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Season 1 Episode 29 - Applying Lessons in RPA to Health Care Challenges
6 november 2020 · 14 min
If there's anything federal technologists can learn from RPA, it's that although it has widespread applicability in many different areas, there are commonalities in overcoming its challenges from which health care leaders can learn. Hear from health and defense leaders on how RPA is enabling mission success. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 28 - Data is Driving Johns Hopkins Researchers to Advance Public Health Information
22 oktober 2020 · 21 min
Jonathan Weiner, founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Population Health IT (CPHIT), discusses the application of big data to safeguard public health and manage care during the COVID-19 pandemic — including his work on the Population Health Segmentation Framework and the ongoing development of the JHU ACG System. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 27 - VHA Leader Talks Biomedical Advances, Health Care Innovation
21 oktober 2020 · 16 min
In this episode, Dr. Ryan Vega, executive director of the Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem (IE), discusses how the IE has been critical for advancing health care and biomedical advances within Veterans Affairs. Vega also discusses the upcoming VA Innovation Experience forum, a digital summit that brings together some of the most promising ideas developed within the IE this year. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 26 - Federal Leaders on Advancing Digital Health Amid COVID-19
15 oktober 2020 · 14 min
Check out this event recap episode on our Oct. 1 Digital Health Modernization virtual event to learn more about what agencies are doing to share data, expand access to health services, and improve patient care with digital health.
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Season 1 Episode 25 - VA's Digital Tool Enhances Patient Care During COVID-19
14 oktober 2020 · 16 min
To streamline patient access to care during the pandemic, the Department of Veterans Affairs developed a COVID-19 screening tool. Its creators, Presidential Innovation Fellow Dr. Kaeli Yuen and Digital Service Expert Patrick Bateman, outline the motivations behind creating the application, as well as how the VA's recent digital modernization push allowed for rapid programming and deployment of a product designed to safeguard the health of both veterans and VA caregivers. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 24 - NHLBI CIO Discusses How Tech is Accelerating COVID-19 Research
8 oktober 2020 · 17 min
In this episode, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute CIO Alastair Thomson explains how his agency is advancing international research related to COVID-19 with an expansive cloud-based ecosystem, called BioData Catalyst. Thomson also touches on how AI can improve patient health outcomes, the importance of diversity in research, agency funding opportunities and partnerships, and more. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 23 - FDA's Technology Modernization Vision
2 oktober 2020 · 29 min
Dr. Amy Abernethy, the principal deputy commissioner and acting CIO of the Food and Drug Administration, discusses the FDA's plans to update its data strategy and technology to move with the speed of scientific advancement. She also explains the importance of leveraging innovative technology like AI and blockchain, migrating to the cloud, and public-private partnerships supporting the agency's COVID-19 response efforts. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 22 - House, VA Leaders Highlight Digital Modernization
30 september 2020 · 17 min
If you missed the House Oversight and VA Digital Modernization event this month, catch up with these highlights as federal leaders discuss the tech successes behind the agency's telehealth, electronic health records, customer experience and more during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 21 - Understanding and Preventing Transgender Suicide
10 september 2020 · 24 min
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and while suicide rates have increased significantly in recent decades and has become one of the leading causes of death in America, the transgender and nonbinary communities are especially at risk for suicidal ideation and attempts. We spoke to Bri Barnett, Director of Development and Interim Director of Communications at Trans Lifeline, a non-profit trans suicide prevention hotline and trans microgrants resource center. They discussed causes behind trans suicide, online resources that support trans people, and how allies can uplift the trans community. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 20 - Inside DHA's Joint Trauma System COVID-19 Data Efforts
1 september 2020 · 27 min
Defense Health's Joint Trauma System built and maintained the Defense Department's Trauma Registry, updating it with data on various trauma injuries and informing best practices across the military health system. Recently, the JTS built out a COVID-19 registry, and we spoke with JTS Chief Col. Stacy Shackelford and Deputy Chief Dr. Mary Ann Spott to learn more about how they scaled to build a COVID-19 registry and how they extrapolate analyses from the data within the registry. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 19 - Innovative Entrepreneurship for VHA's COVID-19 Response
26 augustus 2020 · 23 min
Veterans Affairs Innovation Ecosystem's entrepreneur-in-residence Danielle Krakora details how the division is supporting the agency's wider COVID-19 response. Krakora has served across VA to elevate the patient experience through technology.
