Season 6
Megan Haas is taking a Holistic Approach to Connecting People Across Generations
Today Joy talks with Megan Haas, founder of Kinnected.org, a free social-health sanctuary that supports community resilience through building stable, purposeful, peer to peer connection. She’s really on to something - not only did Megan and I really connect in this conversation, but Joy also joined ...
Fran Ayalasomayajula Leads Large-Scale Significantly Meaningful Initiatives
In this episode, we talk with Fran Ayalasomayajula, President of Reach, a social impact organization on a mission to make a meaningful impact for both providers and patients. Her current work crosses the chasms of maternal health as well as virtual reality therapeutics. One thing that’s certain is s...
Nicole Cameron works to improve access to healthcare to remote areas of Australia
Nicole Cameron, Professional Services Director, InterSystems in New Zealand and Australia. She currently oversees the implementation of their EHR into remote areas in the Northern Territory of Australia in large part to support the indigenous people. One funny thing about her is that she and her hus...
Dr. Nada Elbuluk Helps Physicians Enhance Diagnostic Accuracy
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nada Elbuluk who is a board-certified dermatologist and associate professor at the USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology. She also the Director of Clinical Impact for Visual Dx, a clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accur...
Holly Hockemeier Addresses Physician Burnout Through Liberating Them From the Keyboard
Today's guest is Holly Hockemeier, Regional Vice President for Healthcare Provider Solutions at Nuance Communications. Her work helps reduce physician burnout through liberating providers from the keyboard. In this episode we talk about deep machine learning AI, speech to text technology, and how th...
Jody DeVere Breaks Down Barriers for Women in the Automotive Industry
Jody DeVere, CEO of AskPatty has been breaking down barriers for women in a male-dominated automotive industry for most of her career. Not only does she serve as a mentor for countless women, offering expert car advice, but she also helped create the Certified Female Friendly car buying experience, ...
Jess Jowdy Gets Excited by Making Data Actionable for Clinicians and Patients
The InterSystems internship program interviews newcomers to determine which projects best align with their personality and goals. That's how Jess Jowdy, Manager of Healthcare Sales Engineering found her job as a technical liaison between clients and internal colleagues at InterSystems. If it wasn't ...
Rachael Jones Embraces Change and Gravitates Toward Complexity
As the SVP for Performance and Analytics for Cotiviti, Rachael Jones leads advanced analytics teams that focus on medical costs, provider economics, network management, and value-based care. Her work looks at a continuum of data to see how poverty, food scarcity, having a place to live and access to...
Dr. Juliette McClendon Talks Digital Therapeutics for Stress, Sleep, and Anxiety
Stress is a driver of health challenges. The more stress we experience, the more it impacts our health. In this episode, Dr. Juliette McClendon, clinical psychologist and Director of Medical Affairs at Big Health discusses the impact of discrimination related stress on racial and ethnic health dispa...
Didi Davis Has Spent Her Career Moving the Needle Toward Interoperability
Didi Davis, VP, Informatics, Conformance & Interoperability at The Sequoia Project, has journeyed through 30 years of the health information technology landscape trying to improve healthcare standards so that we can have ubiquitous exchange of information when and where it's needed. In this episode ...