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About Harlan Levine:Harlan Levine, M.D., is president of health innovation and policy.  He also serves as the chair of the board of AccessHope™, a spinout company from the City of Hope that is focused on serving the employer market and making leading-edge cancer care available to all, regardless of geographical location.Prior to the City of Hope, Dr. Levine held executive roles at UnitedHealth Group, Towers Watson, and Anthem Inc. He currently serves as a board member and secretary for BioScienceLA, as a member of the Keck Graduate Institute's Board of Trustees, and as a board member for Vida Health, Active Life Scientific, and Reimagine Care.  He is on the advisory board for Innovaccer and Laguna Health. For 10 years, he has been a strategic advisor to the founder/chairman of the board of Quantum Health, and now chairs its external clinical advisory board.  In addition, he is a member of the Accessibility and Affordability Working Group for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and a senior fellow for Health Evolution Forum's New Models of Care Delivery.He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and licensed by the Medical Board of California. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his medical degree from the University of California San Francisco. He interned at Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco and completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles.Things You'll Learn:City of Hope's Distinctive Strategy: Integrating state-of-the-art research with patient-centric care. Their outreach to underrepresented markets and the introduction of a mobile van for prevention and screening empower communities with NCI-level care accessibility.Dr. Harlan emphasized how social determinants of health, including the cost of care, transportation challenges, and insufficient culturally relevant education, contribute to inequalities in cancer care.The importance of collaboration, policy adjustments, and the integration of community and academic oncologists. The initiatives at City of Hope, including the affiliated company Access Hope, aim to provide expert opinions and cutting-edge cancer care to diverse populations.Gain an understanding of the obstacles that create barriers for patients to access the latest advancements in cancer treatment and assess the effects of limited networks on fair access to care.Resources:Connect with and follow Harlan on LinkedIn.Follow City of Hope on LinkedIn.Visit the City of Hope website here.

Rabbi Jason Weiner, senior rabbi and director of the Spiritual Care Department at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, discusses his new book, Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility. [Read more...] The post Seekers of Meaning 2/24/2023: Rabbi Jason Weiner, author of Care and Covenant appeared first on Jewish Sacred Aging.

