Digital Health
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Data Sharing is Data Caring This week I am talking to Sita Kapoor, CIO, and Co-Founder of HealthEC a data company that is connecting the dots in healthcare. As you will hear Sita has a fascinating background that started in the aeronautics sector as part of an engineering team that programmed the navigational backup system […]
Reducing Transmission of COVID19 This months episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 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 direct via the contact form on my […]
Surviving and Thriving Incrementally in the new Post COVID19 world demands to rethink our business and especially in the light of testing strategies for COVID19 and the challenge of knowing what you need to do to keep your business, employees and customers safe. This week I am talking about the challenge of change and the […]
Is COVID19 Mutating This week I am talking about the virus mutation and the concern this raises about our potential to produce a vaccine that offers immunity that lasts. Viruses change over time and each group of viruses and individuals within groups have different rates. Our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 suggests it does change and likely […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 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 direct via […]
Curated Surgical Training This week I am talking to Richard Vincent, CEO and Co-Founder of FundamentalVR, a company focused on democratizing access to surgery through virtual training. Richard came from a technology background building applications and solutions for the emerging mobile marketplace. To their eye, the next wave included the application of Virtual Reality and […]
Tracking Apps This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of June 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 […]
This week I am talking to, Timothy Washburn, RN the Chief Clinical Officer for Electronic Caregiver about their solutions for virtual caregiving solutions including Addison, their 3D Virtual caregiver. We discuss the challenges associated with delivering home care to the aging population, a problem made more acute with the COVID19 crisis, and even more important to solve. […]
Nurses Month 2020 This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May where we focus on Nurses Month, COVID19 testing and Immunity and USMLE Step 1 Exam Cancellations You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating […]
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 […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 2020 which has been dominated by the infection “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as it is known currently and the virus causing the disease as COVID19 (you can read 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Open Clinical Systems This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Data Sharing and Clinical Sleuthing This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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. […]
