Best Vik Patel and Jimmy Kim Podcasts (2025)

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Doing More with Less: Candid Insights on AI, Team Culture & Trust 50:18

6d ago50:18

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Send us a text Guest: Lance Alston, Director of IT, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home Host: Vik Patel On this episode, Vik welcomes Lance Alston, Director of IT at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home, for a candid conversation on leading with resilience, trust, and innovation in a resource-constrained healthcare environment. Lance sha…

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Code AI: Real Talk from the ER to the CMIO's Desk—On Tech, Trust & Trailblazing Women in Health IT 45:06

28d ago45:06

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Send us a text Vik sits down with the one and only Dr. Michelle Flemmings — ER doc, health tech leader, and all-around powerhouse. 💥 In this episode, she gets real about: ⚡ What it’s really like working with AI in the ER 🤯 How CIOs and CMIOs can calm the chaos around AI adoption 🚫 AI Hype vs. reality 💪 Her mission to elevate women in healthcare lea…

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How trust-based partnerships drive success in healthcare IT 32:47

2M ago32:47

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Send us a text James Wellman, VP and CIO of Nathan Littauer Hospital & Nursing Home, and Vik Patel, COO of Tido, as they explore advancing data integration, operational efficiency, and patient care. Learn what happens when a healthcare IT partnership transcends traditional vendor relationships to become a true team extension, and discover how trust…

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Practical AI, Data Governance, and Tech modernization with Sarah Richardson, This Week Health 33:16

5M ago33:16

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Send us a text Vik Patel, COO at Tido Inc. joins Sarah for the news. Vik shares his journey from hospital IT to founding Tido Inc., discussing the nuanced challenges of integrating AI and the role of strong governance frameworks in avoiding unintended biases. Together, we tackle questions of strategic prioritization, from the intricacies of data mi…

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The Data Dilemma: AI, Governance, and Interoperability in Healthcare with a CIO Veteran 42:10

6M ago42:10

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week In Health Tech, Vik Patel welcomes Mark Farrow, a CIO veteran with experience of leading IT teams at large academic health systems and also community health system. This episode is very in-depth real world discussions about data challenges, AI governance and interoperability in healthcare. Mark starts out…

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Driving Operational Excellence in Health Systems: Strategic Alignment of AI, Data, and Resources 32:51

7M ago32:51

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik Patel, COO, Tido Inc. welcomes James Wellman, VP-CIO at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home. They discuss topic of achieving operational excellence using the right combination of data, integration, AI, and resources. Healthcare organizations can drive operational efficiency throu…

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Future-Forward Healthcare Digital Engagement: Kevin Smith's Insights on AI Strategies and Life Beyond Google Analytics 43:32

1+ y ago43:32

43:32

Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech episode, Vik welcomes Kevin Smith, AVP, Digital Health, Baptist Health. We focus on impact of AI in healthcare marketing. We start out talking about future AI phones and Google, Search Generative Experience SGE. Kevin provides some background of Baptist Health digital properties and how sit…

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How to adapt your web-mobile-social media digital strategy to changing landscapes? 39:44

1+ y ago39:44

39:44

Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech podcast, we welcome Barry Wallace, digital communications specialist at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. We start out by discussing a marketing / digital communications team structure and then content generation. Vik and Barry discuss if ChatGPT AI tools help with content generation. AI …

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Digital Health Strategy 44:17

2y ago44:17

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Send us a text In this episodes of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss digital health strategy for healthcare organizations. They dive into different categories for digital health: virtual care, accessing health information, interoperability, innovation. For virtual care, organizations need to now consider remote patient monitoring on to…

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HIMSS23 Conference Insights: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare 34:25

2y ago34:25

34:25

Send us a text In this episode of This week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss HIMSS23 conference and insights gained at the conference. The main highlight at the conference was Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Vik and John discuss few AI implementations in Healthcare including Epic, Microsoft, Google, Nuance, and more. Web…

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How can health systems maximize operational efficiency using digital tools and minimize lost revenue? Special Offer in this episode for Health Systems. 38:28

