The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

Episode 132: Leveraging AI to Collect Healthcare’s Receipts: An AI Discussion with SmarterDX CEO and Co-Founder Michael Gao

Michael chats with Dr. Michael Gao, CEO and Co-Founder of SmarterDX. The two discuss how Michael's origins in starting a free clinic for uninsured patients sparked his interest in combining technology and healthcare to address systemic issues.

The two address the inefficiencies in the healthcare system, particularly the high cost of revenue cycle tasks, and how leveraging AI can offer immediately value to hospitals. 

Episode 131: Tipping the Barrels and Racing Toward Interoperability: Dr. John Blair, MedAllies

Matthew chats with Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies (and one-time rodeo cowboy). The two discuss MedAllies position as a QHIN candidate, reinvigorating the interoperability movement, and how MedAllies and others plan to address those significant healthcare interoperability shortfalls that are impacting patient care. 

Episode 130: CISO Panel; Maintaining Security and Privacy as Patient Data and Technology Evolves

From WEDI's 2023 National Conference, Greg Garcia, Executive Director, Cyber Security Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) hosts a CISO panel looking at security trends and threats in healthcare. 

Panelists:

• Paul Curylo, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Inova Health Systems
• Bezawit Sumner, Chief Security Officer, Senior Director of Security and Compliance, CRISP Shared Services
• Beth Creed, Supervisory Special Agent, Major Cyber Criminal Squad, Federal Bureau of Investigations

Episode 129: Sharing (Clinical Data) is Caring: CQL Talk with Smile Digital Health’s Bryn Rhodes

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Michael speaks with Smile Digital Health's Director of Standards Strategy Bryn Rhodes about Clinical Quality Language, its challenges with large amounts of data and how FHIR helps mitigate data challenges. 

Episode 128: AI Strategy in Healthcare- Look Before Your Leap

From our recently concluded national conference in Washington DC, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner welcomes a panel of AI SMEs to discuss their successes and challenges in developing AI strategies in healthcare. The panel:

• Kevin Larsen, MD, SVP, Clinical Innovation, Optum
• Derrick Higgins, Head of Enterprise Data Science and AI, HCSC
• Jared Staal, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and AI, Mayo Clinic

Episode 127: Part 2 of our Expert Panel, AI Best Business Practices

The continuation of episode 125, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner has a great conversation on AI best business practices with an impressive panel of SMEs:

• Ram Rimal, Manager of Data Science Engineering, UNC Health
• Jared Staal, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and AI, Mayo Clinic
• John Loomis, Head of Technology, AI, Engineering, Softheon
• Laura Adams, Senior Advisor, National Academy of Medicine
• Jigar Patel, MD, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Product Management for Healthcare, Oracle Cerner

Episode 126: You Gotta Get the Data Right!Talking EMPI with 4medica’s Gregg Church and Alaap Shah, 4medica and Epstein, Becker and Green

Data is an asset and the need for Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) to improve data quality for improving patient care, facilitating interoperability, and unlocking secondary analytics capabilities. 

Michael chats with Gregg Church, President of 4medica and Alaap Shah, lawyer with Epstein, Becker and Green and an advisor for 4medica about the importance of data to EMPIs, how artificial intelligence can address some duplication errors and how health care needs to follow other industries and "get the data right."

 

Episode 125: Privacy and Security Challenges with Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

From WEDI's September 2023 virtual spotlight on Best Business Practice with AI in Healthcare, part 1 of our panel discussion on privacy and security concerns. Moderated by WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner and featuring an esteemed panel of healthcare AI subject matter experts:

• Ram Rimal, Manager of Data Science Engineering, UNC Health
• John Loomis, Head of Technology, AI, Engineering, Softheon
• Laura Adams, Senior Advisor, National Academy of Medicine
• Jigar Patel, MD, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Product Management for Healthcare, Oracle Cerner

Episode 124: Improving Safety, Satisfaction and Efficiency with Real-Time Location Systems. A Chat with CenTrak’s Scott Hondros

Michael chats with Scott Hondros, VP of Customer Excellence & Strategic Consulting at CenTrak about how Real-Time Location Systems can help healthcare create a safer, more satisfying and efficient environment for patients and healthcare facilities. 

Episode 123: No Mud, No Lotus: Holon System’s Jon Zimmerman on Reaching the Potential of Healthcare Through Value Based Care

Michael chats with Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon Solutions about why now is such a critical time to get value based care right, how it will adjust administrative work in healthcare and how organizations can make the most impact with value based care.