Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
Fixing Referrals: Golden opportunity to Become More Patient Centric
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patients and physicians hate the referral process. It's inefficient, full of gaps and is frustrating for everyone involved. Yet the solution is simple...
MEDITECH EHR Migration and Legacy Data Management
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In order to share Magnolia Regional Health Center’s experience migrating EHRs, we sat down with Brian Davis, CHCIO, Chief Information Officer at Mag...
Healthcare Security with Leon Lerman, CEO of Cynerio
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We recently talked with Leon Lerman, CEO & Co-Founder of Cynerio, the leading provider of IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, a...
Insights Into EHR Documentation Workstations
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with Kevin Bridges, VP of Marketing and Business Development, and Marc LaFleur, VP of New Customer Development at Enovate Med...
Memorial Health System Expands Use of Lifelink Chatbot Beyond COVID Screening
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Memorial Health System (MHS) rapidly implemented Lifelink's conversational AI platform to help triage patients during COVID. Now that the pandemic is ...
DirectTrust Incorporates SAFE Identity Assets As New DirectTrust Framework
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While many people know DirectTrust for their work with direct messaging, over the years they’ve been doing more and more work when it comes to build...
Interview with Gerry Blass from ComplyAssistant
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent discussion with Gerry Blass, President & CEO of ComplyAssistant, he pointed out a number of things about ransomware that make it a uni...
Mothers in Medicine Fund - Supporting the Childcare Needs of Women in Healthcare
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few good women in healthcare IT have put together an initiative that I thought would be worth highlighting to the health IT community at large. ...
Patient Advocate and SDOH Expert, Janice Tufte
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to know about SDoH (Social Determinants of Health), who better to go to than a patient who's been working on SDoH for years. That's ...
Waiting Room and Physician Scheduling with DOCPACE
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shelby Sanderford, Founder & CEO of DOCPACE, is an expert on the waiting room in healthcare given DOCPACE's experience offering a virtual waiting ...
A Primary Care Physician's Experience With RPM and NavCare
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remote Patient Monitoring does not have to be a complex endeavor. Dr. Coffin, CTO and Professor at Medical College of Georgia, Department of Family Me...
Specialty Telehealth Business Dynamics
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve followed Healthcare IT Today and our Health IT Interviews podcast, you know it’s pretty rare that I have the same guest on the show and ...
Patient Benefit Dashboard Prove the Value of Telehealth at PHSA
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare organizations in the province of British Columbia rapidly rolled-out telehealth technologies during the pandemic, just like many others did...
NYCHH continues to benefit from COVID texting solution 1 year later
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A simple text-based patient monitoring and outreach solution deployed in just 8 days by New York City Health + Hospitals (NYCHH) at the start of the C...
CAMH Adds Patient Stories to Cerner & Everyone Loves It
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patient stories are powerful, but there is no easy way to capture them in a standard EHR. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) overcame t...
Blackberry Warns: Security Threats Loom as People Return to the Office
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent survey conducted by Blackberry, 9 out of 10 respondents reported that they were concerned about staff returning from work-at-home with sys...
#HITtheTrails with the HIT Like a Girl Podcast
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joy Rios (@askjoyrios) and Shereese Maynard (@ShereeseMayMba) are just starting on an epic 3 month journey called #HITtheTrails where they're doi...
Life Flows Through Our Software - An Interview with Top Dedalus Executive, Damon Auer
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When a company leads with the statement that "Life Flows Through Our Software", I get really intrigued and had to learn more about Dedalus. What...
Using Marketing and Storytelling to Improve Healthcare Security
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Far too often in healthcare security I hear CIOs and CISOs talking about the technology side of security. It's easy to talk about buying firewal...
Synthetic Data in Healthcare with MDClone
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the health IT innovations today are happening on the back of health data. I don’t think anyone would disagree that future health IT in...
Addressing Vaccine Inequity is More Than a Moral Issue
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COVID disproportionately affected the elderly, the working poor, and visible minorities. This inequity, if not addressed, has the potential to blunt t...
Suzanne Hendery: Making A Difference
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In just four short years, Suzanne Hendery and her marketing team at Renown Health have established themselves as a social media savvy, internationally...
RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) gaining momentum according to Xealth
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a lot of chatter recently about Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), but is it real? Xealth, makers of a platform that allows physici...
What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take?
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) was growing before COVID and it's gaining even more traction since. However, m...
