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Dr. Hu is the president of connected networks at WellSky and the founder of CarePort, which was acquired by WellSky. Hu discusses coordinating care after hospitalization and using technology to improve transitions. She talks about the rising need for post-acute care with an aging population. And she shares her experience in building CarePort more than a decade ago. 

We talk with Christine Swisher, the chief scientific officer at Project Ronin. The organization says it’s on a mission to transform cancer care. Project Ronin offers a clinical intelligence platform to help providers make the best decisions about their patients. She talks about the need for more data and insights, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and how it can change the treatment of cancer. She also talks about what needs to be done to utilize AI in healthcare responsibly.

We talked with Arti Masturzo, chief medical officer of CCS. A physician with a great deal of experience as a healthcare executive, she recently disclosed that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She talks about her journey as a patient and the shortcomings of the healthcare system. She also discusses ways that technology needs to be designed with more consideration for patients and providers.

We talked with James Quarles, a venture chair for Redesign Health, a firm which launches health tech startup companies. The former CEO of Strava, Quarles talks about how Redesign Health chooses which companies to launch. He discusses the ingredients of successful startups and some mistakes young companies should avoid. 

Adrienne Boissy, chief medical officer of Qualtrics, talks about the importance of empathy in patient care. She discusses the need to take care of employees, why hospitals must live their values, and how that will help hospitals financially as well.

Agrawal, the president and COO of LeanTaaS, says hospitals can no longer view efficiency as a luxury item. Hospitals are going to need to become more efficient in order to stay afloat. He talks about the need to invest in technology, expanding capacity to serve more patients, and the recent acquisition of Hospital IQ.

We talked with C.K. Wang, chief medical officer of Cota, about the ways that data can improve achieve health equity, particularly for the  LGBTQ+ community, or the sexual and gender diverse population. He talked about the importance of getting better data to improve outcomes, the need to build trust, and better training in medical schools and health systems.

Mimi Winsberg says she’s seeing encouraging results in providing mental health services via telehealth. She is the chief medical officer and co-founder of Brightside Health, a telehealth company treating patients with depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. She talks about the opportunities of using telehealth to reach more patients with mental health needs. 

In this episode, Chanda discusses the need to offer better healthcare options for individuals with disabilities. She talks about the spinal cord injury she suffered as a child, the center she founded to help others with disabilities, and what healthcare leaders should be doing to improve care.

In this episode, we talk with Joe Zabinski, the senior director of AI and personalized medicine with OM1. We discuss the promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and some of the ethical considerations. We dive into ChatGPT and its impact on medicine. 

In this episode, we talk with Tom Cotter, CEO of Healthcare Ready, an organization that works with the health sector to prepare for disasters. He talks about the need for better data to manage the supply chain, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, and he offers advice for healthcare leaders to be ready for the next emergency.

In our latest episode of the “Data Book” podcast, we talked about medical debt with Ryne Natzke, the chief revenue officer of Sphere. Ryne discussed the difficulties for patients and the challenges for providers. And we talked about how health systems can sustain their operations without leaving their patients with catastrophic debt.

Justin is a physician who teaches about digital health at Stanford Medicine and a partner at GSR Ventures, an investment firm focusing on early stage digital health companies. In this episode, he talks about ChatGPT, its implications for providers and researchers, and how AI is going to touch every part of the healthcare journey.

In this episode, we speak with Ajay Khanna, CEO of Tellius, a firm that offers an AI-driven decision intelligence platform. He talks about machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare, and using decision intelligence to gain insights on trends.

Kevin Olson is the chief information officer of Jupiter Medical Center in south Florida. We talked about the challenges of digital transformation amid the pandemic, cyberattacks, and helping consumers engage with healthcare more easily. 

Gregg Church, the president of 4medica, talks about the company’s work with healthcare organizations to exchange data and improve patient care. He discusses the move towards interoperability, and how consumers are driving change in healthcare, because they want more access to their data.

We talked with Robbie Hughes, the founder and CEO of Lumeon, a firm that works with healthcare organizations to automate processes to reduce the burden on staff and improve patient care.

Chief Healthcare Executive is joined by Joe Nicholson, DO, chief medical officer at CareAllies, a personalized online coaching platform that works with payers and providers to install value-based care customs. We discussed why instilling a good payer/provider relationship is important for both patients and practices and what can be done to ensure that relationship is well maintained. We also talked about Dr Nicholson’s personal experience with developing a functional payer/provider relationship and advice he has for other practices. 

On this episode of Healthy Bottom Line, Mark Spinner, CEO of AccessOne, discusses some of the financing concerns that patients expressed in a recent AccessOne survey as well as some solutions that hospitals and health systems can implement to improve communication and price transparency. To learn more about AccessOne, click here. To read more about AccessOne’s recent survey, click here.

Hello, and welcome to a brand-new episode of Data Book, a Chief Healthcare Executive podcast. My name is Laura Joszt, and I’m the editorial director of CHE. Today, Dedi Gilad, CEO and co-founder of TytoCare, an at-home, handheld exam kit and app, joins me. We discuss the evolving technology of a virtual visit, the current state of remote patient monitoring and more.