In this episode we discuss the promise and reality of Interoperability and Precision Medicine and whether these are just the latest buzz words or something we can really begin to leverage to impact the treatment and care of our patients. We talk with a 25 year veteran of Health IT, Alan Portela , about this important topic. Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/Healthtechtalkn LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcare-tech-talk?trk=biz-companies-cym Facebo...
Feb 20, 2017•35 min
We are all unique individuals, therefore what works for one patient may not work for another. No longer is trial and error and acceptable approach to treating patients, it is time to use Big Data to help deliver the most precise medicine and most appropriate treatments to meet our patients needs. Today we talk with Paul D'Alessandro, the Global Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience Practice Leader for PwC about how Big Data is enable better healthcare. For more information, check out DoubleJu...
Feb 11, 2017•15 min
We have been on a bit of a summer hiatus here at Healthcare Tech Talk, but we are back in the editing room and ready to begin publishing new episodes. Today though we present to you an important episode of the AAMI Podcast . If you enjoy it please subscribe to the show. Hospitals are under pressure to draft and implement comprehensive policies that show they have a handle on the crucial patient safety issue of alarm fatigue. There’s been an explosion in the number of medical devices with alarms ...
Aug 22, 2016•38 min
A string of recent, highly publicized "Ransomware" attacks have many healthcare organizations and their vendors scrambling to protect themselves and spurred the FBI to publish a Flash Alert . These attacks are a fairly new paradigm for hospitals after years of protecting themselves from the theft of patient information, hospitals now must worry about the encryption and potential destruction of their data. These attacks seem to be cruder and easier to carry out, but could be even more disruptive ...
Apr 06, 2016•41 min
In 1956 the first practical implementation of a paging system was setup to pager physicians in New York. Fast forward 60 years and pagers seem to be making healthcare their final stand. The modern healthcare environment is much more demanding and complex than in 1956. Alerts from clinical systems, order notifications from the EMR and messages between clinicians not only need to be routed properly, they need to be acknowledged. Today we talk with Marc Ladin, Chief Marketing Officer of Tiger Text,...
Apr 01, 2016•22 min
Many Healthcare organizations have had love hate relationship with Social Media given privacy concerns, the belief the that social media is what you do in your spare time and other reasons. In fact many of us can remember when access was blocked for every computer in our organization. You have to meet your patients where they are though and increasingly that is on Social Media. In this episode, recorded at HIMSS16, we talk with Jan Oldenburg about various strategies that Healthcare organizations...
Mar 25, 2016•20 min
With more than 25% of our listeners coming from outside the U.S., we have been encouraged to provide a more international view of the state of Healthcare Technology. In this episode we have a chance to do just that. Our guest John Rayner, Regional Director of HIMSS Europe, joins us to share his insights into the current state of Health IT in Europe. Learn more about HIMSS Europe at: http://www.himss.eu/ Read John's latest blog post at: http://www.himss.eu/himss-blog/challenges-changes-choices Vi...
Mar 09, 2016•15 min
Cancer will affect nearly everyone, either as a patient, or as friend or family member of patient. Fortunately very intelligent people have been working to find a cure and making some progress in treatment and prevention. Now Cancer MoonShot 2020 brings together industry leaders from across the healthcare spectrum to work together in making the dream of a cure for cancer a reality. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong , whose is the driving force behind Cancer MoonShot 2020. ...
Mar 03, 2016•15 min
In this episode, we talk with Micheal Archuleta. Micheal has been acknowledged as Becker's Healthcare's top 100 CIOs and his organization, Mt. San Rafael, has been awarded "2015 Most Wired Hospitals". Micheal provides us his thoughts on what he feels healthcare organizations need to focus on in 2016. Follow Micheal on twitter at: https://twitter.com/Michael81082
Mar 02, 2016•9 min
Sepsis affects over 1,000,000 patients and causes 280,000 deaths per year, 82 people are affected by a Hospital Acquired Infection every hour, 217 patients are affected every hours by a preventable Adverse Drug Event, CMS fined healthcare organizations more than 420 million dollars in 2015. In the face of these issues and many more, Healthcare organizations are starting to turn to real-time clinical intelligence to help make a serious impact on the well being of their patients. Today we talk wit...
