Technology

Dassault Systemes – The 3D healthcare experience

Samson Khaou Managing Director for Asia Pacific South, Dassault Systèmes a French based software company that is a 3D design software which enables 3D digital design, product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, social and collaboration solutions for engineers and designers across the globe joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Samson Khaou discuss the following:What is Dassault Systemes?How does it fit into the healthcare space?Can you tell us more about The Living Heart project, where it is in use and the potential it has to help people?Dassault Systemes history is in enabling great engineering, how are you helping with breakthrough engineering in the healthcare space?What does Dassault Systemes have the power to do in the future?
Duration: 9:10
As the Managing Director of Dassault Systèmes in Asia Pacific South, Samson Khaou is responsible for the overall performance of the company in the region. This includes increasing local and regional market share, profitability, and operational efficiency. Khaou took on the role in 2011.
Khaou has over 25 years’ experience, joining Dassault Systèmes in 1989 where he was in charge of developing new technologies for CATIA Analysis products. During the first six years of his career in the R&D division, he conducted key development projects in Geometric Modeler. Khaou has gone on to hold numerous leadership positions within the company.
Prior to his current position, Khaou was the Managing Director of Dassault Systèmes, Industry Services in Europe for three years where he oversaw the major Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) V6 projects across Europe. During 2006 and 2007, Khaou was the General Manager of Dassault Systèmes Korea, establishing both the direct and indirect sales channels in Korea.
As a Technical Manager of Dassault Systemes’ Korea Branch office from 1999 to 2001, Khaou’s focus was to develop the service offerings for key automotive companies in Korea and China. Between 1995 and 1999, Khaou was assigned as a CATIA consultant in Korea (1995 to 1998) and then in China (1999), with the mission to support IBM’s business development in the Automotive and Shipbuilding industries.
Within Dassault Systèmes, Khaou led key PLM V5 implementation projects in Europe and in Japan, holding the positions of Senior Manager for PLM Solution for the Automotive Industry and Senior Manager for the High Technology Industry.
Khaou holds Master Degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering.

Website: www.3ds.com

New Advances in Diabetes Treatment: Insulin-Producing Cells That Could Replace Injections

Dr. Gerald Crabtree, Chief Operating Officer and Director at PharmaCyte Biotechnology, a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing targeted treatments for cancer and diabetes using its signature live-cell encapsulation technology, Cell-in-a-Box joins eHealth Radio and the Diabetes and Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Gerald Crabtree discuss the following:In an effort to understand how the Melligen cells works, can you explain what happens to the pancreas in Type 1 diabetes?Why are liver cells such good candidates to replace the damaged cells in the pancreas?What have early lab trials shown?How does PharmaCyte’s Cell-in-the-Box help the melligen cells do their jobs?How will this technology help the lives of those patients living with Type 1 Diabetes?
Duration: 15:55
Dr. Gerald Crabtree is PharmaCyte’s Chief Operating Officer. Since 1985, Dr. Crabtree has been involved with various biopharmaceutical companies where he has alternatively supervised and coordinated the development of multiple drug candidates, prepared clinical protocols, investigator brochures, monographs, and research and review articles and served as project manager for development of major oncologic agents. He is a Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and also is a past member of research grant review committees for the National Institute of Health and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Crabtree established and directed, from inception, a department that monitored and coordinated the development of oncologic and immunologic drugs from initial discovery through regulatory approval in a major pharmaceutical company and served as project manager for the development of the anticancer agent, Taxol®.
Dr. Crabtree received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a National Cancer Institute of Canada Research Fellow. In addition, he served as Department Head of Molecular Pharmacology for the Nucleic Acid Research Institute, and prior to that as Associate Professor of Medicine with the Roger Williams Cancer Center at Brown University. Dr. Crabtree has also served as Director of Project Planning and Management (Oncology/Immunology) at Bristol-Myers Squibb and as Vice-President of Research and Development at ETEX Corporation.

