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Perspectives on Health and Tech is a podcast by Oracle, where we have conversations on creating a seamless and connected healthcare world where everyone thrives.

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Perspectives on Health and Tech is a podcast by Oracle, where we have conversations on creating a seamless and connected healthcare world where everyone thrives.

    Healthcare Predictions 2024

    Healthcare Predictions 2024

    Healthcare is ever evolving and new trends and tech capabilities are on the horizon for 2024 and beyond. What should healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients be prepared for? How might healthcare delivery and operations be impacted? Listen in as two leaders from Oracle and Deloitte Consulting LLP dive in and share their perspectives from industry clouds and AI adoption to burnout, workforce shortages, rising costs, consumerism, and more.  

    Featuring:  
    Hashim Simjee, Principal, Global Oracle Healthcare Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP 
    Sarah Matt, M.D., MBA, Vice President of Oracle Health Product Strategy 
    Hear them talk about: 
    Healthcare organizations adopting industry clouds (1:30) 
    Utilizing AI to improve operations, support caregivers, and make diagnoses (4:32) 
    How AI adoption can help free clinicians’ time, improve clinician workflows, and decrease burnout (6:49) 
    A recent JAMA study comparing empathetic responses of physicians and chatbots and how AI, augmentation, and telemedicine could help offload clinician workload and address workforce shortages (9:02) 
    Consumerization of patient care and how tech can help (11:23) 
    Interoperability, and accurate and accessible patient data’s potential to influence health outcomes for populations disproportionately affected by social determinants of health (14:15)  
    How to make use of IoT with data from wearables and hospital at home (16:54) 
    How tech innovation can make a difference in healthcare’s biggest challenges this year (18:05) 
    Notable quotes: 
    “You can’t replace the bedside manner, you can’t replace the empathy for a clinician, but you can replace the components around pulling together information and coming back with a reasonable diagnostic that can be done and that has to be reasonable and validated.”  – Hashim Simjee 

    “So what we're really looking at is, as we think about AI and access—we really want to start to think about equitable access and using technology to drive easier access for consumers.” - Hashim Simjee 

     
    Learn more about how Oracle is connecting healthcare with cloud capabilities through products and solutions. 

    Watch on-demand and live webcasts by registering for Oracle Health Inside Access. 

    Check out Deloitte’s 2024 Global Health Care Sector Outlook. 

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    Episode Transcript:
     
     
     
    00;00;00;11 - 00;00;23;18 
    Sarah Matt 
    You're listening to Perspectives on Health and Tech, a podcast by Oracle with conversations about connecting people, data and technology to help improve health for everyone. We're at the start of another new year, and I can't help but be curious about what's coming in the health care industry in 2024 and beyond. More specifically, the tech capabilities and trends that are ramping up to support health care delivery and operations. 
    00;00;23;29 - 00;00;42;20 
    Sarah 
    Now, Deloitte published a 2020 for Global Health Care Sector Outlook report that shared several key trends that are anticipated to make quite a splash in the future of health care delivery. And I'm excited to dive in and hear more. So with that, I'll introduce our guest speaker with us today, Hashim Simjee. Hashim, introduce yourself a little bit. 
    00;00;43;26 - 00;01;04;19 
    Hashim 
    Thanks, Dr. Matt. Great to be here with you. The way to help your practice, primarily focusing on technology and health in the intersection of health care. And I'm responsible for our global Oracle health care practice, including clinical plan analytics, HRA, HCM, ERP. So happy to be here with you today. 
    00;01;05;03 - 00;01;23;05 
    Sarah 
    Nice. We're happy to have you. You know, in our last podcast, we discussed cloud tech for health care. And looking at this year's health care predictions, I was really excited to see that in a recent report published by the International Data Corp.. So I see that 7