2y ago38:28

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss healthcare financial challenges as they grapple with inflation, staffing shortages, and low margins. 85% of health system leaders expect staffing challenges to significantly impact 2023 strategies. Vik and John discuss how do you mitigate these challenges. One way is t…

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Freeing up clinical staff from diagnosing and reporting system issues to focus on patients 38:20

2+ y ago38:20

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Johnathan Klaus to cohost the episode. John is an experienced nurse and has worked in large academic medical center for many years in the cardiac department. He brings wealth of clinical knowledge to the team and we welcome him to cohost the podcast. Jimmy Kim is obviously still…

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Assure smooth operations for clinicians using applications & integration monitoring technology 26:27

2+ y ago26:27

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Send us a text Vik and Jimmy focus on digital health and end-to-end monitoring of applications in this episode of This Week in Health Tech. Vik talks about strategy for digital transformation: managing digital apps, integrating digital apps, and supporting digital apps on an ongoing basis. Vik also mentions that healthcare organizations have reques…

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"The Olympics of Tech" - Collision Conference 2022 30:59

3y ago30:59

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Send us a text This episode of This Week in Health Tech focuses on one of the biggest tech conferences of North America, Collision Conference 2022. Collision attracts people from more than 125 countries and more than 35000 people. Vik shares the stories meeting the brightest minds in tech and innovative companies. Very different than the other heal…

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Healthcare Uninterrupted 37:32

3y ago37:32

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on keeping healthcare uninterrupted: 24/7 end to end monitoring of applications and integration between applications. Vik and Jimmy start out with discussing working from home and hybrid working. Because of digital transformation and increasing number of mobile and web …

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing || Encore Presentation 42:48

3y ago42:48

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Send us a text For the month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation. In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation. Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. …

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Healthcare's hybrid business model with Telehealth and In-Person Visits 36:42

3y ago36:42

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy chat about the latest health tech news including telehealth and in-person hybrid healthcare. Telehealth is not just a pandemic trend, and it is here to stay. Healthcare is increasingly hybrid with in-person and telehealth visits. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2019-2020,…

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Hybrid Healthcare and Consumer Driven Healthcare with Jared Johnson 46:09

3+ y ago46:09

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, first episode of 2022, Vik and Jimmy welcome Jared Johnson, from Healthcare Podcast Rap. Vik and Jimmy discuss hybrid healthcare or consumer first healthcare in this episode. Jared starts with explaining discussing what hybrid healthcare is with an example of 23 and me. He also mentions ex…

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Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner. 26:34

3+ y ago26:34

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Send us a text In this emergency episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss the big news of Oracle buying Cerner. The biggest purchase Oracle, Big Tech, has ever done for $28.3 billion dollars. Vik and Jimmy first talk a little background of Oracle and Cerner. Vik talks about Oracle products: cloud infrastructure, integration, oracl…

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The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy 50:59

3+ y ago50:59

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Dr. Laura Purdy, CEO and CoFounder of MD Integrations, All in One Telehealth solutions company. Dr. Purdy is a 15 year army veteran and started her career in military medical school and as a hospitalist in military. She realized early on that telehealth will be the fut…

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How to deal with Expectations for Digital Apps and increase access to On-Demand Care 49:50

3+ y ago49:50

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Send us a text In this Halloween special of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss digital transformation and AI with guest Shelby Sanderford, CEO of Docpace. Shelby shares her story of how she got started in healthcare IT working in a hospital. They are on a mission to eliminate wait times for patients and eliminate need for waiting rooms…

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How to Improve Patient Safety with End to End (E2E) Systems Monitoring 47:12

3+ y ago47:12

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss healthcare systems monitoring and integration. In today's healthcare, we are still dependant on users to identify and report system issues. This is a big patient safety issue. Vik explains the issue in detail using an example. Patient arrives in emergency department, …

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Telehealth, eVisits, and Digital Transformation with Dr. Brett Oliver 49:35

