Looking AHEAD by AHEAD | Biz and Tech Podcasts

January 2, 202431 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 10 - Doing More with Less

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. Today they are joined by Zscaler Healthcare CTO Tamer Baker to discuss the art of doing more with less. They discuss what’s happening in the healthcare industry, what CIO’s and CEO’s are being forced to do when asked to do more with less, what does Zscaler have to solve the problem, and which metrics are being used to gauge success.

October 26, 202336 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 9 - Cybersecurity

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. Today they're joined by Nate Stewart (Regional Security Sales Lead) and Mervyn Chapman (Principal Security Strategist) to discuss trends in healthcare cybersecurity, hacking dangers, and myths and realities about cloud and zero-trust.

October 19, 202332 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 8 - AWS and EHR Modernization

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. Today, Jay and Houdini have a great conversation with Prathima Srinivas (Global Healthcare leader for AWS) and Matt Dinger (Global EPIC Leader for AWS) to discuss EPIC on AWS, EHR trends, and emerging solutions that bring the most improvement to the patient experience. The group also discusses EHR use cases that generate the most impact on cost, efficiency, and effectiveness, along with how AWS and AHEAD help offset risk and upfront cost when going down the path to an EHR system.

September 28, 202329 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 7 - Enterprise Risk

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today’s episode, they are joined by Shahryar Shaghaghi from Columbia University to discuss enterprise risk, new regulations, and how technology is helping manage the chaos. They cover the need for managing risk at an enterprise level, and how new cyber and data regulations are impacting how companies operate and think about using new technology.

September 21, 202332 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 6 - Technical Debt

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today's episode Jay is joined by fellow AHEADians Daniel Plourde, Bhairav Patel, and Ashley Goodman for a discussion about Technical Debt and its impacts on Healthcare, including a detailed look at AHEADs lifecycle management solution and how it helps clients deal with technical debt.

September 14, 202341 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 5 - What is Artisight?

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today’s episode, Jay and Houdini are joined again by Dr. Stephanie Lahr, President of Artisight, to discuss how Artisight is helping hospitals innovate and address real issues like staffing shortages, staff efficiency, and patient experience.

August 18, 202320 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 4 - ChatGPT: Why Do I Need a Doctor Anyway?

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today’s episode, Jay and Houdini are joined by Juan Garcia, AHEAD CSP with experience specializing in AI and digital transformation in healthcare systems, as they discuss the impacts of AI and ChatGPT on hospitals and the medical profession overall.

August 18, 202330 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 3 - The Invisible Hospital

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today’s episode, Jay and Houdini are joined by Tom Kiesau, Senior Partner at the Chartis Group. They discuss the question: are we moving away from brick and mortar hospitals all together – especially improvements in quantum computing, telehealth, cloud, our reliance on our mobile phones, remote working synergies with finance and healthcare (payments) and AI technologies?

August 18, 202341 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 2 - The Emergence of AI in Healthcare

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. In today’s episode, Jay and Houdini are joined by Dr. Stephanie Lahr, President of Artisight and Former CIO/CMIO at Monument Health as they discuss the emergence of AI and cameras in the hospital to address staffing needs and reduce liabilities.

August 18, 202333 min

AHEAD on Healthcare - Episode 1 - Resiliency in Healthcare

Join AHEAD Client Services Partner Jay Ruffin with frequent co-host Houdini Abtahi, fellow CSP and leader of AHEAD’s Healthcare community, as they meet with industry leaders to discuss modernization and leveraging technology to meet new and expanding needs in Healthcare. Today, Jay and Houdini address resiliency in healthcare through a conversation with Field CTO John Andrew Prabaharan at Oracle and Esteban Rubens, Healthcare Field CTO at Oracle Cloud.