Best Vik Patel and Jimmy Kim Podcasts (2024)

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Future-Forward Healthcare Digital Engagement: Kevin Smith's Insights on AI Strategies and Life Beyond Google Analytics 43:32

6M ago43:32

43:32

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech episode, Vik welcomes Kevin Smith, AVP, Digital Health, Baptist Health. We focus on impact of AI in healthcare marketing. We start out talking about future AI phones and Google, Search Generative Experience SGE. Kevin provides some background of Baptist Health digital properties and how sites were amalgam…

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How to adapt your web-mobile-social media digital strategy to changing landscapes? 39:44

11M ago39:44

39:44

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech podcast, we welcome Barry Wallace, digital communications specialist at East Tennessee Children's Hospital. We start out by discussing a marketing / digital communications team structure and then content generation. Vik and Barry discuss if ChatGPT AI tools help with content generation. AI could give a st…

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Digital Health Strategy 44:17

12M ago44:17

44:17

In this episodes of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss digital health strategy for healthcare organizations. They dive into different categories for digital health: virtual care, accessing health information, interoperability, innovation. For virtual care, organizations need to now consider remote patient monitoring on top of telehealth…

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HIMSS23 Conference Insights: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare 34:25

1y ago34:25

34:25

In this episode of This week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss HIMSS23 conference and insights gained at the conference. The main highlight at the conference was Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Vik and John discuss few AI implementations in Healthcare including Epic, Microsoft, Google, Nuance, and more. Website: http://ww…

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How can health systems maximize operational efficiency using digital tools and minimize lost revenue? Special Offer in this episode for Health Systems. 38:28

1+ y ago38:28

38:28

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and John discuss healthcare financial challenges as they grapple with inflation, staffing shortages, and low margins. 85% of health system leaders expect staffing challenges to significantly impact 2023 strategies. Vik and John discuss how do you mitigate these challenges. One way is to maximize oper…

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Freeing up clinical staff from diagnosing and reporting system issues to focus on patients 38:20

1+ y ago38:20

38:20

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Johnathan Klaus to cohost the episode. John is an experienced nurse and has worked in large academic medical center for many years in the cardiac department. He brings wealth of clinical knowledge to the team and we welcome him to cohost the podcast. Jimmy Kim is obviously still around and wil…

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Assure smooth operations for clinicians using applications & integration monitoring technology 26:27

2y ago26:27

26:27

Vik and Jimmy focus on digital health and end-to-end monitoring of applications in this episode of This Week in Health Tech. Vik talks about strategy for digital transformation: managing digital apps, integrating digital apps, and supporting digital apps on an ongoing basis. Vik also mentions that healthcare organizations have requested not only au…

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"The Olympics of Tech" - Collision Conference 2022 30:59

2y ago30:59

30:59

This episode of This Week in Health Tech focuses on one of the biggest tech conferences of North America, Collision Conference 2022. Collision attracts people from more than 125 countries and more than 35000 people. Vik shares the stories meeting the brightest minds in tech and innovative companies. Very different than the other healthcare tech con…

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Healthcare Uninterrupted 37:32

2y ago37:32

37:32

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on keeping healthcare uninterrupted: 24/7 end to end monitoring of applications and integration between applications. Vik and Jimmy start out with discussing working from home and hybrid working. Because of digital transformation and increasing number of mobile and web applications, i…

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing || Encore Presentation 42:48

2y ago42:48

42:48

For the month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation. In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation. Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. Testing is unde…

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Healthcare's hybrid business model with Telehealth and In-Person Visits 36:42

2+ y ago36:42

36:42

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy chat about the latest health tech news including telehealth and in-person hybrid healthcare. Telehealth is not just a pandemic trend, and it is here to stay. Healthcare is increasingly hybrid with in-person and telehealth visits. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2019-2020, healthcare org…

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Hybrid Healthcare and Consumer Driven Healthcare with Jared Johnson 46:09

2+ y ago46:09

46:09

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, first episode of 2022, Vik and Jimmy welcome Jared Johnson, from Healthcare Podcast Rap. Vik and Jimmy discuss hybrid healthcare or consumer first healthcare in this episode. Jared starts with explaining discussing what hybrid healthcare is with an example of 23 and me. He also mentions examples of Best …

