The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

Episode 137: The Power of Community. A Chat with Shweta Maniar, Global Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members"

Michael welcomes Shweta Maniar, Global Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences with Google. Shweta shares how early experiences of volunteer service shaped her vision of how technology, along with trust and sense of community, can improve the healthcare ecosystem. Shweta also shares advice for women leaders and others in healthcare, and unveils the secret of how almond milk is made (it's probably not a secret, Michael just didn't know). 

Episode 136: Structuring the Unstructured: Clinical AI Solutions with emtelligent’s Kim Perry

WEDI's Director of Events and Education Michael McNutt chats with Kim Perry, Chief Growth Officer at emtelligent, about the adoption of clinical AI and its potential to transform business processes in the healthcare market. The benefits of AI are discussed as well as the challenges that come with the technology. 

 

Read Kim's article on how NLP can aid payers and providers when exchanging patient information through continuity-of-care documents.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/contributor-unlocking-the-value-of-unstructured-data-from-continuity-of-care-documents-using-medical-grade-nlp

Episode 135: How AI is Bringing the Joy Back to Medicine. A Conversation with Artisight Inc President Stephanie Lahr

Matthew chats with Artisight Inc. President Stephanie Lahr. Inspired by her experience with an EHR system during a hurricane in Texas, Stephanie discusses the urgent need to transition from paper records, embrace technology, and how AI can support hospitals by identifying and automating high friction environments, improving the quality of care, and reducing healthcare burnout. 

Episode 134: The (AI)R Up Here. Augmented Intelligent Realities Present and Future with Dr First CMO Dr. Colin Banas

Host Mike Kottmer (WEDI Board Member) talks with Dr Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer with Dr. First. The two discuss how AI (Dr. Banas calls it Augmented Intelligence) has benefitted both patients (improved medication management) and physicians (burden reduction) as well as the challenges and future opportunities that AI will bring the industry.  

Episode 133: Wearables and Your FICO ”Health Score”; A Chat with the Founders of tallywell

Guest host and WEDI board member Mike Kottmer chats with Dr. Luigi Vacca and Aaron Holloway, the founders of tallywell, a digital health app that utilizes AI and ML to create a FICO-like "health score" for the user.  

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

This podcast is sponsored by Smile Digital Health. Your Digital Transformation Awaits at www.SmileDigitalHealth.com

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