Health Innovation Matters

Aneel chats with Chris Klomp,  Executive Vice President , Acute & Payer, at PointClickCare. The company recently acquired Collective Medical, which is utilized by one-third of the hospitals in the United States. Basically, value-based care reward providers for outcomes, rather than volume of care, explains Klomp. But valued-based care is really about aligning incentives for coordinated patient car...

Aneel chats with Peter Durlach, Chief Strategy Officer at Nuance Communications about Ambient Clinical Intelligence (ACI). As the head of corporate strategy, Durlach is responsible for advancing Nuance's overall strategic direction and portfolio in line with emerging trends across key vertical markets. Nuance has established a platform, Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), that is distinctly disruptin...

Aneel chats with Jon D. Morrow, M.D., M.B.A. about the relatively new concept of synthetic data, which involves using information from real patients who in the aggregate mimic the original population. Morrow is S enior VP and Physician Executive at MDClone, where he leads medical affairs activities for the North American market. A medical informaticist and board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist...

Aneel chats with Shannon Larkin Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Harmony Healthcare IT, a data management firm that migrates and archives patient, employee, and business records for healthcare organizations. Larkin notes that a single patient generates close to 80 megabytes in imaging electronic medical record data, which is increasing exponentially. Most hospitals have abou...

Aneel chats with Tracy Gibbs, the Chief Scientific Advisor at Vasayo.  Gibbs is the inventor and patent holder of an enzyme delivery system, author of four books, and a member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy.  Vasayo has many best-in-class product lines, including those in the anti-aging, multi-vitamin, and immunity building categories. The company utilizes several advanced delivery techn...

Aneel chats with Richard Linder, Chairman and CEO of Xenter. Linder is a serial bioscience entrepreneur and the founder and chairman emeritus of BioUtah, Utah's independent life science association. He is the inventor of many medical devices in interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, neuro-interventional radiology, and orthopedic surgery. He holds more than 100 patents and patent appl...

Aneel chats with Bradley Carlson, TouchPoint Medical's Point of Care Group Leader. Carlson is an industrial designer by education and an intrapreneur by practice, who has more than three decades of experience designing, developing, marketing, selling, and supporting healthcare-focused products.  "Happy caregivers equal happy patients," says Carlson. TouchPoint focuses on understanding key workflow...

Logan chats with Jeanne Hecht, CEO of Ora, who has been in the CRO industry for two decades, about the innovative projects and research Ora is working on. As an ophthalmic CRO, Ora is primarily focused on drug and device development. Ora partners with pharmaceutical, device, and biotech companies that conduct clinical trials with the goal of supporting patients with ophthalmic indications. Ora has...

Logan chats with Eran Ofir, co-founder and  CEO of Somatix, about how remote patient monitoring has taken on incredible significance during  the COVID-19 pandemic and the current health care environment.  Somatix, which provides a wearable-enabled remote patient monitoring software platform for health care providers and caregivers, uses patented gesture detection technology and machine learning al...

Logan chats with Cheryl Lulias, President and Executive Director of Medical Home Network, based in Chicago, Illinois, about how MHN strives to improve care for their most vulnerable patients in Cook County utilizing social determinants. MHN focuses on how care is delivered to to Medicaid recipients and unites healthcare systems and community organizations in providing that care. This comprehensive...

Logan chats with Scott Lien, CoFounder and CEO of GrandPad about the Grandpad's tablet for super seniors and how effective it has been during the COVID -19 crisis. Super seniors, defined as anyone 75 or older, "have the  most life experiences, have lived through so much and are the wisest amongst us as a group," Lien notes. However, he adds, many of the super seniors suffer from physical, cognitiv...

Logan chats with Kristi Ebong, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Orbita about the advancement of chatbots and COVID-19. Orbita has developed advanced technology that enables vitual health assistant to help health care and life science organizations better engage with patients, improve outcomes, and reduce costs.  Orbita's technology is centered on creating conversational AI platforms,...

