The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

Episode 13: Your Organizational Hygiene Habits to Combat Ransomware andOther Cyber Attacks with EHNAC's Lee Barrett

Matthew sits with EHNAC Executive Director and CEO Lee Barrett, a veteran healthcare leader and subject matter expert on data security. As the US healthcare industry is threatened with ransomware attacks from cyber actors, Lee discusses the necessary and mandatory steps and practices all healthcare organizations must take to prepare for what appears to be the inevitable. 

 

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT- WEDI is holding a FREE virtual event, "Prepare and Protect: The Threat of Ransomware to the U.S. Health Industry" on Wednesday, December 16 from 11am- 4pm EST. Our keynote speaker is Jeanette Manfra, Global Director, Security and Compliance with Google Cloud and the former Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communication with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Presenters include Greg Singleton, Director of Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination with HHS, Lee Kim, Director of Privacy and Security with HIMSS, Kevin Charest, Senior VP, CISO and Head of IT Infrastructure with HCSC (and former CISO and Cybersecurity Director with HHS) and many more. Learn more about this program at www.wedi.org

Episode 12: Surveying the Healthcare Landscape with Madaket CEO Eric Demers

Matthew welcomes recently named CEO of Madaket Health Eric Demers to the show. The two discuss Madaket's mission to improve administrative simplification, the impact of COVID-19 on multiple levels of the industry, and how consumers and their desire to control their health information will continue to evolve and be a major factor on how systems will communicate with each other. 

Episode 11: The Innovative State with CareJourney's Aneesh Chopra, The Playbook for a New, More Collaborative Healthcare Industry

Matthew welcomes Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney and the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer, serving under the Obama Administration from 2009-2012.

Aneesh discusses how new technology and innovation are key to transforming the current business model, the need for a national privacy policy and how value based care has fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Episode 10: WEDI Workgroup Showcase: The Opportunities and Challenges of Genomics and GeneticsTesting

We welcome Grant Wood, Senior IT Strategist for Intermountain Healthcare's Clinical Genetics Institute and the chair of WEDI's Genomics Workgroup and Marilyn Zigmund Luke, Vice President at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) for a in-depth presentation looking at the significant obstacles and tremendous future of genomics and genetics work in Health IT. 

How can healthcare professionals collaborate to work together to not only use the testing information to improve consumer care, but also ensure that it's properly secured and doesn't fall into the wrong hands? 

Grant will be presenting at WEDI's National Conference on Tuesday, October 20 on Innovative Opportunities in Genomics for Insurers. Register at wedi.org. 

Episode 9: Conversation with an HIE Triple Threat, Tim Pletcher of MiHIN

Matthew chats this week with Tim Pletcher, the Executive Director for the Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (@MiHIN), the President and CEO for Velatura LLC and the CEO of the Interoperability Institute. Tim discusses his three hats and how they all work in unison, how ONC helped create MiHIN over a decade ago and how COVID-19 has helped identify Health Information Exchanges as major players in combating the pandemic.  

Episode 8: The Ultimate Telehealth Policy Primer with WEDI Telehealth Workgroup Co-Chairs Nancy Spector (AMA) and Alison Armstrong (Anthem)

Matthew has a great, in-depth discussion about telehealth policy with Nancy Spector of the AMA and Alison Armstrong of Anthem- the WEDI Telehealth Workgroup Co-Chairs. How did COVID-19 accelerate Telehealth policy, what should we expect or hope for in the near future and how did the Telehealth Workgroup get its start as far back as 2013. 

 

The perfect breakdown of how telehealth policy is rapidly changing the landscape of the US healthcare system.

 

For more information about the Telehealth Workgroup or any of WEDI;'s workgroups, visit www.wedi.org

Episode 7: Connected Care: Placing the Patient at the Center of the Equation, Rick Krohn, HealthSense

Matthew speaks with healthcare innovator and prolific author and writer Rick Krohn (@RickKrohn) President of HealthSense. Find out how Rick's idea of a Connected Health Ecosystem could improve healthcare efficiency and experiences by creating knowledge and operating alliances and extending engagement beyond the patient-provider encounter. Rick also discusses the huge opportunity social determinants of health (SDOH) has to close the gaps in care and impact healthcare outcomes. 

Episode 6- WEDI Workgroup Showcase; Remittance Advice & Payment Subworkgroup (ERA/EFT)

This week, we welcome the co-chairs of WEDI's Remittance Advice & Payment Subworkgroup; Pam Grosze ( PNC Bank), Patricia Wijtyk (Cognizant) and Mary Lynam (DST Health). 

The primary goals of the SWG are to facilitate the business implementation of the 835 and payments, provide educational guidance and a forum to address business issues related to the implementation, create white papers and provide potential WEDI comments during SDO development public review of new versions of the payment/advice implementation guides.

If you're interested in being a part of this workgroup, please visit www.wedi.org and select WORKGROUP COMMUNITY

 

Episode 5- Privacy by Design; Cybersecurity as a Patient Safety Issue with Laura Hoffman from the AMA

This week we welcome Laura Hoffman (@lgh_dc on Twitter), Assistant Director, Federal Affairs with the American Medical Association. 

Laura talks about how the surge in telemedicine not only advanced policy but also allowed physicians to offer telemedicine services from home. That opportunity, without the proper safeguards could result in privacy and cybersecurity issues that could jeopardize the patient/provider relationship. 

 

Access AMA physician cybersecurity resources at https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/sustainability/physician-cybersecurity

Episode 4- Treading Lightly Through the Brave New World of Consumer Data Access with CHIME's Mari Savickis

Matthew chats with longtime friend and healthcare veteran Mari Savickis (@Mari_Savickis on Twitter), Vice President of Public Policy with CHIME, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.

Is privacy dead? With the new regulations granting consumers more power and access to their data, have the privacy lines been blurred? What must the US healthcare industry do to continue to improve its data privacy infrastructure? Outstanding insight on privacy, cybersecurity and the shared responsibility the industry and public have.