Clean Talk | Ep 41 | Improving Treatment and Patient Outcomes Using Ai w/ Julie Sufana

10/28/22 • 34 min

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In this week’s episode of Clean Talk, Julie Sufana, Chief Marketing Officer at contextflow, joins us to reveal the power of AI to help radiologists improve diagnosis and patient care!
Tune in to hear about a range of topics including:
• Julie’s background and what brought her to where she is today
• About contextflow and their mission
• How contextflow utilizes Ai to improve chest CT support with the help of deep learning
• The problem with built-up data within healthcare systems
• How easily accessing past patient images helps providers diagnose & treat patients
• The amount of image patterns contextflow allows providers to access at once
• Who best benefits from contextflow’s Ai
• Removing the misconceptions around the use of Ai
• What to expect in the future for contextflow
Originally from Munster, Indiana, Julie Sufana moved to Los Angeles to study Business Administration and Spanish at the University of Southern California (USC). After earning her degree, Julie looked for ways to utilize both the creative and analytical sides of her brain by working in education, sales and marketing while pursuing her love of acting.
In 2016, Julie moved to Vienna, Austria. She subsequently earned her Masters in Marketing from WU and landed her dream job as Chief Marketing Officer at contextflow GmbH. She's particularly well-known for her writing and presentation skills, well-honed by her years in the entertainment industry. Julie is also a certified 200-hr yoga instructor and loves teaching her colleagues after hours.
A little about contextflow: the Vienna-based startup develops clinical decision support tools with the help of deep learning: SEARCH Lung CT detects 19 patterns plus nodules in lung CTs, including those related to COVID-19. It integrates directly into your PACS and preliminary test results show it reduced average reading time by 31% when available for use as well as a trend towards improved diagnostic accuracy.
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Clean Talk | Ep 40 | Why Elevating IPs Equals Elevating Patient Outcomes w/ Kathy Warye

In this week’s episode of Clean Talk, Kathy Warye, Founder at Infection Prevention Partners, joins us to reveal her experiences as an Infection Preventionist and Healthcare Leader, and to explain how global community safety has come a very long way.

Tune in to hear about a range of topics including:

• Kathy Warye’s professional background and how she got to where she is today

• About Infection Prevention Partners & The Importance of Elevating the Infection Preventionists’ role

• The Importance of Investing in Public Health Laboratories, Technologies, and Institutions

• Kathy’s APIC History & APIC’s evolution to a Patient Safety Organization under her direction

• Nationwide Prevalence Study on MRSA following Chicago Tribe article & the CDC’s Bill Jardice’s findings

• HAI’s & 2010 IP Evangelist – Kathy’s story of achieving Zero HAI’s a decade ago has evolved to the expectations of IPs today

• Today’s De-Prioritization of Patient Safety to Accommodate Labor & Resource Shortages in Healthcare Today

• The rate of MERS-CoV on the Arabian Peninsula

• Predictions For the Future? Will we see another Pandemic in our lifetime?

Kathy Warye is the founder of Infection Prevention Partners, a consultancy committed to advancing strategic initiatives with industry, government and nonprofit organizations to address the elimination of preventable infection, worldwide.

In 2010, she was named one of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare Magazine. Ms. Warye also formerly held the position of CEO for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) from 2003-2010.

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Clean Talk | Ep 42 | Infection Prevention Begins With Kindness w/ Priya Pandya-Orozco

In this week’s episode of Clean Talk, Priya Pandya-Orozco, Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Manager at O’ Connor, Santa Clara County Hospital and Health System, joins us to share her expertise and knowledge around infection control.

Tune in to hear about a range of topics including:

• Priya’s background and what brought her to where she is today

• Her role as Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Manager at O’ Connor, Santa Clara County Hospital and Health System

• APIC Film Festival Award (Grand Jury Prize) & other achievements

• Incorporating team building in hand hygiene

• What is Clean 20?

• Speak up safety culture and the benefits

• Contributions to Infection Control Today (Infection Control begins with kindness)

• What we learned from the past and Covid & how we can improve infection control in the future

Bernadette “Priya” Pandya-Orozco, MSN, RN, PHN, CIC is the Manager for Infection Prevention at O'Connor Hospital which is part of the County of Santa Clara Hospital and Health System. She has served in several critical leadership roles in the field of infection prevention and communicable disease over the last twenty-five years. Most recently, in 2019, she became the Manager of O' Connor Hospital Infection Prevention, where she serves as a subject matter expert to hospital staff and leaders for infection prevention and control.

Priya has worked for high reliable organizations to reduce hospital acquired infection rates. She encourages the use of creative performance improvement projects which utilize evidence-based practices to engage frontline champions and leaders. Priya attributes her successes to her ability to understand and value every member of a healthcare system, recognizing how each person in a hospital can affect infection prevention efforts and contribute to performance improvement.