{"id":1,"date":"2019-09-12T17:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-12-27T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:11:04","slug":"rik-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/2019\/09\/12\/rik-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Barrier Technology to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease \u2013 Rik Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/11324651\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/30455c\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Barrier Technology to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rik Heller is a serial entrepreneur and founder of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/welloinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wello<\/a>. &nbsp;A self-confessed technology and healthcare geek, Rik has also been called the Grandfather of Active RFID and holds many patents in this area that are licensed globally. With a background in math and electrical engineering, he has been working in healthcare since 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1999 Rik Heller founded FreshLoc and became a pioneer of environmental monitoring for compliance and reporting in the healthcare industry. FreshLoc is a remote temperature monitoring technology for hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, and other healthcare entities to help comply with temperature related safety regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently, Rik has pursued interests in infection prevention and control, founding Wello. There he has developed, among other high-tech digital solutions, a hands-free, self-service fever screening, identification and notification platform that is focused on controlling entry of potentially contagious persons to very high-risk patient areas.&nbsp;Rik calls this a \u201cbarrier technology\u201d and believes that in the battle against Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) it\u2019s critical that we \u201cseparate the match from the fuse\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This episode originally aired on <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The #HCBiz Show! on April 12th, 2017 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thehcbiz.com\/using-barrier-technology-to-stop-the-spread-of-infectious-disease-rik-heller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The #HCBiz Show! on April 12th, 2017<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 001<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cover a lot of ground on this episode, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How infections spread<\/li><li>Why it\u2019s only partly a healthcare solution that we need to seek<\/li><li>The role of humidity in mitigating or amplifying a contagion<\/li><li>Why we must dispel the myth that asymptomatic&nbsp;people are the problem<\/li><li>How 10% of the sick are \u201csuper-spreaders\u201d and how we&nbsp;can identify them<\/li><li>Why you should stay home when you\u2019re sick and why your employer should make you<\/li><li>Where the CDC gets it wrong<\/li><li>Why good hair days are bad health days<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen wherever you get your podcasts:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"tips-listen\" style=\"display:flex;flex-direction:row;flex-wrap:wrap;justify-content:center;align-items:center;gap:14px;margin:12px 0 28px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-infection-prevention-strategy-tips\/id1480185524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:block;line-height:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts-Badge-300x80.png\" alt=\"Listen on Apple Podcasts\" style=\"height:56px;width:auto;display:block;margin:0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5HBxu0iKVNLdFfDtq42ZDl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;height:56px;width:210px;border:1px solid #a6a6a6;border-radius:9px;background:#fff;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spotify.png\" alt=\"Listen on Spotify\" style=\"height:30px;width:auto;display:block;margin:0\"><\/a><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">or, listen right here:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/11324651\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/30455c\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can learn more about Rik here:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rikheller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rikheller\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rikheller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@<strong>rikheller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wello:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/welloinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/welloinc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wello on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wello_Inc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@<strong>Wello_Inc<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rik Heller is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Wello.  A self-confessed technology and healthcare geek, Rik has also been called the Grandfather of Active RFID and holds many patents in this area that are licensed globally. With a background in math and electrical engineering, he has been working in healthcare since 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepdive.tips\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}