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Smart Toilets This week I am talking to Chad Adams, President, and CEO of Medic Life – makers of one of the world’s smartest toilets, even smarter? In the context of our current Pandemic with the spread of the Virus SARS-CoV-2 that is sweeping the world and causing the disease COVID19 a virus detecting smart toilet […]
The Importance of Hands-Free This week I am talking with Ben Kanter, MD CMIO for Vocera, the communications company that took the Star Trek Communicator inspired badge and put it into a hospital. They have been offering voice-enabled communications for over 20 years but have emerged as a communication and collaboration platform that uses multiple data […]
This week I am talking to Amy Abernethy, MD, Ph.D. (@DrAbernethyFDA) the Principal Deputy Commissioner & Acting CIO for the FDA (@US_FDA). We had talked in January at CES about the forthcoming meeting focused on the FDA’s Technology Modernization Action Plan (outline here) but as a result of the COVID19 pandemic, the meeting was postponed to Jun 30 (details […]
It may be hard to imagine now but there will be a time when we emerge from our houses and the physical isolation/shelter-in-place and return to work. But doing so is going to require some adaptations and changes to the way we do business, our personal and professional lives. The tail of the SARS-CoV-2 virus […]
Unlocking Data Potential In this special episode I am talking with David Lareau, CEO, Jay Anders, MD Chief Medical Officer and Toni Laracuente, RN Chief Nursing Officer all from Medicomp Systems. We discuss the challenge in healthcare of getting data to the clinical team that need it – so much of the content that has been created in the […]
This week I am talking to Deanna Parker, Assistant VP of Emergency Services at Hardin Memorial that is located in Elizabethtown Kentucky – the heart of Bourbon Whiskey production – more on that later. The area is still in the early stages of the pandemic crisis with a limited number of cases but as Deanna points […]
Track my Solutions This week I am talking to Jeremy Elias, Founder and Chief Executive Officer – TrackMy Solutions, a company taking on the challenge of keeping track of all the devices and technology that is in use in healthcare but like all other technology solutions sometimes requires updates or changes to fix newly discovered […]
Full Month of Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring This week I am talking to Josep Sola, Ph.D. Co-Founder and CTO for Aktiia (@aktiiaglobal), who have created a wrist-worn cuffless continuous blood pressure monitor that lasts a month on one battery charge. How and why does a telecoms engineer end up in medical device and sensor research looking […]
Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February 2020 that is dominated by the Coronavirus (aka COVID-19) outbreak and discusses the upcoming HIMSS Conference You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with […]
Clinical Pattern Recognition This week I am talking with Dave Lareau, CEO of MediComp (@MedicompSys) who has been solving the problem of too much data but not enough information. Dave was involved in the early solutions that became the Lotus Notes platform moving from an early billing solution to a clinically focused solution designed to […]
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 […]
Connecting the Dots This week I am talking to Matthew Michela, President, and CEO of Life Image a company trying to navigate the deluge of information and connecting the dots in the data-rich world of healthcare that remains knowledge poor. Matthew has been in the healthcare industry for an extended period of time and shares […]
How to Identify the Right Patient (and Whisky) With only a few weeks to go to the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando I took the opportunity to catch up with Vince Vitali, the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Nextgate to review the current trends and hear about their special event planned at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
