The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

Episode 143, Dude, Where's My Wheelchair!? Understanding Real-Time Location Systems with Cen Trak's Nick Adriance

This week, Matthew welcome Nick Adriance, Director, Global Software Product Management at CenTrak. The two discuss the evolution of Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) and how it can aid in streamlining cost, decrease lost equipment, increase security, and enhance patient experience. 

Episode 142: Health Equity Sit Down with Dr. Vindell Washington of Verily Health Platforms

At WEDI's recent Health Equity Forum and Workshop, Sagran Moodley, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer with Ontada spoke with Dr. Vindell Washington, former National Coordinator for Health IT and the Chief Clinical Officer and Director of the Health Equity Center of Excellence for Verily Health Platforms. 

Episode 141: Making an Impact in Behavioral Health Data Collection and Analysis. A Chat with Raven Health CEO Richard Wagner

Michael welcomes Richard Wagner, a former WEDI Privacy and Security Workgorup Co-Chair who is the CEO of Raven Health (www.ravenhealth.com) a leader in data collection and analysis for behavioral health. Coming from a healthcare family, Richard learned early on about the frustrations of healthcare software from his clinician father, and worked to increase the time a clinician spends with their patients and decrease the time they spend doing "everything else."

Episode 140: Understanding the Language of Patient Engagement with Providertech's Lisa Blue

Michael chats with Lisa Blue, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer with Providertech on how technology and policy is quickly shaping the future for patient engagement. 

Episode 139: Making Healthcare Synchronized, Personalized and Radically Convenient with Patty Hayward, Talkdesk

Matthew chats with Patty Hayward, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Talkdesk. The two discuss healthcare's current problem areas, how patient empowerment can help turn the tide and how AI can address call center challenges. 

Episode 138: Taking Social Determinants of Health Data from Analysis to Action. SS&C and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

Matthew welcomes a panel of healthcare professionals to discuss the power of SDOH data in changing communities. 

• Brian Wikle, Principal Sales Executive, SS&C Health
• Amy Sall, Sr Director Strategic Business Consulting Executive Advisory (and self professed "Data Goddess") SS&C Health
• John Novak, CIO & VP of Information Services, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

The group discusses the data-centric challenges of collecting and analyzing SDOH data and the need for the healthcare industry to continue to collaborate with community based organizations. 

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.