    • 18 min
    Connected healthcare: The value of cloud

    Connected healthcare: The value of cloud

    It’s no secret: healthcare systems are overburdened—could cloud capabilities really provide some of the needed reprieve? Could the right data presented at the right time reduce costs and improve operations, ease the administrative burden on clinicians and payers, and help improve the patient experience? Two experts discuss use cases on cloud-enabled intuitive assistance, streamlining and vetting data, how cloud-enabled technologies are benefiting the whole patient experience, and more.
    Featuring:  
    Michelle Flemmings, M.D., industry executive director, Healthcare North America Cloud Infrastructure 
    Sarah Matt, M.D., vice president of Oracle Health product strategy
    Hear them talk about:  
    •    What’s going on in the healthcare industry right now (0:24)
    •    Using cloud and other technologies to improve workplace experience and retain healthcare workers (1:15)
    •    Challenges and concerns when moving from rules-based applications and tools to more predictive forecasting and AI (2:54)
    •    Working with clients going through the transition of bringing together disparate data sources separated by geography, organization, privacy, and security (4:27)
    •    Harnessing cloud capabilities for clinical trials (7:24)
    •    How to build trust around privacy and security for cloud and AI—and how cloud can be a secure mechanism to bring forth that trust (10:05)
    •    Opportunities in leveraging the cloud for healthcare (14:24)
    Notable quotes:  
    “I think that cloud has a great availability of information, but it also has the functionality whereby it can hopefully look at the system overall, if it's dialed in right, and then predict what's necessary and then take out the rest of the chaos. You know, taking in the signal and taking out the noise.” – Michelle Flemmings
    “Now with the potential of AI using thoughtful implementation to support our providers from burnout, empower our patients to lead their healthcare teams, make those right decisions using trusted information that's fit for purpose, it changes the entire landscape.” – Michelle Flemmings
    “We need to make certain that we're not replacing that trust that has been in the provider relationships so long and then got compromised when we did start going digital. There's an opportunity here to rebuild that, and magnify that, and still broaden our ability to care for more patients.” – Michelle Flemmings
    Learn more about how Oracle is connecting healthcare with cloud capabilities through products and solutions.

    Watch on-demand and live webcasts by registering for Oracle Health Inside Access.
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    Episode Transcript:
    00:00:00 Dr. Sarah Matt
    You're listening to Perspectives on Health and Tech, a podcast by Oracle where we have conversations on creating a connected healthcare world where everyone thrives. I'm Dr. Sarah Matt. I'm the VP of Oracle Health product strategy. And with me today, I have Dr. Michelle Flemmings from our OCI team. So, Michelle, I know we've been hearing a lot about cloud capabilities for healthcare. Can you get us a bit of an overview of what's really going on in the industry right now?
    00:00:24 Dr. Michelle Flemmings
    Well, Sarah, thank you for that question. I have had the pleasure of meeting with a lot of our clients and being at several events recently and top of mind is cost containment especially with the economy as it is, and the cost continuing to rise. Second, a very close second, is achieving and maintaining operational efficiency that will help support that cost containment.
    00:00:44
    Things around process improvement, throughput, driving patient outcomes, improving quality performance as well. And then I think, honestly, the one that really surprised me the most is road mapping around the implementation of AI and wanting to establish the right partnerships in order to know that they're doing it in the right way.
    00:01:03 
    You

