Healthcare IT Today Interviews

eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

eHealth Exchange, a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two ...

Is Healthcare Doing Anything Well in Cybersecurity?

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was understandable that much of the discussion in 2024 focused on how and where healthcare was falling short on cybersecurity. In general, healthca...

PredictionHealth Couples Analytics with an AI Medical Scribe for PT and OT

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

PredictionHealth produces an ambient voice solution for physical therapy and occupational therapy settings, applying AI not just create the various po...

LG is Becoming More Valuable to Hospitals and CIOs

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

LG is a well-established consumer electronics brand. The company is best known for its bright displays. It was therefore no surprise that they were an...

BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Dr. Tim Davis, founder of Source Healthcare and creator of BluByrd, shares his journey of overcoming scheduling and data-sharing ch...

Nebraska Medicine Prepares for Problems That Are 30 Years Out

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this video, two hospital managers present an extended and intriguing view of major design changes that bring in state-of-the-art technology making ...

Health Note Integrates Pre-Visit Interviews Into Ambient Voice Solution

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a major differentiator from other AI-based ambient voice scribes, Health Note integrates pre-visit information into the note, shortening visits som...

How emtelligent is Lifting the Clinical and Administrative Burden

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The administrative demands on medical professionals are growing. Doctors, nurses, and other staff manage enormous quantities of patient data in electr...

AI Throughout the Process Simplifies Use of Freed Ambient Clinical Voice

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doctor note generation at Freed focuses on customization and personalization, to build "something to make clinicians happy." Indeed, comments posted ...

Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest - Win $25k in Prizes

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most common questions we get from healthcare IT startups is how they can connect with EHR vendors.  One of our most common questions we as...

Imagine Pediatrics Leverages Technology to Provide Care to Children in Underserved Communities

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine Pediatrics has built itself to be a specialty provider of care for children with special healthcare needs in underserved populations. Imagine ...

1upHeatlh Recommends a Pragmatic Approach to Interoperability

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the questions we get asked a lot by new digital health entrepreneurs here at Healthcare IT Today is whether building on top of FHIR will mean a...

Surescripts Tackles Prior Authorization

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prior Authorization is a not a popular topic. In fact, we have not found many organizations willing to talk about it. Simply put, it is a complex chal...

Kroger Bucks the Retail Health Trend - Leans into Healthcare

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike other retailers who are shuttering their retail health clinics, Kroger is leaning into their healthcare efforts and improving access to care wi...

A Student Health Center's Experience with AI Medical Scribes

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before we dove into their use of an AI medical scribe, I had to take a minute to talk about their Student Health Center's experience using eClinicalWo...

Talent and Supply-Chain Solutions for Healthcare - Oracle Expands beyond the EHR

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discover how Oracle Health is tackling some of healthcare’s biggest challenges in this interview with Kristen Miles, VP of Healthcare Product Strate...

Elation Health's AI Assistant Can Have a Big Impact on Primary Care

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elation Health provides an EHR along with a tightly integrated ambient voice tool, Note Assist, that generates notes on visits. But to Kyna Fong, PhD...

Exploring the Future of Real-Time Health Systems with Oracle

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Lisa Gulker, a seasoned nurse and product leader, explains how Oracle is helping healthcare organizations make quicker, smarter dec...

Balancing Natural Treatments and Surgery for Orthopedic Conditions

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, Meredith Warner, MD, Founder of Warner Orthopedics & Wellness, discusses ways to avoid medication and surgery for osteoarthriti...

How Neighborhood Health Uses NextGen to Deliver Smarter Patient Care Anywhere

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From AI scribes to mobile access to advanced data analytics, Neighborhood Health is pushing the envelop as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)....

TEFCA’s Moment and Policy Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation with Eric Musser at NCQA

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What data and quality related policy changes are on the horizon for healthcare? And is TEFCA really having a breakthrough moment? Healthcare IT Today ...

The Evolving Challenge of RCM and Keys to Successful RCM with Compass Health Systems

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Coming out of the pandemic we learned some important lessons.  One of the important ones is that effective RCM (Revenue Cycle Management) is essentia...

Reduce Costs, Improve Security, & Maximize Access to Data with a Healthcare Data Archiving Partner

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Harmony Healthcare IT, described by CEO Tom Liddell as an "enterprise data management solution," has expanded over time from archiving health care dat...

Kyruus Health Unveils New Tools to Transform Patient Access and Care Search

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Access is a key challenge for patients and plan members. Kyruus Health recently launched two new products designed to address the challenge of access ...

Combining Technology and Tradition to Transform Indigenous/Indian Healthcare

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The resourceful and caring team at Reno Sparks Tribal Health Center (RSTHC) has been leveraging technology from NextGen Healthcare (NextGen) to delive...

