Informonster Podcast Clinical Architecture
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Welcome to the Informonster Podcast, a podcast about the Healthcare IT industry hosted by Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture. This podcast fosters an educational and professional discussion about healthcare information technology, including events in the industry, interviews with thought leaders, and much more! Have a topic you want discussed on the podcast? Email us at informonster@clinicalarchitecture.com.
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Episode 28: Documentation in the OR with AORN
In this episode of The Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity, Inc., (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) with over 25 years of informatics experience. Janice shares how AORN is working to enhance workflows with surgical schedules and perioperative nursing. She also gives insights into how AORN collaborates with healthcare institutions to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to new procedures, CPT codes, and preference cards.
Charlie and Janice explore the unexpected ways data quality impacts healthcare and how AORN's contributions are helping healthcare professionals maintain the gold standard in procedure lists and standard terminologies.
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Episode 27: How Datapult is Tackling the Challenge of Electronic Lab Reporting
In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp sits down with Patina Zarcone, Director, and Millie Malai, Technical Project Manager of Datapult, an APHL company. They discuss how Datapult and Clinical Architecture came together to create a system that would get lab data to public health faster, especially during the pandemic. They discuss the impact of this system on the timeliness of data for emerging infectious diseases, and how converting data from CSV to HL7 v2.5.1 was a game changer to ensure that public health received the highest quality data.
About Patina Zarcone
Patina (Zarcone) Gagne serves as the Association of Public Health Laboratories’ (APHL) Director of Datapult, a new APHL company, and has been with APHL approaching 21 years. When joining APHL in 2003, Patina was the only informatics staff member focused primarily on helping governmental public health laboratories acquire laboratory information management systems. Today, she is running Datapult, a company that made a major impact on the pandemic by reporting COVID laboratory results electronically to public health. Prior to her tenure at APHL, Patina worked first in biotechnology as a bench scientist in gene therapy for Biogen Inc., in Cambridge MA then went on to work for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, State Laboratory Institute helping run operations for the mosquito borne disease surveillance program.
Patina has an undergraduate degree (BA) in Biology from Boston University and a Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH), specializing in Health Service Administration also from Boston University.
Patina lives in Newbury, MA right next to the Atlantic ocean with her husband, Joel Gagne Esq. and 4 children.
About Millie Malai
Millie is the Technical Project Manager for Datapult and oversees technical development and implementation across Datapult’s service, including Expanded ELR. She has been in the field of public health informatics for over a decade, with experience in syndromic surveillance systems, laboratory information systems, immunization registries, electronic laboratory reporting, and health data interoperability. She holds a Master of Public Health with a concentration in applied public health informatics from Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health.
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Episode 26: Discussing Data Quality with Charlie Harp
On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie discusses the importance of data quality and how it impacts the results of any analysis or decision-making process. He also shares insights from our inaugural survey which indicates that the industry recognizes the importance of data quality but acknowledges that it is a challenging effort.
Download the Data Quality Survey Report here: https://clinicalarchitecture.com/data-quality-survey/
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Episode 25: The CDC Shares the Success of Collaboration During a Crisis
In this episode Charlie Harp talks with Lori Moore, Public Health Analyst and Stuart Myerburg, Informatics Team Lead with the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) group, as they discuss what it’s like managing data around vaccines, the challenges they faced and opportunities they discovered while going through the COVID-19 crisis.
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Episode 24: Standardizing Health Data with OMOP's Common Data Model
On this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie provides a high-level primer on Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP). He also discusses terminologies and adding data into an OMOP data repository. To learn more about OMOP please visit ohdsi.org.
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Episode 23: Discussing Gender Harmony
On this episode of the Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp is joined by Janet Campbell, Software Developer and Vice President of Patient Engagement at Epic, Chris Grasso, Chief Information Officer at Fenway Health and Carol Macumber, Executive Vice President at Clinical Architecture to discuss the HL7 Gender Harmony Project.
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Thanks for listening!