Accumen's Healthcare Performance Insider Podcast

Jeff Sorenson started his career as an imaging field engineer more than 25 years ago and recently served as CEO of TeraRecon, the leader in medical advanced visualization and artificial intelligence solutions. After one discussion, this is what we know about Jeff Sorenson: he loves what he does, he lives in his work, he remains curious at all times and he believes in being dissatisfied with last year’s work.

Dr. Vachon credits his success to some great advice he received from a teacher: “be the best learner in the room and keep it simple.” It’s a maxim that he has followed diligently as a physician and healthcare leader, from his time in medical school to his career in the Navy. During his military... service, he was a flight surgeon with the Marine Corps deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2009. He returned to focus on radiology, where he became fascinated with machine learning. Recently the Healthcare Performance Insider caught up with Dr. Vachon and learned more about why he describes himself as a radiologist, informatic-ist, medical imaging domain expert, and machine learning enthusiast.

In this episode HPI connects with Mike Hostetler, Director of Marketing and Sales for Imbio. Imbio uses artificial intelligence to look at different patterns or anomalies in medical images, primarily focusing on CT scans of the chest. Their software essentially trains computers to recognize diseases that humans have previously determined to be present in patients with that specific disease, using thousands of patient scans, to help radiologists find diseases that are difficult to see with the human eye.

Bill Phillips, COO of Spectrum Solutions discusses with HPI the race to develop the first approved saliva collection device for COVID-19. In this episode Bill dives into how they grew the company from 94 to 750 employees.

In this episode of the Healthcare Performance Insider Podcast Dr. Irwin Gross, Jason Carney, and Tiffany Hall, industry pioneers provide their unique experiences with managing anemia and how it improves patient care and outcomes. Tune in to hear how having an anemia management program in place at hospitals and health systems can improve patient outcomes and in turn help hospitals and health systems.

HPI had a chance to catch up with Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP is a renowned Anesthesiologist and Patient Blood Management expert. During this episode Dr. Shander gave an overview down the path of his career and the importance of blood management.

Pierre Mouawad, MBA, is the laboratory director at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, NY, part of Northwell Health. He has been a lab leader for the past 8 years and is now the Laboratory Director of Lenox Hill Hospital. HPI had a chance to catch up with Pierre recently to learn about how service-line lab leaders are defining pandemic response and making a dramatic impact.

In this episode with Jon Harol, President of Lighthouse Lab Services provides his insight into building the largest group of medical lab scientists in the world and how he and the organization expanded its reach, review opportunities to meet market needs, and identifying three challenges that he literally built his business around. Tune in to listen to those challenges!

In this final episode of 2020 Mara reflects back on all of the myths discussed in this series and what we could have done better. It really all comes down to testing, policy and going back to work, safely. Tell us what you'd like to know about diagnostics in the New Year at [email protected]!

In this episode, HPI connects with Joseph Savoie Director of Imaging at Keck Medicine of USC. Joseph shares his experiences of being in a new role at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic and the lessons learned from leading through a crisis.