NCHICA Healthcare IT Trends Buzz Podcast

Learn about IQVIA Technologies with team members Harpreet Bedi, Vice President of IT; MaryAnne Rizk, PhD, Senior Vice President, Digital R&DS Strategy; and Nagaraja Srivatsan, Chief Digital Officer, R&DS Solutions. Technologies discussed include their newly launched COVID-19 solutions IQVIA CARE and C19Trials.com, and the Orchestrated Clinical Trials cloud platform to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical trials.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

This podcast features David Holtzman, Executive Advisor for CynergisTek, who discusses how healthcare providers can remain compliant with the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about the rules for sharing PHI in a public health emergency; which messaging and video conferencing applications are safe to use for telehealth; and what constitutes “good faith” in treatment.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

This podcast features Cheryl Rodenfels, CTO of the Americas Healthcare Division at Nutanix. Cheryl has over 30 years of IT experience in the financial and healthcare industries. Nutanix provides a software platform that allows businesses to deliver applications from anywhere. It provides a hyperconverged infrastructure that is secure, reliable and flexible, and can be run on the private or public cloud.

Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.

Our latest NCHICA Healthcare IT Trends Buzz Podcast features Jonathan Langer, CEO of Medigate. Jonathan discusses the challenges of securing medical devices in hospitals. He said most hospitals have thousands of medical and IoT devices connected to their network that are very vulnerable to cyber attack. Many of them are legacy devices that are invisible in the IT environment, so they are not being updated and secured.

Our latest NCHICA Healthcare IT Trends Buzz Podcast features Ryan Witt, Managing Director of the Healthcare Industry Practice at Proofpoint. Ryan discusses the the current state of cybersecurity, including: the alarming new trend in more targeted phishing attacks; a recent Ponemon study showing the average cost to recover from a breach is twice as much for the healthcare industry; and why people are the weakest link in an attack.

This podcast features Dr. Betsey Tilson, State Health Director and Chief Medical Officer at the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS). Betsey discusses NCCARE360, the first statewide coordinated network that unites healthcare and human services organizations with a shared technology platform allowing for a coordinated, community-oriented, person-centered approach for delivering care in North Carolina.

This podcast features Lee Pierce, the Healthcare Chief Data Officer at Sirius. He notes that a successful data analytics program needs the right people, processes and technology, but the healthcare industry has been focusing too much on just technology. Data analytics, when properly utilized, can provide healthcare leaders with the insight needed to make the right decisions on how to improve business and clinical processes.

Our podcast features Elizabeth Hunt, Chief Compliance Officer at Southeastern Health, and Lisa Fiene, Training Manager at FairWarning. According to Elizabeth, FairWarning's audit software and managed privacy services have been invaluable to the health system over the past two years as they developed a compliance program while facing two catastrophic hurricanes. Thanks to their assistance, Southeastern underwent a huge shift in their culture of compliance.

Cheryl Rodenfels, the Customer Success Executive at Nutanix, has 33 years of IT experience in the financial and healthcare industries. She discusses how the healthcare industry is becoming more competitive and providers are embracing digital transformation through the use of technology and marketing. She notes that this is not a “one size fits all” endeavor, and a small healthcare organization is not going to have the same goals or resources of a larger one.

Our latest podcast features Dr. Chris Jones, the new President of the NCHICA Board of Directors. Chris is Assistant Director for Informatics & Quality at Northwest AHEC. Learn more about his work at Northwest AHEC and how he got involved in health education. Chris has served on NCHICA's Education Committee for a number of years and has been a big supporter of NCHICA's educational events. Our podcast host is Janet Kennedy of Get Social Health.