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Philips is a health tech leader focused on

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innovation that improves the health and well-being of

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the care journey. With Philips, clinicians are empowered

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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 live at the 9th

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annual health IT, digital health, and RCM conference.

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I'm currently joined by John Senkler, who is

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the regional CMIO at UnityPoint

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Health. So, John, thanks so much for joining

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me today. Would love to get us started

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by having you introduce yourself a little bit

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further. Yeah. Excellent. So, yeah, my name is

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John Senckler. I'm a physician, regional CMO at

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UnityPoint Health. Also, physician informaticist,

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and my physician role is a hospitalist physician.

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So I've been in that organization

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for 6 years now,

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and, it's going it's going great. Wonderful. Well,

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thanks for taking the time to be here.

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And let's start our conversation this morning with

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AI. So adoption of this is exploding in

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health care.

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And in your view, what is the most

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significant or promising application of this technology right

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now? And how is that informing your organization's

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innovation strategy?

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Yeah. I think the most promising application of

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this is to help providers get back to

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the bedside.

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I think that's one of the huge burdens

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right now is we have all the workstations

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in the patient's room, and you have the

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you have you, the computer, and the patient.

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And so now let's take the computer out

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of it and just have you and the

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patient.

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I use Ambient AI on the inpatient side.

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And as I use that, I'm sitting at

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the patient's bedside, and I still have a

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tablet that I can show the patient their

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information,

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but it's an educational piece. It's not because

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I have to review it or write down

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notes or anything like that. I'm just there

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fully invested in talking to the patient.

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So I think

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that's the most promising thing right now.

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I do see this evolving because there's so

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many companies here that we've seen that have

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an ambient AI solution.

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That's what's gonna be that next step

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to further amplify that technology, whether it's orders,

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diagnoses, suggestion,

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diagnosis suggestion, or or something like that. We

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didn't know it yet. I think that's what's

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most exciting.

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And changing course just slightly to data.

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We're seeing health care leaders managing greater volumes

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of data and more devices across a growing

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number of care settings. And this has become

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a very complex environment. So what clinical data

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integration tools and practices are you seeing drive

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improvements in patient outcomes? And can you share

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a specific example of that?

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You know, I think this is a tough

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question. And, really, I think it's as important

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having good teams involved. And for me personally,

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in my role in the organization,

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this falls into kinda more the IT side

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of things, but having that good communication between

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all the different teams and making sure the

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right hand knows what the left hand is

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that happening. It's just more integration

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and more people coming together to get definitive

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plan to protect this data because there's so

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much data out there and we gotta make

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sure we're doing the right thing with it.

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Well, you set me up perfectly for our

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With the the mention of IT teams and

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how that's critical with our data and with

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technology adoption and innovation.

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I'd love to hear how you believe that

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health care organizations can can better support our

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IT teams and our clinical teams as we

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carry out these innovation efforts. And do you

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see any common pitfalls with that?

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the CMIO.

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Technology is everything, and, the EHR is everything

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too. And so my biggest thing is just

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making sure

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clinical informatics is seen and seen as a

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valuable

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resource and tool because

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what's the most common thing we all use,

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and that's the EHR.

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And so acknowledging that and

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making sure we're at the table when complex

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decisions are being made. Like, hey. Should we

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go with this vendor? Should we do this

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We could be there to help provide input

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so we're not making, you know, frivolous purchases

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on some shiny new object.

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So I think that's one of the biggest

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way health organizations

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can support

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their clinical teams is by having informatics involved

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more to help identify some of these things,

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especially with the pace that all this stuff

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is happening. I mean, it's crazy. Last year,

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you know, I bet half these companies weren't

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even here. And so

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being able to keep over that pace of

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change

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is gonna be really important, I think.

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And as we wrap our conversation up today,

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I would love to hear your top piece

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of advice for health care leaders as we

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prepare for further advancements in technology and greater

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demands for care.

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I think my best piece of advice would

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be don't wait.

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Dip your feet in the water. They'll say,

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if you don't wanna be first, but you

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don't wanna be last. And so that's very

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dependent on your organization too. I've seen some

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organizations here that are like, they wanna be

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the tip of the spear.

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I'd rather be a little bit further down

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on the spear, but it's great for people

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who have those aggressive organizations

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because it they drive innovation. And just like

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I just said, you know, all these things

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are changing at such a rapid speed. So

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you don't wanna be left behind.

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So just get started, surround yourself with good

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people,

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and start developing these teams and policy too.

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Because policy is a huge, huge important factor

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that I think often gets overlooked because these

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are,

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you know, powerful

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new technologies that you need to have some

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guidance with them too.

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Absolutely. Well, John, thanks so much for joining

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me this morning on the Becker's Health Care

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Podcast. Again, we are live at the 9th

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annual health IT, digital health, and RCM conference.

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Thank you so much. Thank you.