What is he looking forward to the most in 2024? Next, Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Lisa Esch, Senior Vice President & Chief of Strategy, Innovation, and Industry Solutions at NTT Data Services. Lisa shares an exclusive, global lens on some of the most pressing issues clients face today and showcases examples of how NTT Data Services is not just highlighting solutions but illustrating its successful implementations. What are some healthcare challenges that Lisa is personally most excited about solving right now?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 25, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Inderpal Kohli, VP & CIO, Englewood Hospital

December 23: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. In this episode Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Inderpal Kohli, VP and CIO at Englewood Hospital. They discuss the trending topic at this year's CHIME forum: AI. What is top-of-mind for Inderpal and did he have any “aha” moments at the forum’s discussions? What use cases is he looking to solve with AI? What is he looking forward to next year?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 23, 2023

Keynote: End of Year: Best of TWH Bloopers

December 22, 2023: In this unique episode of This Week Health, host Bill Russell brings us a playful take on candid moments, outtakes, and chatter that didn't make it to the original interviews. With guest appearances from the interviewees over the last year, they delve into an array of topics while keeping the conversation light-hearted. Are the bloopers sometimes more interesting than the official conversation? Which ideas and quips were too unconventional to make it into the original interview? What kind of insights does Russell's off-the-cuff commentary reveal about the evolution of technology in healthcare? Interestingly, throughout these seemingly silly moments, we notice glimpses of valuable insights that could spark thoughtful discussions on healthcare and technology.Key Points:Candid Interview MomentsIn-the-Moment OuttakeInformal Expert DiscussionsDigital Transformation InsightsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 22, 2023

Interview in Action ’23 – Buddy Hickman, Chief Strategy Officer, First Health Advisory

December 21: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with George 'Buddy' Hickman, Chief Strategy Officer at First Health Advisory. With a profound understanding of the complexities and the ever-increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, how are health systems responding to this escalating issue? As attacks become more frequent and potent, how is the healthcare sector adapting its strategies for their cybersecurity needs? Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 21, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Yauheni Solad, MD, CMIO of Digital Health, UC Davis Health

December 20: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from CHIME with Yauheni Solad, MD, CMIO of Digital Health and VP of Innovation at UC Davis Health. A discussion about the potential and pitfalls of generative AI in healthcare took center stage. While Yauheni acknowledges the excitement around AI, he strongly advocates for a pragmatic approach that recognizes AI's limitations and stresses the importance of understanding what you're dealing with before jumping right in. Is AI the silver bullet for healthcare problems? How can we effectively introduce it into clinical operations? Yauheni poses his framework and deep reflections about AI in healthcare to these questions while highlighting the importance of maintaining realistic expectations.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 20, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – William Wilson, VP & CTO, Stanford Children’s Health

December 18: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. In this episode Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with William Wilson, VP & CTO at Stanford Children's Health. How does such a sizable and diverse team continually deliver projects on time and under budget? As we explored the effects of the pandemic on remote working and patient connection, William speaks on the strategies employed to retain talent and uphold service quality. They also touch on data security and AI implementation. As the conversation steered toward the future, William gave a sneak peek into the organization’s goals of 2024.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 18, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Jeff Sturman & Bryce Thompson

December 16: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Jeffrey Sturman, Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer at Memorial Healthcare System. They discuss the benefits and importance of the CHIME forum. Jeff highlights the significance of networking and education sessions that allow peers to learn from each other and evolve their skills. Moreover, they delve into the challenges of labor shortages and the potential of using technology, like AI, to alleviate this issue — an essential question for the audience: can we automate processes to free up more time for patient care? Next, Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Bryce Thompson, Outreach Products and Strategy Sr Director/Care Transformation Partner at Intermountain Healthcare. They discuss how the organization is simplifying the lives of its clinicians. How is a large health organization like Intermountain leveraging its scale to support smaller divisions?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 16, 2023

Keynote: Rural Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities

December 15, 2023: Darrell Bodnar, CIO of North Country Healthcare, Scott McEachern, CIO at Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center, and Ryan Schoppe, with One Health explore how technology is reshaping patient and clinician experiences in rural settings. How are they tackling the unique obstacles presented by geography and resource limitations? What role does telehealth play in bridging the distance, and how is AI poised to revolutionize rural healthcare? The conversation also highlights the importance of community engagement in EHR implementation and the balance between maintaining legacy systems and embracing new technologies. These questions not only stimulate thought but also reflect the episode's core discussions on improving healthcare delivery in rural communities.Key Points:Rural Healthcare ChallengesTelehealth ImplementationAI in Rural healthcareSmall Team ManagementCloud SecuritySubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 15, 2023

Interview in Action ’23 – Jason Cook, Field CTO Americas, Rubrik

December 14: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with Jason Cook, Field CTO Americas at Rubrik. In a rapidly evolving world of cyber threats and cloud data management, how is your organization staying ahead of the curve? Are we becoming more alert to the state of cyber threats or are we still burying our heads in the sand? Jason shares his purview on a multitude of pivotal aspects from data security, tackling the issue of cyber insurance, to the power of AI in reshaping operational dynamics. As moving towards a cloud strategy increasingly becomes the norm, how can we secure our data across diverse platforms? This conversation invites you to deliberate upon your organization's preparedness in the event of a cyber breach and the role of AI in revolutionizing data management and cybersecurity.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 14, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Keith Jones, Cone Health & Guru Bhoopala, GAVS Technologies

December 13: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Keith Jones, Associate CIO at Cone Health. Managing to minimize risks and possible litigation associated with technology, Cone Health is setting the benchmark for intentional AI implementation. But what influenced their decision to start with nurse scheduling and what challenges did they overcome in this process? Next, Guru Bhoopala, Chief Business Officer at GAVS Technologies discusses incorporating generative AI into services for caregivers and caretakers. In what ways is technology reshaping the cost of care in health systems? Can we expect a surge in the use of generative AI in streamlining hospital processes, and more importantly, preventing claim denials? As we explore the horizon for 2024, we inquire about the bid to introduce AI and automation into cybersecurity defense, another step into the future. Finally, Guru shares his experiences and learnings from CHIME as we listen to the groundswell of opinions in the healthcare industry.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 13, 2023

TownHall: The Role of Surveillance Systems in Providing Immediate Interventions with Nancy Engeman

December 12: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Nancy Engeman, Quality Outcomes Coordinator at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital. They discuss the demanding role of a Quality Outcomes Coordinator, involving the ultimate challenge of providing standard care for every patient despite variables such as experience levels of nurses and doctors or frequency of procedures. How does technology, particularly systems like surveillance, assist in standardizing workflow and better patient care? How might transitioning from traditional paper to digital processes transform healthcare? How does real-time monitoring of patient metrics allow for immediate interventions, advancing patient results beyond current nationwide standards in areas such as maternal care? Nancy also reflects on the challenges and final triumphs of change management during the implementation of surveillance.Read more about Golden Valley’s success using MEDITECH’s Surveillance solution to reducematernal complications.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 12, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Sheree McFarland, HCA & Angela Maris, Mediant Health Resources

December 11: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Sheree McFarland, CIO - West Florida at HCA Healthcare and Angela Maris, Vice President of Client Services at Mediant Health Resources. They discuss the vibrant, empowering community they've created specifically for women in the field. As they discuss the program's evolution from a small gathering to a major event, one can't help but reflect on the importance of women’s spaces in predominantly male fields. How essential are such spaces in encouraging diversity and inclusivity in these sectors? What does the future hold for this innovative program?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 11, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Tressa Springmann & Andrea Daugherty

December 9: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Tressa Springmann, SVP, Chief Information & Digital Officer at LifeBridge Health. They discuss the intersection of empathy, technology, and economics, particularly focusing on the role of AI in healthcare. How is LifeBridge Health looking to structure governance around AI?. Next, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Andrea Daugherty, Head of Digital Health at SHI International. How is Generative AI shaping and changing the landscape of digital health and what is its real-world applicability? How is the legislation reacting and adapting towards these technological advancements?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 9, 2023

Keynote: Balancing Trust and Innovation in AI Technology With Dr. Peter Clardy

December 8, 2023: In this keynote, Dr. Pete Clardy, Senior Clinical Specialist at Google, discusses the evolving role of AI in healthcare. From his transition from a critical care physician to a tech expert, Clardy explores the impact of AI on medical data organization and patient care. How does AI reshape healthcare providers' approach to patient data? The conversation also delves into generative AI's potential in medical assessments and the crucial balance between technological innovation and data privacy. How can trust be built in clinicians towards AI technology? This discussion offers valuable insights into the future of healthcare in an AI-driven world.Key Points:Building Trust In AIData Privacy ConcernsGenerative AI ApplicationsTechnology RegulationsMeditech InnovationsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 8, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Frederick Holston, Healthcare Strategist, CDW

December 7: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum with Frederick Holston, Healthcare Strategist at CDW. Fred dives into talking about AI, its different facets, and how realistically it may be used in the healthcare industry. The question is - As patients, nurses, and doctors navigate the day-to-day work within a healthcare setting, what role will AI play in practicality? How far removed are we from ensuring the use of advanced tech, such as AI, is still grounded in the underlying principle of care? The conversation shifts towards healthcare labs, their future, and what they're currently seeking. What focal point should these labs be working towards?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 7, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Kevin Wiese, CIO & Brad Reimer, CIO

December 6: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Kevin Wiese, CIO at BestSelf Behavioral Health. Kevin talks about their mission to improve operational efficiency, become a leaner organization, and use technology to reduce manual tasks. He also shares insights on the use of artificial intelligence in health audits and cybersecurity, provoking thoughts on how technology can minimize risk and audit workloads. Next, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Brad Reimer, CIO at Sanford Health. They discuss the pressing challenges regularly faced by the healthcare industry, such as workforce and clinician burnout. Brad discusses the smaller, accumulative disruptions caused by current technology usage in healthcare. He suggests that reducing this incrementally intrusive technology might also lessen burnout. Are these points of friction within our technology enriching our lives or are they creating added stressors? Brad also discusses the need for human connection as we continue to merge the healthcare and technology industries. How can we embrace innovation but still maintain the fundamental human touch within the patient-caregiver relationship?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 6, 2023

TownHall: Exploring the Growth, Challenges, and Future of At-Home Care with Christopher McGhee

December 5: Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health talks with Christopher McGhee, CEO at Current Health. Post pandemic, how has the at-home market evolved and what are its current challenges? The conversation raises thought-provoking questions: As health systems' financial situations are challenged, are we seeing a cooling of interest in care at home or is it a transition period to a better, more efficient future? How can healthcare organizations adapt to these shifts, preparing for the future without compromising the present? Are bricks-and-mortar health systems ready to offer more consumer-centric services?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 5, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Beth Cooper, SVP, Product Engin. & Data Strategy, Tivity Health

December 4: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. In this episode Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Beth Cooper, SVP, Product Engineering & Data Strategy at Tivity Health. They discuss the importance of solidifying a data strategy, the integration of AI, and its potential risks and rewards. Beth underlines the utmost importance of AI governance which is central to reducing risk. She also shares that their organization has been working on a project named 'Dark Star', which aims for a complete cloud migration by 2024, along with implementing Snowflake and data governance. How is she prioritizing initiatives during budget season and planning for the years ahead?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 4, 2023

From the Floor @ HLTH ’23: ClearDATA, Privacy Dynamics, DataArt, Health Catalyst, Holon Solutions

December 3: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Andy Gilbert, Chief Revenue Officer at ClearDATAGraham Thompson, Founder and CEO of Privacy DynamicsDan Piekarz, Sr. Vice President- Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences at DataArtDave Ross, CTO at Health CatalystJon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon SolutionsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 3, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Muhammad Siddiqui, Reid Health & Nayan Patel, Avis Advisors

December 2: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Saad Chaudhry, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Luminis Health speaks with Muhammad Siddiqui, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Reid Health. They discuss Muhammad’s organization newly implementing 700 new features of Epic within five months thanks to provider-based project management. Next, Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Nayan Patel, Managing Director, IT Strategy & Performance at Avis Advisors. They talk about his work with U.S. Heart and Vascular and he shares his perspective on labor compression in terms of health IT and the role of humans in decision-making even with AI advancements. Finally, he highlights the need for embracing multilingualism in medical solutions for improving patient interactions.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

December 2, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – David Higginson, Phoenix Children’s Hospital

November 30: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with David Higginson, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital. They discuss innovative strategies in healthcare, with a focus on home care and utilization of technology according to patients' needs and accessibility. David stresses the importance of gathering patient data between visits and leveraging simple tech solutions, like text messaging, to better identify and resolve issues promptly. The episode also touches on the challenges and benefits of digital patient experience, the role of CIOs as change agents, and the necessity for innovation in healthcare to lower costs and increase quality. Is there a risk in running too quick to full deployment of technology in the home?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 30, 2023

Solution Showcase: The Future of Efficiency: Erlanger’s Leap into Automated Testing with SureTest

November 29, 2023: Laura O'Toole, CEO of SureTest, and Cinnamon Mathews, Chief Application Officer at Erlanger Health share about their collaboration with Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors. As they navigate through their experiences, they engage in discussions surrounding their industry challenges and the innovative solutions they've implemented. Why is proper staffing such a prevalent issue in the healthcare system? How can automation contribute to higher quality testing and efficient time-saving methods? How does SureTest, with its impressive library of scripts, sparks a significant transformation in the regression testing process? We also explore the crucial distinction between being a vendor and a partner in this sector.Key Points:Staffing ChallengesAutomation BenefitsTesting ProceduresApplication of SureTestFuture OpportunitiesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 29, 2023

TownHall: Harnessing AI to Address Social Determinants of Health with Nirav Shah, MD

November 28: Today on TownHall, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Nirav Shah, MD, Medical Director of Quality Innovation and Clinical Practice Analytics at NorthShore University HealthSystem. Nirav takes us on a journey into the development of a specific healthcare solution powered by NLP that yields actionable data drawn from unstructured health records. The cost-effective tool leverages NLP to identify social determinants of health thus revolutionizing the work of social workers within the hospital setting. But what are the most significant challenges of implementing such technology? Furthermore, how was the tool received by the clinical staff and what impact has the system had on patient care outcomes?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 28, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Bobby Zarr, VP of Healthcare, uPerform

November 27: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum with Bobby Zarr, Vice President of Healthcare at uPerform. As we delved into the many layers of the healthcare world, Bobby elaborated on uPerform's role in providing just-in-time learning platforms for clinicians, potentially reducing burnout and enhancing satisfaction. Bobby introduces the term 'burnover', which encapsulates the financial implications of clinician burnout. Could uPerform be a key player in addressing this crisis? We also touched upon the changing landscape of healthcare, with fierce competition and an intense post-pandemic recovery process. We also got a glimpse into uPerform's plans for the forum, the networking experiences, and the importance of making new connections. What are the roadblocks and opportunities in incorporating change in an industry already loaded with challenges?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 27, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Heather Nelson, Boston Children’s & Barbara Casey, Pixel Health

November 25: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health speaks with Heather Nelson, SVP & CIO at Boston Children's Hospital and Barbara Casey, President, Consulting Services at Pixel Health. Sarah introduces their innovative project, a groundbreaking initiative with Boston Children's to implement a private 5G cellular network in healthcare, a first of its kind, aimed at enhancing connectivity for clinicians, care teams, and physicians. What drives healthcare leaders to pioneer groundbreaking projects like the private 5G cellular network? What have Barbara and Heather enjoyed the most at the forum this year?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 25, 2023

Keynote: The Future of AI and its Role in Reducing Health Inequities with Ashish Atreja

24 November, 2023: Ashish Atreja - CIO, CDO at UC Davis Health, one of the key contributors at the heart of the current technological revolution in healthcare joins for this keynote episode. Learn about the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, and hear how technology can improve healthcare outcomes and streamline processes. How can we ensure that innovation doesn't magnify existing health inequities or create new ones? What makes VALID AI stand out and could it be a game-changer in addressing the lack of shared knowledge in the innovation sector? Is generative AI indeed a watershed moment in healthcare? They navigate these complex landscapes of technological upheavals, compliance issues, and intellectual property, and delve into the impact of technological growth on healthcare organizations, and their struggle to keep up. Explore the shift from a 'market plus first' approach to a problem-centered approach and the key problem areas where AI could be utilized for significant improvements.lKey Points:Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare InnovationVALID AI ProgramGenerative AI ImpactCompliance ChallengesProblem-centered ApproachSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 24, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Kevin Peck, US Army & Jen Fowkes, McKinsey & Company

November 23: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Kevin Peck, Senior CIO at US Army. What role will AI play in the development of the US army's healthcare systems? Next, Timothy Zoph, Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company speaks with Jennifer Fowkes, Partner at McKinsey & Company. Today, the healthcare industry experiences a storm, marked by rising inflation and labor challenges. Is technology the silver lining we anticipate for these healthcare challenges? Drawing insights from other industries like hospitality and transportation, could "rewiring" for digital and analytics provide the necessary solutions?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 23, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Cherodeep Goswami, UW Health & Nassar Nizami, Exact Sciences

November 22: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Cherodeep Goswami, Chief Information & Digital Officer at The University of Wisconsin Health System and Nassar Nizami, Chief Information Officer at Exact Sciences. What's in store for Exact Sciences, a renowned clinical research company mainly known for their product ColoGuard? How is UW Health working towards deploying automation?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 22, 2023

TownHall: Exploring the Intersections of Innovation, Leadership, and Health Equity with Todd Carlson

November 21: Today on TownHall Linda Yang, CIO, talks with Todd Carlson, VP of Application Development and Enterprise Architecture at CareSource about leadership in technological advancements in the healthcare insurance industry. How is generative AI shaping the quality and efficiency of healthcare and how does it hold up to the unique challenges of the healthcare industry? Also, we explore the importance of a human-centric design in the development of healthcare systems, the risks and rewards of innovation, and the critical role of strong leadership in promoting innovation while maintaining accuracy and efficiency.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 21, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Drew Koerner, Healthcare/SLED Chief Architect, ServiceNow

November 20: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum with Drew Koerner, Healthcare/SLED Chief Architect at ServiceNow. What percentage of a clinician's work being spent on administrative tasks is acceptable, and can it be significantly reduced? How can technology like clinical device management solutions contribute to improving healthcare operations and patient care?This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 20, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Marshall Pearson, HCA Healthcare & Caitlin Ursini, Notable

November 18: Today on the Conference channel, it’s a double Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. First, Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Marshall Pearson, Division Director of Application Services at HCA Healthcare. How do established healthcare systems balance innovation with startup partnerships? Pearson speaks on ongoing projects to streamline processes like physician note-taking through AI, and gives us a glimpse into the promising future of 2024; a journey painted with the hues of process automation and an aspiration to simplify and compact repetitive tasks. Next, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Caitlin Ursini, Strategic Partnerships lead at Notable. Caitlin explains how Notable enhances the capabilities within Electronic Health Records for better optimization. One might wonder, how the rapid advancement in generative AI influenced Notable's strategy? More intriguing is the idea of transforming unstructured data for decision-making - how has this been realized practically? Real-world use cases shed light on the application of this concept, particularly in population health work.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 18, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Amie Teske, Founder & CEO, amieteske.com

November 16: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Amie Teske, CEO and Founder at amieteske.com. They discuss her journey in the health tech industry and her insights on the changing dynamics in the field. They also explore the significant transformations in the industry, with a focus on the concept of digital health. At its core, the conversation raises the essential question: What really is digital health, and how does it impact the interactions between healthcare providers and patients? This interview delves into the implications and applications of digital health within the healthcare continuum. Amie also discusses her role in mentoring, coaching, and advising health tech sales companies on improving their sales strategiesThis Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 16, 2023

Solution Showcase: Harnessing Tech from Patient Transport Efficiency to Simulation Training with CDW

November 15, 2023: In this solution showcase, our guest Todd Larson, Consultant at HonorHealth, offers insightful anecdotes based on his mixed experiences in law enforcement and healthcare. His military background encourages an innovative approach to healthcare, specifically in information centralization and operational efficiency. What drove the conception of the Command Center? How has it evolved? Larson nudges us to think about our healthcare models and how we're potentially lagging behind. As we move through various topics, Larson emphasizes the crucial role of technology in healthcare. However, is technology a help or a hindrance? Does it streamline processes or does it add another layer of complexity? The future of healthcare is undeniably digital, but how well are we adapting to this change? Let's explore further in this conversation.Key Points:Innovation in HealthcareRole of TechnologyHealthcare TransformationPatient Transport EfficiencySimulation Training BenefitsCDWSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 15, 2023

TownHall: Putting Family at the Center of Elder Care with Eric Rogers

November 14: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Eric Rogers, Chief Information Officer at Hebrew SeniorLife. They discuss Hebrew SeniorLife’s patient and family-centered approach to elder care. Eric discusses the importance of building strong relationships with family members who act as proxies in care decisions, the role of the innovative MEDITECH Expanse family and patient portal, and the strategies for successfully onboarding patients and families onto various technologies. He also underlines the challenges and strategies of managing patients as they transition through different settings, acuity levels, and stages of life within a diverse care environment. Lastly, Eric provides a forward-looking perspective on the future of patient and family engagement, underlining the significance of harnessing technology, AI, telemedicine, and groundbreaking research for revolutionizing elder care.Learn more from Eric Rogers on the foundational elements needed to deliver quality senior care across a continuum and what the future of elder care looks like.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 14, 2023

Interview in Action @ CHIME ’23 – Theresa Meadows, CIO & SVP, Cook Children’s Health Care System

November 13: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from the 2023 CHIME Fall Forum. On this episode Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Theresa Meadows, CIO & SVP at Cook Children's Health Care System.They discuss keynotes at the forum, including about how to foster relationships, build teams, and exercise compassion. Theresa also highlights the importance of artificial intelligence in healthcare and the strides they are making to harness it safely and effectively. The conversation gravitates towards the use of AI initiatives such as remote monitoring and ambient listening for process improvement and improving caregiving—is this the future of healthcare?This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 13, 2023

Keynote: Data Autonomy, Diverse Communities, and Preventative Medicine with Sophy Lu

November 10, 2023: Sophy Lu, SVP / CIO of Northwell Health, shares about patient ownership of health records and the possibilities that open up when one can freely share their data. How does this autonomy in data sharing translate to receiving care tailored to personal preferences, and what barriers does the diversity and socio-economic disparities pose to this vision? The discussion delves deep into the challenges of implementing comprehensive EHR systems and the pressing need for preventative medicine, touching upon the role of technology in reaching underserved communities. What does it truly mean to implement person-centered design in healthcare, and how does the ideal scenario where technology assists unnoticed, contribute to this vision? The conversation takes a critical look at billing, revenue cycle, and regulatory matters stifle innovation. As Sophy shares her ambitious timeline for implementing EHR and associated technological transformations, one cannot help but wonder: how will these changes redefine care delivery, and what does it mean for the future of healthcare?Key Points:Patient Data OwnershipSocio-economic healthcare obstaclesDiverse Community EngagementPreventative Medicine FocusEHR Implementation ChallengesThis Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

November 10, 2023

TownHall: Fostering Health Equity, Advocacy, and Innovation with Jose Torres-Vega

November 7: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Jose Torres-Vega, Information Technology Manager, Volunteer Non-Attorney Advocate & Volunteer Lobbyist at Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition. Born and raised in Guatemala, Jose's journey weaves through an impressive palette of identities - a disability advocate, a multilingual attorney, an IT manager, and a policy influencer. Amidst the digital and health inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, how has Jose leveraged his diverse skillset to promote health equity in rural Colorado? As Jose narrates his experiences in fighting for civil rights, leading technological innovation in nonprofits, and working closely with the local government, we are prompted to reflect on pivotal questions. Can technology be harnessed to democratize access to healthcare and resources? In what creative ways can we bridge the physical and digital divide plaguing our communities? Avowing from personal experience, Jose exemplifies how disability inclusion in technology can foster transformative solutions and policies.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 7, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Frank Harvey, CEO, Surescripts

November 6: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Frank Harvey, CEO of Surescripts. They discuss the challenges of physician burnout and the role of data collection in healthcare. The conversation highlights the need for solutions to reduce administrative tasks for physicians and the potential of expanding the care team to include pharmacists. They also explore the integration of AI in healthcare and emphasize the importance of careful implementation. Can data collection and AI help alleviate physician burnout? How can expanding the care team improve patient care?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 6, 2023

Keynote: Breaking Barriers: Remote vs In-Person and Building Partnerships with Alistair Erskine

November 3rd, 2023: Alistair Erskine, Chief Information and Digital Officer / VP for Digital Health at Emory, delves into the transformative impact of large language models and ambient listening technologies. As healthcare professionals increasingly adopt AI tools for note-taking and summarizing patient interactions, what are the implications for efficiency and patient understanding of medical information? The conversation explores how these technologies not only cut down the time spent on documentation but also hold the promise of making medical notes more accessible to patients by converting them to a fifth-grade reading level. What qualities and shared visions set apart a productive partnership, and how does this relationship contribute to advancing healthcare’s mission of saving lives and providing equitable care?Key Points:AI in Healthcare DocumentationAI Recorded Medical NotesInnovative staff engagementVendor and Partner RelationshipsNavigating remote workSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 3, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Zeev Neuwirth, MD, Author & Former Chief Clinical Executive

November 2: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Zeev Neuwirth, MD, Author of Beyond the Walls & Former Chief Clinical Executive. They discuss the transformative changes happening in American healthcare and the opportunities for a renaissance in the industry. Dr. Neuwirth highlights the importance of the digital revolution, the business model revolution, and the humanistic revolution in healthcare. Can healthcare leverage the power of AI and analytics to unlock the value of data? How can business models and payment systems be transformed to drive positive change? And how can humanism shape the future of healthcare delivery? Join us as we dive deep into these questions and explore the path towards a better healthcare system.Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 2, 2023

Solution Showcase: Navigating Data Recovery and Cyber Resiliency with Rubrik’s Ryan Baker

November 1, 2023: Ryan Baker, VP of Sales for Rubrik, joins for an in-depth discussion on backup and cyber resiliency. Do traditional backup methods hold up in today's cyber landscape? Are we being proactive or reactive in the fight against cyber threats? Baker provides intriguing information about how cyber resiliency diverges from simple data backup, focusing on Rubrik's approach to securing, protecting and restoring data. With the increasing move towards cloud-based systems and services, how does this change the complexity of data recovery? Explore these thought-provoking topics and more as we dive into the intersection of healthcare and cybersecurity.Key Points:Backup vs. ResiliencyCyber ResiliencyCloud ComplexityRubrik's ApproachUnderstanding ThreatsData RecoverySubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

November 1, 2023

TownHall: Enhancing Clinician Satisfaction: Bridging the Gap with Priscilla Frase, MD

October 31: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Priscilla Frase, MD, CMIO and Hospitalist at Ozarks Healthcare. Priscilla shares her insight into the optimization of Ozark’s MEDITECH Expanse systems to boost patient care and quality. Drawing from her journey on transitioning from traditional paper records to electronic health records, she paints a vivid picture of the role of technology in modern health care. How can we improve EHR satisfaction across various organizations using the same system? What role does user mastery play in the fluctuating satisfaction levels and how can this be addressed? How does she approach optimizing providers' use of the EHRs?Learn more from Dr. Frase’s Blog Post: How personalizing Expanse unlocked new opportunities for patient care at Ozarks Healthcare. And, read about additional organizational success as Ozarks Healthcare Expands Behavioral Health Services With MEDITECH Expanse.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 31, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Glen Tullman, CEO, Transcarent

October 30: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Glen Tullman, CEO at Transcarent. What difference could it make when health providers are paid in a seamless manner upon delivering care? How might it transform our perception of healthcare if we had instant access to top-quality providers within the palm of our hand? At the center of the dialogue lies the user-friendly Transparent app, a potent resource for any health consumer, encapsulating a directory of healthcare and its associated services. The conversation also dives deep into how Transcarent works with large and mid-sized companies, promisingly filling gaps in their existing health-related solutions. Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 30, 2023

Keynote: Preventative Healthcare Practices and Implementing Change with Gordon Chen

October 27, 2023: Gordon Chen, former Chief Medical Officer and Board Member of ChenMed, discusses the organization's mission to transform primary care for underserved populations. He emphasizes the importance of holistic healthcare, focusing on personal, community, nutritional, physical, and spiritual aspects. Chen shares his vision for creating environments where individuals can thrive, with studies showing this could potentially extend lives by 10 to 15 years. How can we reframe our approach to healthcare to promote wellness and connection? What role does community play in our overall health and longevity? Join for a thought-provoking conversation on the future of healthcare and community well-being.Key Points:Shifting Healthcare Models Preventative Care ApproachCommunity Well-beingImpact of LonelinessFuture Vision for HealthcareUnlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/

October 27, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Yauheni Solad, MD, CMIO of Digital Health, UC Davis Health

October 26: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Yauheni Solad, MD, CMIO of Digital Health and VP of Innovation at UC Davis Health. What avenue does UC Davis Health see for AI solutions in healthcare operational challenges? How does Yauheni envision navigating the intricacies of AI integration, especially in the wake of growing issues of trust? How should health systems prioritize technology innovation moving forward?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 26, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Sam Tullman, Head of Clinical Research, Quilt

October 25: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Sam Tullman, Head of Clinical Research at Quilt. The discussion takes a deep dive into the intricacies of continuous behavioral health monitoring using basic mobile cell phone signals and delves into how Quilt can detect a variety of health distress signs such as depression, anxiety, and stress by analyzing behaviors like phone usage and mobility patterns. More than a simple health technology tool, we delve into Quilt's innovative approach which combines an engaging game app with mobile data analytics to promote better health outcomes. So can our phones really predict our mental health emergencies? How might such a tool revolutionize the way providers monitor and treat their patients? And where does the balance between digital innovation and personal health lie?Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 25, 2023

TownHall: Turning Training Time into Patient Time with Liz Griffith & Bobby Zarr

October 24: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Liz Griffith, Director of EHR Education and Bobby Zarr, Vice President of Healthcare at uPerform. They reveal how healthcare organizations can optimize available resources, decrease the time clinicians spend on training, and boost user satisfaction in implementing electronic health record (EHR) systems. Amidst the backdrop of current industry challenges, the duo discuss the innovative ways they've helped health systems navigate these complexities - cue, turning training time into patient time. Is the key to overcoming these challenges the integration of personalized, efficient learning rooted in the EHR? We dig deeper into their experiences, learning how the larger healthcare narrative is envisioned through their eyes. How does this transformative approach to EHR education tie into the bigger picture of the ongoing evolution of healthcare technology?Articles mentioned in this episode: BSW EHR Satisfaction: https://www.uperform.com/news/bsw-improves-ongoing-ehr-education/MHealth Fairview eConsent adoption: https://www.uperform.com/blog/virtual-epic-training-podcast/UCHealth reducing onboarding time: https://www.uperform.com/ct-lin-podcast/Gundersen Health System reducing onboarding time by 66%: https://www.uperform.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Case-Study_Gundersen-Health-System.pdfUnlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood

October 24, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Joe Gagnon, CEO & Board Member, 1upHealth

October 23: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Joe Gagnon, CEO and Board Member at 1upHealth, Inc. Trying to synthesize sprawling healthcare data to make it usable and beneficial to patients is a vast mountain to climb — but that's exactly what Joe is up to. In this interview Joe explores 1upHealth's ambitious attempt to construct a multi-use general-purpose data platform capable of handling anything from claims to clinical data while focusing on the industry adoption of FHIR data standards. What's in store for AI and machine learning when quality data takes center stage? How can 1upHealth's API revolutionize patient access to medical data?Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 23, 2023

Keynote: Navigating the Convergence of Health Tech and Creating Team Culture with Marty Paslick

October 20, 2023: Marty Paslick, Chief Information Officer at HCA Healthcare, delves deep into the communal and technological aspects of health IT. They discuss the transformation of IT from a support role to a central strategic partner in health care, as well as the potential pros and cons of this shift. From the deployment of other industries technologies to improve patient care to reducing nurses' administrative burdens Paslick offers enlightening insights. We also learn about their approach to maintaining culture in a large organization and employee engagement strategies. Finally, Bill and Marty also share their past work in programming and the passion they have for the field. Is the ever-evolving nature of technology a challenge or an opportunity for tomorrow's healthcare?Key Points:Global Tech PartnershipsOrganizational Culture MaintenanceEmployee Engagement StrategiesFuture Healthcare PredictionsRelating and Bonding With StaffJoin us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here

October 20, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Ron Li, MD, Medical Informatics Director, Stanford Health Care

October 19: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Ron Li, MD, Medical Informatics Director for Digital Health at Stanford Health Care. Playing a crucial role in shaping and implementing new digital health programs, particularly virtual health models at Stanford Medicine, Li discusses the hurdles faced by clinicians in synchronizing with the rapid technological advancements. Does the overabundance of data create a kind of 'information overload' for physicians? How can the balance between human-driven processes and tech intervention be optimized for efficient patient care? As we explore the possibilities of virtual care models, Lee enlightens us on how technologies like AI can revolutionize the future of health informatics. He also shares his intriguing insights into Stanford's Emerging Applications Lab's aims and functions and the intricacies of balancing between virtual and traditional healthcare paradigms.Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 19, 2023