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Season 1 Episode 18 - Federal Leaders Discuss Promise of AI in Public Health
24 augustus 2020 · 15 min
We gathered leading health researchers, data analysts, and AI experts from across the federal government to see how they're using AI for biomedical research and contributing to the pandemic response. Throughout these conversations, officials highlighted that as nice as it is to pedestal the potential of AI technologies, you can't get there without getting a handle on your data first. Here are the highlights from the Aug. 13 event featuring speakers from NIH, DHA, DARPA and more. Check out the full event coverage at https://governmentciomedia.com/event/artificial-intelligence-new-horizons-medicine Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 17 - COVID-19 Data and Global Cancer Control with NCI's Dr. Satish Gopal
21 augustus 2020 · 26 min
In this episode, NCI's Center for Global Health Director Satish Gopal discusses how the agency is leading cancer control research, innovative technology efforts and collaborative networks to ensure cancer services are accessible, effective and affordable. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 16 - Expanding Diversity in Genomic Medicine Through NHGRI's eMERGE Network
13 augustus 2020 · 25 min
Dr. Ken Wiley and Dr. Robb Rowley from NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute provide an overview of the agency's eMERGE Network, a national network of medical institutions and clinical sites advancing genomic medicine. The federated network is using large-scale data analytics and informatics on patient DNA and their electronic medical records to improve health outcomes for those with common diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. In this interview, they discuss the importance of diversity in clinical research, FHIR APIs and interoperability standards, security and patient privacy, cloud-based platforms, natural language processing and more. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 15 - NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Science Associate Director Paul Jacobsen
7 augustus 2020 · 22 min
Dr. Paul Jacobsen details how the National Cancer Institute is using evidence-based research around health care delivery services to improve cancer care. He also discusses the main challenges and opportunities for telehealth, including HIPAA and provider reimbursement policies, regional disparities in broadband internet access, and effectively utilizing remote patient monitoring devices for improved health outcomes. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 14 - Mike Tartakovsky, CIO, NIAID
14 juli 2020 · 22 min
With a career beginning at the NIH National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases in 2003, CIO Mike Tartakovsky said the desire to share knowledge and collaborate among researchers, federal agencies and private partners is higher now than he's ever seen before. Tartakovsky discusses various biomedical resources and technological efforts the agency has launched to help researchers access and share COVID-19 and infectious disease data during this time. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 13 - Dr. Josh Denny, CEO, All of Us, NIH
9 juli 2020 · 23 min
Dr. Joshua Denny has been part of the NIH All of Us research program since its beginning, dedicating his work to improving patient care through the advancement of precision medicine. Since All of Us aims to collect and study health data from at least a million people in the U.S. to advance precision medicine, Denny discusses the role of electronic health records, how the program protects participant privacy and, most recently, how the program is pivoting efforts to make discoveries about COVID-19. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 12 - VA Pandemic Supply Chain With VA's Deb Kramer and Andrew Centineo
8 juli 2020 · 13 min
We're joined by Veterans Affairs Assistant Under Secretary for Health Support Services Deb Kramer and Executive Director at the VA Office of Procurement and Logistics Andrew Centineo to discuss the agency's restructuring of its medical supply chain to meet the abrupt demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the broader shift to an enterprise-level model and the application of data analytics to predicting and preventing the shortage of vital medical equipment. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 11 - DARPA DIGET Program Manager Renee Wegrzyn
30 juni 2020 · 19 min
Dr. Renee Wegrzyn oversees a variety of programs within DARPA's Biological Technology Office, but her "Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies," or DIGET, program has captured recent attention for its potential in tracking COVID-19 and other pathogenic threats. In this episode, Wegrzyn explains the background and science behind the program, how it can aid in the national response to COVID-19 and other future threats, as well as how programs like this can succeed while safeguarding people's privacy and information. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 10 - Dr. Meg Mooney, Associate Director of CTEP, NCI
29 juni 2020 · 18 min
Dr. Meg Mooney helps coordinate cancer clinical trial networks across the country and internationally, as well as organizes initiatives related to innovative cancer treatment reviews and precision medicine. In this episode, Mooney discusses a new clinical trial study the National Cancer Institute launched for cancer patients with COVID-19 as well as the work being done in drug discovery and development during this time. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 9 - Sanjay Koyani, Executive Director for Innovation, HHS
26 juni 2020 · 22 min
Data-sharing efforts at HHS aim to bring increased collaboration among its subagencies and centers. Sanjay Koyani has been working on these efforts to help agencies be more aware of the common tools to accomplish public health missions in areas like the opioid crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and more. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 8 - Nick Weber, Program Manager for Cloud Services, NIH
24 juni 2020 · 17 min
Nick Weber leads the NIH's initiative to bring cloud-computing tools to researchers. He discusses cloud's benefits for engaging researchers to collaborate and share valuable data in a secure environment. Part of this effort includes the STRIDES Initiative, which incorporates public-private partnerships to streamline data use. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 7 - Adam Haim, Chief of the Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch, NIMH
26 mei 2020 · 13 min
Dr. Adam Haim from NIH's National Institute of Mental Health discusses digital mental health interventions, research on mobile health applications, and the accelerated adoption of telehealth by patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the third part of a series in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 6 - Kelly Blasko, mHealth Clinical Integration Lead, Defense Health Agency
20 mei 2020 · 22 min
In part 2 of our series exploring mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, Kelly Blasko, a clinical psychologist and mobile health clinical integration lead for the Defense Health Agency Connected Health branch, discusses developments on apps to provide mental health tools for military health beneficiaries and how they're helping users through the pandemic. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 5 - Dr. Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
15 mei 2020 · 21 min
World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted those suffering from substance-abuse disorder and drug-related illness, as well as the roles that telehealth and innovative treatment methods play during this time. This is the first part of a series in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 4 - Chris Kinsinger, Proteomics Program Director, NCI
24 april 2020 · 14 min
In cancer research, technology that advances data sharing and management is crucial for bringing together the health research community to inform innovation in health care. Proteomics Program Director Chris Kinsinger provides a look at how systems are advancing efforts in proteomics for cancer research, with a look into his office's data commons and how it's helping bring data types together to help researchers solve problems at NIH. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 3 - Susan Gregurick, Director of the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
10 april 2020 · 23 min
Susan Gregurick leads the implementation of the NIH's Strategic Plan for Data Science and was instrumental in creating this office in 2018. Our conversation with her uncovers more about the agency's storage and data-computing capabilities and what this means for the health science community at large. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 2 - Jason Windsor, Chief Health Information Officer, GovernmentCIO
30 maart 2020 · 26 min
GovernmentCIO's chief medical information officer provides insight, as a former nurse and military officer during the SARS pandemic, the current state of health IT amid the national coronavirus response and what other contractors or the public at large should know about it. Lees meer
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Season 1 Episode 1 - Artificial Intelligence with NIH, VA, DHA
4 maart 2020 · 22 min
Insights from NIH Principal Deputy Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak include promising opportunities in using artificial intelligence across government to improve health care. As the research agency explores the technology, we also address efforts across government like at the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency. Lees meer