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On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive spoke with Terri Casterton, Director of Healthcare Product and Strategy at Bottle Rocket, a consultancy that provides business strategy, product, design and technology services. We discussed the latest Apple Watch features, the use of patient supplied data in healthcare and the use of technological innovations in healthcare.

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive spoke with Steve Wigginton, CEO of Icario, platform that promotes health action to connect everyone to better health. We discussed how value-based care and artificial intelligence to helping health systems and health plans to provide more personalized care and to address social determinants of health.

On this episode of Healthy Bottom Line, Barry Sample, PhD, director of science and technology at Quest Diagnostics, discusses the rise in drug positivity rates among healthcare professionals over the course of 2020 and the consequences of drug use among employees in healthcare settings. He also talks about the role that marijuana legislation has played a role in this increase as well as some solutions to reduce positivity rates. 

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive™ spoke with Punit Soni, CEO and founder of Suki, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that streamlines administrative work for providers as a means to reduce burnout. We discussed how this tool helps reduce burnout among healthcare professionals and how this technology can be used in a post-pandemic world. We also talked about some of the misconceptions about how AI can be used in healthcare and the role that it should serve.

On this episode of Data Book, CHE speaks with Duane Schielke about health data and innovations.

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive™ spoke Blair Childs, senior vice president of public affairs at Premier. We discussed potential for the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act (HR 3173) to be signed into law and how it will improve access to care for patients by changing how prior authorizations for prescriptions are done. We also talked about how machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can help health systems adjust if the bill is signed into law and how they can help automate prior authorizations.

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive™ spoke with Tom Knight, founder and CEO of Invistics, to discuss the dangers of drug diversion in healthcare institutions and how machine learning technology can help solve this issue and prevent it in the future. We also discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the frequency at which drug diversion happens and how that’s expected to change as the pandemic comes to an end.

Technology is everywhere in healthcare, and the list of ways that digital solutions can improve health outcomes and cut costs is endless: technology is used to improve consumer engagement, identify patients who are at risk of events like a heart attack, and increasingly to help different parts of the healthcare system to talk to each other.

But when technology falls short of its promise, it can add costs and burdens for those who use it. The best example might be the electronic health record.

Next-generation digital providers are helping to leverage technology to find the value long promised. Today, DataBook welcomes CitiusTech, a next-generation specialist provider that works with payers, providers, medical technology and life science markets.

In an interview recorded earlier this year, Chief Healthcare Executive Associate Editorial Director Mary Caffrey spoke with 2 leaders of Citius Tech about meeting healthcare challenges with digital solutions. Her guests a

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive™ spoke with Kate Cordell and Ken Knecht, cofounders of Opeeka. We discussed how their Person-Centered Intelligence Solution can help children and their families better manage and coordinate mental health services across multiple agencies. We also talked about how this tool can improve the workload of physicians, emergency department staff, and health care costs.

On this week's episode of Data Book, Chief Healthcare Executive™ spoke with Tanvi Abbhi and Nora Zetsche, MD, cofounders of Veta Health, a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform designed to improve disease management capabilities for patients with chronic diseases. We discussed how this platform works and how it can impact conditions for patients and providers. We also talked about the pandemic’s effect on RPM utilization and where they see this technology going in the future.