Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Why Healthcare Safety Is a Data Problem: A Conversation with RLDatix’s August Calhoun

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Safety incidents in healthcare cause tremendous patient suffering—and they also create major financial and operational consequences for health syste...

An "Empathy First" Approach to Chronic Illness Among Vulnerable Populations

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

You always know an interview is special when it gives you the chills as you listen to the stories.  That was my experience when I met with 86Borders ...

Bringing AI Agents to Healthcare with Anshar AI

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In our recent interview with Pinaki Saha, CEO & Founder at Anshar AI, he put some numbers on the problems that are commonly cited in healthcare bi...

Healthcare's Multi-Billion Dollar Fraud Problem Starts at the Front Door: How FaceTec is Closing It

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The healthcare industry loses billions to fraud every year and struggles with dangerous patient matching errors. We often treat these as back-office p...

AI Can Quickly Become a Confident Liar. Dimensional Insight Explains How to Prevent It.

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Feed bad data into an artificial intelligence model and it will confidently lie to you. AI is a pattern matcher with zero intuition. It will simply sc...

CTG Moves Healthcare Cybersecurity In From the Perimeter

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It can be hard to justify expenditures on security by citing their ROI or financial impact. Jeremy Molnar, Principal Cybersecurity Advisor, Healthcare...

DrFirst Reduces Physician Burden Through Well-Designed Medication Management

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prescribing medication has become unfathomably complex these days, with rules interposed between the patient and physician by pharmacies, payers, and ...

The Right Information at the Right Time for Post-Acute Care

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Discharges for acute care facilities involve multiple inputs from multiple departments and can be chaotic. After the patient reaches a rehab setting o...

Heidi Uses AI to Shift Health Care to an Abundance Mentality

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Heidi was around for years before LLMs and modern generative AI were developed. According to Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Heidi is the world's...

Harmony Healthcare IT Focuses on Maintaining Data Across Mergers

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One-fifth of all the health care institutions in the U.S. were involved in mergers and acquisitions between 2015 and 2020. Harmony Healthcare IT helps...

AI Can Bring a Golden Era for Medicine

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ruben Amarasingham, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Smarter Technologies, is often asked by medical students whether they're in the right profession....

Optimum Healthcare IT Frees Health Care Providers to Focus on Strategy

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There is a lot of talk about staffing shortages and cost pressures in the health care industry. But Scott Gildea, Executive Vice President, Managed Se...

Lenovo and Duke Health Consider the Hospital of the Future

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this video, we hear about trends and future expectations in health IT from LaDonna Worrell, Senior Director of IT Operations at Duke Health and Jus...

Healthcare Interoperability Works Through Open Standards

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners, envisions a wholesale move by the health IT industry to open standards, health care providers moving data...

Does Your Radiology AI Actually Work Here? HOPPR Has an Answer

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI models look great in validation studies. They clear regulatory review. Then they land in your hospital with different scanners, different workflows...

Guidance from The Sequoia Project on Computable Consent and Privacy

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Clinicians, health IT professionals, and policy makers all want to protect patient privacy. This is a hard goal, made harder by the increasing pressur...

Why Health IT Still Struggles to Move as One System According to Robert Fox

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Interoperability looks solved on paper. In practice, clinicians are still switching systems, managing workarounds, and waiting on data that should alr...

Data That's Timely and Insightful from PointClickCare

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Avoiding readmissions after acute care is just one manifestation of the move to value-based care, according to Shweta Shanbhag, Director Product Manag...

How NextGen Healthcare's Ambient AI Helped Two Clinics Break the Cycle of Pajama Time

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If your clinicians are still charting after dinner, you are not imagining the burnout curve. Many teams have hit the wall and are looking for relief t...

How RapidAI Is Rethinking Resilience in Radiology Workflows

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] What happens to radiology workflows when the cloud is unavailable, connectivity drops, or systems are under strain? For many health system...

AI Enhances Outreach to Blood Donors

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

While collecting blood, Versiti collects data. Versiti is a nonprofit founded in 1947 with the two goals of providing a sustainable blood supply to cl...

How Health Catalyst Turns Analytics Into Action Clinicians Actually Use

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] Healthcare organizations invest heavily in analytics, yet improvement often stalls. Reports arrive late. Dashboards feel disconnected from...

Does Interoperability Really Have ROI? NextGen Explains Why the Answer Is Yes

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] IT teams hear the same question every budget cycle: does interoperability actually pay off? It turns out the ROI shows up in places most o...

AI Is No Longer Optional in Radiology Operations

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Staffing shortages. Growing waitlists. Fixed capacity. Radiology leaders are running out of room to experiment, and AI is moving from “nice to have”...

Healthcare Doesn’t Need More Technology. It Needs Its Technology to Work Together.

