Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
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...
RPM Platform Learnings from UK Being Brought to the US
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas. If you're on Twitter, then you've probably seen...
KLAS Spotlight on Autonomous Coding (featuring CorroHealth)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent Emerging Technology Spotlight report, KLAS Research found that provider organizations who are using CorroHealth’s autonomous coding prod...
Futura Healthcare - Reducing Labor Costs Without Cutting Staff
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the losing staff to the Great Resignation and early retirement, many healthcare organizations are facing higher labor costs. Why? Because of t...
Health Equity and Health Disparities with Scott Afzal
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To dive into the challenges of Health Equity and Health Disparities, I sat down with Scott Afzal, President of Audacious Inquiry, to understand t...
The State of Interoperability - COVID and Beyond
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The inability to easily exchange medical data is holding back healthcare improvements and innovation. Thankfully there has been concerted effort recen...
Consumer Experience is a Top Priority at Adventist Health
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has cast a harsh light on the unequal distribution of care. Instead of hiding from the reality, leading healthcare organizations like Adv...
A Look at the Behavioral Health Network, TPN.health
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with Trevor Colhoun, CEO & Co-Founder at TPN.health, to talk about the mental health referral problem and learn more abou...
2 Important Healthcare eSignature Use Cases: Informed Consent and Registration
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While healthcare seems perennial behind in adoption of many technologies, the good news is that healthcare specific eSignature solutions are available...
OCR + NLP + Fax = A Winning Combination for Consensus
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consensus Cloud Solutions has added Natural Language Processing capability to its offerings which will make it much easier for healthcare organization...
AI - Once Feared, Now Seen as Potential Relief for Healthcare Staffing Challenges
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is little doubt that the top challenge facing healthcare in 2022 is staffing. Healthcare organizations around the country are feeling the effect...
Managing Healthcare Cyber Threats and Protecting Patient Data at the Edge Meetup
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s impossible to put a value on the trust your patients place in your organization to protect and safely store the data created in the course of c...
NTT DATA Services: More Personalized Patient Experiences Needed
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is little doubt that a good patient experience leads to better outcomes. A “good experience”, however, is a moving target that is shaped by ...
Becoming More Patient First with Kelli Bravo from Pega
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the HIMSS 2022 conference, I talked with Kelli Bravo, Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences at Pega, to learn about the changing expectation...
TigerConnect Reduces Staff Frustration With Better Communication & Scheduling
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As healthcare continues to grapple with staffing challenges, organizational leaders are more keenly interested in technologies that will reduce staff ...
Arkansas HIE Uses Technology Partnership to Improve Health Outcomes
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to HIEs, every one is so different. They often have different missions and many states have multiple HIEs trying to approach the p...
Addressing Staff Burnout with the Right Workstation Setup
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In order to understand how much the EHR workstation space has changed and how it can help reduce burnout in a healthcare organization, I sat down with...
Why Haven't Payers Automated Prior Authorizations Previously?
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the banes of healthcare is prior authorizations. Just mention of the phrase makes the hearts of doctors and their staff break. Whil...
The Story and Vision for Tegria
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some of you who read this may not have heard of Tegria. However, it's very likely you've heard of one of the many companies that were combined t...
3 Important Security Efforts and 2 Threats to Work On and Watch for in Healthcare
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coming out of the HIMSS conference, one of the top topics at the conference was cybersecurity. Maybe it was the lingering impact and effects on ...
The Patient Right of Access Rule and a Look at Enforcement Actions
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New government regulations never stop in healthcare. It's just the nature of the business and that's unlikely to change. However, the real...
A Case Study on the Importance of Choosing the Right Data Management Partner
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent conversation with Zafar Chaudry, MD, MS, MIS, MBA, Sr. Vice President – Chief Digital & Information Officer at Seattle Children’s,...
WellSpan Health's Experience Consolidating Medication History Across 3 EHR
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As healthcare organizations continue to consolidate, one of the big challenges these healthcare organizations face is what to do with the data from al...
MedM – Tackling the Challenge of Connecting RPM Devices
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Remote patient monitoring devices from different manufacturers rarely talk to each other. There are standards for device data exchange, but no incenti...
