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Dr. Mohammed Abdelaziz, Medical Director of Hospital Medicine, Kings Mill Hospital, Bon Secours Mercy Health · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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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 recording live at the
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  tenth annual health IT, digital health, and RCM
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  meeting. I'm currently joined by Mohammed
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  Abdelaziz,
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  who currently serves as the medical director
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  of hospital medicine at Kingsmill Hospital at Bon
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  Secours Mercy Health. So thank you so much
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  for joining me today.
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  To get us started, can you share a
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  little bit more about yourself and your work
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  in health care? Yeah. Thank you, for having
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  me. So my,
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  clinical background, I'm trained as an internal medicine
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  physician.
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  I'm a practicing hospitalist. I am also a
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  physician informaticist,
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  and,
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  I got in medical care since I, you
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  know, joined finished medical school and went into
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  to medicine. So,
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  been in the in health care,
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  for the past,
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  twenty years.
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  And, currently, I serve as a medical director
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  for hospital medicine at this small facility in
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  the Cincinnati area, Kings Mills, which is part
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  of the, larger,
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  network of, Bonsignore Mercy Health.
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  Perfect.
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  And let's start our conversation talking about AI.
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  Nearly half of medical practices reported using AI
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  in some capacity in the past year, and
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  it remains a key topic for health IT
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  leaders. So from your perspective, what are the
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  use cases that are making a difference right
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  now, and how are you leveraging them in
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  your organization?
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  Yeah.
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  I think there
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  are several use cases.
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  I believe as many other organizations, many organization
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  and Bonsignore and other organization, there are
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  still in the discovery phase. There are a
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  lot of
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  great solutions, but I guess, most importantly, we
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  need to identify the right problems
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  to solve with, such solutions.
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  Ambient,
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  scribe solutions,
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  are,
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  one of the, mostly adopted solutions. I think
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  most organization
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  now right now, either they adopted some sort
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  of an ambient
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  solution, or they are piloting, or they are
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  looking at some sort of an ambient solution.
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  Wonsacore is is no different.
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  They have been,
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  adopting and piloting,
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  some solutions, especially for for outpatient.
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  There are also the predictive models, analytic predictive
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  models. Epic, they they it does provide,
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  a lot of,
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  AI powered
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  predictive models, and some of them, they have
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  been,
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  adopted,
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  by Bonsacor.
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  And these,
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  can change how we,
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  take care of our patients.
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  And as virtual care expands from AI enabled
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  tools and remote monitoring to broader digital health
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  platforms, introducing new tech does bring challenges.
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  So what advice do you have for leaders
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  navigating everything from governance to patient engagement? And
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  can you share an example of how your
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  organization has balanced innovation with operational constraint?
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  Yeah. My take on this is,
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  the way to deal with virtual care
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  is virtual care is just health care. It's,
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  the approach should not be any different from
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  approaching
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  any care we provide
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  to our patient, the quality
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  of the care we provide through virtual care,
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  how
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  we approach it in terms of, providing safe
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  care,
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  in terms of outcomes.
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  We should look at virtual care just as
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  parallel
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  to in person care. I think that will
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  help
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  alleviate a lot of the,
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  anxiety
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  about doing things virtually rather than doing them,
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  in person. Now with the advancement in technology,
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  we can provide provide many of the aspects
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  of the care virtually,
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  and that can help,
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  a lot of organizations
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  with managing their, their workforce.
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  And shifting gears slightly,
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  how are you seeing recent legislation
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  both at the state and federal levels affect
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  health care organizations and health care IT specifically,
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  and have you adjusted strategies in response?
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  I think it's it's no no big surprise
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  for for a lot of, organizations
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  and a lot of people in in health
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  care
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  that,
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  there would be
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  less available money for,
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  a lot of organizations. So
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  the, most recent changes with Medicare reimbursements and
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  cutting reimbursement
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  that,
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  affected a lot of,
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  providers.
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  That's probably
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  it's not it's not gonna change, and probably
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  a lot of organization,
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  they need to adjust to the fact that
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  there will be less and less,
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  reimbursement,
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  going into the future,
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  and thus, I guess, efficiency
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  becomes
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  even more important in using your resources,
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  wisely.
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  And final question as we wrap our conversation.
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  What's your top piece of advice for health
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  care leaders as they prepare for further advancements
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  in tech and rising demands for care?
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  Yeah. I I think it's, you know, health
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  care, the most important thing
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  for everyone,
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  who is involved in health care
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  at whatever,
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  shape or capacity
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  is the mission.
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  And as long as everybody
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  is is is focused
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  and everybody is oriented
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  to the,
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  mission,
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  which is essentially taking care of patients,
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  I think that's the most important thing.
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  Any solution,
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  any,
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  projects,
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  anything we do in health care should be
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  guided
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  by what best for our patients.
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  Wonderful. Well, Mohammed, thanks so much for joining
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  me today on the Becker's health care podcast
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  and sharing these insights. Again, we are recording
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  live at the tenth annual health IT, digital
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  health, and RCM meeting. Well, thank you for
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  having me.