HIT Consultant Podcast

Founder, Jonathan Govette of Referral MD shares his founders story of how he created his health startup focused on streamlining the outdated medical referral process

Learn about the advantages of biometric patient ID technology including how it can help prevent duplicate medical records, identity theft, and ultimately improve data interoperability across HIEs and integrated delivery networks.

Robert Herzog, Founder & CEO of eCaring, a web-based home health care monitoring and management system describes how eCaring will transform home healthcare

Part 1 of interview with Robert Herzog, Founder & CEO Of eCaring, a web-based home healthcare monitoring and management system as he discusses home health.

Concluding interview/podcast with Carina Edwards from Nuance discusses ICD-10 delay client impact, importance of CLU tools, CLU integration in clinical workflow, and Nuance Healthcare's future market opportunities.

Carina Edwards provides an overview of Clinical Language Understanding, ICD-10 implications, EMR integration, and Nuance's partnership with 3M.

In part of this podcast, Tom Murphy, CMO of Bradford Networks discusses: - Making BYOD a priority with healthcare organizations - Leveraging BYOD to support Meaningful Use Stage 2 - BYOD in 2 - 5 years

In part 2 of this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Dr. Hon Pak , CEO of Diversinet about the following: - BYOD - Best Practices to Implement Mobile Strategy - Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring's Implications for Mobility

Looking for an innovative way to hire healthcare IT trainers and provide an unique opportunity for inexperience professionals to break into the healthcare IT industry? In comes "Big Break", an American Idol styled audition process where candidates compete to become a healthcare IT trainer that will instruct healthcare professionals on the use of a sponsored healthcare provider's EMR system. HIT Consultant recently spoke with brainchild of Big Break, Tiffany Crenshaw, President & CEO of Intellect Resources to learn more.

In this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Dr. Hon Pak, CEO of Diversinet about the company's strategy of powering care coordination through mobility and it's role in supporting the expansion of the Army's mCare program.

In this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Tom Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Bradford Networks about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in Healthcare. This is part 1 of a two part podcast series. In part 1, Tom discusses the following: - Background/Overview of Bradford Networks - What is BYOD? - Security implications of BYOD in healthcare - BYOD implementation best practices

In the second part of this interview/podcast series, HIT Consultant speaks with Tim Fowler, Commercial Director, Wireless Division of Cambridge Consultants to learn more about: - Key challenges of Bluetooth Low Energy - Regulatory/Technical requirements regarding Bluetooth Low Energy - Fowler's thoughts on future growth of mobile health and connected health

During this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm demonstrated their new Bluetooth low energy (BLE) Blood Pressure Profile iPhone app. Cambridge Consultants recently worked with CSR on tools and example device software that assists developers wishing to create applications for Apple’s latest iPhone and Mac products, specifically the growing mobile health (mHealth) market. The BLE iPhone app demonstrates the transfer of blood pressure readings using the BLE Blood Pressure Profile, while running on an example single-mode BLE device that could readily be incorporated into a blood pressure monitor. Faced with several challenges relating to power consumption, data transfer requirement and constraints of the smartphone. Cambridge Consultants is able to leverage its technical and medical regulatory expertise to optimize usability for both the device and the smartphone to meet the needs of the mHealth space. For mHealth, both local and wide-area communications are required and with most mobile phone operating systems providing native Bluetooth stacks, BLE is an ideal technology for integration. BLE technology is designed for low peak current consumption, permitting operation via standard coin-cell batteries and battery life of up to one year. In the first part of this interview/podcast series, HIT Consultant speaks with Tim Fowler, Commercial Director, Wireless Division of Cambridge Consultants to learn more about: Cambridge Consultants & Tim Fowler background/overview Deep dive into Bluetooth low energy technology BLE Blood Pressure Profile iPhone app

Second part to our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories series. HIT Consultant speaks with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo, where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co. management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active, healthy lifestyles and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns mobile phones into full-fledged personal trainers. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide consumers with the means to manage/monitor their own health and promote an active, healthy lifestyle.

