Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episodes
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. ...
The Future of Personalized Patient Engagement: Driving Optimal Population Health Outcomes
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Suzanne Cogan, Chief Commercial Officer at SPH Analytics and Lisa Slattery, VP Accreditation & Recognition at NC...
Securing Medical Devices and IoT
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In order to better understand the problem of securing medical devices and IoT in healthcare, we sat down with Renee Tarun, Deputy CISO at Fortinet and...
4 Healthcare Security Efforts Every Healthcare Organization Should Take
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare has always been a target for hackers and other cybercriminals that wanted to breach their sensitive data. Amidst COVID-19, healthcare...
An Interview with Marc Probst on His Time at Intermountain and Move to ELLKAY
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you've worked in health IT for any reasonable amount of time, you've no doubt heard of Marc Probst. Probst recently retired as CIO for Interm...
Figuring Out the Right Workflow for Hybrid Patient Care (Virtual and In Person)
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we enter this new world of hybrid patient care where we have a mix of virtual and in person care offered to patients, it's easy to see how workflow...
It's About Clinical Navigation not Just Provider Matching
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Provider Matching has always sounded like something that should be relatively easy, but like everything else in healthcare, it is more complex than it...
How Healthcare Organizations are Integrating Virtual Chronic Care Solutions
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Telehealth is here, but the question of whether the shift to virtual chronic care in all its varieties is here to stay is still an important discussio...
New Healthcare Workforce Complexities Requires Smarter Solutions
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the number of COVID-19 cases begin to decline, healthcare leaders are finally able to take a step back and assess the gaps that the pandemic has ex...
AdvancedMD: Make It Easy, Make it Flexible, Make it Fast
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
These days, flexibility and the ability to connect virtually are key factors to any business’s survival. Tim Costantino, VP and Head of Product at A...
Pagers + Healthcare - The Message is More Important Than the Medium
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’d all like to believe that WiFi and cellular technologies are the most reliable way to deliver critical communications within the walls of a hosp...
What's the Right Approach to Change Management in an Always Changing Digital Workplace?
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide ranging discussion, I ask Heather Haugen, Chief Science Officer at Atos, for examples of where she sees organizations managing change wel...
IT Spaghetti? Forget About It Says Logicalis
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of a strong IT foundation has become apparent during this COVID-19 crisis. In order to quickly roll out telehealth, contact tracing, re...
Engagement is the goal. Distraction is just the start.
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From ‘distraction therapy’ to providing educational content at a patient’s ‘medical moment of epiphany’, display devices within a hospital a...
Greenway Health Sees Hope for Physician Practices
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the landscape for physician practices. A brick-and-mortar only approach is no longer going to be a recipe for succes...
Understanding How to Leverage Cloud Effectively in Healthcare
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud has become a reality. In this Dell Technologies Healthcare Multi-Cloud interview with David Sarson, Global Alliance Manger, Healthcare Mul...
DXC Technology Maintains Focus on Patient Engagement
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A global perspective is particularly valuable during this pandemic as other countries are further ahead on their COVID-19 journeys than we are. If we ...
Healthcare IoT Data at the Point of Care
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IoT is here to stay. Smaller devices and more intelligent sensors, combined with the advent of 5G, are ushering in a new era of patient-generated data...
Rushing to Implement Telehealth? Don't ignore Identity Management and Cybersecurity
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most prominent “silver linings” of the COVID-19 crisis has been the rapid adoption and acceptance of telehealth tools. But as healthcar...
Impact of Telehealth on Physician Practices Will Be Profound According to NextGen
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A confluence of four factors laid the groundwork for a telehealth renaissance: 1. Canceling of all non-essential healthcare 2. Physical di...
Asset Tracking and Secure Identity Management in Healthcare with Sheila Loy from HID Global
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Asset tracking and secure identity management has always been important in healthcare, but it has become even more important amid the current pandemic...
Experian Helping Hospitals With RCM Challenges Caused By COVID-19
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard of Experian. We know them from our daily lives as a credit reporting agency. But what you might not know is the significant impact E...
Talking Healthcare Interoperability with Pete McCabe, CEO at Ciox
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With Ciox being in 3000 hospitals, 16,000 clinics, and working with most of the top payers, Pete McCabe, CEO at Ciox, and his team have a first hand v...
Advance Care Planning Is Important for COVID-19 and Beyond
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pandemic or no pandemic, having an Advance Care Plan plan is important. Discussing it is a necessary first step. Then you have to document it and make...
Interoperability via APIs Can Be Easy
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For Health IT companies, it’s so tempting to just dive in and build the point-to-point data integration that you need to get the job done. If you do...
CareSignal Solution Helps Providers Deliver COVID-19 Information to the Public
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 is stretching hospital resources thin. Not only are clinical areas like ER’s and ICU’s feeling the strain, but even call centres and webs...
Augmenting Clinician Insights with Machine Learning
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning is all the talk in healthcare. While some like to talk about how AI and machine learning are going to replace the doctor, it se...
Using a Marketing Approach to Improve Population Health
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Changing behaviors is hard. Everyone resists change, even when it’s in their best interest to do so. You don’t have to look farther than the diffi...
Let’s Talk About a National Patient Identifier
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's been a lot of talk about a National Patient Identifier and we're seeing some progress in Washington around it. In this virtual meetup ho...
High Quality Data is Key to Quality Care
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We have more data than we know what to do with in healthcare. We have clinical data held in EHRs, results from lab systems, images from imaging platfo...
How Can Healthy Data Fix Healthcare?
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of pressures holding healthcare back from achieving higher quality of care and lower costs. One of them is the challenge of sharing he...
Making Healthcare Interoperability a Reality with Drew Ivan from Lyniate
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 has highlighted a number of challenges we face in healthcare. One of those challenges is healthcare interoperability. For a while...
Using Telehealth Inside a Hospital Helps Patients and Staff
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a one-on-one interview with Healthcare IT Today, Wendy Deibert, VP of Clinical Solutions at Caregility, shared a surprising way to use telehealth: ...
Easing the Pain of Prior Authorization: Operational Advice for Healthcare Providers
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prior authorization (PA) is a check run by insurance companies and third-party payers before they agree to cover the cost of certain prescribed medica...