Health Connect South

Shavon Richardson Blue Flowers Blue Flowers Org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization empowering women and the men in their lives against prostate cancer with operations in Georgia, Maryland and Virginia. Learn more by visiting www.blueflowers.org Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Blue Flowers Org, Shavonn is committed to living in a world in which no […] The post Blue Flowers appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Meeting the Nurse Staffing Shortage This week I caught up with Carol Robison, of Gifted Healthcare. Carol has been attracting nurses who are at the top of their specialties in experience, clinical knowledge, and credentials, and placing them with healthcare settings in need of additional nursing professionals for over 20 years. We connected to talk […] The post Meeting the Nurse Staffing Shortage appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Georgia Tech HomeLab I caught up with Georgia Tech's Dr. Brad Fain at the 2016 Health Connect South event. We talked about the innovative approach they are taking to evaluate how effectively older persons, particularly those with disabilities, are able to utilize a variety of technology solutions. It is not uncommon to learn that in […] The post Georgia Tech HomeLab appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Dan Cerutti 2016 Health Connect South Event I had the opportunity to sit down with several presenters and attendees at the 2016 Health Connect South event. On this week's show I share three segments with IBM Watson Health, VP of Population Health and Cognitive Decision Support, Dan Cerutti Dan Shook, National Park Service-Kittyhawk Jim Schwoebel, […] The post 2016 Health Connect South Event appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Pharmacogenetic Testing This week I connected with Vanderbilt University's Dr. Dan Roden to learn about pharmacogenetic testing. This tool provides physicians and other prescribing health professionals with individual-specific data about how a patient's body will respond to particular medications or types of medication. For example, a popular drug, Plavix, which is prescribed to reduce risk […] The post Pharmacogenetic Testing appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Complying with MACRA MCCI (Medical Care Consortium, Inc.) is a physician owned Medical Group who partners with Humana to engage Primary Care Provider offices successfully transition to a quality or value based model of care by providing practice support around quality related activities such as appropriate documentation and coding, care coordination, Patient Centered Medical Home […] The post Complying with MACRA appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Reducing Hospital-acquired Infections Jay and I sat down with Sam Perkins, CEO of Pūrgenix , a company that has developed a technology that enables healthcare organizations to contain, and in fact, reduce rates of occurrence of hospital-acquired infections. It is well known that pathogens such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile are challenging to treat and equally […] The post Reducing Hospital-acquired Infections appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

ChronicCareIQ This week Jay and I sat down with Matt Ethington, CEO of ChronicCareIQ to learn how this technology company is providing physicians and hospitals with tools that empower them to better manage patients with chronic illnesses. The Affordable Care Act has put in place measures around patient outcomes that can affect how much the […] The post ChronicCareIQ appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Insights in Healthcare Innovation Jay and I sat down with Glenn Pearson, of Pearson Health Tech Insights. Glenn’s background includes spending time in leadership roles in acute care hospital settings, as well as nearly 20 years with the Georgia Hospital Association. During his career he realized challenges companies with technology innovation solutions have when selling into […] The post Insights in Healthcare Innovation appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Health-ePeople We sat down with Satvinder “Pearly” Dhingra, founder of HealthePeople.com. HealthePeople is a platform where patients can aggregate their health information from a variety of sources, from wearable fitness devices to medical records, and have them available in a single portal. The users can opt to make their de-identified information available to clinical trials […] The post Health-ePeople appeared first on Business RadioX ®.