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Dr. David Feinberg was CEO of Geisinger and UCLA Health, then led Google Health before becoming CEO of Cerner. For the past year he’s been Chairman of Oracle Health. So, it's safe to say he knows a thing or two about healthcare IT!

Dr. Feinberg joins  the show to discuss interoperability, AI, health equity, and much more!

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To the uninitiated, interoperability may sound like a surgical term, but it actually refers to how IT systems and other technologies communicate with each other. The goal, of course, is seamless communication to improve efficiency and quality of care, but that's obviously a big challenge. Today on Raise the Line, we dive into this important issue with two people who come at it from different professional perspectives, but who share that goal. Oh, and they also happen to be brothers!  Jake Engle is a Senior Director at Oracle Cerner, a supplier of health information technology used at thousands of facilities worldwide. His brother, Dr. Sam Engle, is a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Wisconsin. On the patient care side, Dr. Engle talks about the value of having a complete patient history in hand prior to appointments to maximize the efficiency of the time spent, but also to avoid doing duplicate tests. “Especially with kids, you never want to have to repeat labs if you don't need to. I feel very strongly about that.” From the tech side, Jake Engle addresses the challenge of trying to synthesize data from multiple sources such as EHRs, insurance records, public health databases or commercial products focused on one niche of healthcare. “I think the healthcare systems are a bit late to the game and it's much a more complicated game.” You’ll also learn about efforts to make it easier for patients to access their health data, the need for data standards in the industry and how their personal relationship contributes to this work.  

As healthcare increasingly relies on technology, it has become even more susceptible to cyber threats, making cybersecurity a major area of concern for the industry.

In this episode of CareTalk, John and David examine the major cybersecurity risks in healthcare and what businesses can do to protect themselves and their customers.

TOPICS
(0:46) How do we navigate in a world where all different kinds of institutions are getting hacked?
(1:56) How Credential Stuffing was used in recent healthcare hacks
(5:30) Potential implications and risks for patient claims information being released
(8:53) What can individuals do to protect themselves from the risk of being hacked?
(14:01) What can companies do to prevent being hacked?

Dive deeper into this episode and read our report, "Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Protecting Patient Data in the Digital Age."

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 Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Stuart Cooper, Client Development Director at Provisions Group, an IT Staffing and Consulting firm, as they talk about consulting and concierge services across multiple industries and verticals. Provisions Group is a strategic and tactical IT consulting and staffing solutions provider that puts the client’s needs first by providing flexible, on-demand IT solutions for business. The company offers flexible, scalable IT strategy consulting, development and implementation powered by a comprehensive staffing and recruitment practice that delivers fully vetted, hard to find technology talent. They serves business of all sizes, but with specialization on growth oriented and mid-sized organizations.

Provisions Group uses a client-centered approach to help clients find and retain top IT talent, as well as provide consulting and concierge services across multiple industries and verticals. They understand the demands on IT and business leaders and partner to find solutions that are scalable and flexible to fit the needs of businesses of any size. They specialize in meeting the needs of growth-oriented companies who want the same access to IT talent and technology as the larger players in their field. While their clients reflect a diverse collection of industries, Provisions Group has exceptional industry experience in healthcare IT, education, distribution and logistics, software, and financial and wealth management industries. Their IT consulting practice delivers a full range of technology consulting services, including data and reporting, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) assessment and deployment, infrastructure, networking and cloud solutions, application development, security, architecture, IT strategy, and CTO/CIO/CISO/CMO advisory services. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, and others, they can deliver solutions that meet the demands of the business. Learn more about them and visit their website today at https://provisionsgroup.com/

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We're back! After a long hiatus, we sat down this week to chat with a software engineer. This new episode  features an interview with Sara Strasner, who works at Olive AI

Sara is interested in closing the gender gap in tech and providing young women and girls an opportunity to get into coding and computer science. She will be volunteering with us this summer as a facilitator and mentor at our Girls Who Code summer camp for middle school students. And she will be the facilitator of the new Girls Who Code club at Lincoln Middle School launching this fall.

Learn about Sara's education pathway, her career change and how she trained for her new role. We also learn what Sara's favorite place in Maine is and  she shares sound advice for young people interested in working in tech.

To learn about Olive AI, visit their website: https://oliveai.com/careers

Investments in digital health hit an all-time high in 2020, only to surpass the new record within the first six month of 2021. Needless to say, there’s never been more attention placed on digital health innovation. But it makes for a crowded market, putting providers and health system CIOs in a challenging position where it’s impossible to vet the wave of new technologies and determine what will really help reduce costs and improve care.

For 25 years, KLAS has helped providers navigate the increasingly complex healthcare IT landscape through research that’s focused on amplifying their voice in the market. With a rigorous process of collecting and assembling feedback from the people who actually use healthcare technology, KLAS forces technology vendors to face, act on, and improve from critical feedback, and gives providers a venue to seek advice from their peers.

