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Shane Rodabaugh, Vice President of IT Infrastructure at Baptist Health System KY & IN · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  I am thrilled today to join by Shane
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  Rodebaugh.
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  Shane is a leader in in information technology
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  at Baptist Health System in Kentucky and Indiana.
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  He's gonna tell us about himself, about what
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  he's doing, his focus, and a lot more.
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  Shane, can you take a moment and tell
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  us about you and about Baptist Health System?
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  I sure can. Thanks for having me on
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  today.
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  I am,
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  been with, Baptist Health. We're a 8 hospital
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  system,
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  in covering Kentucky and Indiana. I've been here
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  for about the last 11 years.
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  We have about 20,000 employees,
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  23 100 beds. Most everybody wants to know
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  how many beds you have. That's why I
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  always toss that out there.
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  We've we've got about 1500
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  providers, 2,000 independent physicians.
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  We're about a $4,000,000,000,
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  in revenue
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  organization, so we're pretty pretty decent size.
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  I have, been in IT for about the
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  last 30 years. I'm currently over
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  infrastructure
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  at at this particular stage.
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  And,
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  yeah. So infrastructure technology, architecture engineering,
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  all that kind of good stuff. So pleasure
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  to be on board with you today. No.
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  And and and thank you so much for
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  having us, for for joining us. Shane, tell
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  us about what trends are you watching in
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  health IT currently?
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  What's top of mind in the system and
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  what you're thinking about and looking at?
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  So
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  top of mind, the the you're probably getting
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  just the whole
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  think about it like right now. We're in
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  an election year and you're tired of seeing
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  political ads. Well, for me, it's
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  it's AI. Right? We we beat AI down
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  just like we beat cloud down, but
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  it's embracing AI. And there's a there's a
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  ton of different things
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  that come into health care, and I'm I'm
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  watching that
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  very, very closely. And from from my perspective,
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  it's
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  about the preparedness
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  within our environment
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  for this because we're
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  what I love about health care is also
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  kind of a
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  not so good thing. We're we're behind.
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  So it's all about how do we,
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  accelerate things. So we're
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  embracing
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  AI as an organization much like a lot
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  of other folks are, but you gotta get
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  your data,
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  in line. So there's a lot of things
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  where we're trying to add capabilities for our
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  clinicians,
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  and that is something I'm watching
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  very closely and how we can bring,
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  and help them with some of the decision
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  making
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  that they have and create different,
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  diagnosis
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  options for them
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  throughout the technology platforms that that we're delivering.
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  So there's a lot of things with that.
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  There's a lot of things that that go
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  into,
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  how we're doing things better and faster for
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  our patients. How do we get them
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  in,
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  get them registered,
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  get them the the care that they need
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  throughout our system,
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  with minimal
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  discomfort in the scheduling process and making sure
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  that they've got something that meets their needs.
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  Thank you. When you look at your
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  let me ask you this question first. You've
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  been in the health technology world for some
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  time now. Mhmm. What are the biggest changes
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  you've seen over the last 10, 20 years?
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  Like, when you think about the biggest changes,
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  I'm sure you think about EMR and some
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  other things. What are the biggest things you
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  think about?
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  So
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  some of the biggest things that
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  I I I've been
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  really
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  seen over the last 10 years, I came
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  into
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  I guess I came here probably 11 years
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  ago.
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  Everything
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  really started changing much more rapidly.
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  So
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  there was a a lot of hosting that
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  went on in health care, and
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  there was a lot more embracing of technology.
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  You you saw that more
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  and more. You saw
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  demands
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  get much higher in the health care sector.
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  You saw more
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  patients with higher acuity levels, patients that maybe
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  20 years ago maybe didn't survive, but due
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  to technology and advancements,
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  you know, now there's treatments for them. So
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  that
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  brings a whole lot on to IT departments.
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  So there's nothing that that we're doing within
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  health care that doesn't touch
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  IT.
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  So
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  before we may have been involved in 50
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  projects to a 100 projects a year, you
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  know, to 10 years ago. Right?
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  Now we're involved in 202150
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  projects, and we've got another 250 in the
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  hopper.
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  So
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  when we think about things,
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  it
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  the demand is much more there to incorporate
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  technology in the health care that we deliver.
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  So the medical record systems, they've changed
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  dramatically.
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  Right? So everybody has that on their cell
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  phone today. They can they can see their
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  chart. They don't have to go to a
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  doctor's office to get a copy of it.
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  Right?
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  They can see everything
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  right there. They've got a lot more information.
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  There's a lot more transparency with patients.
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  All all of that is done with the
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  aid of IT helping to deliver that. So
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  those are a lot of the types of
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  things that are fun and and exciting from
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  my perspective.
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  Are you ever amazed
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  at how much IT is involved in every
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  part of patient care today
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  compared to 10 or 20 years ago?
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  Yep.
