Podcasts about node health

Last week, we heard about the incredible pressure on hospitals during this pandemic and how it’s affected nurses specifically. Today, we turn our attention to ER doctors at all stages in their careers... from the residents to attending physicians. And just like other healthcare professionals, they too are putting their lives at risk. The cost of education to be an MD is high, resident salaries are low, and starting one’s own independent practice is harder than ever. With that said, there are many young MD's (residents) who are working on the frontlines right now. The question is - are they being fairly compensated? Episode 9: The Good Doctors - In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Nitin Vaswani, a trained clinician, Hopkins alumni & healthcare investor. Currently, he’s spending his time pushing digital health initiatives, as well as helping hospitals transition into tele-health. We learn: The current pay gap between doctors in the ERs and the one's senior to them. How the hospital system works, and why it’s so hard to start one’s own practice. Why hazard pay and loan forgiveness is important for healthcare workers right now. The importance of digital health, and how COVID-19 is pushing that movement forward How doctors can be compensated through tele-health. Today’s episode also includes personal stories from two physicians on the frontlines. We thank them for not only sharing their stories, but also for giving us hope. A huge thank you to all the healthcare professionals out there! Stay safe! In this episode, we show our support for Node Health, focused on bringing evidence-based medicine practice to digital health.

The World Bank had a revelation a few years back. Some very smart people working there realized that countries that were easy to do business with thrived. Within these countries’ business ecosystem, the best and the brightest entrepreneurs and investors grew not only their own businesses but also positively influenced other businesses and the community around them. Brian Van Winkle and Rishab Shah, both executives at Johns Hopkins, had their own revelation: Health systems who are easy to do business with attract and enable the best and the brightest start-ups or other entrepreneurs who are able to do great work within their walls, with their patients, and with their clinicians. It’s becoming fairly axiomatic at this juncture that provider organizations—along with payers, by the way—cannot be good at inventing and innovating absolutely everything that’s possible to conceive of and develop. It is impossible for any group, no matter how dynamic and forward thinking and awesome, to be better than everybody else at everything. For this reason, the idea of health systems and payers becoming great aggregators of amazing tech and services is definitely gaining traction. This would include internally developed as well as externally sourced technology and services. Listen to Rahul Dubey in episode 259 for more info on this evolution in the payer space. But back to Brian and Rishab. They spotted this trend in its early days and also saw the issues that health systems face and will face as the ease of doing business becomes more and more of a rate critical of success. Thus was born the Ease of Doing Business Initiative, health care–style, based on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business model. In a nutshell, what the World Bank did in their Ease of Doing Business Initiative is they came up with a set of measures and hived those measures into categories and then they ranked countries against those measures. Brian and Rishab decided to do the same thing. They created a list of questions for health systems to self-rank (at least initially) themselves on how well they did within these seven categories of measures. Twelve to fifteen of the leading health systems agreed to participate. Most are members of NODE.Health, where Brian is the former executive director. And this Ease of Doing Business Initiative is under the NODE.Health umbrella.  In this health care podcast, Brian and Rishab speak only for themselves during this interview. They do not speak for their employer or anybody else. (Note: I also interviewed Brian and Rishab at the NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference.) You can learn more at the Sibley Innovation Hub (@SibleyHub) on Twitter or by connecting with Brian and Rishab on LinkedIn. Brian Van Winkle, MBA, is the executive director of innovation at the Sibley Innovation Hub. His focus is on transforming the health care system by being a conduit between passionate clinicians and some of the most advanced solutions emerging around the world. Brian brings more than 10 years of experience helping some of the most complex health care systems in the world with transformation, process improvement, and strategy design. Brian has a dual degree in economics and English from the University of Virginia and earned his MBA at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Rishab Shah, MHS, is the head of digital innovation and strategic partnerships at the Sibley Innovation Hub. He leads the Hub’s charge in development, implementation, and oversight on driving innovation through strategic partnerships with emerging technologies around the world as senior manager of tech innovations. Rishab is a strategist inspired to innovate while empowered to create. He has helped companies around the world with corporate strategy, business operations optimizations, and large-scale technology transformations—primarily within the health care and life sciences industries. Rishab has a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins University. 03:46 Focusing on “outside-in” innovation. 04:09 The downside to hospitals and health systems not being easy to work with. 05:17 “You have to acknowledge that we’re in a crisis state.”—Brian 06:56 “Are we putting ourselves at a disadvantage by not … being easy to interface with?”—Rishab 08:25 Why hospitals might not be so easy to work with right now. 09:11 The correlation between a partnership strategy and health outcomes and metrics that matter. 09:42 The gap between health care players’ workload and collaboration. 12:04 “Who is putting the focus on the requirements?”—Rishab 12:44 What the Ease of Doing Business Initiative is. 14:56 The opportunity for entrepreneurs to be involved in this process. 16:07 Ecosystem-based work groups. 17:22 “What box do you exist in?”—Brian 18:29 The seven success factors an organization needs to be good at to improve their ease of business. 18:53 Customer support and governance. 19:02 Contracting and legal. 19:11 Patient safety and clinical research. 19:21 Integration and technology. 19:27 Data security and availability. 19:32 Commercialization support. 19:39 Industry perceptions. 21:04 How health care systems view their own ease of doing business. 25:20 The intent of the Ease of Doing Business Initiative. 28:39 Outside innovation vs comprehensive innovation strategies. 