Folks, kids are having a really hard time, and a lot of it has to do with what's happening on the internet. Some lawmakers appear to be trying to do the right thing, but it seems like all they're really capable of doing is introducing legislation – legislation that doesn't get anywhere.   The CDC released a report Monday finding teens, especially girls, are in a bad place right now with some 57% of the 17,000 high school girls surveyed persistently feeling bad or hopeless. Some twenty percent of these girls report experiencing sexual violence. And a third of boys also report feeling persistently sad or depressed.   One young person in Washington State is working to get a bill passed to protect images their parents shared on parenting blogs that went viral. And here in DC, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard brutal testimony from victims of addiction, cyberbullying, sexual abuse, and suicides spurred by social media and the internet.    Committee Chair Dick Durbin notes that we often warn kids about strangers in public, but obv iously aren't doing enough to protect kids. So Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Monday, the Clean Slate for Kids Online Act,  that would give kids the ability to have content removed that depicts them before they turned 13.   Another bill, the EARN IT Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention, has been floundering in Congress since 2020.   On the House side, the Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan subpoenaed Google, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft for documents regarding their content moderation practices. The House is currently investigating the platforms for harboring anti-conservative bias. —   Down in Florida, Polk County arrested 200, charging 89 of them with soliciting a prostitute, after a week-long investigation. 111 of the suspects were arrested for prostitution, of which 24 actually turned out to be human trafficking victims.   Separately, the U.S. denied a tourist visa to a UK-based VRChat user who goes by the name of “Hex.” She does sex shows on the platform. The reason for the passport denial? Prostitution.   —- Don't be surprised if the healthcare platforms you rely on are selling your information to marketers. The only privacy bill specifically for healthcare is the Health Insurance Privacy & Portability Act (HIPPA), which contains no provisions regarding your health data in the U.S.    An anonymous plaintiff filed a class action lawsuit in Loa Angeles this week alleging Microsoft Bing, Google, and Meta rec  eived data from Cedars-Sinai Health System and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center via a tracking code. And a new Duke study found data brokers can sell lists containing personally-identifiable information on thousands of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and OCD patients.   –   Bao Fan has disappeared in China. The American-educated and outspoken billionaire investment banker has stakes in massive Chinese companies like Alibaba & Tencent. Chinese president Xi Jinping, as Daisuke Wakabayashi of the New York Times reports, has been cracking down on business titans there. Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma disappeared from public view as well back in 2020 for being too vocal about China's fiscal policies. As were several other prominent Chinese billionaires, one of which, Xiao Jianhua, who was born in China, was arrested at the Hong Kong Four Seasons and got 13 years in the slammer for embezzlement and bribery.    —-   Elon Musk says he'll eventually step down as Twitter CEO once he gets the company financially stable – he's aiming for the end of this year. Earlier this week, Casey Newton reported on Platformer that Musk was forcing engineers – firing one of them – for not getting Musk's content to the top of the feed. Musk responded with a meme of a woman force-feeding another woman from a bottle of milk. Then he claimed that Newton's source was a disgruntled former employee.   Also, Twitter is allowing weed advertisers on the platform now. Musk was high last year when he announced plans to acquire the company.   Also,   Podcaster Joe Rogan got deepaked by someone – they made him look like he was endorsing a testosterone supplement.   Voice Actors are calling folks out for using their voices to create AI models without their consent   Microsoft's Chatbot has gone haywire, telling one reporter to leave his wife.   And the EU is investigating Amazon for acquiring iRobot To go deeper, you can find links to all of these stories in the show notes. Stay safe, stay informed, have a great week. Ciao.    Addiction, Suicide, Cyberbullies: Senate Confronts Kids' Online Horror At a hearing on Tuesday, congress heard from victims and experts about the horrific effects of social media creates on children, including cyberbullying, internet addiction, sexual abuse, and suicide. It's one of the rare issues with bipartisan agreement. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   Teen Girls Are Sadder Than Ever, But Schools Can Make "A Profound Difference" New data from the CDC shows that teen girls are experiencing record levels of sadness. romper.com VIEW MORE   How one teen is urging legislators in Washington state to help protect kids from being exploited on vlogs State legislators held a public hearing about a bill that would protect "the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs." nbcnews.com VIEW MORE   House Republicans subpoena Apple, Facebook and Google over content moderation Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, chair of the Judiciary Committee, also sent subpoenas to the CEOs of Amazon and Microsoft. nbcnews.com VIEW MORE   Undercover human trafficking bust in Florida leads to over 200 arrests, rescue of 24 suspected victims The Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida announced that a weeklong human trafficking operation has resulted in the arrests of 213 individuals and the rescue of 24 victims. foxnews.com VIEW MORE   VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution' UK-based Hex wanted to visit friends in the U.S. but was barred from entering due to her virtual work kotaku.com VIEW MORE   Lawsuit accuses Cedars-Sinai hospital's website of sharing data with Meta, Google A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles shared sensitive patient data to companies such as Meta and Google for targeted advertising. abcnews.go.com VIEW MORE   Data Brokers Are Selling Long Lists of People With Depression A new study finds data brokers selling lists of people with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and more for as little as $0.20. Privacy laws like HIPAA don't cover much of the internet, and there's a mental health data buffet for anyone who wants to know your secrets. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   Star Banker Vanishes in China, Stoking Fears of Renewed Beijing Crackdown Bao Fan is the latest businessman in China to disappear, raising concerns that Beijing's crackdown on the technology and financial industries will continue. nytimes.com VIEW MORE   Elon Says He'll Finally Step Down as Twitter CEO, Just Give Him a Year The billionaire Twitter owner promised that he would hand over the reins after a Twitter poll overwhelmingly showed users wanted him gone. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   From 404 to 420: Twitter Now Allows Weed Advertising It's no secret Elon Musk's social media platform has been struggling financially. Maybe cannabis ads could be the green boost the company needs. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   Elon Musk's Tweets Are All Over Twitter's 'For You' Feeds After throwing a hissy fit because his tweets weren't getting seen, Musk's tweets flooded some users' 'For You' feeds on Monday. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE   AI Joe Rogan promotes libido booster for men in deepfake video A deepfake video showing Joe Rogan and guest Andrew D. Huberman on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast promote a male enhancement that can be bought on Amazon. dailymail.co.uk VIEW MORE   Your Favorite Voice Actors Call Out AI Sites Copying Voices Without Consent Voice actors like Jennifer Hale, Steve Blum, and SungWon Cho ask fans to support real actors, not AI kotaku.com VIEW MORE   Creepy Microsoft Bing Chatbot Urges Tech Columnist To Leave His Wife The AI chatbot "Sydney" declared it loved New York Times journalist Kevin Roose and that it wanted to be human. huffpost.com VIEW MORE   Amazon Subject of Investigation Over iRobot Acquisition The upcoming EU antitrust probe will also reportedly look at privacy concerns related to how the autonomous vacuum cleaner can take pictures around a home. gizmodo.com VIEW MORE    

