April 26, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics Podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna previews the Healthcare Informatics Summit with Mark Van Kooy, M.D., director of clinical informatics at the Aspen Advisers, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy firm. Dr. Van Kooy discusses what he’ll be talking about at the Summit, specifically the power of analytics in helping provider organizations alter the course of delivering care through performance improvement and population health management.
April 3, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna is joined by Paul Keckley, Ph.D., executive director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Keckley talked about a recent report from Deloitte on physicians’ overall attitude towards the medical profession. He talks about how many still have a paternalistic viewpoint towards patients and why the notion of consumerism in healthcare “rubs them the wrong way.”
February 26, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Rob Faix, a principal at the Naperville, Ill.-based consulting firm, Impact Advisors. Faix discusses the healthcare data breach problem, and why this issue is increasingly coming to light.
January 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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This is part two of a two-part podcast interview with Dave deBronkart, also known as e-Patient Dave, as he continues his discussion with Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the future opportunities as well as the past and current challenges of patient engagement. In it, he talks about where he has seen patient engagement in action, using a couple of personal examples to show how it can save a patient from harm.
January 11, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In part 1 of this two-part podcast series, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with Dave deBronkart, better known by his moniker e-Patient Dave, an industry leading expert on the subject of patient engagement. He discusses the upcoming patient engagement-related challenges this year in the industry, while mentioning the problems with a lot of patient portals’ user interface.
December 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Happy New Year! In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Jason Fortin, senior advisor at Impact Advisors, talks about Stage 2 of meaningful use. Fortin discusses talks about what should be at the top of providers’ checklist when it comes to stage 2 at the beginning of the year.
December 17, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna talks with Larry Ponemon, M.D., founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, about healthcare’s data privacy problem. The Ponemon Institute along with ID Experts recently released their third annual study on patient privacy. In the podcast, Ponemon discusses these starling statistics, attempting to explain why the industry has lagged behind in this area. He also explains just how much a breach costs an organization, and he touches on the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement and its impact on data breaches.
November 12, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Carl Fleming, senior advisor at the consultancy firm, Impact Advisors talks with Associate Editor Gabriel Perna about the latest developments in tablets and how it could effect healthcare. Specifically, they talk how well equipped the latest tablets from Microsoft, the Surface, and Apple, the iPad Mini, are for a healthcare setting. Fleming likes Microsoft’s chances in healthcare because of its past success in enterprise, and the Surface’s key board, which he says, will be easy for physicians to take notes on.
November 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast interview, The Advisory Board’s Rob Lazerow, a senior consultant, speaks with Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna, at-length about the policy implications of yesterday’s election. Lazerow discusses the effect the re-election of President Barack Obama, the maintaining of the house by the republicans, and the senate by the Democrats, will have on healthcare policy, specifically the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
October 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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This is the second part of a two-part podcast series with James Rountree, senior consultant at Aspen Advisors, on data breaches in healthcare. Every week we’re seeing providers, payers, and government agencies, of all shapes and sizes, fall victim to a data breach. In the most recent issue of HCI, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna wrote an industry-wide report that attempts to look at this growing issue in a larger scope and found that data breaches are costing the healthcare industry an average of $6.5 billion on an annual basis.
October 2, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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As more healthcare providers digitize their data, breaches have become commonplace in an industry that lacks advanced security practices. Every week we’re seeing providers, payers, and government agencies, of all shapes and sizes, fall victim to a data breach. To get a better look at why this is happening, where the issues lay, and what healthcare providers can do to stop their data from getting breached, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna welcomes James Rountree, senior consultant at Aspen Advisors for a two-part podcast series.
September 18, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In this podcast, Healthcare Informatics Associate Editor Gabriel Perna speaks with John Stanley, Principal with Impact Advisors. John discusses the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, and how that has played into the role health information exchange and analytics technologies will play into the future of healthcare delivery. John also talks about how these two technologies are playing off each other, what providers should know when they are picking out a vendor, and what are the dangers of not addressing these technologies.
