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Podcasts Hosted by Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord
In-depth interviews with healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and technology leaders. Bill Russell explores the decisions, strategies, and innovations shaping healthcare transformation.
Apr 1, 2020·The 229 Podcast
April 1, 2020: In times of crisis and great uncertainty, how do leaders in healthcare successfully lead their teams? As the corona virus spreads, more healthcare systems are overwhelmed and healthcare workers are at increased risk, how do we prepare and systematize structures to better support patients and their loved ones, our colleagues, and our community? Every healthcare organization may be run a little differently, but we are almost all in the same boat when it comes to the corona virus pan
April 1, 2020: All crises are different, but they each reveal the importance of having a good crisis and emergency infrastructure in place. Nader Mherabi, CIO of NYU Langone Health, is our guest today, and he joins us to talk about how they are weathering the current storm. In this episode, we learn more about the community they serve and what’s it’s like being at the epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis. We learn more about how previous crises, like Hurricane Sandy and 9/11, have helped
April 1, 2020: The role of data in fighting the COVID-19 outbreak cannot be underestimated and there is no one better to talk about healthcare data than Health Catalyst CTO, Dale Sanders. In our chat with Dale today we look at his professional history and how this informs his approach and perspective on the current pandemic before breaking down the important areas of the healthcare system that need to be addressed. We discuss personal protective equipment, accurate registries and screening crite
Mar 31, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 31, 2020: For this week’s edition of Tuesday Newsday, Bill takes a look at some of the most interesting news breaking around the topic of COVID-19. We hear about a new test developed by Abbot Labs which delivers results within drastically reduced speeds. Next Bill gets into sweeping regulatory changes made by the Trump administration to help U.S. healthcare systems address COVID-19 patient surges. After that, we take a look at somewhat of a data-sharing revolution characterized by the Trum
March 30, 2020: For this installment of our field reports from the front lines of the crisis, we have Dr. Eric Lee, medical director in clinical informatics at AltaMed and Ray Lowe, CIO at the same company. AltaMed is a federally qualified health clinic that has a variety of community health centers across Orange County, primarily serving underprivileged groups with a range of health services. It’s one thing for larger medical firms with ample funding, preexisting IT integration, and speci
Mar 30, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 30, 2020: Pediatric hospitals are playing a major role in the crisis and for today’s field report, we had Dr. Dan Nigrin, CIO of Boston Children’s Hospital join us to share his experiences. Dr. Nigrin starts by giving some insight into the spirit of collaboration between providers in Boston as efforts to scale increase. He advises as to the role of children’s hospitals in the crisis, and what Boston Children’s’ efforts to scale have looked like from an IT perspective too. We hear about the
Mar 29, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 29, 2020: Dr. Dana Udall from Ginger joins us today for the next installment of our COVID-19 series. Ginger is a full-stack, behavioral health system, offering care and content of different types to their clients. The focus of our conversation today is how Ginger is doing this in the context of the current health crisis. One of the most important points that Dr. Udall makes during our conversation is to reframe this period as not only a health crisis, as is often stated, but also as a cris
Mar 27, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 27, 2020: The financial viability of health systems is a major concern during the crisis and we had Rob DeMichiei, recently retired CFO for UPMC on the show to share his thoughts on the matter. In our conversation, we talk about what the CFOs for these health systems are facing right now, and what we should and shouldn't be worried about regarding finances. Rob makes an argument for a complete role reversal required by CFOs whereby they shift from being regulators into facilitators on the
Mar 26, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 26, 2020: San Banerjee from Texas Health Resources joins us on the show today to share his expertise on telehealth and to continue our series on COVID-19. He unpacks how systems can easily get started on the telehealth project if not already up to speed by using easy apps and resources such as Skype and FaceTime. His recommendation is to connect these different platforms in order to cover all the bases needed for an effective telehealth service. San explains how Texas Health Resources has
Mar 25, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 25, 2020: Today on the show, we welcome John Shelsta of AvoCon Solutions. AvoCon is an Information Technology Service Provider specializing in Enterprise computing environments utilizing Microsoft, Citrix, and VMWare technologies. Headquartered in Phoenix, AZ they have been servicing the southwest region of the United States since 2000. With so many health IT organizations being pushed into the uncharted terrain of full-scale remote work, there are many challenges they are currently facing
March 25, 2020: For this episode in our COVID-19 series, we are joined by Josh Peacock and Kyle Quinby from Sirius Healthcare to talk about scaling VDI and clinical systems. We are shifting from understanding the problem set to more solution focussed content and Kyle and Josh have done some great work in addressing how to scale systems during a time of crisis. This episode is a pragmatic discussion on this process at present and in the coming weeks, as we look at connectivity in the cloud and al
Mar 24, 2020·The 229 Podcast
March 24, 2020: Today Bill Russell brings you the highlights of the latest news in health IT. The global pandemic has put immense pressure on healthcare systems worldwide, and thus news stories are largely centered around the issues of caring for unprecedented numbers of patients. The medical industry is relying heavily on telehealth to mitigate the pressure, but now these systems are breaking down and failing at times due to the number of people phoning in. Bill talks about the three components
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