Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
Learning by Listening: A Winning Formula for The Health Management Academy
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Health Management Academy is a hidden gem. For years they have been bringing together leaders from healthcare providers and industry innovators in...
Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating in...
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data in Action
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To integrate the third type of data, Health Gorilla joined forces with LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Access to such data helps clinicians identify wher...
Six Months to a Virtual ICU at Houston Methodist
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist Hospital, discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as wel...
Simple Basics Are Still Needed to Thwart Cyber Threats
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. I...
Just Get Connected Already
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell's vision, achievements...
Improving Internal Communications Leads to 50% Stroke Workflow Improvement
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TigerConnect has seen its customers improve their stroke workflows by more than 50% when staff have access to and embrace the use of communication tec...
TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to ta...
A Talk with Epic at HIMSS23 Including Their Work to Incorporate ChatGPT and Generative AI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project ...
Altera is Relentlessly Focused on Addressing Client Pain Points
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Perez, President at Altera Digital Health is focusing the company on delivering results for clients. Teams are relentlessly focused on addressi...
Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Security - A Look At 405D
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are new tools for protecting clinic and hospital security that every healthcare organization should know about. In this video, two leaders, Erik...
Greenway’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. They are not just making it more user-friendly. The company is working hard ...
Querying Patient Databases Through Chat by Atropos Health
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI systems such as chatGPT produce impressive summaries of documents on the Internet, including clinical studies. But Atropos Health can tu...
Better Servicing Patients and Staff at Scale with VMware
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*VMware is a sponsor of Healthcare Scene. In this video, Michael Robinson, VP of Healthcare, says that even five years ago, the health care industry ...
Small and Medium Medical Practices Need Business Support - EverHealth at HIMSS23
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Small- and medium-sized medical practices are struggling. The uncertain economic environment, staffing challenges, and the increasing complexing or pr...
Take AI Out of the Conversation Completely and Focus on Results
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When designing analytical systems for clinicians, "Take Ai out of the conversation completely," advises Sameer Sethi, Senior Vice President...
5G Improves Patient and Staff Experience at NGHS
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT ...
Secondary Uses Come to the Fore with MediQuant's Active Archive
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this video with Jim Jacobs, CEO of MediQuant, to see the value of archiving for both immediate clinical workflows as well as for modern data cru...
The Changing Dynamic Between Clinical Operations and IT
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two decades the relationship and dynamic between IT and Clinical Operations has changed. The two must now work in close collaboration wi...
Connected Health Initiative with Brian Scarpelli
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and ...
For CVS, Enterprise Resilience Means Being Able to Help Communities During Disasters
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Access to medication, water, and food are critical before, during, and after natural disasters. With over 9600 retail pharmacies across the US, CVS is...
The Promise of ChatGPT Will Be Buried Inside Health Care
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The stunning achievements of chatGPT (along with the enormous work that remains to be done) raise the questions of how generative AI will change indus...
Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a ...
ROI Healthcare Solutions Provides the Returns Healthcare Organizations Want
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In these days of tightened payments and higher costs, organizations need to "do more with less" by finding better prices for their purchases...
How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HCA Healthcare, one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the ...
IEHP Succeeds with GIS By Showing Stakeholders What is Possible
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Geographic Information System (GIS) team at Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) successfully created internal advocates by educating their peers and ...
Tracking the Patient Experience Using Qualtrics at Intermountain Health
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all benefit from sharing out concerns communally. "What, you had the same problem I did?" We say to a friend. "How did you handle it...
Medication Safety & Affordability Improving According to Surescripts Data - Frank Harvey at ViVE2023
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to the latest National Progress Report from Surescripts, over 2.5 billion medication histories were requested through their platform in 2022...
The Reach of ChatGPT into Health Care Expands
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The recent release of GPT-4, the newest version of OpenAI's platform, shows that generative AI is evolving even more quickly than we can find uses...
Nuance Announces DAX Express Fully Automated AI Note Creation for Doctors
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nuance recently announced DAX Express and I had to learn more about it and dive into the details of what Nuance is planning to offer. I sat down wit...
Generative AI Takes On Administrative Burdens
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most frustrating burdens on health care workers today is the drag of administrative tasks. New AI technologies that interpret and generate ...
What's the Impact of Connectivity on Patients and Providers?
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with Heather Hudnall, BSN, RN, Director of Connected Industry, Healthcare at NTT, and Heather Haugen, PhD, VP of Healthcare Pract...
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...