The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

This episode is sponsored by MCG. MCG artificial intelligence and technology solutions, infused with this objective clinical expertise, enable hospitals, health plans, TPAs, and government agencies to prioritize and simplify their workflow.  Matthew chats with Zack Kimble, Staff Data Scientist for MCG Health about various levels of artificial intelligence that MCG is working on, including machine...

This episode is sponsored by Avaneer Health Matthew discusses data liquidity and the need for improve healthcare efficiency with Avaneer Health Chief Commercial Officer Ray Jebsen.  In 2019, Avaneer Health was founded by a consortium of top industry leaders on a mission to unlock the full potential of healthcare by improving transparency and enhancing interoperability. The consortium included Aetn...

Matthew welcomes Heather McComas, Director, Administrative Simplification Initiatives and Tyler Scheid, Senior Policy Analyst with the American Medical Association to discuss findings from the AMA's recent prior authorization survey. Heather and Tyler address the AMA's advocacy on AMA, the survey results and more.  Helpful links: Prior Authorization and Utilization Management Principles: https://w...

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) Standards Subcommittee held a Listening Session June 9 on Standardization of Information for Burden Reduction and Post-Pandemic America “Convergence 2.0.” The Subcommittee conducted three panels: (i) Advance HIPAA Standards Adoption; (ii) Address Standards Integration and Collaboration; and (iii) Measure the Value of Standards. WEDI Boa...

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) Standards Subcommittee held a Listening Session June 9 on Standardization of Information for Burden Reduction and Post-Pandemic America “Convergence 2.0.” The Subcommittee conducted three panels: (i) Advance HIPAA Standards Adoption; (ii) Address Standards Integration and Collaboration; and (iii) Measure the Value of Standards. WEDI Boa...

Matthew welcomes Steven Kupferman, DMD, MD, the Co-founder and Chairman of MedVA.com a premier healthcare Virtual Assistance Service, designed to improve patient care within thriving medical and dental practices. Dr. Kupferman discusses how virtual assistants support staffing shortages and administrative burden while also adhering to privacy and security policies. 

We chat with Unmesh Srivastava, Chief Technology & Digital Innovation Officer with Clever Care Health Plan. Unmesh covers a great deal of topics, including how technology in health care is affecting health equity, value based care and the "digital divide". A engaging conversation with a true subject matter expert sharing his insight on how technology is growing and changing the way we address and...

WEDI Education Director Michael McNutt sits in for Matthew and chats with Denis O'Shea, founder of Mobile Mentor, a global leader in endpoint ecosystem, helping clients navigate the right balance between security and employee experience. The pandemic has changed the landscape and ushered in a new level of remote working. The two discuss the changes in remote working over the past 2 years, how it h...

Matthew speaks with Paddy Padmanabhan, award-winning business leader, entrepreneur and best-selling author Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting.  The two discuss what healthcare orgs should be prioritizing regarding digital health transformation, creating a frictionless digital health experience for all parties and assessing digital maturity in an organization. 

Matthew has a fantastic conversation with Kendal Whitlock, Chair of Product Development and Clinical Research for the Med Tech Color Collaborative Community. MedTech Color has convened this Collaborative Community to create a forum where medtech professionals and other stakeholders can address minority health issues in medical device product development and clinical research.    The community deve...

Matthew welcomes Kimberly Lomis, MD, vice president of undergraduate medical innovations at the American Medical Association. Dr Lomis participated in a National Academy of Medicine Discussion Paper titled Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education. The paper examines how training in appropriate use of AI will become increasingly important for health professions educators, and highlig...

Guest host Ferris Taylor of HCEG welcomes Matt Parker, Senior Vice President of Product for HealthSparq and Denny Brennan, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC) for an in-depth discussion on aspects of the No Surprises Act and the price transparency and coverage rule.  The two shared perspective on the pressure and timing with respect to machine readable files, the...

Matthew welcomes Holly Varnell of SERA Prognostics and Dr Sharon Hibay of Advanced Health Outcomes. To learn more about prenatal advancements discussed in this podcast, click here: PreTRM® Based on data from the World Health Organization, the US is #6 on the list of countries with the highest pre-term birth (PTB) rates. That places the US higher than Bangladesh and lower than Indonesia. The top 4...

