Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO and president of Artisight, envisions a future where every hospital room hosts a camera and speaker in order to support two-way video. Hospitals are using Artisight's capabilities for remote support of nurses, but they are expanding to other disciplines as well. When you leverage nurses at the bedside and others watching over video, each can focus on different aspects...

This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST: Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Architect, and Anand Nair, Head of Healthcare Payer. Masood pointed out that there is little point to regulating research and development in AI, because the rules tend to miss the point and impose unnecessary burdens. However, regulating the application...

One could say that Amazon.com launched the modern computing era when it released Amazon Web Services more than 17 years ago. In this video, we learn about the company’s focus on health care during the past nine years from Dr. Angela A. Shippy, Amazon Web Services’ Clinical Innovation Lead for Healthcare and Senior Physician Executive at the AWS re:Invent conference. Complex analytics, such as mach...

What does patient-centered mean for a radiology practice? For Raleigh Radiology it means providing patients with the convenience, control, and access they are expecting. Their team chose PocketHealth to accelerate their patient-centricity efforts. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Frank Manole, Chief Operating Officer at Raleigh Radiology and Rishi Nayyar, Co-Founder & CEO of PocketHealth to l...

Few people want to think about their health all the time, but many of us step on a scale every morning. Antoine Robiliard, vice president of Withings Health Solutions, explores the tensions of this interaction and the potential for making positive changes in patient lives in this video. Withings's scales measure much more than weight: some can also report BMI, body composition, and electrochem...

Another area where we haven't enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability.  While almost every pharmacy out there now supports ePrescribing, the healthcare industry has fallen short when it comes to ensuring that pharmacists have full access to all of the prescriptions that have been filled for a patient.  This puts patients into the untenable position of filling all their pre...

NextGen Healthcare is taking a methodical approach to AI and deploying it in places based on customer demand and where it will have maximum positive impact. Right now, that means using ambient clinical voice to generate SOAP notes. The company is also delivering more mobile capability to enable street medicine. In an exclusive interview with Healthcare IT, David Sides, Chief Executive Officer and...

Equipped with NextGen Healthcare’s mobile application and other tech, Neighborhood Health, an FQHC in Nashville TN, is bringing care to the streets of the city - literally. Learn more about this grassroots approach to meeting patients where they are. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Anthony Villanueva, the CIO of Neighborhood Health after he presented at the NextGen User conference. Together wit...

At the 2023 NextGen Healthcare User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23), Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Sri Velamoor, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer. We wanted to learn more about the company’s AI plans and what the initial reaction has been to their AI-powered ambient clinical voice solution called Ambient Assist. Learn more about NextGen Healthcare at https://www.nextgen.co...

Started in 2018, Abridge now offers analytical generative AI to more than 55 specialties and many languages. In this video CEO and co-founder Shiv Rao, MD discusses their approach to quality, and how they can help with clinical notes, ordering, coding billing, and other aspects of health care using ambient clinical voice. Learn more about Abridge: https://www.abridge.com/ Health IT Community: http...

Wolters Kluwer Health offers a service called UpToDate, consulted by doctors around the world to help their clinical decision making. In this video, chief medical officer Peter Bonis explains how they are adding a large language model (LLM), the technology currently popular in generative AI. Bonis also offers a broad overview of trends in digital health. Learn more about Wolters Kluwer Health: htt...

Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. Because the solution is fully automated and works in real-time, it can make recommendations during a patient interview, such as suggesting extra questions to ask or the direction for further investigations and treatment. The tool can take input from a local microphone and display its recommendations on the clinician’s...

CareSTL Health has to conserve resources. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in St. Louis, MO, CareSTL Health serves people with no insurance. Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in se...

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. Synthetic data plus large language models (LLMs), which lie at the base of current generative AI, provide "the world's most powerful resea...

Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patients to get the care they need. By closing these care gaps, not only are they better serving the community, Sun Life Health is also able to secure more federal funding. Learn more about Sun Life Health: https://www.sunlifehealth.org/ Learn more about eC...

MRO wants to make the exchange of data between providers and payers more frictionless. They have developed new solutions that cater to this payer-provider interface. By bridging this data gap, MRO aims to enhance trust between providers and payers. Recently, the company announced the release of new solutions aimed at improving the flow of data between provider organizations and payers - Payer Hub,...

Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health always has his finger on the pulse of healthcare. Right now, he is keeping his eye on the HTI-1 rule from the ONC, the pace of change in healthcare, and how AI is deployed. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Dr. Blackman at the 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference in Nashville. We wanted to get his thoughts on the top challenges facing healthc...

Axia Women’s Health is on a mission to provide top-tier care for women. To achieve their goal, they are proactively streamlining internal processes and optimizing their EHR to reduce physician workload. The result is more personalized encounters and improved patient experiences. Here is how they did it. Learn more about Axia Women’s Health: https://axiawh.com/ Learn more about eClinicalWorks: http...

The demand for ambient clinical voice solutions is gaining momentum and the market is quickly filling with vendors. Microsoft Nuance has been providing healthcare voice solutions for over two decades. How is the company leveraging that experience? Healthcare IT Today caught up with Peter Durlach, Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Life Sciences and Health to learn more about their ambient clinica...

Mutuo Health Solutions serves the Canadian market with automated clinical note generation (ambient clinical voice as it is often called), and plans to enter the U.S. market or international markets are in the works. In this video, co-founder and CEO Noah Crampton, MD, describes the company's service and its success so far. Mutuo has enhanced the standard natural language processing to make it...

According to Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix, this company has led the field of medical notes over the past 11 years from human scribes to full automation. To heighten accuracy, they use a combination of the most modern technologies. The transcript of the conversation is fed into a typical large language model (LLM) used by generative AI. But Augmedix has also analyzed more than 500 medical compla...

Healthcare organizations need more than a standard content management system for their websites. They need something tailored to the unique reality of back-end health IT systems and patient expectations. 314e has developed a new platform to address this need. Swaay. Health sat down with Alok Sharma, Chief Operating Officer at 314e to explore the launch of their new Practifly content management sys...

Adoption models, which are very popular in computing and organizational change, define stages for the adoption of a process or technology and helps organizations determine which stage they’re at: piloting, early adoption, true integration into business practices, etc. After conducting in-depth research with health system finance leaders across the country, FinThrive realized there was a significan...

Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asset. Mining that data can lead to critical operational and clinical insights. Plus the data itself is critical to the creation of AI engines and machine learning algorithms. To manage health data properly, healthcare organizations need to think differe...

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. This market is an especially complex area of health care for many reasons. In this video, CEO Robert Krayn talks about how Talkiatry addresses the needs of patients by leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR pla...