The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

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. 

Episode 122: A Healthcare ”Dolphin Tank”: A Chat with MassLight and zapEHR CEO Daniel Abrams

Michael sits down and chats with Daniel Abrams, CEO of MassLight and zapEHR. MassLight invests capital and software engineers in digital health startups, and are in the process of developing an innovative new “headless” EHR development platform named zapEHR. The two discuss the landscape for healthcare startups, his time as a software engineer at Apple and how regulations and emerging technologies look to improve the healthcare experience for clinicians and patients. 

Episode 121:State Success Stories: First 5 South Carolina Visionary Georgia Mjartan

The state of South Carolina is the first in the nation to offer families access to programs across the state’s early childhood system through a single web portal – increasing connections to government services for children ages 0-5, reducing administrative burdens on families, and creating cost savings for government.

Michael speaks to Georgia Mjartan, Executive Director of South Carolina First Steps and the Early Childhood Advisory Council on her work on this first of its kind comprehensive portal that connects South Carolinians to the full spectrum of state- and federally-funded services available to young children. 

Learn more at https://first5sc.org/ and https://www.earlychildhoodsc.org/what-we-do/first-five-sc/ 

Episode 120: Hearts and Hats, Seeking Value Based Care in Cardiology with Dr Dan Blumenthal of Novocardia

Michael chats with multifaceted Dr. Dan Blumenthal, President of Novocardia, the new value-based care division of Cardiovascular Associates of America. The two discuss the strides Dan and Novocardia have made in creating access to timely high-quality, affordable care by optimizing clinical efficiency, reducing avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, and practicing evidence-based, cost-conscious cardiovascular medicine.

Episode 119: (May 2023) Conversation with NCVHS Standards Subcommittee and ICD-11 Workgroup Leadership

From WEDI's 2023 May Conference, updates on standards, the 2023 roadmap and ICD-11 from Tammy Banks, NCVHS Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Standards and Jamie Ferguson, Co-Chair, ICD-11 Policy Workgroups.

Tammy and Jamie will be presenting at WEDI's 2023 National Conference November 6-9 offering updates on a variety of NCVHS activities. Register to attend at wedi.org

Episode 118: Creating Consistent Success and Solutions in Value Based Care

From WEDI's 2023 Spring Conference, WEDI's Payment Models Workgroup Co-Chair Michael Pattwell (Edifecs) speaks with Dr. James Dom Dera (Physicians Network) and Rick Foerster (Privia Health) about their successes and challenges with value based care. 

Episode 117: Breaking Down the Silos on the Way to Achieving Interoperability: A Conversation w/ Darena Solutions CEO Pawan Jindal, MD

Michael chats with Dr. Pawan Jindal, MD, CEO of Darena Solutions, A St. Louis-based tech company that delivers EHR and other health IT solutions for vendors and patients. How has technology, the 21st Century Cures Act, and patient literacy aided in the new evolution of data interoperability (not totally there yet though)

Episode 116: Guiding a Path for Patient Centric Health Care, A Conversation with Path’s Kermit Farmer

Michael speaks with Kermit Farmer, founder and Chief Ethos Officer of Paths, a service that gives doctors and team members the ability to create and share educational material to help their patients in the journey from diagnosis through recovery.

Learn more at www.villagepaths.com

Episode 115: Data; The Key to Addressing Health Disparities

From a recent WEDI health equity workgroup meeting, a chat with Mark Megerian, Technology Fellow with Optum. Visit United Health Foundation's comprehensive data and SDOH tool, America's Health Rankings (https://www.americashealthrankings.org/) to see some of the work United and Optum are doing to leverage data to address health disparities in the country. 

Episode 114: Collecting Physician Data to Improve the Patient Experience and Support Health Equity

From a recent WEDI Health Equity Workgroup meeting, we welcome Tammy Weaver, VP Physician Professional Data with the American Medical Association