Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
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...
Qliqsoft: Addressing the Challenge of Collecting SDOH Information
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Collecting social determinants of health (SDOH) information from patients is challenging. It is not easy to ask if a person is experience food insecur...
NextGen Investing in Mobile App, Cybersecurity, and Mirth…yes Mirth!
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There were three burning questions we wanted to ask NextGen’s CEO David Sides. (1) How are they improving their mobile app? (2) What’s happening w...
TruBridge Represents the AI Needs of Rural Communities
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rural areas represent 20.0% of the U.S. population, a percentage that has actually increased recently. TruBridge has joined a consortium of experts c...
Flexibility and Find-Grained Ambient Clinical Voice Customization at MarianaAI
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kaustubh Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO at ambient voice provider MarianaAI, promises a “three-click process” to generate documentation from a patient...
Extracting Value From Existing Systems with Connexall
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connexall addresses traditional hospital concerns such as fall prevention, other patient safety, and reducing alerts. According to Sandy Saggar, Inter...
Getting Ready for Generative AI in Academic Medical Centers
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This video provides a wide-ranging discussion of data acquisition, analytics, and AI in health care involving Dr. Keith Morse, MD, Professor, Pediatr...
A Look at RCM, AI, and a New Book Called Joy Notes with Nio Queiro
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This unique video presents a far-ranging conversation with Nio Queiro, President of The Queiro Group. Topics include changes in revenue cycle manageme...
A Case Study in Ambient Clinical Voice at Children's Hospital Los Angeles
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to share more about ambient clinical voice, we're excited to share an interview with Matt Keefer, MD - Chief Medical Informatics Of...
Nextech Supporting the Independent Ambulatory Practice
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Independent clinical practices are in danger everywhere: if they don't go out of business, large hospital chains tend to pipette them up. Bill Luc...
Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools & Training Is Key to Securing Your Organization
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for...
The Value of Sharing Health Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PointClickCare, having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particula...
Altera Digital Health: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. However, with smaller pools of talent and fewer resources, they need ...
How AI is Shaping Drug Discovery at AION Labs
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the fast-paced realm of pharmaceuticals, where innovation can mean the difference between life and death, the integration of artificial intelligenc...
A Look at the Hospital Room of the Future at Tampa General Hospital
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When healthcare staff approach a hospital room, it’s important to know basic things about the patient like their preferred language, whether they’...
QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with...
Helping Clinicians Gain More Control Over Their Time
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Rishi Sarna, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at Backline, communication is central. He points out that communications have lagged behind everything els...
Connecting Healthcare Clouds and Simplifying Solutions in a Secure Way
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare cloud solutions have become much more sophisticated, reliable, and easier to connect. Gone are the days of a single cloud instance that can...
The Quiet Hospital Unit and Other Benefits of an Open and Interoperable Communication Platform
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive yo...
Transparency and Data Sharing Can Also Ease Patient Burn-Out
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results, co-Founder of Unblock Health, and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens ...
Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of...
Advancing Healthcare with High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cybersecurity
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare has become a data-driven industry as the volume of data continues to grow and organizations are able to use that data to provide more perso...
A Clinical Digital Assistant from CareCloud at HIMSS 2024
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to Adeel Sarwar, Chief Technology Officer at CareCloud, doctors spend at least 20% of their clinical work time on administration. In this vi...
Bringing Contextualized Health Data into the Diagnostic and Treatment Process
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare has always relied on data. What's changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as wel...
Infinx Reduces Errors, Turnaround Time, and Staff Burdens for RCM
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many factors make revenue cycle management (RCM) a big headache for U.S. health care providers. Aakarsh Sethi, Senior Product Manager at Infinx, lists...
Immortal Puppy Also Has Remote Monitoring Capabilities
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tombot’s AI-powered robotic puppy companion is more than just an emotional support animal, through an array of sensors it can also remotely monitor ...
OpenNotes Lab Will Explore the Intersection of Patients and AI
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The OpenNotes Lab will bring transparency, collaboration, and innovation to the intersection of healthcare AI and patient-centered care. The Lab build...
MRO Lets Payers and Providers See the Same Ledger
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Health care payers, such as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, traditionally have only billing data on their patients. That's why Mo Weitnauer, chief...
The Evolution of the EHR Service Desk and Leveraging an Outside Provider
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan O’Connor, Vice President, Service Desk Delivery at HCTec, says that resolving a customer service call involves a lot more than fixing the proble...
VBA Provides A Suite of Tools for Payers and TPAs Including a New Generative AI Product
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—"one-stop shopping" for a lar...
Why Managing Mobile Devices at Scale Matters in Healthcare
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
[Sponsored] Healthcare organizations are increasingly reliant on mobile devices for daily operations. The proliferation of devices brings new challeng...
Voice-to-Billing Ambient Clinical Voice at Medvise.AI
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text tran...
The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray...
Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health, highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. It's...
Celebrating 500 Episodes: Reliving the Best Moments From the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks a pretty significant milestone for our team: 500 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today Interview series! To celebrate we have a special ...
MediQuant Aims at "One Patient, One Record"
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one pat...
Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON ...
