This is a podcast devoted to all things Information Technology related and talk of how to pursue a career in IT through classes from Mountwest Community & Technical College.
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The American healthcare system is one of the most innovative in the world. But it’s also riddled with complex challenges, such as access to affordable medications, inefficiency and administrative burdens, and communication barriers between providers. There’s clearly a better way—and at Surescripts, we have a unique sightline into what that may be. In this series, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with today’s most inspiring and innovative leaders in healt ...
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Driving Healthcare Innovation and Access with Dr. Scott Howell
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33:01“I think many organizations aren't really designed to innovate,” says Scott Howell, M.D. When it comes to opportunities to innovate healthcare, Dr. Howell sees low-hanging fruit everywhere. But, he claims, “the rule is you can’t touch it.” As a young provider, Dr. Howell saw firsthand the consequences of healthcare inefficiencies. His frustration w…
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Incentivizing Better Care with Former AHIP Head Matt Eyles
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40:09“We’ve got the system that we’ve designed and the one that we’re paying for,” says Matt Eyles frankly. Eyles has spent a fascinating career trying to align the two. From government to life sciences to the nationwide health plan association AHIP and beyond, he’s wrestled with some of healthcare’s trickiest challenges from just about every angle. How…
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The Evolution of EHRs with Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Eric Boose
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40:28From paper charts to electronic records to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Boose has experienced the transformation of primary care firsthand. Dr. Boose was a quick adopter of electronic health records when they came onto the scene. His early interest in the technology primed him to become a leader in clinical informatics. Today, in addition to b…
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David Bardan of CLEAR Gets Clear on Healthcare
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34:22Frequent flyers are likely aware of CLEAR, a company that uses biometrics to expedite identity verification at airports. Now, David Bardan is helping bring CLEAR’s transformative identification technology to healthcare. After a decade of experience in the healthcare and technology sectors, Bardan joined CLEAR in 2022 to head their healthcare initia…
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Investing in Innovative Patient Care with TPG’s John Schilling
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37:18John Schilling, M.D., co-leads TPG Capital’s healthcare investments, where he helps decide on the best opportunities for driving healthcare innovation. Tune in to our chat about spurring systemic innovation and making life better for patients and the providers who care for them. “We always start with the patient,” Schilling says on the episode, “an…
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Cultivating Innovation with Optum Rx’s Jen McGonigle
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33:42Healthcare executive Jen McGonigle has worked at the intersection of healthcare and technology for over 20 years. Her experience has taught her that regardless of what challenges technology can bring, its innovations far outweigh any cons. In our first episode of the season, we sit down with Jen McGonigle of Optum Rx for a chat about cultivating in…
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Season 4 Trailer: Smart talk on healthcare and technology
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1:30The American healthcare system is one of the most innovative in the world. But it’s no secret that we also face serious challenges. Too many patients cut pills in half to make them last, too many can’t access care in the first place, and too many providers are so burned out with paperwork and administrative tasks that they’re leaving practice altog…
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FDA’s Troy Tazbaz is Changing the Narrative of Healthcare Technology
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30:28Troy Tazbaz has long worked at the intersection of business and technology. And while it may not seem like a typical background for working at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it may be just what is needed to push healthcare technology forward. On our podcast, Tazbaz recounts his thoughts as he accepted the position of Director of the Digita…
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For Alexandra Drane, Caregivers Are the Unsung Angels of Healthcare
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36:31Alexandra Drane is a bona fide change agent in healthcare. Not content with being an entrepreneur, she became a serial entrepreneur, and founded multiple healthcare ventures that have ranged from health IT to support for unpaid (and often unsung) caregivers. Drane’s unique mix of irreverence and optimism has brought her from one challenge to the ne…
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Dr. Eric Weidmann’s History of Embracing New Tech & Expanded Care Teams
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33:26Care teams are evolving to break down silos and prioritize collaboration in patient care. Is healthcare ready? Dr. Eric Weidmann, a former chief medical officer and primary care physician, stops by our podcast to share his perspective on some of the most pressing questions in healthcare today, including: How can an expanded care team help make up f…
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The Rebel’s Guide to Navigating American Healthcare with Susannah Fox