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  I think that's a that's a really good
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  statement. Probably the thing that's been
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  more fascinating than anything else, whether we're talking
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  about
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  AI or we're looking at,
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  you know, when you think about the things
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  that's that's fascinating and the things that's that's
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  generates a lot of excitement. It's how you
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  take maybe a a conversation and then maybe
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  you've got
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  something that's listening on the back end that
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  says, hey. Wait a minute. Shane Brodebaugh had
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  a a problem with this back 10 years
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  ago
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  and brings that to the forefront of the
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  clinician so that they don't have to go
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  digging for the information
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  or
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  the data. Right? How are we using the
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  data that's out there? So a lot of
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  the medical record systems today, now they're looking
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  at at taking that data
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  and
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  placing it in a cloud, and it doesn't
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  have any patient's information in it. But it's
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  they're sharing it so that they can do
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  what's called maybe a look alike. So that
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  if I had a problem with my back,
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  how does it match up to maybe somebody
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  else that had a similar
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  issue? And what was that diagnosis? And how
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  does that help the clinician
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  come to a better,
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  diagnosis for the patient? So
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  those types of things for me,
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  getting that data to where it's usable
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  to present options for the clinician
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  or, you know, to get that data over
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  to the patient so that they can see,
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  maybe what they can do and how they
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  can avoid
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  Maybe a catastrophic
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  problem
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  to me. That's that's a a big advancement
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  over years past
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  Thank you. When you look at this coming
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  year shane,
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  what are you most excited about when you
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  what you talked a little bit about AI
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  and some of those opportunities
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  and the explosion of the discussion of it
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  for better or for worse. But what are
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  you most excited about?
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  Most excited
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  right now, we've got a,
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  we've got a central pharmacy that's providing
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  a
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  huge fulfillment to our hospitals, mail order, central
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  fill. It's a community pharmacy.
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  It's it's very large.
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  It's
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  one of the largest in the region.
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  For for me, it's very exciting,
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  being a part of of that solution
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  and all the problems that go with it
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  in in getting it operational.
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  But that's that's pretty significant for our organization.
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  We're digging into
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  a lot of the virtual aspects too. So
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  what does the
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  exam room and the inpatient room of the
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  future
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  look like, and how do we
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  wrap in
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  virtual sitting? So, like, if you need a
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  sitter that needs to sit in the room,
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  we can do a lot of that electronically,
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  with cameras. And what does,
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  how does that play into, say, virtual nursing?
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  So we're looking a lot of those pieces.
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  And, yeah, AI is in that too.
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  Not to beat that dead horse, but
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  that's another piece of it.
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  The other thing that we that we look
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  at in those rooms is ambient listening.
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  So can the clinician come in, and do
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  they have,
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  can they have the discussions with the patient?
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  Do we have the technology on the back
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  end to help them chart that patient
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  and save them some time down the road
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  too so that
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  that clinician can focus more on the patient,
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  less time on the computer.
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  Those are big and exciting things of what
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  those rooms of the future look like.
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  And I I think that that to me
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  over the course of the next year is
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  gonna be very pivotal.
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  It it affects and touches a lot of
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  different things because,
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  our nursing staff right now, they're very taxed.
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  So we're looking at ways of optimizing time.
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  Staffing shortages in our hospitals are are
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  are significant.
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  So,
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  a lot of these things that we're looking
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  at is optimizing,
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  our current assets and and helping our helping
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  our staff,
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  operate very efficiently
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  and providing the best possible care for our
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  patients.
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  Thank you very, very much.
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  Talk for a second about when you
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  developed your leadership career,
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  what advice would you give to other emerging
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  leaders? I mean, you've had this fantastic career.
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  What advice do you give to other emerging
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  leaders?
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  The advice I would give to other leaders,
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  I would have to say,
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  Don't get comfortable. You know, we used to
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  think 3 year strategy and that was that
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  was a lifetime in IT. Now 1 year
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  is is a lifetime. So when you're thinking
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  about
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  1 year out, you don't want to get
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  comfortable because things are changing extremely
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  rapidly
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  so
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  Don't get comfortable
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  where you're sitting
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  Get used to being uncomfortable
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  Stay vulnerable.
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  It it takes a village
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  especially when you're in a no matter what
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  size of your organization, it it it takes
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  a village to pull things off. People with
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  a lot of different skill sets, you're never
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  gonna have every single subject matter expert
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  contained within one person. You're gonna you're gonna
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  have to have a village to get you
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  through it.
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  Development
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  is always top of mind.
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  And that goes for me personally. I have
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  to constantly
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  develop and my focus on developing my staff
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  always has to be there. So
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  always look to grow
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  as a leader
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  and make sure you're maintaining a mentor outside
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  of your organization
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  to
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  help you with checks and balances.
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  Shane, I I wanna thank you for joining
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  us today on the Beckers HealthCare podcast. What
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  what a remarkable career and can't tell you
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  how much I appreciate your perspective and what
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  you're looking at. Thank you very, very much
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  for joining us. You bet. It's been a
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  pleasure.