This week, Jonathan is joined by Monica Jain, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Minimally Invasive, Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, and Surgical Innovation Officer at the Cedars-Sinai Health System, Beverly Hills, California, USA. They discuss the development of new healthcare innovations, human-centred design, and the role of women in biomedical engineering and technology.

On this week's episode of the EMJ Podcast, our host Jonathan is joined by Bruce Gewertz, Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs, and Vice-President for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, USA. They discuss Gewertz's 40-year-long career in vascular surgery and academic medicine, as well as pertinent topics including burnout in healthcare professionals, self-doubt, and ensuring the establishment of a work-life balance. An anecdote about Bruce and Jonathan's mutual friend, George Berci, who is still practicing at the age of 101, addresses fulfilment in medicine.

We are very excited to have Dr. Bruce Gewertz on the pod today, with guest hosts Dr. Ali Azizzadeh and Dr. Ben Pearce. We discuss Dr. Gewertz's career as a surgeon-scientist, with an emphasis on the importance of emotional intelligence and the leadership lessons he has learned along the way.   Dr. Gewertz (@jackgiraffe1) is the H and S Nichols Distinguished Chair, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Vice President, Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System. Prior to his tenure at Cedars-Sinai, he spent 25 years at the University of Chicago, the last 14 of which as the Dallas Phemister Chair of the Department of Surgery. He also served as the inspiration for Harrison Ford's character, Dr. Richard Kimble, in the Academy Award nominated 1993 movie classic, “The Fugitive”, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.     Dr. Ali Azizzadeh (@DrAliAzizzadeh)is a Professor and Director of the Division of Vascular Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery, Associate Director, Smidt Heart Institute, and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs. Before being recruited by Dr. Gewertz to join the staff at Cedars-Sinai in 2017, he served as Professor and Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and the Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute in Houston, TX. Dr. Ben Pearce (@HawkeyeBJP) is the William D. Jordan, Jr. Endowed Professor of Vascular Surgery and Program Director of the Vascular Training Programs at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.   Dr. Pearce completed his general surgery residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals where he was mentored by today's guest. He even wore Dr. Richard Kimble's loupes as an intern! He then completed his fellowship at UAB in Vascular Surgery and was an assistant professor at UT Health before returning to Birmingham to take on his current position. He is pleased to count Dr. Gewertz as a trusted mentor, but, more importantly, dear friend for the past 22 years   Learn more about Dr. Gewertz here: https://brucegewertzmd.com/about/ Selected videos and publications by Dr. Gewertz   What other topics would you like to hear about? Let us know more about you and what you think of our podcast through our Listener Survey or email us at AudibleBleeding@vascularsociety.org. Follow us on Twitter @audiblebleeding   Learn more about us at https://www.audiblebleeding.com/about-1/ and #jointheconversation.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Bruce Gewertz, Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of Surgery, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, and Professor of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, CA. We discuss the importance of recruiting and building a hospital department, health disparities in vascular surgery, improving the relative value unit (RVU) physician compensation system, and developing a business mindset in addition to one's clinical prowess. Thanks for listening, and we hope you enjoyed the episode! ---- FOLLOW US:

