The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

From our recently concluded national conference in Washington DC, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner welcomes a panel of AI SMEs to discuss their successes and challenges in developing AI strategies in healthcare. The panel: Kevin Larsen, MD, SVP, Clinical Innovation, Optum Derrick Higgins, Head of Enterprise Data Science and AI, HCSC Jared Staal, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and AI, Mayo Clinic

The continuation of episode 125, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner has a great conversation on AI best business practices with an impressive panel of SMEs: • Ram Rimal, Manager of Data Science Engineering, UNC Health • Jared Staal, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and AI, Mayo Clinic • John Loomis, Head of Technology, AI, Engineering, Softheon • Laura Adams, Senior Advisor, National Academy of Medicine • Jigar Patel, MD, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Product Management for Healthcare, Oracle Cerner

Data is an asset and the need for Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) to improve data quality for improving patient care, facilitating interoperability, and unlocking secondary analytics capabilities.  Michael chats with Gregg Church, President of 4medica and Alaap Shah, lawyer with Epstein, Becker and Green and an advisor for 4medica about the importance of data to EMPIs, how artificial intelligence can address some duplication errors and how health care needs to follow other industries and "get the data right."  

From WEDI's September 2023 virtual spotlight on Best Business Practice with AI in Healthcare, part 1 of our panel discussion on privacy and security concerns. Moderated by WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner and featuring an esteemed panel of healthcare AI subject matter experts: • Ram Rimal, Manager of Data Science Engineering, UNC Health • John Loomis, Head of Technology, AI, Engineering, Softheon • Laura Adams, Senior Advisor, National Academy of Medicine • Jigar Patel, MD, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Product Management for Healthcare, Oracle Cerner

Michael chats with Scott Hondros, VP of Customer Excellence & Strategic Consulting at CenTrak about how Real-Time Location Systems can help healthcare create a safer, more satisfying and efficient environment for patients and healthcare facilities. 

Michael chats with Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon Solutions about why now is such a critical time to get value based care right, how it will adjust administrative work in healthcare and how organizations can make the most impact with value based care. 

Michael sits down and chats with Daniel Abrams, CEO of MassLight and zapEHR. MassLight invests capital and software engineers in digital health startups, and are in the process of developing an innovative new “headless” EHR development platform named zapEHR. The two discuss the landscape for healthcare startups, his time as a software engineer at Apple and how regulations and emerging technologies look to improve the healthcare experience for clinicians and patients. 

The state of South Carolina is the first in the nation to offer families access to programs across the state’s early childhood system through a single web portal – increasing connections to government services for children ages 0-5, reducing administrative burdens on families, and creating cost savings for government. Michael speaks to Georgia Mjartan, Executive Director of South Carolina First Steps and the Early Childhood Advisory Council on her work on this first of its kind comprehensive portal that connects South Carolinians to the full spectrum of state- and federally-funded services available to young children.  Learn more at https://first5sc.org/ and https://www.earlychildhoodsc.org/what-we-do/first-five-sc/ 

Michael chats with multifaceted Dr. Dan Blumenthal, President of Novocardia, the new value-based care division of Cardiovascular Associates of America. The two discuss the strides Dan and Novocardia have made in creating access to timely high-quality, affordable care by optimizing clinical efficiency, reducing avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, and practicing evidence-based, cost-conscious cardiovascular medicine.

From WEDI's 2023 May Conference, updates on standards, the 2023 roadmap and ICD-11 from Tammy Banks, NCVHS Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Standards and Jamie Ferguson, Co-Chair, ICD-11 Policy Workgroups. Tammy and Jamie will be presenting at WEDI's 2023 National Conference November 6-9 offering updates on a variety of NCVHS activities. Register to attend at wedi.org