Solution Showcase: Applying AI Strategies in Regional Health Systems: A Look at NKCH with Notable

October 18, 2023: Dive deep into this conversation with Justin White, CTO of Notable, and Kristen Guillaume, CIO of North Kansas City Hospital and Meritas Hospital. They share their respective experiences in integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the regional health systems, focusing on the innovative use of AI in enhancing patient experiences and strategy implementations. Does the size of a health system impede significant advancements in the realm of AI? How are AI tools reshaping the workflow within these environments? Listen in as we unravel the seemingly complex world of AI implementation, the expediency of automation, and the ideal balance between human touch and machine intervention in healthcare settings. The talk also sparks thoughts on the need for configuring healthcare practices to suit specific landscapes and the endless scope available for advancements using AI.Key Points:AI strategy implementationPatient experience enhancementData integration challengesHealthcare workflow automationAdoption of AI technologiesStrategy for future scenariosUnlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 18, 2023

TownHall: Stepping into Healthcare, Upskilling Employees, and AI for Administration with Jane Moran

October 17: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Jane Moran, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Mass General Brigham. What differences did she notice stepping into the healthcare environment after her experience of over twenty years in global organizations outside of healthcare? Jane discusses extensive organizational changes and shares her ambitious strategy to increase efficiency, enhance stakeholder experiences, and streamline operations with the help of technology. We look at the application of AI, not just in diagnostics and treatment, but in administrative functions. What difference can digitized learning and AI make in healthcare processes?Unlock the full potential of AI in Healthcare with experts David Baker, Lee Milligan, and Reid Stephan on Nov 2nd, 1 PM ET. Learn to navigate budget constraints and enhance operational efficiency in healthcare IT. Don’t miss out on affordable, scalable AI solutions and practical tips for success. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/practical-ai-in-healthcare/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 17, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Molly Zimmer, Innovation & Emerging Tech, St. Luke’s Health System

October 16: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with Molly Zimmer, Innovation and Emerging Technologies at St. Luke’s Health System. How can we sift through the noise of AI solutions? What tenent of improv comedy does Molly incorporate in change management exercises? AI may be on every billboard, but are we using it effectively or have we been seduced by the hype?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 16, 2023

Keynote: Insights on Healthcare Digitization and Value-based Care with Jason Joseph

October 13, 2023: This Keynote's engaging discussion features Jason Joseph, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Corewell Health. Jason shares insights into the healthcare industry from the perspective of a large health system undergoing significant digital transformation. The conversation centers around Corewell Health's strategy, where they envision the future of healthcare leaning heavily on digital platforms for value-based care. Amid the inevitable questions technology raises, Joseph insists on the impact of having a clear, unified vision from board to executive team to deploy these digital capabilities strategically. He sheds light on the fundamental challenges in healthcare digitization, especially on the frontline, underlining the need to lift burdens off clinicians without introducing new ones. The conversation ignites thoughts on blurring the lines between physical and digital healthcare delivery, calling for us to rethink healthcare models altogether.Key Points:Role of Unified VisionTech Burden on HealthcareReimagining Care ModelsValue-based Treatment StrategiesIntegration of Healthcare OperationsJoin us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here

October 13, 2023

Interview in Action Fall ’23 – David Rhew, MD, Global CMO & VP of Healthcare (WCB), Microsoft

October 12: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with David Rhew, MD, Global CMO & VP of Healthcare (WCB) at Microsoft. What's possible with AI now that wasn't possible three years ago? What does the rapid advent of AI technology entail for healthcare professionals? What novel possibilities are emerging with the application of deep learning and neural networks? How is the rudimentary task of note-taking being transformed by AI, and to what extent are clinicians adopting these automations? We also probe the seismic shift in data harmonization and centralization and its implications for clinical research. Lastly, we investigate the reservations clinicians may harbor regarding AI adoption and discuss how these technologies could be deemed a tool to enhance their capabilities.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 12, 2023

Interview in Action @ HLTH ’23 – Frank McGillin, CEO, The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic

October 11: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HLTH with Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, an innovative second opinion telehealth service that gives patients access to Cleveland Clinic expertise from the comfort of their home. What is its key role for patients, payers, and employers, and how does it contribute to reducing healthcare costs triggered by misdiagnoses? How has telehealth changed in the last 5-10 years? Frank also discusses the company's reach beyond the U.S. and its constant motivation to improve patient experience with the help of technology.This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 11, 2023

Interview in Action Fall ’23 – Pranay Kapadia, Co-Founder & CEO, Notable

October 10: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with Pranay Kapadia, Co-Founder & CEO of Notable. What pushbacks are common from organizations regarding AI implementation? How is Notable using conversational AI to help with scheduling, bill pay and more to improve the patient experience? What is the difference between a chat bot and utilizing an LLM to guide the patient experience?This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

October 10, 2023

Interview in Action Fall ’23 – Paul Milligan, Director, Product Strategy, IQVIA

October 9: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action with Paul Milligan, Director, Product Strategy at IQVIA. How does IQVIA harness the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for healthcare solutions? What are the distinctions and interconnections between NLP and LLMs in the context of data analysis and generation in healthcare? In what ways can we ensure that the information summarized or generated by LLMs is accurate and representative of larger datasets, especially considering the critical nature of healthcare information?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 9, 2023

Keynote: Telehealth, Remote Communities, and Finding Great Partners with Ellen Wiegand

Ellen Wiegand, SVP and CIO of VCU Health, explores the evolving realm of telehealth, the importance of good partners, and the importance of synchronizing your departments and systems to deliver the best possible care. How does telehealth promise to reshape patient access, especially in remote communities? And as hospitals transition to this new model, what unforeseen challenges could emerge between different departments? Furthermore, amidst its advantages, are we overlooking potential financial burdens? Learn as they navigatet these pressing questions, offering a balanced perspective on the technological shifts in healthcare. Key Points: Creating Engaging Telehealth Remote Access Challenges Financial Trade-offs Finding Better Partners Synchronizing Your Systems

October 6, 2023

TownHall: AI Strategy and Insights from an Extensive Consulting Background with Jeff Gautney

October 5: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Jeff Gautney, Senior Vice President and CIO at Rush University System for Health. What have been some recent key accomplishments for his IT team and what are their current priorities? How is his team addressing AI so that they are assessing the value and not chasing shiny objects? How has Jeff’s extensive consulting background helped him effectively as he transitioned into his role as CIO?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 5, 2023

From Data Silos to Transparency: How Clearsense is Bridging the Gap between Data Demand and Supply

October 3, 2023: Join us as Clearsense’s Data Governance Principal Advisor Terri Mikol illuminates the evolution of analytics by drawing parallels to the telephone switchboard operator, revealing pathways for democratizing data use across healthcare organizations. Discussing unique illustrations such as the employee at UPMC defining ‘patient name’, Terri will explore the potential of every employee to contribute to data quality and the implications for organizational learning and efficiency. From exploring ‘divide and conquer’ methodologies to analyzing the lessons from cell phone adaptation, we’ll delve into how these strategies can revolutionize data handling and promote widespread competency in analytics. Terri will address the persistent demand and supply imbalance in the field, provide insights into incorporating data roles across functions, and discuss the alignment of analytics with organizational needs. Reflecting on shifts in organizational culture and the statement "data is a part of everybody's job", the conversation will explore the balancing act between accessibility and technical demands, the breakdown of knowledge silos, and the decentralization of data responsibilities. Key Points:Telecommunication EvolutionData and AnalyticsDemand-Supply ImbalanceWorkforce EngagementBreaking Knowledge SilosCultural ShiftsOctober 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

October 3, 2023

Keynote: The Future of Care Spaces: Emerging Technologies

September 29, 2023: Join CIOs Michael Pfeffer (Stanford Health Care), Chris Longhurst (UC San Diego Health), and Brent Lamm (UNC Health) in this webinar re-lease talking all things AI. In an era where technology is becoming increasingly personalized, how can AI models maintain the genuine ‘voice’ of healthcare professionals, ensuring a balance between efficiency and authenticity in patient communication? How can the evolving technology, observed in the continuous improvement of models like GPT-3.5 to GPT-4.0, be harnessed to address the unique challenges and requirements in different healthcare sectors, particularly in specialties compared to primary care? Reflecting on the quick adoption of AI models like ChatGPT in healthcare, how can the industry ensure that these tools are being implemented responsibly, taking into account the limitations and the potential impact on patient care? With AI models offering potential solutions to physician burnout by reducing time spent on tasks like note writing, how can the healthcare sector reassess and redefine what is truly essential in clinical documentation? Key Points:AI Implementation PaceLegislation of AILLMs and Local ModelsEthos of AIObstacles with Generative AIJoin us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood...

September 29, 2023

TownHall: The Effectiveness of Collaborating CIO Teams with Heather Nelson and John Brownstein

September 26: Today on TownHall, it's another look back to an episode from last year. In this episode, Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors spoke with the Boston Children’s Hospital duo of Heather Nelson, SVP & Chief Information Officer and John Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer about effective collaboration between their two teams. What projects are they working together on currently? How do they go from a pilot to a successful house-wide implementation? What advice would Heather give to fellow Chief Information Officers on working more effectively with their Chief Innovation Officers?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 26, 2023

Keynote: The Future of Healthcare: Data Surges, Virtual Nurses, and Aligned Missions With Doug King

In this episode, Doug King, Senior VP & CIO at Northwestern Medicine, delves into the transformative role of technology in healthcare. As healthcare systems increasingly integrate cutting-edge technology, how will clinicians adapt? Can AI truly be a reliable "team member" in patient care? As the borders between clinical and consumer data blur, what ethical considerations should be taken into account? Doug argues that the influx of data, while invaluable, also presents the challenge of discerning "signal" from "noise." How should healthcare institutions prepare for this exponential increase in data, and what strategies can help in filtering valuable information? Lastly, when it comes to forming valuable partnerships with vendors, Doug emphasizes the importance of shared mission and culture. Listen in to explore these questions and more. Key Points Ethical Considerations in AI & data Data-driven decisionsDigital nurses Patient digital experienceValuable vendor partnerships

September 22, 2023

TownHall: How to Become a Better Physician & Curate Insightful Thinking with Steven Lane, MD

September 21: Today on TownHall we are taking another look back at an episode from last year. In this episode, Brett Oliver, CMIO at Baptist Health, spoke with Steven Lane, Practicing Primary Care Physician & Clinical Informaticist of Sutter Health concerning interoperability and his journey into the world of informatics and what started him on that path. How does he see TEFCA and Carequality working together in the future? What does he see as ways to solve data duplication and corrections to errors? How did his introduction to a world of informatics create a hunger for becoming a better physician? Finally, what we all want to know, what is his funny story about decorating his first office?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 21, 2023

TownHall: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Informatics & Digital Innovation Hub with Mark Zhang, MD

September 19: Today on TownHall we are looking back at another TownHall episode from last year. In this episode, Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviewed Mark Zhang, Associate CMIO at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Medical Director at Brigham Digital Innovation Hub. Launched in 2013, the Hub matchmakes market solutions with internal challenges, accelerates the development, use and commercialization of Brigham-developed solutions, and fosters a culture of digital innovation and collaboration. What does it take to build successful programs and products within an academic medical center? What challenges come up with building things internally? How do you get funding?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 19, 2023

Keynote: Simplify, Modernize, and Innovate with Cloud, AI, and BJ Moore

September 15, 2023: CIO BJ Moore dives into the innovative strategies undertaken by Providence. How is this leading healthcare organization leveraging external resources, such as their team in India, to enhance 24/7 coverage and agility? How has the move towards single-instance systems like Oracle Cloud and Epic simplified operations? Listen in as Moore unpacks the significance of software engineering muscles in the healthcare space, the continuous journey of data governance, and the transformation brought about by cloud technology and AI in modern healthcare. Can simplification and modernization strategies significantly help healthcare organizations remain agile and patient-centric today?Key Points:Outsourcing in IndiaERP and EHR consolidationNeed for software engineeringCloud technology benefitsData governance journeyUtilizing generative AIJoin us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 15, 2023

TownHall: An Innovation Center Collaboration & Empowering Women in Leadership with Lisa Stump

September 14: Today on TownHall we are taking another look back at an episode from last fall. In this episode Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors talked with Lisa Stump, SVP, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer at Yale New Haven Health System. What are some of her team's current initiatives and how have things changed since the height of the pandemic? What are some of the challenges in dealing with two different constituencies in the university environment and the health system environment? What are some of her key takeaways and successes regarding her involvement with an important leadership development program?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 14, 2023

TownHall: The Guthrie Clinic’s Pulse Center – Revolutionizing Rural Healthcare with Terri Couts

September 12: Today on TownHall, we dive deep into the fascinating story of the Guthrie Clinic's revolutionary Pulse Center. In this episode, Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Terri Couts, SVP and Chief Digital Officer at The Guthrie Clinic. In the realm of virtual healthcare delivery, the Pulse Center is breaking barriers in providing patient care across 9,000 square miles. Terri's tale begins from the conceptualization of this center to its rapid materialization and its current success. As a technologist with a nursing background, how did Terri approach the challenge of virtualizing healthcare in a rural setting? How has adopting flexible, scalable technology solutions played into Guthrie Clinic's edge in tackling competition and warding off workforce challenges? Is the rapid transformation of the Pulse Center a reflection of an evolving paradigm in healthcare or a response to the unique demands of the times?Join us for our webinar "Interoperability Outcomes: A Discussion of What’s Possible" on October 5th at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, discussing challenges in healthcare interoperability. We'll tackle key issues like fragmented technology systems, data privacy, and cost-effectiveness. Engage with top-tier experts to understand the current landscape of healthcare IT, learn data-driven strategies for patient-centered care, and discover best practices for ensuring system security and stakeholder trust. Register Here - https://thisweekhealth.com/interoperability-outcomes/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 12, 2023

Keynote: Generative AI, Work-Life Balance, and Navigating Vendor Relations with Scott MacLean

September 8, 2023: In this enlightening episode, Bill talks to Scott MacLean, CIO for MedStar Health about the intricacies, challenges, and opportunities presented by AI technology. Scott reflects on the balance between personal and professional life, sharing his own wellness journey as an empty nester and marathon runner. How does Scott's focus on personal health translate into effective leadership in healthcare? What challenges arise when adopting generative AI, especially on the clinical side where issues like PHI and accuracy must be considered? The conversation also delves into Scott's role on the policy steering committee of Chime, an organization evolving with the role of the CIO. How is Chime helping to shape policy in D.C., particularly around issues like unique patient identifiers and rural broadband? Lastly, the discussion pivots to vendor relationships, offering valuable insights for any vendor aiming to work with CIOs.Key Points:AI in HealthcareWork-life BalancePolicy AdvocacyVendor RelationshipsRural Healthcare ChallengesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 8, 2023

TownHall: Could At-Home Care be Safer Than the Hospital? With Christopher McGhee

September 7: Today on TownHall, we are taking another look back at an episode from last fall. In this episode Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health interviewed Christopher McGhee, CEO at Current Health about the many benefits of the hospital at home model. What has he learned over the years of working in the home-based care space that other organizations can learn from? What are the most common clinical use cases that he has seen? Where does he see the biggest opportunities right now for organizations implementing hospital at home?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 7, 2023

The Power of Data Accuracy in Healthcare’s AI Transformation with Charles Boicey & Rick Shephardson

September 5: Today BIll is joined by the Clearsense team of Charles Boicey, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer and Rick Shepardson, Chief Strategy Officer to delve into the world of data integration and AI in healthcare. What will it take for us to be able to educate AI models to be able to use them to interact with humans? Is healthcare data in a form that is usable by these models and if not, how can we get them to a place where they are? How can we clean data so that little input variations are standardized, and what considerations does that uncover? How do Charles and Rick feel about the pace of AI, and where do they see it heading in the near future?Sign up for our webinar: Leader Series: Our AI Journey in Healthcare - Thursday, September 7th at 1pm ET / 10am PT.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 5, 2023

Keynote: UPMC’s Vision, AI’s Role, and The Future Hybrid Workspace with Edward McCallister

September 1, 2023: Edward McCallister, Senior VP & CIO for UPMC, joins Bill for a discussion exploring the pace at which technological advancements, such as AI, have impacted healthcare. Reflecting on the landmark shift of 2011's "meaningful use", we ponder how AI will shape the future trajectory of healthcare. How does the "carrot and stick" approach of the past relate to current advancements, especially when AI promises so much yet requires caution? What role does data management play in safeguarding sensitive information amid third-party breaches? Join us as they also discuss UPMC's innovative strategies, the role of AI and machine learning in patient care, and the challenges and promises they bring. Moreover, can the marriage of speed and accuracy between humans and computers create the ultimate healthcare synergy? Finally, as the hybrid work model reshapes the professional landscape post-pandemic, how are companies adapting to deliver value while ensuring employee well-being?Key Points:AI in HealthcareData Management ConcernsUPMC's StrategiesMachine Learning AdvancesHybrid Work ModelAs healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

September 1, 2023

TownHall: A Formulary for Taking an IT Budget Down to 4% of Operating Expense with Chuck Podesta

August 31: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Chuck Podesta, Chief Information Officer at Renown Health. How did Chuck take his organization's IT department from 7% of operating expenses down to 4%? Why is it essential for CIOs to evaluate the relevancy and cost-effectiveness of innovation, like AI, against the organization's size and budget? In what ways can managed services be leveraged to achieve both savings and improvements in non-core areas, like nutrition and environmental services? How does focusing on core IT competencies impact other departments or units within a healthcare organization?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 31, 2023

TownHall: A Former CIO’s Words of Wisdom Gained On the Journey to Her New Role with Kisha Hawthorne

August 29: Today on TownHall we are taking another look back at an episode from last fall. In this episode Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors talked with Kisha H. Hawthorne, SVP & Chief Operating Officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia about her transition from CIO to COO and the challenges and solutions her organization is currently facing. What specific challenges is her hospital facing today and how is technology being used to address them? What advice would she give CIOs looking to broaden their role in their organization? What advice does she have for next generation leaders?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 29, 2023

Keynote: Virtual ICUs, Wellness Sprints, and The AI Revolution in Medicine with Bridget Barnes

August 25, 2023: Alongside Bridget Barnes, SVP and CIO for Oregon Health & Science University, we delve deep into the transformative role of technology in the healthcare sector. How is the digital age reshaping the responsibilities of clinicians and providing support in an era marked by staff constraints and burnout? With innovations like virtual ICUs and wellness sprints, where does the future of healthcare lie, especially when AI and ML seem poised to revolutionize our systems? But as technology advances, does the old adage "Nothing can screw things up quite like a computer can over time" still hold weight? And as AI becomes more integrated, how do we discern the genuine potential from the overstated promises?Key Points:AI's Role HealthcareClinician Burnout CausesTechnological Support InitiativesAs healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 25, 2023

TownHall: Developing Sustainable Healthcare with Informatics Solutions with Priya Ramaswamy, MD

August 24: Today on TownHall we are looking back at a TownHall episode from May of last year. In this episode, Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviewed Priya Ramaswamy, MD, Clinical Informatics Fellow/Anesthesiologist at UCSF. What is sustainable healthcare informatics? Not just in the US but across the globe, healthcare organizations are taking a stance to make a healthier ecosystem for people. Anesthetic gasses have damaging effects on the environment that contribute to global warming. The government is going to start requiring all organizations, including hospitals and healthcare systems to report on their admissions. What technology did UCSF develop within their Epic EHR to help with this? What are the elements needed to develop a clinical decision support alert system to remind anesthesia providers to turn down their fresh gas?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 24, 2023

TownHall: Why Health Systems Are Embracing Managed Services Again with Laishy Williams-Carlson

August 22: Today on Town Hall, This Week Health’s very own Bill Russell speaks with Laishy Williams-Carlson, Chief Client Information Officer at Nordic. What specific challenges for healthcare IT are creating a rise in managed services adoption? Why is the quality and clarity of a contract so vital in ensuring the success of an outsourcing or managed services agreement? Why is understanding the primary motivation or 'why' so crucial when healthcare systems consider adopting managed services? What health systems would benefit the most from what Nordic brings to the market?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/

August 22, 2023

Keynote: Patient Data Security, Universal ID, & CIO Job Descriptions with Drex and Wes

August 18, 2023: Drex DeFord (Executive Healthcare Strategist for CrowdStrike) and Wes Wright (CTO for Imprivata). Delving into the challenging dynamics faced by IT leaders within the healthcare sector, they discuss navigating the constantly evolving landscape of technology and demonstrating a steadfast vision for the future, even in the face of resistance from various stakeholders. How can we enhance the Digital Front Door in a way that truly aids in patient experience? Do Patients truly know where their data is or if it is safe? What are the necessary traits for a successful CIO? How can CIOs ensure a synergistic relationship with their bosses, and why is this crucial for organizational success?Key Points:Digital Front DoorPatient Data SafetyCIO characteristicsAs healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 18, 2023

TownHall: Centralizing Analytic Reporting Using Epic with David Torgerson & Joe Evans, MD

August 17: Today on TownHall Matt Sullivan, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at Advocate Health speaks with Joe Evans, MD, VP and Chief Medical Information Officer and Dave Torgerson, Chief Analytics Officer at Sentara Health. The three delve deep into the challenges and complexities organizations face in streamlining analytic reporting, particularly in large setups. Dave and Joe share their experiences in attempting to centralize information sources, the utilization of Epic for analytics, and the significance of user experience in analytic platforms. How did Sentara tackle the challenge of providing centralized analytic reporting in a large organization setting? How are they ensuring the security and controlled access of reports, especially when integrating with tools outside of Epic? Why is the user experience a paramount concern for Sentara, and what measures are taken to ensure simplicity and intuitiveness in their analytics platform?As healthcare technology professionals, we're in a seismic shift. Artificial Intelligence is not just a buzzword—it's transforming our field and altering how we deliver healthcare. But with these technological advancements come complex challenges and unique opportunities. Are you ready to navigate this new landscape? Join us, September 7th, 1pm ET for an unmissable journey into the future of healthcare. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/ai-journey-in-healthcare/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 17, 2023

TownHall: Balancing Innovation & Accountability: AI Governance in Healthcare with Eric Poon, MD

August 15: Today on TownHall Matt Sullivan, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer at Atrium Health speaks with Eric Poon, MD, Chief Health Information Officer at Duke University Health System. What would be the ideal pace for AI integration into healthcare systems, considering both the potential for innovation and the need for safety and ethical considerations? How should we interpret and manage the so-called "black box" problem in AI, in which complex algorithms might not be completely transparent or understandable? How can regulatory bodies play a more proactive role in governing the deployment of AI in healthcare, and ensuring its safe and equitable use?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 15, 2023

Keynote: The Future of Care Spaces: Emerging Technologies

August 11, 2023: Fred Holston (Healthcare Strategist for CDW) and Todd Larson (Consultant for HonorHealth) join Bill in talking about the Future of Care Spaces. How can clinical command centers leverage technology and remote nursing to streamline patient transport, reduce wait times, and improve overall operational efficiency? What role does governance play in driving healthcare innovation, and how can diverse perspectives from clinicians, support staff, and operational leaders contribute to successful project selection and implementation? What are the key considerations for healthcare organizations when adopting real-time location services and GPS-based technologies to improve patient transport and resource management? What role does data analytics play in a clinical command center, and how can it be leveraged to drive proactive and efficient patient care decisions? How can standardized platforms in healthcare help break down data silos, optimize processes, and enhance patient care across various care spaces and scenarios?Key Points:Caregiver EfficiencyClinical Command CenterReal-Time Location ServicesData AnalyticsNetwork Infrastructure for Future HealthcareCost Savings with Advanced TechnologiesStandardized PlatformsStreamlining Supply ChainSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 11, 2023

TownHall: Creating an Award-Winning Hepatitis C Program in a Rural Community with Linda Williams

August 10: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Linda Williams, Clinical Manager - Ambulatory Care at Kingman Regional Medical Center. Given the geographical vastness of their rural setting, why did KRMC decide to develop a program specifically for Hepatitis C? What are the critical considerations when identifying the need for specialized healthcare programs in a community such as Hepatitis C? How did they promote awareness for the program to make sure patients were getting treatment? What outcomes have they seen after having the program in place for three years? How are they looking to expand into similar approaches?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 10, 2023

TownHall: Scaling Healthcare Innovation: Inside Walmart Health’s Journey with Claude Pirtle, MD

August 8: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Claude Pirtle, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Walmart Health & Wellness. What is it like to be a CMIO at Walmart Health and what initiatives is he involved in? How is it different working there compared to an academic medical center or traditional health system? Walmart Health is in many states, how do they keep track of different state laws and build one instance in Epic that satisfies everyone? What does the future of Walmart Health look like from an informatics perspective?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 8, 2023

Keynote: Navigating Workforce Shortages, AI, and Finances in Behavioral Health with Kevin Wiese

4 August, 2023: CIO for BestSelf Behavioral Health, Kevin Wiese joins Bill in talking about the dynamics, challenges, and distinctions of Behavioral Health Systems. How does the integration of behavioral health systems with conventional healthcare systems affect the quality and accessibility of care provided to the patients? In what ways does the incorporation of digital tools improve the patient and staff experience in the behavioral health sector? How does technology and AI play a role in retaining employees and professionals in the behavioral health industry? Given the rise of private practices, how can organizations like BestSelf maintain their workforce and ensure the availability of essential healthcare services? How does the integration of social determinants of health into behavioral healthcare impact patient outcomes?Key Points:Lean Culture ImplementationHandling Sensitive CasesCrisis Response MechanismsSocial Determinants IntegrationData Collection & ReportingArtificial Intelligence UtilizationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 4, 2023

TownHall: The Shift to Non-Acute Care & the Model’s Unique Challenges with Cara Babachicos

August 3: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Cara Babachicos, Chief Information Officer at InnovAge. What is InnovAge and what is its primary focus? How does their PACE program support elderly patients, and what makes it unique? What are some of the IT challenges InnovAge faces in managing logistics and providing patient-centered care? How can healthcare providers in states where InnovAge is not available benefit from similar PACE programs, and what advice does Cara have for CIO colleagues considering a transition to non-acute care settings?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 3, 2023

TownHall: Exploring Innovation in Telemedicine and Emerging Technology with Scott Joslyn

August 1: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Scott Joslyn, Chief Information and Innovation Officer at UC Irvine Health. What was Scott’s journey from pharmacy to his current role as Chief Information and Innovation Officer? How did “Innovation” get added to his title? What has UC Irvine Health done in the hospital at home space, and what lessons can other systems starting their hospital at home journey learn from them? What are some of the most innovative or exciting technologies Scott is seeing today?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

August 1, 2023

Keynote: Customer-Centric Care, Future of Telehealth, and Lessons from The Masters with Jeff Sturman

July 28, 2023: In this keynote episode featuring Jeffrey Sturman, the CIO for Memorial Healthcare System, delve deep into a fascinating comparison between the healthcare sector and the Masters tournament, exploring the distinct values driving each industry. What might we glean when we compare the workflow of the Masters tournament and healthcare systems, and what does this reveal about the core values driving each industry? As consumer experience becomes a priority, what key changes can truly enhance the patient journey? What barriers might they encounter, and what digital tools could help overcome these for a smoother patient flow? In discussing staffing issues, How does this influences patient flow, care quality, and overall efficiency. With a growing remote workforce, how can healthcare maintain a robust organizational culture, and what long-term effects might these strategies bring about? Is healthcare a "black hole", and how this narrative could shape digital tool adoption and strategic focus? Key Points:Customer-Centric OperationsEfficient Workflow ImplementationCommand Centers in HealthcarePatient Flow ChallengesStaffing Issues in HealthcareMaintaining Organizational CultureRemote Patient MonitoringAI and Automation Adoption"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 28, 2023

TownHall: Innovation in a Learning Health System with Eric Kirkendall, MD

July 27: Today on TownHall Jeffrey Cleveland, Chief Medical Information Officer at Atrium Health speaks with Eric Kirkendall, Chief Information Officer & Chief Medical Information Officer - Academic Health at Atrium Health. How did Eric's interest in informatics and technology evolve from his initial role as a pediatric hospitalist? What is a learning health system and what benefits does it bring to the healthcare delivery system? What is the role of innovation in a learning health system? What are some of the unique challenges for designing and implementing health information technology within a learning health system?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 27, 2023

TownHall: Mission-Driven: A Journey Into Nonprofit Consulting with Keith MacDonald

July 25: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Keith MacDonald, Owner and Principal at Consulting for Good. How did Keith's transition from health IT consulting to consulting exclusively with nonprofit organizations come about? What were the driving factors behind his decision? What challenges and opportunities do nonprofit organizations in the broader health space, especially those focused on social services, face? How can they navigate issues related to funding, resources, and collaboration with larger organizations? How can individuals contemplating a new chapter, whether transitioning from retirement or seeking a change, discover their own path and make a meaningful impact?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 25, 2023

Keynote: Improving Patient and Employee Experiences in Main Line Health with Luke Olenoski

July 21, 2023: CIO Luke Olenoski shares Main Line Health’s priorities, initiatives and investments. What are the challenges and advantages of transitioning from a career in finance to a leadership role in healthcare?How can healthcare organizations prepare for disruptive technologies like AI and ensure they are ready to embrace the changes? What strategies can CIOs employ to prioritize areas of improvement in the patient experience? How can IT teams collaborate effectively with architects, builders, and designers during the process of opening a new care facility? How can healthcare organizations approach the issue of legacy equipment and prioritize investments for modernization? What approaches can be taken to enhance the employee experience and create a positive work environment within healthcare organizations?Key Points:Mainline Health: Overview and servicesInnovation and standardization in delivering carePatient experienceEmployee experience enhancementDigital engagementLegacy equipmentRisk-based maintenance approach"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 21, 2023

TownHall: Exploring Climate Change Informatics in Healthcare with Dr. Chethan Sarabu

July 20: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Dr. Chethan Sarabu, Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. How does climate change impact the health of people and communities, and why is it important to focus on the health impacts of climate change? How does the healthcare system contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, and what are some unique aspects of emissions within healthcare systems? What role can informatics professionals play in addressing climate change and reducing the healthcare system's impact? How can informaticians help in standardizing data collection and quantification of greenhouse gas emissions in healthcare systems? How can informatics contribute to both the mitigation and adaptation aspects of climate change in healthcare, such as making decisions during disasters and leveraging predictive analytics for environmental data?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 20, 2023

Solution Showcase: Reducing Risk Through an Effective Cloud Security Strategy with CrowdStrike

July 19, 2023: CrowdStrike has played a significant role in data security since 2011. Todd Felker, Executive Healthcare Strategist for Crowdstrike, and Robert Cantu, Director, Cybersecurity Operations at Inova Health System shares how CrowdStrike's journey from an endpoint visibility tool in 2015 to a comprehensive cybersecurity platform has been shaped by the needs of their customers like health care providers? What challenges and strategies exist in the process of upskilling a team for a transition from traditional systems to cloud-based cybersecurity? How does CrowdStrike's approach differ when providing cybersecurity solutions to large systems versus small rural health systems? As cybersecurity needs continue to evolve, what key factors should organizations consider when choosing a cybersecurity partner? How has the shift to the cloud affected supply chain and procurement processes, particularly in terms of equipment acquisition and standardization? How does CrowdStrike’s solution address the challenges healthcare organizations face in moving to the cloud? What makes CrowdStrike's approach unique in the cybersecurity space?Key Points:Single Platform IntegrationCrowdStrike's Platform EvolutionEndpoint Visibility ImportanceCrowd-Powered AI ImprovementIndicators of AttackUpskilling for CloudMulti-cloud Approach BenefitsIoT Device IntegrationSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 19, 2023

TownHall: Harnessing Informatics to Address Social Determinants of Health with Bhrandon Harris, MD

July 18: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care speaks with Bhrandon Harris, MD, Director of Primary Care Clinical Informatics at UI Health. How is Bhrandon's team using informatics tools to increase patient engagement and improve outcomes in the primary care setting? What are some of the challenges faced in collecting and utilizing social determinants of health data, and how are they addressing these challenges? What challenges are faced in integrating the collection of social determinant data into the workflow of primary care physicians, and how are efforts being made to alleviate the burden on them while still addressing patients' social needs?"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 18, 2023

Keynote: Modernizing the Healthcare Data Strategy

July 14, 2023: Join Pete Marks (VP and CIO at WakeMed), Dale Sanders, and Rick Shepardson (Chief Strategy Officer at Clearsense, LLC) in this Webinar Re-release discussing Modern Data Strategies. Should data collection be optimized to focus on meaningful information rather than recreational data? How can we develop a culture where leadership craves and understands data? What role does data governance play in modern data strategies? How can healthcare organizations create a data-driven culture that improves patient care? Should the healthcare system be the primary locus of the personal health record, or is there a need for an external entity to collect and manage health data? How can organizations balance data availability with data validity and quality when granting end users access to data query tools? What is the role of terminologies and standards in enabling interoperability and data sharing in healthcare, and what challenges exist in this area?Key Points:Optimizing data collectionData Governance and its challengesData-driven culture in healthcarePersonal health recordDigital patient identityTerminology challengesGenerative AISelf-service analytics"Rural Healthcare - Challenges and Opportunities" will provide practical strategies and real-world examples to navigate rural health IT effectively. Learn about unique issues, tools for overcoming challenges, collaboration opportunities, success stories, and envisioning a thriving rural health system. Transform your approach by registering now and embarking on a journey towards successful rural healthcare IT implementation. Don't miss this chance to seize opportunities and overcome challenges. Be there on August 3rd at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT. Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-rural-healthcare-challenges-and-opportunities/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week Health