A Look at Sunoh's Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions Including New EHR Integrations
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice. We haven't seen this much unive...
Unlocking the Power of Interoperability for Revenue Cycle Management
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Interoperability is not just about exchanging clinical data from an EHR; it is a potential game-changer for the financial side of healthcare too. A se...
A Deep Dive Into Epic's Partnership with Microsoft and Nuance Including Integration with DAX Copilot
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We've written a number of articles on the Nuance DAX (now called Nuance DAX Copilot aligning with Microsoft's Copilot) ambient clinical voice ...
Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief stra...
PhaseV Applies Machine Learning for Successful Clinical Trials
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A clinical trial can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and one of the major contributors to costs is recruiting and keeping human subjects. Accord...
Will AI’s Use in Healthcare be Regulated?
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will governments regulate the use of AI in healthcare? And if they do, what restrictions or guardrails would likely be put into place? Caleb Williamso...
Dr. Craig Joseph Introduces Designing for Health
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are many books about design, but a recent book by Craig Joseph, MD and Jerome Pagani, Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach, applies...
Computer Assisted Professional Coding is Helping St. Joseph's Be More Resilient
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The team at St. Joseph’s Health System in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management p...
Automatically Generated Medical Notes, the Way You Would Have Written Them
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DeepScribe is dedicated to creating medical notes that are not just accurate, but have a human feel that reflects the individual physician’s style. ...
Patient Self-Scheduling Has Reached a Tipping Point
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest report from Panda Health reveals that patient self-scheduling is a top priority for hospital leaders and adoption is expected to double by...
Netsmart Leverages AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve Care and Identify Suicide Risk
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart, says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are a...
Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This video presents the current and upcoming features of the ambient clinical voice solutions from Innovaccer, notably its InScribe analytics tool. It...
Where UiPath Can Automate For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UiPath has been expanding the scope of automation for years, most recently by applying generative AI, In this extensive interview Jason Warrelmann, Gl...
Multiple Components Render Withings Device Widely Applicable
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this short video, Livia Robic, Product Manager BeamO at Withings, introduces their new BeamO device, which is awaiting regulatory approval and will...
How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Out of Physical Therapists’ Hands
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Physical therapists have unique needs for an ambient clinical voice solution. They are constantly walking about the floor, chatting with different pat...
Envision Radiology Setting a Fast Pace for Interoperability with DataFirst
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Envision Radiology wanted more control over how healthcare information was shared so they could focus on delivering outstanding patient experience and...
KLAS Research Putting More Focus on Patient Engagement
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades KLAS Research (KLAS) has been a go-to resource for healthcare IT research that helps organization make informed technology decisions. Thei...
Easy Techniques to Improve IT Compliance & Automation in a Digital Health World
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IT compliance and automation pose both risks and opportunities for healthcare organizations. Done poorly, it can cost a healthcare organization a lot...
From Information Blocking to Information Sharing - A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework an...
Sunoh's Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh, the success of ambient clinical voice depends on much more than the accuracy of the recording. Sunoh "ch...
The Advantages of Human Scribes for Clinical Notes
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Speke is a premium service that provides scribal services to clinicians. While many companies boast of creating clinical notes purely through natural ...
Is the Future of Healthcare Modular?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When most of us think of modular buildings, we picture those trailer-like structures on construction sites – the ones with panel walls and the elect...
Smart Hospital Solutions from Artisight
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO and president of Artisight, envisions a future where every hospital room hosts a camera and speaker in order to support two-...
In Health Care, AI to Advance Rapidly Along With Its Regulation
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST: Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Arc...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Helps Clinicians Work at the Top of Their Licenses
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One could say that Amazon.com launched the modern computing era when it released Amazon Web Services more than 17 years ago. In this video, we learn a...
Improving Patient-Centricity: Raleigh Radiology's Journey with PocketHealth
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does patient-centered mean for a radiology practice? For Raleigh Radiology it means providing patients with the convenience, control, and access ...
Withings Scales Put Data Daily at the Center of Patient Engagement
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few people want to think about their health all the time, but many of us step on a scale every morning. Antoine Robiliard, vice president of Withings ...
Pharmacy Interoperability and Pharmacy Perspectives Coming Out of the ONC Annual Meeting
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another area where we haven't enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability. While almost every pharmacy out there now supports e...
NextGen Focusing on AI to Improve Workflows and on Street Medicine
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NextGen Healthcare is taking a methodical approach to AI and deploying it in places based on customer demand and where it will have maximum positive i...
Nashville's Neighborhood Health Takes to the Streets with NextGen’s Mobile Technology
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Equipped with NextGen Healthcare’s mobile application and other tech, Neighborhood Health, an FQHC in Nashville TN, is bringing care to the streets ...
Positive Feedback for NextGen’s Ambient Assist
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the 2023 NextGen Healthcare User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23), Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Sri Velamoor, Chief Growth &a...
Abridge Aims at Transparency, Reliability, & Credibility with Their Ambient Clinical Voice Solution
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Started in 2018, Abridge now offers analytical generative AI to more than 55 specialties and many languages. In this video CEO and co-founder Shiv Rao...