Month: August 2016

Nurses – Born to Innovate

Nurses are born to be innovators

Tim Raderstorf is the first Chief Innovation Officer at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. He is also a Clinical Instructor of Practice. Tim has studied and focused on neurosurgical research on Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome, designed clinical spaces, and improved patient throughput in the pediatric hematology/oncology ambulatory settings.

Tim Raderstorf presentingInnovation and Entrepreneurship

Tim’s passion lies in connecting great thinkers and fostering ideation through the innovation and commercialization process. He helped design an innovation and entrepreneurship program for healthcare at the Ohio State University College of Nursing. This fall, he’ll be speaking at the Advancing Nurses Through Innovation Conference hosted by the National Nurses Business Association Conference in Las Vegas and the Nursing Innovation Summit at the Cleveland Clinic.

Listen to Tim’s ideas on nurses, entrepreneurship, and innovation on the Get Social Health podcast.
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop for Health Professionals

Laurel Van Dromme

Bernadette Melnyk

Creating Healthy Brands: designRoom Creative

designRoom Creative (dRC) began more than twenty years ago. Kelly Farrell, designer and founder, left the big agency world with a mission — deliver strategic, impeccable design with responsive, personal client service. Since then she’s moved dRC into the national market while developing a specialty in creating healthy brands, especially healthcare related brands including Signature Health and the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. In the podcast, we talk about getting the C-Suite and Board behind a new brand process, even when the brand is over 100 years old! Listen to the podcast and let me know what you think

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A Passion for Health Technology

Many physicians have discovered a passion for health technology, but not many have taken an 180-degree turn into the digital health field right out of residency. Jonathan O’Donnell did and has found his unique medical perspective to be an asset to the programs he has joined like Startup Weekend Health, iScribes and the design thinking workshop he co-lead with Katie Donohue McMillan. In our conversation, Jonathan and I discussed his medical school training at Duke University and how he caught the digital health bug. Listen to our conversation or catch the time stamps below.

Introduction, Startup Weekend Health
Joyce Lee, Design Thinking advocate
Duke Medical School
DCRI – Duke Clinical Research Institute
Are you a digital early adopter
What vision does your memory bring?
Design thinking
smashing boxes Medical School + Innovative Thinking

Dell Medical School
IBM Watson
Digital health relieving mundane processes
Everyone is creative
Smashing Boxes
Design Disruptors

Katie Donohue McMillian

Amy Abernethy, MD

Jonathan O’Donnell, MD

Social Media Tip: Kenny Brooks – Use team LinkedIn profiles as a sales resource

What IS engaging content? (Free Webinar)

Ever wish you could just skip the whole social media thing?

If you’re not 100% thrilled about all the time you’ve been plugging away on social media, you are not alone.  I hear practice managers and physician owners stressed out over details of social media & blog content.

Tuesday, August 23rd at 12:00pm EST Hosted by Srini Kolathur of EHR2.0

Wednesday, August 24th at 12:00pm EST Hosted by Get Social Health and The Social Nurse

Wednesday, August 24th at 3:00pm EST Hosted by Manny Oliverez of Capture Billing

Thursday, August 25th at 12:00pm EST Hosted by Mary Pat Whaley of Manage My Practice

Serious Play Conference

A few episodes ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Sue Bohle about the Serious Play Conference. The conference in its sixth year was hosted at UNC Kenan-Flagler business school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The conference moves around every year so I was very excited that it was in my own backyard this year. While the conference wasn’t exclusively about creating serious games for healthcare there were a number of speakers there talking about the games they were developing.

In today’s podcast, I have an interview with for brilliant minds who are using gamification, a term will be discussing shortly, to help individuals with learning, education, engaging, and managing health and behavioral challenges. My four guests are Doug Watley with breakaway games, Lynn Fiellin with the Yale Center for Health and Learning, Dan Scherlis with the “Breathe Free” game, and Randy Brown of Virtual Heroes.

This is just a small selection of the many speakers and attendees present at this conference. I encourage you to find out more about “serious play” and “serious games” Give a listen to my interview with Sue Bohle.

Breakaway GamesMy first interview is with Doug Watley the CEO of breakaway games. His game “Vital Signs”, was just awarded one of two best in show awards.

Play2ProtectOne of the sessions that fascinated me was the discussion of how a 2-D player game was created to help at-risk middle school-aged children work through scenarios of behavior choices and what the consequences would be. Let’s learn about Lynn Fiellin’s Play2Protect game.

Breathe FreeI had a really interesting conversation with Dan Scherlis he is both a professional game developer and now a health games executive producer. It’s very interesting thoughts on the word game of vacation and told me about a game he’s working on “Breath Free” to help smokers try to quit. We even talked about good versus evil.

Virtual HeroesMy last interview is with Randy Brown of virtual heroes is a fascinating spinoff of Epic Games Unreal Engine creating virtual worlds to help teach and connect individuals in a variety of professions from the military to public service to healthcare. His company, Virtual Heroes is working with the Duke School of Nursing on an IRB study for Type II diabetes support in a virtual world. Let’s hear what Randy has to say.

Thank you for listening to get social health I hope you found serious games for healthcare as interesting as I did. As a reminder go give a listen to my other podcast with Sue Bolla the executive director of the Serious Play Conference.

I’ve published over hundred episodes of Get Social Health. There have been a lot of fascinating, fun and interesting conversations with healthcare practitioners, digital health thought leaders, physicians nurses and healthcare professionals who are actively using social media to further their healthcare messages. When you visit the get social health.com website you’ll find on the right-hand side a search bar so type in a topic and will be able to find some really great interviews.

If you have a suggestion for an interview either a topic or an individual I’d love to hear about it please reach out to me via [email protected] one thing I would ask is for you to take the time to give me a review or rating it helps other individuals find the podcast and we could always use a few more listeners. I appreciate your listening today have a great week.