Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
AssureCare - Population Health Management for Providers, Payers, and Pharmacies
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yousuf Ahmad, President & CEO at AssureCare, has been working on the problem of population health for a while previously as a hospital executive a...
Enhancing the Digital Patient Experience
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's nothing better than learning about enhancing the digital patient experience than to hear from people who have been on the front lines doing it...
Goel Jasper - Marketer of the Year (Agency) HITMC Award Winner
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Goel Jasper is the winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Marketer of the Year (Agency). Learn how is helping MedTech start-ups in Israel (an...
Healthcare Transformation and AI with Alissa Hsu Lynch
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand how healthcare is transforming and the role of big data and AI in this transformation, we sat down with Alissa Hsu Lynch, Global ...
Opportunity for Trust & Transparency in Healthcare Marketing
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID-19 pandemic consumers turned to their healthcare providers as a trusted source of information. Those that had the right educational c...
The Move to Value-Driven Health Plans for Employers
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The reality is that current plans are failing employers. We see this every day with headlines that talk about the impact of healthcare costs on ...
It’s Not About Cost Reduction. It’s About Improving Revenue.
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The digitization of health records coupled with the increasing capability of Natural Language Processing has made autonomous coding possible. The main...
Earned Media for The Bizzell Group Aligned with Social Causes
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earning media coverage is hard. Doing that AND becoming an expert that media outlets turn to for quotes, comments and articles is VERY HARD. Dr. Anton...
Why Solutions like Provation Can Help Reduce Clinical Workload
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eliminating and streamlining administrative tasks helps clinicians spend more time with patients and reduces stress. Solutions like the one from Prova...
RPM and Telehealth with Care on Location
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In my interview with Sara Gallo, PA-C, VP of Clinical Services at Care on Location, she shares her experience with telehealth and remote patient monit...
Involving Clinicians & Understanding Patient Demand are Key to Care-at-Home
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patients want to recover and receive care in the comfort of their home. Implementing care-at-home services is surprisingly challenging. Healthcare IT ...
The Secret Behind Figure 1's Success with Clinicians
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Figure 1 is the Instagram for healthcare. Thousands of clinicians around the world engage on Figure 1 to help each other with difficult medical cases....
Sepsis Risk and Machine Learning with H2O.ai
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent video interview I did with Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products, H2O.ai, Niki Athanasiadou, Data Scientist and Healthcare AI Pr...
A Healthcare Forms Optimization Case Study Including Integration with MEDITECH's EHR
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, I sat down with Carl Smith, CIO at King's Daughters Medical Center (KDMC), Dessiree Paoli, Sr. Manager, Solution Marketing at Inter...
Key Perspectives on Virtual Care with HCTec and Qure4u
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Bill Grana, Chief Executive Officer at HCTec, and Monica Bolbjerg, MD, Founder and CEO at Qure4u...
Jared Johnson - Marketer of the Year (Individual) HITMC Award Winner
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Johnson, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Marketer of the Year (Individual). Learn why brand relevance and not having all the an...
Be Vigilant: A Look at Supply Chain Fraud in Healthcare
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent survey by Proofpoint, the average healthcare organization received about 200,000 emails from over 10,000 different 3rd party domains, incl...
Sentara Healthcare: Reducing Epic EHR operating costs by virtualizing with Vmware
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, I sit down with with Matt Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect at Sentara and Optima Health and Chris Logan, Executive Healthcare Ad...
Taming the Wild Animal that is Healthcare Data
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare data is growing exponentially and taming it can seem overwhelming. The key, according to Kevin Campbell, Founding Partner and CEO at DTA He...
Joy Rios - Health IT Podcast of the Year Award Winner
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joy Rios, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Health IT Podcast of the Year, is the founder of the podcast HIT Like a Girl . Learn why she...
Accurate Risk Profiles are Key for IoMT Device Security
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To better protect high-value healthcare data, organizations need to look at the vulnerability of their medical devices which are increasingly becoming...
Matt DiVenere - Health IT Rising Star Award Winner
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt DiVenere, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Rising Star in Health IT, serves as Senior Content Specialist at naviHealth. &nbs...
Digital Identity in Healthcare
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we explore the topic of Digital Identity in healthcare, we sat down with Daniel Cidon, CTO at NextGate. For those not familiar with Next...
AI Powered Behavior Change in Healthcare is Not Just for Patients
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Changing physician behavior is hard and the traditional approach of lecture-style training is quickly becoming ineffective. A new approach is needed. ...
Interoperability Requires More Than Just the Latest Tech
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Interoperability remains a challenge in healthcare. More investment is needed, but maybe we need a little bit of "old school" mixed in with the latest...
Healthcare IT Procurement and Supply Chain
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Before COVID-19, I think that many of us took for granted the supply chain and the ability to procure just about anything we wanted pretty easily.&nbs...
Digital Strategy and the Role of the CIO
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Hanna, PhD, EVP of Consulting & Innovation and Chief Strategy Officer at Divurgent, has seen the evolution of CIO's roles first hand through h...
Award Winner Pam Landis: Bringing Health IT, Communications & Operations Together
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her role at Hackensack Meridian Health, Pam Landis brings together IT, Communications and Operations to craft digital solutions that meet the needs...
How Usable is Data in Healthcare and How Can We Make it Cleaner?
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While it’s great for a company to have an inspiring origin story, the real question is what are they doing to address the problem. Sitting dow...
The Inspiration for Verinovum's Efforts to Improve Data Curation and Enrichment in Healthcare
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many companies in healthcare, there’s a good reason why Verinovum is so interested in making sure the data in healthcare is clean. It’s...
Malware Focused on Container Technology and What Healthcare Should Know About Containers
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In case you missed it, some of the latest malware is targeting container technology including the very popular Kubernetes. Considering the large...
Leveraging Healthcare IT During Emergencies and Natural Disasters
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What we don’t often talk about with natural disasters is the impact on healthcare and the role healthcare IT could play in helping during a disaster...
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...