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare organizations keep adding new tools, yet frontline frustration continues to grow. More dashboards. More data. Slower decisions. This conver...

Akumin’s Drop Trailer Brings Mobile Imaging to Ground Level

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Imaging demand keeps rising, but building new capacity is slow, expensive, and disruptive. What if mobile imaging could feel less like a workaround an...

Greenway’s Reality Check on Manual Data Exchange and Shrinking Roadmaps

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] Health IT roadmaps used to span years. Now they are collapsing into months. The question many leaders are asking is whether vendors can ac...

Why Radiology Is Where AI Actually Earns Clinician Trust

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI is everywhere in healthcare. The challenge now facing providers is determining where it actually helps without getting in the way.In this conversat...

Philips: Cloud Imaging is about Time and Access not Infrastructure

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Radiology teams are stretched thin. Cloud imaging, once pitched as a boon for IT teams, is now seen as a technology that gives radiologists time back,...

Why Oracle’s Clinical AI Agent Clicked Quickly for Hudson Physicians

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Skepticism around AI scribes is common, especially in busy primary care settings. But when the workflow fits and the tool actually removes work, adopt...

Satellite Images, AI, and a 15-Minute Insight That Used to Take Months

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Geospatial AI sounds like science fiction until you see it applied to real problems. Then it gets very practical, very fast.In this conversation, Dr. ...

Why NextGen Says Healthcare’s Silos Have To Go

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every IT leader knows the pain of workflows that break the moment they cross a departmental line. Sri Velamoor isn’t tiptoeing around it. He argues ...

TEFCA, Bulk Exchanges, Government Agencies, & Healthcare Interoperability with Jay Nakashima

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, discusses in this video interview some recent hot developments in health data exchange, and how he expec...

Working Groups at The Sequoia Project Promote Data Exchange, Compliance, and Privacy

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Getting patient data to the proper person—including doctors and the patients themselves—is a many-layered task involving standards, privacy protec...

GE Healthcare Uses DICOM Data and Image Clarity to Improve Radiology Workflows

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Radiology teams don’t need more dashboards. They need clearer signals about capacity, and better image quality. This conversation looks at how small...

Speeding up Patient Identification, Consent, and Data Exchange

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in ...

Why Sepsis Still Gets Missed and How Prenosis Is Narrowing the Signal

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sepsis has been on hospital priority lists for years, yet it still slips past clinicians every day. The challenge is not awareness. It is variability,...

Hyland Brings Enterprise Content Management to Pathology with Tribun

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hyland Brings Enterprise Content Management to Pathology with TribunDigital pathology adoption is picking up speed, but many organizations are discove...

Netflix Didn’t Win by Moving Files. Neither Will Cloud Imaging.

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud imaging promised speed and simplicity. Many health systems got longer rollouts, higher costs, and workflows that still feel tied to the data cen...

Unstructured Data is Slowing Care. medQ and Consensus Have a Solution.

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare still runs on fax. The real question is what happens after those documents arrive.In this conversation, Roy Vincent, Vice President of Sale...

How Greenway Health Is Building an AI-First Company From the Inside Out

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most leaders talk about AI. Far fewer put it to work inside their own walls. This conversation digs into what happens when a healthcare IT company dec...

Why AI Struggles in RCM and How Front-End Data Can Fix It

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When a claim fails because of a missing field or outdated insurance detail, it is easy to blame the billing process, but it is incomplete or inconsist...

AI Scribes Changed Everything. What Comes Next for Clinicians?

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] AI scribes have quickly become part of the daily routine for many clinicians. The question now is whether that momentum keeps building or ...

Why is AI Adoption so Low for Healthcare RCM?

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in ...

Why AI Is Finally Moving the Ambulatory EHR Market Forward

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever wondered why ambulatory EHRs feel stuck in time, you’re not alone. A lot of clinicians and IT leaders have been waiting for signs o...

Is AI Headed for a Blockchain-Style Letdown? CVS Health’s Tilak Mandadi Doesn’t Think So

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Will AI actually fix the problems in front of us, or will it fade out the way blockchain did in healthcare?In this conversation, Tilak Mandadi, EVP Ve...

Applying Rewards to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for Heart Failure Patients

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest challenges that healthcare faces with heart failure patients is the high number of hospital readmissions that occur. These readmiss...

NextGen’s Take on AI: Many Experts Beat One Big Brain

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever felt like “one big AI” can’t possibly handle the complexity of healthcare, you’re not alone. Clinical work moves in too many ...

Applying Automation and AI to Faxes and Documents at VHC Health

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The common, classic fax is a fascinating case study in the difficulties of automation. Watch this video as Jess Czelusniak, Associate Vice President o...

How Multi-Agent AI Is Reshaping Patient Experience at Scale

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to talk about AI in broad terms. It’s harder to show how the technology supports a person trying to navigate benefits, costs, or a compl...

