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From Combat to Community Health: A Doctor's Journey and the Healthcare Divide
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 26:51
Join us for a re-release of this powerful episode featuring Dr. Heather Irobunda, a featured speaker at the 2023 Women in Medicine Summit. Discover how her journey from the military to private practice and public community health has shaped her understanding of the healthcare divide.
Learn about the challenges faced by marginalized individuals and the critical need for health literacy and education in today's evolving society. Hear how technology can democratize information and the importance of medical advocacy in addressing healthcare disparities.
Innovating Healthcare Access: The Importance of Storytelling, Mental Health, and Health Tech
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 29:25
In this episode, Joy engages in a compelling conversation with Vanessa Villaverde, Senior Program Investor at the California Healthcare Foundation. They explore the critical need for mental health services for children, particularly during the pandemic, and discuss innovative approaches to bridging gaps in healthcare access for underserved communities. Vanessa highlights the importance of storytelling in healthcare innovation, emphasizing how personal narratives can drive impactful change. The episode also delves into the Making Waves in Health Tech podcast initiative, which aims to simplify complex healthcare topics and promote culturally competent care.
Episode Highlights
[00:02:30] Overview of California's Healthcare Landscape
[00:11:00] Mental Health Services for Children During the Pandemic
[00:15:00] Addressing Gaps in Healthcare Access for Underserved Communities
[00:18:30] The Role of Technology in Patient Care
[00:21:45] The Power of Storytelling in Healthcare
[00:22:28] Making Waves in Health Tech Podcast Initiative
[00:25:21] Culturally Competent Mental Health Care Access
[00:30:00] Future Directions in Healthcare Innovation
Stay Connected with Vanessa Villaverde:
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California Health Care Foundation | LinkedIn
Bridging the Gender Gap: The Importance of Men Advocating for Gender Equity
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • Duration 20:11
Join Joy Rios as she welcomes Brad Johnson and David Smith, authors of "Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women" and "Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace." Recorded at last year's Women in Medicine summit, this episode delves into the importance of male engagement in promoting gender diversity and inclusion.
Discover practical strategies for men to show up as allies, the benefits of diverse workplaces, and the personal and professional gains men can achieve by advocating for gender equity.
Episode Highlights
[00:02:37] Importance of Men Engaging in Gender Equity Work
[00:09:44] Potential Penalties for Advocating for Gender Equity
[00:12:30] Importance of Listening and Learning in Gender Equity Efforts
[00:13:45] Addressing Fear in Men Mentoring Women
[00:16:49] Eye-Opening Experiences of Gender Disparities in the Workplace
Stay connected to Brad Johnson & David Smith:
Brad Johnson | David Smith
Workplace Allies | LinkedIn
Geri Landman's Moonshot Mission to Cure One Rare Disease at a Time
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 • Duration 34:29
Dr. Geri Landman is a pediatrician who recently founded a nonprofit, Moonshots for Unicorns, which is committed to curing curable single-gene disorders, like her daughter Lucy's. While each gene is unique, they all share the fact that these children are missing one single protein in their cells to function appropriately. Science exists to fix this; it just takes passion, focus, funding, and innovation to make a meaningful impact - one rare disease at a time. Listen in to hear more about Lucy, Moonshot’s mission, and about which digital health innovations Dr. Geri believes could have the most impact on rare disease research and treatment!
Brittany Barreto Shines Light on the $1.1 Trillion FemTech Industry
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 • Duration 35:27
In this episode, Joy talks with Dr. Brittany Barreto, Co-Founder and Executive Director of FemTech Focus, Host of the FemTech Focus Podcast, and Co-Founder of Coyote Ventures.
Every day Dr. Brittany Barreto dedicates her work to advance women’s health by equipping founders, investing in innovative ideas, and engaging key stakeholders to create better healthcare for women, females, and girls, an industry known as FemTech. She is an unconventional scientist, entrepreneur, and consultant that proves that anything is possible with hard work and heart.
Health IT Rockstar & Interoperability Hero, Susan Clark
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 • Duration 35:31
In this special crossover episode, Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser from Direct Trust interviews one of this year’s interoperability heroes and official Health IT Rockstar, Susan Clark.
Susan has a talent for expert orchestration regarding data governance, social determinants of health, and interoperability, where she helps identify disparate and often disconnected components of healthcare and is constantly trying to bridge the gaps between them.
She also plays the bass guitar, so she qualifies as a legit rock star. She’s fun, innovative, and whip-smart. Enjoy!
Smarter Clinical Trials with Jane Myles
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 • Duration 34:24
On this episode of HIT Like a Girl, Grace Vinton talks with Jane Myles, Vice President of Clinical Trial Innovation at Curebase, about how the time has come for the research community to take a page out of healthcare providers' playbooks and deliver care with a greater focus on the patient experience. Jane explains how a patient-centered view will help with improved trial compliance, better diversity, and more rapid trial completion. She further explains how patient experience has long been an oversight for the research community, and insights into how some leaders have been advocating for industry improvement in this area for decades.
Ladies, it's Time to S.O.A.R.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 • Duration 54:29
In this special episode, Joy sits down with each of the speakers from the inaugural S.O.A.R. Conference, presented by Bluebird Leaders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The event was created to support advancing women in health IT, which is a theme near and dear to our HIT Like a Girl pod hearts.
A variety of topics were covered, ranging from the importance of personal branding, self-advocacy, measuring DEI, reframing failure into opportunity, making friends with the problem you’re trying to solve, and much more. We learned from industry experts and a very special tech-savvy teen. Enjoy!
00:46 - Victoria Pelletier: The Importance of Personal Branding
06:00 - Rebecca Woods: Mentorship
09:42 - Kristen Duell: Measuring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
14:35 - Stacy DiStefano: Reframing Failure into Opportunity
17:32 - Kat McDavitt: Making Friends with your Problem
20:35 - Kathryn Wetherby: Promoting Better Cultures within Technology
26:00 - Dr. Guinevere Stasio: The Energy You Bring
31:53 - Dr. Simran & Ed Marx: Differences Between Male & Female Leadership
36:56 - Olivia Van Ledtje: Making Technology More Accessible to Kids
42:22 - Lauren Friedrich: The Importance of Self Advocacy
48:46 - Dr. Bobbi Wegner: Creating Cohesion & Strong Teams
Amy Moy: a Fierce Advocate for Equitable Access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 • Duration 35:15
On this episode, Joy talks with Amy Moy, Co-CEO and Chief External Affairs Officer, at Essential Access Health. Amy leads the organization's federal and state policy efforts, strategic communications activities, and patient education and consumer awareness initiatives.
Amy and Joy have known each other for more than 20 years. Amy helped organize a group of women from the Bay Area to attend the 2004 March for Women's Rights in Washington, D.C. to sound the alarm for the potential for Roe vs Wade to be overturned, which happened earlier this year.
Amy shares how her own journey to motherhood was shaped by having a choice in her family planning and expresses how her daughter's generation brings her hope. Take a listen!
HIT with Grace: Cindy Gaines Applies Clinical Intelligence to Help Better Orchestrate Care
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 • Duration 24:36
From nurse to informaticist to Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, in this episode of HITea with Grace, Cindy Gaines discusses the career journey that led her to her current position at Lumeon, a care orchestration platform.
Cindy shares with us her experience on the front lines of nursing and highlights the barriers to technology implementation and the healthcare industry’s many challenges and need for care orchestration now more than ever. With clinician and nurse burnout at an all-time high, can technology and automation realistically help?
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