July 14, 2023

TownHall: Is Healthcare Ready for the Power of AI? Technology Considerations with Matt Lungren, MD

July 14: Today on TownHall Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health speaks with Matt Lungren, Chief Medical Information Officer at Nuance Communications, a Microsoft Company. How can generative AI revolutionize healthcare, specifically in terms of the reception and experience so far with Nuance and the Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX)? What are the misconceptions surrounding the use of generative AI, particularly in the context of ChatGPT? What are the most exciting use cases for generative AI in healthcare, and how can it transform tasks such as text summarization, knowledge retrieval, and analysis of medical literature? How can healthcare organizations navigate the regulatory landscape and ensure the safe and responsible use of AI algorithms, particularly in terms of continuous learning, monitoring, and evaluation?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 13, 2023

TownHall: The Potential and Unknowns of AI and Emerging Tech in Healthcare, Pt 2, with John League

July 11: Today on TownHall is the second part of a conversation between Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health and John League, Managing Director, Digital Health Research at Advisory Board. How does the current financial challenge in the healthcare system impact the digital health industry in both the short term and the long term, from the perspectives of healthcare organizations and vendors? What are the main factors hindering healthcare organizations from investing in digital health solutions, and how do these factors relate to the challenges they face in stabilizing operations and managing resources effectively? How does the skepticism and risk aversion in the current market impact digital health startups and vendors that were funded during the enthusiastic period of COVID-19, and how does it affect their business plans and revenue expectations? What technological advancements or use cases, such as self-service options and self-scheduling, hold significant importance but are currently lacking in the healthcare industry?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 11, 2023

Keynote: Welcoming our new Executives In Residence

July 7, 2023: What does it look like to be a woman in leadership with our Executives in Residence Sue Schade (Principal at StarBridge Advisors) and Sarah Richardson (SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health). How have the demands on leaders changed during the pandemic? How have female leaders had to develop and exercise specific skills during this period? What unique challenges does a CIO in healthcare face compared to other industries? How does technology support the shift towards treating patients as consumers in the healthcare industry? How can organizations create policies and provide flexibility to support women in balancing their careers and personal lives? What steps can leaders take to address gender disparities and promote diversity and inclusion in male-dominated industries? How can women overcome imposter syndrome and gain confidence in their abilities as leaders?Key Points:Women in LeadershipGiving backMentorshipStrategic CIO roleChanging leadership roleRemote and hybrid work optionsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 7, 2023

TownHall: The Potential and Unknowns of AI and Emerging Tech in Healthcare, Pt 1, with John League

July 6: Today on TownHall is the first of two parts of a conversation between Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health and John League, Managing Director, Digital Health Research at Advisory Board. In the discussion of AI implementation in healthcare, how do the experiences with other technologies inform the expectations? Is AI's path unique or following a familiar hype curve? How does digitizing and automating patient intake processes affect patient satisfaction and their overall healthcare experience? What challenges might organizations face while implementing AI-driven intake solutions? Considering the promise of AI in streamlining processes like ambient documentation, how do we reconcile the potential benefits with the fears and uncertainties? What do the experiences with existing processes reveal about the need for AI in healthcare?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 6, 2023

TownHall: The Transformation of Clinical Communications in a Twelve Hospital System with Joe Evans

July 4: Today on TownHall Mark Weisman, CIO and CMIO at TidalHealth speaks with Joseph Evans, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Sentara Healthcare. Given the large scope of the clinical communications project, what strategies are being implemented to ensure effective change management and widespread adoption of the new communication tools across different healthcare professionals? With the diverse communication preferences among the staff, how has the new communication strategy been designed to accommodate this diversity and enhance user-friendly and effective communication? How is Sentara ensuring that the transition to new clinical communication tools doesn't compromise patient safety, especially in emergency situations? What steps are being taken to mitigate potential risks during this transition?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

July 4, 2023

Keynote: Cone Health’s Innovative Digital Approach to Healthcare and Wellness with Ben Patel

June 30, 2023: CIO Ben Patel shares how Cone Health's approach to community health and wellness, including partnerships with schools and businesses, contribute to reducing health disparities and improving overall population health. How can the integration of healthcare and wellness through a digital platform like Sage revolutionize the way patients and consumers approach their overall well-being? What are the potential benefits and challenges of implementing a comprehensive health and wellness app like Sage in healthcare organizations? How can the concept of a digital ecosystem, built on top of existing EMR and CRM systems, enhance patient experiences and improve healthcare outcomes? How might the integration of an e-commerce function into a healthcare app impact consumer behavior and choices related to health and wellness products? What are the potential long-term effects of promoting a holistic approach to healthcare that combines traditional medical care with wellness initiatives, and how might it influence the future of the healthcare industry?Key Points:Business strategies and prioritiesDigital transformation and IT roadmapIntegration of healthcare and wellnessSage program and personalized care plansTelehealth and virtual visitsSchool-based telehealth programDevelopment team and partnerships."The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 30, 2023

TownHall: Transforming Careers and Lives: Insights from a Healthcare IT Coach with Sarah Richardson

June 29: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Chief Information Officer at Rocky Mountain Human Services speaks with Sarah Richardson, SVP and Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health. What were the key reasons for Sarah to become a professional coach and open her own coaching firm? How does it align with her goals and values? What are the main reasons people seek professional coaching, and how does the engagement with a coach help them achieve their goals? What are some key considerations and outcomes that individuals should have in mind when seeking professional coaching services? How can you build a circle of trust for mentorship?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 29, 2023

TownHall: Exploring Telemedicine and Ambient Listening with Shane Thielman

June 27: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with Shane Thielman, Corporate SVP & Chief Information Officer at Scripps Health. How did Scripps Health measure and analyze the effectiveness of telemedicine in terms of patient experience, adoption rates, and provider productivity? In what ways did the implementation of telemedicine block scheduling benefit Scripps Health, its providers, and patients, and how did it address the challenge of access to timely care? In terms of ambient listening experience, what is the demonstrated desire among clinicians to use this capability, and what factors need to be considered to determine the financial viability of implementing it?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 27, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Harsh Nayyar, Co-Founder and CTO, Pocket Health

June 26: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Harsh Nayyar, Co-Founder and CTO at Pocket Health. How did Harsh's personal experience with obtaining medical imaging on CDs inspire the creation of Pocket Health? What are the limitations and inefficiencies associated with using CDs for medical image sharing, and why is it important to eliminate these barriers for patients? How does Pocket Health facilitate the seamless transfer of medical imaging data between different providers and patients?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 26, 2023

Keynote: UNC’s AI and Governance Priorities, Rural Access, & Digital Transformation with Brent Lamm

June 23, 2023: From Data and AI Governance to Population Health, Brent Lamm, CIO for UNC Health shares their trajectory for 2023. How has UNC Health prioritized succession planning and continuity in leadership? What challenges does UNC Health face in terms of access to healthcare services in North Carolina? How does UNC Health address the issues of affordability in the healthcare industry? What are the key priorities for UNC Health, particularly in terms of provider and teammate burnout? How does UNC Health ensure access to care for individuals living in remote locations, such as rural areas? What strategies and partnerships does UNC Health utilize to educate and connect patients with their clinicians? How did UNC Health navigate the operational challenges of implementing on-demand virtual care and integrating it into their existing systems?Key Points:Urban and ruralTop prioritiesRemote accessBrand recognitionPartnershipsDigital toolsOperational challengesData and analytics"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 23, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Marcus Henderson, Rubrik & Mike Lonze, Microsoft

June 22: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Marcus Henderson, Senior Platform Solutions Architect at Rubrik and Mike Lonze, Global Black Belt at Microsoft. How does Rubrik's partnership with Microsoft Azure benefit customers who are transitioning from on-premises data centers to the cloud, specifically in terms of data protection and observability? What is Rubrik's approach to cybersecurity and how does it address the increasing frequency of cyber events and ransomware attacks in the healthcare industry? When migrating health systems to the cloud, what are the practical steps involved in moving Epic and other systems from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 22, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Tahir Haque, MD, Senior Medical Director, Biofourmis

June 21 Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Tahir Haque, MD, Senior Medical Director at Biofourmis. What are the four main components of delivering successful care in the home? What challenges do health systems face when trying to push care outside of their four walls? How does Bioformis adapt its solutions to cater to the specific requirements of each community, and what role does technology play in enabling equitable care at home?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 21, 2023

Town Hall: A Realigned Role, Generational Diversity, and Giving Back Time with Saad Chaudhry

June 20: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Saad Chaudhry, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Luminis Health. How has Saad's role as Chief Digital and Information Officer at Luminis Health expanded, and what are the implications for his team and the organization? What is the rationale behind Luminis Health's decision to integrate marketing, communications, and public relations into the Chief Digital and Information Officer's responsibilities? How does their online scheduling system prioritize and cater to the needs of patients seeking primary care services, such as annual physicals? In what ways do they aim to give back time to their users, patients, and leaders, and how does this philosophy align with their transformation efforts?Read Saad’s The Manifesto of Time here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/manifesto-purpose-time-saad-chaudhry/"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 20, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Don Szewczyk, Novelle IntelliSolve & Justyna Evlogiadis, Tausight

June 19: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Don Szewczyk, Chief Privacy Officer at Novelle IntelliSolve and Justyna Evlogiadis, Vice President of Growth at Tausight. What role does Tausight’s PHI Locator play in identifying and locating PHI within server environments? How does Novelle's endpoint sensor complement this by providing real-time visibility of movement and access? How does the combined approach enhance the ability to remediate and address PHI-related security issues?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 19, 2023

Keynote: Scripps’ Fiscal Prioritization: Aligning Tech Investments with Strategy with Shane Thielman

June 16, 2023: Shane Thielman shares his journey and experiences as the CIO of Scripps Health as well as all the initiatives Scripps is taking in this upcoming fiscal year.. What is the process of determining technology priorities and investments at Scripps Health for the upcoming fiscal year? How has the organization's approach to technology investments changed in recent years, and what is the focus for fiscal year 24? How does Scripps Health measure and demonstrate the value of its technology projects? What strategies does Scripps Health employ in managing change and driving adoption of new technology solutions? How does Scripps Health envision the future integration of technology into its care delivery model?Key Points:Scripps Health overviewTechnology background and deficiencyFiscal year planning and prioritiesMeasuring and demonstrating project value"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 16, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Rick Shepardson, Chief Strategy Officer, Clearsense

June 15: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Rick Shepardson, Chief Strategy Officer at Clearsense. What is the role of data governance and data stewards in enabling business users to contribute to and manage their data effectively? How do you address the problem of data losing context when shared between different entities, such as health systems and pharmacies? How can we work towards a future where querying data and interacting with it in a conversational manner, similar to Star Trek, becomes a reality?"The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective" is a live webinar that explores the intersection of healthcare and technology, focusing on enhancing the patient experience. As healthcare systems prioritize patient-centered care, leveraging technology becomes crucial. Join us on July 6th, 1:00 PM ET and join the discussion! Register Here. - https://thisweekhealth.com/leader-series-the-patient-experience-a-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 15, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Tracy Chu, Scripps Health & Cynthia Church, Xealth

June 14: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Tracy Chu, Chief Executive, ACO/Corporate VP, Population Health at Scripps Health, and Cynthia Church, Chief Strategy Officer at Xealth. How did Xealth help address the problem of low patient engagement and underutilization of health services and programs? How can healthcare systems effectively engage patients in the digital era and adapt to increased consumer choices? What are the key success measures and outcome measures used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Xealth implementation in improving patient care and engagement?Join us on July 6 at 1PM ET for our webinar: The Patient Experience - A Technology Perspective - Integrating technology and patient care is more pertinent than ever in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. With a rising focus on patient-centered care, health systems now leverage technology to enhance patient experience. This transformative shift calls for leaders to adopt a comprehensive perspective that can bridge the gap between technology and patient care. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/patient-experience-technology-perspective/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 14, 2023

TownHall: Navigating Financial Sustainability and Prioritization in Healthcare IT with John Kenagy

June 13: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes speaks with John Kenagy, SVP & Chief Information and Administrative Officer at Legacy Health. What was John’s career journey and how has his JD helped him in his role in ways he didn’t anticipate? How does John navigate the challenge of communicating the cost and value of contracts to ensure a productive dialogue on the subject? In terms of financial sustainability, what strategies or techniques has he employed to address the slow incremental increase in IT budget over time? How has the involvement of SVP’s in presenting and deciding on IT investments impacted decision-making within the organization?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 13, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Andrew Burchett, MD, Meditech & Doug Kanis, MD, Pella Regional MC

June 12: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Andrew Burchett, MD, Executive Director of Medical Informatics at Meditech, and Doug Kanis, MD, Physician at Pella Regional Health Center. How has Meditech's Expanse platform improved the clinician's experience and productivity, particularly in terms of mobility and accessibility of patient data? What are the main challenges and benefits of integrating external data sources through interoperability tools, such as the Google Search and Summary feature, and how does it impact the clinician's workflow and patient care? How has the clinician experience improved with the introduction of customizable tools and widgets in Meditech's EHR system? How does the integration of voice navigation and voice ordering in the EHR system contribute to enhancing clinician experience and reducing cognitive load?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 12, 2023

Keynote: CISO Priorities for 2023

June 9, 2023: What are CISO’s security priorities for 2023? In this webinar keynote, hear Shawna Hofer (St. Luke’s), Erik Decker (Intermountain), and Vikrant Arora (Hospital for Special Surgery) discuss all things security. How do the CISOs prioritize their work based on the drivers within their healthcare organizations? What are some of the evolving cybersecurity threats in the healthcare industry? How does the increased reliance on third parties impact cybersecurity in healthcare? How are healthcare organizations addressing the challenge of educating users to combat phishing attacks? How are CISOs communicating risk within their organizations? Are there any regulatory changes on the horizon that will impact cybersecurity in healthcare?Key Points:Third party riskPhishing and user educationRansomware prevention and responseDecentralized IT environmentWorker shortage and burnoutResiliency and patient safetySubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 9, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Drex DeFord & Todd Felker, Crowdstrike

June 8: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Drex Deford, Executive Healthcare Strategist and Todd Felker, Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike. What is CrowdStrike's approach to resiliency and how does their One Ten Sixty model contribute to it? How does CrowdStrike utilize the concept of a "crowd" to enhance its threat detection and response capabilities? How does CrowdStrike assist organizations during mergers and acquisitions to ensure their security posture remains strong and doesn't suffer?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 8, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Jared Antczak, CDO, Sanford Health

June 7: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Jared Antczak, CDO at Sanford Health. How can healthcare providers redefine the healthcare experience to meet the expectations and needs of consumers, patients, and caregivers in a profound way? What are the main barriers and challenges in creating a great digital experience? In what ways can technology and home-based healthcare solutions be leveraged to create more touch points with individuals in the community, allowing for better monitoring of health and proactive care?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 7, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Tim Goodwin, Certify Health & Chris Carmody, UPMC

June 6: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Tim Goodwin, VP - Healthcare Strategy and Growth at Certify Health & Chris Carmody, CTO & SVP at UPMC. How does Certify Health's patient engagement and digital authentication platform streamline the welcoming and access process for patients at UPMC? How did Certify Health's platform help UPMC quickly adapt and respond to changing requirements during the COVID vaccine rollout? What quantified savings and improvements in patient experience have been observed since UPMC adopted Certify Health's authentication and access management solutions?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 6, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Mindi Moshides, Senior Account Manager, Trellix

June 5: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Mindi Moshides, Senior Account Manager at Trellix. What are the main challenges faced by cybersecurity clients today, particularly in terms of threat alerts and alert fatigue and how does Trellix aim to address these challenges? How does Trellix utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence in its security platform?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 5, 2023

Keynote: Mount Sinai’s Journey towards Digital Transformation and AI Integration with Kristin Myers

June 2, 2023: Chief Digital and Information Officer Kristin Myers shares what innovations Mount Sinai Health System has been implementing and other priorities. How has Mount Sinai Health System transformed digitally? How do they ensure seamless digital experiences for patients and employees? How does the clinical community contribute to and guide digital projects? How is artificial intelligence (AI) being applied and governed at Mount Sinai Health System? How do they balance rapid adoption of digital initiatives with oversight and quality control? What initiatives are in place to improve healthcare access for underserved communities? How do they incorporate patient feedback to improve their digital solutions?Key Points:Digital transformationAI and intelligent automationClinical community involvementGovernance of AIHealthcare access for underserved communities"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 2, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO, Armis Security

June 1: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO at Armis Security. What are the specific challenges that healthcare organizations, particularly hospitals, face in terms of cybersecurity and protecting their operational environments? How does Armis contribute to addressing these challenges by mapping out the attack surface and providing protection for healthcare organizations? Considering the prevalence of old and outdated devices in healthcare environments, how does Armis handle maintaining the security of such devices? How do they quickly identify abnormal behavior and react quickly to mitigate potential threats?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

June 1, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23: Jim Hyman, Ordr & Keith Whitby, Mayo Clinic

May 31: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Jim Hyman, CEO at Ordr Inc. and Keith Whitby, IT Division Chair - Healthcare Technology Management at Mayo Clinic. What are the key components and challenges of implementing a zero trust approach in securing medical equipment and devices? How did Mayo Clinic approach developing the right team and expertise to operationalize their security efforts? Automation is often discussed as a key aspect of securing devices quickly and efficiently. How does Mayo Clinic approach automation while considering the sensitive nature of medical devices? What factors do you take into account when deciding on the appropriate level of automation for device management and shutdown processes?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 31, 2023

From the Floor @ HIMSS ’23: Zynx Health, Voyce, Extreme Networks, Salesforce, Surescripts

May 30: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Andrew Murray, Senior Director at Zynx Health Andrew Royce, CEO at VoyceRyan Smith, Director, Content Marketing at Extreme NetworksAmit Khanna, SVP & GM, Health and Life Sciences at SalesforceAndrew Mellin, MD, VP, CMIO at SureScriptsJoin us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 30, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23: Frederick Gustavsson, CTO & VP Pre-Sales/Product Marketing, Sectra

May 29: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Frederick Gustavsson, CTO & VP Pre-Sales and Product Marketing at Sectra Medical Systems. How does Sectra's digital pathology solution provide a return on investment for healthcare organizations? What are the benefits and implementation process of integrating digital pathology into a health system, as exemplified by the case of the Hospital for Special Surgery? What obstacles exist in integrating AI into the everyday workflow of imaging professionals, and how is Sectra addressing these challenges to ensure user control and adoption of AI technology?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 29, 2023

Keynote: A New Doctor is In Town; ChatGPT Predictions

May 26, 2023: What is the future of Generative AI? On this episode, hear Taylor Davis, CEO of CareLuminate, share his predictions and opinions about ChatGPT and other AI programs. What potential impact can generative AI have on the healthcare industry in the next five to ten years? How is generative AI being applied to repetitive tasks in healthcare, specifically in the revenue cycle? What are the implications of AI-driven claims processing for both payers and providers in the healthcare industry? How is AutoGPT being utilized to solve problems and generate code in various industries, such as web development and data gathering? What are the benefits and challenges of using chat GPT in countries with limited access to healthcare professionals? What are the key strategies and challenges for healthcare systems in adopting and implementing generative AI technologies like Chat GPT?Key Points:Generative AI impactUnderstanding AI limitationsRepetitive tasks automationPayers and providersRevenue cycle automationJob displacement and efficiencyAutoGPT for AI solutionsImproving care in underserved regionsBiases and limitations of human diagnosis"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 26, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Karla Christopher, Health Data Movers

May 25: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Karla Christopher, VP - Interoperability, Data Migration, & Custom Development at Health Data Movers. What are the primary methods used to push data back into EMRs today? Are APIs the preferred approach, or are there other methods being employed to transmit data, especially when it comes to transmitting results that can't be transmitted via APIs? Are we making significant progress in getting data back into the EHRs? How does Health Data Movers go beyond just data migration and contribute to the improvement of clinical and operational workflows?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 25, 2023

Solution Showcase: DAX Express and the Future of Nuance in Care Spaces

May 24, 2023: Diana Nole, EVP and GM for Nuance shares how they, alongside Microsoft, are shifting the healthcare technology landscape with DAX Express. How is AI changing the landscape of clinical documentation in healthcare? What are the features and capabilities of DAX Express that make it an appealing solution for physicians? How can standardizing data and improving information exchange between payers and providers enhance the selection of appropriate patient cohorts for clinical trials? How can AI assist in resolving issues related to waste, errors, and payment discrepancies in healthcare, particularly during the prescribing process? How can AI assist physicians in guiding the differential diagnosis process and continuously improve through machine learning?Key Points:AI in clinical documentationDax Express features and benefitsMicrosoft and Nuance partnershipEvolution of healthcare in the next five yearsEnhancing information exchange between payers and providersChallenges and benefits of standardized clinical documentation"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 24, 2023

From the Floor @ HIMSS ’23: CloudWave, Compucom, Elsevier, Infor, Protenus

May 23: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Tim Quigley, Chief Client Officer at CloudWave Nancy Outcalt, Senior Business Development Executive at eXcell, a division of Compucom SystemsJeffrey Bunch, Information Technology Business Consultant at CompucomMaryann Abbruzzo-White, Senior Vice President Global Marketing at ElsevierSteve Fanning, SVP, Services Industries Strategy at InforBree McGrath, Director, Healthcare Compliance Strategy and Growth at ProtenusJoin us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 23, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Roeland Pelgrims, Nobi BV & Sarah Thomas, MezTal, AgeTech Capital

May 22: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Roeland Pelgrims, CEO of Nobi BV, and Sarah Thomas, CEO at MezTal and Venture Partner at AgeTech Capital. How does Nobi's technology improve the lives of the elderly by combining functionality and design? How do their smart lamps detect falls using optical sensors and AI analysis? How does their technology enhance the care provided in nursing homes and memory care facilities? How did Nobi take their target audience into account when designing the look and feel of their smart lamp?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 22, 2023

Keynote: The Changing Nature of Work

May 18, 2023: The nature of work is changing and hospital systems need to keep up. On this Keynote, CIOs Will Weider (formerly PeaceHealth), Reid Stephan (St.Luke’s), and Brad Reimer (Sanford Health) join in a discussion about the future of healthcare. Why does remote work have staying power? How do organizations address the challenge of perceived loss of productivity in remote work? How do organizations accommodate employees who cannot work from home? How do organizations approach onboarding new employees and integrating them into the culture? How are staffing shortages impacting the healthcare industry at a national and geographic level? What are the key challenges faced in hiring and retaining remote employees with the right skills and temperament? For major upgrades or implementations, is it effective for teams to continue operating in largely remote work environments, and what strategies have been employed to ensure successful implementation?Key Points:Staying power of remote workWork environment and privacyBalancing remote work autonomy and in-person interactionsStaffing shortagesRemote work environments for major implementations"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 19, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, SVP, CHIO, Novant Health

May 18: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, SVP, CHIO, at Novant Health. How important is it for technology to seamlessly integrate into the clinical workflow, and what challenges arise when clinicians do not adopt new technologies? What role can AI technology play in transforming data into actionable insights for clinicians, and how can it complement human expertise in healthcare decision-making? How can the integration of clinical informatics into the governance process enhance decision-making and optimize resource allocation?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 18, 2023

Solution Showcase: A Story of an Epic Implementation, a Brand New Hospital, and a New EHR

May 17, 2023: Straight from HIMSS, Kat Hasanovic, Senior Director, Clinical EHR Applications at Baptist Health shares the story of their big Epic implementation, implementing the EHR, how Dr. First aided in their journey, and more. What was the process of implementing the new EHR system, including the challenges faced and how they were overcome? How did they decide on Dr. First as a solution, and what were the criteria they used to evaluate different vendors? What was the impact of the solution on patient safety, clinician satisfaction, and overall quality of care? And, looking back, what would they have done differently in the implementation process, and what lessons did they learn that could be useful for others going through a similar project?Key Points:EHR implementation challengesMedication data consolidationArtificial intelligence solutions for data cleaningStakeholder collaboration and inputTesting and validation processes"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 17, 2023

From the Floor @ HIMSS ’23: 3M, Accenture, AGFA HealthCare, Arista Networks

May 16: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Travis Bias, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Solutions at 3M Rich Birhanzel, Senior Managing Director at AccentureJason Knox, Solutions Manager, Enterprise Imaging at AGFA HealthCareJason Bevis, Cybersecuirty professional services at Arista NetworksJoin us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 16, 2023

Interview in Action @ HIMSS ’23 – Grace Vinton, Amendola Communications & HIT Like a Girl Podcast

May 15: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from HIMSS 2023 with Grace Vinton, Senior Account Manager and Media Relations Specialist at Amendola Communications as well as Speaker on the HIT Like a Girl podcast. How are some of her clients engaging patients better? What’s top of mind and what was she looking for at the conference? What is she noticing are top priorities and challenges in the industry today?Join us on June 8 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'The Future of Care Spaces' This webinar will focus on the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Care spaces can include hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments where advanced technologies can enable better workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/future-of-care-spaces/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 15, 2023

Keynote: Priorities for 2023: A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers

May 12, 2023: A Live Webinar featuring Neal Patel (CIO at Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Craig Kwiatkowski (SVP & CIO at Cedars-Sinai), and Michael Restuccia (SVP & CIO of Penn Medicine)discussing AMC Priorities in 2023. What are the priorities of academic medical center leaders for 2023, and how do they plan to achieve them? What areas are ripe for automation and what areas are still in the exploratory phase? How is clinical research transforming with the digital age, and what challenges are associated with it? What is the significance of having a centralized platform for data management in clinical research, and how can data security be maintained? How are employees coping with isolation during remote work and are they starting to return to the office?Key Points:AutomationRevenue cycle spaceOnline patient schedulingRemote workLeveraging telemedicine for better patient carePrecision medicineDigital transformation, Technical challenges, and Data management in clinical research"The Future of Care Spaces" is an upcoming webinar that explores the latest healthcare technologies and solutions transforming care spaces in America. Hospitals, clinics, and at-home treatments are all affected by the advancements in healthcare technology, which can improve workflows, treatments, and patient outcomes. What are the latest remote monitoring tools, advanced telehealth solutions, and other innovative technologies transforming care spaces across America? Join us June 8th, 2023 1:00 PM ET and Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 12, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Charles Christian, VP of Technology, Franciscan Health

May 11: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Charles Christian, VP of Technology at Franciscan Health. How has he found his experience at the conference, particularly with the hosted buyer meetings? How is Franciscan Health addressing mentoring for young nurses and what benefits does virtual mentoring provide for the organization? What are the different considerations that need to be taken into account while selecting cameras for different use cases? What is a process an organization can follow to identify and remove unused applications?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 11, 2023

Solution Showcase: All Things Data with Clearsense and the Six Pillars of Data Governance

May 10, 2023: Live from the HIMSS Conference, Terri Mikol, Data Governance Principal Advisor at Clearsense and Govind Thirumalai, Vice President of Business Intelligence at Parkview Health talk all things data. What are the six work streams when implementing data governance in healthcare organizations? How does Clearsense combine data with institutional knowledge to provide a learning platform for users? How can healthcare organizations ensure that the answers to common data governance questions are accessible to departments and hospitals? How does the complexity of healthcare data across multiple states impact data governance initiatives? What are the benefits of having a community of analytics users within an organization? Why is it necessary to have clear definitions for data elements, even if multiple definitions are acceptable in different use cases?Key Points:MetadataData governanceData definitionsData literacyComplexity of healthcare data.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 10, 2023

From the Floor @ HIMSS ’23: Dimensional Insight, UKG, Amwell, Olah

May 9: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:George Dealy, Vice President, Healthcare Solutions at Dimensional Insight Nanne Finis, Chief Nurse Executive at UKGJennifer Smith, Head of Brand Strategy and Management at AmwellMack Swenson, Vice President Strategy Business Development at OlahSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 9, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Erica Williams, Regional Technology Officer – Texas, Ascension

May 8: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Erica Williams, Regional Technology Officer - Texas at Ascension. What was Erica’s purpose in attending the conference and what did she gain from the hosted buyer program? How does she maintain her network of lady executives and what are the benefits of having such a network in the healthcare industry? How does Erica see healthcare changing in the next 5 years?Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 8, 2023

Keynote: Insights on CHIME Leadership, Innovation and Adoption of ChatGPT

May 5, 2023: CIO Daniel Nigrin shares some of the challenges, innovations, and experiences of MaineHealth. What are some of the challenges that Maine Health is facing financially, and how is it affecting patients? How is Maine Health utilizing telehealth to address its challenges? What are some priorities for 2023 and 2024 for Maine Health? How has Chime changed since it was founded, and what is its mission and vision now? In what ways has the VIVE conference evolved and improved since its first year, and what changes were made to enhance the attendee experience? What role does networking and idea-sharing play in Chime's mission, and how has this aspect of the organization evolved over time? How has the growth of healthcare and digitalization impacted the importance of Chime and its role within the industry?Key Points:Chime's mission and visionEvolution of the VIVE conferenceFinancial challenges facing Maine HealthMaine Health's utilization of telehealthPriorities for Maine Health in 2023-2024Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 5, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Mark Scruggs, SureTest & Chris Scanzera, AtlantiCare Health System

May 4: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Mark Scruggs, President and COO at SureTest & Chris Scanzera, VP and CIO at AtlantiCare Health System. How does the automation process of regression testing for EHR upgrades work at Suretest? What benefits does it offer compared to the manual testing process used before? What unintended benefit did Chris find from using recordings of their testing processes? What other use cases are there for the automation tool besides testing EHRs?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 4, 2023

From the Floor @ ViVE ’23 CTG, Parlance Corporation, Notable, Netskope

May 2: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Tanya Johnson, Managing Director, North America at CTG Scott D'Entremont, Chief Revenue Officer at Parlance CorporationJames Lakes, Chief Growth & Revenue Officer at NotableDamian Chung, Business Information Security Officer at NetskopeJoin us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 2, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Snezana Mahon, Chief Operating Officer, Transcarent

May 1: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Snezana Mahon, Chief Operating Officer at Transcarent. How does the acquisition of 98point6 enable Transcarent to offer a better care experience for its members? What solutions has Transcarent developed in the pharmacy space to improve transparency and accessibility for consumers? How does Transcarent partner with health systems, and what are some examples of recent partnerships they have formed?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

May 1, 2023

Keynote: Advancing Technology, Easing the Patient Experience, and Addressing Burnout at CHOC

April 28, 2023: VP and CIO of Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), John Henderson shares CHOC’s 2023 priorities, current technological advancements, and more. How is CHOC expanding its population health program and reaching out to other primary care practices in Orange County? How is CHOC creating a data fabric across its network to provide population health, especially with closely aligned primary care practices that are not part of its health system? How can technology be used to provide a standardized yet personalized patient experience in healthcare call centers? What are the top three things that patients want from a digital front door in healthcare? How important is convenience in healthcare technology, and how can healthcare providers balance patient desires with internal priorities? How can automation technology help improve healthcare and why do some people fear it?Key Points:CHOC's top prioritiesExpanding population health programCreating a data fabricStandard capabilities for health systemsWe invite you to join us May 4, 1pm ET as we discuss different types of analytics used in healthcare and how they can gain insights into health data. Let's work together to create a more efficient, effective, and modern healthcare system with data governance and analytics strategies. Register HereSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 28, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Ali Rahimi, MD, CEO & Founder, ALYKA Health Technologies

April 27: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Ali Rahimi, MD, CEO & Founder of ALYKA Health Technologies. What inspired Ali to create ALYKA Health, and how did he recognize the gaps in healthcare that his platform addresses? What specific data elements are included, and how is this information used to target education and improve engagement? What is the goal of the health resilience index, and how does it help improve health outcomes? How do they use a multimedia approach to make healthy behaviors more enjoyable for users?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 27, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Michael Robinson, Vice President, Healthcare North America, VMware

April 26: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Michael Robinson, Vice President, Healthcare North America at VMware. How is VMware helping healthcare organizations navigate cloud adoption and avoid "cloud chaos"? What are some of the challenges that healthcare organizations are currently facing, and how is VMware helping them address those challenges? What is the main concern right now of CIOs in regards to digital data in the healthcare industry?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 26, 2023

From the Floor @ ViVE ’23: Consensus Cloud Solutions, MediQuant, Interlace Health, Zscaler

April 25: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Bevey Miner, Health IT Strategy & Global Chief Marketing Officer at Consensus Cloud Solutions Jim Jacobs, CEO and President at MediQuantDessiree Paoli, Director of Product Marketing at Interlace HealthBrice Blair, Director of Healthcare Sales at ZscalerJoin us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 25, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Mari Savickis, Vice President, Public Policy, CHIME

