The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy
11/23/21 • 50 min
In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Dr. Laura Purdy, CEO and CoFounder of MD Integrations, All in One Telehealth solutions company.
Dr. Purdy is a 15 year army veteran and started her career in military medical school and as a hospitalist in military. She realized early on that telehealth will be the future of healthcare for simple things such as poison ivy or pink eye.
In the old days of telehealth, there were a lot of challenges from technical challenge to scheduling patients.
Jimmy asks about asynchronous use of telehealth. Asynchronous is offline dialog and not real-time communication. Direct to consumer telehealth companies are at different stages of development. All of these companies have to deal with the same technical challenges including the portal and integration. This is where MD Integrations has an API which is designed for asynchronous telehealth.
One of the biggest pain points of telehealth is EMR. Today's EMRs are not designed for telehealth service, they are still designed for core brick and mortar services.
Jimmy asks the question if asynchronous telehealth will increase over synchronous visits because patients do not prefer face to face visit if possible similar to other industries. Dr. Purdy explains the differences between the two and does think that asynchronous visits will continue to increase over face to face telehealth visits. The numbers are showing decrease in synchronous or real-time telehealth visits.
On-demand healthcare is the future and asynchronous is able to assist w/ the same. Dr. Purdy provides examples of asynchronous use and why face to face call does not always make sense.
Vik then asks why there are so many niche telehealth companies springing up when there are telehealth giants such as Teledoc and Livingo. Dr. Purdy explains in detail the reason behind need for niche telehealth companies and why this market does not need to depend only on the telehealth giants.
The group then jumps in the integration challenges related to Telehealth and how to overcome challenge of access to data from health system, clinic, telehealth portals.
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LinkedIn: Dr. Laura Purdy
Website: https://mdintegrations.com/
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In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Dr. Laura Purdy, CEO and CoFounder of MD Integrations, All in One Telehealth solutions company.
Dr. Purdy is a 15 year army veteran and started her career in military medical school and as a hospitalist in military. She realized early on that telehealth will be the future of healthcare for simple things such as poison ivy or pink eye.
In the old days of telehealth, there were a lot of challenges from technical challenge to scheduling patients.
Jimmy asks about asynchronous use of telehealth. Asynchronous is offline dialog and not real-time communication. Direct to consumer telehealth companies are at different stages of development. All of these companies have to deal with the same technical challenges including the portal and integration. This is where MD Integrations has an API which is designed for asynchronous telehealth.
One of the biggest pain points of telehealth is EMR. Today's EMRs are not designed for telehealth service, they are still designed for core brick and mortar services.
Jimmy asks the question if asynchronous telehealth will increase over synchronous visits because patients do not prefer face to face visit if possible similar to other industries. Dr. Purdy explains the differences between the two and does think that asynchronous visits will continue to increase over face to face telehealth visits. The numbers are showing decrease in synchronous or real-time telehealth visits.
On-demand healthcare is the future and asynchronous is able to assist w/ the same. Dr. Purdy provides examples of asynchronous use and why face to face call does not always make sense.
Vik then asks why there are so many niche telehealth companies springing up when there are telehealth giants such as Teledoc and Livingo. Dr. Purdy explains in detail the reason behind need for niche telehealth companies and why this market does not need to depend only on the telehealth giants.
The group then jumps in the integration challenges related to Telehealth and how to overcome challenge of access to data from health system, clinic, telehealth portals.
Website: http://www.thisweekinhealthtech.com
Twitter: @TWIHT1
Tido Inc.: https://www.tidoinc.com/
Music Provided by Soundstripe.com
Linkedin: Vik Patel
Linkedin: Jimmy Kim
Guest Information:
LinkedIn: Dr. Laura Purdy
Website: https://mdintegrations.com/
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Vik Patel - LinkedIn
Tido Inc. - Website
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Previous Episode
How to deal with Expectations for Digital Apps and increase access to On-Demand Care
In this Halloween special of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss digital transformation and AI with guest Shelby Sanderford, CEO of Docpace.
Shelby shares her story of how she got started in healthcare IT working in a hospital. They are on a mission to eliminate wait times for patients and eliminate need for waiting rooms.
The group dives into the conversation w/ impact of the pandemic on digital transformation in healthcare. Shelby notes that last few years healthcare organizations have been switching to electronic health records and applications, but in the last couple of years, it has been the acceptance of those applications. All these applications have almost become a necessity instead of a luxury.
Vik agrees and adds that there is also an increased expectation from patients to use digital apps for personal healthcare. This is why Tido Inc.'s digital team is increasingly working w/ healthcare organizations on app strategy and management.
Jimmy asks the question what kept Shelby going with all the challenges of pandemic. Shelby answers that the main reason is the justification that the problem exists so even with all the challenges, it helped to know that Docpace could solve some of those issues with wait times.
Vik adds that some of these expectations are related to "On Demand" expectation of consumers. Shelby adds that healthcare is shifting to more proactive care instead of reactive care. Pre COVID, most consumers and healthcare organizations were okay with status quo but Post COVID, healthcare organizations are realizing that they need to meet the new expectations from consumers.
Vik notes that executives are now realizing that they need to be prepared for this coming onslaught of apps because the basic patient portal is not enough and does not provide a customized experience for consumers.
Shelby adds that the seamless integration will definitely be the key for healthcare organizations to take advantage of the innovation and new applications.
Vik agrees that with FHIR interoperability, it will enable on demand healthcare with easy and secure pull of the patient information. The fragmentation in healthcare is gradually going away and FHIR APIs will play a crucial role in reducing fragmentation in healthcare.
The group then moves to discussing AI in healthcare. Shelby explains the difference in automation and AI.
Vik notes that lot of times the details about underlying algorithm, comparison data used etc. is unknown. As Dr. Oliver, CMIO, Baptist, said in the past episodes, lot of times the AI functionality is a black box and could affect the trust factor of an application.
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Next Episode
Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner.
In this emergency episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss the big news of Oracle buying Cerner.
The biggest purchase Oracle, Big Tech, has ever done for $28.3 billion dollars.
Vik and Jimmy first talk a little background of Oracle and Cerner.
Vik talks about Oracle products: cloud infrastructure, integration, oracle dbms, developer network, and more.
Jimmy said this sends a huge signal that there is massive potential in healthcare.
Stock price has dropped initially because people are still trying to make sense of it. Plus there have been massive failures in the past like Microsoft HealthVault and Google HealthCloud.
Vik thinks there will be growing pains in the beginning but over time once they figure out the best way to integrate Oracle and Cerner products.
Vik thinks that one of the big opportunity is analytics and AI. Oracle will obviously use their cloud but the hidden opportunity is making sense of Big Data and use AI to make processes for health systems efficient and realize significant ROI. This could present a good opportunity to Cerner clients.
Also sends a signal to Epic EHR, the EHR with biggest market in healthcare.
The other thing is Oracle knows how to make products available to a developer network.
Jimmy brings up the point that Cerner CEO is quite new and has been CEO only since Aug 2021. Maybe he was the right person to complete the deal.
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