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35:17In the early days of her career, Susannah Fox fell in love with the democratization of data and the rebalancing of power. Today, that passion has taken the form of helping empower patients with their care. Fox wrote her observations of the shift toward patient-led care in her new book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Me…
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The Government’s Role in Healing Healthcare with Catharine Young
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37:00When Catharine Young, Ph.D., decided to become a scientist, she had no idea she would ever work for government agencies like the Department of Defense. But by working at such influential organizations, she learned about their power to solve some of healthcare’s biggest problems. Young’s career path led her to the White House’s Cancer Moonshot initi…
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The Pharmacist as Changemaker with ONC’s Tricia Lee Rolle
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32:07From her initial dreams of becoming a pharmacologist to her current role as an advisor for national health IT efforts, Tricia Lee Rolle has always been interested in research and getting stuff done. As Rolle says, “What is really fulfilling about being in government is that you realize what you're doing is affecting not just one or a few or a handf…
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Pooja Babbrah’s Legacy of Supporting Pharmacy Interoperability
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30:55Pooja Babbrah has secured a trifecta in healthcare: She’s the Practice Lead for Pharmacy and PBM Services at Point-of-Care Partners, is a board member of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs and was recently a member of the HITAC Pharmacy Interoperability and Emerging Therapeutics Task Force at ONC. Babbrah’s work at these organizati…
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The Evolving Role of Pharmacy with NCPA’s Doug Hoey
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31:23As the son of a pharmacist and a licensed pharmacist himself, Doug Hoey is intimately familiar with the importance of community pharmacies. As Hoey notes, “People will come to their community pharmacies with issues that they just can't get served in other venues. I personally think that they are kind of a healthcare safety net, if you will.” Hoey h…
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Season 3 Trailer: Smart talk on healthcare and technology
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3:13The American healthcare system is one of the most innovative in the world, but it’s also riddled with complex challenges. On Season 3 of “There’s a Better Way,” we’re taking a closer look at ways in which healthcare can heal itself—through innovation that prioritizes collaboration and positive impact, through intelligence sharing that improves the …
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Aneesh Chopra Blazes Trails from Industry to Government and Back Again
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37:51Aneesh Chopra is President of CareJourney, an open data and analytics platform delivering a trusted, transparent rating system for physicians, networks, facilities and markets on the move to value. Prior to CareJourney, Chopra served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer (2009–2012) and as the fourth Virginia Secretary of Technology (2006–2009…
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Dr. G Battles Misinformation in Healthcare—and Builds Trust with Patients
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33:01In an age of misinformation and doubt, Geeta Nayyar, M.D., is a builder of trust. “Dr. G,” as she is known, recognizes that trust is the key to having a successful relationship between patients, providers and payers. “If I don’t trust you, I certainly won’t listen to you or take your advice,” says Dr. G. In this episode, Dr. G describes how she wit…
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Lili Brillstein’s Masterclass on How to Be Collaborative
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34:33This episode features Lili Brillstein, founder and CEO of Bcollaborative, who works to lead the transition from fee-for-service care models to value-based care models in American healthcare. Brillstein says that when she was studying business in college, value-based care models weren’t even a blip on the radar. We were paying for units of care—and …
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Transforming the Patient Experience with Cris Ross at Mayo Clinic
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37:25This episode features Cris Ross, Chief Information Officer, Mayo Clinic. At Mayo, Cris’s job is to provide reliable technology for one of the best hospitals in the nation. He works to figure out how to use technology in new ways, and to inspire physicians and scientists to explore new technological ideas. “If you could just pick one thing you’re pa…
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Channeling Leonardo Da Vinci to Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Challenges
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28:58This episode features George Van Antwerp, who leads Deloitte’s future of pharmacy strategy. In the episode, Van Antwerp unpacks his vision for the future of pharmacy, such as how disruption will create transformative opportunities and challenges. He also shares his thoughts on interoperability and health equity. “Pharmacy is the most used benefit,”…
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A Journey in Serendipity: Didi Davis Rides the Wave of Interoperability
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33:16This episode features Didi Davis, Vice President of Informatics, Conformance & Interoperability at The Sequoia Project. Davis has over three decades of experience in the healthcare industry and is nationally known as a subject matter expert in healthcare standards and interoperability design and strategy. Davis describes the arc of her career as a …
