It is the responsibility of Chief Digital Officers to lead healthcare’s digital transformation. They must align the C-Suite, frontline staff, and the ecosystem of technology suppliers so that there is mutual benefit as they collectively march towards the health system’s digital goals. According to Raj Aggarwal, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Panda Health, this makes them as important as the CEO.   

Learn more about Panda Health: https://panda.health/   

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Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization.  It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data.  The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.  We need clean, usable data that we trust to really make a difference in healthcare.  

This was the topic of discussion in a recent interview I did with Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A., Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, Paul Grundy, M.D., M.P.H., Advisor at Grundy Consulting, and Sarah Richardson, CHCIO, Chief Information Officer at Tivity Health.  Where do we stand when it comes to health data and how does sharing health information impact the quality of that data.  

Learn more about DrFirst at: https://drfirst.com/ 

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CorroHealth has brought together 7 separate companies to form a single organization that is looking to transform the RCM space through Automation and AI. They are taking a realistic approach - not claiming to replace coders but to help them do less of the mundane work and more of the higher skilled tasks. We hear from company leaders about their journey so far and where they are going next.   

Learn more about CorroHealth: https://corrohealth.com/ 

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FINN Partners, a leading marketing agency acquired Medika.Life, an online publisher of medical-related content. How will FINN navigate being a PR partner to its clients AND remain a trusted source of health information? Gil Bashe sits down to give us the inside scoop on the company's plans to keep Medika.Life independent and non-commercial.   

Learn more about FINN Partners: https://www.finnpartners.com/ 

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One company that’s working to address diabetes with nutrition is Fruit Street.  To learn more about how their diabetes program works, I sat down with Laurence Girard, Founder and CEO at Fruit Street.  To kick off the interview, I ask Girard if we can really prevent diabetes.  He suggested that they’d modeled their program after a CDC effort that has been show to produce those results.  If you want to learn more about Fruit Street’s diabetes program, you'll enjoy this interview.  

Learn more about Fruit Street: https://www.fruitstreet.com/ 

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As I search to better understand medical malpractice laws, I had a chance to sit down with Stephan Landsman, Co-Author of “Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm,” to dive into how technology has changed the medical malpractice landscape.  He shares how telehealth has created new legal and medical malpractice challenges.  

Check out the book: https://amzn.to/3FmSR5s  

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When I first heard about a cybersecurity company, CloudCover, using their security technology to build a cybersecurity insurance platform on blockchain, I was fascinated by the intersection of technologies and what this might mean for healthcare organizations.  Plus, I really wanted to better understand more about the future of cybersecurity insurance and what technologies and solutions could help.  For those that don’t follow cybersecurity insurance closely, I’ve talked to many healthcare CIOs that are afraid that cybersecurity insurance may disappear.  Insurance is all about risk and actuarial models are hard with so many security breaches happening.  It’s definitely reasonable to question what the future of cybersecurity insurance will look like in healthcare.  

Given CloudCover’s recent announcement, I sat down with Stephen Cardot, Founder and CEO at CloudCover, to learn more about their novel approach and what it could mean for the cybersecurity insurance industry.  Cardot shared with us some of the challenges the security insurance industry faces and how they’re approaching insurance today.  Then, he describes the patents they’ve received to be able to identify, score, lay off, and underwrite security risks at a granular level and all on the blockchain.  This is a dramatic change to the underwriting process.  In some ways, I see it has creating thousands of little insurance policies for your organization and all stored on the immutable blockchain.  

Learn more about CloudCover: https://cloudcover.cc/ 

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Legacy applications have served Healthcare organizations for years; however, these applications are causing problems executives must address. Some of these issues include licensing, support and reliability, enhanced data retention requirements and security problems.  Sunsetting these applications is not simple and straightforward though and several factors must be considered when identifying which applications and supporting infrastructure must be updated.  

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

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Christopher Frenz, AVP of IT Security at Mount Sinai South Nassau and Brian Russell, Co-Chair, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Internet of Things (IoT) Working Group have released a new Medical Device Security Incident Response playbook through the Cloud Security Alliance.  

To better know how healthcare organizations can use this playbook, I sat down with Frenz to talk about the medical device security landscape and common cases where medical devices are compromised.  Plus, Frenz shares the thinking behind the playbook and how a healthcare organization can use it to improve their medical device security and response.  

If you want to know more about the medical device security threats your organization faces and how to better manage them, you'll enjoy this interview with Christopher Frenz.  

Download the playbook here: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/csa-medical-device-incident-response-playbook/ 

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A randomized controlled trial across 8 acute care hospitals showed that patients in the group that used Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) after surgery, were 5.3% less likely to be readmitted, were 13.9% less likely to report pain 7 days after surgery, and were 24.2% safer because medication errors were detected. Hear from two leaders of this groundbreaking study: Dr Michael McGilion and Dr. PJ Devereaux from McMaster University.  

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