HIT Consultant Podcast

In this interview/podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Tom Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Bradford Networks about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in Healthcare. This is part 1 of a two part podcast series. In part 1, Tom discusses the following:

- Background/Overview of Bradford Networks

- What is BYOD?

- Security implications of BYOD in healthcare

- BYOD implementation best practices

In the second part of this interview/podcast series, HIT Consultant speaks with Tim Fowler, Commercial Director, Wireless Division of Cambridge Consultants to learn more about:

- Key challenges of Bluetooth Low Energy

- Regulatory/Technical requirements regarding Bluetooth Low Energy

- Fowler's thoughts on future growth of mobile health and connected health

During this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm demonstrated their new Bluetooth low energy (BLE) Blood Pressure Profile iPhone app. Cambridge Consultants recently worked with CSR on tools and example device software that assists developers wishing to create applications for Apple’s latest iPhone and Mac products, specifically the growing mobile health (mHealth) market. The BLE iPhone app demonstrates the transfer of blood pressure readings using the BLE Blood Pressure Profile, while running on an example single-mode BLE device that could readily be incorporated into a blood pressure monitor. Faced with several challenges relating to power consumption, data transfer requirement and constraints of the smartphone. Cambridge Consultants is able to leverage its technical and medical regulatory expertise to optimize usability for both the device and the smartphone to meet the needs of the mHealth space.

For mHealth, both local and wide-area communications are required and with most mobile phone operating systems providing native Bluetooth stacks, BLE is an ideal technology for integration. BLE technology is designed for low peak current consumption, permitting operation via standard coin-cell batteries and battery life of up to one year.

In the first part of this interview/podcast series, HIT Consultant speaks with Tim Fowler, Commercial Director, Wireless Division of Cambridge Consultants to learn more about:

Cambridge Consultants & Tim Fowler background/overview

Deep dive into Bluetooth low energy technology

BLE Blood Pressure Profile iPhone app

Second part to our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories series. HIT Consultant speaks with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo, where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co. management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active, healthy lifestyles and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns mobile phones into full-fledged personal trainers. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide consumers with the means to manage/monitor their own health and promote an active, healthy lifestyle.

Part 2 of the interview/podcast with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll Inc., to discuss the importance of log management & analysis for security in healthcare organizations.

Highlights of part 2 of this interview include:

- Other critical areas related to potential security breaches

- Inadequate or nonexistent logging

- Kroll's methodology for log management and analysis

- Ways to ensure security is a priority

There is an emerging community of digital health entrepreneurs utilizing technology innovation to help transform healthcare. In an effort provide coverage of this growing community and inspire future digital health entrepreneurs, HIT Consultant has launched "HIT Innovation Founder Stories" where we will speak with a digital health founder to share their journey from inception to launch, obstacles/challenges, and lessons learned.

In our first HIT Innovation Founder Stories we speak with Jakob Nordenhof Jønck, Co-Founder of Endomondo where Jakob shares his story of how three former McKinsey & Co management consultants (all former semi or professional athletes) took their passion for active healthy lifestyle and created Endomondo, a social fitness application that turns your mobile phone into a full fledged personal trainer. Endomondo is a great example of how technology can be utilized as a tool to provide consumers with the tools to manage/monitor their health and promote an active lifestyle.

Recently Kroll Inc. has written several articles about the importance of understanding logs as a critical component of investigation security breaches. Acquiring and analyzing logs are critical with incident response and it is highly recommended that healthcare organizations address log management in a proactive manner. HIT Consultant spoke with Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director at Kroll Inc. to discuss the importance of log management & analysis for security in healthcare organizations.

Highlights of part 1 of this interview include:

- Best practices for log analysis as a data security tool

- Remote hosting/cloud

- Using data logs to detect abnormal server activity?

Final part of this podcast series with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst.

Part 3 key highlights include:

- Future of the HIT industry

- mHealth

- Remote physician patient access

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 2 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer. Part 2 key highlights include:

- Medication Reconciliation overview

- Patient Innovations overview

- EPCS Gold 2.0 Overview

- Interoperability vs. Fragmentation in the HIT Industry

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 1 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer.

Part 1 key highlights include:

- DrFirst integrated platform approach

- Overview of DrFirst Defender

- Meaningful Use and their AttestEasy solution

- Challenges clients faced meeting Meaningful Use