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If I was going to sum up the summaries, I might put it this way, liberally co-opting the words and sentiments of my articulate guests: The intent here is to help doctors care for patients, patients care for themselves, and all of us care for each other (thanks for that concise statement, Jim Barr). If we want to do this well, we want to and need to standardize the way that digital medicine suppliers express their value so that providers and other purchasers can make informed choices not derailed by who has better marketing. And health systems and other large stakeholders are starting to come around to the inevitability of digital medicine and also the need for evidence to separate the winners from the not-so-greats in a field of literally thousands of health tech options. You can learn more at nodehealth.org or by emailing info@nodehealth.org. Megan Coder, PharmD, MBA, is executive director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), whose mission is to broaden the understanding, adoption, and integration of clinically validated digital therapeutic solutions into mainstream health care through education, advocacy, and research. With more than a decade of experience in the health care industry, Megan’s expertise extends from strategic growth and partnership development within the digital health sector to the direct delivery of patient care.  James E. Barr, MD, is vice president of clinical intelligence at Atlantic Health System and medical director for the Optimus Healthcare Partners and Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organizations. He is a board-certified family physician with an active clinical practice. He is an assistant clinical professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has worked with Aveta Health Solutions (North American Medical Management) as vice president of medical services.  Katie D. McMillan, MPH, has dedicated her career to imagining and building technology to improve health care for patients and providers. Her experience spans multinational global health organizations, lean software start-up companies, and large academic medical centers. Katie’s latest venture is the creation of the Mobile App Gateway (MAG) at Duke University Health System. The MAG serves as the hub for digital health at Duke and provides product consulting services to clinicians and researchers, monthly events and workshops, and content exploring the many facets of the health tech industry.  Naomi Fried, PhD, is an innovative and digital health thought leader and founder and CEO of the boutique advisory firm, Health Innovation Strategies, which focuses on innovation program design and digital health strategy. Naomi was the first vice president of innovation and external partnerships at Biogen, the first chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, and vice president of innovation and advanced technology at Kaiser Permanente. She served on the board of directors of the American Telemedicine Association and the Governor of Massachusetts’ Innovation Council.  Louis Morrow is regional director of sales for Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems (IRIS), the leading comprehensive solution provider of diagnostic telemedicine services committed to ending preventable blindness due to diabetic eye disease. Louis was one of the earliest builders at IRIS and has played a major role in saving the eyesight of over 55,000 patients (so far) through the partnerships built with major health systems and integrated delivery networks across the country. He’s an award-winning consultative sales team leader with more than 20 years of successful experience in the eye care space and has held senior sales leadership positions across multiple companies.  Adnan Iqbal is the cofounder and CEO of Luma Health, a digital health company solving the biggest challenge in health care: getting patients in front of the right provider and to the best health care outcome quickly. Adnan previously held leadership roles at Genentech across research and development, finance, operations, and market analysis and strategy. Prior to Genentech, Adnan cofounded a medical device start-up working to develop an inexpensive diagnostic test for tuberculosis and several other infectious diseases.  Roylyn Fernandez, RN, has more than 15 years of combined experience in clinical and informatics roles integrating technologies such as electronic health records (EHRs), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDIs), and mobile applications into system processes. Her passion for nursing and health care enable her to leverage her clinical, operational, and informatics knowledge to design and execute technology adoption strategies that support organizational goals related to quality, patient safety, and revenue capture initiatives. In 2016, Roylyn joined DeLappe Consulting after leading enterprise-wide technology implementation and optimization projects for Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and Cottage Health Systems.  Jay Fischer, MBA, as an executive, management consultant, and entrepreneur, has earned a reputation for achieving business growth in challenging consumer and business markets in diverse industries. He has broad-based experience in marketing, business and channel development, sales, customer management, and operations. He has created strong brands from start-up through revitalization stages, developed and sold innovative solutions for diverse customer groups/distribution channels, and built team commitment for sustainable growth in organizations. Jay is a visionary and strategic thinker who has demonstrated a consistent record of translating plans into results in the face of difficult market, financial, and organization conditions.  Jitendra Barmecha, MD, MPH, is chief information officer and senior vice president of information technology, health care data and analytics, and clinical engineering at SBH Health System in the Bronx, NY. He serves on the health care advisory panel for Salesforce, Health Connect Partners, and the American College of Physicians (physician payment reform). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, senior fellow of hospital medicine, and fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. While continuing his passion for bedside patient care as a hospitalist, he enjoys teaching clinical staff and routinely provides lectures on health care management, technology innovation, and policy.  02:50 Megan explains the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. 03:04 What actually is a digital therapeutic and how do you define it? 03:58 “The goal really is to make sure that there’s cohesion across this industry.”—Megan 04:32 “It’s okay to be targeted.”—Megan 05:42 “We need to find what doctors need and what patients need through data.”—Jim 05:54 What the conference confirmed for Jim. 06:14 Utilizing the abundance of health care data. 07:18 Helping physicians care better for their patients. 08:02 Helping patients care better for themselves. 09:40 How companies are looking to gather enough data. 12:45 The small stuff vs tackling the “medium stuff.” 13:08 “Are we making the same mistakes that the EHRs made?”—Adnan 14:10 “The concept of a PCP [primary care provider] is really dying.”—Adnan 15:47 "The script is being written as we talk."—Jay You can learn more at nodehealth.org or by emailing info@nodehealth.org.