    • 16 min
    Techquity and suicide prevention

    Techquity and suicide prevention

    Mental health remains a significant area of concern in healthcare, especially after the pandemic. Universal screening tools, such as suicide risk assessment, have become a vital resource. One of the best ways to normalize mental health screening is by integrating it into your clinical electronic health record (EHR) workflow. However, with the influx in risk assessments, is your staff confident and prepared to handle the needs that arise? And does your organization have the infrastructure required to support those needs?
    While telehealth has alleviated part of the burden for providers, it has also exposed many ways technology can create barriers to care, especially for communities who are already at a disproportionate risk for suicide and addiction. So, how can we better coordinate care across the illness-wellness continuum? Join Danny Gladden and Dr. Sarah Matt as they discuss the progress and opportunities to support mental health and improve suicide prevention.
    Guests:
    Danny Gladden, director of behavioral health and social care, Oracle Health
    Dr. Sarah Matt, vice president of product strategy, Oracle Health
    Hear them talk about:
    Education and training for physicians regarding suicide assessment and prevention treatment (2:00) Suicide screening assessments and lack of staff resourcing and infrastructure to meet those needs (4:15) Crisis intervention training for first responders and the increased availability of mental health first aid (11:15) Telehealth doesn’t solve access to care issues—there’s still a gap in equity and barriers to care (13:00) Benefits of behavioral health data collected on digital record (15:15) Moving toward a consumer-focused patient experience (17:20) Suicide prevention resources (19:18) Learn more about Oracle Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Health solutions
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    Episode Transcript:
    00;00;00;00 - 00;00;30;09
    Danny Gladden:
    You're listening to Perspectives on Health and Tech, a podcast by Oracle, where we have conversations on creating a connected healthcare world where everyone thrives. Hi there. I'm Danny Gladden, clinical social worker, director of behavioral health and social care here for Oracle. Dr. Matt, so glad you are here.
    Dr. Sarah Matt:
    Thank you, Danny. I'm so excited. You know, when it comes to suicide prevention, I think there's so many problems that we could talk about, but I think there's also solutions and things we can do next.
     
    00;00;30;16 - 00;01;06;28
    Danny:
    So I'm excited that we're talking about this topic today. Yeah. And, you know, I think we've made some great progress. And I say we as the collective, we myself, I'm a clinical social worker that practices in mental health services. I've actually ran one of the National Suicide prevention lifelines, but suicide prevention takes all of us. And so, you know, I'm actually just curious, you know, you're a physician—think about your preparation into sort of medical school and residency.
     
    00;01;06;28 - 00;01;26;15
    And you know what does what did your preparation look like as a physician assessing for and treating suicide risk?
    Sarah:
    So I went to med school a long time ago, I will say, But when it comes to training, it was very traditional. So four years of med school. And then I did my residency in general surgery and my fellowship in Burns.
     
    00;01;26;17 - 00;01;56;05
    So I'd say that when you think about structured learning for mental illness, it was pretty scared. Most of it was around inpatient mental health services. So that's the rotations that we did in medical school. Now there was the small bits and pieces you may have gotten on your primary care rotation, but it really wasn't a focus. Now today are unclear how the clinical rotations are going and how the medical schools have changed their training.
     
    00;01;56;12 - 00;02;19;17
    But I would say that for the generations of doctors that are in my age category, it definitely

    • 19 min
    Keeping up with the No Surprises Act: good-faith estimates for self-pay patients

    Keeping up with the No Surprises Act: good-faith estimates for self-pay patients

    As part of the No Surprises Act, healthcare systems must now provide comprehensive good-faith estimates for the cost of care—both from their own organization (relatively easy) and from outside providers (much harder). Listen to industry leaders Seth Katz, University Health, and Josh Mast, Oracle Health, discuss with Jodi Busch, Oracle Health, the impacts of good-faith estimates on health organizations and how to use this phase as an opportunity to streamline workflows and better prepare your teams for the next iteration of the No Surprises Act.

    Featuring: 

    Seth Katz, Vice President of HIM and Revenue Cycle, Finance, University Health  
    Josh Mast, Director and Product Regulatory Strategist, Oracle Health  
    Jodi Busch, Senior Director of Financial Alignment Organization, Oracle Health  


    Hear them discuss: 

    An overview of this year’s iteration of the No Surprises Act (1:16) 
    How have these changes impacted safety net hospitals/organizations? (3:36) 
    How are schedulers at hospitals/organizations handling the increased duties of working good-faith estimates? (5:05) 
    Was it difficult to gain internal buy-in from your staff for these changes? (6:57) 


    Have you had any issues sending the good-faith estimates back to patients in the allotted time? (9:39) 
    Are there penalties for non-compliance? (10:59) 
    How does the enforcement discretion potentially impact the overall process? (13:29) 
    Where are you at in terms of combining providers inside and outside of the organization? (15:06) 
    What has been the response back from patients regarding good-faith estimates? (16:10) 


    What's coming next? (17:29) 

    Notable quotes: 