Logan chats with Dr. Dave Levin, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, about his company's technology in the new normal created by COVID. With an extensive background in health technology followed by medical school and very prominent positions as a practicing physician in family medicine, Medical Director, and as CMO at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Levin has been a pioneer in getting practitioners to...

Logan chats with Terri Seppala, CEO and President of Telehealth Associates, about the use of telemedicine to deal with the COVID 19 pandemic as things are changing by the day — and hour.  Seppala has been in the telemedicine space for many years and says that her company provides services to a wide variety of organizations. Providers, including specialists, are now able to assess, triage, and trea...

Logan chats with Tammy Combs and Julie Dooling, directors of American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Practice Excellence, about medical data and health information management during the COVID-19 pandemic. This data and health information help the medical field to recognize and boost patient outcomes, code effectively, and improve clinical documentation. Dooling explains that med...

Logan chats with Senior Content Analyst and writer Lisa Hedges from Software Advice on the use of telemedicine to help deal with the pandemic. Many health care workers have had to quickly adapt to new technology that supports telemedicine, which has made it more accessible than ever before, according to Hedges. One major challenge for medical practitioners is how to treat patients with the highly...

Logan chats with John Deutsch from Bridge Patient Portal on trends in patient engagement. They discuss how companies like Bridge Patient Portal are working to improve the patient experience by providing the tools and information they need both before and after their medical appointments. Logan and John also talk about developments in the industry and what we can expect from companies like Bridge t...

Logan chats with Karen Guzdzial from TouchPoint Medical on how their customer-advanced solutions are making healthcare organizations more efficient, enabling healthcare professionals to focus more on the patients. Karen explains that TouchPoint Medical, founded in 2016, has a broad portfolio of products, and their customer-driven mindset allows for a flexible approach to each customer's need. She...

Logan chats with Dr. Joel Diamond about the value of using genetic and genomic testing to make real-time diagnoses and treatment decisions and how these tests can positively affect the outcomes and treatment paths for a variety of medical conditions.  Logan also talks with Ken Rubin of BPM + Health about how building a community comprised of different levels of patient providers can help deliver a...

On this 26th episode of Health Innovation Matters, we talk with Dan Western about Electronic Content Management. As a Fujitsu Consumer Products of America representative, Dan and Logan talk about scanning and digitizing documents and the defining work that Fujitsu is has done in the space. Scanners and digitization have changed the day-to-day aspects of healthcare. Listeners will learn what is mos...

In this episode, Logan Plaster, Editor of Start Up Health, mixes the personal with business as he interviews Lisa Lavin, CEO of Omcare, a start up health company that turning heads and changing the everyday lives of seniors across America. Omcare, recently named "One of Nation's Hottest Healthcare Startups in "Flyover Tech" by the New York Observer, has an innovative and interesting approach to ho...

In this episode, Logan talks about the revolution in digital health with two experts Andrew Fish, Chief Strategy Officer and Zach Rothstein, Vice President for Technology & Regulatory Affairs at the Advanced Medical Technology Association.  AdvaMed ( advamed.org ) advocates globally on behalf of its 400+ members for the highest ethical standards and patient access to safe, effective and innovative...

Logan chats with Daniel DeFabio and Bo Bigelow, co-founders of Disorder: The Rare Disease Film Festival and fathers of children with rare diseases. DeFabio and Bigelow discuss how they met each other; the importance of finding other patients with rare diseases; and the power of film and storytelling to advocate for and bring rare diseases to light. Disorder started in Boston two years ago, with tw...

Logan chats with Paige Goodhew, who deals with product marketing at Redox, a scaleable, cloud-based platform that works with software vendors to break down barriers to health care integration. As a "self-professed health care nerd in an IT world," Goodhew first became involved in EMR implementation at Seattle Children's Hospital. Her interest in health IT was piqued, and she moved back to the Midw...

As NASA and the nation celebrate the 50thanniversary of the moon landing, Logan chats with Chuck Doarn about the impact of the space program on health care. Doarn currently serves as a s pecial assistant to the NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC; co-chair of FedTel for the federal government; and governance team lead on a NATO project called Multinational...