This Week in Health Tech
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -This Week in Health Tech podcast is a health technology podcast. Podcast features Vik Patel, a health technology veteran and CEO of Tido Inc. (A Trusted Tech Partner for Healthcare Organizations), Johnathan Klaus (healthcare clinical operations and strategy professional), and Jimmy Kim (a professional podcast host and producer). Our shows provide commentary, news, and perspective on the latest trends in health tech and features seasoned experienced industry experts. All of our shows are free. TWIHT is supported by advertising. We limit the number of ads on each show, and we only accept advertising from companies whose products or services benefit our audience.
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Future-Forward Healthcare Digital Engagement: Kevin Smith's Insights on AI Strategies and Life Beyond Google Analytics
February 08, 2024 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech episode, Vik welcomes Kevin Smith, AVP, Digital Health, Baptist Health. We focus on impact of AI in healthcare marketing. We start out talking about future AI phones and Google, Search Generative Experience SGE. Kevin provides some background of Baptist Health digital properties and how sites were amalgamated from every hospital having their own sites to centrally managed digital websites and apps. Vik and Kevin then dig into the HHS's highlight...
How to adapt your web-mobile-social media digital strategy to changing landscapes?
August 31, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech podcast, we welcome Barry Wallace, digital communications specialist at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. We start out by discussing a marketing / digital communications team structure and then content generation. Vik and Barry discuss if ChatGPT AI tools help with content generation. AI could give a starting point but at this point that is what it is, get ideas but not necessarily use AI for generating and publishing content without review. The...
Digital Health Strategy
July 28, 2023 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episodes of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss digital health strategy for healthcare organizations. They dive into different categories for digital health: virtual care, accessing health information, interoperability, innovation. For virtual care, organizations need to now consider remote patient monitoring on top of telehealth visits. This requires appropriate infrastructure updates to support these remote monitoring apps. Vik and John discuss challenges associated w...
HIMSS23 Conference Insights: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare
May 03, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode of This week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss HIMSS23 conference and insights gained at the conference. The main highlight at the conference was Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Vik and John discuss few AI implementations in Healthcare including Epic, Microsoft, Google, Nuance, and more. Website: http://www.thisweekinhealthtech.com Twitter: @TWIHT1 Tido Inc.: https://www.tidoinc.com/ Twitter: @TIDOINC Linkedin: Vik Patel Tido Inc. The Trusted...
How can health systems maximize operational efficiency using digital tools and minimize lost revenue? *Special Offer* in this episode for Health Systems.
April 10, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss healthcare financial challenges as they grapple with inflation, staffing shortages, and low margins. 85% of health system leaders expect staffing challenges to significantly impact 2023 strategies. Vik and John discuss how do you mitigate these challenges. One way is to maximize operational efficiency with automation and digital tools that reduce workforce pressures, streamline handling of application and integration issu...
Freeing up clinical staff from diagnosing and reporting system issues to focus on patients
February 09, 2023 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Johnathan Klaus to cohost the episode. John is an experienced nurse and has worked in large academic medical center for many years in the cardiac department. He brings wealth of clinical knowledge to the team and we welcome him to cohost the podcast. Jimmy Kim is obviously still around and will be returning soon. In this episode we focus on freeing up clinical staff from diagnosing and reporting system issues to focus on patients. Th...
Assure smooth operations for clinicians using applications & integration monitoring technology
September 27, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBVik and Jimmy focus on digital health and end-to-end monitoring of applications in this episode of This Week in Health Tech. Vik talks about strategy for digital transformation: managing digital apps, integrating digital apps, and supporting digital apps on an ongoing basis. Vik also mentions that healthcare organizations have requested not only automated monitoring but also 24/7 support to go along with the monitoring subscription. Jimmy inquires about the 24/7 support and if it is actual...
"The Olympics of Tech" - Collision Conference 2022
June 28, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThis episode of This Week in Health Tech focuses on one of the biggest tech conferences of North America, Collision Conference 2022. Collision attracts people from more than 125 countries and more than 35000 people. Vik shares the stories meeting the brightest minds in tech and innovative companies. Very different than the other healthcare tech conferences. Crowd at the conference was definitely very mixed and pleasantly unexpected. Women in tech definitely represented in good numbers at ...
Healthcare Uninterrupted
May 31, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on keeping healthcare uninterrupted: 24/7 end to end monitoring of applications and integration between applications. Vik and Jimmy start out with discussing working from home and hybrid working. Because of digital transformation and increasing number of mobile and web applications, it is becoming a bigger challenge for healthcare organizations to stay on top of desktop, web, and mobile application issues. Relying on manual ...
