Healthcare IT Today Interviews

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...

How Wolters Kluwer Health Keeps Large Language Models and AI Honest

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wolters Kluwer Health offers a service called UpToDate, consulted by doctors around the world to help their clinical decision making. In this video, c...

Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. Because the solution is fully automated and works in real-time, it ca...

Predictive Analytics from eClinicalWorks Serves Front-line Clinics

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

CareSTL Health has to conserve resources. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in St. Louis, MO, CareSTL Health serves people with no insuran...

Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World's Most Powerful Research Assistant

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data...

Getting the Patient Into the Office at Sun Life Health

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patient...

MRO - Bridging the Trust Gap Between Providers and Payers, One Record at a Time

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

MRO wants to make the exchange of data between providers and payers more frictionless. They have developed new solutions that cater to this payer-prov...

Policy, Change, and AI – Oh My! A Conversation with Dr. Michael Blackman

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health always has his finger on the pulse of healthcare. Right now, he is keeping his eye on t...

Optimizing Patient and Physician Experience Improves Access for Axia Women's Health

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Axia Women’s Health is on a mission to provide top-tier care for women. To achieve their goal, they are proactively streamlining internal processes ...

Nuance is Setting the Bar for Ambient Clinical Voice

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The demand for ambient clinical voice solutions is gaining momentum and the market is quickly filling with vendors. Microsoft Nuance has been providin...

Real-Time Clinical Note Generation from Mutuo Health Solutions

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mutuo Health Solutions serves the Canadian market with automated clinical note generation (ambient clinical voice as it is often called), and plans to...

Augmedix Derives More Value from Automated Generation of Medical Notes

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix, this company has led the field of medical notes over the past 11 years from human scribes to full automa...

Healthcare Organizations Need a Purpose-Built CMS

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare organizations need more than a standard content management system for their websites. They need something tailored to the unique reality of...

Moving the Industry Forward with First-Of-Its-Kind RCM Technology Adoption Model for Healthcare Finance Leaders

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adoption models, which are very popular in computing and organizational change, define stages for the adoption of a process or technology and helps or...

Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asse...

Talkiatry Finds Features and Flexibility in eClinicalWorks

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other com...

Making the Patient Portal Relevant at Community Health Alliance

27 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patient portals and digital patient engagement stymie many healthcare providers, especially small ones with few resources. Community Health Alliance (...

From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewa...

Redrick Technologies: Innovating Radiology Workstations with User-Centric Design

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Redrick Technologies has found success with their cutting-edge radiology workstations by constantly listening to and incorporating customer feedback. ...

MGMA Takes an Innovative Approach to Tackling Healthcare Challenges

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference, a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing in...

What’s It Take to Achieve Epic Gold Stars Level 9?

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the recent CHIME Fall Forum conference, I had a chance to sit down with Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed, and Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Str...

Yosi Health Asks the Right Questions to Support Patient Self-Scheduling

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for...

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, i...

Creating Solutions that Benefit Both Patients and Clinicians

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to implement solutions that benefit both patients and clinicians? At the HLTH 2023 conference, this was the exact question we asked Pa...

Effective Epic Application Management and Epic Go-Live

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To learn more about how Adventist Health is working with HCTec to handle application management of their Epic EHR and a recent Epic EHR Go-Live, we s...

Ensuring Quality Health Data From Disparate Systems

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this video interview, Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at Lifepoint Health, dives into more details of their data ag...

Cognosos Leverages AI to Make Smart Real-Time Location Services Accurate and Affordable

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Jennings, chief product officer of Cognosos, says that traditional real-time location services (RTLS) fail their clients. Either the services a...

OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Two OntarioMD directors shed light on the evolving landscape of EMRs and the state of interoperability. Their unique perspective as key figures in Ont...

Defining Digital Front Door in Healthcare with Jeff Stewart from CHRISTUS Health

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The term “digital front door” is defined differently by each healthcare organization. Some see it as everything up to the point where a patient bo...

Trayt Addresses the Social Determinants of Mental Health

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all know about the growing mental health crisis in healthcare. We've likely all heard about the challenges that social determinants of health (...

Verato and CLEAR Come Together to Accelerate Adoption of Digital Identities in Healthcare

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The HLTH conference is full of big announcements from various health IT companies. One of the most interesting announcements I saw at HLTH 2023 was a ...

New Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 Permits AI to Run Locally

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lenovo has been famous for their laptops for a long time, but they also have a strong business in computer servers. They offer hardware for data cente...