3+ y ago49:35

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Send us a text In this jam-packed episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Dr. Brett Oliver (Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health) to dive into several fascinating topics, such as the future of telehealth, digital transformation, interoperability, cultural change across the industry, and much more. To kick it off, we discuss the…

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HIMSS Conference 2021 Post Conference Review 37:15

3+ y ago37:15

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on HIMSS 2021 Conference that just ended Aug 12. This year the conference was in person in Las Vegas and was also available digitally online. Number of participants was low this year because of the pandemic, and it seemed like instead of the usual 50 to 60 thousand registrants, 2021 con…

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How To Accelerate Healthcare Digital Transformation with APIs 37:56

4y ago37:56

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Send us a text In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth…

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Prevent Hospital System Issues Using Active Monitoring and Test Automation 43:50

4y ago43:50

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT, we discuss how to actively monitor hospital systems data integrity. It is a big challenge to monitor hundreds of systems in a health system to ensure workflows and data are working as expected. This prevents having to rely on users to report issues and prevent extensive downtime. Vik describes a typical scen…

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 2: EMR and Hospital Systems 43:07

4y ago43:07

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy continue the series about testing and test automation in healthcare, specifically EMR and health systems test automation. We start out with the difference between web test automation that we discussed in the last episode versus EMR and health systems test automation. Vik explains that the bigge…

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing 42:19

4y ago42:19

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Send us a text For month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation. In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation. Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. Test…

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Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che || Encore Presentation 53:33

4y ago53:33

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobil…

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Digital strategy, telehealth, and cloud adoption with Mark 47:51

4y ago47:51

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Send us a text On this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy welcome Mark Brookman, CIO, Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We jump right into tele-health and adoption with Mark. Mark indicated that even though they had started on tele-health path about 3-4 years ago, adoption was scarce. Providers were hes…

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Accelerate healthcare digital transformation with APIs 37:25

4y ago37:25

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Send us a text In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth…

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Top 3 ways to setup online COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and avoid clogged phone lines 37:53

4+ y ago37:53

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Send us a text In this week of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy tackle a very timely topic about COVID vaccine scheduling for health systems. Vaccines are here, Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca. The phone is ringing off the hook at health systems, which is creating operations issues for health systems. Clogged up phone lines does not help with …

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Best of 2020 and Technology Trends for 2021 38:32

4+ y ago38:32

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Jimmy and Vik recap the 2020 episodes of This Week in Health Tech and chat about the best of 2020 topics, guests, and more. Vik and Jimmy start out by reminiscing about 2020 and how it all started. It is also the one-year anniversary of the TWIHT podcast. Vik concedes that it was not easy …

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Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che 52:57

4+ y ago52:57

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobil…

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Inpatient digital experience and smart hospital rooms with Jeff Fallon 53:31

4+ y ago53:31

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Jeff Fallon with eVideon to talk about the hospital inpatient experience. It is the first time we are talking about changing inpatient experience with digital transformation in healthcare. We start out with the traditional/existing setup in most hospital rooms. Jeff ex…

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Using wearables for preventative patient care with Dr. Michael Farmer 43:26

4+ y ago43:26

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Send us a text We have our first physician on This Week in Health Tech. Dr. Michael Farmer, Cardiologist and founder of Corverix to talk about wearables. Michael got into wearables because he found current healthcare very reactive and not enough on prevention. It became frustrating and Michael found that patients had access to smartwatches and all …

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There's never enough testing - Test Automation with Ryan Neaves and Laura O'Toole 52:35

4+ y ago52:35

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Ryan Neaves, VP, Care Applications from Novant Health, and Laura O'Tool, President, Santa Rosa Consulting. We focus on test automation for Electronic Health Record systems and also for digital testing of mobile and web applications. As some wise person noted, there is never enou…

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ONC's Cures Act: Empowering Patients, Drive Innovation, and Spur App Economy 29:30

4+ y ago29:30

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT we focus on the ONC's Cures Act Final act which is all about "Empowering Patients with Their Health Record in a Modern Health IT Economy". The ONC Cures Act Final Rule implements interoperability requirements outlined in the Cures Act. Vik and Jimmy jump into the details about how this Act helps Patients. Put…