ServiceNow Working to Solve the COVID Vaccine “Last Mile” Challenge
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ServiceNow, a company that delivers digital workflows through a SaaS platform, has quietly been working with healthcare providers on their vaccine dis...
Data Centers Anticipating Growth in Healthcare - An Interview with Switch
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare applications are increasing in complexity. Health data continues to grow exponentially. To avoid being drowned in this technology deluge, h...
A Digital Stethoscope for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When did you last see an innovation on the stethoscope? Maybe never. For iconic as the stethoscope is, it's gone through very little innov...
A Physician Perspective on Telehealth
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand telehealth from a physician perspective, we sat down with Dr. Mia Finkelston, Senior Medical Director at Amwell, to talk about wh...
Dalton Patterson - Healthcare Marketing
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dalton Patterson, winner of the 2020 HITMC Award for Rising Star in Health IT, serves as the Digital Marketing Manager for CorroHealth. &n...
Free Telehealth - An Interview with the Founder of doxy.me
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In order to learn more about the Free telehealth solution offered by doxy.me, we sat down with Brandon Welch, CEO and Founder of doxy.me. Along ...
A Look at the Financial Impact of COVID on Healthcare Organizations
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the pandemic hit, healthcare organizations went through a period where it was a challenge for some to get the cash they needed to run their opera...
Climbing the Ranks: How Laura Bastardi Accelerated Her Healthcare Marketing Career in Only 2 Years
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Bastardi, winner of the 2020 HITMC Award for Rising Star at an Agency, started at Matter Communications as an intern after she graduated. Her ro...
Internal vs. External Marketing Teams & Why Marketing Needs a Seat At The Leadership Table
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hear Claire Pfarr discusses marketing staffing - hiring internal versus external and why marketing needs to have a seat at the leadership table.  ...
A Look at Humanizing Healthcare and the Telehealth Landscape
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After learning about the business agreement to combine UpHealth with Cloudbreak Health, I wanted to sit down with Jamey Edwards, CEO & Co-Founder ...
Healthcare Chatbots with the CEO of LifeLink
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One area of healthcare that's exploding is the use of AI and chatbots. It makes sense that healthcare is having to do more with less and there a...
Surprise. Email Most Effective During COVID-19 for Communication.
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
50% of respondents to a recent survey said EMAIL was the most effective form of hospital-wide communications during the pandemic. This easily beat out...
5 Ways GIS Can Improve COVID Vaccine Distribution
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COVID vaccinations are not happening at the pace we need. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can simplify the planning and logistics of administerin...
From RFPs to Healthcare Marketing Leader and Award Winner
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Kaiser, winner of the 2020 HITMC Award for Health IT Marketer of the Year, started his career in healthcare marketing writing RFP responses for ...
PointClickCare Enters Acute Care Market with Collective Medical Acquisition
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
PointClickCare, the market leader in the long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) space, makes its first meaningful foray into the acute care market with the...
What Makes Specialty Acute Care Telehealth Different?
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've all seen the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID-19. What most people don't realize is that there are a lot of different types of "tel...
Revenue Cycle Management Key to Healthcare Recovery
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 has put an enormous financial strain on physician practices. Many had to shut down or severely restrict the number of patient visits. A...
Healthcare Websites Shouldn't Be Like Amazon
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many healthcare organizations have set their sights on Amazon as the exemplar to strive towards. They are held as the best practice when it comes to c...
Health IT's Role in the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out across the world, it raises a lot of interesting questions about health IT's role in all of it. To better ...
New SDoH (Social Determinants of Health) Solution
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, we sit down with Tim Suther, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Data Solutions at Change Healthcare to discuss their newl...
Step Aside iPhone. Zebra Devices Now Support Epic Rover
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zebra Technologies recently announced that their TC52-HC handheld touch computer was approved for use with Rover, Epic’s mobile app and in so doing ...
AliveCor Overview with Founder Dr. David Albert
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While many people have come to know EKG technology thanks to Apple incorporating it into their watch, AliveCor has been doing it for much longer. &nbs...
Still Standing - 2020 Strategic Healthcare Marketing Plans
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the pandemic, Providence St. Joseph Health did not rip up their 2020 strategic plan. Instead they remained focused and used it to guide their ...
Idion: Fashion Fad Becomes Patient Innovation
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is not often that an innovation leaps from the world of fashion to healthcare, yet that is exactly what happened with Idion’s skin-applied techno...
A Caregiver's Prior Auth Experience and What Can Be Done to Improve the Experience
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I know that many doctor like to complain about clicks, but something they hate even more than clicks is prior auths (prior authorizations). I’...
