Interviews at the Intersection of Technology and Healthcare

Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike joins Bill for the news. 2022 is the most financially difficult year for hospitals. A Kaufman, Hall & Associates analysis indicates hospitals and health systems continue to face intense pressure on staff and resources while also dealing with rising expenses for supplies, drugs, equipment and the workforce. Ohio hospital is laying off 978 employees. Ascension reported a $1.8B annual loss. What Is Social Engineering? We take a look into the sophisticated world of psychological cyber crime. How are health systems dealing with supply chain issues? What is going on in the non scaled startup space?

Key Points:
Contracts are always a big line item. Not just in IT but everywhere across the organization
Don't be the Chief of Technical Debt
Looking at contracts is Cybersecurity 101. Contracts 101. You can't do something if you don't know what you have.
Make sure you have a plan to replace infrastructure on a regular basis and flatten out that line out as much as you can
https://www.crowdstrike.com

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How does a leader with impressive AMEX and Disney experience run a healthcare system? Tony Ambrozie, Senior VP and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health Florida is advancing the healthcare experience, one revolutionary step at a time. We are looking to create ‘experiences’ but where do you start? What would benefit the community? What would benefit the clinicians? What is the best technology out there for our patients, our consumers? What are the best tools, processes and methods for building out an intentional health experience?

Key Points:
The US healthcare system has enormous dysfunctionalities
We need to focus and make it simpler and more fluid, more convenient for users
What does transformation look like in a financial services company?
The data that comes out of the digital exhaust can inform us on what is working and what isn't working
https://baptisthealth.net

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Healthcare is starting to get its act together in regards to healthcare applications. We see more and more health systems trying to develop that muscle of application development. Why is this happening? What is driving this change? In the past, everybody remembers the ‘going to be down for maintenance’ notification, right? Well now we have more modular versions, where you're able to take out and update different portions. This means that now, more than ever, the digital front door could not be more important. After the pandemic, health systems needed to rewrite their digital front door and in the process of doing that, they recognized that they needed to supply the framework. And then as partners came in and worked within the framework, because they set up that digital front door, they were able to work with additional applications as they moved forward, because the architecture was correct. Not only to stay relevant but to provide a version of value based care that’s evolving to where the application itself is more suited to the patient base. Architecture that provides not only agility but also a layer of security, in terms of the framework.

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Managing medical devices within a hospital can be extremely challenging. Expand to care at home and you’ve got an even bigger problem. Health systems can have more than 20,000 medical devices on a network. And with a 12-15 year useful life, it’s not uncommon to have to think about managing security over a very long period of time. What are the frontline solutions to address the sheer magnitude of this issue? Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO at Cook Children's and Greg Murphy, CEO of Ordr share their expertise, experience and knowledge of medical device security. How do you keep up with updates? How do you ensure devices are running at the correct level or even just in good functioning order? When is it time to upgrade? What makes one solution stand out from the rest?

Key Points:
One of the challenges is just downright finding these devices. There's so many of them.
Tools are able to identify these devices a lot easier so that we can help our clinical staff to be more efficient
https://ordr.net/healthcare/
https://www.cookchildrens.org
https://www.siriuscom.com/solutions/sirius-healthcare/

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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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