Brian Van Winkle, MBA, focuses on transforming health care by accelerating the adoption of digital technologies throughout the ecosystem. He is the executive director for NODE.Health, a nonprofit with a mission to combine the rigor of evidence-based medicine with emerging health care technologies to help create evidence-based digital medicine. Brian also runs an innovation center for Johns Hopkins focused on connecting physicians with promising technologies and solutions to solve real problems. Brian has spent 10 years in health care consulting with expertise in strategy design, process improvement implementation, and complex transformation at some of the biggest health care systems in the world. Jay Erickson is a founding partner and Health and Wellness lead at Modus, a digital product studio, and serves on the executive board of NODE.Health. As a cancer survivor and lifelong technologist, he works at the intersection of patient advocacy and digital health, using human-centered design methods to improve experiences and outcomes.     Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential health care IT thought leader who is known as “The Healthcare IT Guy” across the internet. He is a technology strategy consultant to many federal agencies and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100” award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 24-year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he’s built several Web-based electronic medical records now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion-dollar division of Cardinal Health, he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy adviser, helping small businesses commercialize their health care applications. 03:54 What is NODE? 04:33 Filling a void around clinical evidence. 06:09 What would happen if NODE doesn’t exist? 06:41 Good vs bad product supply in health care. 08:42 Getting a lot more value out of government funding. 11:13 Connecting problems with solutions and how NODE is helping. 14:16 Getting the framework right within digital technology. 14:30 Designing digital technology from the problem perspective. 15:07 “Building a reasonable taxonomy.”—Shahid 16:11 “What we know is we’re gonna get it wrong.”—Shahid 16:27 The 3 main things in operationalization. 16:58 “How do you go and test a digital health tool?”—Shahid 17:13 “There is a science to [testing] user experience.”—Shahid 18:13 “We want to say, ‘Here’s how you do it.’”—Shahid 18:53 “Failure is super important.”—Jay 20:02 “Embrace failure in a healthy way.”—Jay 22:59 “Is the problem itself portable?”—Shahid 25:23 Mobile technologies and the need to be integration and patient first. 27:07 “You have to see across facilities.”—Shahid 27:54 “Multisite—just 2—is a thousand times better than 1.”—Jay

During the HIMSS 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition we met up with select faculty presenting at the NODE Health Innovation Roundtable.  This segment features Brian Kalis, Managing Director @AccentureHealth.  Interview via Fred Goldstein, co-host Health Innovation Media. Segment filmed and produced by Gregg Masters, Managing Director, Health Innovation Media.

