Healthcare Strategies

Industry Perspectives: Tracing the Trajectory of Genomics in WGS, NGS

Genomics is a burgeoning field, with advancements that affect gene therapies and personalized medicine. Kamal Obbad, chief executive officer and co-founder of Nebula Genomics, offered some context for the field's prominence and recent evolution and provided some insight into what the future might hold for genomics.

Headlines: Introducing the RPM Pill, Emotet Targets Healthcare

Researchers from multiple institutions collaborate to create an ingestible, wireless remote patient monitoring device. Healthcare is fourth highest on the list of targets for the world's most dangerous malware.

Industry Perspectives: Honing Hybrid Care, Assessing Tech Partners

Hybrid care and new technology partnerships are growing trends in the healthcare industry. Frank McGillin, chief executive office at The Clinic by Cleaveland Clinic, gives an inside peek at developing hybrid care models and choosing the right technology partners.

Exploring How To Navigate Healthcare Cybersecurity Regulatory Compliance

The healthcare sector faces cyber threats on a daily basis, sometimes resulting in disruptions to operations and decreases in quality of care. To ease the risk of cyberattacks and ensure that healthcare organizations are taking steps to safeguard sensitive data, a patchwork of state and federal laws exist. Elizabeth Hodge, partner in the Healthcare Practice Group at Akerman, discusses the healthcare cybersecurity regulatory landscape and how to maintain compliance.

Industry Perspectives: Assessing Changes in Mental Healthcare Post-COVID

When the coronavirus pandemic put society on hold, Americans had to rearrange their priorities and adopt various methods to cope, some healthier than others. Georgia Gaveras, DO, co-founder and chief medical officer at Talkiatry, explains how the pandemic affected mental health in the US, the pros and cons of telemental health, and more.

Exploring How Shield Laws Protect Interstate Abortion Care Access

In the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, patients find themselves navigating a variable legal landscape. While abortion care access may be legal in one state, it may not be in another, and that leaves those in abortion-restriction states, in some cases, traveling out of state for the procedure and putting themselves at risk for civil or criminal penalties. Shield laws have begun to crop up in abortion-legal states to protect these patients—and anyone involved in abortion access—from those legal consequences. In this episode, Manatt Health Partner Randi Seigel and Counsel Alice Leiter outline trends in shield laws.

Industry Perspectives: Cutting Costs, Inefficiency with Digital Health

Healthcare technology innovation and digital health tools have become the backbone of many healthcare processes. How can healthcare leaders best wield these tools in order to make care more affordable and more efficient? With two decades of experience in the healthcare space, Glen Tullman, chief executive officer at Transcarent, shares his insights on how healthcare can catch up with other industries and seamlessly integrate digital health tools.

Headlines: AHA Takes Feds to Court, Medicare Pay Drops

The American Hospitals Association (AHA) is suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a bulletin on hospital use of tracking technologies. Meanwhile, CMS cut Medicare reimbursement to physicians.

Leveraging Virtual Reality to Achieve Pain Management Goals

Virtual reality solutions can enhance clinical outcomes and patient experience, particularly in the pain management arena, but there are numerous challenges to widespread adoption. In a Healthcare Strategies episode, Dr. Henry Xiang, director of the Center for Pediatric Trauma Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital, discussed the research into healthcare VR use cases for pain management as well as the benefits and challenges of VR use in healthcare.

Industry Perspectives: Improving Decisionmaking Around Digital Health Tools

Healthcare stakeholders have a wealth of digital health tools to choose from, but some tools do not delivery on their promises. On this Industry Perspectives episode, Caroline Pearson, executive director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, shares how the Peterson Center on Healthcare's newly-released framework can support stakeholders with digital health tool assessment.