Website: www.pharmacytebiotech.com

Improve Indoor Air Quality with Air Scrubber Plus

Tom Lozano, Executive Director of Air Scrubber Plus, the indoor air quality system that cleans the air and surfaces of the home joins eHealth Radio and the General Health & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Tom Lozano discuss the following:What are the dangers of poor indoor air quality and why should people be concerned about it?What are some things homeowners can do to improve their home's indoor air quality?How does Air Scrubber Plus work? What other health benefits do users of Air Scrubber Plus report? What is the connection between Air Scrubber Plus and NASA technology?
Duration: 11:47
Tom Lozano is executive director of Air Scrubber Plus®, a revolutionary indoor air quality system that launched nationally in the fall of 2013. Tom Lozano joined the Air Scrubber Plus® sales and marketing team in 2008 and has been actively involved in all relevant areas of the consumer indoor air quality marketplace since 1996.
The improvement of indoor air quality has been a personal mission of Tom Lozano's as a result of his own struggle with severe allergies. After installing the Air Scrubber Plus® system in his own home, Tom experienced life-changing relief from his debilitating allergy symptoms. The dramatic change prompted Tom Lozano to approach the manufacturers of Air Scrubber Plus®, and eventually he, and his business partner Allen Brasington, took over national and international sales and marketing to heating and cooling contractors and millions of consumers searching for cleaner air for their family.
During his tenure with Air Scrubber Plus®, Tom Lozano has helped Air Scrubber Plus realize double-digit growth. Tom Lozano's main goals are broad: to move the heating and cooling industry's technology forward through education and training. By bringing the breakthrough technology of Air Scrubber Plus® to the consumer/homeowner market, Tom Lozano aims for every home to enjoy the benefits of clean air without harsh chemicals or ineffective filter systems.
Tom Lozano earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and religion from San Francisco State University in 1976. In 1996, he earned a theological degree from Bethel Theological Seminary in San Diego.

Website: www.AirScrubberPlus.com

Vocera Addresses Population Health with Enhanced Care Coordination Solution

Rhonda Collins, the Chief Nursing Officer for Vocera Communications, the leading provider of real-time, intelligent communication solutions for mission-critical mobile environments joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & Rhonda Collins discuss the following:Can you tell us a little about Vocera?How does Vocera impact the patient experience?Can you describe the secure text messaging capability provided by Vocera and how health care professionals use the technology?What is Population Health and how does Vocera enable it?What do nurses think about the secure text messaging technology?What’s next for Vocera?
Duration: 9:47
Rhonda Collins, MSN, RN, has served as the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at Vocera Communications, Inc. since January 2014. As CNO, Ms. Collins is responsible for working with nursing leadership groups globally to increase their understanding of Vocera solutions, share clinical best practices and to bring their specific requirements to Vocera's product and solutions teams.
Prior to joining Vocera, Ms. Collins was vice president and business manager for Fresenius Kabi, USA, responsible for the launch of the company’s Intravenous Infusion Pump in the U.S. and led the American Nurse Project, elevating the voice of nurses across the country. Through her previous experience at Masimo Corporation as vice president of nursing and Baylor University Medical Center as vice president, woman and children’s services, Ms. Collins has deep experience maximizing market share and profitability while building on best clinical and business practices.
Collins holds a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Texas Tech University; a Master’s in Science Nursing Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a Registered Nurse.

Website: www.vocera.com

Taking an Enterprise View of Imaging…What Every Healthcare Organization Needs to Know