21st Century Cures Act - An HIM Professional Perspective
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare IT Today recently sat down with Sue Chamberlain, MSCTE, RHIA, CCS-P, CDIP, VP, Compliance and Education at RRS Medical, to talk about ...
New AI Model for COVID-19 Patients in the ED Using a Federated Learning Approach
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all known that data and AI was going to come together to make healthcare better. We’ve seen it in fits and starts for a long time. &nb...
Barby Ingle. Tireless Patient Advocate. HITMC Award Winner
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down to learn more about the amazing work that Barby Ingle is doing for patients and healthcare in general. She was the winner of the 2020 Medi...
Ambient Clinical Voice Technology - Speke from Soundlines
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about Speke and Soundlines approach to clinical documentation and ambient clinical voice technology, check out my interterview with Frid...
What healthcare needs to do to be more secure
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber attacks in healthcare are on the rise and as more organizations adopt new connected devices and systems, the points of vulnerability are multipl...
Achieving Fluid Telehealth: How to Create a Virtual Care Infrastructure
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's no topic in healthcare that's more discussed right now than the shift to virtual care. Trying to understand what a healthcare organizati...
CareCloud EHR Telehealth Series
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors about how they're approaching telehealth, we dive in to the telehealth product, features, and fun...
Smooth Operations = Practice Success at Graves Gilbert Clinic
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graves Gilbert Clinic, a 200 provider group located in Bowling Green KY, was one of only 54 Best Performers identified by MGMA in their 2020 Performan...
MGMA Report Reveals Secrets of Better Performing Practices
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MGMA released their 2020 Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups Report and it revealed that better performing medical practices spend ...
Are You Ready for CMS 21st Century Cures Act Notification Requirements?
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with Dr. Peter Tippett, Founder and CEO at careMESH, to talk a bit about the CMS final rule and what it's going to require hospitals to do...
A Look at COVID-19's Impact on Medical Practices with MGMA's CEO
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While we all know what a crazy year it’s been for medical practices, when we sat down with Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACMPE, President an...
The Challenge of AI Bias and Diverse Healthcare Data
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've often talked about the double edged sword of AI when it comes to bias. On the one hand, the AI treats every patient exactly the same which...
EHR Auto Documentation, NLP, and Ambient Clinical Voice
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EHR auto documentation using NLP and ambient clinical voice is every clinician's dream. The good news is that the technology to make all of this a rea...
Patient Communication and Scheduling Patterns During COVID-19
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To dive into what patterns healthcare organizations are seeing with patients as we work through COVID-19 and to share some lessons learned, we sat dow...
How Are Healthcare Institutions Being Attacked and What Can You Do About It?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seems like a week doesn’t go by with at least one or multiple healthcare systems being compromised by hackers. As we talk with hundreds of hea...
Healthcare Digital Transformation
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this video interview, we ask Paddy Padmanabhan from Damo Consulting and Co-Author of Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology...
Does remote patient monitoring impact patient outcomes? Two McMaster Professors Investigate
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) holds great promise not only for convenient safe care in the comfort of home, but also for reduced costs from reduced ...
Cloud DX Positioned to Succeed as Remote Patient Monitoring Takes Off
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud DX provides remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other virtual technologies that allows patients to remain safely at home and receive care. The c...
Digital Twins in Healthcare
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To get a better understanding of some of the early use cases for Digital Twins in healthcare, I sat down with Niels Thomsen, VP & Global Head of t...
Cerner Telehealth Review and Amwell Partnership
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we're excited to share our interview with Andy Penn, Vice President of Virtua...
Healthcare Interoperability with Kristian Feterik from UPMC
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Electronic admission, discharge transfer (ADT) notifications enable providers to access messages across the care continuum. This solution is currently...
Allscripts and FollowMyHealth Telehealth Review
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors looking at their approach to telehealth, we sat down with Allscripts to talk about their EHR agno...
Where Is IoT and IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) Really Being Used in Healthcare?
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To get a look at what some of the leaders in healthcare are doing with IoT, we sat down with Dave Wilson, Managing Director of IoT Global Sales at Cis...
AdvancedMD Telehealth Review
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we're excited to share our interview with Tim Costantino, VP, Head of Product...
New HRSA FAQ Clarifies 340B Eligibility for New Locations
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For those involved in the 340B program, you know that there are some unique challenges associated with adding new locations. In many cases, heal...