3D Printing Improves Surgical Accuracy and Safety One Layer at a Time

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a surgical guide so precise that it snaps onto the bone like a perfectly fitting glove, directing a surgeon’s every cut and drill. This is t...

Can Gingerbread Help Improve Patient Monitoring and Safety? Philips says Yes!

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Instruments designed to improve situation aware help pilots understand the current and future state of a flight so they can better anticipate as well ...

A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the over 1000 healthcare IT video interviews we’ve done on Healthcare IT Today, there’s some people where 20-30 minutes just doesn’t feel lon...

Can You Build a Health Care System Without Notes?

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most transcription services and AI medical scribes aim to reproduce the SOAP note that has been the mainstay of patient visit records since the days o...

Healthcare AI Automation by Vyne Medical Improves Accuracy and Trust

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By taking data from a variety of sources—health care records, faxes, voice—and providing structure to unstructured data,  Vyne Medical can stream...

Okta Does Identity and Onboarding at Home and in the Clinical Setting

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's widely understood that passwords for access to digital resources are both insecure and annoying for the users. Sandeep Kumbhat, Field Chief Techn...

Managing Competing Government Data Requirements & Best Practices to Balance Sharing with Protection

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The desire for healthcare data has never been greater.  This is true for healthcare organizations that want legitimate access to data.  Hackers that...

Healthcare AI and Implementing AI Responsibly with enGen

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's no surprise that one of the hottest topics of discussion at the HLTH 2024 conference was AI.  We love AI and see its potential to transform so m...

Great Stories from Being Doctor to the President of the United States

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the doctor to the president?  Did you know that a doctor has to be within 2 minutes of the Preside...

What's Your Healthcare Data Strategy?

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk a lot about the importance of data in healthcare.  Not just data, but clean data that can lead to insights that improve outcomes.  It turns ...

eClinicalWorks Cloud and healow Providing Value to HealthNet

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Having attended multiple eClinicalWorks user conferences, one of their big efforts was to move all of their users to the eClinicalWorks cloud.  eClin...

Backline and Dr G Share How to Scale Advance Care Planning in a Medical Practice

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Gulbis, MD, Owner at Dr. G Medical Solutions, says that one of people’s top concerns is for the last week of their life “to be on my terms.”...

EMR Optimization is a Continuous Process

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

North Country HealthCare is a highly rated clinical provider running three critical access hospitals in northern New Hampshire. In this video, their ...

Nabla's Experience Generating 8 Million AI Clinical Notes & Where Their AI Assistant is Headed Next

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the leaders in the AI medical assistant space is Nabla. We’ve had a front row seat to their growth over the last year led by Alex Lebrun, Co-...

Balancing AI and Humans in Your RCM to Produce Clear ROI

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the big challenges that healthcare faces is that AI and other technology solutions have promised the world to healthcare leaders and then often...

The Evolution from Health 1.0 to Health 3.0 and Heading to Health 4.0

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When the internet first started, websites were essentially full of static content.  Very useful at the time, but not very dynamic.  As internet tech...

AI & Automation-Driven Efficiency: Driving Improvement Across the Healthcare Ecosystem

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI and automation are all the buzz in healthcare technology right now.  There's a feeling that if you're not doing it, then you're doing something wr...

First Hand Experience with Sunoh's AI Medical Scribe

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest announcements at the eClinicalWorks Annual Conference was the advancement of the Sunoh.ai medical scribe product that automates the...

The Value of Health Data Utilities with Angie Bass from Velatura

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass...

Leveraging Call Verification for Identity Management in Healthcare

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One of the scariest things in healthcare right now is having your organization breached. While systems are sometimes breached through more traditional...

Availity Emphasizes Cybersecurity and Business Continuity in Wake of Industry Cyberattack

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The February cyberattack against the Change Healthcare clearinghouse not only compromised patient data but left health care providers in a financial c...

Phoebe Putney's MEDITECH Expanse Go-Live & Efforts to Address the Nursing Shortage

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the recent MEDITECH Live conference, I had a chance to meet hundreds of members of the MEDITECH community and hear from many of the top executives....

ETHERFAX and DirectTrust Guiding Security Standards for Cloud Fax Providers

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the recent DirectTrust conference, Ken Romo, Global Director at ETHERFAX, shares with us that they are not just a fax company: He describes them as...

healthKERI Provides a Novel Standard for Secure Data Exchange

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

healthKERI provides secure data exchange by allowing endpoints to verify themselves and maintain their own secret keys, removing the overhead of trust...

Concord Technologies Supports the Complete Path of Incoming Healthcare Documents

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Concord Technologies, which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world's five largest healthcare payers as cust...

OntarioMD Study Validates the Hype of AI Scribes: A conversation with Chris Sulway

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OntarioMD (OMD) a subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association released the results of a study that validates the benefits of AI scribe / ambient cli...