Feb 25, 2016•28 min
The use of Big Data in healthcare is the hot topic, but experts estimate that less than 6% of all organizations have a successful implementation. With typical implementations requiring substantial investment and challenging support requirements, many Healthcare organizations see Big Data out of their reach. Ed Simcox, United States Healthcare Practice Leader for Logicalis , joins us to discuss how some organizations are tackling this challenge. Listen and then reach out to Ed to learn more: Ed.S...
Feb 09, 2016•20 min
Far too often Healthcare providers aren’t talking to each other – patients don’t know this. If you visit the ER, does your Primary Care Physician have a clue, does your dialysis provider? Are you sure? In this episode we are joined by Joseph Mayer, MD. He is the co-founder and CEO of Cureatr , which provides seamless communication between doctors, streamlined workflows and real-time mobile push notifications to alert care providers when their patients are treated in any care setting within their...
Dec 17, 2015•39 min
In this episode we talk with Bill Hudson, Chief Healthcare Strategist with VMware, about the ways we can meet the computing needs of clinicians. Bill draws on his 25 years of experience in Health IT meeting needs of Healthcare organizations, as well as his broad exposure to organizations across the country to help us explore balancing usability and security in the demanding world of Healthcare. Learn more about VMware in Healthcare at: http://www.vmware.com/industry/healthcare/overview.html Visi...
Nov 27, 2015•35 min
Director of Payer and Life Sciences for HIMSS, Shelley Price, joins us to share her insight into Population Health Management and how healthcare organizations can leverage technology to meet this new paradigm of caring for our communities and the individuals within them. Learn even more via: HIMSS Connected Health Conference Top 10 steps to take before launching a Population Health Management Program. Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/Healthtechtalkn LinkedIn htt...
Sep 30, 2015•24 min
Do we now have the tools to fight the effects of aging, dementia, or even Alzheimer's? In this episode we discuss Cognitive Health with Dr. Raj Kumar, Chief Medical Officer of MyCognition . Cognition, defined briefly as the ability to think, learn, respond, and remember, is a crucial issue in healthcare today because of an increasingly aging population and diagnoses of dementia, attention disorders, learning disorders, and anxiety at all-time highs. What is your CQ? MyCQ™, short for cognition qu...
Aug 25, 2015•26 min
From wearable technology to smart homes, the means to gather or monitor our health information is growing leaps and bounds. Connected Health is playing an increasing role in our daily health and is poised to play a major role in the future of healthcare. How does one keep up and create a stratagy for leveraging this technology, either as an organization or as an individual? In this episode we talk with Jennifer Kent, Ph.D., Director of Research Quality and Product Development and Parks Associate...
Aug 12, 2015•32 min
We hope you are having a great summer! We are on a bit of a break, but would like to present to you one of our 12 episodes from the award winning AAMI Podcast. We hope you find it interesting, familiar and then subscribe. Patients being treated with opioids can be at risk for respiratory depression, even resulting in death. A new national initiative spearheaded by the AAMI Foundation’s Healthcare Technology Safety Institute advocates the continuous electronic monitoring of all patients on opioid...
Aug 07, 2015•48 min
Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That is the technology envisioned by this XPRIZE competition, inspired by Star Trek, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. Today we talk with Grant Campany and Rick Valencia about how the XPRIZE process from inspiration to the awarding of the prize and what they hope to achieve with through these grand endeavors. Tricorder.xprize.org Visit us at www.Health...
Jul 08, 2015•53 min
With all the sophisticated technologies we are implementing, supporting or looking forward to in the future it is easy to maybe overlook the "routine". We have all learned though, complacency regarding the "routine" can often get people hurt. In fact an entire career field was launched over concerns that thousands of patients were being harmed due to electrical shocks from the very medical equipment that was meant to help them. Our guest Matt Baretich, author of the latest AAMI Electrical Safety...
Jul 01, 2015•30 min
Live from AAMI2015 we interview Pat Lynch, who has been a technical leader in the medical device maintenance and repair industry for 40 years. There is another side of Pat though, that of a humanitarian. Pat encourages us to give back a fraction of what we have received. His way of doing so is with is organization, Biomeds Without Borders . While many of us have watched out Clinical partners participate in missions to help those need, being a tech doesn't mean you cannot participate. We encourag...
