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(Sponsored) Digital healthcare has long-term potential to improve the patient experience, particularly in reducing costs and removing barriers to care. Combining AI and data with digital endpoints for patient care is the future of healthcare.

In our final Workforce Re-entry companion podcast, HIMSSCast welcomes Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare to discuss the cybersecurity risks and challenges created by telehealth and other teleconferencing accomplishments in healthcare.This podcast is brought to you by Zoom.Talking points:ChristianaCare’s preparation for the pandemicSteps to take to secure virtual communicationsResponding to Zoom-bombing and similar threatsProtecting against threats and bad actors in healthcareWhy telecommunications platforms are important, even beyond telehealthKeeping data secure in multiple locationsAdvice for securing communicationsImportance of multi-factor authenticationKeeping in mind clinician workflow and patient experienceMoving toward hospital at home — the benefits and challengesProvider and patient security educationSecurity is a patient safety issueMore about this episode:This episode's companion video on HIMSS TVTelehealth is biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity, says reportTelehealth poses big cybersecurity dangers, Harvard researchers warnAnahi Santiago, Christiana Care Health System: 'Security a safety issue'Cybersecurity in a pandemic year: One CISO's perspectiveCIO Spotlight: ChristianaCare's Randy GaboriaultCEO's perspective: Cybersecurity is a strategic imperative

The technology leader looks back on his decision, 10 years ago, to transition a 130-year old diversified conglomerate into a company focused on healthcare. He also describes the forward-looking investments Philips is making in data and informatics – and discusses the future of telemedicine, remote monitoring, imaging,  artificial intelligence, patient experience and more.

Clover Health wants to improve physician performance by giving them access to cutting edge AI technology. But the company chose to enter the market not as a technology vendor but as an insurer, disrupting traditional payment structures and care navigation technology in one fell swoop. On today's HIMSSCast, Clover Health's Andrew Toy joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about his story and his own particular take on solving the healthcare cost crisis in America.Talking points:What Clover does and how its different from other payers and other startupsClover Assistant, Clover’s provider-facing tech stack, and how it fits into their modelGetting away from the idea of networksWhat does value-based care mean for CloverWho holds the risk? And why it should be the insurersWhy the incentive alignment argument for value-based care is more complicated than people thinkIncentivizing doctors by giving them more powerful toolsHow health systems should fit into the value-based care landscapeWhy Clover launched as a payer and not a technology vendorWhy Clover built its Assistant outside of the EHRFixing healthcare means fixing healthcare for everyoneHow can innovation in insurance push through incumbent players?More about this episode:Medicare Advantage insurtech startup Clover Health raises $500MClover Health will join the public market by merging with Social Capital SPACClover Health's new subsidiary will rely on members, machine learning to fuel drug developmentClover Health laying off 25 percent of staff as it seeks new healthcare expertiseClover Health gets $130M from Greenoaks, Google Ventures, othersClover Health planning expansion into 101 new marketsClover Health taps MedArrive to vaccinate its homebound MA membersWalmart partners with Clover Health to offer Medicare Advantage plans

Telehealth and virtual care have advanced leaps and bounds in 2020 and 2021, but there are still many ways in which the technology is inefficient or inaccessible, at least compared to what it could be. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, to talk about what the future might hold for telehealth and virtual care.This is the latest episode in our Workforce Re-Entry series sponsored by Zoom.Talking pointsWhere are we now with virtual care?Data integration, triage chatbots, and other hallmarks of the futureAligning incentives to end data siloesImagining a Google Maps/Waze for healthcareThe blurring boundaries between health and wellnessHow do we handle privacy while unlocking novel biomarkers?Big Brother is watching… your health?Sorting out the advantages of physical vs virtual in the futureUsing technology to enhance cliniciansCoordinating and integrating technologies we already haveWhat’s on the horizon for health tech?More about this episodeThe Virtual Care Paradigm: Going beyond telehealth for the future – and present – of careDoctors look to tech for the future but need assurance it will workHIMSSCast: Peeking into the future of healthcareThe future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change itZoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicineKraft: Healthcare data-flow of the future will be fluid, proactive, and personalized