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The COVID-19 Testing Tsar on Fighting the Pandemic, Serving with Purpose and Why Pharmacists Are Angels from Heaven
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35:25This episode features Dr. Brett Giroir, CEO of Altesa BioSciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm working to develop new medications for viral respiratory infections with a focus on vulnerable populations. And Dr. Giroir knows plenty about infections, having served as the COVID-19 “testing tsar” on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. I…
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Talking the Future of Pharmacy with Rina Shah
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33:32Innovative, Compassionate, Future-Focused. Those three words characterize Rina Shah and what she wants for her patients, for the care Walgreens delivers, and for the industry at large. In this episode, we talk with Shah, who is Walgreens Group Vice President of Pharmacy of the Future and Segment Strategy, about just how she envisions the FUTURE of …
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Getting to Interoperability 2.0 with ONC’s Micky Tripathi
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42:41Healthcare interoperability has been a buzzword for years. After decades of incremental progress, the industry is making traction. Information is being exchanged—and in massive quantities; clinicians and healthcare leaders are now pushing for it to be consumable. Meanwhile, we’re still not far along in interoperable systems to allow for national in…
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Welcome to the second season of There's a Better Way: Smart Talk on Healthcare and Technology, an award-winning podcast series from Surescripts. In each episode, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with some of the most inspiring leaders in healthcare today for in-depth and personal conversations about the industr…
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Envisioning the Future of Healthcare with Kroger Health President Colleen Lindholz
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45:38As President of Kroger Health, Colleen Lindholz leads a team of 23,000 healthcare professionals in nearly 2500 pharmacies in 37 states who care for more than 14 million patients annually. In this episode, Colleen shares passion for wellness and nutrition, and health and how Kroger is working to deliver whole patient care. Melissa and Colleen also d…
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Health IT Guru & Bowtie Aficionado: Talking Trusted & Protected Data Exchange with EHNAC’s Lee Barrett
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31:49In this episode, Melanie sits down with Lee Barrett, Executive Director and CEO of EHNAC, a national healthcare accreditation organization. Previously, he was the President and CEO and sat on the board of directors at HealthEC, a consulting and solutions provider of products for ACOs, Population Health, HIEs, web portals, EMR and transactional plat…
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Coming Out from Behind the Bench: NCPA President Michele Belcher Talks About Community, the Future of Pharmacy and the Best Soda Fountain in the West
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31:32In this episode, Melanie sits down with community pharmacist Michele Belcher. Michele is president of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the owner of Grants Pass Pharmacy, which dates to 1904 and is the last independent pharmacy in Grants Pass, Oregon. Elected president of NCPA in 2022, Michele has long been active in state a…
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Dr. Nele Jessel on Clinician Burnout, the Power of HIT and Why She's an EHR Cheerleader
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30:21In this episode, Melanie sits down with Dr. Nele Jessel, the Chief Medical Officer of athenahealth. With two medical licenses—one to practice in Germany and one to practice in the U.S.—Dr. Jessel is a board-certified clinical informaticist and pediatrician with a passion for improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes through technology. A s…
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More Is Not Always Better: Making Interoperability Work for Patients & Clinicians
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36:56As other guests have shared, there’s often a strong link between a parent’s professional world and the career their child chooses. In other words: “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” In this episode, Melanie sits down with someone who understands this connection firsthand: Sam Lambson, the Vice President of Interoperability at Oracle Cerner…
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Innovation, Please: What's Next and What's Needed in Specialty Therapy
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33:48As the U.S. population ages, it’s also getting sicker: According to the CDC, more than a quarter of U.S. adults face multiple chronic conditions. An ever-increasing number of Americans are on a specialty therapy or medication—more than 66 million in 2022. The good news? Conditions that were untreatable decades ago now have effective therapies. The …
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Healthcare, Tech and Capitol Hill
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31:09In this episode, Melanie sits down with Tina Grande, the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Healthcare Leadership Council. In her role, Tina helps to advocate for consumer-centered healthcare reform, emphasizing the value of private-sector innovation as well as public-private partnership. Tina has healthcare and policy in her blood: her fat…
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Are We There Yet? Advancing Real-World Interoperability