Part 2 of the interview/podcast with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll Inc., to discuss the importance of log management & analysis for security in healthcare organizations. Highlights of part 2 of this interview include: - Other critical areas related to potential security breaches - Inadequate or nonexistent logging - Kroll's methodology for log management and analysis - Ways to ensure security is a priority

There is an emerging community of digital health entrepreneurs utilizing technology innovation to help transform healthcare. In an effort provide coverage of this growing community and inspire future digital health entrepreneurs, HIT Consultant has launched "HIT Innovation Founder Stories" where we will speak with a digital health founder to share their journey from inception to launch, obstacles/challenges, and lessons learned. In our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories we speak with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active healthy lifestyle and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns your mobile phone into a full fledged personal trainer. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide consumers with the tools to manage/monitor their health and promote an active lifestyle.

Recently Kroll Inc. has written several articles about the importance of understanding logs as a critical component of investigation security breaches. Acquiring and analyzing logs are critical with incident response and it is highly recommended that healthcare organizations address log management in a proactive manner. HIT Consultant spoke with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll Inc. to discuss the importance of log management & analysis for security in healthcare organizations. Highlights of part 1 of this interview include: - Best practices for log analysis as a data security tool - Remote hosting/cloud - Using data logs to detect abnormal server activity?

Final part of this podcast series with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst. Part 3 key highlights include: - Future of the HIT industry - mHealth - Remote physician patient access

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 2 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer. Part 2 key highlights include: - Medication Reconciliation overview - Patient Innovations overview - EPCS Gold 2.0 Overview - Interoperability vs. Fragmentation in the HIT Industry

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 1 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer. Part 1 key highlights include: - DrFirst integrated platform approach - Overview of DrFirst Defender - Meaningful Use and their AttestEasy solution - Challenges clients faced meeting Meaningful Use

In this concluding volume of the interview podcast with Lawrence White, Radiology Senior Marketing Manager from GE Healthcare. Lawrence provides his thoughts on the following: - Cloud Adoption for Radiologists - Meaningful Use Implications for Radiologists - mHealth

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Lawrence White, Radiology Senior Marketing Manager from GE Healthcare to learn more about their Centricity Radiology Mobile Access app that received FDA 510(k) clearance. Key highlights include - Overview of Centricity Radiology Mobile Access app - Service Side Rendering, - Security & Mobile Device Management

In this podcast series, HIT Consultant speaks with Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa about their recent unveiling of Health Measures, a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly and their recent partnership with LG.

In this interview, Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll dives deeper into their forecasted security trends in 2012 providing his insight on how healthcare organizations can effectively minimize their threat of security breaches, monitor your network, and optimize incident response times. In volume 2 of this interview/podcast, Alan discusses: Kroll’s Risk Assessment Approach Cloud Adoption in Healthcare Cloud Contract Negotiations How to Secure Data from Mobile Applications Making Security A Priority Healthcare Social Media Security Implications Creating an Effective Incident Response Plan

Recently the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division of Kroll Inc. released their annual top 10 security trends for 2012 highlighting the key areas of risks and trends that will impact how organizations and governments combat and respond to cyber threats. In this interview, Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll dives deeper into their forecasted security trends in 2012 providing his insight on how healthcare organizations can effectively minimize their threat of security breaches, monitor your network, and optimize incident response times. In volume 1 of this interview/podcast, Alan discusses: Having a Clear Understanding of their Risks Kroll’s Methodology & Approach Common Healthcare Security Cyber Attacks How to Gain Executive Buy In to Make Security a Priority

October 1, 2013 is less than 2 years away leaving healthcare providers faced with the daunting task of making the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Many organizations have already started to prepare for the implementation while the majority have not begun any preparations until the deadlines looms closer. HIT Consultant recently spoke with Connie Tohara, Director of Health Information at University of Utah Hospital and Karen Ferrell, Director, Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) Solutions Marketing, Nuance Healthcare to share their thoughts on ICD-10 best practices. Also highlighted is the pilot project between 3M and Nuance Healthcare at University of Utah to utilize technology to provide more specificity and details for documentation. Key highlights of the second volume of this two part podcast series include: Preparing for Computer Assisted Coding Selection ICD-10 v. Meaningful Use Computer Assisted Physician Documentation Lessons Learned ICD-10 Project Management Final Thoughts

HIT Consultant interviews Connie Tohara, Director of Health Information at University of Utah Hospital and Karen Ferrell, Director of Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare about ICD-10 best practices. This is part 1 of the 2 part series. Key highlights of the first volume of this two part podcast series include: Role of Transcription Correlation between Transcription and Coding Pilot project between 3M and Nuance Healthcare Overview & Benefits of Computer Assisted Coding & Computer Assisted Physician Documentation