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Applying Oncology Expertise At Scale, Part 3
April Boyd, Sr. Clinical Content Developer at Carevive, is a nurse with many years of oncology experience. Boyd understands what it takes to achieve better patient outcomes. She worked as an outpatient oncology nurse and research nurse for gastrointestinal cancers at MD Anderson in Houston. She spoke with Tyler Kern about her experiences and what…
Finding Success in Healthcare and Positive Patient Outcomes
Highway to Health podcast host David Kemp sat down with Terry Coutsolioutsos, an experienced Healthcare Commercial Leader to discuss his 30-plus year career in the healthcare industry selling medical devices. Coutsolioutsos has worked for companies leading healthcare innovation including Pfizer, Boston Scientific, Abbott Vascular, and Siemens Healthineers. The lively and relaxed conversation opened with a…
Private Health Insurers Must Evaluate Public Health Data
Is it in health insurance providers’ best interest to continue offering free COVID-19 test kits after it’s no longer mandated? Clearsurance.com health insurance expert, Melanie Musson, explores the need for data, evaluation, and making the best decision based on facts. COVID-19 Public Health Emergency In April 2022, the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) was extended…
Perfect Clean: Clean Matters
From the first in-person APIC Annual Conference in three years, Karl Baker, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing at Perfect Clean, recognized how vital in-person interactions are to collaboration and networking. “Networking in person, which hasn’t been possible in the virtual forums,” explained Baker. In the event’s 50th year, Lurlie Moro, SE Regional Manager of…
Digital Health Technology Policy Across the U.S. and Europe
Making sense of health data, telemedicine, and adopting AI/ML are some of the newest innovations in healthcare. Intel’s Nathan Peper, Head of Strategy and Business Innovations, and Patrick Boisseau, Director General, Strategic Initiatives at MedTech Europe, provided their insight to Michelle Dawn Mooney, host of Health and Life Sciences at the Edge, about the…
Innovation Station: The Future of Sterile Processing
Everything begins with the customer journey to create the innovations that will shape the future of sterile processing. Barry Phetteplace, Chief Technology Officer at Censis, and Susan Isaac, Product Director at Censis, shared the strategy that guides their teams in developing advanced sterile processing solutions. Isaac said Censis tackles a problem by examining the customer…
Employment Report Shows Spikes in Hospitality, Healthcare Jobs
In this week’s economic minute, the June 2022 employment situation report showed positive job gains across the economy. Plus, indications that a recession may be staved off in the short term, but the economy isn’t out of the mud quite yet. The BLS reported 372,000 non-farm payrolls, or jobs, added in June 2022. That’s a…
Why End Users are Driving Innovation in UCC with Scott Wharton of Logitech
How should the AV industry develop new solutions to drive technology and innovations in their markets? Here is an often forgotten secret, it should focus on the end user. In emerging markets such as hospitality, healthcare, and education, the demands from the end user help drive these innovations. Scott Wharton, VP & GM, Video…
The Enforcement of Hospital Pricing Transparency and its Downsides
When it comes to healthcare pricing at hospitals, despite a law in place that requires the listing of procedure costs — they haven’t always been easily accessible. But the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is now enforcing that rule with some pricey penalties. The discussion surrounding pricing transparency is not new and has been a…
Can Healthcare Networks and Providers Achieve ROI at Speed?