Why OntarioMD Rejects a One-Size-Fits-All Digital Health Plan

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every clinic wants a simple recipe for digital health adoption. The problem is that most recipes fall apart the moment real-world workflows enter the ...

A Healthcare IT Leader Preview of ViVE 2026

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As those who read Healthcare IT Today regularly know, we attend a lot of healthcare IT conferences throughout the year. One of the newest conferences ...

Integrating Prescription Intelligence and CMEs Into the Prescribing Workflow

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare IT leaders are finding innovative ways to address one of medicine’s challenges: the exponential growth of clinical knowledge that physici...

Generative AI Crucial for Coding Complex Conditions

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Beadle-Ryby, Senior Vice President and Co-founder at AKASA, says that a typical patient record contains 50,000 words spread across 59 clinical doc...

Connecting the 'Last Mile' in Healthcare: Leveraging Smart Hospitals and Unified Communications

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Just as Internet providers and transportation companies often struggle with the "last mile" of reaching the customer at the end of the chain...

How an Echocardiogram Went From 12 Clicks to Zero with Wellsheet

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever watched a clinician dig through an EHR for a single piece of information, you know the look. The pause. The sigh. The slow click-thro...

Providing Access to Archived Legacy Data While Saving Costs and Reducing Risk

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Fichter, CEO and Head of Product at Legacy Data Access, believes that archived clinical, financial, and operational data represents an untapped ...

Secure Language Translation Device by Pocketalk Enables Better Patient Communication

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hospitals and clinics in some areas see enormous numbers of people who don't speak the local language well. While human interpreters have been com...

Healthcare Quality and Equity Through Data Exchange at MedAllies

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When MedAllies was founded in 2001, the healthcare landscape looked vastly different from what it does today. Long before the HITECH Act spurred the w...

AI Perspectives and New AI Assistant with Don Woodlock from InterSystems

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

InterSystems, a major data management and healthcare information systems vendor over many decades, has joined the AI rush and is working on a step-by-...

Making the TEAM (Transforming Episode Accountability Model) Work

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A new program from CMS, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), promises to shake up the industry in a fashion similar to the Hospital R...

Cybersecurity Aligns With Business Goals at First Health Advisory

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s easy to say that security is critical to healthcare operations, since breaches can force hospitals and clinics to cancel patient visits, damage...

A New HIPAA Compliant LLM Focused on Health Literacy

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), a non-profit with the mission of helping individuals obtain and understand the health care information...

Farzad Mostashari's Aledade Helps Doctors Get Paid for Prevention

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

CMS provides numerous avenues to implement value-based care. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...

KLAS Explains Why Cloud Confusion Is Slowing Down Enterprise Imaging

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud imaging should feel like a clear next step, yet most teams still can’t agree on what “cloud strategy” actually means. In this interview, M...

Healthcare Cloud Hosting and Innovation at Rackspace

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rackspace is one of the world's most prominent hosting services, going back long before the term "cloud" was applied to these offerings....

Priming the Ambient AI Medical Scribe with Skriber

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Many companies promoting AI-driven medical scribe products boast that the physician doesn't have to change their behavior in order to use the prod...

Seeing What’s Been Missing: How Surescripts Is Making Medication Gaps Visible

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of prescriptions go unfilled every year and until now, the system had no way to see them.In this interview, Dr. Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and A...

Optum Real Delivers Clarity in Claims and Reimbursement

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The vision for Optum Real is to create real-time transparency between payers and providers in the moments of care that matter. Current AI technology, ...

IBM and enGen Collaborate to Eliminate Errors in Member Enrollment

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

According to research by enGen, a healthtech company that serves payers and providers with automated solutions, they found that each error in member ...

Sound Physicians’ Rapid Pivot: Why APIs Won the Day for CharmHealth

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when your EHR vendor suddenly shuts down and you only have months to find a replacement? For Sound Physicians, that deadline sparked a ...

Billings Clinic on AI in Healthcare: Why Trust Beats Speed

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone talks about AI fixing documentation. But the real story is whether patients and clinicians will trust it enough to use it every day.In this i...

What Drives EHR Innovation in Prescription Management and How Technology Can Help

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Few patients take a paper prescription down to the local pharmacy any more. The modern era of prescribing is shockingly complex and getting more so, a...

Making AI and NLP Affordable and Trusted in Health Care

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

emtelligent offers a variety of AI-based services in health care. In a recent interview at the HLTH conference with Tim O’Connell, MD, Co-Founder an...

RapidClaims’ LLM-Powered RCM Solution Seeks Truth in Billing & Fewer Denials

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Although providers and payers feel like they're engaged in an epic, ongoing battle over claims, Abhinay Vyas, Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer at...

