Michael chats with Grace Vinton, award-winning healthcare PR professional, patient advocate, and host of the podcast HITea With Grace. In this episode, Michael and Grace discuss her inspiration for becoming a patient advocate, what a patient “informaticist” is, how patients are using tech to “hack their health,” the importance of understanding the patient-led care and research revolution, moving forward in this new healthcare reality, and much more.

Listen to HITea With Grace on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Michael chats with Preethi Raju, Product Design Leader, most recently at Amazon One Medical. In this episode, Michael and Preethi discuss Preethi's background and journey toward her role, the importance of holistic design in healthcare, innovation and collaboration in healthcare through design, how thoughful product design creates real impact in healthcare, and much more. 

Michael chats with Tracie Wagman, CEO of ColdVest. In this episode, Michael and Tracie discuss ColdVest and how it addresses the growing issue of heat-related deaths, the benefits of ColdVest and its endothermic technology, how Tracie sees ColdVest evolving in the future, and much more. This episode is sponsored by ColdVest, ColdVest.com.

Michael chats with Vik Krishnan, President of Televox. In this episode, Michael and Vik discuss how Vik became interested in and involved with healthcare technology, patient relationship management and how it differs from patient engagement, the use of AI in patient relationship management, other areas that TeleVox is helping in the healthcare field, and much more. This episode is sponsored by TeleVox, televox.com.

Michael chats with Kumar Shwetabh, President and Chief Growth Officer at Access Healthcare. In this episode, Michael and Kumar discuss the U.S. healthcare industry’s reluctance to adopt AI and advanced automation compared with other industries, why hospital operating margins are continuously sliding, how they can remain profitable without increasing the cost of delivery, the future of the medical field and how to incentivize pursuing family practice, and much more. This episode is sponsored by Access Healthcare, accesshealthcare.com.

Michael chats with Dylan Border, Director of Cyber Security at Hyland, leading the company’s Cyber Security Operations and Governance and Risk and Compliance teams. In this episode, Michael and Dylan discuss the prevalence of cyber attacks in healthcare, several types of cyber attacks and how potential resulting shutdowns can be prevented, what to look for when considering cloud app vendors to help protect infrastructure, and much more. This episode is sponsored by Hyland, hyland.com.

Michael chats with Tony Anscombe, Chief Security Evangelist at ESET. In this episode, Michael and Tony discuss the motivation behind and nature of healthcare cyber attacks, the pros and cons of using AI in healthcare, protection in light of the prevalence of telehealth, the importance of threat intelligence and human expertise in preventing cyber attacks, and much more. This episode is sponsored by ESET, eset.com/us.

Visit with ESET at booth #1601 at HIMSS, March 11–15, in Orlando.

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Michael chats with Jeremy Huval, Chief Innovation Officer at HITRUST. In this episode, Michael and Jeremy discuss how HITRUST serves the healthcare industry; how the company is expanding into AI through its AI Assurance program; takeaways for buyers, users, and sellers of AI-enabled systems; and much more. This episode is sponsored by HITRUST, hitrustalliance.net.

Visit with HITRUST at booth #1233 and at the Microsoft’s booth #3161 at HIMSS, March 11–15, in Orlando.

Check out Jeremy’s presentation at HIMMS, titled “Streamline Compliance to Accelerate Solution Adoption, Time-to-Value and Global Scale,” Tuesday, March 12, at 4:15 p.m. ET.

Visit the HITRUST AI Hub at info.hitrustalliance.net/hitrust-ai.

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Michael chats with David Cottingham, President of rf IDEAS. In this episode, Michael and David discuss rf IDEAS’ background and mission, how the company provides efficiencies in data security for healthcare, how healthcare organizations can strengthen their data security practices, some major trends in healthcare data security, and much more. This episode is sponsored by rf IDEAS, rfideas.com.

Visit with rf IDEAS at booth #3313 at HIMSS, March 12–14, in Orlando. Preview their IDEAS stage partners and sessions at rfIDEAS.com/HIMSS24. 

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Michael chats with Mike Nelson, Vice President of Digital Trust at DigiCert. In this episode, Michael and Mike discuss the latest cybersecurity regulations surrounding medical devices, how public key infrastructure (PKI) connects compliance and security to help medical device manufacturers meet those regulations, the meaning of “crypto-agility” and how it helps organizations adapt to and defend against cybersecurity threats, and much more. This episode is sponsored by DigiCert, digicert.com.

Visit with DigiCert at booth #1636 in the Cyber Command Center at HIMSS, March 11–15, in Orlando.

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