Kim Garriott, Principal Consultant Healthcare Strategies for Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & Kim Garriott discuss the following:Hospitals that want to be up to date in their imaging strategies are really undergoing a transformation of sorts.  Can you explain this “transformation journey” and why it’s important to recognize and address the changing landscape of imaging sooner rather than later?Now that hospitals are turning their attention to the optimization of electronic medical records (EMRs), this seems like the ideal time to address this transformation.  What strategy do you recommend CIOs consider as part of their optimization efforts and imaging?You mentioned earlier that images may be produced in as many as 40 service lines. With images being produced in so many clinical areas, how are organizations managing this influx of new clinical content?It’s not difficult to see why organizations may be struggling with these challenges.  What are solution providers doing to support a streamlined enterprise imaging environment?Do you have any tips for how organizations can begin to take an enterprise view of imaging?
Duration: 15:51
As Principal Consultant for Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, Kim Garriott works with the Logicalis US healthcare sales team counseling clients on healthcare IT strategies and discussing the business value for potential healthcare IT projects as well as providing post-sale consulting to ensure the expected business value is achieved.  She is also responsible for the expansion of Logicalis Healthcare Solutions’ strategic consulting practice and for developing a channel of delivery partners that can be leveraged as key resources for client projects.
Kim’s deep expertise in both clinical and administrative health settings gives her a unique skill set from which to draw; whether talking with a health system’s CIO, CEO or medical staff, Kim understands the unique challenges they’re facing and excels in helping healthcare organizations create and execute a tactical plan that will meet their business objectives.
With a strong background in clinical imaging and workflow process improvement, Kim has more than two decades of business and IT leadership experience helping healthcare organizations streamline their workflow and project management processes. 
Before joining Logicalis, Kim was charged with the design and implementation of the Cleveland Clinic’s enterprise imaging strategy, widely regarded as one of the most advanced enterprise imaging programs in the nation, and helped establish the Cleveland Clinic’s for-profit consulting practice, MyPractice Imaging Solutions.  Kim also served as CIO for the Pittsburgh-based Foundation Radiology Group, a multi-state radiology practice, and worked in a variety of director-level radiology informatics, process improvement and IT positions with Indiana University Health, an integrated healthcare provider.
Notably, Kim co-founded the HIMSS-SIIM Joint Enterprise Imaging Workgroup and continues to serve as a co-chair for the group, has been published in The Journal of the American College of Radiology as co-author of “Planning for PACS – A Comprehensive Guide to Non-Technical Considerations,” and is a regular speaker at healthcare events.  Kim lives in Lebanon, Ind., with her husband and two Australian Shepherds, is a travel enthusiast, supporter of the arts, and enjoys both cooking and gardening.

Website: www.us.logicalis.com/healthcare-it

What is wrong with medical design and a path to getting it right with Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer Co-Founder of An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make web sites joins eHealth Radio and the Technology & Health PR & Marketing Channels. His experiences within the medical industry as a patient advocate for his daughter created a driving passion to improve medical design.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & Eric Meyer discuss the following:What is An Event Apart?A lot of what you do revolves around the design world. This includes your business as well as your driving passion to improve medical design. Why do you want to improve medical design?If you could change one thing related to medical design right now, what would you do?As a patient advocate, what are you doing currently to help improve healthcare?On April 1st, you were scheduled to speak at HxRefactored, a conference that draws thought leaders and entrepreneurs from the design, technology and health industries. You are scheduled to speak on a panel titled, “Patient-Centered Design: Core Values in Health Care.” What do you plan to discuss?
Duration: 16:12
Eric Meyer is an author, speaker, blogger, sometime teacher, and co-founder of An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make web sites. He’s been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it utterly compelling. His experiences within the medical industry as a patient advocate for his daughter created a driving passion to improve medical design. His panel discussion at HxRefactored will draw on his personal history as a father as well as his long career on the web to show how medical design gets it wrong, and illuminate a path to getting it right.
Eric lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you’ve been led to believe. He enjoys a good meal whenever he can and considers almost every form of music to be worthwhile.

