This Week in Health Tech

Send us Fan Mail In this jam-packed episode of This Week in Health Tech , we welcome Dr. Brett Oliver (Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health) to dive into several fascinating topics, such as the future of telehealth, digital transformation, interoperability, cultural change across the industry, and much more. To kick it off, we discuss the latest COVID situation in Kentucky and the str...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on HIMSS 2021 Conference that just ended Aug 12. This year the conference was in person in Las Vegas and was also available digitally online. Number of participants was low this year because of the pandemic, and it seemed like instead of the usual 50 to 60 thousand registrants, 2021 conference only had about 18000 registrants. Many o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth, but it is way beyond just telehealth: increase...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT, we discuss how to actively monitor hospital systems data integrity. It is a big challenge to monitor hundreds of systems in a health system to ensure workflows and data are working as expected. This prevents having to rely on users to report issues and prevent extensive downtime. Vik describes a typical scenario in how most issues are dealt with today in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy continue the series about testing and test automation in healthcare, specifically EMR and health systems test automation. We start out with the difference between web test automation that we discussed in the last episode versus EMR and health systems test automation. Vik explains that the biggest difference would be that web applications may...

Send us Fan Mail For month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation.  In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation. Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. Testing is underrated and not something organizatio...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobile and web apps for health systems. Wayne Che wor...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy welcome Mark Brookman, CIO, Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We jump right into tele-health and adoption with Mark. Mark indicated that even though they had started on tele-health path about 3-4 years ago, adoption was scarce. Providers were hesitant because there could be liability issues if...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth, but it is way beyond just telehealth: increase...

Send us Fan Mail In this week of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy tackle a very timely topic about COVID vaccine scheduling for health systems. Vaccines are here, Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca. The phone is ringing off the hook at health systems, which is creating operations issues for health systems. Clogged up phone lines does not help with patient care because more critical issues might...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Jimmy and Vik recap the 2020 episodes of This Week in Health Tech and chat about the best of 2020 topics, guests, and more. Vik and Jimmy start out by reminiscing about 2020 and how it all started. It is also the one-year anniversary of the TWIHT podcast. Vik concedes that it was not easy to start the podcast and staying on track. But o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobile and web apps for health systems. Wayne Che wor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Jeff Fallon with eVideon to talk about the hospital inpatient experience. It is the first time we are talking about changing inpatient experience with digital transformation in healthcare. We start out with the traditional/existing setup in most hospital rooms. Jeff explains that patient rooms have not changed a who...

Send us Fan Mail We have our first physician on This Week in Health Tech. Dr. Michael Farmer, Cardiologist and founder of Corverix to talk about wearables. Michael got into wearables because he found current healthcare very reactive and not enough on prevention. It became frustrating and Michael found that patients had access to smartwatches and all the indicators captured on these devices going w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Ryan Neaves, VP, Care Applications from Novant Health, and Laura O'Tool, President, Santa Rosa Consulting. We focus on test automation for Electronic Health Record systems and also for digital testing of mobile and web applications. As some wise person noted, there is never enough testing to provide the best user experie...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT we focus on the ONC's Cures Act Final act which is all about " Empowering Patients with Their Health Record in a Modern Health IT Economy". The ONC Cures Act Final Rule implements interoperability requirements outlined in the Cures Act.  Vik and Jimmy jump into the details about how this Act helps Patients. Putting the patient first in healt...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on telehealth experience and making changes to provide an optimal user experience for providers and patients. Like it or not, this pandemic has pushed telehealth to the forefront and usage has gone up more than a hundred percent. Vik flips the script on Jimmy and in this episode wants to ask questions to Jimmy, so li...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome Tony Welch, Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital . Vik mentions that actually, Tony Welch hired him in his first hospital job, at Hardin Memorial Health in Kentucky. We jump into the COVID-19 situation and how it has affected remote working at Phoebe Putney. Vik explains that Tido&...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik comments about the new virtual world we li...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on security and privacy in this new normal of COVID-19 crisis. We start by talking about the latest in health tech. Vik talks about digital strategy: telehealth, AI, mobile apps, and how healthcare systems in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis are having to figure out how to update their strategy and make use of innovative tools. Jimm...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy talk about readiness post pandemic. They comment about planning and changes healthcare organizations will need to make to incorporate tools and workflows to be better prepared for next pandemic. Vik provides examples of tools being used at Cleveland Clinic and other leading healthcare organizations. They comment about the exponential growth...

Send us Fan Mail A very exciting packed episode with Unmesh Srivastava in this episode of TWIHT. Unmesh introduces P3 Health Partners, a health population management group that wants to shift the industry's focus from managing illness to cultivating wellness. Unmesh manages everything digital at P3 in his role as CTO at P3. We start out with understanding the timing of revamping and redoing d...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research. Darwin Research. Darwin Research provides research and subject matter expertise for health systems, #ACOs, Payers, Home Health, #Pharmaceuticals, and more. John introduces Darwin Research and then discusses the current coronavirus numbers in Arizona. John indicates that current #research and surveys are tough because the #COVID-19 si...

Send us Fan Mail Vik and Jimmy welcome Alan Shoebridge, Director of Marketing, Salinas Valley Memorial Health System. Jared, founder of Shift. Health introduced Alan to Vik and we give a shout out to Jared at the beginning of the podcast. We start out with the introduction of Alan and the current state in California with the COVID-19 crisis. SVMH has adapted for COVID-19 starting with a new podcas...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik comments about the new virtual world we li...