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Emergency Pod! Oracle Buys Cerner. 26:34

2+ y ago26:34

26:34

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, develop…

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The two types of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs Asynchronous with Dr. Purdy 50:59

2+ y ago50:59

50:59

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 healthca…

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How to deal with Expectations for Digital Apps and increase access to On-Demand Care 49:50

2+ y ago49:50

49:50

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 div…

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How to Improve Patient Safety with End to End (E2E) Systems Monitoring 47:12

3y ago47:12

47:12

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss healthcare systems monitoring and integration. In today's healthcare, we are still dependant on users to identify and report system issues. This is a big patient safety issue. Vik explains the issue in detail using an example. Patient arrives in emergency department, and based on th…

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Telehealth, eVisits, and Digital Transformation with Dr. Brett Oliver 49:35

3y ago49:35

49:35

In this jam-packed episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Dr. Brett Oliver (Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health) to dive into several fascinating topics, such as the future of telehealth, digital transformation, interoperability, cultural change across the industry, and much more. To kick it off, we discuss the latest COVID s…

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HIMSS Conference 2021 Post Conference Review 37:15

3y ago37:15

37:15

In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on HIMSS 2021 Conference that just ended Aug 12. This year the conference was in person in Las Vegas and was also available digitally online. Number of participants was low this year because of the pandemic, and it seemed like instead of the usual 50 to 60 thousand registrants, 2021 conference only ha…

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How To Accelerate Healthcare Digital Transformation with APIs 37:56

3y ago37:56

37:56

In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth, but it is way…

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Prevent Hospital System Issues Using Active Monitoring and Test Automation 43:50

3y ago43:50

43:50

In this episode of TWIHT, we discuss how to actively monitor hospital systems data integrity. It is a big challenge to monitor hundreds of systems in a health system to ensure workflows and data are working as expected. This prevents having to rely on users to report issues and prevent extensive downtime. Vik describes a typical scenario in how mos…

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 2: EMR and Hospital Systems 43:07

3y ago43:07

43:07

In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy continue the series about testing and test automation in healthcare, specifically EMR and health systems test automation. We start out with the difference between web test automation that we discussed in the last episode versus EMR and health systems test automation. Vik explains that the biggest difference w…

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How To Implement Test Automation in Health Care || Part 1: Website Testing 42:19

3y ago42:19

42:19

For month of May, Vik and Jimmy are focusing on Healthcare Web, Mobile, EHR Testing and Test Automation. In this part 1 episode, they focus on healthcare web properties testing and test automation strategies and implementation. Vik starts with the basics and defining testing and test automation and testing reality in healthcare. Testing is underrat…

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Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che || Encore Presentation 53:33

3y ago53:33

53:33

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobile and web apps …

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Digital strategy, telehealth, and cloud adoption with Mark 47:51

3+ y ago47:51

47:51

On this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy welcome Mark Brookman, CIO, Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We jump right into tele-health and adoption with Mark. Mark indicated that even though they had started on tele-health path about 3-4 years ago, adoption was scarce. Providers were hesitant because t…

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Accelerate healthcare digital transformation with APIs 37:25

3+ y ago37:25

37:25

In this episode of Digital Transformation acceleration with APIs, Vik and Jimmy discuss the basics of API and its impact on digital transformation in health systems. The biggest factor for talking about APIs in healthcare is digital transformation. COVID has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, it started with telehealth, but it is way…

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Top 3 ways to setup online COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and avoid clogged phone lines 37:53

3+ y ago37:53

37:53

In this week of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy tackle a very timely topic about COVID vaccine scheduling for health systems. Vaccines are here, Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca. The phone is ringing off the hook at health systems, which is creating operations issues for health systems. Clogged up phone lines does not help with patient care be…

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Best of 2020 and Technology Trends for 2021 38:32

3+ y ago38:32

38:32

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Jimmy and Vik recap the 2020 episodes of This Week in Health Tech and chat about the best of 2020 topics, guests, and more. Vik and Jimmy start out by reminiscing about 2020 and how it all started. It is also the one-year anniversary of the TWIHT podcast. Vik concedes that it was not easy to start the po…

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Mobile Apps Management for Health Systems with Wayne Che 52:57

