In 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...

In 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....

In 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...

In 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 Support the showListen...

In 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...

In 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....

Vik 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...

This 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...

In 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...

For 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

In this packed episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Dr. Brett Oliver, Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health KY and IN to talk about telehealth, eVisits, digital transformation, interoperability, cultural change, and more. To kick it off, we jump into the latest COVID situation in Kentucky and the strain its' putting on healthcare. Dr. Oliver indicated that the Delta variant is very highly transmittable and rural facilities are suffering because vaccination rates are...

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In 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...

In 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...

In 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...

For 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...

In 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...

On 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...