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This Week in Health TechFrom Dashboards to Doorsteps: Guthrie’s Vision for Proactive Patient CareSend us a textGuest: Dr. Robb Kruklitis, Chief Clinical Officer at Guthrie ClinicHost: Vik PatelIn 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 and biometric data from patients at home—particularly those with conditions like congestive heart failure—to enable timely interventions and reduce readmissions.Dr...2025-07-1525 min
This Week in Health TechThe Agile Health System: Infrastructure, AI, and Leadership in MotionSend us a textGuest: Shane Rodabaugh, System VP of IT & Infrastructure, Baptist Health KY & IN Host: Vik PatelIn 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 Cogito Cloud moving to Microsoft Fabric. This transition lays the foundation for advanced analytics and future AI capabilities.Vik and Shane expl...2025-05-1637 min
This Week in Health TechDoing More with Less: Candid Insights on AI, Team Culture & TrustSend us a textGuest: Lance Alston, Director of IT, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home Host: Vik PatelOn 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 the importance of trust — both within his team and with external partners. While vendor partnerships can be highly benefici...2025-05-0250 minThis Week in Health TechCode AI: Real Talk from the ER to the CMIO's Desk—On Tech, Trust & Trailblazing Women in Health ITSend us a textVik 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 leadershipIt’s smart, it’s real, and it’s surprisingly fun. Give it a listen — you’ll learn and laugh a little.#HealthTe...2025-04-1045 min
This Week in Health TechHow trust-based partnerships drive success in healthcare ITSend us a textJames 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 solution showcase.This transcription is provided by artificial intelligence. We believe in technology but understand that even the smartest robots can sometimes get speech recognition wrong.[: 00:00:00Are...2025-03-1332 min
This Week in Health TechPractical AI, Data Governance, and Tech modernization with Sarah Richardson, This Week HealthSend us a text 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 solutions in high-stakes clinical environments. Through the lens of real-world applications, the episode raises important considerations about balancing innovation with practicality in healthcare IT.K...2024-12-1233 min
This Week in Health TechThe Data Dilemma: AI, Governance, and Interoperability in Healthcare with a CIO VeteranSend us a textIn 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 talk about data challenge in health systems, starting with challenge of making sense of the big data. Mark makes a comment that health systems...2024-11-1842 min
This Week in Health TechDriving Operational Excellence in Health Systems: Strategic Alignment of AI, Data, and ResourcesSend us a textIn 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 data governance framework with clear ownership, standardized processes, and engaging subject matter experts across the organization.Transitioning to a robust, cloud-based data architecture that ensures dat...2024-10-1532 minThis Week in Health TechFuture-Forward Healthcare Digital Engagement: Kevin Smith's Insights on AI Strategies and Life Beyond Google AnalyticsSend us a textIn 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 centrally managed digital websites and apps. Vik and Kevin then dig into the HHS's highlighting concern last year for using Google Analytics for analytics since...2024-02-0843 minThis Week in Health TechHow to adapt your web-mobile-social media digital strategy to changing landscapes?Send us a textIn 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 but not necessarily use AI for generating and publishing content without review. There is also legitimate concern because generative AI creates is not always accurate and...2023-08-3139 minThis Week in Health TechDigital Health StrategySend us a textIn 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 support these remote monitoring apps. Vik and John discuss challenges associated with virtual care today. John and Vik then discuss interoperability updates required to support digital health and allowing different applications to easily access appr...2023-07-2844 minThis Week in Health TechHIMSS23 Conference Insights: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcareSend us a textIn 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. Website: http://www.thisweekinhealthtech.comTwitter: @TWIHT1Tido Inc.: https://www.tidoinc.com/Twitter: @TIDOINCLinkedin: Vik PatelTido Inc. The Trusted Tech Partner for Healthcare. We use technology...2023-05-0334 minThis Week in Health TechHow can health systems maximize operational efficiency using digital tools and minimize lost revenue? *Special Offer* in this episode for Health Systems.Send us a textIn 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 tools that reduce workforce pressures, streamline handling of application and integration issues. These monitoring tools leverage real-time technology to drive improvements and minimize lost revenue!*** SPECIAL OFFER *** Free...2023-04-1038 minThis Week in Health TechAssure smooth operations for clinicians using applications & integration monitoring technologySend us a textVik 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 monitoring subscription. Jimmy inquires about the 24/7 support and if it is actually supported by human support staff. Vik confirms that support is actual trained application and integration support team. B...2022-09-2726 min