Healthcare Interoperability - How Is Your Organization Doing Against the Industry?
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To really dive into the issue of healthcare interoperability, I sat down with 4 experts to really understand where healthcare interoperability is work...
Healthcare Cybersecurity’s Impact on Patient Safety and Trust
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The damage a cybersecurity incident can have on an organization’s reputation and finances is well known. What doesn’t get talked about is th...
Greenway Health Telehealth Review
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors discussing their approach to telehealth, we sat down with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technolo...
Interview with Teladoc Founder, Michael Gorton
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Teladoc has become the darling of the telehealth industry given the explosive growth of telehealth during COVID-19. The early days of telehealth...
Data Driven Decisions for Care Transitions
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Transitioning elderly patients from acute care facilities continues to be inefficient, inconvenient and fraught with risk.. It shouldn’t be this way...
Healthcare AI Powered Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most exciting parts of healthcare technology right now is AI powered chatbots and virtual assistants. In this interview, we sit down ...
A Review of Azalea Health Telehealth - EHR Telehealth Series
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue our EHR Telehealth series where we sit down with EHR vendors to see how they're approaching telehealth, we sat down with Baha Zeidan, C...
Digital Therapeutics and Care Coordination with Bronwyn Spira from Force Therapeutics
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Given everything that's been going on with COVID-19, I wanted to catch up with Bronwyn Spira, Founder and CEO of Force Therapeutics to understand how ...
What Changes Were Thrust Upon EHR During COVID-19 and What Will Be the Longer Term Impacts?
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare IT Today recently sat down with Justin A. Diehl, CHCIO, MBA, PMP, Vice President – Epic Services at CereCore to learn more about what he ...
Modernizing Medicine Telehealth Review
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technolog...
A Virtual Situation Management System's Experience with COVID-19
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To learn a little more about LiveProcess and their experience amidst COVID-19, Healthcare IT Today sat down with Terry Zysk, CEO of LiveProcess, to di...
Health IT Love in the Time of COVID
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn - health economist, communicator & trend weaver - sits down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the current state of healthcare...
athenahealth Telehealth Review
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare IT Today is doing a series of interviews with EHR vendors talking about their approach to telehealth. In this interview, we sit down ...
Pharma Advertising in EHR and Telehealth
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A newer company called Doceree sees the lack of pharma marketing in EHR and Health IT as an opportunity. They want to offer programmatic marketi...
Talking ECPS and Suggested Changes to ECPS Regulations with Cam Deemer from DrFirst
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the DEA reopened the ECPS interim final rule for comments, DrFirst has suggested a number of improvements to ePrescribing of controlled substances ...
MEDITECH's Approach to Telehealth
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As telehealth as exploded amidst COVID-19, every EHR vendor has taken a different approach to help their customers manage telehealth. In this se...
FollowMyHealth Adapts Development Process in Response to COVID-19
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the normal operating procedure for many Health IT companies. Carefully crafted product roadmaps set out the beginn...
TigerConnect Goes All-in on Telehealth Based on Customer Feedback
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listening to customers is always a good thing, especially during the pandemic. TigerConnect had carefully laid product plans at the beginning of 2020,...
Being a HealthIT Advocate: An Interview with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Health IT landscape changes quickly and despite what insiders want to believe, not every technological advancement is well received by clinicians ...
Unlocking Healthcare's “Digital Front Door” with Integrated Virtual Care
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Front Door of healthcare is changing and how we integrate virtual care is going to have a big impact on every healthcare organization. &nb...
A Genomics and Precision Medicine Update Amidst COVID-19
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand what's happening with genomics and precision medicine amidst COVID-19, we sat down with Joel Diamond, MD, FAAFP, Co-founder and C...
How AI Assistants Are Decreasing the Physician Documentation Burden
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Want to learn about the new AI Assistant technology from Saykara that helps reduce the physician documentation burden? In this interview, we int...
Refreshing a brand during a pandemic? ibi says sure!
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Information Builders was founded in 1975 with a simple mission – to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with informatio...
Lessons Learned from Micky Tripathi and the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with Micky Tripathi, CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) to talk about why the organization recently announced the decision...
MEDITECH Expanse and Other EHR Data Conversions
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When transitioning to a new EHR, it's important to really understand what's required to appropriately convert your data from your old system to the ne...
How You Can Leverage Multi-Cloud Solutions to Make Your Healthcare Organization More Responsive
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the complex world of patient care delivery, “cloud” can mean anything from public cloud to private cloud on-premise and everything in-between. ...