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Consumer Patient Centricity This week I am talking to Sameer Badlani, MD (@SameerBadlaniMD) an Internist and the CIO for Fairview Health Services We explore his journey to becoming a CIO that started at the University fo Chicago where he was involved in teaching and started exploring his passion around informatics and its ability to bring […]
Don’t Let Your Guard Down It seemed perfectly legitimate and was cleverly assembled into a request from someone I do know in my network, had met and we had communication in the past…. but it was not Over the course of the next 90 minutes, I managed to compromise 3 separate accounts of my own […]
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 […]
Humans the Weakest Link in Security As humans, we are programmed with compassion and a desire to help but this human nature is the foundation of many of the risks that we are exposed to in the digital and cloud filled data world we all inhabit now. Our personal programming and desire to help […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Talking with Marck-Arthur Clerveau, the Innovation Manager for Inventor Services at the MedStar Institute for Innovation (@Mi2innovation) at Medstar Health. Marck works with inventors at MedStar to help set assess, fund, structure and ultimately to find a path for commercialize technology to improve healthcare. We discuss his journey to innovation that started in engineering but took a turn following a […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
Secure Your Digital Life I can’t tell you the number of times I hear people tell me there’s no need to worry about being hacked – why would anyone ever be interested in me Well that’s true they are not, but they are interested in your accounts, your identity, and your money and they get to […]
Aspirin is in the news again with the latest article published in JAMA this past week: A Practical Approach to Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention. Building on the ASPREE, ASCEND and ARRIVE trials and a recent meta-analysis: Association of Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention With Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding Events: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, […]
This week I am talking to Shai Gozani MD, PhD, President and CEO of Neurometrix – a company focusing on improving the diagnosis and treatment of disease using digital technology. Shai has a background as an electrical engineer and worked for Bell Labs back in the mid 1980’s and studied for his PhD in Neurobiology focusing […]
Virtual Pharmacists I spoke with Mark Engelen, CEO & Co-Founder for RxLive at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building RxLive is working on amplifying the collaborative care model by making pharmacists live into the care process and coordination. They have a platform and a service […]
I spoke with Katie Keating, Client Solutions Professional for IBM Watson Health at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building We reviewed what’s going on at IBM Watson Health, where they have come since the Jeopardy challenge which took place 8 years ago in 2011 and […]
I spoke with Wayne Derkac, MD SVP of Medical Affairs at for BioTel at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building The company has been offering outpatient telemetry since 2002, with the first wirelessly connected medical device in the history of medicine (which included its backup telephone […]
Moneyball for Medicine This week I am talking to Richard Milani, MD, (@rvmilani) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health System and Preventative Medicine and Clinical Epidemiologist and Cardiovascular specialist. We met at the HIMSS 2019 AMDIS Pre-Conference: Reengineering Healthcare Delivery through Innovation. His presentation resonated with me as he focused on the importance of the underlying […]
Imagination from InspiRen This week I am talking to Mike Wang, CEO and Founder of Inspiren and Paul Coyne, Co-Founder, and President. In case you are wondering about the company name Inspiren is a combination of Inspiration and the Chinese word ren a Confucian virtue denoting the good feeling a virtuous human experiences when being altruistic […]
Supporting the Healthcare Consumer Incrementally This week I am talking to David Nichols, the Patient and Family Communications Product Leader for PerfectServe (@PerfectServe) and former Founder and COO of Carewire. They are focused on achieving the vision of a care platform of the future and using Nudges – or as I call it Incrementalism. Carewire […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
Patients Biggest Stakeholder in their Care I was lucky to catch up with Anil Sethi, entrepreneur and previous founder of multiple successful healthcare companies who came to Health Datapalooza where he moderated the panel: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights, and stories from patients/caregivers who have successfully disrupted or redesigned health care. Anil shared his personal […]
I was lucky to catch the ever insightful Dr. Atul Butte (The Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco and TEDxSF Presenter ) following his presentation at Health Datapalooza. He had just come off stage from his presentation: Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, […]
Sleep and Temperature How hot does it get at night and how uncomfortable does that make it for you and difficult to get to sleep? I was lucky to be able to spend some time with Jessica Gunther from Eight Sleep at the Sleepshow who shared some of the details of their new sleep solution called “The Pod”. […]
CPAP on the Go I spoke to Susie Justus, Inside Clinical Specialist from ResMed at the Sleepshow We talked about the new compact travel AirMini Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device that uses an inline filter to deal with moisture and another company offering a nasal mask with pillows and a clever detachable hose connector for patients […]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Lisa Simpson, the President and CEO of Academy Health who are the host organization for Health Datapalooza We had some fun with our memes from the Simpsons We discuss the unique nature of the conference that brings together the public and private sector to use data to transform […]
Science Based Sleep Devices I spoke to Roy Raymann, Vice President, Sleep Science and Scientific Affairs from Sleepscore Labs at the Sleepshow We reviewed some of the products that the Sleepscore products that they have reviewed and curated that have been tested by their team. We talked about the SleepScore app that is available for free […]
Personalized Temperature Control Maybe you struggle with thermostat wars at home and the inability to agree on the temperature to suit everyone. I have been living this challenge all the way back to childhood when my father was the first to the heating system controls to turn down the temperature for the whole house as […]
