Healthcare Strategies

Industry Perspective: Keith Duemling, Senior Director at Cleveland Clinic

Preparing for the future of technology starts with a flexible strategy. Organizations can ensure efficient strategies by emphasizing communication and collaboration, so they are evaluated from different perspectives. Keith Duemling, senior director of cybersecurity technology protection at Cleveland Clinic, shares his thoughts on the future of the cybersecurity policy space, and best practices for building cybersecurity strategies that ensure organizations are ready for future challenges.

Headlines: UHG Scrutinized As Losses Grow, Docs Warm Up to AI

UnitedHealth Group is still reviewing the impact of a Change Healthcare cybersecurity attack, providers have grown less wary of artificial intelligence, and more on today's episode of Headlines.

Industry Perspectives: Brian Anderson, MD, CEO, Co-Founder of CHAI

The consequential nature of healthcare calls for tools and technology that are fair, equitable, and useful to both patients and caregivers. With the rise of AI comes ethical questions surrounding its use in healthcare, and how it can be used in the most responsible and efficient ways possible. Brian Anderson, MD, CEO and co-founder of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), emphasizes the importance of transparency in training AI models, the need for AI innovators and regulators to work together, risk assessment in healthcare technology adoption, and more.

Industry Perspectives: Brad Ryan, MD, Chief Growth Officer at NCQA

For providers, digital quality measure adoption and the ongoing shift to value-based care in the healthcare industry often simply mean more tasks to add to their plates. How can policymakers, payers, and other stakeholders better align quality measures with the provider experience and what needs to change about communication around quality measure adjustments? In this discussion, Brad Ryan, MD, chief growth officer at NCQA, lays out how to maximize efficiency in data collection, what constitutes meaningful data, and how to support providers through shifts in digital quality measures.

Industry Perspectives: Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth

Bringing APIs into healthcare has been no small task and this Industry Perspectives guest should know. Don Rucker, MD, is currently the chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, but his former role as the National Coordinator National Coordinator for Health Information Technology gave him insight into how healthcare organizations can better collaborate and leverage resources to improve API adoption.

Driving Health Data Usability, EHR Maintenance

With persistent health data usability challenges across the industry, The Sequoia Project's Data Usability Taking Root Initiative is looking to drive interoperability through existing data standards. Holly Miller, MD, chief medical officer at MedAllies, a health IT network participating in the initiative, discusses the main data usability issues impacting providers and how the cross-industry community of practice is working to address them.

Headlines: CMS Releases Price Transparency Tool, FDA Okays AI for Sepsis

CMS produced a new tool to help hospitals comply with price transparency rules, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an artificial intelligence tool that assesses patients' risk for sepsis, and more on today's episode.

Industry Perspectives: Aashima Gupta (Global Dir.), Kalyan Pamarthy (Group PM) at Google

How can Google make healthcare information more useful and accessible? What is the best role for the cloud in healthcare data management? Aashima Gupta, Global Director of Healthcare at Google, and Kalyan Pamarthy, Group Project Manager for Generative AI and Search at Google, address these questions and share their thoughts on the potential for cloud innovation in a healthcare context.

Keeping Private Practices Independent Amid Consolidation

Widespread consolidation in healthcare is threatening the independence of most private practices. However, private practices are vital to the healthcare ecosystem, delivering the high-quality, personalized care that patients need. Moshe Chasky, MD, FACP of Alliance Cancer Specialists, shares what happened when a health system came knocking at his door and how the group is maintaining autonomy amid changes in market dynamics, health policy and regulation, and more.

Industry Perspectives: Matt DeFrain (Managing Dir.), Tamara Nolan (Sr. Dir.) from Morgan Franklin Consulting

With cyberattacks on the rise--including the advent of the largest cyber event in American healthcare history, the Change Healthcare event--healthcare leaders are scrambling to refortify their health IT security protocols. Matt DeFrain, managing director of MorganFranklin Cyber, and Tamara Nolan, senior director of Cyber & Operational Resilience at MorganFranklin Cyber, share their insights on how healthcare organizations can better prepare for inevitable cyberattacks.