Video Interview Series

Dr. Joseph Valenti

This week, Dr. Joseph Valenti, a practising physician in Texas, talks about The Physicians Foundation, an organization founded in 2003 to support healthcare improvements in the delivery of patient care, provide physicians with a support system, promote physician leadership and education, and further improve physician practices.[read more]

Ivana Schnur, M.D./ Ph.D.

This week, Ivana Schnur explains Sense.ly's Remote Assesment Hub for virtual visits with real care. Sense.ly is a virtual online nurse equipped with a set of remote diagnostic tools. Using speech recognition, augmented reality, and medical devices, Sense.ly can quickly assess a patient’s condition and provide caregivers with relevant insights for meaningful follow-up.[read more]

Lou Caputo

This week, Lou Caputo, CEO of Summerville Medical Center in South Carolina, talks about a new hand hygiene plan that can help lower infection risk for patients. In hospitals, hand hygiene is crucial in the prevention of infection which can lead to complications and increases in morbidity. Proper hand hygiene takes minutes but is often overlooked or inproperly performed.[read more]

Gary Rost

Today, Gary Rost is here with me to talk about the Savannah Business Group and value-based purchasing. SBG is a business coalition that group purchases healthcare services for self-funded employers. They negotiate rates, services, and access with medical service providers on behalf of the members ot the coalition.[read more]

Kevin Palattao

This week, Kevin Palattao, Vice President of HealthPartners Clinics in Minnesota talks about HealthPartner's Virtuwell, an innovative online diagnostic and treatment service. Virtuwell is available 24/7 and will diagnose and treat illnesses, put patients in touch with a nurse practitioner and supply prescriptions if necessary.[read more]

Dr Ricardo Bello

Today, Dr Ricardo Bello, assistant professor in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City tells us about the GRRAM (Goal to Reduce Readmissions at Montefiore) Project. Dr Bello leads the Department’s quality assurance and performance improvement committee and through this committee, GRRAM was initiated to keep patients recovering from heart surgery from having to be re-admitted to the hospital.[read more]

Lawrence Cheskin, MD, FACP

Today, Lawrence Cheskin tells us about TRIMM, a mHealth weight management program at Johns Hopkins University. TRIMM is a controlled clinical trial under McKesson Foundation grant support that compares standard care, to standard care plus a semi-individualized mHealth program of 6-months' duration designed to assist overweight, inner city minority adults recruited through Baltimore churches to change diet and other lifestyle factors in order to lose weight.[read more]

Herbert Ong, CEO, Healthentic

Today, Herbert Ong, President and CEO of Healthentic talks about Corporate Wellness Programs and how Healthentic can help employers better manage workplace health.[read more]

John Holland

Today, John Holland, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Research at AMC Health, talks about patient telemonitoring. AMC Health's remote patient monitoring systems are used in chronic disease care, post-discharge programs and recently won FDA approval to be used in a clinical study.[read more]

Dr. Oliver Kharraz, Founder and COO, ZocDoc

Last week we heard about Nuance voice recognition software from Dr Nick van Terheyden. This week, Dr Oliver Kharraz tells us how ZocDoc helps match up patients who need Doctor appointments and Doctors who have last minute openings in their schedules.[read more]

Dr Nick van Terheyden

Today, Dr Nick van Terheyden talks about Nuance voice recognition system and how it improves physician/patient relationships, improves physician efficiency and therefore saves time and money for healthcare professionals and providers.[read more]

Dr. David Delaney, CMO, HealthCare, SAP

Last week, Dr David Albert showed us AliveCor's Mobile Heart Monitor for iPhone4 or 4S. This week, Dr David Delaney is here from SAP to talk to us about how SAP can help raise quality of care and help providers save time and money.[read more]