3+ y ago52:57

52:57

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome our very own and close friend Wayne Che to talk about Health System and Mobile Apps - Management, Resources, Build vs Buy, Testing, Infrastructure, Security, Privacy, and more! This episode aligns well with the new digital product offering of Tido Inc. for the management of mobile and web apps …

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Inpatient digital experience and smart hospital rooms with Jeff Fallon 53:31

3+ y ago53:31

53:31

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy invite Jeff Fallon with eVideon to talk about the hospital inpatient experience. It is the first time we are talking about changing inpatient experience with digital transformation in healthcare. We start out with the traditional/existing setup in most hospital rooms. Jeff explains that pat…

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Using wearables for preventative patient care with Dr. Michael Farmer 43:26

3+ y ago43:26

43:26

We have our first physician on This Week in Health Tech. Dr. Michael Farmer, Cardiologist and founder of Corverix to talk about wearables. Michael got into wearables because he found current healthcare very reactive and not enough on prevention. It became frustrating and Michael found that patients had access to smartwatches and all the indicators …

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There's never enough testing - Test Automation with Ryan Neaves and Laura O'Toole 52:35

3+ y ago52:35

52:35

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, we welcome Ryan Neaves, VP, Care Applications from Novant Health, and Laura O'Tool, President, Santa Rosa Consulting. We focus on test automation for Electronic Health Record systems and also for digital testing of mobile and web applications. As some wise person noted, there is never enough testing to p…

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ONC's Cures Act: Empowering Patients, Drive Innovation, and Spur App Economy 29:30

4y ago29:30

29:30

In this episode of TWIHT we focus on the ONC's Cures Act Final act which is all about "Empowering Patients with Their Health Record in a Modern Health IT Economy". The ONC Cures Act Final Rule implements interoperability requirements outlined in the Cures Act. Vik and Jimmy jump into the details about how this Act helps Patients. Putting the patien…

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How to Improve Provider and Patient Telehealth Experience 36:27

4y ago36:27

36:27

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy focus on telehealth experience and making changes to provide an optimal user experience for providers and patients. Like it or not, this pandemic has pushed telehealth to the forefront and usage has gone up more than a hundred percent. Vik flips the script on Jimmy and in this episode wants…

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How Are You? Human Resources Management in a crisis w/ Tony Welch 50:56

4y ago50:56

50:56

In the latest episode of This Week in Health Tech we welcome Tony Welch, Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Vik mentions that actually, Tony Welch hired him in his first hospital job, at Hardin Memorial Health in Kentucky. We jump into the COVID-19 situation and how it has affected remote working at Phoebe…

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Healthcare IT Future Readiness with Laura O'Toole 37:52

4y ago37:52

37:52

We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik comments about…

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Focusing on Security and Privacy in the New Normal 36:42

4y ago36:42

36:42

In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy comment on security and privacy in this new normal of COVID-19 crisis. We start by talking about the latest in health tech. Vik talks about digital strategy: telehealth, AI, mobile apps, and how healthcare systems in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis are having to figure out how to update their strategy and m…

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Post COVID-19 readiness with Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, and Cloud Framework 41:44

4y ago41:44

41:44

In this episode of TWIHT, Vik and Jimmy talk about readiness post pandemic. They comment about planning and changes healthcare organizations will need to make to incorporate tools and workflows to be better prepared for next pandemic. Vik provides examples of tools being used at Cleveland Clinic and other leading healthcare organizations. They comm…

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What is the future of healthcare? Big Tech healthcare disruption with Unmesh Srivastava 58:00

4y ago58:00

58:00

A very exciting packed episode with Unmesh Srivastava in this episode of TWIHT. Unmesh introduces P3 Health Partners, a health population management group that wants to shift the industry's focus from managing illness to cultivating wellness. Unmesh manages everything digital at P3 in his role as CTO at P3. We start out with understanding the timin…

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A researcher's view about healthcare digital strategy and COVID-19 challenges with John Marchica 49:15

4y ago49:15

49:15

We welcome John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research. Darwin Research. Darwin Research provides research and subject matter expertise for health systems, #ACOs, Payers, Home Health, #Pharmaceuticals, and more. John introduces Darwin Research and then discusses the current coronavirus numbers in Arizona. John indicates that current #research and surveys a…

