The name AT&T has been synonymous with telephone communications, with the company’s history going all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell. But after more than a century of business evolution, the company now provides the infrastructure for some of the largest business industries around the world. Including healthcare. Our guest today is Joe Drygas, who is responsible for leading the global healthcare solutions team for AT&T, and we’ve asked him to join us to share a little more about how AT&T is enabling the care of the future.

Joe Drygas leads the Healthcare Solutions team globally for AT&T Business. His organization is comprised of highly experienced sales and technical professionals serving a multi-billion dollar segment of AT&T’s largest healthcare clients. A charismatic visionary, Joe is a seasoned sales leader with a focus on customer experience, talent development, teamwork, and growth. Under Joe’s leadership, AT&T Healthcare designs integrated products, services, and solutions customized for the healthcare ecosystem, including the largest healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and life sciences companies worldwide. Joe’s passion for building relationships combined with his technical background are evident in the progress AT&T has made in the evolution from a communications provider to a strategic healthcare partner.

Our two guests on this episode of Vital Insights join us from HealtheMed, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Medicaid participants living isolated at home in the community. HealtheMed’s Clinic@Home telemedicine platform drives improved care outcomes, and we welcome our two guests today – Ron Mendelbaum and Shannon Holly-Smith – to tell us more about how their focus on the most vulnerable patients led to the demonstrated results they’ve been able to achieve.

Ron Mandelbaum, CRO at HealtheMed, has 30+ years strategic business development and management. He’s spent the last 12 years focused on development of long-term care and aging in place communities, and on the vanguard of driving the healthcare system in USA towards the eventual recognition of the home as the lowest cost center of care and a corresponding base rate payment for the setting.

Shannon Holley-Smith, BSN, RN, is Nurse Director at HealtheMed. She obtained her RN/ASN as a working adult from Inver Hill’s college and BSN/RN at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Shannon has nursing experience level home care with patients requiring 24 hours nursing duties as private nursing management and performing nursing staff program development and implementation, along with several years of community mental health nursing, and clinic nursing at a specialty day procedure center.

In the world of remote, or virtual, care, there’s one thing that’s of huge importance, and that’s the ability of healthcare providers to rely on the data they’re receiving as being accurate. If the data is inaccurate, the whole foundation falls apart. Today's episode talks about how manufacturers can ensure their data represents an accurate picture of patient health – and the top three things providers can ask a potential RPM vendor to determine the validity of data generated.

Terry Duesterhoeft has more than 20 years of experience as a thought leader, executive, and strategic marketing leader in MedTech and digital health. He has consistently focused on developing new product strategies and execution, and on growing innovative new businesses; scaling up or pivoting existing ones; and building and mentoring global teams to accomplish it.

Today's Fast Take is a perspective from Terry Duesterhoeft, Chief Product Officer at EarlySense, on why gold standards are critical in the evaluation of monitoring devices.

The name AT&T has been synonymous with telephone communications, with the company’s history going all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell. But after more than a century of business evolution, the company now provides the infrastructure for some of the largest business industries around the world. Including healthcare. Our guest today is Joe Drygas, who is responsible for leading the global healthcare solutions team for AT&T, and we’ve asked him to join us to share a little more about how AT&T is enabling the care of the future.

Joe Drygas leads the Healthcare Solutions team globally for AT&T Business. His organization is comprised of highly experienced sales and technical professionals serving a multi-billion dollar segment of AT&T’s largest healthcare clients. A charismatic visionary, Joe is a seasoned sales leader with a focus on customer experience, talent development, teamwork, and growth. Under Joe’s leadership, AT&T Healthcare designs integrated products, services, and solutions customized for the healthcare ecosystem, including the largest healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and life sciences companies worldwide. Joe’s passion for building relationships combined with his technical background are evident in the progress AT&T has made in the evolution from a communications provider to a strategic healthcare partner.

How is medical technology like contact-free patient monitoring changing the way that hospitals approach patient care and staff management, and how are those trends likely to continue evolving in the years to come?

That was the topic of a recent conversation between Elaine Bridge — a seasoned clinician and nurse leader who’s pioneered the adoption of medical tech at Massachusetts’ Newton-Wellesley Hospital, among other achievements — and Tim O’Malley, President and Chief Growth Officer at EarlySense, Inc.

Rapid response emergency systems have become a critical tool in the fight to prevent patient fatalities in hospitals via the early detection and management of cardiac events and other critical events. But although the importance of rapid response is now widely acknowledged throughout the global medical community, this wasn’t always the case.

In this podcast from EarlySense, Dr. Michael DeVita and Dr. Ken Hillman, two pioneers in the development of rapid response systems (RRS), discuss the revelations that led to their individual efforts to develop RRS, and the challenges they faced implementing rapid response in hospitals that were less than receptive to their calls for change.

Michael DeVita, former president of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Chief Medical Officer of EarlySense, joins Dan Raemer & Janice Palaganas of the Center for Medical Simulation on their podcast, DJ Simulationistas, to talk about his development of the "rapid response" team with the goal of preventing cardiac arrest rather than just responding to it, as well as surprising results from virtual gaming that can improve code response performance.

In part two of this discussion on sepsis, Dr. Michael DeVita, Sue and Jay Stull, and Thomas Heymann, discuss  the importance of protocols and strong leadership, their thoughts on what can improve outcomes, research currently being conducted on the treatment of sepsis, and end with what gives each of them hope for the future of sepsis.