EP211: Going Beyond the Cheerleading: The NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference, With Jay Erickson, Brian Van Winkle, and Shahid Shah

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Brian Van Winkle, MBA, focuses on transforming health care by accelerating the adoption of digital technologies throughout the ecosystem. He is the executive director for NODE.Health, a nonprofit with a mission to combine the rigor of evidence-based medicine with emerging health care technologies to help create evidence-based digital medicine. Brian also runs an innovation center for Johns Hopkins focused on connecting physicians with promising technologies and solutions to solve real problems. Brian has spent 10 years in health care consulting with expertise in strategy design, process improvement implementation, and complex transformation at some of the biggest health care systems in the world.

Jay Erickson is a founding partner and Health and Wellness lead at Modus, a digital product studio, and serves on the executive board of NODE.Health. As a cancer survivor and lifelong technologist, he works at the intersection of patient advocacy and digital health, using human-centered design methods to improve experiences and outcomes.

Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential health care IT thought leader who is known as “The Healthcare IT Guy” across the internet. He is a technology strategy consultant to many federal agencies and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100” award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 24-year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he’s built several Web-based electronic medical records now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion-dollar division of Cardinal Health, he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy adviser, helping small businesses commercialize their health care applications.