August 21, 2020: Kirby Partners, an executive recruiting firm, places leaders in health IT and cybersecurity. Judy Kirby, CEO shares her valuable insights. What does it take to find the role you're looking for? What has changed during the pandemic in terms of recruiting leaders? Your resume is probably the most important piece of paper you will ever own. It can open doors for you. How do you make it stand out and be noticed? Skills are the easy part. People really want to see results and forward thinking. Did you reduce turnover? Did you increase employee satisfaction? Did you encourage growth and have people get master's degrees and get promoted? Next step, how do you ace that video interview?

Key Points:

First step in the recruiting process is the white paper or position brief [00:03:50]

Helping organizations understand the impact the RIGHT person can have is critical [00:05:10]

Resume mistakes and how to fix them [00:10:10]

Get better responses with stories not bullet points [00:20:00]

Perfect your interview elevator pitch and keep it short! [00:20:30]

We are seeing more and more female CIOs and CEOs [00:31:40]

In technology, what you’ve done even 5 to 10 years ago can become so irrelevant. Focus on your recent successes. [00:13:30]

How can you interview well? [00:16:00]

It’s a crazy environment out there, a lot of people have been furloughed or lost their job or they're afraid they're going to lose their job with downsizing and mergers and acquisitions [00:24:30]

Check out Kirby Partners career coaching for executives [00:34:50]

August 19, 2020: Data security and risk management flaws, cyber threats, phishing, ransomware. The bad guys know how to cash in on a good pandemic. With so many people working remotely, they are getting really creative. From a technology perspective, a psychology perspective and a sociology perspective. How do we manage the risk of this new and emerging dynamic workforce? Who is accessing data? Are they legit? Is it really who they say they are? Identity is the critical factor. It’s the front gate. Tim Norris, RSA Solutions Strategist shows us how to double deadbolt, smart lock, alarm and protect that precious entry point.

Key Points:

The three major security risks [00:06:30]

How to set up your next IAM project for success [00:36:30]

Protect credential information and malware threats against spoofing [00:07:20]

How do I manage and orchestrate identity governance, life cycle management and authentication throughout the various facets of my organization? [00:18:00]

Exfiltration attacks [00:19:50]

Most breaches in healthcare originate internally through user error [00:32:40]

Better partnerships between HR and IT [00:27:30]

What are best practices around third party access of healthcare systems? [00:29:00]

Check out RSA’s recent webinars around disruptions in healthcare [00:36:00]

August 18, 2020: What are the most dangerous trends in health IT? What’s going on in the battle lines for telehealth? Technology isn't really magic. It doesn't change habits. It doesn't cure isolation. We still have a lot of work to do. What’s the current status of MandA’s? Did recent activity actually go down? We look at the rise of the Executive Chief Medical Officer role and the not so sexy but essential topic of data security. And how can we finally get broadband everywhere?

Key Points:

Philadelphia Business Journal Comcast extends free Internet Essentials offer, no word on if shutoffs will resume [00:02:30]

The Guardian US health insurers doubled profits in second quarter amid pandemic [00:04:00]

HHS Chief Officer abruptly resigns and we are not shocked [00:05:00]

BBC Amazon launches online pharmacy in India [00:06:30]

Sentara Healthcare set to merge with North Carolina's Cone Health [00:07:00]

Expect a lot more MandA activity [00:07:00]

JAMA Study: 38 Percent of Older U.S. Adults Ill-Equipped for Video Visits [00:10:30]

Harmony Healthcare IT survey: Americans Plan to Use Telehealth after COVID-19 [00:16:30]

CMS is planning to eliminate a bunch of codes created to cover telehealth services during the pandemic [00:26:30]

ONC to offer new funding for state and local HIE innovation [00:34:30]

August 14, 2020: Sherri Douville is the President, CEO and Board Member for Medigram. We take a walk through the headlines to explore topics on leadership, work from home, and leveraging conferences. Sherri also shares her wisdom for female leaders who aspire to be CEO’s in health tech.

Key Points:

To be successful in this environment we have to incentivize people to be ready to be wrong instead of wanting to defend being right [09:14]

Innovation does not discriminate [11:14]

Take your risk management skills from IT and apply them to your personal life [24:48]

21st Century Cures [26:41]

Women Leaders [27:10]

Robust strategy around air management

How to prepare to meet with and manage interacting with a bully

How to Manage Against Other People's Insecurities

August 12, 2020: When COVID hit we had a significant change in the make-up of the network. The center of gravity shifted and much of the traffic that used to be housed within the four walls of the health system moved outside. This was accelerated during COVID but it was already a trend we anticipated with home-based care ramping up and more IoT devices taking off. Today Mike Champa, Steward Health, David Teixeira, Tornova and Craig Connors, VMware help with the question we want to answer “Does the old fixed network provide us with the right architecture to remain agile and flexible in this fast-moving environment that now defines healthcare?

Key Points:

SD-WANS are one of the hottest things that people are talking about [00:02:39]

Lower the costs, improve agility, reduce complexity and increase performance [00:07:33]

Converting from a hardware based processing of packets to a software based processing of packets [00:11:29]

Simplify network management through the cloud [00:11:49]

August 11, 2020: Welcome to News Day. Epic takes heat from employees and adjusts their course. HIMSS announces new dates. Unique patient ID chaos and compliance, and telehealth is here to stay. Plus how are we going to bring back our work from home employees? Will it be voluntary? What will we do if people refuse to come back?

