Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Today marks a pretty significant milestone for our team: 500 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today Interview series !  To celebrate we have a special treat for you, a chat with John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Brittany Quemby. What started as a blog based largely around articles and our founder John Lynn's experience in the healthcare IT industry, has grown into a vast array of knowledge provided by e...

MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one patient, one record” so that providers have complete and accurate data for the patients they serve. In addition to fulfilling organizational needs such as compliance and enhanced patient care, Jacobs believes that preserving data from legacy systems has wi...

In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas. Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act. Learn more about TALON: https://talonhealthtech.com/ Health IT Community: http...

One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice.  We haven't seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software.  However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus...

Interoperability is not just about exchanging clinical data from an EHR; it is a potential game-changer for the financial side of healthcare too. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administration costs, and fewer surprises for patients. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Juli Forde Smith, Director of Strategic Partnerships at ZOLL Data...

We've written a number of articles on the Nuance DAX (now called Nuance DAX Copilot aligning with Microsoft's Copilot) ambient clinical voice solution.  Nuance and Microsoft recently announced that DAX Copilot was going to be fully embedded in Epic's Haiku and Hyperdrive to provide Epic users easy access to the DAX copilot solution. Peter Durlach, who was with Nuance a long time and is...

Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standar...

A clinical trial can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and one of the major contributors to costs is recruiting and keeping human subjects. According to Dr. Raviv Pryluk, PhD, CEO and co-founder at PhaseV, machine learning can cut the number of subjects by 30 to 50 percent. In this video, he describes other ways that AI can make drug development more efficient. Learn more about PhaseV: https:/...

Will governments regulate the use of AI in healthcare? And if they do, what restrictions or guardrails would likely be put into place? Caleb Williamson, State Public Policy Counsel at the Connected Health Initiative gives us the inside scoop. Learn more about the Connected Health Initiative at https://connectedhi.com/ Find more great health IT content at https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

There are many books about design, but a recent book by Craig Joseph, MD and Jerome Pagani, Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach, applies design principles to EHRs and to IT systems in general. In this video, Dr. Joseph, chief medical officer at Nordic, explains some of the experiences and achievements that lay behind the book. Learn more about Nordic: https://www.nordicglobal.com/ De...

The team at St. Joseph’s Health System in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management processes. The resulting improvements are helping the organization be more resilient in these challenging times. Dr. Beth Kushner, Chief Medical Information Officer at St. Joseph's, recent sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cyc...

DeepScribe is dedicated to creating medical notes that are not just accurate, but have a human feel that reflects the individual physician’s style. Matthew Ko, cofounder and president, COO, explains in this video how they developed a highly customizable and accurate ambient voice solution. Learn more about DeepScribe: https://www.deepscribe.ai/ Health IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.co...

The latest report from Panda Health reveals that patient self-scheduling is a top priority for hospital leaders and adoption is expected to double by 2025. At the other end of the spectrum are chatbots where ROI is considered murky. The Digital Health Tipping Point report by Panda Health provides key insights into the value that healthcare leaders see in digital health technologies. The report’s f...

Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart, says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are asking, “What does the system do for me?” It’s time to “aggregate” that data and get a million “second opinions.” Matthew Arnheiter, senior vice president of innovations, described Netsmart’s project with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council (MBHC) to u...

This video presents the current and upcoming features of the ambient clinical voice solutions from Innovaccer, notably its InScribe analytics tool. It is currently offered in ambulatory settings and integrates with major EHRs. According to Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, the chief differentiating factor of InScribe comes from its integration with other systems: clinical, claims, and labs dat...

UiPath has been expanding the scope of automation for years, most recently by applying generative AI, In this extensive interview Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare, describes many of the current and future areas ripe for automation. Beyond the details, the video is well worth watching for Warrelmann’s vision of how automation can extend into new areas of health care to relieve burden...

In this short video, Livia Robic, Product Manager BeamO at Withings, introduces their new BeamO device, which is awaiting regulatory approval and will probably be released at the end of 2024. BeamO introduces a new “multiscope category” of device. It combines a thermometer, EKG monitor, pulse oximeter, and stethoscope. Using these four components, the device should be useful in a wide range of sit...

Physical therapists have unique needs for an ambient clinical voice solution. They are constantly walking about the floor, chatting with different patients and watching how many reps and sets they do. Comprehend PT uniquely meets the PT’s needs and allows the therapist to create notes in their particular tone and style just by speaking while they work. The inputs are called “mini brain dumps” by C...

Envision Radiology wanted more control over how healthcare information was shared so they could focus on delivering outstanding patient experience and outcomes. With DataFirst’s Silverback platform and close partnership, they achieved their goal. At the 2023 Annual RSNA Conference (RSNA23), Healthcare IT Today arranged for an exclusive interview with Beau Jones, President & CEO at DataFirst an...

For decades KLAS Research (KLAS) has been a go-to resource for healthcare IT research that helps organization make informed technology decisions. Their traditional audience has been IT buyers at healthcare organizations which they continue to serve well. However, KLAS has smartly recognized the need to expand beyond this audience to include other healthcare stakeholders. Over the past several year...

IT compliance and automation pose both risks and opportunities for healthcare organizations. Done poorly, it can cost a healthcare organization a lot of money, reputation, and trust with patients. Done well, healthcare organizations can work more efficiently, reduce compliance risk, and improve patient and staff experience. Our recent panel of experts discussed how the latest technology and AI can...

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. In this video, Jill DeGraff, Senior Vice Preside...

According to Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh, the success of ambient clinical voice depends on much more than the accuracy of the recording. Sunoh "checks the boxes" when it comes to meeting the needs of physicians' workflows and differences. Sunoh's solution can take input from many different sources: mobile devices, and laptop or desktop computers. This makes it easy to deploy in di...

Speke is a premium service that provides scribal services to clinicians. While many companies boast of creating clinical notes purely through natural language processing and AI, Speke leverages ambient clinical voice together with human scribes to create a higher quality note for the clinician. Executive Vice President Vadim Khazan justifies the choices made by Speke, which is part of the company...

When most of us think of modular buildings, we picture those trailer-like structures on construction sites – the ones with panel walls and the electrical wire that dangles outside. Modern modular buildings are a far cry from those flimsy seventies-era trailers. Modern modular buildings are marvels of technology and engineering. To learn more, Healthcare IT Today went to visit Fero International, a...