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How to change patient engagement and digital strategy during a pandemic with Alan Shoebridge. 45:35

4y ago45:35

45:35

Vik and Jimmy welcome Alan Shoebridge, Director of Marketing, Salinas Valley Memorial Health System. Jared, founder of Shift.Health introduced Alan to Vik and we give a shout out to Jared at the beginning of the podcast. We start out with the introduction of Alan and the current state in California with the COVID-19 crisis. SVMH has adapted for COV…

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How to deal with current healthcare crisis and be future tech ready with Laura O'Toole 37:15

4y ago37:15

37:15

We welcome Laura O'Toole with Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. in this episode of This Week in Health Tech and she presents a very candid and insightful view on the current healthcare crisis and how to be better prepared for the future. We start out with the introduction of Laura and Santa Rosa Consulting, a healthcare-focused company. Vik comments about…

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Top 10 Covid-19 Tech Trends in Healthcare 50:03

4y ago50:03

50:03

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy provide their thoughts and comments on Top 10 COVID-19 tech trends in healthcare. This original post was published on Forbes by Gil Press, link provided below. Here are the top 3 trends from the list: 1. Say goodbye to your office—the virtual becomes real 2. Beyond the PCR drive-through—dia…

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COVID-19 tracing apps on iPhone and Android 16:00

4y ago16:00

16:00

In the first episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss Apple and Android tracing apps for COVID-19. However, they disagree on the use of the tracing app. Jimmy feels it is a slippery slope if we start using tracing apps and Vik is of the opinion that tracing app will help us keep our citizens safe and help us re-open economies with…

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Preparing to Reopen Healthcare Services with slowdown of COVID -19 using technology 37:50

4y ago37:50

37:50

Finally, there is a glimmer of hope, and lots of states and provinces in North America are starting to prepare to reopen more healthcare services. Vik and Jimmy comment on how health systems are planning and preparing to reopen more services like diagnostic services, radiology, non-urgent and elective procedures, and also ambulatory-clinic visits. …

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Post Pandemic Changes - AI, Interoperability, Cloud Framework 40:59

4+ y ago40:59

40:59

in this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy comment about planning and changes healthcare organizations will need to make to incorporate tools and workflows to be better prepared for next pandemic. Vik provides examples of tools being used at Cleveland Clinic and other leading healthcare organizations. They comment about the exponent…

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Using Technology to combat COVID-19 34:31

4+ y ago34:31

34:31

Jimmy and Vik would first of all like to thank all healthcare staff with the growing demand for healthcare services and risking your own health to take care of patients. In this episode, Vik and Jimmy comment on the COVID-19 situation and impact on general life and businesses especially healthcare. They talk about the use of hospital intranet and h…

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Extending value of EHR - Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobile Apps 31:42

4+ y ago31:42

31:42

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy discuss reasons why EHR must be extended. With a fragmented EHR market in both inpatient and even more in the outpatient setting, EHRs present challenges in interoperability, social determinants of health, patient engagement, care coordination, data analytics as per Sage Growth Partners Stu…

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HIMSS20 - Getting ready for HIMSS Global Conference 25:08

4+ y ago25:08

25:08

In this timely episode, Vik and Jimmy focus on the upcoming HIMSS global Health IT conference in Orlando Mar 9-13 2020. We talk about preparing and setting personal goals for the conference. Vik comments about the hot topics for the conference: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Analytics, but more importantly focusing on topics t…

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Digital Strategy with Top 100 Influencer Jared Johnson 43:52

4+ y ago43:52

43:52

Vik and Jimmy welcome Jared Johnson, a top 100 influencer digital strategist passionate about building innovative healthcare brands. We talk about how digital strategy has allowed us to have completely personalized touchpoints and engagements with people instead of traditional blasting people with TV spots, radio commercials and taking out ads in t…

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Conversation with a world-renowned Futurist: Nikolas Badminton 43:19

4+ y ago43:19

43:19

In this episode of This Week in Health Tech, Vik and Jimmy welcome guest speaker Nikolas Badminton (www.nikolasbadminton.com) to talk about future of healthcare tech. Nik is a world-renowned futurist, researcher, and media celebrity. He leads the team Exponential Minds, an expert advisory firm that helps organizations, trillion-dollar companies, pr…

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