April 24: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Mari Savickis, Vice President, Public Policy at CHIME. How will the FDA's new oversight of medical device manufacturers affect health IT staff, particularly CIOs and CISOs? What is the current status of a national patient ID? How is the pandemic affecting telehealth policies and what changes are being made in response to this shift?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 24, 2023

Keynote: Opening the Dialogue on Mental Health: Honesty, Empathy, and Community

April 21, 2023: Ed Kopetsky, recent retiree from Stanford Children’s Health shares his pursuits in retirement, the innovations that occurred when he held the position of CIO, and advice for other CIOs. How do we as leaders need to shift the conversation and open the dialogue around mental health? How can digital transformation improve productivity and take the administrative loads of staff, such as budgeting and recruitment, and the burden off the front line? How can health systems think about digitally engaging patients before they even enter the hospital, and what initiatives are in place for that? What are some of the digital tools implemented in the Acute care center for patients and their families?Key Points:Opioid Task ForceMental Health in HealthcareLean ProcessesDigital transformationIntegration of biomed equipmentPost-acute care continuum for childrenWe invite you to join us May 4, 1pm ET as we discuss different types of analytics used in healthcare and how they can gain insights into health data. Let's work together to create a more efficient, effective, and modern healthcare system with data governance and analytics strategies. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 21, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Brian Symonds, President, Optimum Healthcare IT

April 20: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Brian Symonds, President of Optimum Healthcare IT. What platform can be used to streamline healthcare workflows, and what benefits does it offer in terms of onboarding new clinicians and providers? How important is executive sponsorship in healthcare rationalization projects, and why is it necessary for success? How has the role of the CIO evolved in recent years, and what are the key challenges they face in managing complex hybrid environments in healthcare?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 20, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Josh Gluck, VP Global Vertical Alliances & Solutions, Pure Storage

April 19: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Josh Gluck, VP Global Vertical Alliances & Solutions at Pure Storage. What is the role of data in delivering healthcare and what are some changes that have occurred in data collection in recent years? What are some of the challenges that organizations face in healthcare partnerships, and how can they evaluate whether an existing partner is the right one to take them to the next level? How does sustainability factor into the design and supply chain of data platform products, and what are the benefits of designing for sustainability?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 19, 2023

From the Floor @ ViVE ’23: Holon Solutions, UiPath, Validic, Healthcare Triangle

April 18: Walk the floor with This Week Health. Check out the booths you may have missed at the spring health IT conferences. In this episode we feature:Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon Solutions Jason Warrelmann, VP, Global Services & Process Industries at UiPathJohn George, Chief Commercial Officer at ValidicAnand Kumar, SVP and Head of Cloud Solutions at Healthcare TriangleJoin us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 18, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Todd Larson, HonorHealth & Josh Peacock, CDW

April 17: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Todd Larson, Consultant - Workplace and Public Safety at HonorHealth and Josh Peacock, Healthcare Strategist at CDW. What is the history of HonorHealth's journey towards a fully integrated clinical command and care center, and what were the major challenges they faced in achieving this goal? What role did CDW play in HonorHealth's transition and how did they approach the use of technology in this process? How can an organization experience CDW's approach, and who should be brought in when visiting? Who are the best champions for an operational project once it moves into the implementation stage?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 17, 2023

Keynote: A Conversation With Former CIOs: Wisdom, Advice, and Anecdotes

April 14, 2023: Former CIOs Stephanie Lahr, current President of Artisight, and Lee Milligan, current SVP and CIO of SimonMed Imaging, join Bill for a conversation about the CIO role. What are the real challenges that CIOs in healthcare are facing today? How can CIOs manage the financial pressures faced by healthcare systems while maintaining the quality of care? How can CIOs work with other executives to effectively manage healthcare systems? How can financial pressures be addressed while maintaining innovation within an organization?Key Points:CIOs in healthcareComputer Vision AlgorithmsHealthcare spending and financial pressuresImplementing new technology without disrupting workflowsAlignment of leadership teamsWe invite you to join us May 4, 1pm ET as we discuss different types of analytics used in healthcare and how they can gain insights into health data. Let's work together to create a more efficient, effective, and modern healthcare system with data governance and analytics strategies. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 14, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Daniel Freedman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Burnalong

April 13: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Daniel Freedman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Burnalong. What does Burnalong do and who is the market for them? How does the target audience benefit from it and stay motivated by it? Where does their content come from and how do they tailor it to each individual user? What is the incentive for content creators?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 13, 2023

Solution Showcase: Data, Data, and More Data: How Clearsense can Keep Your Data Safe and Attainable

April 12, 2023: Exploring Interoperability, Data Management and more with President of Clearsense Kevin Field and SVP of Product Management at UPMC Jeff Jones. How does Clearsense address the issue of data interoperability in healthcare systems, and what benefits does it offer to healthcare organizations? How does Clearsense ensure the normalization and standardization of data across different healthcare organizations? What role does data governance play in establishing a trusted data environment, and how does it contribute to achieving intelligent interoperability in healthcare? How does trusted data facilitate intelligent interoperability and why is it important for data discovery and access to information? How can blockchain and smart contracts help to achieve the vision of intelligent interoperability, and what role does patient engagement play in this process? How does the need for privacy and security impact the development of intelligent interoperability, both from the perspective of patients who want to own and control their data, and from the perspective of the broader research community?Key Points:Intelligent interoperabilityCulture and governance around data governancePrivacy and securityPartner ecosystemPatient data ownershipWe invite you to join us May 4, 1pm ET as we discuss different types of analytics used in healthcare and how they can gain insights into health data. Let's work together to create a more efficient, effective, and modern healthcare system with data governance and analytics strategies. Register Here.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 12, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Margo Minissian, Executive Director, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

April 11: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Margo Minissian, Executive Director, Geri & Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. From a nursing perspective, what was she excited to see from the conference and what top two priorities was she looking to solve? What level of acuity can we do in the home at this point? Regarding the nurse shortage, as nurses leave and new nurses come on, how are we transferring wisdom and how are we bringing new nurses online?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 11, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Lacy Knight, System VP & CHIO, Piedmont Healthcare

April 10: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Lacy Knight, MD, System VP & CHIO at Piedmont Healthcare. As a first time attendee of ViVE, what was he looking to learn more about during the conference? How would Lacy be interested in utilizing AI and data to improve the patient experience? Has his organization established governance around AI and Machine Learning use?Join us on May 4 at 1PM ET for our webinar: 'Leader Series: Modern Data Strategies in Healthcare.' This webinar will focus on exploring data governance and analytics strategies that have the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the modern era. With a data-driven approach, we can improve patient care outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs in the healthcare industry. Register Here: https://thisweekhealth.com/modern-data-strategies/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 10, 2023

Keynote: Intermountain at ViVE: Improvements, Goals, and Innovations

7 April, 2023: With a bright new logo and three installations at the ViVE 2023 conference, Intermountain Health is doing a lot in the healthcare sector. CIO Craig Richardville, Chief Clinical Information Officer Becky Fox, and Chief Architect John Tippetts share some key topics from ViVE for Intermountain and where they are headed in 2023. From the digital workforce to generative AI, what are the various advancements and innovations Intermountain is undertaking this year?Key Points:Improving caregiver and patient experienceEvolution of informaticsTechnologies that improve outcomes, cost of care, patient and clinician experienceEmerging technologies, such as AI, and their potential applications in healthcareSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 7, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer, Lumeon

April 6: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer at Lumeon. What kind of conversations did he have during ViVE this year? How does Lumeon help health organizations with care coordination and automation? How is Lumeon able to take a clinician spending 11 minutes per patient looking at their chart down to 2 minutes? How complex is it to implement the Lumeon platform?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 6, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Justin Norden, GSR Ventures & Michael Hasselberg, URMC

April 5: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Justin Norden, Partner at GSR Ventures, and Michael Hasselberg, Chief Digital Health Officer at University of Rochester Medical Center. What’s the best way to approach creating an investment arm in a health system? How can startups be coached during a partnership to make sure they don’t lose their way? What technology are they looking to in the next couple of years for impactful innovation in the healthcare space?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 5, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Gregg Nicandri, CMIO at University of Rochester Medical Center

April 4: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Gregg Nicandri, CMIO at University of Rochester Medical Center. How is his medical center viewing care orchestration across various service lines? What kind of questions or pushback does he get from clinicians in the important conversations to enable digital transformation? What emerging technology does he see that offers the most to clinicians?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 4, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Randy Fusco, Global Healthcare CTO, Clearsense

April 3: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Randy Fusco, Global Healthcare CTO at Clearsense. What can bad architecture in Health IT lead to? What is the message Randy shares with clients and with the industry to describe the numerous solutions Clearsense provides? What problems are people solving with Clearsense in particular?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

April 3, 2023

Keynote: The Versatility of the CIO and the Advancement of Patient-Centered Cancer Care

March 31, 2023: City of Hope has been advancing cancer care treatment while maintaining the intentionality between care providers and patients. CIO Beth Lindsay-Wood shares what things have been like since the acquisition of CTCA, how they manage high-quality care across varying regions, and the versatility of the CIO role. How can hospitals improve patient engagement and experience, specifically for cancer patients? How does technology play a role in this process? What strategies can hospitals employ to ensure that they are actively engaging with potential patients and monitoring their progress through their cancer journey?Key Points:The Acquisition of CTCAPartnership with other firms for precision medicine platform.Challenges of rebuilding existing hospitalsPatient acquisition and front-end engagement through active outreachThe use of data and CRM to track patient touch points and follow-upsWe understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 31, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Matt MacVey, EVP & CIO, Children’s National Hospital

March 30: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Matt MacVey, EVP & CIO, Children's National Hospital. What are the top three things his organization is focusing on? How will AI like ChatGPT in the hands of scammers change the cybersecurity conversation? Why should you look outside of the EHR to build a more complete patient profile?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 30, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – Shafiq Rab, CDO & System CIO at Tufts Medicine

March 29: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with Shafiq Rab, Chief Digital Officer & System Chief Information Officer at Tufts Medicine. Does technology offer solutions to the burden of cost for health systems? What is required for AI to be implemented effectively in an organization? What is the current state of AI and how can it potentially be utilized in the future for lower cost and better care?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 29, 2023

Interview in Action @ ViVE ’23 – David Levy, VP & Angela Shippy, Senior Physician Executive at AWS

March 28: Today on the Conference channel, it’s an Interview in Action live from ViVe 2023 with David Levy, Vice President, & Angela Shippy, Senior Physician Executive at Amazon Web Services. What are the key problems AWS is trying to solve in healthcare? What do David and Angela see being a focus for the healthcare industry in the next 5-10 years? As we move outside the four walls of the hospital setting how can we bring technology in, and get data out of, other venues of care?We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 28, 2023

Keynote: The Challenges of Social Determinants, Technology, and Data Sharing in Varying Environments

March 24, 2023: Cletis Earle, CIO and SVP for Penn State Health. Lancaster and the surrounding Penn State Health system provides a myriad of challenges, from catering to the Amish and Mennonite populations to not being on Epic. How do you care for snowbird patients and securely share data with systems outside of your network? How can you continue to adapt and adopt new technologies while still assisting communities who abstain from modern technology? What does it look like to continuously pursue optimization from a clinical adoption perspective?Key Points:Teaching Providers to actively pursue optimizationAdopting new technologies versus catering to local communities and culturesHIE and OpenNotesVendor tactics in 2023We understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 24, 2023

TownHall: Physician-Member Organizations and How to be Their Support IT

March 23: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Jack King, Chief Information Officer at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons(AAOS). What is his team focusing on currently at AAOS? What new innovations did he discover at his organization’s annual meeting? What are the differences in supporting IT for a physician-member organization like AAOS versus a more typical provider organization? What is it like to have physicians from many different health systems as his primary customer? What is he most excited about working on in the coming year?As the healthcare industry undergoes a rapid digital transformation, IT security must stay ahead of the curve. CISOs need to think ahead and proactively develop security policies and processes to ensure that healthcare organizations are secure and compliant with rapidly evolving regulations. Join us on our April 6 webinar, “Leader Series: CISO Priorities for 2023” to explore healthcare companies' challenges today and the strategies CISOs can use to stay on top of the security priorities for 2023.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 23, 2023

Conference Campaign: How Can SureTest’s Automation Solution Save You Time and Provide ROI?

22 March 2023: With the rise of staffing challenges, CEO of SureTest, Laura O’Toole shares their fully managed solution that completely alleviates the burden for their clients. With their library of 2,500 EHR workflows, SureTest was built to help manage the 20-40,000 hours a year health systems were spending on EHR testing and the surrounding and integrated third party applications. Saving you time with their quick implementations, money with their speedy ROI delivery, and FtE positions, their solution is a phenomenal way to maintain testing and minimize risk. Check out their booth, number 812, to see a full demo of the solution as well as hear from active clients on how they’ve utilized this solution.Key Points:Many SureTest employees obtain Epic certificationsBuilt EHR library on Eggplant that can implement new workflows 4-5 times faster, delivering ROI within the yearSureTest is branching into enterprise solutions, saving the equivalent of 8-12 FtE positions with their solution80-85% of testing becomes automatedWe understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us, April 6, 1:00pm, for this webinar to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/This Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

March 22, 2023

TownHall: How One System Learned from Mistakes to Create a Better Program

March 21: Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Former Director of Information Technology - Swedish Medical Center at HealthONE speaks with MariJo Rugh, Vice President, CIO, UCHealth Affiliates at UCHealth about work-life balance and the past, present, and future of UCHealth’s Affiliate Community Connect Program. What was her career journey to Health IT? What advice does she have for taking that next career step while balancing work and home life? How does her current role fulfill her personal mission? How is her organization measuring success? What is the future of her organization’s program?As the healthcare industry undergoes a rapid digital transformation, IT security must stay ahead of the curve. CISOs need to think ahead and proactively develop security policies and processes to ensure that healthcare organizations are secure and compliant with rapidly evolving regulations. Join us on our April 6 webinar, “Leader Series: CISO Priorities for 2023” to explore healthcare companies' challenges today and the strategies CISOs can use to stay on top of the security priorities for 2023.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 21, 2023

Keynote: A CIO’s Perspective: Tech Debt, Enterprise Imaging, Budgeting, and More

March 17, 2023: Between financial pressures and the worker shortage, healthcare is under siege. There are many options for prioritizing in 2023. CIOs Brad Reimer (Sanford Health), Aaron Miri (Baptist Health), and Craig Richardville (Intermountain Healthcare) share their perspective in the realm of tech debt, how to get in front of CIOs, and interoperability. What does digital front door mean? How can vendors get in front of CIOs? What are the top clinical initiatives that are driving healthcare forward? How can you prioritize the patient experience while making sound business and financial decisions?Key Points:Investing in consolidation and automation to combat employees moving to companies like AmazonSingle Imaging Platform and Enterprise Imaging CentralizationAcceptable and unacceptable tech debtRemote work versus relationally driven healthcare environments

March 17, 2023

TownHall: Implementing A/B Testing to Study Medical Alert Effectiveness

March 16: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Dr. Naveed Rabbani, Physician and Clinical Informatics Researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine about notes and how they are changing with the recent template revisions from CMS and AMA. What extra precautions and challenges arise in note sharing for Pediatricians? How is he structuring the change management process to help new template adoption be more successful with each department? What is he doing to test the effectiveness of alerts?As the healthcare industry undergoes a rapid digital transformation, IT security must stay ahead of the curve. CISOs need to think ahead and proactively develop security policies and processes to ensure that healthcare organizations are secure and compliant with rapidly evolving regulations. Join us on our April 6 webinar, “Leader Series: CISO Priorities for 2023” to explore healthcare companies' challenges today and the strategies CISOs can use to stay on top of the security priorities for 2023.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 16, 2023

TownHall: How Lean Methodology Led to a Culture Change of Collaborative Problem Solving

March 14: Today on TownHall Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors speaks with Ed Kopetsky before his recent retirement from his position as the Chief Information and Digital Officer at Stanford Children’s Health about the work his team has done over the years and implementing lean methodology. What has Ed and his team accomplished in his 14 year tenure at Stanford Children’s? How did he leverage lean methodologies when he introduced it to his organization? How has he been able to position his organization to develop innovative solutions? As he gets ready to retire, what pearls of wisdom would he share with up and coming leaders?As the healthcare industry undergoes a rapid digital transformation, IT security must stay ahead of the curve. CISOs need to think ahead and proactively develop security policies and processes to ensure that healthcare organizations are secure and compliant with rapidly evolving regulations. Join us on our April 6 webinar, “Leader Series: CISO Priorities for 2023” to explore healthcare companies' challenges today and the strategies CISOs can use to stay on top of the security priorities for 2023.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 14, 2023

Keynote: The Future of Healthcare at Home: Drones, Robots, and More

March 10, 2023: CIO and SVP of MultiCare Health System, Bradd Busick, shares how they have worked to breach the gap between the healthcare industry and other retail industries by maximizing the usage of technology and working to provide care to the broader and more rural community. How can we work towards providing care and access to those in rural areas with limited access to technology? How can we create a cohesive experience for patients? From Moxi to drones, is technology the primary lane to combatting the staffing shortage and maximizing access to care?Key Points:Understanding the core of healthcare offers opportunities to optimizeMultiCare’s Covered Lives ProgramMoxi delivered 3,500 things in 30 days, traveling 605 milesUsing drones in healthcare to aid in telehealth and accessMultiCare Health SystemWe understand that staying ahead of the curve regarding Security Priorities can be challenging. Join us for this webinar, April 6, 1:00pm, to learn how CISOs in healthcare address Security Priorities for 2023 – insights that can help keep your healthcare organization safe and secure. https://thisweekhealth.com/ciso-priorities-2023/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 10, 2023

TownHall: International Informatics: How Can They Differ from Their US Counterpart?

March 9: Today on TownHall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care talks with Anwar Jebran, MD, Clinical Informatics Fellow at UI Health about hospital at home and informatics on the international scale. How is Anwar and UI Health setting up hospital at home for their organization? How is he planning to go about patient selection for it? What does the informatics landscape look like outside of the United States? What are the needs for informatics training or informatics trained physicians to get involved internationally? Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 9, 2023

TownHall: Have Startups and Systems Overlooked the Patient Experience?

March 7: Today on TownHall, we are highlighting a previous episode featuring an insightful discussion between Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health and John League, Managing Director, Digital Health Research at Advisory Board. Where is the current momentum in the digital space? Is there a disconnect between investment dollars and opportunity? What are the digital blind spots for healthcare organizations? For digital startups? A major concern with the rise of numerous digital health solutions is segmentation or siloing of care. How can we avoid this moving forward? KLAS reported that communicating with a provider before and after a visit is of the highest priority. Is there a lot of movement in this space?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 7, 2023

Keynote: Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 3, 2023: Diagnosed as an infant, Alex fought cancer for most of her life and at the age of four decided she wanted to hold lemonade stands in her front yard. In her lifetime, Alex raised more than $1 million for a cure and today, Alex's Lemonade Stand is one of the leading childhood cancer charities in the country having raised more than $250 million. Joining us today is their Co-Executive Director Liz Scott.Key Points:ALSF Vision: A Cure for All Children with CancerProviding Financial, Emotional Logistical Support to Childhood Cancer FamiliesChanging the Lives of Kids with Cancer and their FamiliesResearch that Brings Better Treatments and Cures to Children with CancerDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood CancerSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

March 3, 2023

TownHall: “With a Lowercase R”: How to Transition to Retirement While Staying Engaged and Involved

March 2: Today on TownHall, we are highlighting a previous episode featuring an insightful discussion between Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors and John Glaser, Executive in Residence at Harvard Medical School. In this look back, they talk about John’s transition from a CIO role of 35 years to retirement “with a lowercase r” and how it helps him stay involved and engaged. What advice would he give to others looking to do the same and what were some of the biggest challenges? How has he seen the role of the CIO evolve over his career? What exciting technology advances does he see coming in the next few years?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

March 2, 2023

TownHall: Small and Easy Changes to Virtual Meetings to Benefit Employees and the Planet

February 28: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes talks with Michael Pfeffer, Chief Information Officer at Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine about sustainability in the healthcare IT space. Why does the video component of virtual meetings need to be considered as part of the conversation? How does a new approach to virtual meetings lead to a human sustainability benefit?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 28, 2023

Keynote: Healthcare Community Transformations: Are Pharmacists the New Primary Care Providers?

February 24, 2023: The nature of healthcare is changing and many, including Frank Harvey, CEO of Surescripts, have some predictions. Physicians will take up the role of primary care provider once again and the legislature will shift to aid in preventing physician burnout. This is a big problem because what happens when 150,000 physicians pull out of the occupation? How will these transitions impact the big players like CVS and how will it impact IDNs? With pharmacists peaking patient’s trust and time, we need to better our compensation structures and legislature. What does the new competition in the field, Walmart and Minute Clinic mean for healthcare? How will hospitals grow their interoperability? Will specialty medications play an even larger role? There is a cooperative future in healthcare and we are working towards closer working relationships all over. Key Points:20% of primary care physicians plan to retire over the next two years.In the first half of this year, over 10 and a half million messages have gone back and forth between physicians and pharmacistsThe pharmacists see patients on average 35 times a year while their primary care doctor sees them only 4 on average.30% of rural healthcare systems will close within the next year21st Century Cures’ requirements on the providers and payersSurescriptsHealthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals https://thisweekhealth.com/leaders-series-the-changing-nature-of-work-remote-hybrid-onsite-shortages/Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 24, 2023

TownHall: How to Hire and Retain the Right People to Optimize Your Data Science

February 23: Today on TownHall Linda Yang, CIO, talks with Ylan Kazi, Chief Data Officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota about embracing a more data-driven healthcare industry and strategies for better hiring and employee outcomes. How can the healthcare industry embrace a truly data-driven culture? What is his perspective on the recent layoffs from several tech companies and how can healthcare organizations capitalize on an assumption that there are possibly more qualified data professionals in the job market? How can healthcare organizations better identify, hire, and retain this talent? As someone that has worked on both the provider and insurance side, what are some common challenges and how can each side learn from each other?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 23, 2023

TownHall: Health Equity – Removing Bias to Improve Patient Care For All

February 21: Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health speaks with Albert Villarin, MD, VP and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Nuvance Health about health equity and food insecurity. What drew him to the subject of health equity? Did he receive any pushback? How can other organizations get started in their own health equity journey?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 21, 2023

Keynote: The Critical Importance of Sustainability: Using Data & Innovation for Better Solutions

February 17, 2023: Stanford Health is focusing on simplicity and usability in 2023. CIO Michael Pfeffer shares some of their priorities and it's all about sustainability. How can we optimize our platforms while maintaining an awareness of the sustainability of our solutions? How can we derive pragmatic value from said sustainable solutions? What makes on-sight work environments valuable? And how can we be using and presenting data better? Key Points:Where is battery technology going?Quantifying sustainability in health systemsHealthcare is an in-person businessStanford HealthHealthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 17, 2023

TownHall: The Ongoing Journey in Modernizing a Patient Access Center

February 16: Today on TownHall Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes talks with Jeffrey Sturman, Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer at Memorial Healthcare System about the ongoing modernization effort for their patient access center. What has he learned in going from a decentralized to centralized model in the patient access center space? Has he found any effective ways to measure success of new implementations and initiatives? What have been the challenges and unexpected delights of the journey so far?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 16, 2023

TownHall: How a Pet Hospital is Utilizing Data Science to Improve Pet Health and Employee Retention

February 14: Today on TownHall Linda Yang, CIO, talks with Dan Regalado, Chief Information Officer at Banfield Pet Hospital about utilizing data to improve pet health and employee retention. What is Dan’s perspective on the current state of pet healthcare technology? Why are they utilizing technology to improve the employee experience? How are they able to utilize over 20 years of data to improve pet health?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 14, 2023

Keynote: How Does a Company like Epic Stay Ahead of Healthcare’s Future Demands?

February 10, 2023: Epic Systems invests one-half of its operating expenses on research and development. It's a striking figure compared to what other tech companies spend. Rather than acquiring new companies and technologies and trying to make disparate technologies work together, Epic builds new products and components from scratch. This means accelerated time-to-market. Seth Hain, long-time SVP of R&D takes us through their evolution of challenges. How does Epic stay ahead of the demands of healthcare? What are the underlying technology requirements to support changing business models? What are the characteristics for innovation and staying power in the industry?Key Points:There's a drive back towards foundation. Why is that?How do you always have the next two or three layers of the onion? What are the building blocks of Machine Learning integration into clinical workflows?Epic SystemsSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 10, 2023

TownHall: How Using AI Can Help Support Better Clinical Decisions

February 9: Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health speaks with Hamed Abbaszadegan, MD, Physician Executive at Stanson Health about AI, machine learning, and clinical decision support. Where in healthcare does he see the greatest opportunity for AI today and in the near future? How is clinical decision support evolving to be more useful to end-user clinicians? What would he recommend health systems do to routinely monitor these technologies? What is Hamad most excited about in the AI/machine learning space?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 9, 2023

TownHall: How Synthetic Data Can Help Us See the Full Picture Without Breaching Patient Privacy

February 7: Today on Town Hall, This Week Health’s very own Bill Russell speaks with Billy Oglesby, Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health about synthetic data and why it is preferred over de-identified data. What data are researchers looking for to do their jobs effectively? What are the challenges of getting data together from outside the EMR for a more whole person profile? What are some of the approaches and methods for protecting patient data?Healthcare needs innovative ways to address staffing shortages from clinical to IT employees. Are you curious about how technology can help support your Healthcare staff? Join us on our March 9 webinar, “Leaders Series: The Changing Nature of Work,” to explore how Health IT can be used to supplement Healthcare professionals.Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 7, 2023

Keynote: The Rise of Wellness Initiatives in Healthcare

February 3, 2023: How can healthcare make the transition from ‘sick’ care to keeping people healthy, well and engaged in the community? Nassar Nizami, Executive VP and CIO at Jefferson Health shares his vision. What are some of the priorities at Jefferson going into 2023? What are they doing in the fields of AI, automation and the move to the cloud? How do you create a flywheel effect with a major EHR implementation integration, where little changes can have significant impact across all your hospitals? Having a standard based assistance makes life easy, but more importantly, it truly allows for innovation to happen. Key Points:AI hasn’t put a big dent in healthcare yet. We haven't even started. In IT, we are masters of our own destination but we also have to rely on expertise from many other departments.We don’t talk enough about wellness dataJefferson HealthSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 3, 2023

TownHall: The Importance of Front & Center Technology in Providing Care Where Patients Are

February 2: Today on TownHall, This Week Health’s very own Bill Russell speaks with Josh Builder, Chief Technology Officer at Signify Health about value-based care and providing care in the home. How does technology take on the challenge of the fragmented system used to provide value-based care? What ideas did Josh bring with him to Signify from his experience outside of the healthcare industry? What are the technology challenges in Signify’s mission to provide care everywhere/in the home?Register now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

February 2, 2023

Keynote: The J.P.Morgan Outlook for Healthcare with Rob DeMichiei

January 27, 2023: What were the hot topics at J.P. Morgan 2023? Here to discuss is Rob DeMichiei, Board Director, Strategic Advisor and Former CFO. Advent, Baylor Scott & White, CommonSpirit and Ascension all shared their “structured cost reduction initiatives”. We’re talking reductions in the hundreds of millions of dollars. How do labor costs tie into this? Have we reached the peak? Whatever the case may be, premium pay is now an embedded cost that's not going away. Equity and inclusion and value-based care have also become an embedded discussion. How daunting is the complexity of healthcare today? Intermountain’s presentation on their 50 year journey from fee for service to value based care gives us a big clue.Key Points:Health-care pricing doesn't workThere’s an operational trend towards integrated call centersWalgreens and CVS both have strategies around significant acquisitions of physician groupsHealth CatalystRegister now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 27, 2023

Keynote: Fiscal Policy with Aneesh Chopra

January 20, 2023: What does the role of CTO for the federal government entail? This position provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on healthcare in the United States. Aneesh Chopra, previous holder of this position and current President of CareJourney, joins us to discuss fiscal policy, and how the C-suite might consolidate and build to scale. What are the tech trends and people trends for 2023? What’s going on in the markets, and how can CIOs grapple with growth and cost savings optimization?Key Points:CEOs are now looking for product development from their CIOInnovation is taking all the things that you have and doing something newWhat CIOs need to know and understand about bulk FHIRCareJourneyRegister now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 20, 2023

Showcase: Enterprise Data Demands: Where Humans, Infrastructure and Data Collide

January 18, 2023: Tech debt is really hurting healthcare. How do we set the groundwork to consolidate and replace PACS systems into a complete enterprise imaging solution? Canon Medical provides healthcare systems meaningful data – helping to unlock, analyze and share information – which ultimately achieves the vision for better patient care. Larry Sitka, CSIO and Tim Dawson, CTO take us through their dynamic Enterprise Imaging solution which is solving interoperability and workflow gaps in imaging departments all over the world.Key Points:Application rationalization isn't a strategy anymore. It's a way of life. Everything will go to cloud eventually, as soon as we figure out the latency issuesWhen you design something from scratch to utilize new capabilities, you need to ensure that you have the ability to scaleVitrea Enterprise ImagingCanon MedicalRegister now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 18, 2023

Keynote: How do we Restore Joy back into the Healthcare Workforce?

