This Week in Health Tech
This Week in Health Tech podcast is a health technology podcast. Podcast features Vik Patel, a health technology veteran and CEO of Tido Inc. (A Trusted Tech Partner for Healthcare Organizations) and industry experts. Our shows provide commentary, news, and perspective on the latest trends in health tech and features seasoned experienced industry experts. All of our shows are free. TWIHT is supported by advertising. We limit the number of ads on each show, and we only accept advertising from companies whose products or services benefit our audience.
Episodes
Imagine a hospital corridor lined with open doors and a chorus of hotel bells, each ring a patient hoping to be found. That’s the picture Julie Dearinger Smith paints from real stories of downtime, the moments when networks collapse, call systems fail, and teams fight to deliver safe care without the tools they rely on. Julie brings two decades in clinical informatics atop years at the bedside, and she turns that expe...
Guest: Dr. Robb Kruklitis, Chief Clinical Officer at Guthrie Clinic
Host: Vik Patel
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik welcomes Dr. Robb Kruklitis, Chief Clinical Officer at Guthrie Clinic.
In this episode, Vik sits down with Dr. Robb Kruklitis to explore Guthrie Clinic’s innovative remote patient monitoring (RPM) initiative for chronic disease management. The project focuses on centralizing vital signs an...
Guest: Shane Rodabaugh, System VP of IT & Infrastructure, Baptist Health KY & IN
Host: Vik Patel
In this episode, Vik welcomes Shane Rodabaugh to discuss infrastructure modernization, cloud strategy, AI readiness, and leadership in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment.
They begin with a look at Baptist Health’s current infrastructure—a hybrid model with Epic EHR hosted on-premise and new efforts like C...
Guest: Lance Alston, Director of IT, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home
Host: Vik Patel
On this episode, Vik welcomes Lance Alston, Director of IT at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home, for a candid conversation on leading with resilience, trust, and innovation in a resource-constrained healthcare environment.
Lance shares how he’s successfully navigating the “do more with less” challenge, emphasizing...
Vik sits down with the one and only Dr. Michelle Flemmings — ER doc, health tech leader, and all-around powerhouse. 💥
In this episode, she gets real about:
⚡ What it’s really like working with AI in the ER
🤯 How CIOs and CMIOs can calm the chaos around AI adoption
🚫 AI Hype vs. reality
💪 Her mission to elevate women in healthcare leadership
It’s smart, it’s real, and it’s surprisingly fun.
Give it a listen — you’ll...
James Wellman, VP and CIO of Nathan Littauer Hospital & Nursing Home, and Vik Patel, COO of Tido, as they explore advancing data integration, operational efficiency, and patient care. Learn what happens when a healthcare IT partnership transcends traditional vendor relationships to become a true team extension, and discover how trust-based partnerships drive success in healthcare IT. Don't miss this engaging ...
Vik Patel, COO at Tido Inc. joins Sarah for the news. Vik shares his journey from hospital IT to founding Tido Inc., discussing the nuanced challenges of integrating AI and the role of strong governance frameworks in avoiding unintended biases. Together, we tackle questions of strategic prioritization, from the intricacies of data migration and legacy archiving to the pressing need for reliable, responsive tech solut...
In this episode of This Week In Health Tech, Vik Patel welcomes Mark Farrow, a CIO veteran with experience of leading IT teams at large academic health systems and also community health system. This episode is very in-depth real world discussions about data challenges, AI governance and interoperability in healthcare.
Mark starts out sharing his background and how he got started working in a hospital. Vik and Mark...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik Patel, COO, Tido Inc. welcomes James Wellman, VP-CIO at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home. They discuss topic of achieving operational excellence using the right combination of data, integration, AI, and resources.
Healthcare organizations can drive operational efficiency through strategic use of data and AI tools by:
- Establishing a strong d...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech episode, Vik welcomes Kevin Smith, AVP, Digital Health, Baptist Health.
We focus on impact of AI in healthcare marketing.
We start out talking about future AI phones and Google, Search Generative Experience SGE.
Kevin provides some background of Baptist Health digital properties and how sites were amalgamated from every hospital having their own sites to centra...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech podcast, we welcome Barry Wallace, digital communications specialist at East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
We start out by discussing a marketing / digital communications team structure and then content generation. Vik and Barry discuss if ChatGPT AI tools help with content generation. AI could give a starting point but at this point that is what it is, get ideas ...
In this episodes of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss digital health strategy for healthcare organizations.
They dive into different categories for digital health: virtual care, accessing health information, interoperability, innovation.
For virtual care, organizations need to now consider remote patient monitoring on top of telehealth visits. This requires appropriate infrastructure updates to ...
In this episode of This week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss HIMSS23 conference and insights gained at the conference.
The main highlight at the conference was Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
Vik and John discuss few AI implementations in Healthcare including Epic, Microsoft, Google, Nuance, and more.
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In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss healthcare financial challenges as they grapple with inflation, staffing shortages, and low margins.
85% of health system leaders expect staffing challenges to significantly impact 2023 strategies.
Vik and John discuss how do you mitigate these challenges. One way is to maximize operational efficiency with automation and digital too...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Johnathan Klaus to cohost the episode. John is an experienced nurse and has worked in large academic medical center for many years in the cardiac department. He brings wealth of clinical knowledge to the team and we welcome him to cohost the podcast. Jimmy Kim is obviously still around and will be returning soon.
In this episode we focus on freeing up c...
Vik and Jimmy focus on digital health and end-to-end monitoring of applications in this episode of This Week in Health Tech.
Vik talks about strategy for digital transformation: managing digital apps, integrating digital apps, and supporting digital apps on an ongoing basis.
Vik also mentions that healthcare organizations have requested not only automated monitoring but also 24/7 support to go along with the ...
This episode of This Week in Health Tech focuses on one of the biggest tech conferences of North America, Collision Conference 2022. Collision attracts people from more than 125 countries and more than 35000 people.
Vik shares the stories meeting the brightest minds in tech and innovative companies. Very different than the other healthcare tech conferences.
Crowd at the conference was definitely very mixed ...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on keeping healthcare uninterrupted: 24/7 end to end monitoring of applications and integration between applications.
Vik and Jimmy start out with discussing working from home and hybrid working.
Because of digital transformation and increasing number of mobile and web applications, it is becoming a bigger challenge for healthcare organization...
For the month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation. In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation.
Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. Testing is underrated and not something organizations think about but it should b...
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy chat about the latest health tech news including telehealth and in-person hybrid healthcare.
Telehealth is not just a pandemic trend, and it is here to stay. Healthcare is increasingly hybrid with in-person and telehealth visits.
At the beginning of the pandemic in 2019-2020, healthcare organizations were struggling with telehealth, however over the ...
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