The concept of return on investment (ROI) in healthcare is tricky to navigate with a constant stream of soaring medical costs and squeezed hospital margins. As healthcare systems and hospitals increasingly invest in technology, the speed at which they can achieve ROI becomes paramount. The stakes are high: hospital margins declined by 21%…
Shifting Patient Responsibility
From the patient to the provider to the payer, healthcare is a busy operating system that everyone plays an important role in. Reflecting on his journey in healthcare and the current operating system is Nick Love, a Benefit Strategist with Brinson Benefits. Host of Highway to Health host David Kemp sat down with Love to talk about his…
Get Ahead of New Healthcare Cybersecurity Standards
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required hospital networks, clinics, and research institutes to meet strict healthcare cybersecurity standards. But complying with the new Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act may be a whole new level of challenge. The bill, enacted on March 15, takes a carrot and stick approach to security. It…
Evaluating Emerging Markets in AV with Rich Ventura of Sony
On a recent episode of the podcast “Pro AV Today,” host Ben Thomas interviewed Rich Ventura, Sony’s Vice President of B2B. The two talked about some of the latest changes in the AV Industry and the emergence and increase of new markets in the field. Thomas said that many companies, particularly new ones, are…
Streamline Health eValuator: The Move to Proactive Financial Performance Improvement
The fact that the healthcare industry has struggled to keep up with patient demand since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic is common knowledge. However, what may surprise some is the ongoing challenges of managing the revenue cycle for healthcare organizations. Bobby Brill, podcast host of Streamline Health eValuator™, spoke with Jodi Stewart, SVP of…
Private Health Insurance Providers Pay Over Twice What Medicare Pays
RAND Corporation recently released a report on medical spending in 2020 in which they found that private insurance companies paid, on average, 224% of what Medicare would have paid. The discrepancy varied from 175% in Arkansas, Hawaii, and Washington to 310% in Florida, South Carolina, and West Virginia. And while this certainly doesn’t appear…
Retaining Talent Will Be The Largest Priority for Hospitals for the Foreseeable Future
In many industries, including healthcare, staffing shortages and the challenges related to retaining and attracting top talent have become a major topic. David Kemp, host of Highway to Health spoke with Laurence Kessler, Senior Vice President of Growth and Partnerships at Healthrise on the matter. The challenges with staffing have provided a major problem for…
Improving Brain Tumor Segmentation at the Edge
Intel’s Abhishek Khowala, principal health AI engineer, and Séverine Habert, AI engineering manager, discuss some of the enhancements in brain tumor segmentation for enabling diagnosis. While most brain tumors are benign, early detection is critical for the best treatment options and outcomes. Assessing a diagnosis starts with MRI 2D and 3D imaging. Segmentation of…
Behind the Clinical Trials for Non-Alcohol Fatty Liver Disease that Can Benefit 30% of Americans
The Impact Research Institute (IRI) is Waco, Texas’ resource for extending care options for NAFLD (non-alcohol fatty liver disease.) Nadege Gunn is IRI’s Medical Director and President. She joined Kevin Stevenson on I Don’t Care to discuss her and her team’s mission to treat NAFLD and other related diseases and conditions. Dr. Gunn is…
How to Be Your Own Healthcare Advocate
While healthcare in the United States is often the topic of a heated political debate, there is one subject within it that irks patients and healthcare practitioners alike: time. One of the biggest problems with healthcare right now is the lack of time. Providers are finding their schedules limited while patients are having trouble booking…
Do You Know Where Your Instruments Are? How Surgical Instrument Marking Can Improve Your Perioperative feat. Bill Camargo and Jennifer Bingaman
Ahead of any surgical procedure or operation is the preparation of surgical instruments. In the latest episode of the podcast “ConCensis,” host Tyler Kern discussed the ins and outs of how Censis utilizes its software to facilitate the use of surgical instruments throughout the full perioperative loop by putting marks on each individual instrument. He…
IC System Named a 2022 Star Tribune Top 200 Workplace
St. Paul, MN – The Minneapolis Star Tribune has named IC System one of Minnesota’s Top 200 Workplaces. Minnesota employees were surveyed about their employers, and 200 businesses across the state were selected. A complete list of the businesses is available in the Star Tribune and appeared in the newspaper’s Top Workplaces special section on Sunday, June…
Applying Oncology Expertise at Scale Part II
As a nurse turned content developer, Sharon Cavone has spent the majority of her career in and around oncology. Now with Carevive, Cavone reflects on the important work the company is continuing to put forth into the oncological sector of healthcare. Oncology is different from most other areas of medicine, as it provides insight into…
Dig Your Heels In: A Working Woman’s Series with YiDing Yu
YiDing Yu is the CMO at Olive, a practicing physician, published researcher, and serial entrepreneur. As a female in the healthcare and tech industries, she’s excited about the growth of women in healthcare. Yu said she grew up with a ton of interests. She knew she wanted to be a doctor when she was little….
Redefining Vendor Relationships: The Key Differentiators of Relevant Industrial
Finding answers and delivering results is what Relevant Industrial is all about as well as maintaining and creating vendor relationships. These all play a pivotal role in the growth and adaptation that characterizes Relevant Industrial. As an industrial business in a competitive market, Relevant Industrial has learned to adapt in order to grow. Jeremy Wilcox, VP…
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