    “We have to remember that we work in healthcare to help take care of people and make them better and that the No Surprises Act, price transparency, information blocking are good things for the patients.” – Seth Katz 
    “At the end of the day, this is about trying to get patients and consumers information prior to receiving care so that they are better informed.” – Josh Mast 

    • 23 min
    TEFCA, record-location and benefits for providers and patients

    TEFCA, record-location and benefits for providers and patients

    In the US, big leaps have been made toward industry-wide interoperability in recent years. From establishing a standard set of health data that must be exchanged, to broadening the scope of the ban on information blocking—recent regulations have driven positive advancements to simplify health data sharing across vendors and venues of care.
     
    On top of all that, the Office of the National Coordinator and The Sequoia Project, the Recognized Coordinating Entity for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established under the 21st Century Cures Act, announced the first applications accepted for Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under the TEFCA. That short list included CommonWell Health Alliance, of which Cerner, 
    now Oracle Health, was a founding member nearly a decade ago. 


    This is a leap forward in achieving our vision for interoperability. Our shared goal with CommonWell joining TEFCA is to build a nationwide health information exchange, 
    leveraging a collaborative trade organization, that will help give patients access to their healthcare data regardless of where they receive care. 
     
    Listen in as we talk about the exciting progress toward nationwide interoperability and how it will benefit patients and providers.
     
    Featuring:
    Paul Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance
    Sam Lambson, Vice President of Interoperability, Oracle Health
     
    Hear them discuss:
    • TEFCA and what it means for advancing interoperability (2:10) 
    • Benefits of better information exchange for providers and patients (3:49)
    • How a record-location service is more accurate, efficient and secure than geo-locating like many systems use today (6:45)
    • When does TEFCA start affecting patients and providers at the point of care? (13:04)
    •How does TEFCA impact gaps between care, translating care, and settings of care, like telehealth? How does it affect patient engagement and involvement? (17:00)


    • Ways to learn more and ask questions (19:20) 
     
    Notable quotes: 
    "Me having my data is not just a toy. It’s not just I want the image because it’s interesting … I want the report. It’s that I want to manage my health, or that of my children, or my parents in a better way—which I think in the end is really going to benefit the provider." - Paul Wilder 

    "And think of mental health—it gets even more robust as we’re expanding services a lot right now. If we don’t do it efficiently, it’s going to get very expensive. And getting past all those administrative flows to get to the care you need at the level the person can do it in front of you—as opposed to what the data is allowing you to do—is, I think, really important." - Paul Wilder
     
    Resources
    TEFCA: A leap toward achieving nationwide interoperability Sequoia Project CommonWell Health Alliance Reacts to QHIN Application Approval

    • 21 min
    Evolution of the pager: Creating more effective care team communication and collaboration

    Evolution of the pager: Creating more effective care team communication and collaboration

    The very definition of healthcare communication has shifted over time. Today, fewer clinicians practicing at the bedside have highlighted the need for advanced communication tools and processes. 
    Join Jason Schaffer, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Indiana University Health and Liz Harvey, MSN, chief nursing officer at Oracle Health, as they discuss the evolution of clinical care team communications and how increased demand for healthcare has made better collaboration tools both a necessity and an opportunity for innovation.

    Hear them discuss:
    • How have trends in healthcare communication changed? (1:20)
    • What types of technology are now available for teams and what are the benefits for patients and caregivers? (3:21)
    • Important points teammates should agree on regarding critical communications (8:04)
    • Knowing your message responsibility and escalation paths in critical situations (12:35)
    • How to create flexibility with communication when needed (15:20)
    • How can a unified communication strategy help organizations proactively address system-wide challenges? (17:20)

    Notable quotes:
    “We should be separating technologies for the right speed and urgency of communication.” – Jason Schaffer, MD

    “We can’t solely rely on technology. We have to engage our brains and use the years and years of school that we have all spent learning how to be clinicians as we start to look as some of these messages that we receive and talk about the criticality.” – Liz Harvey, MSN
    Learn more about Oracle clinical communication and collaboration tools.

    • 20 min

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