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The surgical field is always being improved by cutting edge technology, but the processes used to connect surgical centers to hospitals lack innovation. Dr. Matt Birnholz sits down with Harold Mondschein, CEO and Co-Founder of Medtel Inc. to discuss methods of improving surgical outcomes by capturing structured data. Through better analytics, healthcare providers can better coordinate surgical care while reducing costs and inefficiencies.

Throughout his time as Managing Director of Blacktree Healthcare Consulting, Michael Freytag has seen many changes in the healthcare system. In this program, he will discuss how consulting firms aim to help health care providers optimize the new technologies that are available, as well as adapt to the changing political and economic policies. Dr. Matt Birnholz hosts.

What if there was a way to monitor vital signs in real time? Denise Devine, Co-Founder of RTM Vital Signs, LLC, is working on just that. She is joined by Dr. Matt Birnholz at the Villanova Health Summit to discuss this innovative technology in development, which opens up the possibility of collecting continuous health data from patients to enhance point-of-care treatments.

An expert panel of health professionals representing hospital administration, technology, and medical education convene to discuss how their various career paths have led them in directions that were unexpected at times but ultimately fulfilling. They also talked about why being versatile and willing to embrace change became so important within the health care field.

The panel participants are:

• Jeanne Churchill: Professor of Nursing, Columbia University
• Robert McNally: President and CEO of GeoVax, Inc.
• Michael Freytag: Managing Director of BlackTree Health Consulting
• Daniel Tropeano: CEO of United Healthcare Services, Inc.

From the Villanova Health Summit's Speaker Event, host Dr. Matt Birnholz speaks with Dr. Jeanne Churchill, Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, about how technology is changing the ways health educators teach medicine.

Discover how hearing loss in the US is growing and how it affects young and older people alike. Protect your patients' hearing with these tips and resources in an increasingly noisy world from Dr. John Iskander and Dr. William Murphy in this session of Beyond the Data.

Visit Dangerousdecibels.org to learn how to protect your hearing. Discover “How loud is too loud?”

For patients with Crohn's and Colitis diseases, fecal matter transplants could be the therapy they have been waiting for. Dr. Neil Nandi, Director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Drexel University College of Medicine, will discuss what fecal transplants are, outline the risks and benefits of treatment, and forecast upcoming research. He is joined by Rebecca Kaplan of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation.

From the Villanova Health Summit's Speaker Event, host Dr. Matt Birnholz speaks with Jeanne Vanella, Chief Nursing Officer at Bernoulli, Inc. about the challenges of adopting new, innovative technologies into nursing practices.

This lecture was given at the 360◦ of Fertility: Optimizing Clinical and Laboratory Approaches educational program in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Sandro Esteves, MD, PhD.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

In this interview, Lawrence Sherman and Dr. Ralf Gold discusses the study, "Immunologic Effects of Metformin and Pioglitazone Treatment on Metabolic Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis," which was led by researchers, Laura Negrotto and Dr. Raul Carrea. They will also discuss the impact of the drugs on clinical biomarkers and MRI, as well as future research on immunologic effects tied to MS.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

This lecture was given at the 360◦ of Fertility: Optimizing Clinical and Laboratory Approaches educational program in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Marcos Horton, MD.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

In this educational activity, steering committee members, Dr. Jaume Sastre-Garriga and Dr. Antonio Uccelli, discuss establishing partnerships among practitioners for best patient outcomes.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

Dr. Edgardo Cristiano, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will discuss policy issues in the management of MS specific to optimizing treatment options in this interview.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

This interview with Andrea J. Singer, MD, FACP, CCD, explores strategies for your patients on how to maintain a healthy sexual relationship during ART treatments.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

This lecture was given at the 360◦ of Fertility: Optimizing Clinical and Laboratory Approaches educational program in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Marcos Horton, MD.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

This lecture was given at the 360◦ of Fertility: Optimizing Clinical and Laboratory Approaches educational program in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Martha Luna Rojas, MD.

This interview is supported by an educational grant from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

In this session of Beyond the Data carrying forward ideas discussed at CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. Larry Garber expand on the reasons for medication non-adherence by patients, and priority considerations for helping reduce this risk.

Dr. David Weisman explores a study from Wake Forest School of Medicine that examined the effects of concussions for youth football participants.

Recorded on location at the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Annual Meeting in Orlando, host Dr. Lea Ann Chen, Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University, discusses goals of therapy in IBD with Dr. Hans Herfarth, Professor of Medicine at University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

What if Americans put aside their differences and worked together to fix America's broken healthcare system? What changes need to be made in order to make health care both accessible and affordable without compromising excellent quality of care standards for patients? These and other crucial questions form premise behind the book We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW.

Host Dr. John Russell sits down with Dr. Stephen Klasko, President and CEO of Jefferson University and Jefferson Health and author of We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW.