Interviews at the Intersection of Technology and Healthcare

Today on TownHall Karla Arzola, Director of Information Technology - Swedish Medical Center at HealthONE speaks with Deanna Towne, CIO at Contexture about Contexture’s recent merger of HIE’s. What was the strategy behind the recent merger? How did Contexture plan for the merger from a change management perspective? What are some key technology initiatives currently being worked on at Contexture?

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When the pandemic hit, all of a sudden we had to decentralize the way we were doing healthcare, but the foundation wasn't there. The nature of work changed dramatically. We are now in a world where delivery of care is primarily through digital means. How do we create and maintain a modern healthcare digital foundation with people and processes at the core? Just as the mandate has evolved over time from the basic Hippocratic Oath to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, so too has the interaction that evolves around that foundation. The foundation has got to be able to support the core. How do you manage these systems? How do you keep them updated? How do you reduce the complexity of connectivity? How do you find the vulnerabilities? How do you create multi-tenancy access, so that doctors and nurses can perform different functions? The way VMware looks at modern healthcare is to ensure that you are evolving to support the people in the processes. The benefits of health systems partnering to enable a modern digital foundation is monumental.

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Imagine a future where smart hospital platforms facilitate treatment regardless of patient and clinician location, where patients reap the healing benefits of patient distraction devices, and clinicians are freed up from administrative tasks to focus on the patient while automation of those tasks provides more real-time, actionable data. Fred Holston, Director of Healthcare at Sirius Healthcare (A CDW company) joins Bill Russell to discuss Sirius’s Healthcare Technology Innovation Labs. A place where partners and technologies can come together to innovate, test, and build out new technologies to advance healthcare. What solutions are they focusing on in the labs today? What are health systems excited about in the areas of computer vision, command and control, touchless sensors and ambient listening? What is the role of a care companion and why is this interesting in this whole idea of Patient Room ‘Next’? https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/future-of-care/

This is episode 5 of 5 in our series Patient Room ‘Next’. Other guests include Stephanie Lahr, CIO of Monument Health and Billy Prows, VP at Intermountain.

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Patty Hayward, Vice President, Strategy Healthcare and Life Sciences at Talkdesk joins Bill for the news. Following CVS Health-Signify Health and Amazon OneMedical, who will be the next digital health M&A target? Experts are not anticipating a slowdown in similar acquisitions. What will the Walmart, UnitedHealth Group, Optum collaboration bring for 2023? How will they endeavor to improve health outcomes and the patient experience? What is Trilliant Health’s evidence-based comparison tool all about? How will it supersede 'black box' top hospital lists?

Key Points:
You’re seeing Amazon and CVS really trying to look at how they can evolve the market and get ahead but they also have the assets to back it up and the time to wait to make it happen.
The way we acquire healthcare is fundamentally changing.
The Walmart, UnitedHealth, Optum collaboration puts the patient at the center of healthcare
https://www.talkdesk.com/call-center-solutions/healthcare/experience-cloud/

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How do you integrate two health systems together? BHSH System is the merger of Beaumont and Spectrum. Jason Joseph, Chief Digital and Information Officer is helping create a new health system, For Michigan,‎ By Michigan. What are the top priorities? How do you integrate the EHR? What is your consumer facing strategy? What are your clinician enablement and efficiency platforms going to look like? How do you even begin to think about processes, governance and security? What about staffing? What about culture and remote working policies?

Key Points:
A lot of times when mergers happen, it slows a bunch of work down
Connectivity isn’t usually that hard. The variability in all of it is what you have to plan for.
What are we doing in the area of clinical documentation with regard to technology?
https://formichiganbymichigan.org

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Today on TownHall, Brett Oliver, Family Physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Health interviews David McSwain, System Chief Medical Informatics Officer at UNC Health about imposter syndrome in the health IT space. How does he deal with knowledge deficit when jumping into a new role or team? What advice would he give up and coming professionals on dealing with imposter syndrome and feelings of inadequacy?

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