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I read somewhere that there are 3 major distractions we suffer from at home The refrigerator The Television, and The Bed I’m not so sure about the last one especially in light of the continued data that emerges (Nap Time for Everyone! – Freakonomics) that demonstrates the value of napping during the day for airline […]
Supporting a Caring Health System This week I am talking to Collin O’Neill, the CEO of Pilleve (@Pilleve1) and Gautam Chebrolu, the Founder and CTO of Pilleve a company addressing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis with innovative technology built to work within the existing pharmaceutical distribution systems. The company’s early roots came from personal experiences bound […]
This week I am talking to Jeff Fallon, (@IamJeffFallon) Chairman and CEO of eVideon (@evideonhealth) who are delivering solutions to engage with patients using one of the few patient facing tools to be found in hospital rooms. Jeff spent the early part of his career in the medical device and pharmaceutical space but like myself […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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 […]
Designing a Resilient Healthcare System This week I am talking to Margaret Lozovatsky, MD (@DoctorLozo), SVP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Novant Health (@NovantHealth). Margaret came into medicine with a computer science degree right at the time Electronic Health Records were being rolled out giving her an edge in both understanding as well as seeing the […]
Telehealth Week This week is Telehealth awareness week so it was great to catch up with Ann Wood Johnson (@AnnMondJohnson), CEO of the American Telemedicine Association – ATA (@AmericanTelemed), the only organization completely focused on accelerating the adoption of Telehealth. Ann started out focused on early stage companies and joined the ATA before the Pandemic and has […]
Solving Problems with Clinical Data This week I am talking to Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, Associated CMIO at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center at Penn State Health. Dick is a professor in Internal medicine, a career choice made in his 4th year of medical school as he was looking to solve the mystery […]
Reporting from HIMSS This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September and was recorded at the HIMSS 2021 show that took place in Las Vegas from August 9 to 13 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping […]
Healthcare Data Finally Freed This week I am talking to Jay Sultan, Vice President of Strategy, Healthcare, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, who arrived into healthcare as a technologists and software. His intersection with healthcare started out with personal frustration and disbelief of the lack of sharing of information and systems thinking that was pervasive. The great news […]
Technical Support Done Right This week I am talking to Chris Wickersham, Director, CereCore who provide EHR implementations, IT and application support. In Chris’ case his origin story and underlying personal driver was a woman looking for help to get a hospital bound patient to their son’s wedding before they died. They managed to help and make […]
Consensus Cloud Solutions This week I am talking to John Nebergall, Chief Operating Officer of Consensus Cloud Solutions which we recorded live from HIMSS 21 in Las Vegas. Consensus is a spin off from J2 and eFax and they provide interoperability and streamlined workflows in a simple platform that keeps you connected through each patient’s continuum of care […]
This week I find myself in Las Vegas to attend the HIMSS 2021 conference that was postponed from the beginning of the pandemic and it has been an interesting experience. There are so many elements of deja vu in the run-up arriving at the 2020 conference that I had advice to offer for those […]
This week I am talking to James Mault, MD, CEO of BioIntelliSense (@BioIntelliSense), who started out as a Cardiopulmonary technician and found his path and career by way of a mentor, Bob Bartlett with the father of ECMO to become a Cardiothoracic surgeon. His early experiences drove his desire for more complete monitoring, closer to the experience […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of August 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 […]
National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) This week I am talking to Kelvin Coleman, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) (@StaySafeOnline) that is building lasting public/private partnerships to create and implement broad-reaching education and awareness efforts to help enable us all to be cyber aware and cybersafe Kelvin describe himself as the Forest Gump […]
This week I am talking to Emad Rizk, MD President and CEO of Cotiviti (@Cotiviti) who are providing analytics reshaping the economics of healthcare. Emad has had extensive experience working with payers, hospital systems, government, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, that offers a unique lens to help solve some of the hard problems in healthcare. We discuss the […]
Fixing Healthcare This week I am talking to Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, (@sacjai) President and CEO of the SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan that is focused on keeping seniors healthy and Independent. Sachin is a physician by training, but has had tours of duty in the federal government, pharma industry, managed care and care delivery and as a result has […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of June 2022 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 […]
This week I am talking to Ron Chiarello, PhD (@roncphd) CEO and founder of Alveo Technologies, bringing diagnostic testing into the home: Everyone, Anytime, Everywhere Ron started his career in physics where he was involved in low temperature technology and testing for contamination using high intensity x-rays. Like me he was influenced by the original Star Trek […]
The Regulatory Whisperer This week I am talking to Michael Hufford the CEO and Co-Founder of Lygensis a company that is breaking the mold of organ replacement and enabling organ regeneration. They recently received FDA 2A clearance and additional funding and will be starting their first human trials shortly. Michaels background has helped him master the […]
Carin Alliance This week I am talking to Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners and a Healthcare technology specialist and focus on the and also the program manager of the Carin Alliance that is trying to get more data into the hands of patients and building on a multitude of interoperability programs. We discuss the early challenges […]
Money Games in Healthcare and How To Solve them This week I am talking to Marty Makary, MD, MPH, (@MartyMakary) Professor Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health Editor of Medpage, and author of The Price We Pay – What Broke American Healthcare – and How to Fix It (released Jun 8, 2021) and Unaccountable […]
Masks Mandates and Conference Vaccine Requirements 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 […]
This week I am talking to James Lu, M.D. Ph.D., President, co-founder of Helix (@my_Helix), an end-to-end population genomics platform. Dr Lu has an interesting background with a PhD in genomics working with Robert Gibbs from Baylor College of Medicine and worked in the Machine learning laboratory at Duke. Even in the early days of sequencing […]
Affordable Equitable Healthcare for Everyone This week I am talking to Miles Romney, CTO and co-founder of eVisit (@eVisit). Miles has an unusual and interesting background, he is a health IT expert who also produces Broadway musicals and has even won a Tony Award. His diversity brings some unique insights to the world of healthcare where […]