January 13, 2023: How do we restore joy back into the healthcare workforce? We assume that everybody is acting in the best interest of the patient but that is not always the case, unfortunately. And it creates inefficiencies across the system. How did Baptist Health, Jacksonville consolidate the EHR to maximize clinical efficiency? Aaron Miri, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer joins us to discuss application rationalization, workflow rationalization, process rationalization and the magic of automation. The name of the game? To free up our hardworking clinical staff so that they can practice at the top of their license. Key Points:Do not overlook staff burnoutOne of the things that drives clinicians crazy is prior authorizationIn consolidating the EHR you’re literally reinventing your clinical practices and your financial rev cycle practices simultaneouslyBaptist Health, JacksonvilleRegister now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 13, 2023

The VMware Approach to Simplifying, Securing and Managing your Entire Environment

January 11, 2023: Move fast and be free in a multi-cloud world. How can you harness the power of multi-cloud to accelerate innovation and transform the way you do business? Whether you need help with security, modern apps, cloud or remote work, VMware can help. Raj Rana, Senior Director, Solutions Engineering - National Healthcare shares how to secure your infrastructure with multi-cloud edge to gain greater flexibility and control. And how to leverage your architecture to provide rapid recovery and resiliency. In healthcare today, a blueprint for creating an agile modern healthcare digital foundation without impacting the quality of care, is essential.Key Points:75% of attacks actually occur through lateral propagationAt face value, new operating models appear to be incremental innovation, but really it’s implementing pretty significant changes that still allow you to leverage that technologyPeople won't like you if they don't trust you. And that's a challenge that's very, very difficult to quantifyVMware

January 11, 2023

Keynote: The State of Data, AI and Innovation in Healthcare

January 6, 2023: What is the state of data, AI and innovation in healthcare? Meet our first guest of 2023! John Halamka, MD, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform. At Mayo, they think about the patient first. In five years from now, practice without AI will be considered malpractice. How is AI being integrated into clinician's current workflows? How can we validate AI models across the largest population set and avoid bias? How can data improve interoperability in the US? What can we do now to accelerate the pace of innovation in healthcare across the board?Key Points:If Mayo were a government, it would be a socialist society because all 73,000 staff are asking, how do we make things better for every patient we encounter every single day?Advice for healthcare startups is, ask yourself what real world problem are you solving and who will pay for it?What is CHAI (Coalition for Health AI) and how is it providing guidelines for the responsible use of AI in healthcare?Mayo Clinic PlatformRegister now for our February 2nd webinar: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE! Subscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

January 6, 2023

Keynote: Five Years at This Week Health – In the Weeds with Your Community; A Look Back at Town Hall

December 23, 2023: Mobile health innovation doesn't have to be about reinventing the wheel. It can start with conversations. Today we sit down with our TownHall Hosts to celebrate the inaugural year of our This Week Health Community channel. Join Sue Schade, Principal, StarBridge Advisors, Mark Weisman, CIO & CMIO at TidalHealth, Reid Stephan, Vice President and CIO, St. Lukes, Karla Azola, Director of Information Technology, HealthONE, Linda Yang, CIO Data and Strategic Initiatives, Discover Claims and Lee Milligan, CIO at SimonMed.Key Points:Why are AI, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality so important for the future of healthcare?Hospital at Home is going to take off in the next few yearsHow can we improve valued based care and health equity?Join our next 2 webinars exploring the macro challenges facing healthcare and how technology will play a role in addressing these challenges:Register now for January 5th: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Integrated Delivery Systems. Only available LIVE!Register now for February 2nd: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 23, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: 6 Degrees, Carrus, Health Gorilla, Reverence and Medically Home

December 21, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Aryeh Katz, Chief Technology Officer at 6Degrees Derris Moore, Senior Vice President at CarrusSergio Wagner, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Health GorillaManpreet Dhalla, Founding Partner at Reverence Pippa Shulman, Chief Medical Officer at Medically HomeSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 21, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: NTT Data, MDClone, Lyft Health and Notable

December 20, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Lisa Ash, Senior VP and Chief of Innovation Strategy for NTT DataJosh Rubel, Chief Commercial Officer at MDCloneVivienne Raab, Healthcare Strategy and Operations, Lyft HealthcareSarah Rosen, Head of Product Marketing, NotableSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 20, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: Twilio, Health Catalyst, Verizon and AARP

December 19, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Erik Wagner, Global Lead of Enterprise Healthcare at Twilio Eric Denna, Strategic Account Executive at Health CatalystLea Sims, Marketing Strategy Lead for VerizonDeborah Jordan, Director of Design Thinking at AARPSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 19, 2022

Keynote: Five Years at This Week Health – A Look Back at What New Stories Rocked Health IT

December 16, 2023: Welcome to a special End of Year episode where Bill sits down with our regular Newsday hosts. Drex DeFord from CrowdStrike, Patty Hayward of Talkdesk, Dr Colin Banas of DrFirst and Ryan Witt from Proofpoint. If you could sum up the biggest 2022 healthcare IT news headlines in a couple of words, what would they be? What are CIOs and CEOs doing to tackle these issues? How can we shape tomorrow so that the future of healthcare embraces more technology, more information, more innovation and a different delivery model with the patient as the ultimate consumer?Key Points:Healthcare is ripe for more disruption which is going to be painful for traditional providersIf you spend all of your executive leadership time figuring out how to survive, you don't actually ever figure out how to thriveWe need automation that has a good hard dollar returnJoin our next 2 webinars exploring the macro challenges facing healthcare and how technology will play a role in addressing these challenges:Register now for January 5th: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Integrated Delivery Systems. Only available LIVE!Register now for February 2nd: Priorities for 2023. A CIO Discussion with Academic Medical Centers. Only available LIVE!Subscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week Health

December 16, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: Andor, Ushur, Snowflake and Dexcare

December 15, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Noel Khirsukhani, Chief Growth Officer at Andor HealthYvonne Daugherty, Industry Director, Healthcare at Ushur Todd Crosslin, Global Industry Principal for Healthcare and Life Sciences at SnowFlakeKory Booher, Regional Director of Sales at DexcareSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 15, 2022

How AI Is Transforming The Future Of Healthcare

December 14, 2022: AI is powering change in every industry across the globe. As companies are increasingly data-driven, the demand for AI technology grows. Today we are talking to Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Business Development Lead at NVIDIA about making your enterprise AI ready and unleashing its potential with NVIDIA® AI Enterprise, a flexible, end-to-end platform. NVIDIA® Riva for speech AI, NVIDIA Merlin™ for recommenders, NVIDIA Clara™ for medical imaging and much much more.Key Points:Open-Source healthcare AI innovation continues to expandThe top 5 challenges are applications integration, modern infrastructure, enterprise support, deployment at scale and interoperabilityHow NVIDIA Inception is helping startups to heighten their visibilityNVIDIA AI EnterpriseVMwareSubscribe: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthTwitter: This Week Health

December 14, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: Navitus, Caption Health, Care AI and Smart Meter

December 13, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Bob Zakraisek, Senior Market Vice President, Sales and Gary Hattendorf, Senior Market VP, Sales at Navitus Erik Abel, VP of Clinical Strategy & Innovation at Caption HealthBruce Brandes, President of CareAICasey Pittock, CEO and Bill Bassett, CMO at Smart MeterSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 13, 2022

From the Floor of HLTH ’22: AWS, Sword Health, Onduo and Axuall

December 12, 2022: A special episode today. Interviews with cutting edge innovation leaders direct from the floor of HLTH ‘22:Taha Kass Hout, Vice President Machine Learning and CMIO for AWsNeil Sharma, Executive Vice President at Sword HealthErich Huang, Chief Science & Innovation Officer and Tarun Galagali, Product Marketing & Product Strategy for OnduoCharlie Lougheed, CEo and Co-Founder of AxuallSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week Health

December 12, 2022

Keynote: A Conversation with CHIME Founder John Glaser of Harvard Medical School

December 9, 2022: It started with a doodle on a napkin and has grown into a movement that’s helping to transform healthcare. John Glaser, Executive in Residence at Harvard Medical School is the man who helped found CHIME and envisioned the formal role of CIO. How has CHIME evolved over the years? How does it help CIOs to network, share ideas and support each other? What is the CIO of the Past? The CIO of the Present? The CIO of the Future? How did the CIO role transform from the sole authority on IT to team player? How can CIO's pay it forward to the next generation of leaders?Key Points:Your leadership style is a composite of the styles of people you've interacted withBy being a role model and being authentic you are paying it forward Act with integrity and conviction because people will watch you. Your staff watches you. Harvard Medical SchoolSubscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

December 9, 2022

Engaging Non-Clinical Roles with Your Care Team

December 7, 2022: Clinicians are highly mobilized workers, so they need a simple, secure, and most importantly, contextual method for communicating to provide the highest quality care for their patients. Mobile Heartbeat MH-CURE connects the whole care team through a single, unified platform. How does this help to advance care coordination across the healthcare enterprise? Mike Iwanek, Vice President Professional Services at Mobile Heartbeat joins us to show how easy and simple it can be for the care team to communicate the right information at the right time, with the right level of urgency.Key Points:One of the hardest things for a clinician to do is to connect with another clinicianThe discharge workflow is one of the biggest areas where a communication solution can really helpWhy are voice applications challenging in a hospital setting?Mobile HeartbeatSubscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

December 7, 2022

A Step-by-Step Methodology for Creating a Successful Healthcare Data Governance Framework

Data governance is often one of the most challenging projects that a CIO has to pull off. But it's more important than ever for health systems to approach data governance as an enterprise capability. What does a data governance framework look like for healthcare? How do you identify a data steward within your organization? How can the data be managed, leveraged and protected accordingly? It all comes back to a foundation of trust, which is especially critical in a clinical setting. The seven pillars of data governance provide the framework for a successful data strategy roadmap. Ultimately, if you don't have governance, you don't have modern data.Sign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

December 6, 2022

Keynote: Health IT Conversations with CIOs from CHIME 22’

December 2: A very special episode today. “Interviews with Leaders on the Floor of CHIME 2022”. Andrea Daugherty, CIO at Dell Medical School / University of Texas Austin talks about her role as CIO of the Future. Pete Marks, CIO & VP at WakeMed discusses what is taking the joy away from practicing medicine. Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Tivity Health shares how healthcare leaders can give back to the next generation. And Mark Weisman, CIO & CMIO at Tidal Health discusses what it’s like to juggle both the CIO and CMIO roles.Key Points:What technology has the most potential to impact healthcare? Finding joy is better terminology than clinician burnout It’s being passionately curious about other peopleDell Medical School / University of Texas AustinWakeMedTivity HealthTidal HealthSign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

December 2, 2022

The Promise of Clean, Complete and Uncompromised Data for Driving Healthcare Value

Data professionals would love an easy button to be able to make clean, complete, uncompromised data for driving healthcare value. Is this more fantasy than reality? It’s definitely not an easy task. It's more of a journey of trying to figure out how to make data continuously better. We are blessed with advanced technology but we still have a lot of policy and governance and people work to do. However, we have moved in leaps and bounds with the help of modern day tools, like Machine Learning, that are giving us the ability to move faster, gain more visibility and essentially provide an extra set of hands, which is phenomenal in the field of healthcare.Sign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

December 1, 2022

How Data Fabric and Data Virtualization Eased the Panic of the Pandemic Across Health Systems

When the pandemic struck, many health system data teams hit the panic button very quickly. How in the world were they going to do what was being asked of them? How could they deliver care as quickly as possible? What role did data fabric and data virtualization play in this time of uncertainty? How did they help to simplify and integrate enterprise-wide data management and delivery across a choice of endpoints spanning on-premises and multiple cloud environments? How did they help to provide seamless access across multiple clouds, data centers and even edge systems?Sign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

November 29, 2022

Keynote: Revolutionizing America’s Healthcare System, One Zip Code at a Time

November 25, 2022: As a part of their mission to revolutionize America's healthcare system, Dr Chris Chen, CEO of ChenMed and his brother Gordon Chen wrote the book The Calling: A Memoir of Family, Faith and the Future of Healthcare, to shine a light on how an expensive, uncoordinated, and confusing system works for itself at the expense of suffering patients. The Calling tells the story of how ChenMed, a physician-led, mission-driven company, is transforming care of patients from forgotten and underserved communities by taking a proactive and preventive approach to care.Key Points:Our initial goal wasn't to build a company that was going to change the world, but we realized there was a big problem in healthcare ChenMed works because we focus on prevention rather than sick careHealthcare can be good people being plugged into a bad systemThe Calling: A Memoir of Family, Faith and the Future of HealthcareChenMedSign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

November 25, 2022

The Key to Architecting a High Speed, Highly Effective Modern Data Platform in Healthcare

The application of all the principles and best practices around a modern data platform are so critical today in healthcare. We have to get better at leveraging the data that is available to be able to truly improve care, lower costs and make it a better experience for the patients and clinicians. How can we present the data in a more meaningful and visual way? What can we learn from other industries in order to get this right? How can we embrace the power of the cloud? What are the goal posts for achieving increased flexibility, agility and automation? Sign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

November 23, 2022

How Modern Data Platforms are Enhancing the Healthcare Experience

The future of healthcare is going to require better access to data than it has needed in the past. What is the foundation for a modern data platform? How do you ensure that it’s achieving the Quadruple Aim in healthcare, which is better care, lower cost, better patient experience and better clinician experience? Every project in every health system is going to need data that will map back to one of those elements. Do you have confidence in the quality of the data you use for decision-making? Do your users receive a seamless, relevant and personalized data experience? Is your data stored securely and managed through well defined procedures? Are your analytics applications, data platforms and data pipelines built with agility? How can you continue to optimize provider and payer aligned, cost-effective data services?Sign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

November 22, 2022

Keynote: A Veteran’s Guide to a Successful Career in Health IT

November 18, 2022: Why is cybersecurity still so complex? What is the 1/10/60 minute challenge and how does it help to stop breaches? Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike brings 20 years of military skills to the healthcare cybersecurity table. The attacks are getting faster and faster. The bad guys only have to be right once but we have to be right all the time. What can we do to become even more sophisticated in our cybersecurity best practices? What happens when a long-term hospital CEO retires? How does it affect clinical care? Business operations? What about culture? What can be done to smooth out the transition? Key Points:From a military career to a health careerWalk through the first couple of days in a healthcare jobI can't wait till we get to the point where people don't need passwordsWhy is cybersecurity still so complex?CrowdStrikeSign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

November 18, 2022

Keynote: Stepping up a Successful Healthcare Analytics Program

November 11, 2022: What are the steps to a successful healthcare analytics program? Chris Harper, CIO at The University of Kansas Health System shares his 10 year roadmap. What were some of the original foundational elements he put in place? As we're trying to climb our way out of the pandemic and deal with a recession and inflation, patient care is becoming more complex, more expensive and more out of reach. How can health systems approach these financial and societal challenges? How can the clinical team, the data analytics team and the IT team come together to try and figure out where we need to aim in relation to social determinants of health?Key Points:Coming out of the pandemic and going into a recession, people tend to put off careHow do you measure the overall effectiveness and ROI of a healthcare data analytics program?Analytics used to be the rear view mirror but now we need to be more forward thinkingThe University of Kansas Health SystemSign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

November 11, 2022

Keynote: The Role Of The CIO In Employee Health, Wellness and Experience

November 4, 2022: How can IT leaders ensure that employees have all the technology tools, information and support they need to help their organizations navigate uncertainty and disruption? Chero Goswami, CIO describes his efforts at the University of Wisconsin Health System. Employee health has become a strategic imperative. It doesn't matter if you're a provider or a non-provider, every employee and every health system is stressed. And so the behavioral health of our very own has become an important factor.Key Points:How do we care for our employees? People come to work for a leader, not a bossWhen we think of priorities, it's smart growth. Coming out of the pandemic, where do we focus our energy and resources?When we say workforce shortage, we are misleading ourselves because it makes us believe that staff are coming backUniversity of Wisconsin Health SystemSign up for our webinar: How to Modernize Your Data Platform in Healthcare: The Right Fit for Every Unique Health System - Wednesday December 7 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

November 4, 2022

An Automation Journey: Finding Secure Tools and Best Practices for Health Systems Today

November 2, 2022: The next frontier in cybersecurity is data security. How do you keep your data secure, monitor data risk, and quickly recover your data, wherever it lives? How do you set up security automation? How can you ensure you have the right software defined architecture in place to maximize your team, maximize your assets and protect those assets as you move fast? Why are organizations looking at Rubrik: Zero Trust Data Security to protect and automate their environments and enhance their digital transformation journeys? Joining us to discuss this today is Sarah Richardson, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer and David Giambruno, VP of ITO at Tivity Health and Shane Allen, Platform Solution Architect at Rubrik.Key Points:If you don't automate it, you're just going to have to keep stacking everything The FBI estimates cyber criminals will earn over a billion dollars in ransomHow does a native immutable file system help to expedite the recovery from a ransomware attack?What we all fail at is keeping up with the technology that allows us to be as safe as possible at a given moment.eBook: How Healthcare Organizations Can Develop an Effective Ransomware Remediation PlanTivity HealthRubrik: Zero Trust Data SecuritySign up for our webinar: Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care - Thursday November 3 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

November 2, 2022

Keynote: Implementing Strategy, Leadership and Technology with a Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

October 28, 2022: The Chief Nursing Informatics Officer stands between two worlds. The nursing world and the IT world. And they have to speak both languages. This is why this role plays such an integral part in healthcare. Rosemary Ventura, CNIO at University of Rochester Medical Center shares her strategies, leadership and visions of how she balances the work of her and her team to drive strategic initiatives across the organization. What are the foundational elements for optimal clinician and patient experiences? Key Points:IT is a foundation. No one can do anything without it today. You can't take care of patients without understanding it and leveraging it.There isn't a group of leaders within healthcare that aren’t talking about staffing challenges How do we bring nurses right out of school TODAY and get them to be productive TOMORROW?University of Rochester Medical CenterSign up for our webinar: Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care - Thursday November 3 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

October 28, 2022

The Next Generation Medical Alert and Home Safety Platform for Seniors Aging in Place

October 21, 2022: One in five Americans today are unpaid caregivers. That's 54 million adults caring for somebody over the age of 65 in an unpaid capacity. The aging boomer population or “Silver Tsunami” means that there will be 90 million seniors by 2040. 89% of seniors say they want to live in their homes for as long as possible. We don't have the staffing or medical support supply chains to do that. Carina Edwards, CEO of Quil Health is here today to discuss Quil Assure. The Next Generation Medical Alert and Home Safety platform for seniors aging in place. It’s a “best of both worlds” technology for caregivers and seniors with emergency on-demand and “set it and forget it” approach. Because the more care you can give, the more empathy you can give and the less hovering you can give, is what will really empower our future aging generations. Key Points:Quil Assure is here for THEM and here for YOUQuil Health is in the signals, science, interpretation and insights businessSeniors don't always charge or even wear their wearables. So they can't be the first line of defense.‘Set it and forget it’ because once it's up and running, it just continuously learns patterns23% of caregivers neglect self-care so they're becoming sicker too“Mom’s Guide to Freedom - Quil” videoQuil AssureSign up for our webinar: Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care - Thursday November 3 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

October 21, 2022

Smart Homes for Elderly Care: The Advancement of Aging-in-Place Technology

October 19, 2022: How can a senior’s life be improved? How can their caregiver’s life be made easier? Dwight Raum, Chief Digital Officer shares how Quil Assure‘s connected home system, with the use of AI and ML, learns patterns and keeps caregivers alert when things are off. This means better outcomes at a lower cost. And the best thing? It doesn’t feel evasive. Imagine a 24/7 emergency support technology that just melts into the background but can potentially save your life. Key Points:Smart Sensing takes Quil to a whole new level. Quil discreetly monitors daily routines and notifies your Care Circle when things look out of the ordinary. With our 24/7 Emergency Support, you choose who to notify, and even whether you want to use Emergency Dispatch.It's a great tool to help somebody who may be on the edge of needing senior living to stay in their home a little longer than they would've otherwiseAlerts include changes in routine, sleep insights and predictions, home and away insights, medical reminders, caregiving coordination and moreQuil Health AssureSign up for our webinar: Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care - Thursday November 3 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Subscribe: https://www.thisweekhealth.com/subscribe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisweekhealthLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ThisWeekHealth

October 19, 2022

How Does a Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Optimize Care for Patients, Providers and Staff?

October 13, 2022: UCSF Medical Center is at the forefront of digital transformation in healthcare. What tools should you have in place to make digital transformation possible? What are the foundational elements? Kay Burke, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer reveals what a nursing background can bring into this role of innovation. How can we make our many fragmented workflows more integrated or automated? What are the specific challenges that UCSF is addressing? How is UCSF thinking about technology and data in support of care?Key Points:Nurse informaticists are nurses who advance technology through the adoption of standardized tools and methods, really creating value for the clinician's utilization of information systemsWhat does a room personalization project entail?It’s not just change management. There's also the incremental innovation that goes on in the day to day.UCSF Medical Center

October 14, 2022

Modern Digital Infrastructure: What do ISVs and Partners Bring to the Healthcare Ecosystem?

Today we are talking about ISVs and Partners bringing all of the ecosystem together. What do partners bring to the healthcare ecosystem? What tools and knowledge can they impart on healthcare CIOs? How do they touch the areas that the healthcare system doesn’t see? How does VMware approach enabling the modernization of this stack? One of the key components of growth is to start engaging other external resources to validate the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in your business to provide real world experience. Sign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

October 11, 2022

What Digital Strategy is Transforming the Delivery of Care & Patient Experience?

October 7, 2022: Healthcare is an extremely emotional business, whether you’re on the providing side or you're on the receiving end. Kathy Azeez-Narain, Vice President and CDO discusses Hoag’s digital strategy which has transformed and innovated the delivery of both the highest quality care and exceptional patient experiences. How did her experience at AMEX translate to the healthcare world? What are the main focuses of a Chief Digital Officer in healthcare? What are the best tools, processes and methods for building out an intentional health experience?Key Points:If we want to move into a digital era, what does the technology look like?How did you determine the problems that Hoag could solve for Orange County?One huge problem is that healthcare feels transactionalHow will AI play into the future of healthcare?HoagSign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. When the pandemic hit, we suddenly had to decentralize the way we were doing healthcare. But the foundation wasn't there. We are now in a world where care delivery is primarily through digital means. How do we create and maintain a modern healthcare digital foundation with people and processes at the core?

October 7, 2022

Modern Digital Infrastructure: What’s Happening to Drive Multiple Clouds for Health Systems?

We used to talk about the fact that healthcare was reticent to move to the cloud because of security and compliance and any other number of reasons. What has changed to drive this increased level of adoption of the cloud? Aging legacy infrastructure and existing data centers led to very high costs. Remote working locations are also a threat. The pressure to be able to share data as a result of the pandemic, while at risk of potential fines, has accelerated that as well. Along with ‘The Great Resignation’ and different adaptations within the cloud infrastructure, we're seeing challenges around being able to hire the correct professionals to keep the environment to the level that you are accustomed to, but also being able to have the ability to manage all these different platforms to go where you’d really like them to go. Why multi-cloud? What’s happening to drive multiple clouds for health systems? How can we ensure that there’s going to be a certain level of continuity? How can the infrastructure be modernized? Where do the old applications fit in with machine learning and AI and data services? How can all of this be managed and operated efficiently? What about automation?Sign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

October 6, 2022

Modern Digital Infrastructure: Accelerating Efficiency of End User Computing for Frontline Staff

There are huge new developments in end user computing. How has our approach changed over the last five years? The pandemic uncovered a need for flexibility. We simply cannot have suboptimal experiences. How can we reduce the operational complexity? How do we break down our security needs? What happened when we sent clinicians to their home early on in the pandemic? What did that look like? How were we able to create a remote experience that mirrored in-person? What tools and systems were put in place for accessing the EHR? How did we ensure a good experience when they moved to essentially a new location of care? How does VMware differentiate in this updated environment? The evolution of healthcare is tied to the level of care. If a separate environment is really what's optimal for the patient, then we have to find a way to support that. It’s what you call a surround strategy. There are displacement strategies but what's more important to VMware is, instead of just burning your business, they make sure that they’re enhancing that experience and that outcome.Sign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

October 4, 2022

Pursuing the Digital Journey: Creating a Rich, More Convenient Healthcare Experience for Patients

September 30, 2022: How does a leader with impressive AMEX and Disney experience run a healthcare system? Tony Ambrozie, Senior VP and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health Florida is advancing the healthcare experience, one revolutionary step at a time. We are looking to create ‘experiences’ but where do you start? What would benefit the community? What would benefit the clinicians? What is the best technology out there for our patients, our consumers? What are the best tools, processes and methods for building out an intentional health experience?Key Points:The US healthcare system has enormous dysfunctionalitiesWe need to focus and make it simpler and more fluid, more convenient for usersWhat does transformation look like in a financial services company?The data that comes out of the digital exhaust can inform us on what is working and what isn't workingBaptist Health FloridaSign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. When the pandemic hit, we suddenly had to decentralize the way we were doing healthcare. But the foundation wasn't there. We are now in a world where care delivery is primarily through digital means. How do we create and maintain a modern healthcare digital foundation with people and processes at the core?

September 30, 2022

Modern Digital Infrastructure: How can Modern Applications Impact Your System and Provide Agility?

Healthcare is starting to get its act together in regards to healthcare applications. We see more and more health systems trying to develop that muscle of application development. Why is this happening? What is driving this change? In the past, everybody remembers the ‘going to be down for maintenance’ notification, right? Well now we have more modular versions, where you're able to take out and update different portions. This means that now, more than ever, the digital front door could not be more important. After the pandemic, health systems needed to rewrite their digital front door and in the process of doing that, they recognized that they needed to supply the framework. And then as partners came in and worked within the framework, because they set up that digital front door, they were able to work with additional applications as they moved forward, because the architecture was correct. Not only to stay relevant but to provide a version of value based care that’s evolving to where the application itself is more suited to the patient base. Architecture that provides not only agility but also a layer of security, in terms of the framework.Sign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

September 29, 2022

Evolving Care Spaces with Clinical Device Management: What is the CIO Responsible For?

September 28, 2022: Managing medical devices within a hospital can be extremely challenging. Expand to care at home and you’ve got an even bigger problem. Health systems can have more than 20,000 medical devices on a network. And with a 12-15 year useful life, it’s not uncommon to have to think about managing security over a very long period of time. What are the frontline solutions to address the sheer magnitude of this issue? Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO at Cook Children's and Greg Murphy, CEO of Ordr share their expertise, experience and knowledge of medical device security. How do you keep up with updates? How do you ensure devices are running at the correct level or even just in good functioning order? When is it time to upgrade? What makes one solution stand out from the rest?Key Points:One of the challenges is just downright finding these devices. There's so many of them.Tools are able to identify these devices a lot easier so that we can help our clinical staff to be more efficientDownload the whitepaper: Optimizing Medical Device Management And Security For Clinical TechniciansOrdrCook Children’s Health Care SystemSirius (A CDW Company)

September 28, 2022

Sirius Healthcare: Innovating Healthcare Technologies in the Lab

Imagine a future where smart hospital platforms facilitate treatment regardless of patient and clinician location, where patients reap the healing benefits of patient distraction devices, and clinicians are freed up from administrative tasks to focus on the patient while automation of those tasks provides more real-time, actionable data. Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company) joins Bill Russell to discuss Sirius’s Healthcare Technology Innovation Labs. A place where partners and technologies can come together to innovate, test, and build out new technologies to advance healthcare. What solutions are they focusing on in the labs today? What are health systems excited about in the areas of computer vision, command and control, touchless sensors and ambient listening? What is the role of a care companion and why is this interesting in this whole idea of Patient Room ‘Next’? https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/This is episode 5 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health and Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain.Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 27, 2022

Modern Digital Infrastructure: What is the Digital Foundation for your Health System?

When the pandemic hit, all of a sudden we had to decentralize the way we were doing healthcare, but the foundation wasn't there. The nature of work changed dramatically. We are now in a world where delivery of care is primarily through digital means. How do we create and maintain a modern healthcare digital foundation with people and processes at the core? Just as the mandate has evolved over time from the basic Hippocratic Oath to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, so too has the interaction that evolves around that foundation. The foundation has got to be able to support the core. How do you manage these systems? How do you keep them updated? How do you reduce the complexity of connectivity? How do you find the vulnerabilities? How do you create multi-tenancy access, so that doctors and nurses can perform different functions? The way VMware looks at modern healthcare is to ensure that you are evolving to support the people in the processes. The benefits of health systems partnering to enable a modern digital foundation is monumental.Sign up for our webinar: Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

September 27, 2022

What are the Top Priorities in Integrating Two Health Systems Together Effectively? – Jason Joseph

September 23, 2022: How do you integrate two health systems together? BHSH System is the merger of Beaumont and Spectrum. Jason Joseph, Chief Digital and Information Officer is helping create a new health system, For Michigan,‎ By Michigan. What are the top priorities? How do you integrate the EHR? What is your consumer facing strategy? What are your clinician enablement and efficiency platforms going to look like? How do you even begin to think about processes, governance and security? What about staffing? What about culture and remote working policies?Key Points:A lot of times when mergers happen, it slows a bunch of work downConnectivity isn’t usually that hard. The variability in all of it is what you have to plan for.What are we doing in the area of clinical documentation with regard to technology?BHSH SystemSign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.Sign up for our webinar: “Delivering Better Patient Experience with Modern Digital Infrastructure” - Thursday October 13 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT.

September 23, 2022

Monument Health: An Ambient Clinical Intelligence Solution to Documentation

How can we enhance quality of care and the patient experience, increase provider efficiency and satisfaction, reduce administrative burdens and improve financial outcomes? Dragon Ambient eXperience (Nuance DAX), is an ambient clinical intelligence solution that automatically documents patient encounters accurately and efficiently at the point of care. Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health joins Bill Russell to discuss this revolutionary product. 7 mins saved per care delivery encounter. Reducing documentation time by 50%. 70% reduction in feelings of burnout and fatigue. 79% improved documentation quality. 83% of patients say their physician is more personable and conversational.https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/https://www.nuance.com/healthcare/ambient-clinical-intelligence.htmlThis is episode 4 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain and Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company). Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 22, 2022

Preventing Digital Healthcare Fraud with Cybersecurity Solutions While Growing Patient Access

September 21, 2022: Now more than ever, healthcare organizations must give patients easier access to their health data and focus on reducing friction. The challenge comes with balancing the need for improved user experience with the importance of adopting appropriate security measures to guard sensitive data. During this solution showcase with Lane Williams, Director Solutions Engineering at F5 and Jason LaValle, Senior Solutions Architect at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW Company) we cover:• Attack evolution – Discover how attackers evolve their online schemes to take advantage of inherent vulnerabilities on web and mobile applications.• Countermeasure efficacy – Address the whole spectrum of automated application attacks and digital fraud abuse by abandoning traditional point solutions.• Identity and access management – Understand how healthcare organizations can protect PHI and their brand without compromising user experience or patient access to personal information.What kind of attacks are coming for healthcare? What are the inherent vulnerabilities that they're going after? Are we seeing a difference between web attacks and mobile attacks? Are there different types of attacks for different types of devices? How do you create a framework that addresses all of the different attacks? Having dual factor is critical but no longer good enough. You also need protection on the edge. What opportunities do we have to identify fraud within our medical devices? Is there an architecture we should consider to have in place?Key Points:A web application firewall product is very important because you can see exactly what the user is doingAttackers are increasing their sophistication by writing AI programs to basically duplicate the effectsZero trust is not a one stop thing. It's more of a journey.IOMT - Internet of Medical ThingsWHITEPAPER: How to Protect Patient Data and Claims Payment Integrity in HealthcareF5Sirius Healthcare (A CDW Company)

September 21, 2022

Monument Health: How Automation and AI Can Support Your Physicians More Effectively

How is Intermountain Healthcare thinking about Patient Room ‘Next’? How can automation and AI help you support your physicians more effectively? Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health joins Bill Russell to discuss. Neteera’s Digital Nursing Assistant streamlines clinical workflows to drive adoption and impact care. The technology enables nurses to address other important issues and reallocates their time therefore decreasing burnout and increasing retention. Artisight is an IoT sensor network that not only uses AI to analyze data, it uniquely uses AI to generate new and previously inaccessible data sets to vastly improve organizational operations and financial performance. https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/https://neteera.com/use-cases/https://www.artisight.comThis is episode 3 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain and Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company). Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 20, 2022

The Changing Face of Education in the Immersive World of the Metaverse

September 16, 2022: Crazy today. Obvious tomorrow. That’s the perfect way to sum up technology. Victory XR just announced its partnership with Meta. Steve Grubbs, CEO, of Victory XR shares their goal of bringing a more immersive way for students to learn through virtual and augmented reality. 'Metaversities’. Educators are given training and 3D objects to teach a variety of subjects to their students. The best part? Students’ grades go up. Student focus goes up. Student enjoyment goes up. What is the promise around this virtual education? Why have we now reached a tipping point in this type of technology? What does the experience look like for a teacher? What does it look like for a student? Will the metaverse change healthcare?Key Points:The jump from the internet to the metaverse will be similar to the jump from radio to televisionIn the metaverse, healthcare students can train on the hospital equipment over and over and over again whereas in the real world access would be limited.We are trying to get the whole education and workplace training universe to think about the Fortnite generation who are now entering higher educationVictory XRSign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Traditional patient rooms involve sitting on the table, waiting, tentative knocks on the door. We’re redefining the way we look at patient rooms. We’re reimagining the future. Hear about technological tools that have been explored and implemented for clinician effectiveness, how to step into the Patient Room ‘Next’ future, and the progress in our Nation’s health systems regarding PRN. Bring your hospital system into tomorrow with sound advancements and peace of mind. We’re looking to advance healthcare, and we know you are too.

September 16, 2022

Intermountain Healthcare’s Journey Into the Future of Predictive Analytics, Touchless Tools, and AI

How is Intermountain Healthcare thinking about Patient Room ‘Next’? What might we see in the next couple years if we are walking into one of their patient rooms? Billy Prows, VP Shared/Affiliated Services at Intermountain Healthcare joins Bill Russell to discuss how their smart hospital platforms allow clinicians to focus on patient care and leaders to focus on productivity. How will Intermountain step into this future of predictive analytics, touchless sensors and artificial and augmented intelligence? The goal is to become as adaptable and agile as possible, especially as healthcare becomes increasingly consumer-focused. https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/This is episode 2 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health and Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company). Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 15, 2022

How a Project Manager can Help Lock Down Your Healthcare Environment & Build Cyber Security Defense

September 14, 2022: With so many enterprise solutions on the market, how do you even begin to pull the teams together to drive a robust world class solution to lock down your healthcare environment? That’s where hiring a Project Management company comes in. Jeremy Ognall, Founder of Gordian sits down for a fireside chat today with Bill to discuss delivering complex security projects to protect your health system. Whether it’s crisis management, agile project management or putting together teams to solve complex problems, Gordian knows how to protect your health system’s assets. During this episode we ponder: How do you integrate into a team and really understand how they operate as a system? What makes a successful project?Key Points:There's a lot of people who have the project management designation and qualifications, but aren't necessarily adept to running an enterprise level projectWe integrate the various vendors, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Tanium, Proofpoint and Microsoft into our healthcare client’s systemsGetting people to buy into the vision and work together collaboratively on a daily basis is criticalHow does a rugby coaching career apply to the security paradigm?Website: GordianView PDF: How Rugby Helps Build Wins in Cybersecurity

September 14, 2022

Sirius Healthcare’s Patient Room ‘Next’: A Look Inside the Next Iteration of Healthcare Technologies

The future of patient care spaces is bright with potential technology solutions to improve patient care—from life-saving treatment based on predictive analytics to patient distraction devices. When the pandemic hit, rapid adoption of tools and technologies became necessary to continue treating patients and to survive. What is Patient Room ‘Next’ and how is it evolving the space in which patients receive care now and into the future? Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company) joins Bill Russell to discuss the core technologies and capabilities that make up PRN. https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/This is episode 1 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health and Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain. Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 13, 2022

The EHR Market – Misconceptions and the Path Forward

September 9, 2022: Healthcare is looking for a robust, integrated, person-centered record that can operate across multiple care delivery environments and bring efficiency and less friction across the patient and consumer health experience. MEDITECH Expanse rated 82.9 in the latest KLAS report on EHRs. The EHR has always been the system of record. Where does it go from here? What is the future? Helen Waters, Executive VP and COO for MEDITECH joins us today. Where is the market taking MEDITECH? What is their approach to usability and preventing burnout? What about interoperability? Can MEDITECH offer sustainability amongst the rising cost burdens on healthcare organizations? What is their approach to patient-centered care? How will MEDITECH continue to challenge the market moving forward?Key Points:It took a lot of courage to hit a pause button while meaningful use was goingon to develop ExpanseThe evolution of value based care will continue to place demands on electronic health records that MEDITECH is very prepared to meetOur goal is always to make technology affordable and scalableMEDITECH WEBSITEMEDITECH BLOGMEDITECH PODCASTSign up for our webinar: Patient Room 'Next': Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Traditional patient rooms involve sitting on the table, waiting, tentative knocks on the door. We’re redefining the way we look at patient rooms. We’re reimagining the future. Hear about technological tools that have been explored and implemented for clinician effectiveness, how to step into the Patient Room ‘Next’ future, and the progress in our Nation’s health systems regarding PRN. Bring your hospital system into tomorrow with sound advancements and peace of mind. We’re looking to advance healthcare, and we know you are too.

