Gastro Broadcast

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Eyad Abdalla, co-founder and chief executive officer of Plena Health, about how artificial intelligence can relieve the administrative burden that is crowding out patient care in independent practices. Independent practices face falling reimbursement, rising operating costs and growing demands from payers, all while administrative work takes up more of their time. Plena uses AI to take on that work, giving practices more capacity to care for patients. Join Dr. Rosen

Dr. Michael Weinstein interviews Nicole Ringwood, director of nursing at Borland Groover in Jacksonville, Florida, and Sahir Jaggi, founder and chief executive officer of Forus, about the prior authorization burden on gastroenterology practices and how artificial intelligence can reduce it. Forus uses AI to handle prior authorizations, appeals, financial assistance enrollment and pharmacy routing. Borland Groover piloted the platform in one office before expanding it across the practice, where p

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Vivek Kaul, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, about the arrival of a new technology and its endorsement in society guidelines, and how clinical practice models help physicians decide whether to adopt something new before the guidelines arrive. Kaul served as project coordinator for the clinical practice model for TissueCypher, a test that predicts a patient's risk of progression f

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Vish Srivastava, co-founder and chief executive officer of Century Health, which uses artificial intelligence to turn the clinical information in a practice's electronic health records into structured, real-world datasets that give physicians a clearer view of their patient populations. Century Health has built its network by partnering with independent practices in neurology, nephrology, ophthalmology and gastroenterology. The Century Health Abstraction and Retriev

Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Kevin Rank, chief medical officer at MNGI Digestive Health in Minnesota, about the practice's Links to Care Program, which provides free colonoscopies to uninsured patients across the Twin Cities and earned the National Achievement Award from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable. Links to Care works through partnerships with Federally Qualified Health Centers, community health centers where many uninsured patients already receive care, and covers the colonosco

Dr. Fred Rosenberg interviews Jay Kreger, chief executive officer of CRH Medical, a GI solutions company that provides anesthesia services to gastroenterology practices at more than 150 ambulatory surgery centers in 18 states, about how independent practices can keep anesthesia care reliable and accessible for patients. Independent GI practices depend on anesthesia services for many of the procedures they perform, but face increasing difficulty maintaining anesthesia coverage, from competition w