Dr. Brennan Spiegel is the author of VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine. He's the Director of Health Services Research, Cedars-Sinai Health System. This is a historic, one-of-a-kind interview. It lays out the digital future for GI from the lens of virtual reality (VR). Dr. Spiegel and his team have seen 3,000 patients via VR. The technology is no more new. FDA is approving solutions. Medicare is due to pay for VR. The challenge of private practice GI is to diversify from colonoscopy. Could VR be a new ancillary stream? Find out. Do not miss this one (35+ mins). **** #VirtualReality​ #gastroenterology​ #TheScopeForwardShow​ #VRx​ #AR​ #futureofhealthcare​ #medicine​ #healthcare

Dr. Brennan Spiegel, MD, is Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System. He directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies – including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality and social media – can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes and save money. Dr. Spiegel has published more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the 2016 Onalytica "Top 100 Influencer" lists for digital health (No. 13) and virtual reality (No. 14). He also authored VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine, which was named one of the 8 best science books of 2020 by Wired Magazine. Beyond his focus on digital health innovations, Spiegel conducts psychometric, health-economic, epidemiologic and qualitative research across a wide range of healthcare topics. VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine:   https://amzn.to/3cTLI0L VirtualMedicine.org Inquiries: ContactMedicineExplained@gmail.com

Episode 8: Dr. Bruce Gewertz Dr. Bruce Gewertz is the Chair of the Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs, and Vice-president for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System. In realizing the value of emotional intelligence, Dr. Gewertz has made it his mission to share the impact emotional intelligence can have in the hospital. However, Dr. Mezrich knows Dr. Gewertz best as an inspiring and warm soul who supported his development as a surgeon. Dr. Gewertz shares what emotional intelligence looks like, and how his unique path in the field forced him to learn such difficult lessons. Follow us on Twitter: @WiscSurgery Give our Facebook page a like: @WiscSurgery Follow us on Instagram: @WiscSurgery

Please join AHA Board Chair Rod Hochman, M.D., as he kicks off the first Leadership Rounds discussion of 2021. Dr. Hochman will continue the series that AHA launched last year and will host conversations on a range of key issues facing the field with hospital and health system leaders from across the country and other special guests. Dr. Hochman was joined in January by Tom Priselac, President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System.

Dr. Bruce Gewertz is the Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, and Vice President of Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. Under his leadership at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Gewertz has added to the Department of Surgery’s academic stature by targeted recruitments across all specialties, more than doubling clinical revenues and expanding the clinical faculty by more than 50%. Most recently, he led a $4 million multi-institutional research project integrating human performance and technology funded by the Department of Defense. Before Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Gewertz was on the faculty at the University of Chicago for 25 years and served as the Dallas B. Phemister Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery from 1992 until 2006. Dr. Gewertz is the author of more than 200 original articles, books, and chapters and has won multiple awards, including Outstanding Science Alumnus of Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Alumni Fellow in 2009. In this episode… Doctors have long been seen as the ultimate authority when it comes to a patient’s care. However, as medicine continues to advance, the healthcare system has become increasingly focused on the importance of a team-oriented organization. Dr. Bruce Gewertz, the Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, believes that what makes a physician successful isn’t necessarily how authoritative they are, but their ability to bring out the best in their team. With Dov, Dr. Gewertz discusses the modern patient experience and how a physician’s role as a leader has changed over time. He addresses the challenges of building a team-oriented culture in the healthcare system. Additionally, you’ll hear about the importance of taking pride in your team and the common values that team members should share.  Join Dr. Bruce Gewertz, the Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, and Dov Pollack in this episode of the Next Wave Leadership Podcast. Dr. Gewertz provides his insights into leadership and how a physician develops their team. He also talks about focusing on group success versus individual success, the value of building relationships with the people you work with, and how to deal with failure.

