The Dish on Health IT

This episode of The Dish on Health IT features guest Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health , joined Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), hosts and health IT leaders Pooja Babbrah and Jocelyn Keegan to discuss price transparency and real-time pharmacy benefit (RTPB) check. They also discussed user centric design, optimizing adoption, and related policy and standards.  To kick off the episode, Pooja Babbrah in...

Ken Kleinberg, Innovation Lead, greeted guests and listeners explaining that The Dish on Health IT is a forum for Health IT innovators and catalysts to break down and discuss some of Health Its biggest news and most exciting milestones and that it is produced by Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) Health IT Consultants who work with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem. Viewed as an independent...

Pooja Babbrah , Point-of-Care Partners Payer & PBM Lead kicked off the episode by acknowledging guest,  Dr. Steven Lane, Chief Medical Officer with  Health Gorilla and Point-of-Care Partners co-host,  Jocelyn Keegan , Payer/Practice Lead and  HL7 Da Vinci Project Program Manager.  Pooja then outlined the discussion for this episode. The hosts talked with Dr. Lane about:  Trusted Exchange Framework...

Pooja Babbrah , Pharmacy & PBM lead with Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), NCPDP Board of Trustees Chair, and host of The Dish on Health IT kicked off the episode. This last episode of 2022 featuring POCP Regulatory Resource lead, Kim Boyd and Payer & Provider Practice Lead and Da Vinci Program Manager, Jocelyn Keegan came together to break down all the big things that have happened in 2022 and what...

Ken Kleinberg , POCP Innovation lead and host for this episode kicked off the episode by welcoming guest,  Scott King , Chief Technology Officer at  Vibe Health, by eVideon and co-host, Pooja Babbrah , POCP’s Pharmacy & PBM Lead. Ken set up the episode topic explaining this episode will explore use cases and technology like hospital in-room technology integrated with the EHR and other systems that...

This episode's guest is Dave Navarro , Senior Director of Data Science for Harmony Healthcare IT , a data management and lifecycle solutions firm. Dave joins the Dish on Health IT host, Ken Kleinberg, and co-host, Jocelyn Keegan, to talk 21st Century Cures Act and the change in the definition of “EHI”, critical components of plans to purge, archive, or transition data to new platforms, and how to...

This episode features special guests,  Ceci Connolly , President and CEO of Alliance of Community Health Plans or ACHP and Virginia (Ginny) Whitman , Sr. Manager of Public Policy for ACHP. They join host, Pooja Babbrah, filling in for Ken Kleinberg and co-host, Jocelyn Keegan to discuss ACHP’s perspective and work on building trust between payers and providers and why that’s important, how price t...

Host Pooja Babbrah , Senior Consultant and Payer and PBM lead kicked off the episode focused on prior authorization, reducing burden and why working ahead of final federal rules isn't as risky as you might think. Pooja filled in for Ken Kleinberg, who is out of the office on an extended grand adventure. Pooja was joined by co-host Jocelyn Keegan . They welcomed guest, Denny Brennan , Executive Dir...

Ken Kleinberg , Practice Lead of Innovative Technologies at Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), and host of The Dish on Health IT kicked off the episode by welcoming co-host Jocelyn Keegan and our special guest, Gabriela Pelin , Chief Innovation Officer with Avaneer Health . This episode will feature a discussion on how Avaneer Health is establishing a trusted network to streamline health care processe...

Pooja Babbrah, filling in as host for Ken Kleinberg, kicked off this first episode of 2022 by welcoming guest, Kim Boyd, industry consultant, regulatory and standards and Health IT expert. This episode will cover the regulatory landscape in health IT and what may be coming in 2022 from new rules to compliance and enforcement.  Jocelyn Keegan, senior consultant with Point-of-Care Partners, chimed i...

This episode features guest, Daniel Stein , President of Stewards of Change Institute (SOCI). The discussion explores why connecting the healthcare ecosystem with human services is critical and goes on to highlight the role of consent specifically highlighting the new “ Modernizing Consent to Advance Health and Equity ” report published by SOCI with industry input. Co-host, Ed Daniels, Senior Cons...

Jonathon Feit , co-founder and CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies & Consulting joins The Dish on Health IT hosts, Ken Kleinberg , Pooja Babbrah and special guest host Ed Daniels to talk about the role of emergency services (EMS) in the healthcare ecosystem now and in the future and how EMS fits into healthcare’s interoperability journey.  The hosts, Ken Kleinberg and Pooja Babbrah briefly introduced...