In this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders, Keith Figlioli talks to the CEO and co-founder of KLAS, Adam Gale. They discuss his firm’s role in the digital health industry over more than two decades, and touch on topics important for providers, vendors, investors and others playing a role in the industry’s future. They cover a number of issues, such as:

•  The beginning of health tech innovation. KLAS was established at what might feel like the beginning of digital health innovation – even before Meaningful Use was implemented – but once again Adam feels like things are just getting started. He talks about being in the right place, at the right time, to be a trusted voice during the nationwide rollout of electronic health records, and the uncertainty KLAS felt for the future once EHRs were in place. But he also talks about how being at the front edge of technology right now reminds him of those early days, and the limitless possibilities that lie ahead.
• Forcing change through public policy or private markets. Touching on a theme from the last Healthcare Is Hard podcast with ONC’s Steven Posnack, Keith and Adam discuss the levers for implementing change in healthcare IT. Adam shares a conversation he once had with Secretary for Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, where they both expressed envy for the other’s ability to help implement change. While Adam pictured government as a body capable of setting the course, Secretary Leavitt revealed how difficult this actually is. A slight move in any direction, according to Leavitt, creates waves of pushback from multiple angles. But as a private organization with influence over both vendors and providers, KLAS is in a unique position to drive change and improvements across the industry.
• Advice for entrepreneurs. Adam shares insights throughout the interview that are valuable for digital health startups and entrepreneurs, while providing direct advice at times too. For example, he talks about the strategic importance for early-stage companies to invest in their first customer relationships to develop one or two health system customers that will become good references. He says this might be a slower path to success, but stresses the power that word-of-mouth has in the healthcare industry and how this approach builds real value.

To hear Adam and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.

Today’s episode is all about the history and future of infusing tech into healthcare with the goals of improving outcomes and lowering costs, and features one of the leading voices in this field, Jonathan Bush. Jonathan, aka JB, started his career in healthcare as an ambulance driver and army medic, and then met Todd Park, another Bio Eats World guest, while at Booz Allen. Together they founded Athena Women’s Health Clinic, which evolved from a clinic specializing in maternity care to one of the original digital health companies providing cloud-based services and point-of-care clinical and back office tools for providers, later called Athenahealth. In this conversation with a16z general partner Julie Yoo — who is also a digital health builder — JB discusses this evolution, how it mirrors the bigger trend shifts in healthcare, and how it has informed the mission of his new company, Zus, which he compares to a Github for healthtech. JB and Julie cover what’s changed since the launch of Athena, 25 years ago, how to disrupt an entrenched system like healthcare, the role regulation plays in the space, and the under appreciated importance of bottom-up sales. 

Please note there is some colorful language used in this episode, in case you have young children listening.

Meet Pamela Perkins, a Senior Manager, Administrative Coaching, within the Coaching & Training Services department at athenahealth. Learn about Pamela's education and training pathway into this technology role. A former teacher, Pamela has been at athenahealth for 8 years.

She is an experienced healthcare IT consultant specializing in the optimization of revenue cycle processes to achieve financial goals. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Salesforce, Microsoft PowerPoint, GoogleSuite, and an expert user of athenahealth’s Collector product. Strong relationship management professional and skilled corporate trainer who graduated from Maine School of Science and Mathematics and College of the Atlantic. 

Pamela talks about her favorite place in Maine and the ability to work remotely.

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Seeing patients regularly throughout the pandemic meant Ambre Associates, LLC needed secure telehealth for safety and precaution during a time of social distancing.

In today's episode of The Connected Care Team, we speak with Denise Ambre, Psychoanalytic Therapist and owner of Ambre Associates, to follow up with her about how implementing telehealth and secure texting saved her small practice during the pandemic. These newly established telehealth offerings will continue to provide remote virtual care options for patients, even following the pandemic.

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As a critical reaction to the ongoing pandemic, this year has yielded a major rush toward telehealth implementation and new healthcare technologies.

In today's episode of The Connected Care Team, emerging technologies in healthcare IT, telehealth, AI, the EHR, and more are discussed during our interview with Colin Hung, COO and Editor at Healthcare IT Today.

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In conversation with Dr. Geeta Nayyar, one of the Top 25 Women in Health IT, we discuss the current reality of technology in health care.  Can doctors access all of your records?  Will artificial intelligence be a part of your care in the future?  What is your relationship with the health record - both as a patient and as a provider?  And finally, how do you figure out what is good information vs. well, not-so-good information that is out there?  Join our conversation to get answers to these questions, and more.

In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp tackles the concept of terminologies in healthcare, the many places you find them and their relevance to the enterprise, our industry, and you. 

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In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie sits down with Clinical Architecture thought leaders Shaun Shakib, MPH PhD, Andrew Frangleton, and Victor Lee, MD, to discuss SNOMED. They will talk about what SNOMED is, how it used by healthcare applications, the benefits of using SNOMED, potential obstacles and how to avoid them.

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Charlie welcomes Randy Woodward, RN and Senior Clinical Architect as a guest on the podcast to discuss topics relating to applied automation in healthcare IT, including RPA vs AI, patterns of success and omens of failure, and the value automation brings to the industry. Charlie and Randy also discuss the nature of healthcare, and how that relates to the best perspective one should have on automation. Those who are interested should stay tuned at the end of the episode to hear Randy discuss how Clinical Architecture’s products work relevant to automation.

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In this week’s episode, John talks EHRs and physician burnout, prescription drug prices in TV ads, and more.

Highlights include:

• Gundersen Health System and Marshfield Clinic talk merger.
• Bon Secours Mercy Health signs letter of intent to acquire Dublin, Ireland-based Bon Secours Health System.
• UnitedHealthcare’s new bundled payment program for maternity care.
• U.S. District Court judge struck down the 340B rate cut.
• Washington becomes the second state to announce a subscription-based payment model for HCV drugs.

About Darwin Research Group
Darwin Research Group Inc. provides advanced market intelligence and in-depth customer insights to health care executives, with a strategic focus on health care delivery systems and the global shift toward value-based care. Darwin’s client list includes forward-thinking biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as health care providers, private equity, and venture capital firms. The company was founded in 2010 as Darwin Advisory Partners, LLC and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. with a satellite office in Princeton, N.J.

We take (virtually) to the streets of New York with Mount Sinai’s Prabhjot Singh, M.D., who’s learned hands-on that frontline caregivers are the key to building a solid ground game for population health in the U.S.

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