Healthcare Uninterrupted
May 31, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on keeping healthcare uninterrupted: 24/7 end to end monitoring of applications and integration between applications. Vik and Jimmy start out with discussing working from home and hybrid working. Because of digital transformation and increasing number of mobile and web applications, it is becoming a bigger challenge for healthcare organizations to stay on top of desktop, web, and mobile application issues. Relying on manual ...
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing || Encore Presentation
May 24, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBFor the 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 organizations think about but it should be a top priority, especially in these times when more and more online applicati...
Healthcare's hybrid business model with Telehealth and In-Person Visits
March 02, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy chat about the latest health tech news including telehealth and in-person hybrid healthcare. Telehealth is not just a pandemic trend, and it is here to stay. Healthcare is increasingly hybrid with in-person and telehealth visits. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2019-2020, healthcare organizations were struggling with telehealth, however over the past 2 years, technology and workflows have matured. Telehealth experience has also...
Hybrid Healthcare and Consumer Driven Healthcare with Jared Johnson
January 18, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, first episode of 2022, Vik and Jimmy welcome Jared Johnson, from Healthcare Podcast Rap. Vik and Jimmy discuss hybrid healthcare or consumer first healthcare in this episode. Jared starts with explaining discussing what hybrid healthcare is with an example of 23 and me. He also mentions examples of Best Buy buying healthcare companies or even Walmart. How do you adapt as a CEO / CIO / CMIO of a traditional healthcare organization? Jared mentions...
Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner.
December 23, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this emergency episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss the big news of Oracle buying Cerner. The biggest purchase Oracle, Big Tech, has ever done for $28.3 billion dollars. Vik and Jimmy first talk a little background of Oracle and Cerner. Vik talks about Oracle products: cloud infrastructure, integration, oracle dbms, developer network, and more. Jimmy said this sends a huge signal that there is massive potential in healthcare. Stock price has dropped initially ...
The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy
November 23, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Dr. Laura Purdy, CEO and CoFounder of MD Integrations, All in One Telehealth solutions company. Dr. Purdy is a 15 year army veteran and started her career in military medical school and as a hospitalist in military. She realized early on that telehealth will be the future of healthcare for simple things such as poison ivy or pink eye. In the old days of telehealth, there were a lot of challenges from technical challenge to s...
How to deal with Expectations for Digital Apps and increase access to On-Demand Care
November 09, 2021 15:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this Halloween special of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss digital transformation and AI with guest Shelby Sanderford, CEO of Docpace. Shelby shares her story of how she got started in healthcare IT working in a hospital. They are on a mission to eliminate wait times for patients and eliminate need for waiting rooms. The group dives into the conversation w/ impact of the pandemic on digital transformation in healthcare. Shelby notes that last few years healthcare organiza...
How to Improve Patient Safety with End to End (E2E) Systems Monitoring
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss healthcare systems monitoring and integration. In today's healthcare, we are still dependant on users to identify and report system issues. This is a big patient safety issue. Vik explains the issue in detail using an example. Patient arrives in emergency department, and based on the patient state, physician orders few different tests. In this case, physician orders lab, cardiology, and radiology tests. Lab and Cardio tests...
How to improve patient safety with end to end (E2E) systems monitoring
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss healthcare systems monitoring and integration. In today's healthcare, we are still dependant on users to identify and report system issues. This is a big patient safety issue. Vik explains the issue in detail using an example. Patient arrives in emergency department, and based on the patient state, physician orders few different tests. In this case, physician orders lab, cardiology, and radiology tests. Lab and Cardio tests...
Telehealth, eVisits, and Digital Transformation with Dr. Brett Oliver
September 21, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBIn 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 strain that it’s putting on healthcare. Jimmy asks Brett about remote monitoring and remote visits with patients. Br...
HIMSS Conference 2021 Post Conference Review
August 18, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBIn 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 of them attended digitally. Vik explains the importance of this conference and what it means for the healthcare ...
How To Accelerate Healthcare Digital Transformation with APIs
July 15, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBIn 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: increased use AI and machine learning, patient or provider facing mobile apps, analytics, and remote monitoring. As a CIO...
Prevent Hospital System Issues Using Active Monitoring and Test Automation
June 22, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBIn 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 a health system. He uses an example of an ED system. A user in emergency department places a lab order and if th...
Prevent hospital system issues using active monitoring and test automation
June 22, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBIn 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 a health system. He uses an example of an ED system. A user in emergency department places a lab order and if th...
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 2: EMR and Hospital Systems
May 26, 2021 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBIn 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 or may not have patient health information however EMR and all hospital systems all have patient health informa...
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing
May 11, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBFor 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 organizations think about but it should be a top priority especially in these times when more and more online applications ...
Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che || Encore Presentation
May 04, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBIn 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 works in multiple roles, primarily as CTO of Sowingo Inc., and has tons of experience with the implementation of mob...