September 9, 2022

Taking EDR & MDR to the Next Level in This Hot Health IT Discussion

September 7, 2022: Healthcare is being slammed by cybersecurity challenges. What does the anatomy of a security breach look like? It is vital to be able to detect malicious behavior and understand what's normal and what's not normal. What strategies and solutions can be deployed to mitigate the threats? Today Todd Felker, Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike and James Case, VP and CISO at Baptist Health talk about EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response) and IR (Incident Response). How are these tools addressing some of the challenges? What are the main “portals” for exfiltration? How does a “people-centric” approach protect organizations? What is the 1 10 60 framework?Key Points:It's not IF but WHEN because they are going to get in at some pointSpeed is everythingSome cyber insurance companies won't write you a policy unless you have EDR now. It's gotten that crazy.We have to evolve like the adversary does. We have to get faster.Our guarantee with our managed detection and response is that we will identify, detect and remediate within 60 minutesCrowdStrikeBaptist Health

September 7, 2022

Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare: Securing OT Assets

What is Operational Technology? OT are the systems that keep hospitals running. Like Medical devices, these critical infrastructure items have unique characteristics that make securing them difficult. So, what are the common OT devices found in a hospital and what should we do about them? What is OT Security? Practices and technologies used to (a) protect people, assets, and information, (b) monitor and/or control physical devices, processes and events, and (c) initiate state changes to enterprise OT systems. Talk to Medigate about their OT security solutions to help keep you operating https://www.medigate.io/demoThis is episode 5 of 5 in our series “Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare”. Other topics we cover include Visibility for Zero Trust, Mergers and Acquisitions, Holistic Assessments, and Improved Device Effectiveness. Thanks for listening! Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 6, 2022

How will a New CIO Prioritize and Compete in a World of Healthcare Consumerism and Staff Shortage?

September 2, 2022: What do the first 100 days look like in a CIO role? What if you have really big boots to fill? Craig Kwiatkowski, Senior VP and CIO at Cedars-Sinai is carrying the torch to ensure that Cedars-Sinai’s unwavering focus on providing quality, safe, equitable and high value patient care stays on track. How does a pharmacist background help you in a CIO role? How do you navigate the healthcare delivery system so that it functions smoothly between the physician, the nurse and the patient? How do you ensure precision, accuracy, logic and safety? What is Cedars-Sinai doing to make the clinician's life easier, more productive and more satisfying? How are they approaching consumers of healthcare in their market? What are they doing to transform that experience? Key Points:Pharmacists are good at closing care gaps, developing plans, patient advocacy and navigating the healthcare delivery systemIt’s the little things that accumulate that we need to pay attention to, sometimes more so than some big grand reveal.If anyone can disrupt healthcare, Amazon can. They're willing and maybe more importantly, they can afford to try and fail.Cedars-SinaiSign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy. Sign up for our webinar: Patient Room Next: Improving Care Efficiency - Thursday September 29, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. Traditional patient rooms involve sitting on the table, waiting, tentative knocks on the door. We’re redefining the way we look at patient rooms. We’re reimagining the future. Hear about technological tools that have been explored and implemented for clinician effectiveness, how to step into the “Patient Room Next” future, and the progress in our Nation’s health systems regarding PRN. Bring your hospital system into tomorrow with sound advancements and peace of mind. We’re looking to advance healthcare, and we know you are too.

September 2, 2022

Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare: Improved Device Effectiveness

Every hospital has thousands of devices that cost thousands of dollars each, yet most of them are idle around 52% of the time. On top of all that, the nursing units are always asking for more! Having an up-to-date inventory, tracking utilization, and monitoring physical location can significantly improve effectiveness and will return millions of dollars back to the operational budget. To learn more about Clinical Device Efficiency, visit https://www.medigate.io/cdeThis is episode 4 of 5 on our series “Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare”. Other topics we cover include Visibility for Zero Trust, Mergers and Acquisitions, Holistic Assessments, and Securing OT Assets. Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

September 1, 2022

Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare: Holistic Assessments

What kind of problems arise as a result of starting on a security strategy without doing holistic assessments? We're all trying to improve cybersecurity across healthcare. It’s a never ending job, unfortunately, but knowing where you’re at across different mile markers or points in time, can really help guide you. How do you acquire the data that will allow you to evaluate and refresh your strategy as needed? What processes are in place? How do you bring new devices onto your network? How do you apply or enforce security policy? What processes can you vet or challenge? What technology do you have? Are you missing some key components or are there components that are not talking to each other? From a holistic standpoint, using an external third party can really help to find the gaps. That’s where Medigate comes in. They can help you to identify and quantify all of the threats and then manage those threats within and adapt your existing management structure. https://www.medigate.io/servicesThis is episode 3 of 5 on our series “Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare”. Other topics we cover include Visibility for Zero Trust, Mergers and Acquisitions, Improved Device Effectiveness, and Securing OT Assets. Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

August 30, 2022

Behind the News: Scott Becker and Bill Russell in a Room. What will these Health IT Reporters Discuss?

August 26, 2022: Two healthcare journalists go head to head! Scott Becker, Publisher of Beckers and our very own Bill Russell. What is their take on Amazon’s Purchase of OneMedical? What is the tech giant trying to do? The number one aim of smart business is to double down on your strengths and close off your weaknesses. But does this ruthless strategy hurt healthcare? Does the American public care about data privacy? What are their thoughts on big tech having access to their medical data? Teledoc announced 1.3 billion in losses. Is this the future of telehealth? And why did Ohio Health outsource their entire IT team to Accenture?Key Points:Healthcare is 20 plus percent of the economyPeople only care about data privacy when embarrassing stuff comes out about themThere is still very much the VC view of we don't want to do something unless it's gonna be a huge game changerWe are in a very challenging time economically for health systemsBeckersSign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy.

August 26, 2022

Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare: Mergers and Acquisitions

One of the hardest things to achieve in business is a Merger and Acquisition. Even with a successful M and A, there’s always challenges. There's always stress. And so many questions that must be asked. What technology standards do they operate with? What devices do they have in their environment? What best practices do they adhere to? I think everybody in the world assumes that the CIO knows all this and can identify all the devices and knows what patch version and what risk level etc. But that is not always the case. Connected devices bring complicated risks, so Medigate created a single platform to orchestrate and integrate HDO security throughout your environment, so you can connect with confidence. https://www.medigate.io/demoThis is episode 2 of 5 on our series “Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare”. Other topics we cover include Visibility for Zero Trust, Holistic Assessments, Improved Device Effectiveness, and Securing OT Assets. Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

August 25, 2022

Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare: Visibility for Zero Trust

Visibility is the foundation for zero trust. The reality is that threats in healthcare are getting much more complex. There’s a much broader attack surface. It’s extremely hard to know where all of our devices are. It was hard to know where they were before, which brings us to the question, is zero trust even achievable in healthcare? What does visibility look like and what does it mean? If you don't know what devices are out there or if you're not certain that they’re connecting to your network then it's really hard to apply any security techniques against those devices. Medigate created a single platform to help with visibility and understanding of what devices are there and what’s connecting to the network, so you can connect with confidence. https://www.medigate.io/This is episode 1 of 5 on our series “Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare”. Other topics we cover include Mergers and Acquisitions, Holistic Assessments, Improved Device Effectiveness, and Securing OT Assets. Stay tuned for more. Sign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT

August 23, 2022

Elevating the Human Experience: From Public Health to Innovation at Atrium Health

August 19, 2022: What was it like in the early stages of the pandemic through the eyes of a Secretary of Family and Social Services? Jen Sullivan who is now the Senior Vice President Strategic Operations at Atrium Health shares her thrilling and beautifully put story about handling the crisis, the vaccine rollout and other logistics at the state level through her fascinating lens. During the episode we ponder: What is the current status of the data infrastructure between states and health systems? How can we build behavioral health in an integrated way? How do we build novel delivery systems of care that go to people rather than our historic way where people have to come to us? What kind of magic happens when you combine an innovation hub and medical school all in one space? How can we best train our next generation of physicians? Are we seeing more virtual technology being used? How is that augmenting the training experience? Key Points:When people looking at a health system, they're really looking for a partner in healthOne of my favorite evolutions of public health is precision public healthHow do you hire the right people and create an environment in which they can practice empathy?Atrium HealthSign up for our webinar: Challenges and Solutions to Unmanaged Devices in Healthcare - Thursday September 8, 2022: 1pm ET / 10am PT. If we had to troubleshoot just a few devices every once in a while, our hospital systems would run as smooth as butter, right? But when missing devices, security issues and friction caused by interoperability hits, we can’t expect a smooth operation. Our webinar will answer many questions surrounding the devices integral to keeping patients healthy.

August 19, 2022

Supporting Global Work When War Breaks Out, Visiquate Data Science in the Ukraine

August 12, 2022: The Ukraine boasts a very educated and committed workforce. US companies have been working closely with teams over there for many years, diversifying their portfolio and bettering their fields. What do you do when war breaks out? How do you continue to support and work with that team? Brian Robertson, CEO of VisiQuate, explains how working with his team of data scientists has changed over the last couple of months. What contingency plans should you have in place? How can you help support their safety and how can you support them 100% remotely? What gets lost in translation? This episode is a one-stop shop for those wanting to hear about working with teams all over the world, remote work and culture, telemedicine, and the magic of Ukraine.Key Points:Coding culture in the Ukraine started rapidly growing in the early 2000’sHow do you get into a career of healthcare analytics?Visiquate - donate to the UkraineVisiQuateWebinar: Don’t Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PTIs your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. Register here

August 12, 2022

A Highlight Reel of Some of the Greatest TownHall Moments in 2022

August 5, 2022: Today is a special highlight reel episode featuring Townhall’s different hosts, guests and topics that really illustrate what this channel is all about: Community. We’ve clipped together some of our favorite moments from the past 6 months.Lee Milligan, CIO for Asante and Mark Stockwell, Director of ITS Enterprise Services at Asante - Framework, Discovery, and Launch of a Successful Data Governance ProgramReid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes and Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Atrium Health - Empathy Married with Curiosity are the Two Foundational Principles of Great InnovationJake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care and Matthew Sakumoto, Virtualist & Clinical Informatics Physician Champion at Sutter Health - Virtual Primary Care Creates Hybrid Care Coordination For PatientsBrett Oliver, Family physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health and Andy Truscott, Global Health Technology Lead for Accenture - A Physician And A Technologist Ask How To Make Health IT Projects Less Burdensome For CliniciansLee Milligan, CIO for Asante and Allison Graffis, Manager of Clinical Informatics Training at Asante - A One Hour Call Results In 104 Hours A Year Saved For One ClinicianJake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care and Peter Hong, Clinical Informatics Fellow and Pediatric Hospitalist fellow at Boston Children's - How Can Health Systems And Centers Carry App Maintenance?Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health and Aaron Miri, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Baptist Health Jacksonville - How Has COVID And The Use Of Telehealth Affected The Relationship Between Health IT And Clinicians?Reid Stephan, VP and CIO at St. Lukes and Carrie Liken, Head of Industry for Healthcare at Yext - Data Interoperability Will Be Important In 2022, How Can Organizations Prepare?

August 5, 2022

Prevent Email Attacks and Gain Visibility into Threats Targeting Your Healthcare Organization

August 3, 2022: It's hard to imagine a more complex and dense information ecosystem than that in healthcare. Petabytes of data flying around hybrid networks, a growing reliance on the cloud, a strict but often vague regulatory situation, a very active M&A environment and a severe shortage of skilled and experienced workers. Ryan Witt of Proofpoint and Chase Franzen of Sharp HealthCare are here to help you protect your system. What are the key threats to patient data today? What are the main vulnerabilities? How can you prevent email attacks? What are the main “portals” for exfiltration? How do you safeguard these portals? What are the best solutions in the market to help mitigate these threats?Key Points:Healthcare is a virtual treasure trove. It attracts the full gamut of attackers.What are the key threats?Are cyber attacks getting more sophisticated?You've got to have a defense and death strategyProofpointSharp HealthCareWebinar: How’s Your Front Line? Recruit, Retain and Optimize Your Cybersecurity Team - Thu Aug 11 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT“Cybersecurity-what’s your emergency?”“We need help. It’s an attack.”“Hello? Hello!”What can we do about the staffing shortage in cybersecurity? With research suggesting that nearly a third of the cybersecurity workforce is planning to leave the industry in the near future, organizations are left in a worrisome position, especially as attack surfaces are growing. So, where do we move forward from here knowing that we are facing low numbers in the field already and it’s likely to get even worse? Register hereWebinar: Don’t Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PTIs your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. Register here

August 3, 2022

Behind the Scenes of Digital Health: How Leadership and Introspection Create Innovation

July 29, 2022: Ashish Atreja, CIO and Chief Digital Health Officer oversees UC Davis Health’s expansion of its digital relationships with patients and other hospitals, bridging the gap between IT, academia, research, and innovation as “Digital Davis” becomes a global hub for digital health. Prior to UC, he was at Mount Sinai where he established one of the first innovation hubs within an academic medical center to build and test disruptive digital health technologies. It’s all part of his plan to transform the industry. Is Ashish the Elon Musk of the healthcare world?Key Points:You want more touchpoints? I want more touchpoints.We prescribed a remote bluetooth monitoring app for heart failure patients that showed 40% of emission reductionWhat do we need to do to move the needle? At the end of the day, it’s behavioral change.We have made healthcare boring. We study so much in medical school but we don’t study communication and behavioral science UC Davis HealthWebinar: How’s Your Front Line? Recruit, Retain and Optimize Your Cybersecurity Team - Thu Aug 11 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT“Cybersecurity-what’s your emergency?”“We need help. It’s an attack.”“Hello? Hello!”What can we do about the staffing shortage in cybersecurity? With research suggesting that nearly a third of the cybersecurity workforce is planning to leave the industry in the near future, organizations are left in a worrisome position, especially as attack surfaces are growing. So, where do we move forward from here knowing that we are facing low numbers in the field already and it’s likely to get even worse? Register hereWebinar: Don’t Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PTIs your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. Register here

July 29, 2022

How Can Data Governance Address the Stress in Health IT: Alert Fatigue, Burnout, and Staff Shortage

July 22, 2022: Today we talk to Dr. Anna Dover, Director, Product Management at First Databank (FDB). We hit on staff shortages, clinician burnout, drug databases, alert fatigue, and governance. What does it take to create and deliver the world’s most trusted drug databases? What can we do to reduce physician and nurse stress? What challenges do pharmacists face in both retail and health system settings? How do we address the overabundance of drug-related clinical decision support alerts? How is healthcare technology resolving some of the drug-related over-alerting and how are the tools available today different from those in the past? What are some other ways that these drug-related CDS tools can help clinicians and improve patient care? What does the future hold in this area?Key Points:The one line item on everybody's P and L right now, which is just absolutely killing them, is the contract labor lineThe hard part with alerts is if you fire them off too many times, they become white noiseUnfortunately the workflow of care for a patient can be freneticThe biggest players in healthcare analytics tend to be the EHR software vendorsFirst DatabankWebinar: How’s Your Front Line? Recruit, Retain and Optimize Your Cybersecurity Team - Thu Aug 11 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT“Cybersecurity-what’s your emergency?”“We need help. It’s an attack.”“Hello? Hello!”What can we do about the staffing shortage in cybersecurity? With research suggesting that nearly a third of the cybersecurity workforce is planning to leave the industry in the near future, organizations are left in a worrisome position, especially as attack surfaces are growing. So, where do we move forward from here knowing that we are facing low numbers in the field already and it’s likely to get even worse? Register hereWebinar: Don’t Pay The Ransom - Thu Aug 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PTIs your health system paying out for attacks on your data? How can we stop the cycle? Rubrik is offering incredible insight into the arising issues in cyber resilience in ransomware attacks, cloud data management with securing Epic in Azure, and unstructured data. In this webinar, we analyze the best practices to initiate in our hospital systems. Register here

July 22, 2022

Director Rich Birhanzel: On the Application of Metaverse in Healthcare

July 15, 2022: Rich Birhanzel, Global Health Lead at Accenture. The Accenture Technology Vision 2022 is hot off the presses. It reveals that the “Metaverse Continuum”— a spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds, realities and business models—is redefining how the world works, operates and interacts. We see businesses racing toward a future that is very different from the one in which they were designed to operate, while technologies, such as extended reality, blockchain and edge computing, are converging to reshape human experiences. So how do we make the leap and take the lead in the metaverse? Key Points:We are now starting to see some experimentation and early use cases around MetaverseSomething we've been after in healthcare for a long time, is the ability of the individual to own his or her dataIt’s really important to have a data architecture across the enterprise that defines who people areInternet of Ownership is such an interesting and important concept We have a clinical capacity issue globallyMetaverse continuum set to redefine how the world operates - AccentureAccenture

July 15, 2022

Halfway Through 2022: A Curated Playlist of Our Top Hits These Past 6 Months: Part 2

July 8, 2022: A special episode of Keynote this week combines different guests and topics that really illustrate what this channel is all about and what conversations we’ve been able to have the past 6 months. We’ve clipped together some conversations that hit hard, shared innovation, and pursued different outlooks on healthcare and health IT. In Part 2 of our curated playlist, we feature the following guests and topics:1. Phoebe Yang, General Manager at AWS, Healthcare - AWS's Phoebe Yang Explains How Technology Can Address Disparities in Access to Healthcare2. Daniel Barchi, CIO at New York-Presbyterian - How Can Vendor Partners Successfully Approach CIOs?3. Aaron Miri, CIO, Baptist Memorial Jacksonville - Creating a Culture that Fosters Collaboration, Innovation, and Problem Solving in Health IT4. Nadine Hachach-Haram, Founder and CEO at Proximie - Healthcare Needs to Replace Brick and Mortar with Patient-Centered Care5. Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney - Does the Business Model in Healthcare Drive the Need for Interoperability?6. Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) - Micky Tripathi Explains What TEFCA Means For Healthcare: Accurate And Accessible Data7. David Feinberg, President & CEO of Cerner - The Power of 'Dr. Google' and How it has Become Better Access to Information8. Stephen Klasko, Former President at Jefferson Health / Executive In Residence at General Catalyst - Investing in our Future through Population Health, Predictive Analytics, and Social Determinants

July 8, 2022

Halfway Through 2022: A Curated Playlist of Our Top Hits These Past 6 Months: Part 1

July 1, 2022: A special episode of Keynote this week combines different guests and topics that really illustrate what this channel is all about and what conversations we’ve been able to have the past 6 months. We’ve clipped together some of our favorite moments, though it was hard to choose just a few. In Part 1 of our curated playlist, we feature the following guests and topics:1. Mark Cuban, American billionaire & entrepreneur, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company - How will Mark Cuban Break into the Existing Systems in Healthcare to Make Equity Changes?2. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform - AI and the Future of the EHR in Healthcare3. Angela Yochem, EVP Chief Transformation & Digital Officer at Novant Health - The Future Of Healthcare Is Empowering The Individual To Manage Their Wellness In A Continuum4. Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner at 7wireVentures - 2022 Fundraising Predictions from Managing Partner of 7WireVentures5. Glen Tullman, CEO at Transcarent - How Transcarent is Challenging the Confusing, Complex, and Costly State of Healthcare6. Missy Krasner, Venture Chair at Redesign Health - Big Tech's Decentralized Approach To Healthcare Innovation And Its Affect On Partnerships7. Rob DeMichiei, Former CFO / Board Director and Strategic Advisor at Health Catalyst- Healthcare Providers Reassess Strategy to Compete with 2022 Landscape8. Lee Milligan, CIO at Asante - The First Moments of a Ransomware Attack: That First Phone Call

July 1, 2022

The 6 Key Steps for Improving Cybersecurity According to the HCIC: Which One Do you Need?

June 24, 2022: Today we are sharing the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity (HCIC) Task Force's report on cybersecurity: Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry. They identified the following 6 key imperatives:Define and streamline leadership, governance, and expectations for healthcare industry cybersecurityIncrease the security and resilience of medical devices and health ITDevelop the healthcare workforce capacity necessary to prioritize and ensure cybersecurity awareness and technical capabilitiesIncrease healthcare industry readiness through improved cybersecurity awareness and educationIdentify mechanisms to protect research and development efforts and intellectual property from attacks or exposureImprove information sharing of industry threats, risks and mitigationThree Task Force members graciously sat down with us to explain and engage in a conversation about the key imperatives: Bradford Marsh, EVP Government Health Security & Technology at First Health Advisory, Theresa Meadows, CIO at Cook Children's and David Ting, Chief Technology Officer / Founder of Tausight.Key Points:What is the current state of the healthcare cyber landscape?In healthcare we know that we don't have a good way to share informationWe have issues with legacy technologyThe attack surface has gotten a lot largerWhat are some action plans that someone could take, post report, to begin to implement changes?Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care IndustryHealthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG)

June 24, 2022

Using Technology to Simplify & Not Complicate Healthcare, Can we Re-engage Clinicians & Patients?

June 17, 2022: Today we have a special treat. Jonathan Manis, Senior VP and CIO for CHRISTUS Health walks us through his Opening Keynote “Re-Design Healthcare” presented at the Texas HIMSS conference. In this episode, it becomes utterly apparent that the healthcare industry needs a mind-shift. We delve into mobility, connectivity, consumerism and an alteration to “prediction and prevention” versus the “provision” of care to the sick and unwell. Healthcare can’t advance with a new approach until we stop using the old approach. How can we nix some of the complexity? Are customer experience expectations different across different countries? Healthcare consumers are stuck with what their insurance carriers’ want them to do. Will we ever break out of that model? How can we re-design healthcare?Key Points:In this digital hurricane world, healthcare is lagging way behindVenture capitalists are not investing in the delivery of better healthcare. Venture capitalists are investing in better healthcare delivery.I hate talking about innovation. We don't need innovation, we need adoption.CHRISTUS Health

June 17, 2022

A Glimpse into the Mind of a CIO: Prioritizing Innovation, Patient Experience, and Digital Health

June 10, 2022: Staffing and hiring is a real challenge for health systems right now. Chad Brisendine, VP/CIO at St. Luke's University Health Network shares his insights into this shortage crisis. What other big challenges are facing St Luke’s? How are they improving patient check-in and the overall patient experience? Does Chad spend time with the university to talk about their curriculum and what they should be focused on? What is it about the Microsoft tool suite that brings massive benefits to health IT departments? How does a mid-size health system think in regard to their innovation investments? What can they do to de-risk these investments?Key Points:What will CIOs focus on over the next two years?How can we reduce the number of tools clinicians are using?Strategic innovation alignmentSt. Luke's University Health Network

June 10, 2022

The Journey to Simplify, Modernize, and Innovate 52 Hospitals into One System with CIO BJ Moore

June 3, 2022: Today Bill and B.J Moore, Executive VP & CIO at Providence discuss the EHR, ERP solutions, digital imaging, tech debt, the hybrid work model and more. The technology infrastructure in healthcare is still 15 to 20 years behind other sectors. B.J brings his previous Microsoft experience to the table. How can we avoid tech debt? What keeps us from moving forward? What kind of architecture and strategies can we aspot? What advances have been made with imaging? Does dual factor authentication ruin clinician satisfaction? And how do you pull off consolidating to a single instance of Epic, in an extremely complicated health system?Key Points:The 3 strategic pillars: simplify, modernize and innovateA lot of the advancements around AI and machine learning are coming from imagingThere’s so many analytics capabilities you can get through Azure, that the traditional health system who hasn't adopted cloud isn't experiencing yetProvidence

June 3, 2022

The Incident Responder’s Guide to Defending Health Systems from Cyberattacks

June 1, 2022: Incident response (IR) for healthcare IT, clinical operations and administration is more critical than ever. To safeguard healthcare-based information, improve cybersecurity posture and build resilience against security breaches, Sirius Healthcare has partnered with top-tier incident response partners CrowdStrike and Semperis to develop and deliver a healthcare-focused Incident Response Program and retainer-based IR and recovery services to better prepare healthcare systems for cybersecurity incidents.Our agreements with CrowdStrike and Semperis allow Sirius to resell Incident Response retainers based on their technologies on Sirius paper. Semperis, the market leader for Active Directory and hybrid-identity security, is our #1 partner for Active Directory security and resiliency. CrowdStrike is our #1 solution partner in the remote IR and EDR service. Their Falcon Complete is a must-have for remote IR services and on every cyberinsurance approved IR vendor list. We engage CrowdStrike during every active healthcare incident, and the Falcon Complete and Overwatch threat-hunting team to increase the odds of repelling threat actors.This is a unique offering that will position us to be a strategic partner with healthcare organizations’ IT security and IT operations, and it should absolutely be at the top of your list for healthcare client conversations. Check out these resources to learn more:Key Points:Visit the Healthcare Incident Response Program playbook on the Sales CenterDownload the Healthcare Incident Response Program collateralRead the Zen and the Art of Incident Response Retainers blog post by CrowdStrike’s executive healthcare strategistListen to the Reverse Engineering a Hacker’s Approach to Breaking into Healthcare podcast, from This Week Health: Conference

June 1, 2022

How are CMIOs Leading Healthcare Workers to Adopt Digital Tools?

May 27, 2022: What's it like being a host for This Week Health TownHall? Join us today for a very special episode with two of our hosts Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care and Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health. What is top of mind right now for CMIOs in healthcare right now? How is technology helping with the nursing shortage and clinician burnout? How do you get a group of people who have practiced medicine in a certain way for decades to adopt the EHR? How do you get them to do scheduling in a common way so that you can digitize it and make it a digital workflow? Key Points:Burnout and staffing shortages are on the riseNursing is an area that has been neglected until recentlyOrganizational change management

May 27, 2022

How do Mid-size Health Systems get Funding for Investments That Will Spark Innovation?

May 20, 2022: How do mid-size health systems get funding for investments that will spark innovation? Joel Vengco, SVP and Chief Information & Digital Officer at Hartford HealthCare and Jeffrey Sturman, Senior VP & CIO at Memorial Healthcare System join us today to discuss. How do you narrow down your investment focus? What are the primary benefits of an innovator working with a health system? How does this funding stand up from a governance standpoint? What role do other health systems play in the investing process? How do you de-risk investments?Key Points:What defines success for your innovation program?What if we created a channel, an environment, a platform where our internal and external collaborators could work with us to solve problems?What are some of the innovation opportunities that come out of venture capital relationships?Health systems are working together to de-risk some of the things that they're doing

May 20, 2022

Reverse Engineering a Hackers Approach to Breaking into Healthcare

May 18, 2022: What do hackers want from healthcare? Join us for a special episode. Reverse Engineering, a Hackers Approach. Guido Grillenmeier, Chief Technologist at Semperis and Matt Sickles, Solutions Architect at Sirius Healthcare walk us through Semperis Purple Knight. A free tool to help you find your most dangerous vulnerabilities. AD is typically a weak point for HC organizations. 90% of attacks exploit AD. It is very difficult to gain an understanding of where your AD is at risk. Purple Knight maps those indicators to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and provides guidance on how to fix the issues. As hackers, what defenses do we have to be concerned about? What will cause us to choose a different target? If we are detected will that just move our timeline up or will we move on? How long do we need access to the compromised AD to know if we can get to our target hack? How much time do we need in the target system? And flipping back to the other side, what can a CIO do today to ensure their health system is ready for an attack on their Active Directory? Key Points:AD is typically a weak point for HC organizations, 90% of attacks exploit ADIt is very difficult to gain an understanding of where your AD is at riskYou cannot secure older operating systems the same way as newer onesWhat is the state of active directory right now?Download Semperis Purple Knight now

May 18, 2022

A Journey Through the Career of Charles Boicey: Clinician to Data Informatics

May 13, 2022: Today we walk through the impressive resume of Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense. Beginning as a Paramedic, moving to Nursing and working at the LA county USC Medical Center in the 80s and 90s in the thick of a unit filled with gunshots, stabbings and other mayhem from man versus man. Moving on to Nurse Manager, Senior Clinical Project Manager. Completing Computer Science, Technology and Management degrees. Next was Clinical Informatics Officer then Informatics Solutions Architect at UCI followed by Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for Social Health Insights. Charles is currently a Professor at Stony Brook and leader of Clearsense. He believes the doctor of the future will give no medication, but in the interest of patients give care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease. Charles is dedicating his career to engaging people, not in healthcare, but in health. Key Points:The number one thing that's tweeted about hospitals is …. food!The end product isn't what's in your head. It's what the clinical staff needs.Technology is improving exponentially and the need for technology is exponential.What does it look like when data governance is done right?Clearsense

May 13, 2022

The Sequoia Project: Driving Interoperability and Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs)

May 6, 2022: In an industry marked by rapid turnover and burnout, Mariann Yeager is an anomaly. This year, she is celebrating 10 years at the helm of The Sequoia Project, a public-private collaborative formed to advance implementation of secure, interoperable nationwide health information exchange. What was the lay of the land with regard to interoperability 10 years ago? Why was data exchange so hard at the time? How did the pandemic impact the interoperability landscape? How has the 21st Century Cures Act changed the work of the Sequoia Project? How would we like to see patients engage with their data over the next five years? What work is The Sequoia Project doing to support the implementation of TEFCA?Key Points:In 2012 a lot of healthcare was not yet digitized. We were just starting to see that evolve.The goal of TEFCA is a single on-ramp for connectivity nationwideThere’s a big push in the US for a national patient identifierAI and machine learning are bringing up a whole new set of problems with our dataThe Sequoia Project

May 6, 2022

Exceeding the Expectations of Innovation as CIO and What Challenges face Rural American Healthcare

April 29, 2022: Patrick Woodard, VP and Chief Digital Officer at Methodist LeBonheur Health has a mission. It’s to help transform Methodist’s digital health technology so they can integrate user-friendly and interactive platforms to expand patient engagement. Clinicians come to work to do a good job every day. They don't want to have to fight with the systems that they have. That’s why it’s healthcare IT leaders’ jobs to make sure that the right innovative platforms are in place to build a future where the patient experience thrives on continuity and ease of access. How does a Chief Digital Officer prioritize what projects they’re looking at? How has virtual care helped patients in rural America? Have the increased threats within cybersecurity changed the way we approach digital strategy?Key Points:We want patients to feel connected to their healthThey don't remember what you say. They don't remember what you do. They remember how you made them feel. How can we make the patient experience more continuous?Healthcare has always had a data problemMethodist LeBonheur Health

April 29, 2022

Stephen Klasko on Health Assurance and Leaving the Sick Care Model in the Past for Healthcare

April 22, 2022: Here to transform the healthcare experience from sick care to well care is Stephen Klasko, MD, Executive in Residence at General Catalyst and former President and CEO of Jefferson Health. Health assurance is reducing the cost of healthcare in a way that doesn't leave anyone behind. How much will the current healthcare delivery organizations have to change in order to realize meaningful progress? How do we overcome the inertia that exists within the system? How can we align the economic and consumer centric goals of wellness and care? Will we see meaningful progress in health equities? Are we focused as providers on the right areas of innovation and digital transformation?Key Points:The greatest source of bankruptcy in America is still healthcare related costsHow can traditional providers approach innovation and transformation?81% of healthcare executives say the pace of digital transformation for their organization is acceleratingThe one word that comes out of everybody's mouth about the future is data. Data. We need data.General Catalyst

April 22, 2022

Valuable Lessons in Technology Acquired Through Dr. David Feinberg’s Impressive Healthcare Career

April 15, 2022: Here to talk about healthcare through the lens of his technology career is David Feinberg, President & CEO of Cerner and formerly at Geisinger and Google. Owner of the famous quote “We look to eliminate the waiting room and everything it represents.” How can technology, with its unique position in healthcare, address the challenges faced on an everyday basis? What further obstacles remain? How do we overcome the inertia of healthcare? Is Geisinger's 'money-back guarantee' paying off? How do we fund programs that will make American’s live healthier lifestyles? How can we change the EHR to make the experience more effective for everyone involved?Key Points:Around 15% of the 20 billion Google searches per day are health relatedAt Cerner, I have this amazing opportunity to see how healthcare is delivered around the worldThe fundamental problem with healthcare is that the system is built around providers as opposed to around consumersCerner

April 15, 2022

Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs Is Solving the Equity Problem in Prescription Medicine

April 8, 2022: Our guest today is Mark Cuban, American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, media proprietor and the Founder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. The drug industry is up against giant companies with lots of money and influence and complicated relationships with tentacles wrapped around government manufacturers, insurance companies, drug stores, pharmacists, retailers and more. There's all kinds of super complicated contract arrangements that include rebates and hardwired incentives that keep this giant self-licking ice cream cone stuck together. The participants in this cartel like the deals they have and they make good money on them. The system is built to keep others out. But every American should have access to safe, affordable medicines. How is the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co disrupting this space?Key Points:We have one simple goal. To be the lowest cost provider of drugs. Period. End of story.Patients want cheaper drugs. It makes their life easier. A red flag in the cost of healthcare in the US is the administrative costsMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co Mark Cuban’s email: [email protected]

April 8, 2022

American College of Radiology & Rhino Health – Scaling AI Federated Learning via NVIDIA AI Enterprise

April 6, 2022: Ittai Dayan, MD, Cofounder and CEO of Rhino Health and Mike Tilkin, CIO at American College of Radiology join Brad Genereaux, Medical Imaging & Smart Hospitals Alliance Manager for NVIDIA to discuss Federated AI Learning models. They deep dive into the NVIDIA AI Enterprise on VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu solution mixed with ACR Connect powered by Rhino Platform. What kind of work is the American College of Radiology doing in this area? With data connections to the various member organizations, how does this allow the community to work together on AI problems? Why is it important to move the compute towards the edge? What does it take to stand up a model like this and unlock the power of AI in the enterprise? Where would a CTO or CIO start this process?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:03:45 - The problem space right now is providing education for tools that are going to help healthcare folks validate algorithms00:05:55- What we've done with NVIDIA certified systems and AI enterprise with VMware as our virtualization stack is create an ecosystem where we can build all of our applications on one environmentRhino HealthAmerican College of Radiology - Data Science InstituteNVIDIAVMware Tanzu

April 6, 2022

Highlights from VIVE and HIMSS 2022

We conducted close to 50 interviews with industry leaders. We heard some recurring themes and we heard some exciting new solutions to old problems. Today we feature clips from our conference interviews.Andy Crowder, Cara Babachicos, Cletis Earle, Jamie Nelson, John Kravitz, Kevin Shimamoto, Matt Sullivan, Michael Pfeffer, Ray Lowe, Ryan Witt, Scott MacLean, Zafar Chaudry and others.I hope you enjoy.

