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Dr. Joseph Polizzi of Modificare · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  Philips.
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  This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare
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  Podcast, and we are live at the 9th
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  annual health IT digital health and RCM conference.
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  I am joined right now by Jay Pulizzi
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  who is a physician with
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  Modiphacare.
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  We talked about that before our recording. It's
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  an Italian word, and so I'm gonna leave
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  it to him to explain a little bit
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  more about what that is and his current
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  work.
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  Yeah. Great.
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  Good morning. Great to be here. Thanks for
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  having me. Yeah. Like you said, my name
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  is Jay Pulizzi. I'm a family physician. 23
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  years doing that, and then about 15 years
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  doing clinical informatics.
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  I started a consulting company called Modificare,
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  which is actually an Italian word for change.
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  And when you look at the word on
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  paper,
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  it looks like modified care, which is sort
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  of what I'm doing with the second chapter
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  of my career. Very interested in how we
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  improve and change the health care system for
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  the better,
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  using technology.
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  I'm working currently with several,
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  health care organizations
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  and, health care vendors, actually, and how they
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  apply,
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  adopt,
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  and
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  use technology
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  to better take care of patients.
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  Well, speaking of technology adoption,
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  AI adoption is exploding in health care. So
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  in your view, what is the most significant
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  or promising application of AI right now? And
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  how is that informing
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  your innovation strategy?
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  Yeah. So many ways I think AI is
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  being applied. I mean, you walk around the
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  show floor here, and every vendor has something
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  to do with AI.
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  I think, for me, most most recently has
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  been still in this
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  documentation
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  space. So the ambient,
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  AutoScribe,
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  functionalities.
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  I've used,
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  several of these systems most recently.
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  One of the vendors here at Nabla,
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  I'm very familiar with the work they're doing.
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  I think there is such a large
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  issue with clinician burnout,
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  and this
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  seems to be one of the very promising,
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  you know, tools and ways we can adopt
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  AI,
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  to help mitigate that to some extent.
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  The other thing I'm really excited about
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  is how we use AI just to manage
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  and surface
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  information
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  that is needed by the clinician at the
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  right time
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  to, you know, better take care of a
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  patient. Data has become such an immense,
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  I won't say problem, but
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  it is very challenging
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  to
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  to go through all the information that might
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  be in in a patient's chart
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  and data that's not necessarily in a chart,
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  but in other systems
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  and aggregate that and present it in a
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  in a meaningful and useful way.
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  And speaking of AI and data and everything
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  else, I'm sure you're learning a lot here
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  at the conference. So I'd love you to
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  expand on maybe some sessions or some information
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  that you've learned so far at this conference
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  that has been helpful and applicable to you.
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  Yeah. For me, I just came from,
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  a CMIO
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  session talking about the future of
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  that role. You know, I have been in
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  several chief medical and chief health information officer
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  roles over the last several years, and even
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  as I was
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  in those roles, it was evolving.
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  So I think
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  several things are are starting to shift.
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  You're starting to see,
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  the CMIO role or the informatics role
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  become a part of a health care organization's
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  leadership team,
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  and I think more often having a seat
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  at the table,
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  as they're discussing
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  bigger issues with strategy,
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  patient engagement,
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  and and their clinicians.
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  It's also shifting from
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  not just dealing with the EHR anymore.
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  That's still a big fundamental
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  component of the work,
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  but starting to look at in the innovation
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  space. So things like AI,
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  but also just how do you
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  more efficiently
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  and effectively
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  take care of of patients,
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  improve the patient experience,
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  help things like improve things like access.
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  Access is such a tremendous problem in health
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  care today.
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  So how do you apply some of these,
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  technologies
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  in a digital health strategy
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  to improve access,
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  improve the quality of care,
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  and get patients more engaged
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  with with their health care.
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  And what is your top piece of advice
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  for health care leaders as they prepare for
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  further advancements in technology and greater demands for
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  care? Yeah. I think, you know, including clinicians,
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  having
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  clinicians have a seat at the table is
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  is is always helpful. I think, you know,
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  so many times I've seen organizations,
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  come up with a digital health or a
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  technology
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  strategy
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  and not include,
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  the stakeholders and the folks that are actually
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  going to be interacting with patients and using
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  the technology.
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  So I think that's a key piece of
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  advice.
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  Wonderful. Well, Jay, thank you so much for
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  joining me today on the Becker's Healthcare Podcast.
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  Again, we're live at the 9th annual health
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  IT digital health and RCM conference. No. Thank
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  you.