Healthcare IT Today Interviews

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...

Obstacles to Healthcare Training Data Accuracy and How to Overcome Them

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest problems with AI solutions in healthcare right now is getting quality data that you can use to train your AI models. When you train...

OntarioMD Looks to Help with AI Adoption and EMR Improvements

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives. One is aimed at helping EMR users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendor...

The Evolution of Suki's Ambient Clinical Voice Solution and What Differentiates It in the Market

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When I first had a chance to interview, Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, two years ago I was impressed with his accomplishments and intrigued by his unique vi...

Suncoast Community Health Centers Saved Money and Reduced Frustration with eClinicalWorks' Cloud EHR

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For Suncoast Community Health Centers, moving to a cloud-based EHR was a no-brainer. Not only did it save them money, but it also reduced staff frustr...

Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their EHR

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. O...

Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients with Their Care Teams

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium, many healthcare organizations haven't created a culture of "my health is every day" even thoug...

TPGi Enables Healthcare Teams to Empower All Patients with Digital Accessibility

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all been there: you arrive at a healthcare provider for an appointment, and there’s no one available at the check-in area. You might just se...

Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it's always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that ex...

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and ap...

A Look at Nabla Copilot's Automatic Clinical Documenation

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Check out our interview with Lebrun to learn more about the Nabla solution and how it compares to other ambient clinical voice solutions in the market...

MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To better understand the newly launched MeldRx product, I sat down to chat with Patrick Schiess, President & CISO at Darena Solutions.  In the v...

Not All Prescription Management and Clinical Decision Support Are Created Equal

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When I first discovered Synapse Medicine, I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in...

TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Man...

ELLKAY Selected as CommonWell's New Technical Service Provider

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance.  After some changes in the industry and some acquis...

CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it's imperative that the data collected h...

Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workloa...

Vital Makes Health Information More Accessible for Patients

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vital illustrates how the new wave of generative AI technologies can contribute to a better life for millions of people. Vital is using AI to take ins...

Striving to Make Culturally Safe Care The Norm with Dr. Alika Lafontaine

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare currently places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Patients must explain their situation repeatedly to strangers who only ha...

Evernorth Uses SAS Analytics to Help Determine Next Best Step for Member Care

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Evernorth Health Services is using advanced analytics from SAS to help determine the next best action a patient can take to improve their health outco...

Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, ac...

Security When Lives are on the Line

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Computer vulnerabilities, threats, and security practices are similar in every industry. But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in ...

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

02 Oct 2023

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...

Streamlining Workflows Increases Access for Children with Autism

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There are not enough licensed behavior analysts to help children in the US diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To improve access, CentralRe...

FOLX Health Meeting Patients Where They Are With Telehealth

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

FOLX Health (FOLX, pronounced “folks”) is the leading healthcare providers for the LGBTQIA community. Today they serve over 12,000 members. FOLX u...

Provider-Led Value-Based Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this video, Dr. Brittany Cunningham, Vice President for the Episodes of Care Office, Population Health and Dr. C.J. Stimson, Chief Medical Officer,...

AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We recently noted the announcement of Amazon's AWS HealthScribe with 3M as a partner that's leveraging the solution.  The combination of thes...

Raft Digital Therapeutics is Helping Kids with SMA Win with a Physiotherapy Game

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Physiotherapy is hard. It is even harder for children who get bored and tire quickly from the repetitive motions that doctors prescribe for them. Raft...

MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a grow...

Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR with Regard

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When doctors first see output from Regard’s AI analytics, they often say, “This is what I imagined the electronic medical record would be like whe...

When Patients Know Things the Doctor Does Not

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The knowledgeable patient can still be seen as a threat, even by a medical resident. While every institution talks about how they much they care about...

Recent Clinical Efficiency Improvements in eClinicalWorks

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the recent eCW Enterprise Summit, I learned how Version 12 of eClinicalWorks includes important conveniences that are saving time and reducing clin...

Healthcare IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth According to NETSCOUT

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Connect...

Environmental Health Surveillance with GIS Enhances Public Health at San Bernardino County

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

San Bernadino Public Health knows that monitoring the mosquito population benefits community health directly. This is why the public health team is tr...

Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have purposefully chosen NOT to turn on the fireho...

Public Health Transparency Leads to Better Outcomes at San Bernardino County

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Maps are important tools in infectious disease surveillance. They depict where cases are occurring and where treatment resources are needed. San Berna...

Leveraging Great People and AI to Improve Revenue Cycle Outcomes

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When TruBridge, a revenue cycle division of CPSI, decided to automate more of their operations, they didn't just ask managers to choose. They brou...

San Bernardino Public Health’s use of GIS Technology Blossomed from a Single Map

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (SBCDPH) uses geographic information system (GIS) technology to improve decision-making and use ...

MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Requests for medical records have grown enormously in recent years—and that’s as it should be. Because data allows for better decision-making, pat...

City of Tempe Public Health Using GIS to Help Become a 20-Minute City

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For the City of Tempe Arizona, public health has a broad mandate - enabling people to be healthier and make healthier choices. This means ensuring eve...

Bridging the Trust Gap is Key for AI to Succeed in Healthcare with Dr. Stephen Kearney

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare. It is already helping to reduce clinician workloads and speed the analysis of ...

High Vendor Churn May Be On the Horizon in Healthcare

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of technologies were rapidly acquired and deployed by healthcare organizations like telehealth, remote patient mo...

Striving to Make Cuturally Safe Care The Norm with Dr. Alika Lafontaine

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare currently places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Patients must explain their situation repeatedly to strangers who only ha...

Acclara: What’s Worth Automating?

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

So many new forms of automation and AI are entering the health care marketplace: Which ones will pay off and where should a healthcare organization st...

Ronin Uncovers the Data for Better Cancer Treatment

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A recent article about Boston's famed hospital systems says that short-staffing and other factors have made every day like an emergency in a typic...

LogicSource: Looking at Non-Clinical Spending

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare organizations must seek out the same types of supply chain efficiencies as the leaders in other industries, particularly in the face of inf...

How a QR Code Helped Mountain Park Health Center Adopt New Technology

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients ad...

Patient Focused Features from Online Scheduling to Chatbots

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this video, Richard Eells, Vice President of Operations Administration at United Digestive, shares how his organization uses the healow suite of ap...

Process Automation Requires More than Just Technology

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Healthcare sites are desperate to cut costs and reduce staffing needs through automation: As explained by Logan Lewis, Chief Operating Officer, EnterB...

Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, ac...

Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the COVID-19 shutdown, when many providers lost sstaff or even closed, Pioneer Physicians Network, Inc. actually grew. This Ohio primary care p...

Enable Cyber Resiliency and Business Continuity Across On-premise and Multiple Cloud Environments

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Setting up a modern healthcare technology environment spanning on-premise and multicloud locations requires a comprehensive strategy that takes time,...

Online Patient Payments Are Appreciated Regardless of Demographic

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The healow suite of apps from eClinicalWorks opens up many common healthcare tasks to patients. In our recent video interview at the eClinicalWorks En...

Hyndman Area Health Centers Improves RCM Process with Help from eClinicalWorks

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the sudden and unexpected departure of financial leaders at Hyndman Area Health Centers, new management was able to quickly improve their reve...

Multicloud Madness: The Complexity and Cost of Managing Multiple Healthcare Cloud Platforms

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many healthcare and life sciences orgs today manage multiple Cloud platforms by default. This mix of public, private and Edge Cloud architecture provi...

Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eileen Testa, Administrator at Ninth Street Internal Medicine Associates, explains in this video interview how her team is using the eClinicalWorks HE...

How eClinicalWorks Integrates Disparate Data

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make i...

Belong.Life Creates Online Patient Communities That Work

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online commu...

Interoperability Saves Lives and Builds Trust at HHM Health

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For HHM Health, an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients an...

Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare

17 Jul 2023

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...

Urban Health Plan Leverages AI from eClinicalWorks to Reduce No-Shows by more than 50%

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Urban Health Plan, a federally qualified community health center with locations in New York City, uses artificial intelligence from eClinicalWorks to ...

HealthWorks of Northern Virginia Gained More Control After Moving to eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Troubleshooting EHR and system issues at HealthWorks of Northern Virginia used to involve up to five different vendors. It was a nightmare. By moving ...

Evernorth Uses SAS Analytics to Help Determine Next Best Step for Member Care

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Evernorth Health Services is using advanced analytics from SAS to help determine the next best action a patient can take to improve their health outc...

From Healthcare Dashboards to Valuable Action

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Randolph Health upgraded to what they call “data-driven operations,” they thought their staff would be excited to pull up dashboards with inf...

Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange m...

A Data Network to Tackle Real-Time Eligibility and Claims Along with Many Other Health Data Problems

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to CEO Stuart Hanson, clients of Avaneer Health are subscribing to the first solutions on the network to determine coverage and eligibility ...

Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide?

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Fou...

Why Trustworthy AI is Key to Preventing the Erosion of Trust at Scale

03 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“With Artificial Intelligence we now have the ability to erode trust at scale” Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS made that s...

Healthcare Has A Data Resolution Problem

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, even if we solve the interoperability challenge in healthcare, the data we collect will still...

Outsourcing Clinical Notes to an Expert-Machine Collaboration Using Ambient Clinical Voice

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

OnPoint Healthcare Partners is the latest ambient clinical voice technology we've found that combines expert human authors with AI to take one of ...