April 1, 2022

Artisight Links Cameras and AI to Deliver ROI and Smart Hospitals

March 30, 2022: Imagine a future where smart hospital platforms allow clinicians to focus on patient care and leaders to focus on productivity. Sensors passively document into EHRs while dashboards and analytics ensure that staff and leadership are acting on real-time data and diagnostics. Joining Bill live at HIMSS 2022 is Dr. Stephanie Lahr, CIO at Monument Health and Dr Andrew Gostine CEO of Artisight. The future of patient care spaces is bright with potential technology solutions to improve patient care—from life-saving treatment based on predictive analytics to patient distraction devices. Healthcare has lagged behind in the adoption of new technologies in part due to lack of buy-in from staff and a resistance to adopt anything new, as well as associated high costs and budgetary constraints. That all changed when healthcare was faced with a global health crisis. Rapid adoption of tools and technologies became necessary to continue treating patients and survive.With that door now wide open, the industry is looking at patient room advancements in a new light. The use of vision, audio, touchless sensors, and artificial and augmented intelligence is becoming more common. And although we can’t know for certain what the future holds, we do know that we must maintain a flexible approach to defining the “patient room” and be as adaptable and agile as possible, especially as healthcare becomes increasingly consumer-focused.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:02:30 - Artisight provides solutions to automate the frustrating parts of providing clinical care00:13:15- If you've got room for improvement in the OR, the hospital rooms and in the clinics then you need a platform for reducing friction in all of those areas00:14:30 - As a CIO, you appreciate a platform because it saves you from a hundred points solutions which are going to really tax your organization from a complexity standpoint and a cost standpointArtisightMonument HealthSirius A CDW Company

March 30, 2022

CEO Nadine Hachach-Haram on Proximie and Creating Global Access to the OR with Digital

March 25, 2022: How can we re-imagine the digital operating room to accelerate the adoption of best practices and democratize access to care? Proximie is a technology platform that allows clinicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any OR from anywhere in the world. Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, Founder of Proximie, Faculty Singularity University, TED Speaker and Surgeon shares how her company empowers clinicians to share their skills in real-time, which reduces variation in care and ensures every patient receives the best healthcare every single time. Imagine a digitally connected world where a pipeline is connecting ORs and turning these once analog and undigitized environments into connected collaborative and intelligent environments. Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:45- Proximie is a vendor neutral application. We work with everyone. 00:14:20 - The genesis of surgical training was very much designed around see one, do one, teach one. Conceptually it seems good but there's a lot of flaws in that system.00:16:30- No athlete today, at the top of their game, isn't being filmed all the time and getting feedback00:31:50 - Proximie has a real mission and drive to change and disrupt surgery00:35:05 - We are heading into a world where soon every operating room will be recordedProximie

March 25, 2022

iCAD Accelerates Cancer Detection and Treatment with NVIDIA AI Enterprise Stack

March 23, 2022: Laurence Yudkovitch, Product Manager and Josh Dagenhart, AI Solutions Architect-Manager at iCAD join Brad Genereaux, Medical Imaging & Smart Hospitals Alliance Manager for NVIDIA to discuss the next evolution of radiology solutions with integrated AI. Specifically the NVIDIA AI Enterprise on VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu solution. What do Customers Look for in an Imaging AI Solution? What are infrastructure considerations? What about high availability and disaster recovery? Where is the market going with modern apps?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:03:30 - 40 million mammograms done annually00:05:00 - Our key value proposition is reducing the amount of radiologist read time by over 50%00:12:15- How do you make clinicians more productive? More effective?00:24:00 - It used to be PACS interoperability. Now it's platform interoperability.iCADNVIDIAVMware Tanzu

March 23, 2022

From Start-Ups to Big Tech and Click and Mortar Hybrid Models in Healthcare with Missy Krasner

March 18, 2022: Missy Krasner is a digital health pioneer hailing from Google, Box and Amazon. She now sits as Venture Chair at Redesign Health. They elevate healthcare companies that empower people to live their healthiest lives. The current healthcare service model is not as good as it can be. In what areas can healthcare serve patients better? How do venture companies determine what area is next to improve upon? What are some of the companies that Redesign is supporting? How does Redesign empower entrepreneurs? How do you approach this from a global perspective? And is there a world in which a big tech company buys a health system or a hospital? Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:05:30 - Redesign Health empowers entrepreneurs to redesign the world's health care system in service to patients00:12:00 - Google and Amazon have really figured out how to appeal to consumers through the entire experience of the technology that they offer. The user experience that they offer. And the brand that they offer. 00:19:05 - One area of healthcare that is fascinating is elder care00:29:05 - Google is very good at AI. They're very good at predictive analytics. And they're very good at finding data and using the data to actually predict outcomes. Redesign Health

March 18, 2022

Digital Transformation Journey: A CDO Discussion of the Roadmap from Vision to Data Maturity with Clearsense

March 16, 2022: Chuck Podesta, Chief Digital Officer, Renown Health, Nevada’s largest not-for-profit health network, explores his roadmap to transform the health network to a leading-edge, next-generation system deploying key technology and process approaches including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, and Business Process Redesign as well as mobile apps and wearable devices. Together with Kevin Field, President at Clearsense they share their journey together. In one end-to-end platform, Clearsense integrates your data from any source, maintains line of sight from source to target, jumpstarts ROI in your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools, and unlocks value for clinical, operations, financial, and research stakeholders without the need to hire specialized staff.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:02:30 - Clearsense can look at the data of patients that crash, whether it's in the ICU or the ED. What happened to those patients 30 minutes before, an hour before, the day before? Then come up with an alert algorithm around that.00:08:45 - You have to have an ecosystem that can take information from all these disparate systems. Because it's not just Epic in the middle anymore. 00:10:15 - Clearsense looks at data in what they call domains. Domains are contracts, providers or clusters of different critical data elements.00:12:00- Clear box analytics ClearsenseRenown Health

March 16, 2022

Marrying Data Science And AI At Novant Health Where Innovation Is a Lifestyle with Angela Yochem

March 11, 2022: The future of healthcare is about empowering each individual, each member of the community and each family to manage their own health and wellness in a way that is more of a continuum and less about individual visits. Angela Yochem, EVP Chief Transformation & Digital Officer at Novant Health discusses innovation and digital healthcare. What does a Chief Transformation & Digital Officer do? What are the thought processes for organizational design? How does Novant Health determine where to innovate? How do they think about platforms and why are they important for the work that we're trying to do in healthcare? Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:05:30 - We are very prescriptive and strategic in how we manage our data estate, which enables us to see around corners00:17:05 - We can start to imagine a future in which reimbursement philosophies have expanded to focus more on the overall health of the patient00:24:00 - Novant Health Innovation Lab00:24:45 - We use VR to calm patients down before a procedureNovant Health

March 11, 2022

Securing Healthcare’s Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) with Medigate

March 9, 2022: IoT Security is increasingly complex with the rise in connected devices and cyber attacks. Here to help is Claroty and Medigate. Samuel Hill, Director Product Marketing and Kierk Sanderlin, VP of Customer Success at Medigate join Bill live from ViVE 2022 to discuss The Powerhouse for Securing the Extended Internet of things (XIoT). Combining Medigate’s leadership in delivering unmatched visibility, protection & threat detection for medical devices with Claroty’s leadership in doing the same for industrial OT devices, has created a powerhouse for security of the Extended internet of Things (XIoT) in healthcare. Organizations can now confidently connect their IoMT, OT, IoT and IT assets with a single, best of breed solution.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:02:10 - Medigate helps give visibility to all of your devices that are connected and then gives accurate data00:02:50 - We take a passive network scanning approach 00:06:10 - Am I worried about compliance or am I worried about security?00:10:15 - What is the maturity framework that you look at?Claroty and Medigate: The Powerhouse for Securing the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT)

March 9, 2022

TEFCA, Interoperability, and Social Determinants of Health with ONC’s Micky Tripathi

March 4, 2022: Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the ONC joins Bill to discuss TEFCA, USCDI, Electronic Prior Authorization RFI, Information Blocking and Health Equities by Design. What do we need to know about TEFCA? What do healthcare providers need to do as a result of this work? USCDI V3 added some new data elements in the Health Status, Procedures, Health Insurance, and Patient Demographics data classes. Why is USCDI important? What stage are we at with information blocking/sharing? What is the driver for RFI for Electronic Prior Authorizations? What exactly is health equity by design? How can people participate in this work?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:05:30 - TEFCA - Trusted exchange framework and common agreement00:25:00- 80% of US based individuals have access to a smart health card00:27:30 - Information blocking should be called information sharing00:37:45 - I would estimate that half of America would still be on paper records if it weren't for meaningful useContact: [email protected]

March 4, 2022

Prepare for HIMSS & ViVE: NVIDIA Democratizing Access to AI with VMware, iCAD, and Rhino Health

A special ViVE and HIMSS conference sneak peak episode. What can we expect to see from VMware and NVIDIA in collaboration with iCAD and Rhino Health this year? Brad Genereaux, Medical Imaging Alliance Manager for NVIDIA joins Bill to talk about democratizing access to artificial intelligence across healthcare. What are the exciting advances that we can do with AI in the enterprise? How is it helping to drive efficiencies across every single department in the hospital? How do we empower IT departments with the virtualization stack from VMware to really demonstrate what AI enterprise means for hospitals? There will be an increased number of AI models running in hospitals five years from now, what does that look like?NVIDIA: The way it's meant to be playedVMware - Delivering a Digital Foundation For BusinessesRhino Health - Healthcare AI with Federated LearningiCAD - Global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions

March 3, 2022

Prepare for HIMSS & ViVE: Nuance’s Dragon Medical One Conversational AI

A special ViVE and HIMSS conference sneak peak episode. Kenneth Harper, VP and General Manager, Dragon Ambient eXperience for Nuance shares what we can expect to see from them this year. Fatigue and burnout is systemic in healthcare today. Nuance’s incredible DAX technology helps lessen the administrative work for clinicians, physicians and the whole care team so that they can focus on what really matters … the patients health and wellness. At both ViVE and HIMSS, Nuance will be showcasing a fully automated capability of DAX with real-life examples. They’re calling it express mode. Join them to see how far the advanced technology of DAX has come.Nuance DAX: improve the patient‑physician experience

March 2, 2022

Prepare for HIMSS & ViVE: Exploring Patient Room Next with Sirius, Artisight, and NVIDIA

A special ViVE and HIMSS conference sneak peak episode. What can we expect to see from Sirius CDW, Artisight and NVIDIA this year? Imran Salim, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Strategy & Solutions at Sirius Healthcare and Andrew Gostine, CEO of Artisight share their collaborative work. Imagine a future where smart hospital platforms allow clinicians to focus on patient care and leaders to focus on productivity. Sensors passively document into EHRs while dashboards and analytics ensure that staff and leadership are acting on real-time data and diagnostics.Read more on the partnership between Sirius Healthcare, Nvidia, and ArtisightFind Sirius Healthcare, a CDW Company at HIMSS to discuss clinical mobility, virtual care, and Patient Room ‘Next’ expertsJoin Sirius Healthcare, a CDW Company at CDW's Client Appreciate Reception at HIMSS '22RSVP for a hosted dinner and conversation on Patient Room Next at the 8th Annual HealthIMPACT CxO Dinner at HIMSS '22

March 1, 2022

Connecting the Dots Between the Many Facets of Healthcare with Aneesh Chopra

February 25, 2022: Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney joins Bill to connect the dots between APIs, open data and payment reform. In order to transform the system we need movement on all three fronts. What progress have we made in 2022 so far? What can we expect in 2023? What do you say to people who are waiting to have a better healthcare experience? Who want their data to move freely across their current health system and then beyond? And how can we move past the current resistance?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:07:00 - A system that costs too much and delivers too little is a quick anecdote about why American healthcare is struggling00:25:20 - In 2022, the shift will be from a single pipe to the consumer into a bigger pipe to the data lake 00:36:50 - CMS set the goal that 100% of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid will be value based care models by 2030CareJourney

February 25, 2022

Adopting Cloud and Undergoing Migration at Your Health System

What is the current state of adoption of cloud in healthcare? Adoption requires an understanding of what the cloud is across your entire organization. What is the clinicians role? Do they need to understand it? Do they feel the impact? What about patients? What benefits might they experience? Doug McMillian, former CISO and CTO and current Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare joins Bill Russell to discuss. What does it look like to fail over EHR? How do you start the migration process? How can you obtain a clean inventory of what is in your environment? What do you need to be careful of in the application contracts? And how can you understand the integrations?Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

February 22, 2022

The Intersection of Technology and Healthcare with AWS’s Phoebe Yang

February 18, 2022: This once in a century pandemic has been hard and grueling but it has also been fascinating, inspiring and exciting as we think about our future in healthcare. Phoebe Yang, General Manager, Amazon Web Services, Healthcare is leading the high growth cloud service business that sits at the inflection of technology and healthcare. What are the problems that technology is best positioned to solve? Clinicians now have AI, ML, Big Data, Architecture and Automation tools at their fingertips within minutes. What does this mean for workflow? What does it mean for patients? When it comes to health equities, does technology alleviate or exacerbate the problem? How can we use technology to help solve the labor shortage in healthcare? Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PTKey Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:31:15 - Amazon Transcribe Medical and Amazon Comprehend Medical00:18:00 - AWS is enabling the innovators at Houston Methodist with clinical voice technology. Why, in the operating room, does any clinician, surgeon or staff member ever have to touch a screen or keyboard?00:06:40 - How can healthcare become more consumer centric? 00:30:10 - We are at a transformational and revolutionary moment in the provision of healthcareAmazon Web Services, Healthcare

February 18, 2022

Securing and Managing Cloud Effectively

Cloud Security and Management. How are we viewing security in the cloud today? We now have the ability to do things bigger and faster. What does that mean for Disaster Recovery? Doug McMillian, former CISO and CTO and current Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare joins Bill Russell to discuss security platform approach, Next Gen Firewall URL, content filters and Zero Trust. Plus the key aspects of Cloud Management Framework including automation, standardization of tool sets, cloud native features, load repositories and cost management.Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

February 17, 2022

Implementing Cloud Foundations and Its Effects

What are Cloud Foundations? Doug McMillian, former CISO and CTO and current Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare joins Bill Russell to deep dive into some examples. Workforce alignment, Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management and Governance. What are the core requirements, framework and principles an organization needs to enable them to take advantage of cloud service? Migration versus rebuild? Lift and shift versus rearchitecting? What about Application Dependency Mapping and security?Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

February 15, 2022

Transition to a New CIO Role, Leadership Success, and Understanding Culture with Aaron Miri

February 11, 2022: What does it take for a CIO to be successful in the first 30, 60, 90 days in a new role? Aaron Miri, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer for Baptist Health walks us through the transition. What are the greatest challenges? How can you lead with authenticity in mind? How do you create the best culture possible? Staff shortages are leading CIOs to be creative. How can you go about attracting the best talent? What are other things can you do to develop your staff or really just get them motivated? And what would you tell vendors that could help them be successful selling into healthcare? Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PTKey Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:04:20 - Anyone can do an IT job. But are you in it for the mission? And are you all in on 21st century technology?”00:09:50 - You have to manage laterally as much as you manage vertically00:28:10 - Natural language processing is the way of the future. We should get to a world where clinicians aren't at a keyboard typing.00:30:40 - What is LiDAR technology used for?Baptist Health

February 11, 2022

Building a Cloud Roadmap and Strategy

How do you get started building your Cloud roadmap and strategy? What does it take to understand the core business drivers for your organization? Doug McMillian, former CISO and CTO and current Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare joins Bill Russell to discuss the 4 elements of a good cloud roadmap and designing for agility. We need to move fast and we have to do it cost effectively. Knowing where healthcare is going is really hard. What skill sets and competencies do you need? How can you optimize and scale? What about workload management? Plus an explanation of SAS, PAS, IAS, Co-Location and Edge Use Cases.Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

February 10, 2022

Understanding Cloud from a CISO Perspective

What is Cloud? Why does it matter to healthcare? What are the benefits of moving to Cloud? Doug McMillian, former CISO and CTO and current Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare joins Bill Russell to discuss Public Cloud, On-Prem, Migration, Scalability and Agility, security, automation and the financial benefits.Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

February 8, 2022

Leadership, Incremental Growth, and Health IT’s Future from CHIME 2021 CIO of the Year Daniel Barchi

February 4, 2022: Daniel Barchi, CIO at New York-Presbyterian is our Keynote guest today. What did an ex-US Naval Academy officer learn about leadership? Is there ever a case where a CIO knows all the answers? When building your team, are there specific interview questions you can ask to try to identify someone’s capacity to lead? New York-Presbyterian partnered with Hospital For Special Surgery for their joint response to the pandemic, in one of the world’s biggest hit cities, New York. What are the key elements to rolling out a mass vaccination center? How do you reach underserved communities? What’s the secret to scaling telehealth? And how can we make care more frictionless for the patients, nurses and physicians?Sign up for our webinar: Owning Cloud in Your Organization - Understanding, Implementing and Designing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy - https://www.thisweekhealth.com/owning-cloud-in-your-organization-tw-wm/ - February 24, 2022: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:07:30 - Can you use an existing portal but recode it in order to scale telehealth and do specific geo-targeting for appointments?00:16:50 - Recognizing as a leader, that you don't need to be the one with the perfect answer 00:24:00 - I'm a big fan of incrementalism in getting to the right answer, not with a single decision.New York-Presbyterian

February 4, 2022

The Journey of a CIO With Dr. Lee Milligan: Leadership, Financials, and Growth in Health IT

January 28, 2022: Today Lee Milligan, CIO for Asante joins Bill for Keynote. The path to becoming a CIO is often not direct. How did Lee go from a small town in Pennsylvania to CIO of a 998 million dollar health system? How did being an ER doctor prepare him for the work he is doing now? Lee walks us through the first critical couple of weeks in the role. What areas was he most concerned about? How have they played out? The health IT Budget is an enigma to non-IT people and extremely difficult for even seasoned CIOs to navigate. Lee shares how he wrestled this to the ground and how it has evolved over time.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:15 - Being a good CIO is about effectively interacting with others. And that's all about developing your EQ. Or the low budget version is don't be a jerk. 00:10:30 - You have to lead by communication, by vision and by connection with people00:20:25 - One of the challenges of walking into a CIO role as a doctor, is gaining credibility within the technical side00:38:20 - After a breach we have to ask, do we have the right process, procedures, investments, technology, partners and insurance contracts?Asante

January 28, 2022

The Financial Outlook of Healthcare in 2022 with Rob DeMichiei

January 21, 2022: Rob DeMichiei, Board Director, Strategic Advisor and Former CFO is back with Bill to break down J.P. Morgan 2022. Healthcare is becoming as much about the for-profits, the IPO's and the private equity investors as it is the non-profits. These worlds are really converging. Providers are realizing that they can't survive just being a fee for service, acute care hub. They need to expand their offerings and acquire assets for the whole continuum of care. Baby boomers are aging which means 10,000 new consumers of Medicare every day. Labor inflation is going to be around for a while. Bon Secours Mercy talked about diversifying. Ascension has 55 different EMRs running in 140 different hospitals. Advent spent $750 million on their Epic install. And the critical battlefield of the future? Owning and unifying your digital front door.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:12:50 - How are you changing your care delivery to deal with the nursing shortage?00:16:40 - Being heavy in labor assets and infrastructure is a really bad formula for the traditional healthcare provider00:25:00 - The stimulus dollars would have been better used on the struggling health systems because they're still struggling

January 21, 2022

Transcarent Signs on Northwell, Intermountain and Rush in $200M Funding Round with Glen Tullman

January 19, 2022: You can't navigate a broken system. Navigators today spend 20% of their time talking about bills. Meet Transcarent. The future of health companies. They don't even have bills. Glen Tullman, CEO shares how they’ve invested millions of dollars to create the highest quality care experience possible that challenges the confusing, complex and costly state of the industry. To really address consumer’s needs, Transcarent are focusing on four areas; prescription costs, surgical costs, care at home and complex care. Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:01:40 - Every single day, people aren't getting the care they need00:02:00 - Healthcare is more confusing, more complex, more costly than ever before and getting worse00:07:10 - A lot of people don't realize that health systems represent 5 of the top 10 largest employers in every state 00:19:35 - Money means access. When we lower the cost, when we eliminate co-pays, we're giving more people access.Transcarent

January 19, 2022

Digital Health Startups, Interoperability Challenges, and Informed Consumers with 7wireVenture’s Lee Shapiro

January 14, 2022: Informed connected healthcare consumer. That’s 7wireVentures mantra. How will big tech, private equity and hedge funds engage across digital health this year? Here to talk funding is Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lee Shapiro. The concept of care is moving outside the four walls of the health system. It's moving into the home. It's moving to rural locations. “Care Everywhere and Access to Care” is a huge funding area that will trend in 2022. What distinguishes the winners from the not so successful players in the digital health space? Where does an M&A strategy make the most sense? And what should we make of Oracle's acquisition of Cerner?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:04:30 - Put consumers in the position of being better able to manage their health. When you do that, everybody wins. 00:11:40 - We’d rather take a great team with an okay idea than a so-so team with a fantastic idea, because we know that that great team is going to turn that good idea, in all likelihood, into a fantastic idea00:16:55 - What funding trends will we see in 2022?7wireVentures

January 14, 2022

The Credibility of AI, the Future of the EHR, and Cultural Demands with John Halamka

January 7, 2022: John Halamka, MD, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform is our Keynote guest today. What's the promise of AI in healthcare? Why are we pursuing it? What are the challenges that remain in its adoption? Where does the technology stand in terms of transparency and useful testing ability? What are the three main problems with EHR data sets and how can we address them? How far away are we from solid clinical use cases with wrist wearables? Are we getting to real quality data that can be used? And can we call the EHR a platform? Or is it still a transactional system?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:06:00 - AI has a credibility problem in healthcare00:07:30 - Algorithms are mostly probabilistic, multi-tiered mathematical equations that don't necessarily have easy explainability00:19:00 - Is the EHR a platform? Or is it more like a transactional system with aspects of a platform?00:20:10 - The perfect storm for innovation is an alignment of technology, policy and culture. 00:31:35 - You can augment humans to make them wildly more productive if they’re doing review rather than authorship

January 7, 2022

Health IT leaders Weigh In On Biggest Moments of 2021: Sarah Richardson & David Bensema

December 29, 2021: What were the biggest moments in healthcare IT in 2021? What do you think will be the biggest movement in 2022? Bill is joined the Advisors to This Week in Health IT, Sarah Richardson of Tivity Health and David Bensema, MD. We are still in the pandemic. Are we making progress? What was the impact of shutting down non-essential surgeries? What do Big Tech giants Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy have up their sleeve for healthcare? Is healthcare getting better at partnering? And what is the future of telehealth? Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:09:30 - Big Tech realized that healthcare is very hard00:15:30 - We are developing new muscles in healthcare. How to work with the state better. How to work with entities better. How to get better at partnering.00:16:30 - I think we've come a full decade in a year and a half, in terms of public health IT capability00:25:00 - Work to your strengths and make sure you collaborate, delegate and outsource as much as possible when you feel out of your depth

December 29, 2021

Health IT Leaders Weigh In On Biggest Moments of 2021: Drex DeFord, Lee Milligan, Anne Weiler & Frank Nydam

December 27, 2021: What were the biggest moments in healthcare IT in 2021? What do you think will be the biggest movement in 2022? Bill is joined by the Advisors to This Week in Health IT, Drex DeFord of CrowdStrike, Lee Milligan of Asanta Health, Anne Weiler of AWS and Frank Nydam of Tausight. What did the Scripps Breach teach us about cybersecurity? Will life in a health system ever be the same as it was pre-pandemic? Are we going to lose critical interactions between the analysts, the technologists and the clinicians if we continue to work remotely? 21st Century Cures didn’t come easy but it had a huge impact. And why is it that the VCs are throwing so much money at all of these health startups but the hospitals are still losing money?Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:04:30 - Healthcare is really, really hard and Big Tech knows it00:05:00 - One of the biggest stories of the year was the Scripps breach00:06:45 - 2021 was the year of The Great Resignation. In 2022 there will be IT staff shortages, nurse shortages and even more people leaving their jobs.00:26:15 - Hats off to the many primary care physicians who have sat down one-on-one with many of their patients and walked through the pros and cons of vaccination. That is really, really hard work to do. 00:34:50 - Investment in healthcare inequities was big news in 2021

December 27, 2021

2021 Highlights from the Team at This Week In Health IT

December 22, 2021: Welcome to one of our End of Year Shows where you get to meet the team behind This Week in Health IT. Bill, Tess, Tracey and Holly take you on a journey through their favorite clips of 2021. Where does the EHR market go from here? How can health systems continue the 2020 momentum of innovation? How can you avoid tech debt? What could happen in Health IT if we Learned from COVID-19? How do you adjust your management style and expectations with the future of remote work? And what does the growing role of digital marketing entail?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:13:30 - Glen Tullman of Transcarent00:17:00 - CIO Sarah Richardson00:27:45 - CIO Zafar Chaudry00:31:30 - Kristin Myers of Mount Sinai00:40:00 - Craig Richardville of SCL Health00:44:10 - Angelique Russell, Data Scientist00:48:00 - Paula Edwards, Data Scientist 00:49:00 - Epidemiologist John Brownstein

December 22, 2021

Top Health IT News Trends in 2021

December 17, 2021: Welcome to one of our End of Year Shows. Bill takes us through the team’s favorite Newsday moments of 2021 including empathy through technology with Anne Weiler, CISO board topics with Drex DeFord, work, life, balance with Dr. Sanaz Cordes, the future of remote work with Sue Schade, maintaining company culture with Lee Milligan, Big Tech in healthcare with Dr. Eric Quniones and much much more. Hope you enjoy!Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:00 - Microsoft's new portal Microsoft Viva measures productivity but can it measure empathy?00:10:30 - Mistakes health systems make that cause clinician frustration with the EHR00:25:30 - What does perfect interoperability look like to a physician?00:28:00 - CIO Lee Milligan talks building culture and connecting his IT team to the mission of the organization00:30:30 - Study shows how ransomware impacts patient care

December 17, 2021

Newsday – How Leaders Can Accommodate Teams and Patients In a Digital Future

December 13, 2021: Sue Schade from StarBridge Advisors joins Bill for the news. Around the world, millions of people are rethinking how they work and live and how to better balance the two. The Great Resignation has U.S. workers quitting their jobs in record numbers. Harvard Business Review looks at 5 new rules for leading a hybrid team. As leaders, we need to take a hard look in the mirror and use the shift to hybrid an opportunity to maintain a culture of excellence. Harvard also looks at 5 principles to improve the patient experience. Rule number one, remember that patients are consumers. While tech advances have created exceptional consumer experiences, providers should keep in mind that a holistic experience involves more than just applying technology.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:38 - Almost half of the world's workers are considering quitting, according to a Microsoft corporation survey00:13:00 - Managers who don't evolve through this pandemic are really going to struggle to retain staff00:15:00 - People want to know that the work they're doing has purpose and meaning.00:34:20 - The consumer experience is more than technologySue Schade blog: Developing next generation leaders (literally)StarBridge AdvisorsStories:From the Great Resignation to Lying Flat, Workers Are Opting Out - Bloomberg5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team - Harvard Business Review5 Principles to Improve the Patient Experience - Harvard Business Review

December 13, 2021

What’s Next for This Week In Health IT in 2022?