AGS Health Reduces the Pain of Claims Processing with AI-Powered Intelligent RCM Engine

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AGS Health is using an AI-powered system to streamline revenue cycle management (RCM) processes and increase efficiency. The system allows the company...

OntarioMD Study Validates the Hype of AI Scribes: A conversation with Robert Fox

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OntarioMD (OMD) a subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association released the results of a study that validates the benefits of AI scribe / ambient cli...

Seema Verma on Where We Are At Merging Cerner into Oracle Health and What's Next

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Oracle CloudWorld conference, I had a chance to sit down with Seema Verma, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Oracle Health....

Telemynd Integrates CharmHealth with Salesforce to Deliver Innovative Care

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Telemynd, a leading behavioral health practice, has integrated their CharmHealth EHR with Salesforce’s CRM platform to scale their delivery from coa...

DeepCura AI AI Medical Scribe and AI Clinical Automation Platform

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Fall I’ve been able to attend a wide variety of EHR user conferences. I can assure you that there’s no technology solution out there that hea...

Pediatrics Leveraging Yosi Health for Mental Health and Other Screenings to Ensure Healthy Children

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When I heard that a pediatric organization was so focused on mental health screenings in their office, my mind couldn't quite get around the need for ...

Revolutionizing Healthcare with RTLS: Insights from Dr. Mohammed Smadi from Penguin

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest interview on Healthcare IT Today, I sit down with Mohammed Smadi, PhD, CEO of Penguin Location Services, to explore the potential of Rea...

Epic EHR Hosting and Moving Beyond Disaster Recovery to Resiliency with Rackspace

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The shift from hosting Epic in your own data center to now hosting Epic in the cloud has been amazing to watch. For the longest time, no one would eve...

CharmHealth Expands Into Enterprise Market with New Features

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

[Sponsored] CharmHealth, an EHR company known for catering to small and independent medical practices, is adding features for larger provider organiza...

Epic’s Approach to AI with Sean McGunigal, Director of AI at Epic

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We were happy to be able to take part in the Epic UGM conference in Verona, WI this year. If you missed it, be sure to check out all the Epic UGM anno...

The Mayo Clinic Platform Integrates Healthcare AI Innovation

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Mayo Clinic Platform is chasing the perennial technology promise: of boosting innovation from a wide range of sources by reducing the burdens of ...

Bambu AI Stresses Engagement, Privacy for Improved Mental Health Visits

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bambu AI augments psychological and behavioral treatments in two ways: by providing ongoing support between the patient's weekly or monthly visit...

Carle Health Chooses Nabla for Its Workflow Focus

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The term "workflow" comes up repeatedly in this interview with Dr. Ed Lee, Chief Medical Officer at Nabla, and Dr. David Lovinger, MD, FHM, ...

The Sensible, Business-Driven Approach to Cloud and Multicloud Deployments

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Both Rackspace Technology and Dell Technologies have long been know for their technology and cloud solutions. But Jason Jones, Executive in Residence ...

PatientIQ Automates and Improves the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The medical field has realized that the way the patient experiences their own pain, problems, and recovery is just as important as the vital signs and...

Healthcare's Need for High Performance Computing

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most health care sites are using healthcare systems that are several years old. In a recent Healthcare IT Today interview with Dell Technologies and ...

What’s it Going to Take to Fix Healthcare’s Chronic Prior Authorization Pain?

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this far-ranging video, two experts in health care explore current and potential solutions to the much-hated process of prior authorization in med...

Security for Health IT, Both Old and New at Akamai

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Akamai emerged just as the Web was getting big, and has been making web traffic fast and secure through most of the Web’s history. According to Tony...

A Look at the Evolution of the Revenue Cycle Management Technology Adoption Model (RCMTAM)

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You may remember that last year we shared a video interview with FinThrive talking about a new RCM technology adoption model that they had put togethe...

Free AI Medical Scribe from Heidi Health

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Heidi Health automates note-taking with a high degree of customization: Clinicians can create highly detailed templates to capture the measures needed...

Tough RCM Questions with Michael Quinn from Inovalon

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI for Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is hot topic right now. Are we heading for a day when RCM will be completely automated? Is that the path we are ...

Pure Storage is Helping Canadian Healthcare be More Resilient

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moving healthcare infrastructure to the cloud is an effective way to keep IT infrastructure costs in check AND to improve recovery after a cybersecuri...

Zirr AI Seeks New Ways to Bring Ambient AI Medical Scribes to Medical Specialties

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When choosing a setting for their new ambient AI scribe solution, Arnavaz Hajizadeh Barfejani and Ali Daneshmand, Co-Founders of Zirr AI, chose genera...

Ambient Clinical Voice - Show Don't Tell

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While it is generally accepted that AI is beneficial to healthcare, there are valid reasons why some clinicians are skeptical of the technology – es...