Websites: AnEventApart.com | meyerweb.com

Additional option for earlier detection of breast cancer especially for dense breasted patients

Danna F. Grear, MD a Clinical Breast Radiologist who has been providing imaging services in Northwest Arkansas since 1989 joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Danna F. Grear discuss the following:What convinced you to offer ultrasound breast screening to your patients and describe the patient type who should have this examination?What is the SonoCiné AWBUS™ technology and why did you choose to offer this breast screening examination?How is ultrasound different than mammography and why not use ultrasound on all women instead of mammography? Why don’t all breast facilities offer this type of screening for their dense breasted patients?I understand that there are Breast Density Information Laws that are forcing imaging facilities to tell women if they have dense breast tissue.  Are they working and how do you feel about this?Tell us about the new insurance codes for ultrasound breast screening. What does this mean for dense breasted women and the facilities who offer this supplemental screening?What is your advice to women for protecting their breast health?
Duration: 16:53
Danna F. Grear, MD is a Clinical Breast Radiologist who has been providing imaging services in Northwest Arkansas since 1989. Dr. Grear, along with Dr. Kevin Pope developed the first image guided breast biopsy program in Northwest Arkansas in 1995. She and Dr. Kevin Pope founded The Breast Center, a MANA Clinic, as the first independent, dedicated breast center in Arkansas in 2003.
Grear is board certified in Radiology by the American Board of Radiology. She completed a Diagnostic Radiology Residency at University Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She was instrumental in the organization of the Multidisciplinary Breast Conference at Washington Regional Medical Center and currently serves on the Credentials Committee. Grear has been a member of the Mammography Clinical Image Review Committee for the Arkansas Department of Health for over 10 years. She is a current member of the Society of Breast Imaging and the American Society of Breast Disease.
Grear serves on the board for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Ozark Affiliate and has been an active volunteer since it’s inception in 1998. She received the Komen Cameo award in 2007, a national award recognizing volunteerism. She is actively involved in the community with organizations such as Womenade. Grear serves on the MANA Charitable Fund Board and was key in creating the Murray T. Harris Allied Healthcare Scholarship program.

Websites: www.mana.md | www.sonocine.com

A new advanced technology to help find early stage breast cancer

Dr. David Weintritt, a board certified breast surgeon and Founder of the National Breast Center with the goal of improving access to care, technology for breast cancer screening and treatment, and giving women in the Washington Metropolitan Area the options they deserve joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. David Weintritt discuss the following:What convinced you to offer ultrasound breast screening to your patients and describe the patient type who should have this examination?What is the SonoCiné AWBUS™ technology and why did you choose to offer this breast screening examination?  How is ultrasound different than mammography and why not use ultrasound on all women instead of mammography? Why don’t all breast facilities offer this type of screening for their dense breasted patients?I understand that there are Breast Density Information Laws that are forcing imaging facilities to tell women if they have dense breast tissue.  Are they working and how do you feel about this?Tell us about the new insurance codes for ultrasound breast screening. What does this mean for dense breasted women and the facilities who offer this supplemental screening?What is your advice to women for protecting their breast health?
Duration: 13:49
Dr. David Weintritt is a board certified breast surgeon and founder of the National Breast Center. Dr. Weintritt completed his college and medical education at the University of Florida. After graduation, he served as a general surgeon in the Air Force at Andrews Air Force Base.
During his tenure as an Air Force surgeon, he was able to work with Bethesda Naval Hospital in offering sentinel node biopsy, a procedure now standard in breast cancer surgery. From there, he entered into private practice in Annapolis, MD where he worked in the hospital’s new breast center; gaining experience in breast ultrasound and minimally invasive approaches for breast disease management.
In 2003, Dr. Weintritt opened his own practice in Alexandria, VA. He started a program for sentinel node biopsy and was the first to bring partial breast radiation to the area.
In 2010, Dr. Weintritt was named a director of the INOVA Mount Vernon Breast Care Institute. He is consistently the highest volume breast cancer surgeon in the INOVA system.
In 2012 Dr. Weintritt founded the National Breast Center to continue raising awareness of new treatment options and to expand services available for breast cancer patients.
In 2014 Dr. Weintritt founded the National Breast Center Foundation with the goal of improving access to care, technology for breast cancer screening and treatment, and giving women in the Washington Metropolitan Area the options they deserve.

