Podcast: This Week in Health Tech

Healthcare’s hybrid business model with Telehealth and In-Person Visits

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,…

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Hybrid Healthcare and Consumer Driven Healthcare with Jared Johnson

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…

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Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner.

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,…

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The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy

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…

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How to deal with expectations for digital apps and increase access to on-demand care

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…

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How to improve patient safety with end to end (E2E) systems monitoring

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…

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Telehealth, eVisits, and Digital Transformation with Dr. Brett Oliver

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…

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HIMSS Conference 2021 FULL Review: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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How To Accelerate Healthcare Digital Transformation with APIs

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:…

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How to prevent hospital systems issues using active data integrity monitoring

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…

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