Leader to Leader: Filling the Talent Pipeline with Geoff Blanding
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Geoff Blanding, Executive Vice President, Optimum CareerPath and Implementation Services. Blanding discusses Optimum CareerPath’s partnership with CHIME to help high-aptitude, non-traditional students and workers train for careers in healthcare IT. As recruiting and retention become ever more challenging due to the tech talent war, Blanding encourages digital health… read more
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Leader to Leader: Getting to Interoperability with Ajay Kapare and Marc Probst
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leaders from ELLKAY: Ajay Kapare, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, and Marc Probst, Chief Information Officer. Kapare and Probst discuss ELLKAY’s unique five-segment effort to unify healthcare IT with interoperability for ambulatory, hospitals, labs, payers and vendors. The leaders weigh in on whether federal policy will help… read more
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Leader to Leader: “You Can’t Outsource Your Brain” with Paul M. Black and Zane Burke
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with two leading innovators in the healthcare industry: Zane Burke, CEO of Quantum Health, and Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts. Burke and Black discuss their secrets of success in leadership as well as the immense opportunity available for companies that can step in now to unify systems and data… read more
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Leader to Leader: Winning the Talent War with Laura O’Toole, SureTest
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Laura O’Toole about helpful strategies to win the “absolute talent war” that now grips the healthcare IT ecosystem. O’Toole suggests ways to retain staff by enabling them to do innovative and strategic work instead of staying in a reactive and tactical mode. She encourages digital health leaders to… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Ricky Caplin, CEO, The HCI Group and CEO, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Tech Mahindra
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Ricky Caplin about the move to remote work in the healthcare industry and leadership attitudes that aided the success of the merger between The HCI Group and Tech Mahindra. Caplin highlights uplifting ways in which the digital revolution is bringing better healthcare for people around the world.
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Leader to Leader Featuring Jeremy Brody, Head of Global Strategy, Cerner Enviza
In this podcast episode, Russ talks with Jeremy Brody about his work heading global strategy at a new unit of Cerner known as Cerner Enviza, which focuses on using advanced technology to support research in life sciences and therapeutics. Brody explains why this is a great time for innovation in healthcare, and how optimizing the… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Marc Potash, Founder and CEO, CERTIFY Global
In this podcast episode, John Kravitz, Chairman of the CHIME Board of Trustees and CIO of Geisinger Health, chats with Marc Potash, Founder and CEO, CERTIFY Global. John and Marc explore the challenges and potential of using facial recognition to confirm patient identity. Descriptions and real-life examples illustrate their discussions of increased accuracy, rapid workflow… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Mac McMillan, President and CEO, CynergisTek, Inc.
In this episode, Russ talks with Mac McMillan about his recent return to helm CynergisTek as President and CEO once again. McMillan draws on his years of experience in the military, in government and as a cybersecurity expert to lay out his three principles for leadership: Mission, Service, and Integrity. He highlights the crucial need… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Steven Martin, EVP, Enterprise Technology, Change Healthcare
In this podcast, Russ talks with Steven Martin about moving into the healthcare industry just at the onset of the pandemic, and how Change Healthcare worked to make data freely available to assist COVID research while protecting patient privacy. Martin highlights key elements in the ethical use of data, such as considering social determinants of… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Sean Kelly, MD, CMO, Imprivata
In this podcast, Russ talks with Dr. Sean Kelly about his work on the CHIME Opioid Task Force, and why the task force is more important than ever as the pandemic increases addiction triggers and overdoses. Kelly also talks about the crucial role of digital identity in a rapidly changing healthcare world, then gives a… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Dick Flanigan, FACHE, SVP, Cerner Corporation
In this podcast episode, Dick Flanigan talks with Russ about why “this is the decade we’ve all been waiting for” in healthcare as digital transformation opens up unprecedented possibilities. Flanigan describes the change in EMRs as they become a platform for dynamic innovation and outlines some of the measures that Cerner has taken to support… read more
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Leader to Leader Featuring Carter Groome, CHISL, CFCHE, CEO of First Health Advisory
In this podcast, Carter Groome talks with Russ about the crucial need for action on cybersecurity both from the private sector and in public policy. Groome reveals why he strongly advocates for government incentives to increase cyber resilience in healthcare, the most critical component of our national infrastructure. Find out why medical devices present peculiar… read more
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