Jun 08, 2015•24 min
AAMI2015 is just around the corner, June 5-8, and in this episode we talk with AAMI President Mary Logan and Director of Education Tirza Lofgreen about what we can expect to be the hot topics at this year's conference and what they have in store for this years attendees! AAMI Conference Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/Healthtechtalkn LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcare-tech-talk?trk=biz-companies-cym Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hea...
May 18, 2015•26 min
40 episodes in 15 months! And we're happy to be featuring Philips, who for 40 years has been providing remote patient monitoring technology. Technology that started as the LifeAlert program and has been expanded to help deliver solutions for many of the issues and interests in healthcare today: aging in place, medical home, chronic disease management... Even big data and data analytics, as Philips has been collecting data from monitored patient populations for many years and are now able to mine...
May 06, 2015•26 min
While at HIMSS15 we were fortunate to sit down with experts who took part in the Protecting Sensitive Information and Preserving Privacy While Becoming More Mobile, sponsored by Citrix. Guest On this episode: Connie Barrera – CISO, Jackson Health Peter Capelli – Vice President & CISO, Catholic Health Sanjay Deo - President, HIPAA-HITECH-SOLUTIONS, INC. Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist, Citrix We discuss How some of the largest health systems are addressing emerging mobile security thre...
Apr 28, 2015•23 min
Many of us know the many challenges of managing our printing and document imaging systems. The impact financially and to our workflow can often me underestimated. As Many organizations have made it a major initiative to cut down on printing, as an environmental, financial and workflow improvment measure. RICOH has positioned itself as a technology company that understands healthcare and builds devices and programs with the understanding that healthcare will likely never be paperLESS... But can b...
Apr 24, 2015•28 min
Sometimes we are surprised by the companies that are producing technology for healthcare; and while the brand name Rubbermaid conjures images of wastebaskets, buckets, practical items for the home or maybe commercial applications, it likely doesn't stick out in our minds as a manufacturer of healthcare devices. While at HIMSS 2015, however, we discovered just what wonderful products Rubbermaid brings to the clinical space - especially with regard to nursing tasks and workflows. Turns out that Ru...
Apr 22, 2015•23 min
During HIMSS15 we were lucky to sit down with Health IT professionals that are busy every day trying to meet the needs of their healthcare organizations. Our guest participated in the panel "IT as a Stragic Imperative for Healthcare Providers in the Digital, Mobile age" sponsored by Citrix. The panel description: Join Citrix and our guest panel as we explore how some of the most innovative health systems are leveraging mobility, virtualization, and cloud services to gain the agility and efficien...
Apr 18, 2015•29 min
PingMD is an integrative platform that establishes an efficient and structured dialogue between patients and their providers, and providers and their colleagues, using a secure app that captures photos, videos, and text conversations; enabling patients to submit relevant information to their providers for immediate feedback, as well as allowing multiple providers - or the care team - to instantly consult with each other toward an immediate solution to patient care needs. Children's Hospital of O...
Apr 14, 2015•20 min
We ventured out on the show floor for "Day 2" of the HIMSS conference and after surviving a concert like rush at the gates to the Exhibit Hall, we caught up for a brief chat with Jeff Fountaine of Honeywell for some insight into their efforts to make life easier on clinicians. (To Kelley's delight) Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/Healthtechtalkn LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcare-tech-talk?trk=biz-companies-cym...
Apr 13, 2015•13 min
We have journied to Chicago and are preparing for a big week at HIMSS 2015! This is a quick introductory show, partially to test our ability to produce and deliver from the field (seeing that somebody - tech Terry - decided to switch laptops right before the trip), and give you some early insight into our week at HIMSS 2015. Keep an eye out for updates via our website and social media! Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/Healthtechtalkn LinkedIn https://www.linkedi...
Apr 12, 2015•4 min
When medical device-related incidents occur in the clinical environment, it's important for the healthcare organization to respond quickly and effectively. In this episode our guest Matt Baretich discusses with us his 7 step process that will help organizations conduct an investigation that will protect its interests, comply with federal regulations and accreditation standards and improve patient safety by avoiding recurrences. Visit us at www.HealthcareTechTalk.net Twitter https://twitter.com/H...
Apr 03, 2015•52 min
