InteropNow! Podcast

On this episode host Sandy Vance talks t Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at UiPath about user interface automation. Jason leads the Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice at UiPath, which focuses on transforming the Healthcare landscape and developing capabilities, integrations, and reusable components that make UiPath a healthcare automation platform and not just a tool that works in healthcare. UiPath is the only end-to-end, enterprise-ready automation platform that can grow with customers on their digital transformation journey. From supply chain to HR and compliance to patient care – Jason shares how partnering with UiPath can remove a lot of the administrative burden to free up the healthcare workforce to do what they do best.

Host Sandy Vance talks with InterSystems' Don Woodlock about how the industry transition to FHIR is enabling technology providers to do more faster because on demand data is now readily available when you invest in the right infrastructure. He also shares his thoughts on the role of regulations across the globe in pushing these initiatives forward, and why proprietary data structures aren't good for anyone. Don Woodlock is the Head of Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, and leads global healthcare teams who help customers make the most of their data, enabling stronger analytics, research, care coordination, and workflows. He has made a career out of building customer-focused healthcare software that matters for payers, health systems, public health, and life sciences. Beginning at IDX, then GE Healthcare, he is currently Head of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems and a rock-star drummer!

CEO and founder of Particle Health Troy Bannister talks to host Sandy Vance about the evolution of healthcare data sharing. From fax to integration engine to patient portal - the industry has worked to get better at sharing patient data. Today there is a new way which is fueled by FHIR-based APIs and regulation that gives technology providers access to the data, the Particle Health platform is transforming the way technology providers enable healthcare to get their work done.

HL7 has been working to advance FHIR - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Platform standard since 2012. In 2014 healthcare industry players started to band together in the Argonaut project which was the first implementation community comprising leading technology vendors and provider organizations stakeholders. Since that time, several consortiums of health industry leaders have rallied around various health IT initiatives such as health payer initiatives, puplic health and health equity, infrastructure, and research initiatives. There are now eight FHIR accelerators who have published implementation guides that provide important documentation on how technology builders should use the FHIR resources within their systems to advance data sharing. These implementation guides have become the foundation for use of the standard as prescribed in Interoperability rules set forth by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Now that so many implementation guides are near complete, the HL7 organization has added three new executive positions to support standards implementation in the new HL7 Implementation Division. So today we will talk to the spearheads of the Implementation Division to better understand how this expanded focus will impact the business of healthcare. Dr. Charles Jaffe is the CEO of HL7. He completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities and post-doctoral training at NIH and the Lombardi Cancer Center. He served in various academic positions in the Departments of Medicine and in the School of Engineering and has worked in healthcare technology for more than 30 years.. Dr. Jaffe has led the charge at HL7 since 2007. Viet Nguyen, MD, will head the standards implementation division as chief standards implementation officer alongside Diego Kaminker who will fill the role of deputy chief standards implementation officer. Viet is an internist, pediatrician, and clinical informaticist who has held leadership roles such as chief medical officer and chief medical information officer at Leidos Corporation, Lockheed-Martin, and Systems Made Simple. HL7 selected Kaminker as the deputy chief standards implementation officer. He is the founder and owner of Kern IT with specialties in integration, software development, and project management. Kaminker has been a member of the HL7 community for twenty years and has served multiple terms as the chair of HL7 Argentina as well as an affiliate director of the HL7 International board of directors. Throughout his career, Kaminker has defined, implemented, and maintained hundreds of HL7 interoperability projects. On this episode of the podcast this powerhouse leadership team talks about their strategies for engaging more healthcare stakeholders in the implementation process to better inform those building the specification.

Lyniate Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Blackmer talks data evolution and trends with host Sandy Vance from the show floor at the inaugural ViVE Event. Whether you are in a growing healthcare provider organization or a technology start up - you depend on clean patient data. Michelle talks about how Lyniate partners with organizations to make sure you have the infrastructure you need. Michelle is responsible for defining the go-to-market strategy and leading the marketing team. Her passion for empowering health innovators with complete connected data shapes the go-to-market messaging and helps grow mindshare. With 25 years of healthcare data management experience, Michelle thrives at the intersection of marketing, sales, product, and customers. Her curiosity and collaborative approach make Michelle a natural convener and trust builder — ensuring the voice of customer is heard. Prior to Lyniate, Michelle lead healthcare marketing at Verato, Initiate Systems/IBM, Informatica, and CareEvolution. Michelle lives in the great Pacific Northwest.

On this episode we talk to Carrie Liken from YEXT, a company on a mission to transform enterprises with AI search. Carrie heads the healthcare vertical for YEXT. She shares why keyword search is no longer enough to power business platforms and how this product is helping healthcare organizations gain customer loyalty by deliver better information with automated intelligence - powered searches. Carrie Liken joined YEXT as the company's first Head of Industry for Healthcare. In her role, Liken leads all healthcare-related activities, including product and partnership development. Over the last fifteen years, Liken has gained experience in the government, legal, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors, focusing on healthcare and health policy. For 8.5 years, she worked for Google, where she worked with healthcare organizations of all sizes to better understand the patient journey, digital's impact on patient and customer acquisition, and how to drive increased revenue and sales through digital means. Liken holds a degree in public policy and political science from Duke University and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she focused on health policy.

