Episodes
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....
Published 03/09/21
In 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...
Published 02/01/21
In 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...
Published 12/31/20
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...
Published 12/08/20
In 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...
Published 12/01/20
We 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...
Published 11/10/20
In 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...
Published 10/27/20
In 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...
Published 10/20/20
In 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...
Published 09/29/20
In 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...
Published 09/14/20
We 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...
Published 08/26/20
In 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...
Published 08/19/20
In 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...
Published 08/12/20
A 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...
Published 08/04/20
We 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...
Published 07/28/20
Vik 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...
Published 07/21/20
We 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...
Published 07/07/20
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...
Published 06/30/20
In the first episode of the new season of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss Apple and Android tracing apps for COVID-19. However, they disagree on use of the tracing app. Jimmy feels it is a slippery slope if we start using tracing apps...
Published 06/23/20
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...
Published 04/28/20
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.
Published 04/14/20
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...
Published 03/18/20
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...
Published 03/02/20
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:...
Published 02/18/20
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 marketing gone wrong, combating fake news, and data privacy. Jared provides an example of putting out trusted health...
Published 02/11/20