Key Points:

Brigham reports 12% loss in margin amid patient care drought [00:04:30]

Trump orders to defund Medicare [00:07:00]

Rethinking ED waiting rooms in response to COVID-19 [00:09:00]

Emergency department visits continue to lag post COVID [00:09:30]

Why would you sit in a waiting room full of sick people to go see a doctor? [00:09:50]

VA resums rollout of $16 billion Cerner EHR project [00:12:00]

Unique patient identifier [00:22:30]

Today's Stories:

House Votes to Remove Federal Ban on Unique Patient Identifier

The issue with Big Tech is not competition, but how it makes money - NS Tech

HIMSS announces August date for 2021 annual global conference | Healthcare Finance News

Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth | Healthcare IT News

President Donald J. Trump Is Expanding Access to Telehealth Services and Ensuring Continued Access to Healthcare for Rural Americans | The White House

Telehealth seems here to stay – so how can it be improved? | Healthcare IT News

Epic faces employee backlash over COVID-19 return to work policies | Healthcare IT News

Quick pivot to new HHS COVID-19 reporting rules meant 'chaos' for hospitals

August 7, 2020: Aneesh Chopra, First CTO for the US elaborates on 21st Century Cures. How should CIO’s prepare? How do we scale an interoperability strategy that is built on the patient's right of access? Our industry finally has a chance to self organize and standardize data elements for sharing. Why have the banking, education and energy industries beaten us to the punch? How do we approach intellectual property issues? We also look at payment reform and value based care.

Key Points:

Data sharing policies for COVID lab reporting [00:12:36]

Interoperability in support of the patient equals better health outcomes, better health and a better community. [00:13:21]

One doctor who’s had an electronic record for 30 years can’t even give a list of patients who smoke because it was not a structured field in the EHR! [00:19:19]

Why has healthcare, 10 years after the initial data set was published, not added a single data element beyond the minimum required in the open source domain? [00:21:33]

How dangerous is a compliance mindset? [00:27:47]

21st Century Cures [00:28:05]

Information blocking [00:32:16]

Intellectual property issues [00:33:33]

Apple Health [00:41:17]

August 5, 2020: Today we have access to a beautiful partnership. Pure Storage, a leading storage provider and Sectra, a best in class PACS solution. We talk about platforms, software defined and non-disruptive updates. Mark Dobbs and Tom Pacenta share insights on their successful collaboration, from joint company cultures of aggressively listening, to focusing on customer obsessions to future proofing products. Learn about ROI models that make sense and platforms you don't have to continue to upgrade. Learn more about the single solution model that really works.

Key Points:

It all starts with the interface [00:06:15]

Physical hardware upgrades with NO downtime [00:07:35]

A storage company that actually gives customers back more storage? [00:08:25]

Good software that's stable and reliable and performs [00:11:20]

Exciting new feature, an FDA approved digital pathology system [00:13:15]

UH Health case study [00:14:45]

University Hospitals case study [00:17:40]

Customer support? That's your best product. [00:21:10]

A success business relationship is based on compatible business models [00:22:35]

August 4, 2020: Four months into corporate America's working from home experiment, some cracks are emerging. Are people getting tired of it? Is it likely to affect career development? Plus exclusive insights from top executives weighing in on healthcare budget cuts. Walmart as a healthcare company, is it your competitor or ally? If you wanted to disrupt our health system, what would you do? And what can we do right now to ensure good workplace culture exists?

Key Points:

● Wall Street journal article Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All [00:03:35]

● Canon’s headquarters in Melville, NY have allowed employees to start returning voluntarily. Tune in for the result. [00:04:00]

● CompuCom hybrid future [00:04:45]

● Enlisting ambassadors to ensure good company culture [00:06:10]

● CNBC article Walmart to open six health clinics in Atlanta area by the end of 2020 [00:08:05]

● David Chou article Healthcare Providers Must Get Creative And Co-Create With Big Box Retailers [00:08:20]

● Edward Marks article Disintermediation of Hospitals Begins [00:14:15]

● Huntington hospital signs an agreement with Cedars-Sinai [00:18:05]

● Top executives insights across the pandemic crisis and financial crisis. What can we do with our remaining budgets? [00:20:40]

July 28, 2020: Drex DeFord is behind the wheel today to share the news with you so buckle up. Big stories, CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason come together with CommonSpirit, 10 ways COVID has changed healthcare, the telemedicine revolution deferred and hackers … dude your phone’s on fire. We’ll also talk about Zoom shirts and concerns over data security and privacy when working from home.

Key Points:

Washington-based health systems, CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason come together with CommonSpirit [00:05:00]

The techniques and methodologies for patient's safety [00:06:45]

Steve Shihadeh’s blog Chiefly Commercial [00:07:30]

Top 10 ways COVID-19 is changing the US healthcare system [00:07:35]

More CMS mandates [00:07:55]

Politico article “Telemedicine Revolution, Deferred” [00:10:30]

WFH concerns over data security and privacy [00:15:05]

NY Times article “The Video Call is Starting, Time to Put On your Zoom Shirt” [00:16:20]

Hackers using USB chargers to destroy your phone [00:17:25]