This Week In Health Innovation

On the Wednesday July 10th, 2013 broadcast at 10:00AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest in This Week in Health Innovation is Jonathon Dreyer of Nuance Healthcare. Dreyer's background is a follows: For over 2 years, Jonathon Dreyer – the director of mobile solutions marketing at Nuance – has committed himself to the growth of a healthcare development community that’s reached more than 700 global partners. Dreyer is a firm believer in the idea that complex problems require simple solutions. As the leader in the mobile solutions marketing team at Nuance, Dreyer is the driving force behind helping healthcare providers solve complex problems by bringing virtual assistants – like Siri but even smarter – to healthcare.    During the broadcast Dreyer will discuss the digital health space, telemedicine in particular, and its role in supporting the triple aim (including available data on reported outcomes) and the platforms, apps and tools in his line of sight.   For more information on 'Florence' a virtual assista

On the Wednesday July 3rd, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern we chat with Stefan Broda of  BeforeWeDo.com. Before We Do: 'empowers Americans to test for STDs/HIVs at home.' Stefan is the Founder of Before We Do. Per Business Insider: Originally from Germany, Stefan Broda moved to China for college and stayed there for 8 years. Broda worked at IBM China and co-founded enterprise software startup BizSphere in 2007 to help marketing and sales departments better manage their sales collateral. In his first months in San Francisco, Broda volunteered at events like Gay Pride and Folsom Street Fair and admired the sexual openness of the city. He eventually founded BeforeWeDo to make it easier for Americans to regularly test for HIV and STDs from the comfort and privacy of their home. For more information check the FAQ here, and for the list of in home test or sample kits click here. Join us for an important chat on public health in general, sexual health in particular and an important prevention topic tha

On the Wednesday, June 26th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guests are co-authors of the recently published book: 'Cracking Health Costs' Tom Emerick and Al Davis. For information or to order the book see: Cracking Health Costs. The published abstract indicates:  Cracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.  The book is all about rolling back health care costs to save companies and employees money. Working hand-in-hand with their employees, businesses need to ensure that, whenever feasible, employees with the most expensive diagnoses get optimal treatment at hospitals not practicing “volume-driven” medicine for higher profits. Less than 10% of employees incur 80% of costs. About 20% of patients have been completely misdiagnosed, while many others are simply the

On the Wednesday, May 15th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern we chat with the principal organizers of the collaborative Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) application developer challenge. Assisted by Health 2.0 Challenge Program and powered by the Medstartr crowdfunding and challenge optimization platform, Crowds Care for Cancer is further detailed in:'New Developer Contest – Create a Cancer Survivor Tool' and via 'Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors'. Joining us from the Office of the National Coordinator for HealthIT (ONC) is Adam Wong, a Management and Program Analyst and Project Officer for the Inventing Innovation Program, and Abdul Shaikh, PhD, Program Director, Health Communications and Informatics, National Cancer Institute (NCI). The challenge is the latest in an ongoing series of public/private collaboration and partnerships designed to stimulate innovation in the healthcare and healthtech space while energizing a full court press towards

On a special edition of this week in health innovation May 14th, 2013 at 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern our special guest is Rob McCray, CEO of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance. Rob is a key industry veteran and acknowledged thought leader in a unique position to monitor and interpret trends, developments and promising research both macro and granular in the nexus between healthcare, biotech and the exploding digital enablers in the health and life sciences domains. On a countdown to WLSA' annual Convergence Summit to be held in San Diego California beginning May 28th (members only session)  through 30th, 2013, Rob will provide an uber perspective in the 'convergence domain' and preview the summit including key developments most likihood to hit the news cycle during WLSA's San Diego gathering. Join us for an informative chat with Rob.  

On a special edition of 'this week in innovation' at 12:30PM Pacific/3:30PM Eastern join co-hosts Gregg Masters, and Dr. Pat Salber for a roundtable chat with the founders and principal organizers in the 'modelH' initiative. According to their website, modelH is: '...is a dynamic collaboration between Kevin Riley & Associates, Innovation Excellence, and Batterii that has come together for a year-long project focused on co-creating healthcare business models. Our goal is to co-create an open-source business model canvas with the healthcare community in a collaborative forum.' Collaboration inside an 'open source busines model canvas' context? Sounds good to us! Lets explore the intent of this nascent interest. Rather than rehash the consistently cited ills of our 'house of cards' sickcare system at risk of implosion, lets note the intention of the calling: '...members of the modelH community will join other passionate healthcare and innovation professionals to create meaningful change in the US healthcar

On the Wednesday, April 24th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Roni Zeiger, MD and the subject is a new venture previewed at TEDMED 2013 titled 'Smart Patients', which is: '..an online community where cancer patients and caregivers learn from each other about treatments, clinical trials, the latest science, and how it all fits into the context of their experience..' Roni (aka @rzeiger) well known in the innovation space, is the former Google Chief Health Strategist, turned 'CEO of Smart Patients, is also a practicing physician, father and husband, forever student, and one who believes in networks of microexperts'. Join us and learn more about the future of patient engagement in the financing and delivery of US Healthcare.  

On the April 10th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Jeff Donnell, CEO of NoMore ClipBoard.com  and the instigator and continued inspiration behind Extormity as it's intrepid CEO. We met up with Jeff in New Orleans during the HiMSS13 Annual 'show and tell' bash and extravaganza. For an interview on HIBC.tv (the health innovation broadcast consortiurm) with Jeff, click here. Jeff is insightful, witty and tenacious is his quest to invert the healthcare pyramid and drive patient centricity from the rhetorical to the every day experience of those of who must interacti with our fragmented, and poorly integrated healthcare [non]system. For details on No More Clipboard, click here.  For our interview with Brantley Whittington click here. Join us, this will be both informative and fun.  