Kristi Ebong is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Orbita, the leading conversational AI platform for healthcare. Orbita’s award-winning, HIPAA-compliant conversational AI platform powers voice and chat solutions for healthcare and life sciences organizations that improve patient engagement, increase clinical efficiency, and improve outcomes. Customers include innovative organizations like Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Amwell, Yale New Haven Hospital, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, University of Chicago Medicine, and others. Partners included Cognizant, Deloitte, Pariveda, and ServiceNow. Kristi also serves on the advisory board for The Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business and as an advisor to global thought leadership consultancy HealthXL. She was previously Head of Emerging Technology at Cedars-Sinai Health System where she served as an advisor on new and emerging technology and launched the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Powered by Techstars. Prior to that, Kristi worked for provider systems, technology startups, and cross-vertical health organizations (including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Healthspottr, and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT). She was previously a management consultant for #1 KLAS-ranked Stockamp & Associates, where she led operational and revenue performance improvement for hospital systems. Kristi started her career working in implementation and product development at Epic Systems, focused on electronic health record deployment across hospital systems. Connect with Kristi Ebong Orbita Facebook Twitter Kristi on LinkedIn Orbita on LinkedIn Some of the Topics Covered by Kristi Ebong in this Episode What is Orbita Kristi's current role at Orbita Figuring out what patients need and the "access problem" How Orbita approaches partnerships The importance of diversity and inclusion in the sphere of healthcare Patient journey mapping The big vision for Orbita Where Kristi sees opportunity in the healthcare technology industry Kristi's experience serving as the Director of Emerging Technology for Cedars-Sinai Accelerator How to handle the challenges of getting a healthcare startup off the ground Leveraging the Orbita platform to build and adapt quickly in the context of COVID-19 How Kristi prioritizes new projects How Kristi was inspired to work on the business side of healthcare delivery Kristi's advice for those interested in working in the healthcare industry How Kristi structures her workday How Kristi recharges outside of work The biggest lessons Kristi has learned throughout her career Links from the Episode Mayo Clinic Shiv Gaglani of Osmosis Brian Conyer of GIBLIB Cedars-Sinai Accelerator MassChallenge HealthTech (formerly PULSE@MassChallenge) MobiHealthNews MedCity News HIStalk Becker's Hospital Review MM&M

In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Tom Priselac, president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System in California, discusses how efforts to expand patient access to high-quality, affordable care are driving new hospital and health system relationships.

Dr. Spiegel is the Director of Health Services Research & Clinical Transformation at the Cedars-Sinai Health System. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the premiere GI journal. His lab, the Center for Outcomes Research, conducts research on how technology can improve healthcare and has received funding from the NIH, Veterans Affairs, and Robert-Wood Johnson Foundation. 