During the HIMSS 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition we met up with select faculty presenting at the NODE Health Innovation Roundtable.  This segment features Vishnu Saxeena, Managing Director- Healthcare at LiquidHub (A Capgemini company). Interview via Fred Goldstein, co-host Health Innovation Media. Segment filmed and produced by Gregg Masters, Managing Director, Health Innovation Media.

During the HIMSS 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition we met up with select faculty presenting at the NODE Health Innovation Roundtable.  This segment features James Corbett, JD, MDiv, Senior Vice President, Chief Mission Officer, Centura Health. Centura Health is hosting the Future of Medicine Conference in Denver, Colordao, May 3rd & 4th 2018.  Interview via Fred Goldstein, co-host Health Innovation Media. Segment filmed and produced by Gregg Masters, Managing Director, Health Innovation Media.

During the HIMSS 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition we met up with select faculty presenting at the NODE Health Innovation Roundtable.  This segment features Athena HealthCEOJonathan Bush who weighs in on digital medicine, healthIT, emerging empirics and the availability of the 'Athena stack' to avail developers interested in advancing the value proposition of digital medicine. Interview via Fred Goldstein, co-host Health Innovation Media. Segment filmed and produced by Gregg Masters, Managing Director,Health Innovation Media.

During the HIMSS 2018 Annual Conference and Exhibition we met up with select faculty presenting at the NODE Health Innovation Roundtable.  This segment features Chief Technology Innovation and Engagement Officer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,Ashish Atreja MD MPHweighs in on digital medicine. Interview via Fred Goldstein, co-host Health Innovation Media. Segment filmed and produced by Gregg Masters, Managing Director, Health Innovation Media.  