Website: www.nationalbreastcenter.com | www.sonocine.com

Improving Practice Communications with Providers, Payers and Patients

Lindy Benton, CEO of MEA|NEA, a provider of electronic attachment solutions, health information exchange and secure, HIPAA-compliant cloud storage that is used by more than 45,000 medical and dental practices joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Lindy Benton discuss the following:Can you discuss MEA|NEA a bit? How does the organization serve those in healthcare, and what are the benefits of health systems working with you? Likewise, how do your solutions improve the patient experience, or help make their experiences with healthcare better?MEA|NEA has a strong background serving the dental community. Tell me about that and how this has helped you better serve medical practices and hospitals.You say that electronic data and data exchange is more secure than paper charts and files. Even with all of the press we hear about data breaches, you claim electronic records are still far more secure than paper. Can you tell me why you feel this way and provide some justification for your thinking?Tell me more about your business lines. For example, MEA|NEA is primarily an electronic attachment solution provider, but is emerging into new markets. Can you discuss your evolution as an organization and how that might mirror the opportunities you currently see throughout healthcare? How are you evolving from a product perspective and how are they helping the healthcare sector?What are some of the most pressing issues to come in the next 12 to 18 months and how are you helping address them?
Duration: 20:15
Lindy Benton has worked in the Healthcare Information Technology field for more than 20 years and is currently the CEO of EA Holdings, which includes MEA and NEA. Before joining MEA|NEA, Lindy served as divisional executive at The Sage Group, managing a $350 million division with 1,400 employees.
Prior to Sage, Lindy worked at Cerner Corporation for 15 years. She held various leadership positions, wherein she achieved double digit revenue growth while building high performing teams that were consistently recognized year after year with Outstanding Achievement Awards.
Previously, she worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as the division manager responsible for healthcare business in the Southeast. Lindy serves on advisory boards for several health IT and capital investment companies, working with executive teams to drive both acquisition and organic growth strategies in North American and global markets.
Lindy is a member of the Foundation Board for Florida Hospital for Children and serves on executive councils for several health related committees and industry associations. She is also an active member of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Lindy holds a Master of Science degree from Florida State University with extended post graduate work in Measurement and Statistics.

Website: www.nea-fast.com

Palmetto Health Breast Center, offering ultrasound breast screening to their patients

Dr. Shawn Conwell, the Professional Director of Palmetto Health Breast Center in Richland, South Carolina and a Partner at Pitts Radiology joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention and Technology Channels. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Shawn Conwell discuss the following:What convinced you to offer ultrasound breast screening to your patients and describe the patient type who should have this examination?What is the SonoCiné AWBUS™ technology and why did you choose to offer this breast screening examination?  How is ultrasound different than mammography and why not use ultrasound on all women instead of mammography? Why don’t all breast facilities offer this type of screening for their dense breasted patients?I understand that there are Breast Density Information Laws that are forcing imaging facilities to tell women if they have dense breast tissue.  Are they working and how do you feel about this?Tell us about the new insurance codes for ultrasound breast screening. What does this mean for dense breasted women and the facilities who offer this supplemental screening?What is your advice to women for protecting their breast health?
Duration: 15:39
Dr. W. Shawn Conwell is the Professional Director of Palmetto Health Breast Center in Richland, South Carolina and a Partner at Pitts Radiology. For over 15 years, Dr. Conwell has been helping to empower patients to get control of their health and no various medical screening options that are available to them. He is a highly coveted ‘Breast Specialist’ who graduated from Medicine College of Georgia School Of Medicine, Augusta Georgia and a residency training of Diagnostic Radiology at Metrohealth Medicine Center. He also has completed extensive post graduate training work at Women’s Imaging Fellowship, Magee Women’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve and MetroHealth Medical.
Dr. Conwell belongs to the following professional societies: American College of Radiology, Society of Breast Imaging, American Roentgen Ray Society, Radiological Society of North America and American Association for Women Radiologists. He has received numerous awards including the 2005 American College of Radiology Moorefield Fellow for Economics and Health Policy, the 2004 Resident of the Year and the 2000 Humanism in Medicine Award; Awarded by the Health Care Foundation of New Jersey. 

Websites: www.palmettohealth.org | www.sonocine.com