Healthcare Tech Talk- Exploring how technology can help meet the challenges in Healthcare.

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Healthcare Tech Talk is a show that discusses issues around each technology used in the delivery of healthcare, including Healthcare Information Technology, Informatics, Telemedicine and Clinical\Biomedical Engineering Technology. Terry Baker and Kelley Hill, who spend their days in the healthcare environment, sit down on both sides of the table of healthcare technology. Terry comes with more than 20 years of implementing and managing technology, and Kelley brings a decade of perspective from clinicians who use said technology. Together with guests they discuss relevant and timely subjects in healthcare technology, from the latest developments in electronic health records to wireless enabled infusion pumps to health information exchanges and all matters in between.

HTT 61- Interoperability, the key to precision medicine?
In this episode we discuss the promise and reality of Interoperability and Precision Medicine and whether these are just the latest buzz words or something we can really begin to leverage to impact the treatment and care of our...
HTT 60- Big Data enabling Precision Medicine
We are all unique individuals, therefore what works for one patient may not work for another. No longer is trial and error and acceptable approach to treating patients, it is time to use Big Data to help deliver the most precise medicine and most...
HTT 59- Clinical Alarm Management
We have been on a bit of a summer hiatus here at Healthcare Tech Talk, but we are back in the editing room and ready to begin publishing new episodes. Today though we present to you an important episode of the . If you enjoy it please subscribe to the...
HTT 58- Ransomware hits multiple Healthcare organizations, are you prepared?
A string of recent, highly publicized "Ransomware" attacks have many healthcare organizations and their vendors scrambling to protect themselves and spurred the FBI to publish a . These attacks are a fairly new paradigm for hospitals after years of...
HTT 57- Is your Healthcare organization ready to ditch pagers yet?
It's time to move to secure messaging solutions.
HTT 56- Engaging patients via Social Media, are you doing it right?
Many Healthcare organizations have had love hate relationship with Social Media given privacy concerns, the belief the that social media is what you do in your spare time and other reasons. In fact many of us can remember when access was blocked...
HTT 55- The progress and challenges of Health IT in Europe
With more than 25% of our listeners coming from outside the U.S., we have been encouraged to provide a more international view of the state of Healthcare Technology. In this episode we have a chance to do just that. Our guest John Rayner,...
HTT 54- Cancer MoonShot 2020, seeking the cure for cancer.
Cancer will affect nearly everyone, either as a patient, or as friend or family member of patient. Fortunately very intelligent people have been working to find a cure and making some progress in treatment and prevention. Now brings together...
HTT 53- A CIO's perspective on HIMSS16 and the challenges of the coming year;
In this episode, we talk with Micheal Archuleta. Micheal has been acknowledged as Becker's Healthcare's top 100 CIOs and his organization, Mt. San Rafael, has been awarded "2015 Most Wired Hospitals". Micheal provides us his thoughts on what he...
HTT 52- Can Real-Time Clinical Intelligence save lives?
Sepsis affects over 1,000,000 patients and causes 280,000 deaths per year, 82 people are affected by a Hospital Acquired Infection every hour, 217 patients are affected every hours by a preventable Adverse Drug Event, CMS fined healthcare...
HTT 51- Is Big Data too big for healthcare?
The use of Big Data in healthcare is the hot topic, but experts estimate that less than 6% of all organizations have a successful implementation. With typical implementations requiring substantial investment and challenging support requirements,...
HTT 50- Bridging the communication gap between hospitals and primary care physicians.
Far too often Healthcare providers aren’t talking to each other – patients don’t know this. If you visit the ER, does your Primary Care Physician have a clue, does your dialysis provider? Are you sure? In this episode we are joined...
HTT 49- Mobility and Security and BYOD, Oh My!
In this episode we talk with Bill Hudson, Chief Healthcare Strategist with VMware, about the ways we can meet the computing needs of clinicians. Bill draws on his 25 years of experience in Health IT meeting needs of Healthcare organizations, as...
HTT 48- Meeting the needs of Population Health with Health IT.
Director of Payer and Life Sciences for HIMSS, joins us to share her insight into Population Health Management and how healthcare organizations can leverage technology to meet this new paradigm of caring for our communities and the individuals...
HTT 47-Cognitive Health, do we have the tools to improve life for those with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?
Do we now have the tools to fight the effects of aging, dementia, or even Alzheimer's? In this episode we discuss Cognitive Health with Dr. Raj Kumar, Chief Medical Officer of . Cognition, defined briefly as the ability to think, learn, respond, and...
HTT 46: Connected Health, the future of healthcare?
From wearable technology to smart homes, the means to gather or monitor our health information is growing leaps and bounds. Connected Health is playing an increasing role in our daily health and is poised to play a major role in the future of...
HTT 45: The Continuous Electronic Monitoring of Patients on Opiods.
We hope you are having a great summer! We are on a bit of a break, but would like to present to you one of our 12 episodes from the award winning AAMI Podcast. We hope you find it interesting, familiar and then subscribe. Patients being...
HTT 44: Healthcare Trek Talk-Building the Medical Tricorder with XPRIZE!
Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That is the technology envisioned by this XPRIZE competition, inspired by Star Trek, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal...
HTT 43: Electrical Safety, Is that still a thing?
With all the sophisticated technologies we are implementing, supporting or looking forward to in the future it is easy to maybe overlook the "routine". We have all learned though, complacency regarding the "routine" can often get people hurt. In...
HTT 42- Biomeds without borders, live from AAMI2015
Live from AAMI2015 we interview Pat Lynch, who has been a technical leader in the medical device maintenance and repair industry for 40 years. There is another side of Pat though, that of a humanitarian. Pat encourages us to give back a...

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