How can healthcare facilities ensure that the right drug is going to the right patient, through the right route, with the right dose, at the right time? These five “rights” of medication administration get to the heart of infusion system safety. Marilyn Neder Flack, senior vice president of patient safety initiatives at AAMI and director of the AAMI Foundation, and Deborah Pasko, director of medication safety and quality at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), talk about the incredible progress that’s been made on this front—and how more work is needed in areas such as drug library management and user-friendly design practices. Sponsored by Smiths Medical. – See more at: http://www.aami.org/newsviews/Podcasts.aspx?navItemNumber=791#sthash.QKaJ6EYn.dpuf
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 and his broad view into healthcare organizations around the country, to help us explore balancing usability and security in the demanding world of Healthcare.
We discuss balancing usability, mobility, security and the challenges of BYOD in delivering Clinical applications to those caring for our patients.
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AAMI Podcast 14: The education of Healthcare Technology Management Professionals.
What does it take to produce a top-notch healthcare technology management (HTM) professional? Two highly respected educators in the HTM world—Barbara “Barb” Christe of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Frank Painter of the University of Connecticut—talk about the different types of HTM professionals, the academic expectations for each, and how the constantly evolving world of healthcare technology is placing new demands on students and educators alike. The two guests reveal the one thing each would like to change about the education of HTM professionals. Please note that AAMI has several complimentary HTM educational and career resources available at www.aami.org/career.
HTT 48- Meeting the needs of Population Health Management with Health IT.
Director of Payer and Life Sciences for HIMSS, Shelley Price, 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 within them.
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AAMI Podcast 13- Cybersecurity in Healthcare Technology
With hospital data breaches—and stiff fines—on the rise and a growing black market for patient information, cybersecurity is one of the more pressing issues in healthcare technology. How can healthcare facilities keep patient information secure? How vulnerable are medical devices to attacks by hackers? Ken Hoyme, a distinguished scientist at Adventium Labs, and Izabella Gieras, director of clinical technology at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, CA, discuss the cybersecurity challenge with host Terry Baker. In a wide-ranging conversation, they offer both practical advice and a big-picture assessment of the changing landscape.
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HTT Episode 47- Cognitive Health; Can technology help in the fight against Alzheimer’s, dementia and more?
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 MyCognition.
Cognition, defined briefly as the ability to think, learn, respond, and remember, is a crucial issue in healthcare today because of an increasingly aging population and diagnoses of dementia, attention disorders, learning disorders, and anxiety at all-time highs.
What is your CQ? MyCQ™, short for cognition quotient, is an assessment tool developed by UK company MyCognition for measuring cognitive functioning. It is the mission of MyCognition to measure and improve cognitive health. In addition to its MyCQ assessment tool, MyCognition brings a range of training products that have been specifically developed to enhance the thinking, learning and memory processes. Learn about how this exciting technology is showing cognitive health improvements in schools, workplaces, and the healthcare sector.
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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 healthcare. How does one keep up and create a strategy to leverage this technology, either as an organization or an individual? In this episode we talk with Jennifer Kent, Ph.D., Director of Research Quality and Product Development and Parks Associates about this exciting sector of health devices.
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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 the Star Trek tricorder, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. With the ability to diagnose 15 serious illnesses and monitor 5 different vital signs, this device will far surpass anything available today to the average consumer or anyone for that matter. Whether used at home or in a remote village where healthcare is scarce, this Digital Health tool is about to go from science fiction to science fact. Today we talk with Grant Campany and Rick Valencia about how the XPRIZE process from inspiration to the awarding of the prize and what they hope to achieve with through these grand endeavors. Tricorder.xprize.org
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AAMI Podcast 12: Bridging the gap between the Hype and Reality of Digital Health.
In this special podcast, hosts Terry Baker and Kelley Hill are in Denver, CO., interviewing a presenter at AAMI’s Annual Conference & Expo. Gunnar Trommer, principal for digital health at BCG Digital Ventures, talks about bridging the gap between the promise and reality of digital health. Trommer sees incredible potential in the ability of digital health to bring about “more timely and more personalized care,” but there are considerable hurdles. Chief among them is the fact that the healthcare landscape remains fragmented and proprietary in nature. How can the dream be achieved? Trommer shares his ideas.
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HTT 43- Electrical Safety in Healthcare facilities.
Electrical Safety, is this 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 fact an entire career field was launched over concerns that thousands of patients were being harmed due to electrical shocks from the very medical equipment that was meant to help them. Our guest Matt Baretich, author of the latest AAMI Electrical Safety Manual, joins us for an interview recorded “Live” at AAMI 2015.
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