This Week in Health Tech
This Week in Health Tech podcast is a health technology podcast. Podcast features Vik Patel, a health technology veteran and CEO of Tido Inc. (A Trusted Tech Partner for Healthcare Organizations) and industry experts. Our shows provide commentary, news, and perspective on the latest trends in health tech and features seasoned experienced industry experts. All of our shows are free. TWIHT is supported by advertising. We limit the number of ads on each show, and we only accept advertising from companies whose products or services benefit our audience.
Episodes
56 episodes
Future-Forward Healthcare Digital Engagement: Kevin Smith's Insights on AI Strategies and Life Beyond Google Analytics
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 Generati...
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Episode 56
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43:32
How to adapt your web-mobile-social media digital strategy to changing landscapes?
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 ...
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Episode 55
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39:44
Digital Health Strategy
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, interoperabili...
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Episode 54
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44:17
HIMSS23 Conference Insights: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare
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 di...
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Episode 53
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34:25
How can health systems maximize operational efficiency using digital tools and minimize lost revenue? *Special Offer* in this episode for Health Systems.
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 signi...
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Episode 52
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38:28
Freeing up clinical staff from diagnosing and reporting system issues to focus on patients
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 k...
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Episode 51
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38:20
Assure smooth operations for clinicians using applications & integration monitoring technology
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 supportin...
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Episode 50
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26:27
"The Olympics of Tech" - Collision Conference 2022
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 m...
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Episode 49
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30:59
Healthcare Uninterrupted
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 fro...
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Episode 48
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37:32
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing || Encore Presentation
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...
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Episode 47
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42:48
Healthcare's hybrid business model with Telehealth and In-Person Visits
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 increasin...
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Episode 46
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36:42
Hybrid Healthcare and Consumer Driven Healthcare with Jared Johnson
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 ex...
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Episode 45
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46:09
Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner.
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 ba...
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Episode 44
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26:34
The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy
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...
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Episode 43
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50:59
How to deal with Expectations for Digital Apps and increase access to On-Demand Care
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. ...
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Episode 42
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49:50
How to Improve Patient Safety with End to End (E2E) Systems Monitoring
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 issu...
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Episode 41
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47:12
Telehealth, eVisits, and Digital Transformation with Dr. Brett Oliver
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, ...
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Episode 40
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49:35
HIMSS Conference 2021 Post Conference Review
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 o...
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Episode 39
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37:15
How To Accelerate Healthcare Digital Transformation with APIs
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 transfor...
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Episode 38
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37:56
Prevent Hospital System Issues Using Active Monitoring and Test Automation
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 ...
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Episode 37
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43:50
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 2: EMR and Hospital Systems
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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43:07
How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing
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 st...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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42:19
Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che || Encore Presentation
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 epis...
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Episode 34
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53:33
Digital strategy, telehealth, and cloud adoption with Mark
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 th...
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Episode 33
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47:51
Accelerate healthcare digital transformation with APIs
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 transfo...
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Episode 32
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37:25