All healthcare organizations have legacy systems and that means there is a pile of legacy patient data that needs to be managed. Host Sandy Vance talks to MediQuant Chief Clinical Officer Kel Pults about her company's experience over the past 20 years and how MediQuant helps healthcare providers efficiently archive, secure, and share private patient information. Dr. Kel Pults is Chief Clinical Officer for MediQuant and has been with the company for eight years. The first nurse and the 42nd hire for the now 200+-person company, Pults assumed her current role in 2018 as part of MediQuant's commitment to strengthening its clinical data management services with experienced, frontline professionals. Pults applies her deep healthcare and health informatics training and expertise to build effective health information solutions that support hospitals' and health systems' clinical data management needs. Brought on as MediQuant's Director of Clinical Consulting in 2014 and later appointed Vice President, Strategic Consulting and Client Services, Pults' duties included: working with potential clients to scope out archival requirements for new electronic health record (EHR) systems; monitoring project performance against commitments; and serving as clinical subject matter expert and collaborator with MediQuant's leadership, and development and project management teams. In addition to building MediQuant's clinical archiving department from the ground up, Pults has been involved in virtually every facet of the operation. For example, she partnered with developers of the flagship product DataArk® to enhance current and create new clinical modules to meet evolving client needs and contributed created and winning the prototype that resulted in the company's recent award of a U.S. Defense Health Agency contract.

Brenda Hopkins MBA, BSN, RN is the Chief Health Information Officer and General Manager Healthcare for Consensus Cloud Solutions where she is focused on strategy, interoperability, and usability of Consensus Cloud Solutions Healthcare products and solutions in partner and customer workflows. In this episode, Brenda will discuss Consensus' digital cloud fax technology and how they are able to enable better continuity of care.

Epion Health is creating proactive technology to remind patients to get screenings that could save their lives. Epion's Chief Revenue Officer Scott Friedman, along with Chief Technology Officer Matt Racki, talk to host Sandy Vance about how their user-friendly technology is also allowing healthcare providers to do more in an age of increased demand and less staff.

In this episode entrepreneur Kavi Misri talks about his personal experience and drive to found Rose Health in 2019 after his own struggles with depression. Rose Health , a population health SaaS company, is leveraging artificial intelligence to simplify the process for patients to seek and receive mental health care. The app uses both passive and active monitoring to keep providers informed with a mental health scoring system. It enables providers to more efficiently and effectively manage mental health care. The Baltimore-based start up recently won the annual TRAILS startup competition hosted by Seattle healthcare innovation hub Cambia Grove and is implementing in two major health systems.

Ophir Lotan joined TytoCare in 2014 as a part of the founding team and is part of the company's executive leadership team and heads product and US customer success. Dr. Nick Patel serves as the Chief Digital Officer at Prima Health and Vice Chair of Primary Care in Department of Medicine in South Carolina. These two discuss how their vision of building a remote at-home experience that emulates a clinic to extend telemedicine became a reality.

Diameter Health was co-founded by John D'Amore, a Harvard graduate who has spent his entire career researching and implementing interoperability best practices that advanced quality measurement and population health. Dr. Danny Sands, Diameter's Chief Medical Officer is a practicing physician who has worked in clinical informatics for more than 25 years. The two share the story of Diameter Health and how the company is leveraging automated intelligence gained from nearly a decade working with EHRs to upcycle health data, provide patient access to their records, and change the world of population health for healthcare providers.

Kevin Erdal has been Nordic's managing director and practice lead for digital health for about 3 years, and is a proven leader across the analytics spectrum with a current focus in Healthcare. Experience in Digital Health, Data Strategy, Data & Analytics, Data Governance, Modern Data Platforms, Data Delivery, and Data Integration, among additional areas throughout the Digital Health environment. In this episode of the InteropNow! podcast Kevin guest hosts a dynamic panel of experts as they explore what cloud transformation strategies should look like for healthcare organizations and how the AWS suite of tools can play a valuable role in ensuring a cost effective, seamless transition. On the panel are Saran Sonaisamy, Director, Advisory Services, Nordic, Reza Chapman, Managing Director, Cybersecurity Nordic, Jimmy DeLurgio, Senior Solution Architect AWS.

Health Equity is not just something Kristen Valdes talks about – she and her team at b.well® Connected Health are providing consumer choice to improve healthcare for over seven million lives. On this episode Kristen Valdez talks about her journey as a caregiver, empowering consumers to make navigating the healthcare system the way it should be, and teaching healthcare systems how to respond to the needs of their communities through data transformation. Join us at the ViVE Event March 6-9 in Miami Beach! www.viveevent.com

Come hear Dr. Shane McNamee talk about how open standards allow data to flow cleanly and enable clinicians to identify emerging risks. Better yet – join us at the ViVE Event March 6-9 in Miami Beach and see it for yourself! www.viveevent.com