On this episode of the Dish on Health IT podcast, guest Troy Trygstad , Executive Director of Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Networks (CPESN) speaks with Ken Kleinberg and Pooja Babbrah about how pharmacy is evolving as a key part of the health value chain.  Troy started with a brief overview of his background, which includes a degree in health economics and pharmacy policy with over 15 year...

On this episode of the Dish on Health IT podcast, guest Charles (Chuck) Jaffe , CEO of Health Level Seven (HL7) speaks with Ken Kleinberg and Jocelyn Keegan about the history of FHIR, FHIR adoption today and tomorrow, and why non-technical people should get more involved in the standards development process.  Chuck provided a brief overview of his background including his education as a medical do...

On this episode of the Dish on Health IT podcast, guests April Todd VP at the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) and Erin Weber Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) Director at CAQH to discuss driving adoption of transactions and standards in pharmacy and medical benefit, FHIR use cases such as prior authorization, burden reduction and return on investment as...

On this episode of The Dish on Health IT, Alix Goss vice president and senior consultant at Imprado joins our hosts Ken Kleinberg , Pooja Babbrah and Jocelyn Keegan to talk historical policy and standards milestones, how they brought us to where we are today and why it’s important for the industry to go above and beyond the mentality of just checking the box for policy adherence in order to gain a...

This episode of The Dish on Health IT features distinguished guest Evelyn Gallego , CEO at EMI Advisors and Program Manager at the SIREN HL7 Gravity project . Our new host Ken Kleinberg along with co-hosts Jocelyn Keegan and Pooja Babbrah talk with Evelyn about value propositions for collecting social risk data, establishing agreed upon language and vocabulary for social determinants of health (SD...

Our first podcast episode of 2021 features distinguished guest Steve Posnack, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). Our new host Ken Kleinberg along with co-hosts Jocelyn Keegan and Pooja Babbrah talk with Steve about the administration transition, FHIR, moving to APIs in healthcare and the mission to achieve interoperabilit...

On this year-end episode of The Dish on Health IT podcast, host Gary Austin and co-hosts Ken Kleinberg , Pooja Babbrah and Jocelyn Keegan discuss prognostications on the year ahead in the areas of COVID-19, technology innovation, health data, and price transparency .  Gary begins the episode by addressing the elephant in the room: the ongoing impact of COVID-19. He asks Pooja to open the discussio...

This episode focuses on the recent CMS price transparency rule . Hosts Gary Austin , Ken Kleinberg and Pooja Babbrah discuss the new rule, break down its components and outline what it will mean for the industry across stakeholders including opportunities that shouldn't be missed.. Gary begins by asking Ken to summarize the concept of price transparency. Ken notes that in the past, consumers were...

This episode features guest Aneesh Chopra , the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States and more currently, the co-founder and president of CareJourney . Hosts Gary Austin and Ken Kleinberg sit down with Aneesh to discuss smarter choices the industry can make to move more quickly towards value based care, specifically direct contracting and third party apps. Aneesh first gives some bac...

Steve Bratt , lead of CodeX joins hosts Jocelyn Keegan and Gary Austin to discuss the integration of minimal common oncology data elements (mCODE) and leveraging FHIR API technology to accelerate significant improvements in cancer care and research. Gary first asks Steve to give listeners some background on CodeX. Steve credits the early conception of CodeX to the initial research his company MITR...

On this episode of The Dish on Health IT, hosts Pooja Babbrah , Jocelyn Keegan , Ken Kleinberg and Gary Austin discuss key takeaways from the annual ONC Tech Forum . The discussion highlights key areas covered at the conference such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Public Health, United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), Lab ord...

Guest Dale Sanders , CTO of  Health Catalyst , joins hosts  Gary Austin and  Ken Kleinberg to discuss the future of interoperability and health analytics and how healthcare can be positively impacted.   Gary begins the discussion with patient identification. He asks Dale why patients do not yet have a single healthcare identifier for their healthcare records. What is going to change this situation...

Carm Huntress , CEO of RxRevu , joins hosts, Gary Austin and Pooja Babbrah to discuss price transparency.  Gary asks Pooja to start the discussion with a primer for price transparency. Pooja states that the topic itself is quite complex and, unfortunately, not very transparent. When receiving a prescription from your doctor, you never really think to ask if you should go to a different pharmacy or...