Matthew chats with founder and host of the HIT (Health IT) Like a Girl podcast Joy Rios ( https://www.hitlikeagirlpod.com/ ). The podcast's mission is to celebrate women leaders in healthcare and health IT. They advocate for and create more paths to leadership positions for girls and young women to follow. Joy will be a special moderator at our Spotlight on Leveraging Data and Technology to Suppor...

Many employers have heard of blockchain technology but have no idea what this terms means or how it can apply to data privacy and healthcare. Phillip Bauknight, a partner with Fisher & Phillips and Chair of its Cryptocurrency and Blockchain's Task Force, provides an easy understandable introduction to blockchain and breaks down ways that healthcare organizations can utilize blockchain and the pote...

Matthew sits down with RxRevu CEO Kyle Kiser to discuss the importance of price transparency, driving positive patient experience and other valuable lessons he can share from the prescription drug world.  RxRevu is an industry leader in Real-Time Prescription Benefit services. By partnering with physicians, health plans, IT vendors, and health systems, RxRevu is driving data transparency and bette...

Matthew welcomes Dr Hannah Galvin, CMIO from Cambridge Health Alliance and Laura Hoffman, Assistant Director, Federal Affairs with the AMA.  Dr. Galvin is the founder of the Protecting to Promote Interoperability Workgroup (PP2PI),  a group that is developing technical standards and policy recommendations to advance interoperability and privacy protections by prioritizing data segmentation develop...

This week we are honored to welcome former National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Vindell Washington to the program. Dr. Washington is Chief Clinical Officer of the Verily Health Platforms group and CEO of Onduo. We discuss various aspects of health disparities including motivation, technology and the importance of receiving the right kind of data to aid patients. 

Use the code PODCAST to save 20% off our Virtual Spotlight on Healthcare Privacy & Security, taking place January 13-14, 2022 on Zoom. Visit wedi.org to sign up.    Matthew welcomes David Finn, VP with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and has a frank discussion about data security in healthcare; where are we failing and what can we do? David references CHIME's 20...

This episode is sponsored by MCG. MCG’s transparent assessment of the latest research and scholarly articles, along with its own data analysis, gives patients, providers and payers the vetted information they need to feel confident in every care decision, as well as providing a means to have collaborative discussions about care. Matthew sits down with Raj Godavarthi, AVP of Technology and Interope...

In its early stages, how has the New Healthcare App Economy delivered a streamlined and transparent experience for consumers? This week we chat with two CEOs at the forefront of this new economy; Jennifer Blumenthal, Co-Founder and CEO of OneRecord and Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO of bWell.  This session is  moderated by John Kelly, Principal Business Advisor with Edifecs, WEDI Board Member and...

In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness month, WDEDI is pleased to present a cybersecurity session from our recently concluded national conference. An excellent "CISO Summit" featuring Jacki Monson of Sutter Health, Erik Decker of Intermountain and Omar Khawaja from Highmark Health. The panel was moderated by Marilyn Zigmund Luke (AHIP) and Tina Grande (Healthcare Leadership Council), WEDI's Pri...

Matthew talks about how COVID has helped consumers drive the future of healthcare with Joseph Gonzalez, Co-Founder of CLX Health. CLX Health’s TrustAssure platform allows consumers to upload the paper vaccine cards and convert them into digital credentials. The currently process 25,000+ vaccine cards daily for their clients and their specific use case applications. 

From our 2021 Quest for Health Equity event, we hear from Priya Bathija, Vice President of Strategic Infinitives with the American Hospital Association. Priya makes the case for Health Equity, not only from the moral perspective, but for the benefits of hospitals, the ECONOMIC perspective. 

We welcome Caryn Marks, Policy Advisor, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of HHS and Rachel Abbey, Public Health Analyst with HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Caryn and Rachel discuss the societal, health-based and data-based challenges of pregnancy-related mortality and maternal morbidity in the US.