When we talk about cybersecurity, we often like to talk about the financial elements of a breach.  No doubt the financial impact is extremely important and can cost an organization dearly if they’re not prepared.  You also often hear about the reputation impact a breach has on an organization when the breach hits the local news and their organization lives in infamy on the HHS wall of shame.  What we hear less talk about is the impact on patient safety when a breach occurs.  

This was the topic of discussion with cybersecurity experts, Ryan Witt, Industries Solutions and Strategy Leader at Proofpoint, and Mike Gregory, Healthcare Chief Information Security Officer at CDW, when we sat down at the HIMSS 2022 annual conference.  After hearing what Witt and Gregory were hearing about security at the conference, they shared some examples of where cybersecurity is impacting patient safety.  

Learn more about Proofpoint: https://www.proofpoint.com/ 

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Long time followers may remember that we covered the announcement of a French company, Synapse Medicine, launching their Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance solutions in the US.  I always find it exciting when the US can benefit from technology and solutions that are already having an impact internationally.  At the HIMSS 2022 conference, I was able to sit down with Dr. Clement Goehrs, MD-PhD, CEO & Co-Founder Synapse Medicine, to learn more about their solutions and their expansion into the US.  

Learn more about Synapse Medicine: https://synapse-medicine.com/  

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Patients want to be treated like they are as consumers in the retail and hospitality world. Healthcare is coming around, but slowly. To accelerate the transformation to a more patient-centric system, experts recommend something simple – listen and learn from patients. That is exactly the advice from Windstream Enterprise and Akumin, who partnered to create exceptional patient experiences at Akumin’s diagnostic imaging clinics.   

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Rohit Navani, COO and Executive Vice President at Akumin and with Cliff Dinwiddie, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Windstream Enterprise to learn more about their collaboration and the unique patient experience the created together.   

Learn more about Akumin: https://akumin.com/ 

Learn more about Windstream Enterprise: https://www.windstreamenterprise.com/ 

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At the HIMSS conference, I had a chance to interview Pouria Sanae, Co-founder and CEO at ixlayer, to learn about their solution to the problem of at home lab testing.  ixlayer provides a white labeled at home lab testing solution for provider organizations, biopharma, governments, employers, and population health programs.  Sanae shared with us how the challenge of lab testing in the home has been a problem for a long time and how much work it took for ixlayer to be able to scale their testing infrastructure to work across all 50 states.  Plus, they had to make sure the their solution dealt with the complexities of collecting and delivering the lab results where they needed to go.  

Learn more about ixlayer: https://ixlayer.com/ 

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After understanding the importance of clean, usable data, the next key is to learn about data quality and how we solve the problem of garbage in leads to garbage out.  For this, I chatted with Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum, who shared about why data is so important and what the ramifications are of poor quality data in healthcare.  

Noshay also shared why it's so difficult to get the data right in healthcare and then he dove into why a lot of the really great things on the horizon from tech companies in healthcare aren't widely implemented yet.  He shares why we haven't seen the benefits of those promising projects.  However, he also shares what can happen when a healthcare organization gets their data strategy right.  

Learn more about Verinovum: https://www.verinovum.com/ 

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Healthcare organizations have been improving their "Digital Front Doors". The goal, for most, is to make it as easy as possible for patients to find and book appointments through online channels like websites and apps. Piedmont Healthcare, however, didn’t stop there. They have rolled in wayfinding, call centers, and in-person electronic registration as well. Why? Because they are driven to meet patients where they are.   

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Katie Logan, Chief Consumer and Strategy Officer and Jen Melby, Executive Director of Consumer Experience & Digital Innovation at Piedmont Healthcare to hear more about their work in this area.  

Learn more about Piedmont Healthcare: https://www.piedmont.org/   

Learn more about Gozio:  https://www.goziohealth.com/   

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If the future of healthcare is built on the back of data (and I assure you it is), then it is extremely important to know what a healthcare organization looks like that has access to clean, high quality data.  A man with deep experience cleaning healthcare organization's data so it can be trusted and used is Mark McCurry, President and CEO at Verinovum.  We sat down with McCurry at the ViVE 2022 conference to learn more about the range of experiences he's had with organizations using their health data.  

Learn more about Verinovum: https://www.verinovum.com/ 

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While at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I sat down with Bob Rogers, AI Expert in Residence Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF, and Sri Ambati, CEO & Co-Founder at H2O.ai, to learn about a really interesting project that Rogers was working on at UCSF.  When he started the project, he asked a number of experts about how to solve the problem and they said that it wasn’t possible.  Rogers turned to H2O.ai and their Document.ai solution to solve the problem.  

Learn more about H2O.ai: https://h2o.ai/ 

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The shift to work-from home and COVID disruptions forced a range of industries to deploy next-gen technologies at an accelerated rate without a commensurate increase in spending. Healthcare organizations were on the frontline of these developments and had to adapt rapidly to deal with the medical emergency effectively and efficiently.  This was the topic of discussion at the Dell Technologies booth during the HIMSS 2022 conference.  

Learn more about Dell Technologies: http://delltechnologies.com/healthcare 

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At the HIMSS 2022 annual conference, I was able to sit down with Amato Amarain, CFO, Medical Group at RWJBarnabas Health, and Nora Lissy, RN, BSN, MBA, VP, Healthcare Consulting and Implementation, SME at Dimensional Insight, to talk about the problem of combining data across disparate systems and how RWJBarnabas Health has worked to solve this problem and be able to leverage that data to benefit their organization and patients.  

Learn more about Dimensional Insight: https://www.dimins.com/ 

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