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Democratizing Access with Technology This week I am joined by Michael Robinson (@Robinsonhealth), Vice President Healthcare North America for VMWare. Michael has an interesting international background that provides additional perspectives and insights on how we bring innovation to healthcare and democratize access. As he puts it Technology is the true democratizer of access to healthcare We […]
While I applaud the action of USMLE to move to Pass/Fail scoring – doing so years past the debilitating over-emphasis on Step 1 on the beleaguered medical student I have to ask Why did it take so long and why announce this for 2 years in the future subject at least another 2 years of […]
The End of Theory? This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January 2020 and my attendance at CES and You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics […]
How to Identify the Right Patient (and Whisky) With only a few weeks to go to the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando I took the opportunity to catch up with Vince Vitali, the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Nextgate to review the current trends and hear about their special event planned at the […]
Digital Medicine is the Future This week I am talking to Jennifer Goldsack, an Olympian who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the US Rowing team and the Executive Director of the Digital Medicine Society (DiME). She is working to build the coalition for Digital Health and Digital Medicine. It is interesting to hear […]
Operating Room Efficiency This week I am talking to Dr. Bala Nair, Ph.D. CTO and Co-Founder of Perimatics and an Associate Professor at the University of Washington along with Dr. Rajeev Saxena, MD, MBA Anesthesiology Resident at the University of Washington. They are authors on the paper: Improving Operating Room Efficiency: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Case-Time Duration that […]
This week I am talking to Tom Knight, CEO & Founder of Invistics. The companies name derives from Inventory Visibility and Analytics where they started many years ago tracking inventory and providing better data to companies trying to manage production and their supply chain as the world moved to just in time manufacturing and shipping. […]
Continuous Monitoring of Health So the opportunity to dive deep into glucose metabolism in my body with detail previously confined to laboratories was an exciting proposition. This especially true as I contemplated CES this coming week which has seen each year an ever-expanding Digital Health Pavilion with more companies and new solutions springing up. The […]
There Is No Simple Solution to Healthcare Costs This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2019 and closes out the year You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your […]
Detecting Undiagnosed Silent Killers This week I am talking to Prof. Arik Eisenkraft, MD, MHA, the Chief Medical Officer for BioBeats – a new step in continuous monitoring for blood pressure with a wearable device (watch or patch) that does not use an inflatable cuff for measuring your blood pressure. The journey to this point […]
This week I am talking to Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA, the Founder and CMO of SonarMD (@SonarMD) a company offering a pathway to optimizing the treatment of patients with complex chronic conditions to improve outcomes and decrease costs. Dr Kosinski’s journey started when he took on the role of chairman of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) […]
This week I am talking to Matt Seefeld, EVP at MedEvolve (@MedEvolve). He spent his career in healthcare focused practices and specialty practices and has been developing IT teams who are using analytics and machine learning to manage revenue cycle more efficiently. We talk about the path to this point that was driven by the ever evolving […]
This week I am talking to Brian Powers, MD, (@brianwpowers) resident physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As you will hear he has already achieved a great deal as an emerging voice in Amerian Medicine but we focused on the recently published paper “Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health […]
This week I am talking to Sajad Zalzala, MD, the co-founder of Qalytude a new company featured in a story on CNBC by Chrissy Farr. They are focusing on the longevity and some of the medications that are currently being studied with some intriguing data points to suggest they may be useful in extending lives. He started […]
This week we take a look at mind-body therapies to reduce our need for medication in particular Opioids. JAMA published a Meta-Analysis study (A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis) this month. The researchers reviewed evidence from over 60 studies with more than 6000 people looking at a range of therapies including meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral […]
The recent “cloud deal” signed between Ascension and Google has raised a lot of discussion and concern over the privacy of patients data – in this case perhaps as many as 50 million patients. You can get a good sense of the background and details from this piece on CNBC Google’s hospital data-sharing deal raises […]
This week I am talking with Jacob Reider, MD (@JacobR), CEO of Alliance For Better Health (@Alliance_PPS), a New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) care transformation initiative. Dr. Reider is a family physician who wants the world to be more healthy – a man after my own heart! He previously served as the Deputy National […]
Applying the Artificial Intelligence Solution Set This week I am talking to Ted Willich, CEP of NLP Logix (@NLPLogix) a company that is creating solutions using the toolset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that ranges form Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision and Deep Learning through estimation and prediction modeling and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). His personal […]
Staying Relevant In 2009 we watched and were entertained by The Repair of the Hubble Space Telescope We were still knee-deep in the Financial Crisis that began in 2007 The Icelandic banking system collapsed taking the government with it Michael Jackson died The NY Yankees won the World Series (Go Nats!) Mobile Phone Technology use […]
National Patient Identifier This week I am talking to Dan Cidon (@dcidon), Chief Technology Officer at NextGate (@Nextgate) who is a mechanical engineer by training but found himself on a path of identification of people in the support of the delivery of healthcare. We talked about what some consider a “third-rail” topic – a national patient identifier. […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Thomas Cook Closed for Business How does a company in business for over 170 years suddenly go out of business? Thomas Cook revolutionized travel doing amazing things to increase access inventing the package holiday or tour. At one point it seemed like every high street had a Thomas Cook Office on it featuring the latest […]
This week I am talking to Allen Waziri, MD, Neurosurgeon and Translational Neuroscientist, CEO & Founder – iCE Neurosystems offering “Better Data to Save the Brain”. They have created some transformative EEG technology that derives from a different way of thinking about both data acquisition and what that means for the processing of that data. We discuss the current […]
AI and Wearables Wearables are everywhere and like many technical terms the early entrants have become synonymous and part of the vocabulary Are you Fitbit enough? But in the corridors of healthcare systems and doctors’ offices, there’s less excitement about the penetration of these devices and a healthy skepticism for the value of tracking the […]
This week I am talking to Dr Bill dePaso, Chief Medical Officer for Twistle that focuses on Patient Engagement. Bill is an Internal medicine phsycian who spent his career focused on Pulmonary and Critical Care and sleep. He spent the early part of his career working in Public health in Chicago where communication was the key element […]