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How to Improve Provider and Patient Telehealth Experience 36:27

4+ y ago36:27

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on telehealth experience and making changes to provide an optimal user experience for providers and patients. Like it or not, this pandemic has pushed telehealth to the forefront and usage has gone up more than a hundred percent. Vik flips the script on Jimmy and in thi…

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How Are You? Human Resources Management in a crisis w/ Tony Welch 50:56

4+ y ago50:56

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Send us a text In the latest episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome Tony Welch, Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Vik mentions that actually, Tony Welch hired him in his first hospital job, at Hardin Memorial Health in Kentucky. We jump into the COVID-19 situation and how it has affected remote wo…

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Healthcare IT Future Readiness with Laura O'Toole 37:52

4+ y ago37:52

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Send us a text We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik…

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Focusing on Security and Privacy in the New Normal 36:42

4+ y ago36:42

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on security and privacy in this new normal of COVID-19 crisis. We start by talking about the latest in health tech. Vik talks about digital strategy: telehealth, AI, mobile apps, and how healthcare systems in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis are having to figure out how to update their…

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Post COVID-19 readiness with Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, and Cloud Framework 41:44

5y ago41:44

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Send us a text In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy talk about readiness post pandemic. They comment about planning and changes healthcare organizations will need to make to incorporate tools and workflows to be better prepared for next pandemic. Vik provides examples of tools being used at Cleveland Clinic and other leading healthcare organizat…

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What is the future of healthcare? Big Tech healthcare disruption with Unmesh Srivastava 58:00

5y ago58:00

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Send us a text A very exciting packed episode with Unmesh Srivastava in this episode of TWIHT. Unmesh introduces P3 Health Partners, a health population management group that wants to shift the industry's focus from managing illness to cultivating wellness. Unmesh manages everything digital at P3 in his role as CTO at P3. We start out with understa…

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A researcher's view about healthcare digital strategy and COVID-19 challenges with John Marchica 49:15

5y ago49:15

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Send us a text We welcome John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research. Darwin Research. Darwin Research provides research and subject matter expertise for health systems, #ACOs, Payers, Home Health, #Pharmaceuticals, and more. John introduces Darwin Research and then discusses the current coronavirus numbers in Arizona. John indicates that current #researc…

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How to change patient engagement and digital strategy during a pandemic with Alan Shoebridge. 45:35

5y ago45:35

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Send us a text Vik and Jimmy welcome Alan Shoebridge, Director of Marketing, Salinas Valley Memorial Health System. Jared, founder of Shift.Health introduced Alan to Vik and we give a shout out to Jared at the beginning of the podcast. We start out with the introduction of Alan and the current state in California with the COVID-19 crisis. SVMH has …

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How to deal with current healthcare crisis and be future tech ready with Laura O'Toole 37:15

5y ago37:15

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Send us a text We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik…

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Top 10 Covid-19 Tech Trends in Healthcare 50:03

5y ago50:03

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Send us a text In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy provide their thoughts and comments on Top 10 COVID-19 tech trends in healthcare. This original post was published on Forbes by Gil Press, link provided below. Here are the top 3 trends from the list: 1. Say goodbye to your office—the virtual becomes real 2. Beyond the PCR dr…

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COVID-19 tracing apps on iPhone and Android 16:00

5y ago16:00

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Send us a text In the first episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss Apple and Android tracing apps for COVID-19. However, they disagree on the use of the tracing app. Jimmy feels it is a slippery slope if we start using tracing apps and Vik is of the opinion that tracing app will help us keep our citizens safe and help us re-open…

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Preparing to Reopen Healthcare Services with slowdown of COVID -19 using technology 37:50

5y ago37:50

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Send us a text Finally, there is a glimmer of hope, and lots of states and provinces in North America are starting to prepare to reopen more healthcare services. Vik and Jimmy comment on how health systems are planning and preparing to reopen more services like diagnostic services, radiology, non-urgent and elective procedures, and also ambulatory-…

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