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Erica Garvin, Contributing Editor | HIT Consultant

Erica Garvin

Erica Garvin

Erica Garvin is the Contributing Editor at HIT Consultant and a freelance writer and editor. Most recently, she was a spotlight editor, speaking with notable executives within the healthcare industry and drafting feature stories for Inside Healthcare magazine.

Q/A: Xealth’s CEO Talks Preparing for the Digital Health Avalanche

by Erica Garvin 07/06/2020 Leave a Comment

Xealth’s CEO Mike McSherry Talks Preparing for the Digital Health Avalanche

Xealth’s CEO and Cofounder Mike McSherry explain how healthcare systems can leverage the right data with the right digital health tools. There’s no doubt the swell that is big data has been building for some time. However, the question of how useful and all that data will continue to plague healthcare providers. The overwhelm of information is real, but so is the potential for providers to make actionable use of it, according to tech innovators. With doctors now prescribing more than
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3 Trends Driving Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity in 2020

by Erica Garvin 01/22/2020 Leave a Comment

3 Trends Driving Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity in 2020

Livingstone’s Ryan Buckley shares insights behind the prevalent healthcare M&A trends of 2020 and its impact on U.S healthcare. The New Year often brings with it an essence of transformation. This year, U.S. healthcare’s metamorphosis is now more than a decade old, as it continues to shed its antiquated legacy systems and siloes to embrace a different kind of entity—one that hopes to establish weight in value-based care at a scale robust enough to substantiate it.
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Teladoc COO Shares 5 Virtual Care Predictions to Watch in 2020

by Erica Garvin 01/21/2020 Leave a Comment

- Teladoc Health’s COO David Sides gives a glimpse of what the future holds as more consumers tap into virtual care. Forget face to face, healthcare is moving into cyberspace—albeit not as fast as one would like. Yes, there is no question that the interest in virtual care is growing swiftly. However, the adoption of virtual services has been somewhat slow; only about 10 percent of healthcare consumers have used such services, according to a study by J.D Power. Despite interest from
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Q/A: UnitedHealthcare Executive Talks Investment in Telehealth Innovation

by Erica Garvin 11/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Q/A: UnitedHealthcare Executive Talks Investment in Telehealth Innovation

Are telehealth innovations the future of care delivery? Pat Keran, vice president of product and innovation for UnitedHealthcare shared his insights and what’s to come from the integration of telehealth innovations in the healthcare landscape. It’s should be of no surprise that in today’s app-fascinated world that telehealth services are becoming increasingly popular both for consumers and employers. According to a recent report from the National Business Group on Health, 39 percent of
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Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?

by Erica Garvin 11/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Is The Handheld Ultrasound The Fitbit of Clinical Care?

- GE Healthcare’s James Hurley explains how innovations like the handheld ultrasound are inspiring the next digital breed of smarter, smaller, and seamless clinical care tools. Wearables—once innovations that only lived in inspired minds and science fiction novels are now nearly ubiquitous. You can’t shake a stick, or a hand for that matter, without an adorning Fitbit or Apple Watch attached to it. Yet, what started as a consumer fad is now evolving well beyond it and out disrupt U.S.
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Q/A: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela Talks Data Sharing Challenges in Breast Imaging

by Erica Garvin 10/31/2019 Leave a Comment

Life Image CEO Talks Matthew Michela Creating Easier Access to Breast Imaging Data

- President and CEO Matthew Michela talk about how Life Image is creating easier access to breast imaging data while also solving some of data sharing’s biggest snags. Interoperability—it’s the long-awaited result that evolving HIT promised to bring with it, and yet, it still gets left behind. Disparate data is not a problem exclusive to one data type or innovation; breast imaging, for example, has created some of the toughest challenges. However, there is now an app for that. Life Image,
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care

by Erica Garvin 09/24/2019 Leave a Comment

VA's Innovators Network

Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans. Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes spurred by the Mission Act—which hopes to create greater access through
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Ethical Concerns of AI in Healthcare: Can AI Do More Harm Than Good?

by Erica Garvin 08/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Before the AI Doctor, Ethics Must in Place

The AI doctor can see you now, but it shouldn't treat you until ethics are in place. Professor Timothy Casey explains. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ethics—once mythical adversaries only on-screen like in “The Terminator” circa 1984— are now actually at virtual odds in 2019. This time, there are no catchy slogans like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “I’ll be back,” but the moral question has returned: Does AI’s transformative power have the ability to do more harm to humankind than good? That is the
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Q&A: Scott Nordlund Shares Banner Health’s Approach to Healthcare Innovation

by Erica Garvin 07/31/2019 Leave a Comment

Banner Health Scott Nordlund Healthcare Innovation Banner Innovation Group (BIG)

Banner Health’s Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Scott Nordlund shares their approach to achieving healthcare innovation with their Banner Innovation Group (BIG).  It may only be comprised of staff members, but Banner Health’s BIG (Banner Innovation Group) has immense goals. Launched in May, BIG was created to engage with partners in healthcare and other fields—such as technology, academia, and venture capital—to rethink every part of the health care system, in all
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Q&A: Dr. Geeta Nayyar Discusses the State of Physician Burnout & EHRs

by Erica Garvin 07/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Dr. Geeta Nayyar Discusses the State of Value-Based Care, HIT Challenges, and Physician Burnout

Before drifting off to sleep, most of us put on pajamas when it’s time to curl up with a good book or binge-watch what’s trending on Netflix—but not today’s doctors. According to one previous study, physicians spend nearly two hours conducting EHR/paperwork every night at home. This after-hour activity is known in healthcare as “pajama time,” but don’t let the cutesy nickname fool you. Turns out, time spent mired with EHR data is becoming a growing problem for physicians. A subsequent study
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