On this episode, Rick Moore, CIO at NCQA, joins us for a discussion about what's next for digital quality measurement. Rick likes to call this Digital Quality Measures 2.0 and you can see it coming to life in NCQA's eMeasure Certification (eMC) program.  The program aims to take burden away from health plans and auditors by establishing a process for generating standard supplemental data for HEDIS measures. This will enable software vendors, providers, HIEs and others to more effectively and efficiently provide needed clinical data without all the manual chart pulls (you can see the certified vendors here). Additionally, the eMeasure test process is now approved as the only alternative to the Project Cypress toolset in the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Rick sees great opportunity ahead for a few reasons: The community is more engaged (vendors, providers, payers) The government has backed off (a bit) on mandating specifically how things will be done There are more options available to providers These factors, coupled with the rise of promising new specifications like Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and FHIR, might put us in a position to move away from performance-based measures of providers and towards holistic, patient-centered measures; away from manual data entry and toward clinical data that is automatically collected as a by-product of the physician workflow. At the same time, he is realistic and offers several cautions: We can't wait for CQL and FHIR. Let's move forward with what we've got now and upgrade along the way. We can't just toss out process measures and go strictly outcomes measures. We need both. We can't mandate interoperabillity as the basis for all measures right away We address these issues and so much more, including: What is the National Committee for Quality Assurance or NCQA? (0:55) What's NCQA's role in monitoring quality in healthcare? (2:08) What's the difference between process measures and outcomes measures? What about Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) vs. institutionally focused outcomes measures? (4:35) How does NCQA decide what's worth measuring especially when you consider the high levels of administrative burden and burnout on the physicians? (10:00) The unintended consequences of value-based payment (13:00) What if we decided that from this point forward we would only have measures that could be collected digitally? (15:30) Structured vs. unstructured data (20:00) Manually entered and properly coded vs. automatically captured data points (23:45) What if we decided that from this point forward we won't collect measures unless we have interoperabillity? Would we get interoperabillity more quickly? (25:30) Why aren't we using all the digital info that is already available? Think manual chart pulls instead of data extracts or queries against Health Information Exchanges (HIE)? 27:30 Do you agree with the following statement? Some health systems will make the investment needed to satisfy quality measure requirements without a major burden on providers and that will give them a competitive advantage because doctors will choose to work there (33:00) What is the Electronic Measure Certification (eMC) program? (39:00) Does the eMC program serve as a vehicle for HIEs and other community aggregators to get in the HEDIS measurement flow by providing standard supplemental data to the health plans? (49:00) What advice would you give doctors who want to have more of a say in the quality measure specifications going forward? (51:25) Where can listeners learn more about you, NCQA and the eMC program? (51:25) There's a lot here. I hope you enjoy it! ~ Don Lee Mentioned on the podcast Re-imagining Quality Measurement by Shahid Shah (presented at The Digital Quality Summit) The Digital Quality Summit | Held November 1-2, 2017, Washington, DC HL7 and NCQA partnered to host the Digital Quality Summit - gathering the best and brightest in health care and technology to demonstrate methods for eliminating measurement burdens and bridging the digital gap. Health Impact Mid West | Held November 16, 2017, Chicago, IL The 5th Annual HealthIMPACT Mdiwest, developed in partnership with NODE Health where the brightest minds in clinical health technology move beyond the digital medicine hype and forge a path from innovation to implementation to digital transformation using evidence as our guide. About Rick Moore, PhD As NCQA's Chief Information Officer, Rick Moore is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of the Information Services, Information Technology and Information Products. He also works closely with NCQA's stakeholder partners and represents NCQA on leading several national health information technology initiatives and panels including the Office of National Coordinator Standards and Interoperability Workgroup, and the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Quality and Patient Safety Committee. Prior to joining NCQA in 2008, he was the Director of Health Informatics at the National Association of Children's Hospitals where he led the development of information services and products for over 200 member hospitals. He has also served the Office of the Secretary of Health Affairs at the Department of Defense where he led the development of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and was awarded the Information Technology Officer of the Year of the Joint Medical Information Systems Office in 2004. From 2001 to 2003, he was competitively selected by the U.S. Air Force Medical Service to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he studied Health Informatics. In 2002, he was selected as a recipient of the HIMSS Foundation Richard P. Covert National Scholarship Award. Previously, he has served as the Director of Medical Readiness at Langley Hospital and was recognized as the Medical Readiness Officer of the Year for the command. He has also served as the Director of Managed Care for Moody Community Hospital and was selected in 1996 as the Air Force Medical Service's Managed Care/Patient Administrator of the Year.He holds a Doctorate degree in Health Related Sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University, a graduate degree in Health Informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as a graduate degree in Management from Troy State University, and a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University. He is a certified health care executive and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (FHIMSS), a certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)   Email: moore@ncqa.org   Blog: http://blog.ncqa.org/author/rick-moore/    About NCQA NCQA is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations. It also recognizes clinicians and practices in key areas of performance. NCQA's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) is the most widely used performance measurement tool in health care. NCQA's Web site (ncqa.org) contains information to help consumers, employers and others make more informed health care choices. 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My guest today is  Dr Ashish Atreja. He is an Assistant Professor and the Chief Technology Engagement and Innovation Officer, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan. He is an intrapreneur with over 10 years experience in informatics education and research.     Dr Atreja is also the director of the AppLab at Mount Sinai hospital, and he is concerned about the lack of a robust body of digital health evidence.  In this podcast he shares his vision for addressing that need through collaboration, and he has set up a new data sharing initiative called NODE Health that encourages organizations to share their own digital health pilot data. NODE Health stands for Network Of Digital  Evidence in Health, and he talks about what it is, how to participate and how it is working to become the academic home for evidence in digital medicine.    Today’s Topics:Dealing with web platforms and improving their efficiencyUsing mobile technology as an engagement toolNODE health and its goalsIcahn School of Medicine and its partnership with Apple (App Lab)Process for finding clinical champions for mobile technologyBiggest failure/limitations in mobile technology adoptionDealing with inherent biases in pilot programsCreating successful apps for patients and clinicians alikeFocusing on the financial return of appsLaunching NODE Health and the guiding principles of successful partnersHow an organization can be a part of the NODE Health programHow individuals can contribute to NODE HealthLinks: Node Health WebsiteSinai AppLab Mount Sinai and Apple AnnouncementsMount Sinai Asthma iOS AppApple Research KitNODE Health Linked In Group    Contact Info: Dr Atreja on Twitter: @atreja     RecommendationsBook: The Monk Who Sold His FerrariTech Tool: FacetimeCharity: Ashanet.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices