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The Collective Voice of Health IT, A WEDI Podcast

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An engaging exchange of ideas and information from the preeminent national membership association for health IT guidance and collaboration. Each week, join host Matthew Albright, Chief Legislative Affairs Officer for Zelis Payment, as he welcomes prominent healthcare thought leaders to discuss best practices, pressing issues and emerging trends within the health IT community

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United States

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An engaging exchange of ideas and information from the preeminent national membership association for health IT guidance and collaboration. Each week, join host Matthew Albright, Chief Legislative Affairs Officer for Zelis Payment, as he welcomes prominent healthcare thought leaders to discuss best practices, pressing issues and emerging trends within the health IT community

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English

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Episodes

Episode 146: "Clean up on (AI)sle 10!" Confronting the Messy World of Healthcare Data with Lyric's Akshay Sharma

3/22/2024
Michael chats with Akshay Sharma, Chief AI Officer with Lyric, a leading AI healthcare technology company looking to leverage AI to improve payment accuracy and efficiency. Akshay discusses the power and potential of AI, how Lyric is improving the healthcare payment process for all stakeholders and the importance of responsible AI and privacy when implementing this emerging technology.

Duration:00:28:54

Episode 145: Healthcare is better...with "Musick." MedicareSchool.com's Co-Founder Marvin Musick

3/15/2024
Michael welcomes MedicareSchool.com co-founder Marvin Musick to discuss offering valuable education to Medicare-eligible patients and the affect of technology and policy on Medicare and healthcare in general.

Duration:00:25:29

Episode 144: How Community Based Organizations (CBOs) Leverage Data to Support Health Equity (Part 1 of 2)

3/8/2024
From WEDI's Feb 2024 Health Equity Forum, Dr. Marc Rabner, Chief Medical Officer with CRISP Shared Services moderates a panel of CBO leaders on how they leverage data in their day to day work. The Panel:

Duration:00:27:59

Episode 143, Dude, Where's My Wheelchair!? Understanding Real-Time Location Systems with Cen Trak's Nick Adriance

3/1/2024
This week, Matthew welcome Nick Adriance, Director, Global Software Product Management at CenTrak. The two discuss the evolution of Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) and how it can aid in streamlining cost, decrease lost equipment, increase security, and enhance patient experience.

Duration:00:19:45

Episode 142: Health Equity Sit Down with Dr. Vindell Washington of Verily Health Platforms

2/23/2024
At WEDI's recent Health Equity Forum and Workshop, Sagran Moodley, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer with Ontada spoke with Dr. Vindell Washington, former National Coordinator for Health IT and the Chief Clinical Officer and Director of the Health Equity Center of Excellence for Verily Health Platforms.

Duration:00:28:00

Episode 141: Making an Impact in Behavioral Health Data Collection and Analysis. A Chat with Raven Health CEO Richard Wagner

2/16/2024
Michael welcomes Richard Wagner, a former WEDI Privacy and Security Workgorup Co-Chair who is the CEO of Raven Health (www.ravenhealth.com) a leader in data collection and analysis for behavioral health. Coming from a healthcare family, Richard learned early on about the frustrations of healthcare software from his clinician father, and worked to increase the time a clinician spends with their patients and decrease the time they spend doing "everything else."

Duration:00:20:14

Episode 140: Understanding the Language of Patient Engagement with Providertech's Lisa Blue

2/9/2024
Michael chats with Lisa Blue, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer with Providertech on how technology and policy is quickly shaping the future for patient engagement.

Duration:00:21:50

Episode 139: Making Healthcare Synchronized, Personalized and Radically Convenient with Patty Hayward, Talkdesk

2/2/2024
Matthew chats with Patty Hayward, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Talkdesk. The two discuss healthcare's current problem areas, how patient empowerment can help turn the tide and how AI can address call center challenges.

Duration:00:31:31

Episode 138: Taking Social Determinants of Health Data from Analysis to Action. SS&C and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

1/26/2024
Matthew welcomes a panel of healthcare professionals to discuss the power of SDOH data in changing communities. The group discusses the data-centric challenges of collecting and analyzing SDOH data and the need for the healthcare industry to continue to collaborate with community based organizations.

Duration:00:34:07

Episode 137: The Power of Community. A Chat with Shweta Maniar, Global Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google

1/19/2024
"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members" Michael welcomes Shweta Maniar, Global Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences with Google. Shweta shares how early experiences of volunteer service shaped her vision of how technology, along with trust and sense of community, can improve the healthcare ecosystem. Shweta also shares advice for women leaders and others in healthcare, and unveils the secret of how almond milk is made (it's probably not a secret, Michael just didn't know).

