Healthcare IT Today Interviews

The virtualization leader VMware, which recently became part of Broadcom, is preparing the ground for what is termed Platform Engineering 2.0 by Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director of the VMware Cloud Foundation Division at Broadcom. In our recent interview with Gupta, he lays out the purpose and background of Platform Engineering, including the key evolutions happening in the space.
Gupta is lead author on a 38-page white paper titled "Platform engineering 2.0: An evolution for the AI era," which includes eight key points and a "directional framework" for platform teams and executives, to help organizations evolve. While the paper is recommended reading for everyone touched by this movement, a summary of the five "pillars" can be found in a blog posting by Gupta. Our interview with Gupta offers a bit of background and provides the key insights from the white paper and blog posting as well.
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Withings has moved far beyond weight measurement with a wide range of devices to measure wellness. In our recent extensive interview, Antoine Pivron, Vice President of Health Solutions at Withings's B2B Division, explains that Withings is years ahead of the health care industry—and more and more, its customers are too. "With or without permission from the system," he says, there is a shift from reactive, fee-for-service care to longitudinal monitoring of chronic conditions.
Much of our interview is spent discussing one of their recent products, the Body Scan 2, which measures more than 60 biomarkers related to your health. In the consumer market, it can recommend when the user might benefit from a service such as a cardiologist, nutritionist, or sleep clinic.
Learn more about Withings: https://www.withings.com/
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AI agents in healthcare are changing how patients reach their care teams. In this interview, Artera CEO and Co-founder Guillaume de Zwirek explains what an AI-native approach to patient communication really looks like. He breaks down conversational AI in healthcare (https://artera.io/) : an AI agent that understands why a patient is calling, books the visit or handles the refill in plain language, and closes care gaps on the same call instead of chasing people with callbacks they ignore. He also shows how Artera's AI agents in healthcare (https://artera.io/) keep staff in control, and makes the case for why safety, not memory, is the real moat, and why rigid phone-tree IVR systems are on their way out.
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InterSystems is the data Goliath of health care, present in 20 countries and processing two-thirds of all medical records in the United States. But even InterSystems has to evolve to deal with the challenges of health care, including shrinking funds and the vast expansion in the use of data for analytics and AI.
In a recent interview at the Civitas conference, we hear from two experts at InterSystems Public Sector Corporation: Kirk Grothe, Head of Public Sector Strategy, and Dave Nelson, Head of Public Sector Sales Engineering. They discuss standards in health care data exchange, efforts to improve data sharing and quality at CMS, the ONC, and states, and the importance of defining context and use cases for data.
Learn more about InterSystems: https://www.intersystems.com/
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Hundreds of companies are offering AI for clinical and other healthcare related uses. Kenny Wong, Chief Product Officer at xCures, offers two criteria for judging the value of a solution: first whether the outcome is repeatable and shows the work that was done transparently, and second whether it is generating a desired result such as saving you time.
In our recent interview at the Civitas conference, Wong reviews his background in genetics, the history of xCures, and the state of data today. He estimates that 80% of healthcare data is "messy," meaning it exists in unstructured formats such as PDFs and JPEGs. xCures can extract the information needed for patient care from these sources—what Wong calls a "clinical clarity engine."
Learn more about xCures: https://xcures.com/
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