Leveraging Unstructured Data to Improve Care and Reimbursement at PointClickCare

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

PointClickCare is a major EHR service with a 25-year history, originally focused on post-acute care settings such as skilled nursing and assisted livi...

Making Sure a Physician Advisory Program Improves Both Care and ROI

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Physician advisory programs, which educate clinicians in peer-to-peer fashion, are growing in several ways. This video at the AHIMA Annual Conference ...

eClinicalWorks Analytics Dramatically Reduce FQHC No-Shows

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

T.H.E. Clinic, a federally qualified health center serving a low-income communmity in Los Angeles, recently reduced missed patient visits ("no-sh...

Tight Collaboration Between Vyne Medical and Client Drives Continuous Improvement

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI has proven itself as a way to remove the burden of scanning, identifying, and uploading information. For Nemours Children's Health, AI solution...

From Ambient Voice Documentation to Care Partner at Heidi

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Although ambient voice transcriptions driven by AI are seeing widespread adoption in healthcare institutions, only 20%-40% of clinicians adopt it in e...

Making RCM Part of the Clinical Interview

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Mike Gao, President of Smarter Technologies, says that the distinction between clinical care and revenue cycle management (RCM) was a historical d...

Hyro Sees Health System Call Centers as Potential Revenue Generators

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hyro's Responsible AI Agent platform enables health systems to safely automate patient workflows and conversations across key channels such as cal...

Achieving Patient-Centered Excellence Through Process Improvement

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thibodaux Regional Health System, a Louisiana health system with both a hospital and clinics, has focused on process improvement to pursue what they c...

Innovation at Community Health Centers in America

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Community health centers make up the largest primary care network in the U.S. health care system, serving 1 out of 7 Americans—and in rural areas, 1...

Healthcare Billing Complexities Call For Consistency and AI Support

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reimbursements in health care have gotten more complex with the growing importance of risk-based, value-based plans and behavior change. In this video...

How Oracle Is Bringing Retail Supply Chain Lessons to Healthcare

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] Empty shelves in a hospital aren’t just an inconvenience—they can delay care. Other industries solved this problem years ago with pred...

Time Saving Features in eClinicalWorks That Help Clinicians Be More Efficient

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent interview at the eClinicalWorks National Conference, Josh Baker, Operations Manager at Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio, reports on some time...

Clinician Surveys and EHR Workflow Improvements Drive Improved Satisfaction and Efficiency

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our recent interview was all about measurements. The Wooster Community Hospital Health System in Wayne County, Ohio achieved a 20% improvement in thei...

Moving Health Care Providers Away from Paper Checks to Automated Payments

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every organization—large and small—can benefit from automating payments versus printing, signing, and sending paper checks. ECHO is helping health...

Oracle Health’s AI Bet and Why Playing Nice Matters

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] Every vendor is talking about AI—but who’s actually making it work in healthcare? At the Oracle Health Summit, we pressed Seema Verma ...

A Rural Hospital Embedded in the Community Benefits from a Consolidated EHR

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers is quite small: an independent, rural system of clinics including an 89-bed hospital. Yet the system is the lar...

AI Scribes: Why Mental Space Matters More Than Minutes

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone’s talking about how AI scribes save clinicians time. But what if the bigger win isn’t the clock—it’s the relief of finally walking ou...

Benefits of Outsourcing and AI in Revenue Cycle Management

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As healthcare gets more complex, revenue cycle management has gotten more complex as well as it becoming more difficult to find high quality RCM staff...

Fownd Builds an Automated Scribe for Physical Therapy From the Ground Up

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fownd is a young company creating an ambient voice recording solution to document evaluations, assessments, and plans for physical therapists. Visits...

A Look at Epic and Interoperability with Rob Klootwyk and Matthew Eisenberg

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Klootwyk, Director, Interoperability at Epic, and Matthew Eisenberg, M.D., Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford Health Care, of...

A Sit Down with Acentra Health's Leader, Todd Stottlemyer

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this video, Todd Stottlemyer, CEO at Acentra Health, sets forth new initiatives at his company and his own views on leadership.Acentra Health recen...

CharmHealth's Bet: Research, Slack-Style Tools, and Physician Practice Loyalty

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

[SPONSORED] Most EHR talk starts and ends with features. But what happens when an EHR tries to be a community hub, a research lab, and a partner for b...

Staffing, Outsourcing, and the Digital Workforce with Ray Lowe and HCTec

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Staffing at health care providers, especially for IT, is being challenged on many fronts. Inflation is up while Medicaid has been significantly cut. N...

Honing in on Key Data with Concord Technologies

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A ten-year investment by Concord Technologies in AI is paying off in major enhancements to their platform. In addition to health care data exchange—...

Making Data Useful to the Patient - Individual Access

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern health care is predicated on helping patients, as well as providers, make effective use of patient data. To do so requires access, identity ver...