Duration:00:32:06

Episode 136: Structuring the Unstructured: Clinical AI Solutions with emtelligent’s Kim Perry

1/12/2024
WEDI's Director of Events and Education Michael McNutt chats with Kim Perry, Chief Growth Officer at emtelligent, about the adoption of clinical AI and its potential to transform business processes in the healthcare market. The benefits of AI are discussed as well as the challenges that come with the technology. Read Kim's article on how NLP can aid payers and providers when exchanging patient information through continuity-of-care documents. https://www.ajmc.com/view/contributor-unlocking-the-value-of-unstructured-data-from-continuity-of-care-documents-using-medical-grade-nlp

Duration:00:23:02

Episode 135: How AI is Bringing the Joy Back to Medicine. A Conversation with Artisight Inc President Stephanie Lahr

1/5/2024
Matthew chats with Artisight Inc. President Stephanie Lahr. Inspired by her experience with an EHR system during a hurricane in Texas, Stephanie discusses the urgent need to transition from paper records, embrace technology, and how AI can support hospitals by identifying and automating high friction environments, improving the quality of care, and reducing healthcare burnout.

Duration:00:38:17

Episode 134: The (AI)R Up Here. Augmented Intelligent Realities Present and Future with Dr First CMO Dr. Colin Banas

12/22/2023
Host Mike Kottmer (WEDI Board Member) talks with Dr Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer with Dr. First. The two discuss how AI (Dr. Banas calls it Augmented Intelligence) has benefitted both patients (improved medication management) and physicians (burden reduction) as well as the challenges and future opportunities that AI will bring the industry.

Duration:00:25:44

Episode 133: Wearables and Your FICO ”Health Score”; A Chat with the Founders of tallywell

12/15/2023
Guest host and WEDI board member Mike Kottmer chats with Dr. Luigi Vacca and Aaron Holloway, the founders of tallywell, a digital health app that utilizes AI and ML to create a FICO-like "health score" for the user.

Duration:00:28:09

Episode 132: Leveraging AI to Collect Healthcare’s Receipts: An AI Discussion with SmarterDx CEO and Co-Founder Michael Gao

12/8/2023
Michael chats with Dr. Michael Gao, CEO and Co-Founder of SmarterDx. The two discuss how Michael's origins in starting a free clinic for uninsured patients sparked his interest in combining technology and healthcare to address systemic issues. The two address the inefficiencies in the healthcare system, particularly the high cost of revenue cycle tasks, and how leveraging AI can offer immediately value to hospitals.

Duration:00:21:19

Episode 131: Tipping the Barrels and Racing Toward Interoperability: Dr. John Blair, MedAllies

12/1/2023
Matthew chats with Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies (and one-time rodeo cowboy). The two discuss MedAllies position as a QHIN candidate, reinvigorating the interoperability movement, and how MedAllies and others plan to address those significant healthcare interoperability shortfalls that are impacting patient care.

Duration:00:31:33

Episode 130: CISO Panel; Maintaining Security and Privacy as Patient Data and Technology Evolves

11/22/2023
From WEDI's 2023 National Conference, Greg Garcia, Executive Director, Cyber Security Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) hosts a CISO panel looking at security trends and threats in healthcare. Panelists:

Duration:00:44:58

Episode 129: Sharing (Clinical Data) is Caring: CQL Talk with Smile Digital Health’s Bryn Rhodes

11/17/2023
This podcast is sponsored by Smile Digital Health. Your Digital Transformation Awaits at www.SmileDigitalHealth.com Michael speaks with Smile Digital Health's Director of Standards Strategy Bryn Rhodes about Clinical Quality Language, its challenges with large amounts of data and how FHIR helps mitigate data challenges.

Duration:00:23:03

Episode 128: AI Strategy in Healthcare- Look Before Your Leap

11/10/2023
From our recently concluded national conference in Washington DC, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner welcomes a panel of AI SMEs to discuss their successes and challenges in developing AI strategies in healthcare. The panel:

Duration:00:46:14

Episode 127: Part 2 of our Expert Panel, AI Best Business Practices

11/3/2023
The continuation of episode 125, WEDI Board Chair Ed Hafner has a great conversation on AI best business practices with an impressive panel of SMEs: • Ram Rimal, Manager of Data Science Engineering, UNC Health • Jared Staal, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and AI, Mayo Clinic • John Loomis, Head of Technology, AI, Engineering, Softheon • Laura Adams, Senior Advisor, National Academy of Medicine • Jigar Patel, MD, Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Product Management for Healthcare, Oracle Cerner

Duration:00:31:51