In this episode of the 4x4 Health series “Working in Healthcare”, co-hosts Dave Levin, MD and Geeta Nayyar, MD talk with David Butler, MD. Founder and Principal of Calyx Consulting. David is a widely recognized health IT leader when it comes to deploying and utilizing health IT.  David leverages his dual board certification in pediatrics and internal medicine to bridge the gap between the clinical and the technical. And he’s proven his ability to partner with clinical, operations and IT practitioners and executives at health systems like NYC Health and Hospitals, Guthrie Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic.

In this episode of the 4x4 Health series “Working in Healthcare”, co-hosts Dave Levin, MD and Geeta Nayyar, MD talk with Matt Fisher, Chair of the Health Law Group and a Partner at the law firm of Mirick O’Connell.  Matt’s legal practice focuses on corporate and regulatory matters in healthcare, which includes advising physicians, clinicians, hospitals, and all other care delivery organizations as well as digital health companies in all aspects of business operations. Matt shares his refreshing views on how legal and regulatory issues can be addressed to support innovation in healthcare.

In this episode of the 4x4 Health series “Working in Healthcare”, co-hosts Dave Levin, MD and Geeta Nayyar, MD talk with Jamey Edwards, CEO and Co-founder of Cloudbreak Health. Jamey shares how Cloudbreak is using a proven platform, connected to a scalable network, to deliver medical and language expertise in pursuit of his mission to humanize healthcare and make healthcare disparities a thing of the past. Jamie’s had a diverse career leading up to his focus in medicine including serving as CEO of Emergent Medical Associates, as a member of the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers and as a Fund Manager for BR Venture Fund, the seed stage venture capital fund for Cornell University.

In this episode of 4x4 Health, our new series Working in Healthcare with series co-host Geeta Nayyar, M.D., M.B.A. Chief Medical Officer for Greenway Health. Our guest this week is Vincent Keunen, Founder and CEO of Andaman7, a startup dedicated to improving healthcare by providing innovative software technology. A cancer survivor, software engineer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the health IT sector, Vincent has developed numerous systems in Belgium. In 2011, Vincent was recognized as national CIO of the year.

In this episode of 4x4 Health, we kick off our new series Working in Healthcare with series co-host Geeta Nayyar, M.D., M.B.A. Chief Medical Officer for Greenway Health. Geeta is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare information technology. She has been named one of the “Top 26 smartest people in Health IT” by Becker’s Report and ranked one of the “Top 25 Minority Healthcare Executives” by Modern Healthcare.

In this episode of 4x4 Health, we talk with Royal Tuthill, Co-founder and President of Docent Health. Royal’s work at Docent has taken him to the intersection of consumerism, patient experience and population health and the cutting edge of leveraging healthcare technology to enable better customer relationships that achieve great outcomes for patients and providers. He also shares insights from the venture studio at Oxeon Partners where he first conceptualized and then led the development of Docent Health.

In this powerful episode of 4x4 Health we learn about leadership from Dr. Bob Underwood through his nontraditional path to medicine. With a wide range of experience, Dr. Underwood discusses how to lead affectively and how leadership varies from management.

On this episode of 4x4 Health we have a special edition mashup of some of the best sage advice we’ve received on the show. We’ve put together a compilation from Maulin Shah, M.D., David Butler, M.D., and Justin Adams.

Maulin Shah, M.D. is Chief Informatics Engineer for Providence St. Joseph Health. On his episode of 4x4 Health we discussed his journey from implementor of electronic health records (EHRs) to Health IT innovator. Given his depth of experience and his innate passion, his advice to “remember your roots” is sage indeed.

David Butler, M.D. is the Founder and Principal of Calyx Consulting. David has a long track record of success when it comes to leading top health care organizations through the process of selecting and deploying health IT applications. Given his experience and humor he also offers an entertaining and worthy pet-peeve and some very sage advice.

Justin Adams is the co-founder and CEP of Digitize.AI. As a relative newcomer to healthcare Justin offers some fresh and astute observations about the current economic and operational state and opportunities to “stop putting band aids on problems and completely rethink them.” He gives some sage and moving advice about the benefits of being kind in our personal, public, and business relationships.

In this episode of 4x4 Health we dive into building safer and more reliable health information systems with guest, Ben Cooperman. Mr. Cooperman is a Senior Associate in Healthcare Performance Improvement and has extensive experience working in healthcare technology and safety. He shares why safety first is a winning strategy as well as high reliability in the health IT industry and making technology work for us to transform how healthcare is delivered.

In this episode of 4x4 Health, we explore the history and progress of the patient safety movement with Craig Clapper, a founding partner at Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI). Mr. Clapper’s 25 years of experience in improving reliability in nuclear power, transportation, manufacturing and healthcare gives him a unique perspective on developing a culture of safety and demonstrating measurable progress.

 

We also look at how of the general principles of safety and reliability can be applied to health information technology.