This Week in Health Tech

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy provide their thoughts and comments on Top 10 COVID-19 tech trends in healthcare. This original post was published on Forbes by Gil Press, link provided below. Here are the top 3 trends from the list:  1.      Say goodbye to your office—the virtual becomes real 2.      Beyond the PCR drive-through—diagnostic testing embrac...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss Apple and Android tracing apps for COVID-19. However, they disagree on the use of the tracing app. Jimmy feels it is a slippery slope if we start using tracing apps and Vik is of the opinion that tracing app will help us keep our citizens safe and help us re-open economies with more confidence. Whose side are...

Send us Fan Mail Finally, there is a glimmer of hope, and lots of states and provinces in North America are starting to prepare to reopen more healthcare services.  Vik and Jimmy comment on how health systems are planning and preparing to reopen more services like diagnostic services, radiology, non-urgent and elective procedures, and also ambulatory-clinic visits.  They talk about examples outsid...

Send us Fan Mail in this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy 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 of Telehealth usage si...

Send us Fan Mail Jimmy and Vik would first of all like to thank all healthcare staff with the growing demand for healthcare services and risking your own health to take care of patients.  In this episode, Vik and Jimmy comment on the COVID-19 situation and impact on general life and businesses especially healthcare.  They talk about the use of hospital intranet and hospital websites to keep the co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss reasons why EHR must be extended. With a fragmented EHR market in both inpatient and even more in the outpatient setting, EHRs present challenges in interoperability, social determinants of health, patient engagement, care coordination, data analytics as per Sage Growth Partners Study.  Vik comments on the benefits...

Send us Fan Mail In this timely episode, Vik and Jimmy focus on the upcoming HIMSS global Health IT conference in Orlando Mar 9-13 2020. We talk about preparing and setting personal goals for the conference. Vik comments about the hot topics for the conference: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Analytics, but more importantly focusing on topics that should help lay the groundwor...

Send us Fan Mail Vik and Jimmy welcome Jared Johnson, a top 100 influencer digital strategist passionate about building innovative healthcare brands. We talk about how digital strategy has allowed us to have completely personalized touchpoints and engagements with people instead of traditional blasting people with TV spots, radio commercials and taking out ads in the newspaper. We talk about marke...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy welcome guest speaker Nikolas Badminton ( www.nikolasbadminton.com ) to talk about future of healthcare tech. Nik is a world-renowned futurist, researcher, and media celebrity. He leads the team Exponential Minds, an expert advisory firm that helps organizations, trillion-dollar companies, progressive governments, and Holl...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy comment on the impact of 5G on healthcare.  We discuss the differences between 4G and 5G wireless networks.  5G availability will increase through 2020 and it is crucial for healthcare systems to be ready for upcoming changes. Specifically, with telemedicine, remote monitoring, transmit medical images instantaneously, AI t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss the growing trend of wearables in healthcare.  They discuss the challenge of providers trusting wearable data and transferring wearable meaningful data to providers without overwhelming clinical staff.  We also discuss how will wearables help employers and insurers, but there is a legitimate concern for privacy. Su...

Send us Fan Mail In this part 1 of AI discussion on This Week in Health Tech, Jimmy and Vik comment on AI trends in Healthcare. Discussion of AI influence on wait times, health organization efficiency, and more importantly improving patient outcomes.  We don't know how we ended up with a comparison of AI in StartCraft game and healthcare, but yes that happened in this episode.  Support the sh...

Send us Fan Mail Vik and Jimmy welcome guest Dennis Leber, a Cyber Security expert to discuss security challenges in general and for Healthcare organizations.  Who is coming up w/ viruses and malware and why are they trying to hack organizations? What can we do to keep our data safe?  What to watch out for when using the web and mobile apps. Support the show Listen to all This Week in Health Tech...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Jimmy and Vik focus on health apps.  Jimmy and Vik comment about their favorite fitness and health tracking apps.  They talk about fitness tracking devices including Apple Watch and Fitbit.  Surprisingly, both Vik and Jimmy have the same favorite workout app! They also get into app security and privacy concerns and what to watch out for...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of This Week in Health Tech (TWIHT).  Introduction of podcast series. Jimmy and Vik comment about few challenges facing healthcare organizations today and ways to better serve patients with technology improvements.  Support the show Listen to all This Week in Health Tech episodes Vik Patel - LinkedIn Tido Inc. - Website Tido Inc. - LinkedIn