While the world has been glued to Elizabeth Holmes' trial, the digital health startup world hasn't given up on the original dream of Theranos: convenient, accessible, low-cost blood testing available at retail locations in the community. In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock checks in with David Stein, CEO of Babson Diagnostics. The company has developed a low-volume blood test that can be operated without a phlebotomist and can perform a large panel of often-requested diagnostics. Jonah and David discuss why this technology is important, how it works, and what it's like to operate in this space when the wounds from the Theranos scandal are still fresh.Talking points:Babson’s pitch (and the elephant in the room)Doing accessible blood testing “without cheats”Partnering with retailers, Siemens, and BDInnovating the blood draw itself, and why its importantInnovating the logistics of the testing industryA win-win for consumers, payers, providers, and retailersHow easy consumer blood testing can fit into other virtual care trendsThe impact of the Theranos scandal on the blood testing industryHow Babson approaches innovation at scaleConsumer blood testing and health equityHelping people take control of their own healthIntegrating point solutions into one healthcare ecosystemMore about this episode:Theranos whistleblower talks ethics in health tech startupsTime for Innovation in Blood Testing Technology (from Babson's website)'Omnichannel' is the new watchword as big tech, retail get serious about healthcareBlood testing startup partners with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to support COVID-19 quarantine measures

In the second episode of "Industry Voices", we talk to a range of healthcare changemakers encountered at HLTH in Boston last month about health equity. Is the industry's attitude toward this important topic changing? Is it changing fast enough? And what steps and attitudes will be necessary to make the future of healthcare an inherently equitable one?This episode features the voices of Cityblock Health President Toyin Ajayi, UC Davis Chief Information and Digital Health Officer Ashish Atreja, Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, Deloitte Partner Peter Micca, and Uber Global Head of Health Caitlin Donovan.More about this episode:Cityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundingsModernizing Medicare and Medicaid means addressing the affordability crisisDeloitte's Gebreyes: 'Health equity is a moral imperative that requires a business solution'Leveraging technology to achieve health equityAddressing health inequities upstream can curb later health disparitiesHealth equity, SDOH key priorities for ONC, says deputy national coordinatorHealth IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities (Healthcare  IT News Special Collection)HFMA's first Black chair tells finance leaders to focus on diversity, inclusion and health equity

To give patients the healthcare experience they expect, providers and payers must first free themselves from rigid data architectures, legacy hardware, and monolithic patient record and care applications. Hear how Humana is using FHIR to address these challenges and build the future of connected healthcare.

In a field as quickly changing as healthcare, ongoing training and education are essential. And just as it did with telehealth and physician collaboration, COVID has helped to accelerate work that was already going on in remote medical education. In today's episode of HIMSSCast, we will talk to two startup founders working on remote workforce training from different angles. First, host Jonah Comstock chats with Osso VR CEO and cofounder Dr. Justin Barad, then Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich talks to Jennifer Fried, CEO and cofounder of ExplORer Surgical.This podcast is part of our Workforce Re-entry Series, brought to you by Zoom.Talking points:Justin's background in video games and surgeryIssues with healthcare workforce training: a lot to learn, complex procedures, no way to assessWhat’s the role of VR and what it can doHow did we teach and practice surgery before VR?What it takes to become proficient in a surgical procedureHow medical education broadly is changingVR fidelity — how it’s changing and why it is (and isn’t) importantHow ExplORer Surgical helps to make surgeries accessible remotely for teachers and studentsDisadvantages to physically observing surgeriesAdvantages to remote observationDealing with connectivity issues in hospitalsHow to maintain a secure environment with remote trainingWhat’s coming up in technology and regulationMore about this episode:At ortho meeting, VR companies announce industry-advancing partnershipsSurgeon training company Osso VR closes $27M Series BSurgical training tool Osso VR adds assessment, more language supportIntraoperative support platform ExplORer Surgical collects $2.5M in new fundingSurgical support software maker ExplORer raises $5M

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have widespread potential in healthcare, from diagnostic analysis and clinical decision support to data management and patient engagement. On today's episode, GSR Ventures partners Sunny Kumar and Justin Norden join host Laura Lovett for a far-reaching discussion of what they're seeing in the world of healthcare AI.Talking points:What investors are looking at/for in AILow hanging fruits and hard problemsAI is not currently about replacing doctorsAI’s potential for mental healthHow AI can make medicine more, not less personalThe lack of innovation in clinical trials and how it’s changingCulture clash in healthcare and startupsRegulatory updates and reimbursement challengesThe present and future of digital therapeuticsHealth equity and value-based careDriving efficiencies in care and looking for the next telemedicineMore about this episode:Healthcare innovation, digital health rake in big investment dollars in Q3Q&A: Deloitte's Peter Micca on the digital health investment boom, going public and value-based careAI development must be guided by ethics, human wellbeing and responsible innovationHow CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 yearsAI and the tradeoff between fairness and efficacy: 'You actually can get both'