Why Is There Such a Tension Between Payers & Providers and What Can Be Done About It?

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all feel it.  We all know it's there, but we often gloss over the tension that exists between payers and providers.  That's why we were e...

OpenText Making Gains in Healthcare

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OpenText is a company with extensive experience in financial services, manufacturing, and other industries. What are they doing in healthcare? Healthc...

Improving the Process of Obtaining Advance Care Plans (ACP)

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anyone that’s been involved in patient care understands how valuable it is for patients to have a well done Advanced Care Plan (ACP) that’s been c...

Many Small Applications of AI at Pega

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Robert Connely, Global Industry Market Leader, Healthcare at Pega, the safest and most productive ways to use AI at this time are to do a...

Greenway Uses AI Internally to Accelerate Development

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI is and will be a powerful tool for clinicians, but lost in all the hype is the fact that it can help the people who create those tools. The develop...

Asepha: Automating Pharmacist Workflow to Improve Patient Access

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pharmacists remain one of the most underutilized resources in healthcare. Reducing the administrative burden on Pharmacists means more capacity for th...

CEO of Greenway sets Company on a Bold Path

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Greenway Health’s CEO, Pratap Sarker, made several bold statements at the company’s annual user group meeting and has set the organization on an a...

Personalization, Patient Centricity, and Cost Savings with Celebrus

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Effective patient engagement–which is fundamental to value-based care–is based on gathering all available information about each person in a priva...

De-positioning: The Unheralded Way for Brands to Stand Out

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brand de-positioning is a subtle and powerful way to stand apart in a crowded market. It focuses on what your organization can do for customers that c...

Building Engaging Healthcare Websites Requires Balance

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Engaging websites in healthcare require a delicate balance between what organizations want to convey and what patients want to access as well as betwe...

Bringing the Fax into the 21st Century at MedPeds

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

MedPeds is strongly oriented toward innovation. Twenty years ago, before the HITECH Act subsidized electronic medical records, MedPeds adopted eClinic...

Altera Addresses Data Integration and Patient Engagement in Canada

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Altera Digital Health has run an operation in multiple Canadian provinces for more than 38 years, according to Michael Kearney, Vice President of Oper...

Harmony Healthcare IT Brings Archiving Solution to Canada

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harmony Healthcare IT was an exhibitor at the eHealth 2024 conference in Vancouver Canada and spoke to many attendees about the benefits of using an o...

AI is Not One-Size-Fits-All for Clinicians

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Through his work, his podcast, and his social media listening, Joshua Liu, CEO of SeamlessMD has his fingers on the pulse of healthcare. Healthcare IT...

Hal Wolf on the International Reach of HIMSS, Informa Acquiring the HIMSS Conference, and Much More

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Two out of five HIMSS members live outside the United States now. This represents tremendous growth in the international reach of HIMSS, which is the ...

Becoming Patient-obsessed at Qualtrics

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Qualtrics is a data collection and analysis platform that’s used by many in health care, focused on “experience management.” In this video, Adri...

MEDITECH Addressing Canada’s Interoperability Challenge with a Federated Approach

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

MEDITECH is helping to address interoperability in Canada with their Traverse solution. Unlike an HIE, Traverse does not store any health data. Instea...

Finding the Right Application for AI at Guidewell DCMG

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before Guidewell DCMG implemented the Prisma AI service from eClinicalWorks, intake on a patient could take two days when the office was busy. Why th...

Ambient Generation of Structured Clinical Notes at ModMed

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ModMed has been offering their cloud-based EHR for 15 years, so they have built up a database on more than 600 million unstructured texts in real-life...

OntarioMD Spearheading Adoption of AI in the Best Way for Clinicians and Patients

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OntarioMD is working closely with clinicians, provider organizations, consultants, and vendors, to accelerate the adoption of AI in healthcare. They a...

Integrations and Varied Uses for ScribeMD’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solution

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ScribeMD performs well at the common use of ambient voice to create notes, which Toubiana says they can do in 20 seconds, producing notes that more th...

Fast Epic EHR and Oracle ERP Deployments at SBH Health System

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This video interviews leaders from a health information technology services firm, HCTec, and a front-line safety-net health care system, St. Barnabas ...

AI and eClinicalWorks in the Cloud at United Digestive

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Rich Eels, VP of Innovation & Integration at United Digestive, the company is committed to continuous improvement. This trait works w...

A Big eClinicalWorks Transformation at Maryland Endocrine

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maryland Endocrine has quickly made the big journey from paper billing to on-site payments. The company had eClinicalWorks installed since 2004 (they ...

Hospitals Outside of US Investing in Portals and Digital Front Door According to Latest KLAS Report

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The KLAS Research report on Global Patient Engagement 2024 found that healthcare organizations outside the US are investing in patient portals, digita...