2016 Health Connect South Event I had the opportunity to sit down with several presenters and attendees at the 2016 Health Connect South event.  On this week’s show I share three segments with IBM Watson Health, VP of Population Health and Cognitive Decision Support, Dan Cerutti Dan Shook, National Park Service–Kittyhawk Jim Schwoebel, founder of …

Pharmacogenetic Testing This week I connected with Vanderbilt University’s Dr. Dan Roden to learn about pharmacogenetic testing.  This tool provides physicians and other prescribing health professionals with individual-specific data about how a patient’s body will respond to particular medications or types of medication.  For example, a popular drug, Plavix, which is prescribed to reduce risk …

Better Medication Management and Compliance Curant Health (Formerly HealthStat Rx) is a national healthcare company utilizing an innovative patient-centric services, medication management and specialty pharmacy program to provide chronic disease expertise and support to improve the therapy experience and quality of life for patients nationwide. Curant Health also provides hospitals, Accountable Care Organizations, concierge medicine …

Tackling Cardiovascular Disease Through Research, R and D Health experts will be addressing top disease states & explore collaborations that will reduce their occurrence at the upcoming Health Connect South 2016 event.  Panelist, Dr. Neal Weintraub of Augusta University talks about obesity, its contribution to cardiovascular disease, and research aimed at tackling this and other …

Complying with MACRA MCCI (Medical Care Consortium, Inc.) is a physician owned Medical Group who partners with Humana to engage Primary Care Provider offices successfully transition to a quality or value based model of care by providing practice support around quality related activities such as appropriate documentation and coding, care coordination, Patient Centered Medical Home […]

Reducing Hospital-acquired Infections Jay and I sat down with Sam Perkins, CEO of Pūrgenix™, a company that has developed a technology that enables healthcare organizations to contain, and in fact, reduce rates of occurrence of hospital-acquired infections.  It is well known that pathogens such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile are challenging to treat and equally […]

ChronicCareIQ This week Jay and I sat down with Matt Ethington, CEO of ChronicCareIQ to learn how this technology company is providing physicians and hospitals with tools that empower them to better manage patients with chronic illnesses.  The Affordable Care Act has put in place measures around patient outcomes that can affect how much the […]

Insights in Healthcare Innovation Jay and I sat down with Glenn Pearson, of Pearson Health Tech Insights.  Glenn’s background includes spending time in leadership roles in acute care hospital settings, as well as nearly 20 years with the Georgia Hospital Association.  During his career he realized challenges companies with technology innovation solutions have when selling into […]

Health-ePeople We sat down with Satvinder “Pearly” Dhingra, founder of HealthePeople.com.  HealthePeople is a platform where patients can aggregate their health information from a variety of sources, from wearable fitness devices to medical records, and have them available in a single portal.  The users can opt to make their de-identified information available to clinical trials […]

  MedTech Innovation We sit down with Tif Wilson of Global Center for Medical Innovation, Jason Rupp, of Southeastern Medical Device Association, and Kelley Bennett of T3 Labs to talk about SEMDA’s recent conference and the state of medtech innovation here in Atlanta and the Southeast. GCMI – The Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) brings […]