In this episode, Teri welcomes Kristi Ebong, the Senior Vice President of Strategy and General Manager of Healthcare Providers for Orbita, a Voice-as-a-Service company.Orbita is the only enterprise-grade, conversational platform powering HIPAA-compliant voice and chatbot applications in healthcare. They were recently awarded the inaugural award for voice technology at HIMSS 2019 from the Intelligent Health Association in partnership with Pillo.Kristi was previously Head of Emerging Technology at Cedars-Sinai Health System where she served as an advisor on new and emerging technology and led deal flow for the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Powered by Techstars. Kristi previously worked as an independent consultant for provider systems, technology startups, and cross-vertical health organizations (including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Healthspottr, and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT).OrbitaOrbita is a conversational AI platform for healthcare.They allow people to build voice, chat and bot interfaces and workflows much faster in the same way that web content management platforms came along to help people build a website. Orbita provides that to developers to allow them to create conversational interfaces more quickly and in more delightful ways, as well as to business users. It’s like SurveyMonkey for voice and bots. They provide their customers with both the platform itself as well as turnkey solutions within healthcare including digital marketing, symptom checking, consumer and content services, patient member services, patient bedside assistance, remote patient monitoring, and others.Orbita’s largest vertical is with healthcare providers, but they are live across provider, payer, pharma, and Fortune 500 companies. They are even working telecom companies that are looking at really augmenting their existing presence with aging-in-place solutions.They both augment existing technologies, products and workflows, and also offer direct out-of-the-box solutions as well, all of it being selling directly to the enterprise.Orbita’s Success Stories/Use Case ScenariosThey are working with a prostate oncology group to offload some of the call center operations that they are doing. Prostate cancer patients are getting lab results for their PSA labs very regularly. Orbita is augmenting and automating that workflow.Orbita is the “powered by” behind the scenes for Deloitte’s bedside assistant, DeloitteASSIST, which has been live in Australia. DeloitteASSIST is an AI enabled patient communication solution enabling patients to request assistance without the need to press a button.Orbita is also working with large pharma companies for post-acute or patient engagement in the home when it comes to clinical trials and medication adherence.Orbita/Pillo PartnershipThis is a great example of where Orbita is operating as an enabling technology.They are augmenting and supporting Pillo’s conversational interfaces behind the scenes. They use their AI tools to help get that up and running very quickly.HIPAA ComplianceTheir platform is HIPAA secure and their technology is presenting HIPAA secure devices in the marketplace today.They take privacy and security very seriously. Their team spends a lot of time exploring the workflow around that and the back end. They brought on a vice-president that is focused exclusively on that space and making sure that that is their number one priority as they grow.ChannelsOrbita is omnichannel. They transcend and work across devices. They can augment smartphones and mobile apps. They can with a chatbot, web browser, all smart speakers and even analogue phones. This is critical because for example, in healthcare, a lot of seniors are comfortable with analogue phones.In Orbita software and platform, they can write within one of those modalities and deploy to the others (Build Once and Deploy Everywhere)Future of VoiceLooking at how long it took for the adoption of certain disruptive technologies to reach a quarter of the US market, web took over 2 years, smartphones took 5 years, but voice has already achieved that in 4 years, and so the scale of adoption is extraordinary.There are a lot of single channel point solutions in the marketplace with a lot of success. Some of those are expected to keep doing very well.Links and Resources in this EpisodeDeloitteASSISTOrbita's WebsiteKristi on LinkedinThe Best Articles on Voice in Healthcare See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome! Today’s interview is part of a series to help you grow personally and professionally. Today’s guest, Mitch Martens, is the Employee Wellness Administrator at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, California. He follows a simple philosophy that can be found in any of his programing…humans are motivated at the heart and when you risk going there, the possibilities are endless. Today was a free flowing conversation and I had no questions prepared which is so unlike me. But I wanted this to be an authentic conversation and wanted to give Mitch the space to do his thing. We talk about what Mitch calls a well giver, takes us through his career path, he’s a little vulnerable about where he still struggles with his new experiences and he asks me to think of a time when something happened that made an impact on me.  I get a little vulnerable too, talking about my panic about the limited time I have left on this planet and some of my hopes and dreams. If you’re up for a conversation between two wellness pros that gets into the personal side of wellness, then you’ll enjoy this. Also, click here to learn more about my upcoming training, Next Generation Wellness: From Theory to Practice. For links mentioned in today's episode visit https://redesigningwellness.com/ To join the Redesigning Wellness Community, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/rdwellnesscommunity/

Episode 102 is a fascinating conversation with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System.  Listen as he and Dr. Kvedar dig into his research in Virtual Reality and its applications in several areas of medicine, conduct an exploration of cognitive and physiologic immersion and discuss the groundbreaking Virtual Medicine Conference.... Read more »

Today's episode of Redefining Medicine spotlights Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS. Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA, Dr. Spiegel also heads the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education: a multidisciplinary team that investigates the impacts of digital health technologies & innovations, health analytics, and health economics. Part clinician, part researcher, and part academic teacher, Dr. Spiegel is on the forefront of technological advancements in healthcare—including the immersive power of virtual reality—and is considered one of the top influencers in digital health.