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40:59In this episode, Melanie sits down with Mariann Yeager, the Chief Executive Officer of The Sequoia Project, an independent advocate for nationwide health information exchange. Beginning her career in health IT in Nashville, Mariann eventually made her way to Washington, D.C., where she’s remained on the forefront of the digital healthcare transform…
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How COVID-19 Has Upended Assumptions About Care
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30:18TIME recently named Walgreens one of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022, noting that as of March 2022, the company had administered 60 million COVID-19 vaccines and 26 million tests. In this episode, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with a guest who has had a truly noteworthy career, beginning as a cash…
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Welcome to "There's a Better Way: Smart Talk on Healthcare & Technology", a new podcast series by Surescripts. In each episode, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with some of the most inspiring leaders in healthcare today for in-depth and personal conversations about the industry’s challenges and opportunities. …
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Talk on Tech 43: Cory Brown, Animation and Game Developer program
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23:47Patrick talks with Cory Brown, Mountwest professor and game designer, about the technologies and skills that students learn in the Animation and Game Developer program at Mountwest. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 42: Cory Brown, Getting started in game design
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43:03Patrick talks with Cory Brown, game designer and studio owner, about advice on how to get started in game design/development. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 41: Cory Brown, A game designer's journey
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25:09Patrick talks with Cory Brown, Mountwest and Marshall graduate and game designer, about his personal journey into the game designer field. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 40: Justin McElroy, WVGDE2017 Keynote
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1:05:43This episode is the keynote speech given by Justin McElroy, the host/co-host of numerous podcasts and co-founder of Polygon. The keynote was given at the second annual WV Game Developers Expo on Oct 27, 2017. @TalkonTechMCTC or [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech: WVGDE 2017 Announcement
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2:47Patrick and Josh talk about the upcoming West Virginia Game Developers Expo 2017 that will take place Friday, October 27th at Mountwest Community and Technical College's campus. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 38: Jack Daniels, Lasso Games
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56:45Patrick and Josh talk to Jack Daniels of Lasso Games, a local Huntington game studio, about the road from music teacher to game developer and what it takes to run a game studio. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 37: Tanner Webb, a plethora of technology focuses
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1:26:56Patrick and Tanner Webb talk about the abundance of technology focuses at Mountwest and how to make the most of your internship and climb the technology ladder. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 36: Mountwest and Marshall Programming Articulation Agreement
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15:56Patrick, Josh, and Brian Morgan talk about the new programming articulation between Mountwest and Marshall University that allows for an Associate and a Bachelor in Science in four and half years. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 35: Brian Morgan, Managing Advice
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46:50Patrick and Josh talk with Brian Morgan, who has worn several managing hats over the years, about the unique skill set needed to manage subordinates or even your own business. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 34: Brian Morgan, Programming Extraordinaire
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29:48Patrick and Josh talk with Brian Morgan, Marshall University graduate and programmer, about his personal story of self-motivation and what skills are needed to be successful in the programming field. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 33: Andrea Emmanuel and Greg Shoemaker, IT Fast Track graduates
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1:04:54Patrick and Scott talk with Andrea Emmanuel and Greg Shoemaker, recent graduates of the IT Fast Track - Network Security option, about why they chose IT, the Fast Track option, and the Networking Practicum and Internship classes. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTCעל ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 32: Elisha Meadows, Graphic Design graduate
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45:10Patrick talks with Elisha Meadows, one of the first graduates of Mountwest's new Graphic Design program, about returning to school, self-promoting, and breaking into the graphic design field. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 31: Network Systems Security - IT Fast Track option
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15:31Patrick Smith and Scott Nicholas talk about Mountwest's Network Systems Security - IT Fast Track option. For questions on how to enroll, email [email protected] or [email protected] Feedback for the podast @TalkonTechMCTCעל ידי Talk on Tech
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Talk on Tech 30: Joe Haun, IST, and Technology Management
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1:08:05Patrick talks with Joe Haun, Marshall University IST grad and fellow Technology Management grad, about his career and education in the technology field. Feedback @TalkonTechMCTC or email [email protected]על ידי Talk on Tech
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