Technology

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

GPB Capital Holdings makes an investment in ITelagen

John O’Keefe, CEO of ITelagen,
the “One-Stop Shop” for IT and EHR infrastructure, all for a flat monthly subscription fee once again joins eHealth Radio and the HealthCare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest John O’Keefe discuss the following:At the beginning of February, we saw a press release regarding GPB Capital Holdings investing in ITelagen.  What led to the investment and what benefits/value does ITelagen anticipate from this new investment?What can existing and future ITelagen clients expect from this investment?What should prospects now be on the lookout for from ITelagen?What does this new partnership mean for ITelagen and your mark on the industry?What new products or services are you focusing on in 2015? What value would these bring to the industry?What new tips can you offer our listens today about Healthcare IT?
Duration: 8:22
As ITelagen’s founder and lead visionary, Mr. O'Keefe brings over 13
years of technology and help desk automation experience to the company.
Mr. O’Keefe began his career as a technical analyst for one of New
York’s leading technology groups. It was here that he provided strategic
marketing advice to companies such as Novell, Intel and IBM, assisting
them with new product offerings and positioning. In 1996, responding to
his vision of help desk support automation, Mr. O'Keefe founded Fine
Point Technologies where he served as CEO/CTO for 9 years and designed
help desk automation systems for the world’s leading service providers
including Verizon, Earthlink and Telmex. Mr. O’Keefe defied the dot-com
odds and grew the company past the post dot-com era to a profitable
organization with offices and customer’s worldwide.
Again in 2005, leveraging his expertise in help desk support
automation technologies, Mr. O’Keefe exited Fine Point Technologies and
founded ITelagen, a flat-rate IT service that leverages support
automation to prevent problems before they can occur.
Having three patents-pending in various support automation
technologies, Mr. O’Keefe has been featured on CNN, CNET and in numerous
magazines and is recognized as an industry leader in help desk
automation. Mr. O'Keefe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and
Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo
and is a New York State licensed EIT. He serves as the Chairman on
ITelagen’s Board of Directors and an advisor to the Board of Fine Point
Technologies, Inc.

Website: www.itelagen.com

The Case for Any Access: How Technology Can Improve Healthcare Communication

Ed Simcox, Healthcare Practice Leader for Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, a division of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Ed Simcox discuss the following:Almost all hospitals and health systems have rolled out electronic medical record systems and many have taken advantage of the government’s Meaningful Use program. Going into 2015, what is the next step for CIOs looking to leverage their investments in these systems and gain more adoption in their organizations?So, even though EMRs have been widely rolled out in the U.S., internal adoption and clinician satisfaction have been spotty due to a lack of modern end-user computing technologies?What are the critical success factors for enabling this mobile access?So digging into these four components, what does BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) really mean and why is it important?You mentioned virtual desktop infrastructure as the second component for enabling better access to EMRs (Electronic Medical Records). How does VDI support any access?You also mention single sign-on. Why is SSO (Single Sign On) important?So you have talked about bring your own device, virtual desktops, and single sign-on; for organizations that have not implemented these things, this could look daunting, correct?
Duration: 13:21
Ed Simcox is Logicalis' Healthcare Practice Leader, responsible for
driving healthcare strategy and solutions for Logicalis US. The position is a natural fit for Ed who has a long history in the healthcare vertical. For Logicalis, Ed develops the healthcare business plan, strategy and solution portfolio in the U.S., works with Logicalis' sales teams to engage with healthcare clients in a consulting capacity, and acts as a featured speaker at healthcare events and user group meetings.
Prior to joining Logicalis, Ed worked as the director of healthcare strategy and offer development for AT&T's For Health healthcare product team, the first team at AT&T dedicated to telehealth, mhealth, and other market-leading solutions. Prior to joining AT&T, Ed served as the director of information services and director of enterprise technology planning at Indiana University Health (formerly Clarian Health); during this time, Ed was awarded ComputerWorld's Laureate medal and IU Health received Hospitals and Health Networks' "Most Wired Hospital" award based on Ed's work with emerging technologies in healthcare. An attorney, Ed has also served as the president and CEO of an independent IT and technology-law consulting
firm.
Ed's additional accomplishments include being published in Healthcare Executive Insight magazine, being both a presenter and Board member for the American Telemedicine Association, a member of the Gartner Emerging Technology Council, a HIMSS presenter and member, and a speaker at an MIT Enterprise Forum held at Harvard Medical School.

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

SonoCiné AWBUS Technology, detecting and diagnosing breast cancer in dense-breasted women

Dr. Kevin Kelly, one of the country's leading authorities on breast cancer detection and Co-Founder of SonoCiné, Inc. joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Prevention & Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Kevin Kelly discuss the following:Describe to our listeners what SonoCiné AWBUS is and what does AWBUS stand for?What makes SonoCiné AWBUS™ technology different?How does it work?I understand this exam is for women with dense breast tissue. What is the difference between dense-breast tissue and fatty-breast tissue?Recently it seems there has been states passing a law that are Dense Breast Tissue notification laws. What are those laws and how do they impact what your team is trying to do? Do you see ultrasound one day replacing mammography? Why has every doctor not adopted the technology yet? Where can women go to get more information or to find a doctor that performs the SonoCiné exam? 
Duration: 17:05
Dr. Kevin M. Kelly is Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of SonoCiné, Inc. He is also Medical Director of the Breast Ultrasound Center in Pasadena, CA.
Dr. Kelly is one of the country's leading authorities on breast cancer detection in women with dense-breast tissue and women with implants. He was Director of Breast Imaging at the Huntington Memorial Hospital and the Huntington Hill Breast Center, Pasadena, CA for 20 years before opening a private practice in Pasadena, CA.   His breakthrough clinical study on breast cancer detection using ultrasound in radiographically dense breasts was published in 2009 in European Radiology (one of the most prestigious radiology journals in the world).  This pivotal work has since been cited in more than 100 other scientific publications around the world.
Dr. Kelly's lifelong commitment to early breast cancer detection began with clinical research into the limitations of mammography in detecting and diagnosing breast cancer in dense-breasted women.  In 1997, he co-founded SonoCiné, Inc., to develop and clinically validate what is now known as the SonoCiné AWBUS™ technology.  Working with other leading breast imaging radiologists, more than 6,000 clinical results demonstrated a 100% increase in detection (over mammography) of invasive cancers smaller than 1cm in diameter.  With this success, he moved to launch SonoCiné, Inc.
Dr. Kelly earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Georgetown University.  He completed his Medical Degree, internship and first two years of residency at St. Louis University and the St. Louis University Service of St. Louis City Hospital.  He was the Leo G. Rigler Center Research Fellow at UCLA from 1973 to 1974 and finished his final year of residency at the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles.
In addition to his many professional credentials in the field of radiology, Dr. Kelly was also a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service.

Website: www.sonocine.com