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Telemedicine: Health Care Unconfined by Walls

August 29, 2018 by Alan Pitt Leave a Comment

Reprinted with permission from Catholic Healthcare Assemblies, Sept/Oct 2018 Summary added by the author Telemedicine is now less a technology and more a clinical tool. Monopoly busting changes seen in teleradiology over the past 2 decades are coming to the rest of clinical medicine. Rather than best locally, hospitals should considering partnering with best nationally, […]

Filed Under: Telemedicine, Health IT, Healthcare, Podcasts Tagged With: CHAUSA, health IT, healthcare, telemedicine

Physician Suicide is up 24%- Is the EMR to Blame?

April 16, 2018 by Alan Pitt 1 Comment

Janae Sharp’s physician spouse committed suicide. This lead her on a quest to try and figure out why physician suicides are up, way up. Though technology may play a role, there are other factors at work.

Filed Under: suicide, Health IT, Healthcare, Podcasts Tagged With: EMR, HIMSS, suicide

Without Changing the Incentives, Healthcare Won’t Change- A Conversation with Peter Neupert.

January 11, 2018 by Alan Pitt 2 Comments

Peter #Neupert has been a true healthcare leader and visionary. Founder of #Drugstore.com, leader of #MSFT’s healthcare team, federal advisor, investor, Peter offers some of his insights to problems and solutions

Filed Under: Healthcare Policy, Health IT, Healthcare, personal health records, Podcasts Tagged With: healthcare policy, medical reimbursement, personalized, pharmacy

Thoughts from RSNA, Medical Imaging’s Largest Meeting

December 11, 2017 by Alan Pitt Leave a Comment

As healthcare moves from volume to value Radiology’s largest meeting, RSNA, featured software (artificial intelligence) over hardware. The role of those reading the images also continues to evolve. Hopefully radiologists will figure out how to be close to the center of the value chain.

Filed Under: radiology, artificial intelligence, Health IT, Podcasts Tagged With: ACR, AI, Google, IBM, machine learning, radiology

“We have plenty of physicians- we just have to stop asking them to do silly things” Rick Vaughn- Chief Medical Officer of SSM

September 14, 2017 by Alan Pitt Leave a Comment

Dr. Rick Vaugh did his residency with a paper chart, but now oversees the digital transformation for SSM, a large midwestern healthcare system. Although this conversion hasn’t been easy, he sees opportunities for patients and providers to get back to more human-human interaction. He discusses the past, present and future of health tech.

Filed Under: Health IT, Healthcare, Patient Engagement, Podcasts, Telemedicine Tagged With: electronic medical records, healthcare, telemedicine

Replacing Brainless Tasks- Artificial Intelligence is Automating Automation

May 25, 2017 by Alan Pitt Leave a Comment

[podcast] A brief summary of the Nvidia conference in Silicon Valley. Artificial intelligence offers to replace many of the mindless tasks we all do. The question is, who will be replaced in this transition.

Filed Under: Healthcare, Health IT, investing, Podcasts, radiology Tagged With: #amazon, #cloudmedx, #GTC, #MD.AI, #nvidia, AI

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