On the Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 broadcast join your co-hosts Pat Salber, MD @DocWeighsIn & @HealthTechHatch and Gregg Masters, @2healthguru and @ACOwatch to debrief with two of the freshest and insightful perspectives in the health information technology space. Following HiMSS13 in New Orleans with a 'debrief' of sorts at the @DellHealth#DoMoreHIT 'Think Tank' 2013, we'll learn more from Shahid and John as to their key take-aways from both events were, and get updated on what's on tap at their latest venture Influential Networks. Join us!

On the Wednesday, March 13th 2013 broadcast the HIBCtv team will de-brief their experience during the 'Live from HiMSS13' broadcast. Join Pat Salber, MD @DocWeighsIn, Nate DiNiro @OpenAffairs, Leonard Kish @LeonardKish and Gregg Masters @2healthguru for a light hearted recap of the highlights including select 'lo-lights' of their trip to and from 'the Big Easy.' For some context on the chat see the post, see: 5 Days in March: A Tale of Independent Media Passion, Determination and Agility This is about independent media. If you like what we're doing please consider supporting our efforts via @Medstartr or @HealthTechHatch. Meanwhile, you can follow the live feed generated at HiMSS13 via HIBC.tv/live. Join us!  

Kicking off the Live from HiMSS13 coverage.  

On Friday, March 1 at 12:30 pm pacific time, our special guest will be Phil Fasano, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente.  In his position at KP, he has helped create better tools and platforms to enable smarter, more connected care that is affordable and has a focus on prevention.  His work has significantly contributed to KP’s ability to measure and compare the care they deliver, which is foundational in improving quality and safety.  It has helped move the organization toward the goal of real-time, personalized healthcare for their more than 9 million members.  Phil has recently authored a book about the topic, titled "Transforming Health Care:  The Financial Impact of Technology, Electronic Tools, and Data Mining which we will be discussing today." Today's show will be co-hosted by Pat Salber @docweighsin, Founder and CEO of Health Tech Hatch (@healthtechhatch) and Chris Selecky, Chief Strategy Officer of Health Tech Hatch. Please join us by calling 347-945-7087.

On the Thursday, February 28th 2013 broadcast at 3:30PM Pacific/6:30PM Eastern our concluding special guest in the HiMSS13 Coundown series isJohn Mattison MD, aka @JohneMattison, CMIO of Kaiser Permanente, Southern California. Dr Mattison began his medical career at UC San Diego and Scripps Clinic, where he practiced in many clinical settings including primary care, critical care, preventive medicine, hyperbaric medicine, trauma and helicopter medicine, and held several directorships while at Scripps Clinic, including Quality, Utilization, and Critical Care.   He joined Kaiser Permanente in 1989, and was appointed as Assistant Medical Director and Chief Medical Information Officer in 1992.   John’s interest in systems design began as a marine biologist when he created several software applications to model population behavior.  He wrote his first electronic health record in 1984 and used fully automated medical records in his practice until the time he began a fulltime commitment to healthcare informatics.

On the Wednesday, February 27th 2013 broadcast at 11AM ET/8AM PT our special guest is Rob Lamberts, MD, aka @doc_rob on Twitter, who blogs at: 'Musings of a Distractible Mind: Thoughts of an odd, but not harmful primary care physician', and who recently posted on at The Health Care Blog: 'Death of an Evangelist' which is getting considerable attention in the blog-o-sphere and beyond. Considering we're on final approach to HiMSS 2013 in New Orleans, and given Dr. Lambert's early commitment to and labored  experience with EMRs, we thought it timely to dive a little deeper into his experience in crafting the blog post. Further Dr. Lamberts will be presenting at HiMSS on the subject of ACOs, so we'll also get to hear his thoughts on the intersection of ACOs with the direct medical practice world - a transition that is in the midst of as we speak. This will be an interested conversation. Join us for an fun and informative session with Dr. Rob Lamberts!    

On the Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 broadcast at 9AM Pacific/12PM Eastern our special guest is health economist diva, member in good standing ('see Jane Think') of The Walking Gallery Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, aka @healthythinker. Jane is an in demand voice on Health 2.0, Health Data Palooza, other patient empowerment venues including health tech forums. She also publishes the popular blog 'health populi. For more about this amazing woman and in her own ways: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology. Her clients include all stakeholders in health, including providers, payors and plans; companies in biopharma, medical devices, financial services, technology and consumer goods; non-profits and NGOs. Jane's lens on health was best described by Dr. Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General, who says that health is where we live, work, play and pray. Jane will update us on her plans for HiMSS and what she has in her sights for the a

On the Monday February 25th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest on the 'Countdown to HiMSS 2013' series is Matthew Holt aka @boltyboy. Matt is well known in the health innovation conversation as founder and publisher of the popular The Health Care Blog, and of course in his role as co-founder of Health 2.0. We'll hear what's on Matt's radar in the sea of programming featured in the HiMSS universe and perhaps get an update of what's on the docket for the now global reach of the  Health 2.0 family. Join us!  

On the inaugral broadcast on Friday February 21, 2013 at 1PM Pacific/4PM Eastern we launch into our series 'Countdown to HiMSS 2013'. To kick things off we chat with Chad Johnson aka @OchoTex, curator of the popular #HITsm tweetchat, and Marketing and Communications Manager at Corepoint Health in addition to Managing Editor at HL7 Standards. Last year the 'live from HiMSS HITsm' tweetchat  was quite popular, and this year will be an encore, for details click here. We'll chat with Chad and learn more about the chat and what is in his line of sight amidst this year's range of programming activities at HiMSS. Join us!