Digital strategy, telehealth, and cloud adoption with Mark
March 30, 2021 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBOn 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 they missed anything however things changed with COVID-19. Government changed their stance and they started rei...
Accelerate healthcare digital transformation with APIs
March 09, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBIn 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: increased use AI and machine learning, patient or provider facing mobile apps, analytics, and remote monitoring. As a CI...
Top 3 ways to setup online COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and avoid clogged phone lines
February 01, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBIn 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 not get the attention they deserve. Vaccine protocols are changing and currently, healthcare staff members, long...
Best of 2020 and Technology Trends for 2021
December 31, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIn 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 over time it has definitely gotten easier, it no longer feels like work. They start out talking about the very ...
Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che
December 08, 2020 17:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBIn 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 works in multiple roles, primarily as CTO of Sowingo Inc., and has tons of experience with the implementation of mob...
Inpatient digital experience and smart hospital rooms with Jeff Fallon
December 01, 2020 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBIn 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 whole lot since 1970s. There is still the nurse call button in the room maybe with a hardwired phone and a tube tv ...
Using wearables for preventative patient care with Dr. Michael Farmer
November 10, 2020 14:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBWe 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 wasted. Patients used to fax ECG from apple watch to his clinic. Vik agrees that it is absolutely after the fact...
There's never enough testing - Test Automation with Ryan Neaves and Laura O'Toole
October 27, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 experience and satisfaction. Tido Inc. has test automation packages which help end to end testing of all workflows for EHR a...
EHR and Mobile-Web Apps Test Automation with Ryan Neaves and Laura O'Toole
October 27, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 experience and satisfaction. Tido Inc. has test automation packages which help end to end testing of all workflows for EHR a...
ONC's Cures Act: Empowering Patients, Drive Innovation, and Spur App Economy
October 20, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn 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 health technology enables the health care system to deliver: Transparency into the cost and outcomes of their care Competitive opti...
How to Improve Provider and Patient Telehealth Experience
September 29, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBIn 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 listeners learn audio, video, and other technical aspects of a video visit from Jimmy. They start out by focusin...
How to Improve Provider and Patient Telehealth Experience
September 29, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBIn 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 listeners learn audio, video, and other technical aspects of a video visit from Jimmy. They start out by focusin...
How Are You? Human Resources Management in a crisis w/ Tony Welch
September 14, 2020 16:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBIn 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's team is used to remote working but it is definitely different for hospital staff. Tony indicated that they had ...
Healthcare IT Future Readiness with Laura O'Toole
August 26, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWe 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 live in and Laura reflects on how it has affected the way her staff communicates with clients and how she encourages eng...
Focusing on Security and Privacy in the New Normal
August 19, 2020 18:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBIn 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. Jimmy compares similar situations in the fitness industry. It's all virtual. Vik agrees, that lot of patient care c...
Post COVID-19 readiness with Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, and Cloud Framework
August 12, 2020 01:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn 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 of Telehealth usage since COViD-19 and how it is being implemented. Virtual teams is not just used for patient-do...
What is the future of healthcare? Big Tech healthcare disruption with Unmesh Srivastava
August 04, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBA 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 digital strategy at P3. Unmesh explains the need for this and how Big Tech (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) is jumpi...
A conversation with John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research about healthcare digital strategy, COVID-19 challenges, and future readiness
July 28, 2020 01:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWe 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 situation is very fluid and changes from week to week. Vik agrees that this is why it is very difficult for healt...
A researcher's view about healthcare digital strategy and COVID-19 challenges with John Marchica
July 28, 2020 01:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWe 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 situation is very fluid and changes from week to week. Vik agrees that this is why it is very difficult for healt...
Alan Shoebridge, Director of Marketing, SVMH, on digital transformation and patient engagement to deal with COVID-19 crisis
July 21, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBVik 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 podcast and allows them to provide a story and message to their population. SVMH provides COVID-19 numbers on their we...
How to change patient engagement and digital strategy during a pandemic with Alan Shoebridge.
July 21, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBVik 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 podcast and allows them to provide a story and message to their population. SVMH provides COVID-19 numbers on their we...
How to deal with current healthcare crisis and be future tech ready with Laura O'Toole
July 07, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBWe 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 live in and Laura reflects on how it has affected the way her staff communicates with clients and how she encourages e...
Laura O'Toole, President, Santa Rosa Consulting on current healthcare crisis and future readiness
July 07, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBWe 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 live in and Laura reflects on how it has affected the way her staff communicates with clients and how she encourages e...
Top 10 Covid-19 Tech Trends in Healthcare
June 30, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBIn 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 embraces real time 3. Automation leaps ahead to discovery—robots learn to teach themselves Website: http://www...