The sun is finally out in Boston, the weather is getting warmer, and the scent of burgers can be detected around the neighborhood. Summer is officially here! Today's conversation with true tickets Co-Founder and CEO Matt Zarracina gives us insight into running with a strong early application of a burgeoning technology, in this case blockchain. The idea for leading the ticketing world onto the blockchain came when white-boarding blockchain applications with a subject-matter expert and later getting a call from his friend on exactly the same concept. Once the product vision and a friends-and-family round came together, Matt and his Co-Founders Steven Dobesh and David Piskovich jumped in full-time to make trackable and verifiable event ticketing a reality. Let's catch up with Matt to check in on true tickets's progress to-date. ----- And, while things may be slowing down a bit in the office, the startups of Early Stage have been achieving incredible milestones. - Digital health startup Wellist from Episode 7 just closed a $10M Series A funding round, led by Summation Health, Cedars-Sinai Health System, and .406 Ventures. - Night Shift Brewing from Episode 31 just announced Night Shift Lovejoy, a brand spanking new brewpub on the first floor of Converse's HQ near Boston's TD Garden. Anna Jobe, called out in the podcast by Co-Founder Michael Oxton as an unsung hero, will manage the new location. - An SEC filing from May 10 shows cybersecurity startup CYBRIC from episode 32 receiving almost $500,000 in follow-on funding. - Vesper, the startup building miniature microphone technology from Episode 15, just picked up $23M in Series B funding, led by American Family Ventures, to help them scale the mass production of their microphones and support R&D and sales. Congratulations to all on these incredible milestones and achievements!

If you follow the work being done in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) - you probably have already seen the work being done by today's guest: Dr. Brennan Spiegel. In this episode, Brennan gets real about the applications for virtual reality in healthcare, and what is needed to drive adoption throughout the healthcare system and around the world.  Brennan Spiegel is the Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Health System. He’s also a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA, and Co-Chair of the VR/AR Association Digital Health Committee. He has published numerous best-selling medical textbooks and has more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His work has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Huffington Post, LA Times, NBC News, NPR, PBS, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal and now we’re adding Digital Health Today to that esteemed list of media outlets! You can often find Brennan at major conferences around the world including HIMSS, Connected Health, Exponential Med, Health 2.0 and CES - actually it was CES where I heard him speak for the first time. And now, he’s founded a new conference call Virtual Medicine which was held last week at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. It was the first international symposium dedicated to medical virtual reality. Tickets were sold out for this debut event, and if you weren't there, fear not, because in true pioneering fashion, Brennan worked with the team over at Samsung to get the event filmed and streamed live in 360 - the recordings aren't up yet, but you can grab your goggles and transport yourself back in time and over to Los Angeles and watch the event as if you were there. Find the videos when they go live at virtualmedicine.health. Today's Topics What patients experience in biopsychosocial jail cellsHow immersive technologies can nudge users in interesting waysHow VR can liberate patients from the confines of the hospitalWhether, when and how to use VRHow users' response varies based on the user's ageInsight into the inaugural VirtualMedicine.Health ConferenceGet all the show notes to everything we discussed by visiting the website at DigitalHealthToday.com/58. Please take a minute to subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and take a minute to leave a review. It helps share what we're doing here and create good karma!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this week is Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Spiegel joins us on the program for this first part in our series around Virtual Reality in Healthcare. Dr. Spiegel directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies, including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality, and social media, can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes, and save money. CS-CORE unites clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians and health services researchers to invent, test, and implement digital innovations for the clinical trenches, always focusing on the value of technology to patient and provider end-users. Dr. Spiegel has published numerous best-selling medical textbooks, editorials, and more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the 2016 Onalytica "Top 100 Influencer" lists for digital health (#13) and virtual reality (#14). His digital health research has been featured by major media outlets, including NBC News, PBS, Forbes, Bloomberg, NPR, and Reuters. In this episode, we discuss: Dr. Spiegel’s background and how he came to develop an interest in VR? The work Dr. Spiegel is doing involving the patients; The outcomes of this work and how patients have reacted Why this kind of treatment works and what is going on in the brain that allows VR to be effective The "spotlight attention theory" The Moment of Cognitive Immersion and the Moment of Physiologic Immersion How a doctor can know which is the best type of VR treatment and the ideal immersive scenario for an individual patient The role of the “VR Pharmacy" How VR Therapy can be cost effective and what can be measured in a value-based setting What is next for VR in healthcare and what Dr. Spiegel sees happening in the next 1-2 years and in the next 10 years Links: Connect with Dr Spiegel: Website Twitter Virtual reality therapy treatments aim to reduce need for opioid use | Cronkite News Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to his episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn