Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2, revives the term "meaningful" in health care technology. However, in this case...
Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Core Data for Intero...
HiLabs’s Human-Machine Solution to Bad Data
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data analysts know that all data is dirty. Although numerous services offer data cleaning and harmonization, their accuracy is usually too poor to mak...
The Success of E-prescribing and Where We Need to Continue to Improve Medication Management
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to e-prescribing and medication management, I always underestimate some of the nuances involved with the process. While e-prescrib...
Know Your Data and How You'll Use It
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. To the exp...
From Interoperability to Digital Transformation
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Interoperability, an idiosyncratic term for data sharing, has been a key buzzword for both regulators and digital product vendors in health care. Jon ...
AI Uncovers Other Patients Like You to Support Doctors
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Outside of common conditions, most doctors see only a few cases of some problem in their entire career. That's why students and residents gather eager...
Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ambience Healthcare just came out of stealth mode with what they describe as fully automated AI medical scribes. I hopped on camera with Mi...
FinThrive Maintained Momentum with an Interim CMO & Executive Coach
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Finding and onboarding a new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is hard. During the search, an organization’s marketing efforts are often left in limbo. ...
Retaining Patients and Employees in Healthcare
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this video to see the stages that patients move through in Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax's experience. Also...
The Real Reason Patients Continue to Defer Care
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that patient volumes in 2022 were below expectations. NRC Health, recently found that 27% of patients are actively deferring their ca...
VitalSight by OMRON Preview at CES 2023
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VitalSight is a new tool for remote patient monitoring (RPM) from OMRON, a company that offers a wide range of health devices for blood pressure, resp...
Withings U-Scan Overview: Measuring Waste for Health Benefits at Home
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansi...
The Journey Is As Critical As the Outcome
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journey maps are powerful marketing tools. They can bring clarity to complex cross-departmental campaigns, help identify gaps, and get stakeholders al...
Kami Vision: Detecting and Reporting Elderly Falls
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kami Vision provides technology called KamiCare that helps caregivers in an eldercare community or a person’s home detect and respond quickly to a f...
Lucia Savage Discusses Highlights of the Upcoming Health Datapalooza
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Health Datapalooza conference is a unique annual event. As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for fre...
A Different Look at Data Management and Data Sharing with DBSync
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When I attended the PointClickCare Summit, I met Sanjeev Shetty, President & COO at DBSync. They were in the partner area of the confer...
A Look at the 21st Century Cures Act with Micky Tripathi
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand everything that’s happening with the 21st Century Cures Act and how it will impact healthcare organizations, I sat down with Mi...
Big Healthcare PR Predictions with Beth Friedman from FINN Partners
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into 2023, we sat down with Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, to look back at health IT PR in 2022 and what we should be watc...
Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Milwaukee County is at the forefront of addressing racial inequity. During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’...
DE&I Initiatives Can Help Address Healthcare’s Workforce Challenge According to Deloitte
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and addressing the workforce challenge in healthcare are not mutually exclusive. ...
AI Improves Results of In-Vitro Fertilization
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eran Eshed, CEO and Co-founder of Fairtility, cites research showing that 48% of the work done by embyrologists during in-vitro fertilization is admin...
Holistic Health at Sweetch: "Feel like a person, not like a patient"
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this video Dr. Yossi Bahagon, Co-founder and Chairman of Sweetch, discusses the deeply holistic approach they take to helping people with diabetes ...
Never Rush Your Go-To-Market
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a growth-hacking approach to marketing that calls for getting your solution to market as quickly as possible. Once there you iterate quickly ...
Improved Revenues, Fewer Payer Denials, and Better Surveillance Through Automation by MilagroAI
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this video Ofer Derech, CTO at MilagroAI, explains the technology they use to automate revenue cycle management tasks and surveillance for things l...
Applying Marketing Skills from Other Industries to Healthcare
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the core aspects I wanted to incorporate into the healthcare and IT marketing conference when I started it was having voices from outside healt...
Scanslated helping to engage patients by making radiology reports understandable
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Engaging patients so they are an active partner in their care is a laudable goal, but with the economic and workforce challenges facing by healthcare ...
Addressing Technology Debt is Key to Future Growth According to Harmony Healthcare IT CEO
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare organizations never had enough resources to manage the myriad of systems that were deployed in their organizations, even before the current...
Gozio Health Creates a Platform for a Flexible, Comprehensive Mobile Interface
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By working closely with it’s health system clients, who represent 200+ hospitals, Gozio Health has recognized the need for a mobile platform that gi...
Avaneer Health Builds a Peer-to-Peer Network for Patient Identification and Data Sharing
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many IT companies have tried to create solutions that advance interoperability in healthcare. But it often consists of layering more and more technolo...
3 Tough Questions with Clarify Health
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is rare that a company will agree to sit down to answer tough questions, but Clarify Health was up for the challenge. Healthcare IT Today sat down ...
Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group Implements RPA for Pennies
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard to picture Robotic Process Automation (RPA). There is nothing physical or tangible. There is no user interface that users interact with on ...
Practical Applications of Intelligent Automation with Genzeon and Penn State Health
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While it’s great to talk about automation, it is another to hear from a CIO who’s living the implementation of intelligent automation in their org...
Medical Alerts That Make Sense From MedAware
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alert fatigue, often cited as a source of burn-out in the medical professions, is a symptom of bad design. Dr. Gidi Stein, CEO and Co-founder at MedAw...
You Don't Have to be Mega-Conglomerate to Benefit from Health IT: A CareCognitics Deployment
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this video interview, Navin Jain, Practice Administrator at Cookeville, described how they put in place the key parts of an improved workflow. They...
How Smart Technology is Improving Quality of Life for People with Cognitive Disabilities
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Remote patient monitoring often deals with averting crises: for instance, the familiar fall alert devices you see advertised on TV. Many people with a...
Eliminating Trachoma with the Help of GIS Technology
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trachoma remains the world’s leading infectious causes of blindness, yet for decades we have had the antibiotics to treat it. Sightsavers is an inte...
Real Change Happening in Physician Practices According to MGMA President Dr Halee Fischer-Wright
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
88% of MGMA’s physician practice members say that workforce issues are creating financial challenges for them. Add to that high inflation, supply ch...
What Can Be Done to Address the Burden on Non-Clinical Staff?
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Physician burnout has been and will be a hot topic in every healthcare organization. However, are enough organizations also looking at the burde...
Health Equity, Pollution, Carbon Footprints–and Your IT Department
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are solid financial reasons for reducing energy use in your data center, for eliminating medical waste, and for increasing the diversity of your...
Embracing the eClinicalWorks Cloud to Support Medical Practice Expansion
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a healthcare organization expands, this often would mean their IT staff would have to source a local data center vendor and everything that's invol...
Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At some point in our lives—perhaps many points—we will pass through a long-term or post-acute care (LTPAC) facility. But these facilities are afte...
Understanding the Value of Design in Health IT with Atomic Health
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I love being around people that just ooze passion for the work they do. You know the type of person I'm talking about. The people who have...
Automated Physician Schedules are More Equitable
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scheduling physicians is complex. There are many rules, guidelines and personal preferences that need to be considered. Manually creating the physicia...
The Future of Healthcare M&A with Rahul Rekhi from Lazard
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“A lot of strategics that are well capitalized, so large public companies that are flush with cash, that have seen the valuation trends in healthcar...
How Printing is Not Only Here to Stay, But is Vital to your Organization with ACDI
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over these past couple of years as healthcare continues to move towards a more digital world, we've started to hear complaints over the old systems, s...
Are Webinars Still a Good Marketing Tactic? A Conversation with Sara Strom
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years, webinars have been a fantastic way to increase brand awareness and to generate leads. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and in-person conferen...
Should You Keep RCM in House or Leverage RCM As a Service?
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the eClinicalWorks National Conference, I had a chance to hear about RCM as a Service first hand from Todd Mallon, Chief Financial Officer at Advoc...
FDB Vela's New ePrescribing Network
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our increasingly digital healthcare world, ePrescribing has become a necessary tool in order for patients to get the medicine that they need. Up un...
The Shifting View of Automation in Healthcare with Matt Dickson from Stericycle
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand some of these over arching trends in healthcare automation, we sat down with Matt Dickson, Senior VP of Product, Strategy and GM ...
Big Tech in Healthcare with Capital One Healthcare
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Naturally as healthcare moves into a more digital space, more tech is needed to accomplish every day tasks. This opens up a new market that is largely...
Culture and Strategy are Key to Clarity Quest Marketing’s Historic Success
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winning Agency of the Year once is hard enough. Winning it twice is an incredible feat. Earlier this year, Clarity Quest Marketing won the 2022 Medigy...
Pediatric Rare Disease Information Tracking for Caregivers with Ryan Sheedy
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, we talk with Ryan Sheedy, Caregiver and Founder at Mejo, a web app that helps families track their child's most important medical &...
Rare Disease Treatment Tracking App with Katheron Intson
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, we talk with Katheron Intson, Founder and CEO at Varient, an app that tracks rare disease treatment and connects genetically simila...
Chronically Simple App for Chronic Disease Patients and Caregivers by Kristy Dickinson
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kristy Dickinson, Patient, Founder and Managing Director at Chronically Simple, which provides a digital health tool for patients and caregivers. ...
SCHIO HIE's Approach to Identity Management
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Identity management is one of the top problems HIEs face today. There are numerous complications that happen when you try to ensure the identity...
Lifting the Mental Stress of Chronic Illnesses with CCS's new Diabetes Program
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever scrolled through Netflix for something to watch, only to get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of tv shows and movies they have available?...
eClinicalWorks Invests $100 Million in Microsoft Cloud Services
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to shift healthcare into a more digital world, it’s important to have a reliable Cloud to back up and store all of the data and digit...
From Nascar to Healthcare - HITMC Rising Star Award Winner
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite HITMC Awards is the HITMC Rising Star award. I love how it recognizes someone who is new to healthcare, but in many cases has...
Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rochester RHIO transferred its HISP infrastructure and started using Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for clinical data exchange and HISP services. &nb...
Learning About Next Generation UV Products in Healthcare
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about the evolution of UV technology and how healthcare organizations are using it today, I sat down with Grant Morgan, CEO and Co-Found...
Burnt Out of Being Burnt Out – What’s Needed to Really Help Physicians?
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand what’s really causing burnout in physicians, I had a chance to interview Dr. Eve Bloomgarden, MD, COO at IMPACT and CDO of Wome...
Practical Application of AI Research with NYU
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AI in healthcare has become a huge topic of interest, but what does the practical application of AI look like? At the recent Ai4 Conference, we sat do...
DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know there are over 1 million addresses in the DirectTrust directory? That’s right. There are 1 million endpoints that can easil...
Are Blogs Still Worthwhile? An Interview with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t that long ago that blogs and blogging were the most effective way to demonstrate thought leadership and drive interested parties to your w...
No-code One of Many Considerations for Healthcare Form Solutions
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adopting technology solutions that have a no-code or low-code approach makes sense for healthcare organizations right now as the industry continues to...
PR is the Sword. Customers are the Heroes - An Interview with Grace Vinton
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to be a consistently successful healthcare PR Professional? According to Grace Vinton, Account Director at Amendola Communications a...
A Wide Ranging Look at MEDITECH with Helen Waters
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Given the relatively recent transition of leadership at MEDITECH, I thought it would be a good time to check in with MEDITECH's Executive Vice Preside...
Realistic Math + Bottom-up Approach = Better Marketing Budgets
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marketing budgets are never easy. Everything from determining the right amount to ask for to defending your spending allocation is challenging. It is ...
How AI Can Democratize Healthcare with Robin Farmanfarmaian
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Farmanfarmaian, Author and Professional Speaker just released a new book called “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare." (Side Note: You can get a...
Labelmaster Expects Their Brand To Be a Strategic Business Driver
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A brand is more than a logo, a color palette, and a smartly crafted tagline. When properly articulated and carefully implemented, a brand can help gui...
Maple Anticipated the Decline in Telehealth and Expects to Continue Growing
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maple is a Canadian Healthcare success story. Founded in 2015, the company has grown steadily and is now Canada’s largest online network of doctors....
Healthcare Interoperability with Anil Jain, MD from Innovaccer
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's one thing to talk about interoperability in healthcare and it's another to talk about where sharing of health data is really happening. Tha...
CommonWell, MEDITECH, TEFCA, and QHINs
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue to learn about how the industry is responding to TEFCA and which organizations are planning to apply to be a QHIN, we thought it would ...
A Look at Care Navigation, Virtual Care, and Oracle Cerner with Zane Burke from Quantum Health
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the people who's had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Most of us got to know Burke during his...
The Healthcare Workforce Needs More Joy Pie
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The shortage of healthcare staff is growing more acute. Hope for a quick bounce-back to a pre-pandemic “normal” has all but faded away. As organiz...
Integrating Digital Fax Into Your Health IT Solution
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While many would like to eschew fax in healthcare, the reality is that faxes are still an extremely important part of data sharing that happens in hea...
Reduce Physician Burnout by Addressing Usability and Interoperability Says CMA President
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All around the globe, healthcare systems are beginning to strain and fray as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals leave their positi...
Philips Sees Telehealth as Key to Improving Patient Care & Reducing Physician Burnout
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we march towards more in-home and remote care, the need for digital innovation was at an all time high. Without giving it too much credit, COVID-19...
Clinically Validated Vital Signs for Mental Health
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Remote patient monitoring is everywhere in healthcare today. We see that in our ever expanding list of remote patient monitoring companies. ...
KLAS Differentiates Patient Communications from Patient-Driven Care Management Solutions
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent report, KLAS Research separated their Patient Outreach category into two new categories. The Patient Communications category groups togeth...
Lotus Medical - Bringing DPC approach to Canadian Healthcare
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by what is happening in the US with the Direct Primary Care movement (DPC), Lotus Medical, is bringing elements of that approach to Canada. B...
Marketing at MGMA
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Stone leads the marketing efforts at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). Over the past year her team has launched a new informat...
Adding Computer Vision in Hospitals
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To dive into where we're at with computer vision in smart hospitals, we sat down with Roger Lam, VP of Engineering at MBX Systems. In the i...
VR Changing Surgical Training is About Repetitions
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you first hear about VR (Virtual Reality) being used for medical training, it kind of sounds like a game or a joke and not a serious addition to ...
A Sit Down with Epic to Learn About Their Decision to Support TEFCA
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We wanted to learn about Epic's decision to apply to be a QHIN, so we sat down with Matt Doyle, Software Development Lead for Interoperability at Epic...
The Hospital Room of the Future
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've been talking about the "hospital room of the future" for a while now. I guess it's safe to say the future is here in many regards. H...
Payers Making the Most of Their Data with Limited Resources
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the AHIP Annual conference in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with David Schweppe, Chief Analytics Officer at MedeAnalytics, to lear...
A Look at the Biggest Challenge Healthcare RCM Professionals Face
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you attend a conference, it's always fun to see if there's a kind of theme or hot topic for those attending the conference. At this year's ...
RTLS Helps Address Staff Duress
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Realtime locating systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in...
The Real Core of the Physician Burnout Problem and What to Do About It
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about the problem of burnout and how the right clinician focused technology can help, I sat down with Jed S. Rosen, MD, Regional Directo...
Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR's been around. I've heard FHIR described a...
Culture is a Leadership Imperative at Redox
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At most companies, a strong corporate culture is a by-product of leadership rather than the result of a conscientious effort. Smart companies are real...
Re-establishing Confidence in Greenway is Job One for CEO Pratap Sarker
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone loves a comeback story. There’s just something inspiring about facing adversity and fighting through a challenge to emerge victorious on th...
The Increasing Importance of Payments in Healthcare
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the big challenges for health IT companies is onboarding new customers for something like payments. Turns out, a bank we all probably kno...
Cash is Queen According to Healthcare Revenue Cycle Experts
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revenue provides stability and flexibility to healthcare organizations. Both are extremely valuable as patient volumes remain below pre-pandemic level...
Leading the Future of Healthcare Communication with Kno2's Jon Elwell and Therasa Bell
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I look at the state of communication in healthcare, I can see that we’ve made a lot of progress. Certainly, there’s still plenty of wor...
Digital Transformation in Healthcare Begins with Tackling Legacy
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first step towards a digital transformation isn’t to adopt new technology. To truly transform, healthcare organizations need to first deal with ...
Monitoring Packets is Contact Tracing for Cybersecurity
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
System availability not uptime is critical for patient care. Cyberattacks have a significant negative impact on availability. No single security solut...
Price Transparency is Key to Overall Patient Experience
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The financial and administrative experience is no longer considered separate from the clinical experience by patients. A poor experience after their p...