December 10, 2021: Welcome to one of our End of Year Shows. Bill gives an update on what’s coming up for This Week in Health IT in 2022 plus a chronological look at the healthcare news that shaped 2021. The biggest stories were the pandemic, cybersecurity, diversity, equity and inclusion, the change in government and the vaccine rollout. He also looks at telehealth, patient centric interoperability, 21st Century Cures, the HIMSS, HLTH and CHIME conferences, price transparency, information blocking, care moving to the home, the labor shortage and remote work culture. Hope you enjoy! Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:10:00 - The pandemic is the story that shaped all stories00:14:15 - Healthcare systems took a significant financial hit in the months that they couldn’t do elective surgeries00:19:50 - We made a significant number of mistakes in terms of marketing the vaccine00:38:20 - Rural healthcare is set for a lot of progress in 2022

December 10, 2021

Newsday – 2021 on Capitol Hill: A Health IT Update from CHIME’s Mari Savickis

December 6, 2021: Healthcare can’t move forward without regulatory guidelines. Health IT leaders need to be in the know. Mari Savickis, Vice President, Public Policy at CHIME joins us today to discuss interoperability, de-identified data, 21st Century Cures, HIPAA, National Patient Identifier and cybersecurity. Plus the year that was in Washington, DC. HIPAA is so antiquated, but we adhere to it like it’s the 10 Commandments. Is there any movement towards redoing it? Language prohibiting the HHS from developing a patient identification standard was removed from the House Labor bill for the 1st time in the Senate. And the FTC clarified their Health Breach Notification rule to include third-party applications that collect consumer’s health information under privacy protections.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:04:30 - Advocacy led by CHIME’s public policy team resulted in HR 7898 law giving providers credit for cybersecurity best practices00:09:00 - Patient ID Now00:25:00 - CHIME public policy launched the InfoBlockingCenter.org in 2021. A convenient site to find free resources, FAQs, articles, archived webinars, and cheat sheets to prepare you for compliance.00:27:00 - All sectors are facing cybersecurity staffing shortages00:27:30- 3 out of 4 hospitals operate without a designated security leader00:31:30 - Cyber insurance has gone up by almost 50% Questions or comments? Please reach out to [email protected]:CHIME Applauds Federal Trade Commission’s Actions to Secure Consumer Health DataSurvey of CHIME and AEHIS Membership Finds Widespread Cybersecurity Impacts on Healthcare; Need for More Government SupportAttracting, retaining healthcare CISOs: Maybe it’s not a money problem - SC Media

December 6, 2021

How to Use Analytics to Drive ROI in Value-Based Care with Summit Health

December 3, 2021: Building analytics capabilities can clearly, directly and meaningfully impact success in value based contracts in an ACO (Accountable Care Organization). At Summit Health, they are able to give care with better outcomes at a lower cost than the market because of their knowledge of data and their multi-specialty outpatient structure. Joining us today is Dr. Jamie Reedy, Chief of Population Health and Dr. Ashish Parikh, Chief Quality Officer. What is the foundation for ACO analytics? Where does the data come from? What issues can arise with claims data? How do you address data quality? What areas do you prioritize first? How do you align incentives? How do you identify risk gaps? And what is the impact on annual wellness visits?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:09:20 - In this age of virtual care, telehealth and remote physiologic monitoring, data is critical for coordinated and comprehensive patient care00:14:40 - It's often easier to define data quality by exploring what it feels like when it's absent. 00:16:25 - Certain health plans will have selective inclusion or exclusion criteria. And this is unfortunate. 00:24:20 - Pharmacy is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of healthcare expenditureSummit Health

December 3, 2021

How Can Healthcare Reduce Cyber Risk and Maintain Patient Safety with Proofpoint & Fairview Health

December 1, 2021: Cyber attacks are more sophisticated, more frequent and the potential outcomes are far more devastating. What technology tools can help us detect the presence of those malicious threats within our environment, both in the cloud and on-prem? Jim Brady, VP, Information Security & Infrastructure/Operations and CISO at Fairview Health Services and Ryan Witt, Industries Solutions and Strategy Leader at Proofpoint share crucial security strategies to survive phishing, imposter threats, ransomware, and supply chain attacks. What areas should CIOs focus on to deter risk? How can they address cyber with their Board? And what would you say to those who say "it won't happen to us”?Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:05:40 - Credentials are the Nirvana state for cybercriminals00:06:50 - A strong number of attacks are being launched from well-known established data repository sites like Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint.00:08:12 - Every email that's coming in is technically eligible to be a bad email00:22:35 - Research shows that bad actors are in your environment for up to 6 months before being detectedFairview Health ServicesProofpoint

December 1, 2021

Newsday – Labor shortages, Pandemic-driven innovation, and a Reflection on Cybersecurity

November 29, 2021: Rick McElroy, Principal Cyber Security Strategist for VMware and Bill look at cybersecurity from the year behind us and the year forward. A subcommittee has sounded the alarm on the VA’s EHR modernization citing patient safety concerns, cybersecurity issues and the cost of the program. Bloomberg reports that the pandemic blew up old business habits and opened the path to a boom. Companies are finding new ways to match staff, tech and customer demands and U.S. productivity and profits have hit record highs. Plus the Mayo Clinic’s strategic partnership with Google will “transform healthcare”. Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:19:20 - The pandemic drove businesses to remote work. Productivity shot through the roof. And profits shot through the roof. 00:24:30 - The battle for labor is going to continue and cause us to be incredibly creative going into 202200:27:30 - There's been so many missteps with Big Tech in healthcare. They don't understand healthcare but they do understand dataVMwareStories:Legislators grill VA about EHR modernization patient safety concerns - Healthcare IT NewsPandemic Blows up Old Business Habits, Opening Path to a Boom – BloombergMayo CIO: Google Partnership will Transform Healthcare - Beckers

November 29, 2021

Newsday – Health IT 2022 Predictions, Technology in Labor Shortage and the Future of Interoperability…

testNovember 22, 2021: Tony Thornton, Principal Advisor, Federal Health Care at World Wide Technology joins Bill for the news today. What should interoperability look like in eight years? ONC asked, you answered. What can health IT do to address the nursing shortage? What exactly is federal healthcare and how do you drive it? How do we align technology to ensure we are meeting the needs of the customers? We're starting to see amazing AI and machine learning tools and analyzing large amounts of data. The challenge is still getting that data to move and the quality of that data, once it moves. How can we clean it up so that these tools can benefit us?Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:12:10 - Individuals will have internet based access to their past, present and future electronic health information from clinical and administrative sources00:12:30 - Individuals and health professionals will be able to discover and compare online, the costs of healthcare services, procedures or drugs before it is ordered and prescribed00:19:10- Public health response, and preparedness will be driven by real-time data that allow public health agencies to quickly identify when and where infectious disease breaks outWorld Wide TechnologyStories:COVID Telehealth Fraud Caused $1.4B in Losses: DOJ - The Crime ReportWhat it will take to maintain the accelerated pace of innovation in health care post-pandemic - Health EvolutionWhat should interoperability look like in eight years? ONC asked, you answered - Healthcare IT NewsCHS Ready to Play More Offense on Nurse Recruiting, Training - Healthcare Innovation

November 22, 2021

Bill & Drex Recap Conference Sprint: HLTH, CHIME & Healthcare 2 Healthcare

November 19, 2021: Bill and Drex discuss the latest round of in-person (yippee!) conferences. HLTH, CHIME & Healthcare 2 Healthcare. The top five themes that came up were Labor Shortage, Cybersecurity, Digital Front Door, Automation and Care Venues. As a CIO, what do you do when staff members start getting better offers elsewhere? What are the keys to staff retention? Why do some health systems handle the recovery from ransomware attacks really well and others suffer? What is happening in the world of automation and specifically clinical automation tools? And can we figure out how to adopt them very quickly? And care venues are getting smaller, more creative and more specialized. These new settings are driving CIO's to come up with new ways to do things they’ve never ever done before. Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:03:20 - Will company cultures start to decay as we continue to look at each other through a screen?00:12:50 - Digital health is about simplicity. It’s about thinking about patients as consumers and how they deal with all the other online parts of their life today.00:14:40 - There's a significant nurse shortage coming right down the pike00:19:30 - The 3 companies to watch in 2022 are Transcarent, Best Buy and Walmart

November 19, 2021

Newsday – Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Automation from Sirius’s Healthcare 2 Healthcare Event

November 15, 2021: Chris Mierzwa, Doug McMillian and Eli Tarlow sit down with Bill at the Sirius Healthcare 2 Healthcare Event to discuss cloud, cybersecurity, automation, labor shortages and more. Why has healthcare been specifically targeted by cyber criminals over the last year? How can health systems protect against a common entry point; phishing? If you get breached, do you know how quickly your health system will bounce back? We’ve heard about clinical automation and IT automation and security automation. AI automation seems to be the new conversation that's going on in healthcare. Is it better to go for a full cloud or hybrid environment? What are CIOs currently saying about cloud? What about latency? And agility?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:07:40 - You actually get smarter when you leave the CIO role and start doing consulting00:11:10 - We led towards Azure for our public cloud00:15:40 - If you get the architecture wrong, you could line yourself up for a world of hurt00:31:20 - RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a hot topic. It’s the buzz word everybody's throwing out.Sirius Healthcare

November 15, 2021

Houston Methodist Center for Innovation Update from VP of Innovations and IT Operations

November 12, 2021: When the pandemic hit, we redefined what it meant not to deliver care but to access care. Todays guest is Michelle Stansbury, Vice President, Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist. How does Houston Methodist approach innovation? What are they doing in the fields of voice recognition, vaccine tracking, customized MyChart and texting technology? How have they accelerated their partnerships with AWS and Epic? And what elements need to be a part of the culture to support the work of innovation?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:15:50 - When the pandemic hit, we knew that virtual medicine was going to be absolutely necessary, especially when we shut down all of our clinics.00:19:30 - Patients’ preferred mode of communication is texting00:20:20 - Well Health and Care Sense platforms00:25:50 - The future of healthcare is voiceHouston Methodist

November 12, 2021

Newsday – Anne Wellington, Executive Director, Digital Strategy at Cedars-Sinai from CHIME Fall 2021

November 8, 2021: The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is looking for solutions that can help avoid clinician burnout and help healthcare staff be as efficient and effective as possible. Entrepreneurs are the most optimistic people in the world but where does technology fit into the overall strategy? Can they solve specific health problems? And are we taking away clinician jobs or are we actually freeing them to spend more time with patients? Anne Wellington the Executive Director, Digital Strategy at Cedars-Sinai joins Bill live from CHIME 2021 to discuss.Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:05:30 - Entrepreneurs are the most optimistic people in the world.00:06:15 - Accelerator Case Study: Diligent Robotics 00:16:00 - It's not about technology. It’s about solving a specific healthcare problemThe Cedars-Sinai Accelerator

November 8, 2021

Putting the Patient First, Citizen Development, Digital, Automation, and Leadership

November 5, 2021: As you start talking about automation, you have to be open, transparent and purposeful with your employees. Some of them will think you’re bringing in a fleet of robots to take over their jobs. What is Intermountain doing with this incredible innovation that promises to offload the mundane and repetitive daily tasks? How does Intermountain develop solutions that stem from the voice of patients? How do they set up citizens for success when it comes to data and access to systems that will help them accomplish what they need? And how do you approach a new leadership role in the middle of a pandemic? Ryan Smith, CIO joins us for all of this and more.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:11:10 - When it comes to human centered design, don’t let IT people design consumer solutions. That's principle number one.00:13:10 - Intermountain Digital Platform00:15:50 - Intermountain has been really purposeful talking about robotic process automation and intelligent automation. How can we let people find more joy in their work and be able to focus their time and effort on the things that really matter and bring value?Intermountain Healthcare

November 5, 2021

Digital Pathology: The Case, The Drivers, and The Solution with WWT and Dell Technologies

November 3, 2021: When you digitize pathology, it creates all sorts of advantages. Pathologists and laboratory staff are able to send results anywhere near or far for diagnosis, consultation, and second opinion. What are the drivers for Digital Pathology? What are the use cases? What is the future of AI in this space? How does interoperability, scalability, performance and security play into it? Dr. Justin Collier, Chief Healthcare Advisor for World Wide Technology and Michael Valante, CTO Digital Pathology for Dell Technologies join us today to discuss. Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:02:00 - Digital pathology is an area of pathology that focuses on the data management elements of digital imaging. So the acquisition, the transmission, the display and the storage of the information that's generated from digitizing glass slides.00:03:00 - We have a major shortage of pathologists00:05:00 - How do we improve the workflow for pathologists and laboratory services?World Wide TechnologyDell Technologies

November 3, 2021

Newsday – CIOs Chat Health IT News in the Halls Of CHIME Fall Forum

November 1, 2021: Newsday from the halls of CHIME Fall Forum 2021. Bill talks to Drex Deford from CrowdStrike, Colin Banas with Dr. First, Aaron Miri with Baptist Jacksonville, William Walders from Health First and Lee Milligan from Asante. No topic is left unspoken. Interoperability, supply chain, the first 100 days of a new CIO role, Epic, 21st Century Cures, current employee retention rates, the difference between an academic medical centre and an IDN (Integrated Delivery Network), cybersecurity, state federal partnerships, vaccination statistics and the pandemic. You won’t want to miss this.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:30 - I thought meaningful use stage two was going to knock things out of the park 00:16:10 - Labor is top of mind for CIOs. They're losing people. It's getting harder.00:35:50 - Florida operates as a family. Texas operates as a business. It's very different. 00:44:30 - You're going to be breached. So you just need to solve the problem really fast. 00:51:40 - Patients should have their information. They should be empowered. We want to empower people.

November 1, 2021

Delivering on Value Based Care with Andrew Sorenson of Castell Health

October 29, 2021: Andrew Sorenson, Chief Analytics Officer at Castell joins us to talk care traffic control. Specifically, value-based care contracts across clinically integrated networks with a deep dive into data. Not only the EHR data, but information around the social determinants of health and payer data too. Intermountain and Castell are making huge progress in this area. What are some of the challenges that health systems face when they make the jump to value based care contracts? How do you manage cost and quality? What are some of the data sets that you have to bring together to make it work? How do you engage clinicians in the process? What drives the highest quality improvements and how does the patient experience this integrated solution?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:04:20 Re-Imagined Primary Care00:09:30 - One of the key challenges that I hear that health systems are facing is a timing question00:13:05 - The surveillance process is really important00:19:00 - When I put my product hat on I need to be a reducer and not a producerCastell Health

October 29, 2021

Newsday – Rohan D’Souza – Chief Product Officer for Olive at HLTH 2021

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October 27, 2021

Newsday – Glen Tullman CEO of Transcarent from HLTH 2021

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October 25, 2021

A Health Leaders Playbook to Addressing the Opioid Crisis

October 22, 2021: There is an opioid crisis in the US today. It’s a vicious cycle for people in the throes of addiction. They might also be coping with family issues, financial ruin or the psychiatric and mental health disorders that go along with it. And the pandemic only added to the problem with social isolation and the erosion of a lot of safety networks. Even before the pandemic, there was a lack of resources.. What is the CHIME Opioid Task Force doing to help? Joining us today are members Matt Sullivan, Atrium Health, Sean Kelly, Imprivata, Bruce Cerullo, Nordic Consulting and Scott Weiner, Brigham. Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:04:00 - The overdose numbers from 2020 were the worst we've ever recorded. 00:17:45 - Opioid Action Center - https://opioidactioncenter.com/00:20:30 - EPCS - Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances00:26:33 - Opioid Task Force Playbook - https://chimecentral.org/opioid-task-force-playbook/

October 22, 2021

Securing the Clinical Network from the Hospital to the Home and the Cloud with VMware and GE Healthcare

October 20, 2021: Today we are talking to Anand Srinivas, Office of the CTO, Service Provider Edge Business Unit at VMware and Paul Jones, Global Director of Product Management for Network and Security Solution at GE Healthcare. How can we secure clinical networks both in the hospital and as we expand beyond the four walls and into the cloud? How are clinical devices connected, tracked, managed, secured, and monitored today? What challenges does that create for health systems? The solutions VMWare and GE Healthcare provide are GE Healthcare – Mural Virtual Care, OnWatch Network Edge, GE Healthcare - OnWatch Network Performance and VMware SASE. When we look at these solutions, what elements have to be addressed? With a multitude of medical devices operating, it gets really challenging to have visibility and keep the healthcare environment holistic and focused.Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:08:43 - Traditional approaches are basically bent and duct taped00:13:07 - You need to switch from reactive to proactive continuous monitoring, where a system is actually doing all the analytics and correlation in the background00:13:48 - GE Healthcare - OnWatch Network Performance - reduces disruptions and enhances care00:23:00 - GE Healthcare – Mural Virtual Care - activates your virtual hospital00:32:55 - OnWatch Network Edge00:34:20 - VMware SASE - Secure Access Service Edge. The convergence of cloud networking and cloud security for simplicity, scalability, flexibility and pervasive security.

October 20, 2021

Newsday – Apple’s Mis-steps and CyberSecurity Mortality Risk with Chris Logan

October 18, 2021: Chris Logan, Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Censinet joins Bill for the news. Ransomware impacts patient care in more ways than one. A new report shows it also increases mortality rates. A healthcare leader urges systems to adopt NIST cybersecurity standards. Best Buy acquires Current Health. Apple employees lash out. And what will it take to maintain the accelerated pace of innovation post-pandemic?Key Points:00:00:00 - Intro00:03:45 - The perimeter in healthcare has been completely shattered00:30:00 - Bringing quality healthcare into the home has become an important part of the healthcare system often allowing patients better quality of life00:31:30 - Remote patient monitoring took off during the pandemic. Where does this go and what implications does it have on healthcare?Censinet Stories:Ransomware attacks impact patient care, including increased mortality rates, report finds - Fierce HealthcareAdopt NIST cybersecurity standards, health care leader urges - SC MediaWhat it will take to maintain the accelerated pace of innovation in health care post-pandemic - Health Evolution Best Buy to acquire Current Health to help make home the center of health - Best BuyApple Employees Say Backlash and Confusion Hurt Health Projects - Business Insider

October 18, 2021

A CIO/CTO Conversation on Development, Information Blocking and Call Centers

October 15, 2021: Charles Boicey, CTO for Clearsense talks call centers, development, data science and information blocking with Bill. We need call centers to support so many parts of our conversation with the patient but they are not optimal. What is possible? What are the best practices? Where do development projects go off the rails? How do you manage outsource development partners? And where do we start with app development? How are we going to manage the information blocking rule? Is there any way to ensure our patients that the PHAs that connect to our EHR and request data on their behalf are safe?Key Points:NLP - Natural Language Processing and NLU - Natural Language Understanding [00:06:15] It's really important that you future-proof your assets [00:11:15] Development projects go off the rails initially when whatever we've conceived isn't in alignment with the board [00:18:38] What does low-code no-code look like? [00:23:16] Too much black boxing is going to hurt healthcare [00:34:25] Clearsense

October 15, 2021

Newsday – Health IT Staff Shortage, Telehealth Long-Term, and the Future Patient Portal

October 11, 2021: It’s Newsday with Dr. Justin Collier, Chief Healthcare Advisor for World Wide Technology. A lawsuit is alleging that a cyber incident at Springhill Medical Center led to an infant’s death. A Mercer report confirms that the healthcare workforce is burned-out and traumatized following COVID. Graphite Health launched with its first three organizing members SSM Health, Presbyterian Healthcare and Intermountain. And the ONC reported an increase in patient portal usage. How do we bring clinicians up to speed quicker with technology? How can we make the onboarding process faster and more efficient for traveling nurses? And telehealth use is still surging but patient satisfaction has declined. Key Points:00:00:00 - Introduction00:06:30 - In the next 5 years 900,000 nurses are projected to permanently leave their profession00:10:36 - The clinicians focus on the patient and on patient interaction is what really fuels their engines00:19:00 - If I were a CIO today, I'd be planning on a significant amount of turnover00:21:48 - One of the key drivers of joy is knowing that your work has meaning 00:26:04 - Patient portal usage is up. Why is that?00:34:30 - Once the world is healthier, I think it's going to be convenience and ease that will drive continued telehealth encountersStories:Hospital ransomware attack led to infant's death, lawsuit alleges - Healthcare IT NewsGreat Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours - McKinseyMercer Report: Healthcare Labor Shortage Will Continue to Grow - Healthcare InnovationGraphite Health Launches with Three Founding Partners Intermountain, SSM Health and PresbyterianONC: More patients are downloading their medical records and using portals - Healthcare IT NewsHow CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes - Healthcare IT NewsTelehealth use is surging but patient satisfaction with the service has declined, new study finds - FierceHealthcareMaryland

October 11, 2021

Activating Your Health Data Supply Chain with Intermountain’s Castell Health and Arcadia

October 8, 2021: End users are getting better about not treating the EHR like a giant post-it note. And we’re seeing much better data quality. Consistently delivering trusted, comprehensive data can create competitive advantages for your organization. Learn how to strategically manage and mobilize data with Intermountain’s Castell Health and Arcadia, who have partnered to elevate value-based care performance. Joining us is David Dirks and Michael Meucci. What are common issues that arise from a poorly managed data supply chain? What is required for data to be trusted and fit for use in healthcare? And how can you master good data governance, strong data provenance management, and effective infrastructure?Key Points:The compounded annual growth rate of healthcare data is 36% [00:03:22] We cannot hire computer scientist folks with engineering backgrounds fast enough. It’s an extremely hot labor market. [00:41:07] HIMSS: Activating Your Healthcare Data Supply Chain Castell Arcadia David Dirks: [email protected] Meucci: [email protected]

October 8, 2021

Newsday – Epic’s Big Week, St Jude’s Awesome Fundraiser, and Binge Watching Ideas with Drex

October 4, 2021: Drex DeFord and Bill discuss wearables, the VA EHR rollout, the Epic dental module, cybersecurity, remote work, the CHIME, HLTH and HIMSS Vibe conferences and even golf. SpaceX owner Elon Musk is donating $50 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Walmart announced a new partnership with Epic to help customers simplify their health care. HP released a Security report titled "Rebellions & Rejection” showing that work from home is a cybersecurity "ticking time bomb. And Epic's vaccine credential tech is now available to 25 million patients.Key Points:The Epic dental module used to be the forgotten stepchild. Now it’s legit. [00:13:00] Epic’s vaccine credentialing technology is now available to 25 million individuals through their My Chart account [00:18:10] 83% believe remote work has become a ticking time bomb for network breaches [00:25:13] Our processes in security are cautious and err on the side of safety which means they are generally slow [00:28:11] CrowdStrikeStories:Elon Musk chips in $50 million for SpaceX Inspiration4’s children’s cancer fundraising effort - Market WatchWalmart Selects Epic To Help Customers Simplify Their Health Care - Walmart.comEpic's vaccine credential tech now available to 25M patients - Healthcare IT NewsWFH is a cybersecurity "ticking time bomb," according to a new report - Tech RepublicHow CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes | Healthcare IT NewsA New Spin on an "Age-Old Problem": How Leaders Are Tacking Interoperability | healthsystemcio.com

October 4, 2021

Building a Security Framework for 2022 and Beyond with Seattle Children’s and Proofpoint

October 1, 2021: Cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated. It’s no longer a matter of WILL they get in but WHEN? Ryan Witt, Industries Solutions and Strategy Leader at Proofpoint and Gary Gooden, Chief Technology and Security Officer at Seattle Children's run us through scenarios to watch out for. Did you know that 81% of emails are being identified as malicious and getting blocked at this point? And Proofpoint stops roughly 450 million threats of all types on a daily basis. When it comes to people, process and technology, where do you allocate your resources and time? Have you embarked on a zero trust journey? Is your endpoint detection service 24/7 365? And what is isolation technology?Key Points:Credentials are the nirvana state of any bad actor or cyber criminal organization. Once they get those they have an incredible ability to decide what sort of exploit they want to launch against your institution. [00:03:30] Credential skimming and credential gathering is a big deal [00:10:41] Security is what I refer to as the tip of the spirit, the innovation. And not security for the sake of creating friction. [00:15:30] Deep Packet Inspection technology is critical [00:29:00] Proofpoint Seattle Children's

October 1, 2021

Newsday – Growing Health Tech, Metrics on Patient Tech-ness, and Big Tech Plans

September 27, 2021: Anne Weiler, health tech entrepreneur joins Bill for the news. When growing a startup, what comes first? The clients or the right investors? Johns Hopkins Medicine has developed an Epic-embedded tool aimed at automatically identifying patients likely to need telehealth technical assistance. Xealth raised $24 million in new funding. Halo Health is being acquired by Symplr. Four out of six traveling intensive care unit nurses quit just one day after arriving at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California, due to a lack of familiarity with the EHR. And will Big Tech firms save the day in healthcare? Or is it just too complicated?Key Points:Revenue will get you investment. Investment will not necessarily get you revenue. [00:21:00] The issue isn't that healthcare technology is that hard, it's that the business models are screwed up [00:31:30] There's no incentive to share data. Data sharing is not hard if you actually want to do it. [00:31:30] Getting information out of the EHR is one level of complexity. Getting it back in is that complexity times five. [00:32:30] Should one of the big tech firms buy a hospital system? The answer is no. [00:35:06] Stories:Johns Hopkins Develops Epic-embedded Tool to better Support Telehealth patients - Healthcare IT NewsProvidence spinout Xealth raises $24M to expand digital health services - GeekWireFast-growing Cincinnati startup celebrates exit following acquisition by Texas-based firm - bizjournals.comIs Healthcare Too Hard for Big Tech Firms? - Healthcare IT NewsAfter Traveling Nurses Quit, Hospital Blames lack of EHR Familiarity - Healthcare IT News

September 27, 2021

Building Effective Clinical Data Models with Angelique Russell

September 24, 2021: Examine. Diagnose. Prescribe. Is predictive analytics the magic pill for healthcare? Angelique Russell, Senior Clinical Data Scientist / Informaticist joins us today to share her advanced data science and deep healthcare expertise. How can we use visualization and modeling techniques to solve healthcare’s most challenging problems? What kind of insights are we looking to derive from the data? Have the tools changed much over the last five years? Are we still focused on provider data or are we starting to pull in some other data? And what is the future of machine learning, AI and NLP? Key Points:In 2011 the focus in healthcare was that we needed to modernize [00:04:20]Treatment guidelines and order sets, which are how hospitals standardize treatment, change all the time [00:12:40]Analytics answers questions and data science explores what questions we should be asking [00:18:15]Prediction is before the diagnostic criteria is met and detection is after that point [00:33:30]The Undoing Project book by Michael LewisCogitativo

September 24, 2021

Newsday – Patient Volumes, Remote Work, and Big Tech in Healthcare

September 20, 2021: Sue Schade from StarBridge Advisors joins Bill for the news. How can we be more productive in health IT? Where are the pain points? What tools can we bring to bear? How can we engage patients that have delayed care? McKinsey survey reveals U.S. hospital patient volumes have moved back towards 2019 levels. Wall Street Journal reports that remote work may now last for two years, worrying some bosses. Another big conversation is the rework of the labor pool. And is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms? Some say, if companies misunderstand evidence-based medicine, they have no business bringing technology into medicine at all. And when it comes to the countless disruptive technological innovations that have been flooding the medical field the last couple of years, the essence of this change is not technological it seems, but rather cultural.Key Points:Burnout of staff is not overWhat can we do to make physician’s lives easier and more efficient?You do what you can in this Zoom world“Now What? Working in a Post Covid World” by Russ Rudish, Principal at Starbridge AdvisorsSue Schade blog: Patient Friendly Testing - Yes a Positive StoryStarBridge AdvisorsStories:Survey: Patient Volumes Reportedly Moving Back to 2019 Levels | Healthcare Innovation - hcinnovationgroup.comRemote Work May Now Last for Two Years, Worrying Some Bosses - WSJIs healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms? - Healthcare IT NewsDigital Health Is a Cultural Transformation - medicalfuturist.com

September 20, 2021

Understanding Data Governance, Analytics, and Human-Centered Design with Himformatics’ Paula Edwards

September 17, 2021: What are the characteristics of a high functioning healthcare system with regard to data and analytics? How do you provide data to third parties? How do you protect that data? How do you anonymize that data? How do you ensure that you're not allowing it to just run loose in the wild? Paula Edwards is Consultant, Analytics & Data Governance Practice Leader at Himformatics, an advisory company who works with health systems to make sure they're getting the most value out of their technology and data investments. How do you design systems that have people and technology working together? Who participates in data governance? What does an effective data literacy program look like? And what trends are we seeing with academic medical centers? Key Points:What is human centered design? [00:10:45]To a certain extent, the academic medical centers are driving the industry [00:18:06]There’s so many models for organizing analytics. It's mind boggling. [00:28:05]At its very nature, healthcare data and especially clinical data is just messy [00:33:10] There's a lot going on in the world of natural language processing [00:36:00]Most studies evaluating AI in radiology didn’t validate the results - Health Data ManagementDesign Characteristics of Studies Reporting the Performance of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Diagnostic Analysis of Medical ImagesHimformatics

September 17, 2021

Newsday – DC Update, Telehealth Boundaries and Future of Healthcare

September 13, 2021: The regulatory environment drives healthcare. And as IT leaders, we HAVE to understand it. Mari Savickis, Vice President, Public Policy at CHIME joins us today to discuss HIPAA, information blocking, price transparency, AI, machine learning and interoperability. The Biden Administration announces ambitious initiatives to bolster the nation’s cybersecurity. Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Apple have pledged a combined $30-plus-billion cybersecurity investment. Plus all you need to know about the HIPAA proposed rule and telehealth's battle over state lines. Key Points:Make HIPAA and information blocking definitions the same [00:16:30] When it comes to price transparency, it's buyer beware [00:22:15] AI and machine learning gain steam [00:37:20] We need to have better interoperability and standardization for the public health infrastructure [00:39:12] Subscribe to CHIME’s weekly briefings - [email protected]://www.cisa.gov/jcdcStories:Tech Giants Commit $30B to Cybersecurity After White House Meeting - SDxCentralTelehealth's limits: Battle over state lines and licensing threatens patients' options (medicalxpress.com) CHIME HIPAA Proposed Rule cheat sheetBiden Administration Unveils $65 Billion Plan to Combat Next Pandemics After Covid – NBC4 WashingtonThe White House FACT SHEET: Biden Administration and Private Sector Leaders Announce Ambitious Initiatives to Bolster the Nation’s CybersecurityThe White House: American Pandemic Preparedness: Transforming Our CapabilitiesPredicting the future of healthcare: 10 takeaways from HIMSS21 | MedTech Dive

September 13, 2021

The Many Hats of the CIO with Brian Sterud of Faith Regional Health Services

September 10, 2021: Brian Sterud wears many hats at Faith Regional Health. He’s the VP of IT, the CIO and the CISO. In smaller health systems everyone has to muck in. How do they cover it all? How do they manage their time and stay current? Every health system is prepared for a 24 hours or less security risk. But after that, things get complicated. How would a smaller organization handle 30 days? 40 days? What's the biggest learning from having the ERP suite in the cloud? Can you get to the level of customization that you want? What kind of things can you do to improve clinician experience? What’s it like to do a comprehensive network upgrade with Aruba? How has that helped security and operations? And what kinds of technology priorities are on the agenda for the next 24 months?Key Points:We can be really nimble because of the multiple hats we wear [00:06:20] There's always something more that you can do in regards to security risks [00:11:30] Take a hard look at endpoint protection and DLP and where that sits within your organization [00:24:30] How do you stay up with Price Transparency and 21st Century Cures? [00:24:44] How do you maintain excellent office culture? [00:26:05] Faith Regional Health

September 10, 2021

Evolution of Ransomware Protections with Sirius and CrowdStrike

September 9, 2021: Our news-cycle has been dominated for years by the concept that systems can be overtaken in minutes. We are experiencing a frenetic pace within the industry to protect against malicious attacks - including destruction-ware, phishing, ransomware, and virus-based activities. We must have a vision, not only from the vulnerable sets of systems, but from looking through the lens of an attacker. Using the defensive-stance will improve the present-state posture and allow for the evolution of consistent and distributed awareness and control-models. Why is healthcare being targeted in these vicious attacks, and how is this going to be resolved? Is there a clear-path forward?Join our webinar “Coming Through a Ransomware Event - Best Practices and Lessons Learned” on Thursday, October 7th at 11:00 AM eastern time. We are going to take a unique look at the Sky Lakes Medical Center ransomware event with guests:John Gaede, Director of Information Services at Sky Lakes Medical CenterLee Milligan, Vice President of Medical Informatics at AsanteMatt Sickles, Solutions Architect at Sirius Computer Solutions

September 9, 2021

Modern Access Models for Access Management and Directory Services with Sirius and Duo

September 8, 2021: We all log in to our machines to get started with our day. While this used to be just a terminal at your desk or workstation, the devices are with us all the time. Admission criteria for backup, compute, network, and storage relies on a consistent authentication model. Role-based access criteria is even more important as directory authentication is scaled and shared. Development of a consistent approach towards the development of controls will provide for an authoritative source of resources to access and control systems. As the access model for healthcare evolves, are we seeing steps taken that are going to change how we interact with technology? There have been a lot of breaches reported in the media - not just healthcare, but surrounding every organization in the world - is this the starting-point for our global remediation?Join our webinar “Coming Through a Ransomware Event - Best Practices and Lessons Learned” on Thursday, October 7th at 11:00 AM eastern time. We are going to take a unique look at the Sky Lakes Medical Center ransomware event with guests:John Gaede, Director of Information Services at Sky Lakes Medical CenterLee Milligan, Vice President of Medical Informatics at AsanteMatt Sickles, Solutions Architect at Sirius Computer Solutions

September 8, 2021

Newsday – A Rundown of Patient Experience and Stories from HIMSS with David Bensema

September 7, 2021: David Bensema joins Bill for the news. Health systems need to give patients an outstanding and consistent patient experience. Banner Health has reimagined the care model but can it compete with other consumer choices? What did a Henry Ford exec learn from Hyatt and MSNBC about consumer preferences? Zoom's head of healthcare talks about the future of telemedicine and OIG officials take aim at telehealth fraud schemes to ensure virtual care is provided with integrity.Key Points:50% of pilots are stuck. They're not moving forward. [00:10:30]Is telehealth the modern day house call? [00:14:07] Why aren’t health systems attacking the community health issue of diabetes? [00:25:15]Health systems have to build their brand and they have to be conscious of their brand. And quality has to be first and foremost. [00:50:26]Stories:Health systems need to give patients an outstanding and consistent patient experience - Healthcare Finance NewsAs patient experience becomes more important, technology can help healthcare focus on the consumer - Healthcare Finance NewsWhat a Henry Ford exec learned from Hyatt, MSNBC about consumer preferences - BeckersZoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine - Healthcare Finance NewsOIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement - Healthcare IT News

September 7, 2021

Leading Through Change with Kristin Myers of Mount Sinai

September 3, 2021: Kristin Myers, CIO at Mount Sinai brings us up to speed on her game plan for cybersecurity, digital solutions, patient experience and managing a remote team. 12% of all ransomware attacks are in healthcare. Downtime is dangerous. What kind of CISO should you hire to help defend your health system in the best way possible? What challenges has Mount Sinai been addressing through the pandemic? What’s the best way to get patient feedback? How do you determine and prioritize the best care solutions? What technology do you need to put in place? And where are we at with AI-Enhanced Medical Imaging?Key Points:Having direct patient input into the solutions is extremely important [00:06:40] What is the best philosophy on build versus buy? [00:07:15] Healthcare has been a little behind other sectors as it relates to cybersecurity maturity [00:10:05]The key to remote working is communication, being transparent and making sure that you're available to your team [00:23:10] Mount Sinai

September 3, 2021

Consistent Security Model for Cloud, Hybrid, and Local Datacenters with Sirius and Check Point

September 2, 2021: Establishing routine protections for information security are paramount to establishing an effective set of security controls. While the technology is specific, the pedagogy of these actions may leave gaps for some of the new-mode approaches. Inspection of how we can define consistent control-planes are essential to the resiliency and scalability of the current- and future-state elements in all aspects of the protection model. Cloud has a known good baseline of security when it starts - how is this changing and adding risk? Do you think there will ever be a 100% cloud-based set of systems for healthcare, or will it always be in a hybrid-state?Join our webinar “Coming Through a Ransomware Event - Best Practices and Lessons Learned” on Thursday, October 7th at 11:00 AM eastern time. We are going to take a unique look at the Sky Lakes Medical Center ransomware event with guests:John Gaede, Director of Information Services at Sky Lakes Medical CenterLee Milligan, Vice President of Medical Informatics at AsanteMatt Sickles, Solutions Architect at Sirius Computer Solutions

September 2, 2021

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