AssureCare’s Tara Pfund, PharmD, Discusses Pharmacists’ Expanding Role in Population Health
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As someone who did IT support for a pharmacy in my early health IT career, I saw how pharmacists were an incredibly valuable piece of healthcare and a...
The Importance of Cybersecurity in Protecting Patient Safety
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about cybersecurity, we often like to talk about the financial elements of a breach. No doubt the financial impact is extremely imp...
Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance with Dr. Clement Goehrs
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Long time followers may remember that we covered the announcement of a French company, Synapse Medicine, launching their Medication Reconciliation and...
To Become Patient-Centered, Listen to Patients
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patients want to be treated like they are as consumers in the retail and hospitality world. Healthcare is coming around, but slowly. To accelerate the...
Making Virtual At Home Lab Testing a Reality
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the HIMSS conference, I had a chance to interview Pouria Sanae, Co-founder and CEO at ixlayer, to learn about their solution to the problem of at h...
Ensuring Clean, Usable Data in Healthcare
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After understanding the importance of clean, usable data, the next key is to learn about data quality and how we solve the problem of garbage in leads...
The “Digital Front Door” at Piedmont Healthcare Goes Beyond the Actual Door
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare organizations have been improving their "Digital Front Doors". The goal, for most, is to make it as easy as possible for patients to find a...
What's a Healthcare Organization with Clean, High Quality Data Look Like and One that Doesn't?
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If the future of healthcare is built on the back of data (and I assure you it is), then it is extremely important to know what a healthcare organizati...
The Healthcare AI Project That Experts Said Wasn’t Possible
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I sat down with Bob Rogers, AI Expert in Residence Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF, and Sri Ambati, C...
Aligning the Advantages of Flexible Healthcare IT Models with Improved Patient Care
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The shift to work-from home and COVID disruptions forced a range of industries to deploy next-gen technologies at an accelerated rate without a commen...
How RWJBarnabas Health Is Leveraging Data Across Disparate Systems
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the HIMSS 2022 annual conference, I was able to sit down with Amato Amarain, CFO, Medical Group at RWJBarnabas Health, and Nora Lissy, RN, BSN...
Can We Automate Prior Authorizations in Healthcare?
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior Authorizations are the bane of doctors existence and they affect the patient as well. Recently, I was able to sit down with Joe Anstine, CEO, an...
Is Your Fax Infrastructure Costing You Money and Putting Patients At Risk?
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While many are still calling to #axthefax, the reality is that fax is here to stay in healthcare for the foreseeable future. If there was a bett...
Paper and Manual Processes Are Still a Challenge in Healthcare - What Can You Do About Them?
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the EHR has solved many problems (remember doctors' handwriting?), healthcare still faces the ongoing challenge posed by paper and manual proces...
Not All Legacy Application and Archiving Solutions Are Created Equal
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know in life that there are some things that are just better than others. For example, name brand corn flakes are just better than generi...
Preview of "Demystifying AI for the Enterprise" by Prashant Natarajan
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a massive undertaking to write a health IT book. Of course, leave it to Prashant Natarajan,VP of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai, to author...
Better Understanding the Patient and Caregiver Perspective with Effie Parks
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the HLTH conference last year, one of the most amazing people I met was a lady named Effie Parks. She was attending HLTH to receive a WEGO He...
Chronic Care Management with LeadingReach and Catalyst Health Group
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we work to understand how chronic care management continues to evolve and mature, we sat down with Curtis Gattis, Co-Founder and CEO of LeadingReac...
New Updates to HIMSS EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model)
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you've worked in the world of EHR and health IT, then you're likely familiar with EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model) which was develo...
A Look at the Future of Virtual Care with Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now that COVID changed so many perspectives when it came to virtual care, we’re going to spend the next couple years figuring out the details.  ...
Healthcare Needs Deep, not Surface Automation
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare needs more automation, but not the kind that just robotically repeats a process over and over. That would just lead to factory medicine. In...
Is the Chief Digital Officer as Important as the CEO in Healthcare?
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is the responsibility of Chief Digital Officers to lead healthcare’s digital transformation. They must align the C-Suite, frontline staff, and th...
Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the fu...
AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CorroHealth has brought together 7 separate companies to form a single organization that is looking to transform the RCM space through Automation and ...
Why a Marketing Agency Acquired a Media Outlet
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FINN Partners, a leading marketing agency acquired Medika.Life, an online publisher of medical-related content. How will FINN navigate being a PR part...
Diabetes Prevention and Nutrition Program from Fruit Street
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One company that’s working to address diabetes with nutrition is Fruit Street. To learn more about how their diabetes program works, I sat dow...
Stephan Landsman - Medical Malpractice and Telehealth
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As I search to better understand medical malpractice laws, I had a chance to sit down with Stephan Landsman, Co-Author of “Closing Death’s Door: L...
Using Blockchain to Underwrite Cybersecurity Insurance
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I first heard about a cybersecurity company, CloudCover, using their security technology to build a cybersecurity insurance platform on blockchai...
A C-Suite Perspective: Bridging the Gap Between Legacy Applications and New Technologies
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Legacy applications have served Healthcare organizations for years; however, these applications are causing problems executives must address. Some of ...
Medical Device Security Incident Response Playbook
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Frenz, AVP of IT Security at Mount Sinai South Nassau and Brian Russell, Co-Chair, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Internet of Things (IoT) ...
Study shows RPM reduces readmissions, helps catch medication errors, and improves pain management.
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A randomized controlled trial across 8 acute care hospitals showed that patients in the group that used Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) after surgery,...
Primary Care for People of Color with Spora Health
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While primary care investment is high and we’re likely to see changes to primary care as we know it, I was intrigued by Spora Health which is offeri...
The Value a Lawyer Can Bring to Health IT Startups and MEDITECH Hospitals
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most experienced healthcare lawyers I know is William F. O’Toole, Jr., Founder of O’Toole Law Group. Having started as an in house lawy...
Evolution of Stel Life's Connected Health Hub
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the HIMSS conference earlier this year, I talked with one of the makers of a connected health hub, Sid Kandan, CEO at Stel Life Inc. Wha...
Medical Practice Perspectives from Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright at #MPE21
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent Medical Practice Excellence Leaders conference in San Diego hosted by MGMA, I had a chance to sit down and talk with Dr. Halee Fischer-W...
Hospital Readmissions and Post Acute Care
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Someone who has a thorough understanding about the connection between post-acute care and readmissions is Chip Grant, MD, Founder & CEO at Watersh...
Big Focus on Small Data = Big Impact for HIEs Like Healthix
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data as a way to further increase their value. Higher quality data from HIEs he...
MGMA Data Trends and Insights at MPE21
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, MGMA has been gathering valuable medical-practice information, analyzing it, and sharing the insights with their members. Now MGMA is inv...
Patient Access Challenges Requires New Thinking
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patient Access was never a straightforward challenge. It is a complex, nuanced, and layered issue that requires solutions as diverse as the people aff...
Big Bet on FHIR Pays Off
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan Weatherston, CEO at Smile CDR is a big believer in the HL7 FHIR standard, so much so that he bet the future of his company on it. Their busines...
Understanding Remote Monitoring Tech and the Smart Device Space with Casey Pittock from Smart Meter
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I was excited to sit down and talk with Casey Pittock, CEO of Smart Meter, to talk about this evolution because he’s been working at the front lines...
Better Health is in Your Hands - An AHIMA Foundation Initiative
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Advocating for our own health or the health of our loved ones starts with gaining access to and a better understanding of health information. The AHIM...
Healthcare AI Assistants and Ambient Clinical Voice with Punit Soni, CEO of Suki
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Given my passion for trying to understand how we can reduce the clinician documentation burden, I sat down with Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, to talk about...
We Need More Interop Heroes in Healthcare - DirectTrust is Finding Them
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a way to recognize those doing the hard work of healthcare interoperability, DirectTrust has started a new Interoperability Hero Initiative. ...
Hip Hop Public Health: Winner of Best COVID Public Awareness Campaign
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Message in the Music, Spreading Love, Not COVID Hear from Lori Rose Benson, Executive Director and CEO for Hip Hop Public Health and Helen Shel...