Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Patient portals and digital patient engagement stymie many healthcare providers, especially small ones with few resources. Community Health Alliance (CHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 27,000+ patients in Reno, Nevada, is using an old-school way to encourage use of its online patient portal - by having in-person conversations about it. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Carlos...

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice Preside...

Redrick Technologies has found success with their cutting-edge radiology workstations by constantly listening to and incorporating customer feedback. The entire organization is committed to user-driven design. Learn how they do it. Healthcare IT Today recently visited Redrick Technologies in London, Ontario, to explore their cutting-edge radiology workstations. Redrick's unique approach involv...

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference, a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing industry challenges. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Ron Holder, Chief Operating Officer at MGMA, to delve into the pressing issues facing the sector and the impact of the new approaches taken by the organization at their annual conference to bolste...

At the recent CHIME Fall Forum conference, I had a chance to sit down with Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed, and Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec, to learn more about their experience with the Epic Gold Stars program. AltaMed had recently been awarded the level 9 milestone and we wanted to learn more about what it took to get their organization to level 9 and so...

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more. In a recent video interview with CEO Hari Prasad, he describes how they have overcome the traditional barriers to pat...

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult" and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organiza...

Is it possible to implement solutions that benefit both patients and clinicians? At the HLTH 2023 conference, this was the exact question we asked Patches Seely, MBA, BSN, RN, EVP of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health. Seely and Carenet Health have an interesting perspective on this topic since their goal is to “Modernize Healthcare Engagement.” Carenet Health works to do this for health plans,...

To learn more about how Adventist Health is working with HCTec to handle application management of their Epic EHR and a recent Epic EHR Go-Live, we sat down with Jennifer Stemmler, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Adventist Health, and Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec. Stemmler shares with us some of the challenges Adventist Health faced when they decide...

In this video interview, Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at Lifepoint Health, dives into more details of their data aggregation project and how they worked to embrace many of the modern technologies available today and overcome some of the challenging realities that are faced by large healthcare delivery networks.  We also ask Beegle to share what kind of problems t...

Adrian Jennings, chief product officer of Cognosos, says that traditional real-time location services (RTLS) fail their clients. Either the services are so expensive that they're not deployed widely enough, or they're cheap but inaccurate. For instance, they might indicate that something is in the right room when it's actually in a hallway in back. Cognosos takes a different approach....

Two OntarioMD directors shed light on the evolving landscape of EMRs and the state of interoperability. Their unique perspective as key figures in Ontario's healthcare technology field offers valuable insights into the trends and challenges facing the industry. Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD, and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Manage...

The term “digital front door” is defined differently by each healthcare organization. Some see it as everything up to the point where a patient books an appointment. Others extend the definition to include all the post-appointment interactions. Swaay. Health sat down with Jeff Stewart, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at CHRISTUS Health to explore various aspects of the digital front door, in...

We all know about the growing mental health crisis in healthcare. We've likely all heard about the challenges that social determinants of health (SDoH) play in our health. How often have you heard how SDoH impacts people's mental health? The answer is certainly not enough, but many of the SDoH impact a person's mental health as much as their physical health. In order to learn more abou...

The HLTH conference is full of big announcements from various health IT companies. One of the most interesting announcements I saw at HLTH 2023 was a strategic partnership between identity companies Verato and CLEAR. I was really intrigued by this new partnership because far too often in healthcare two companies that are working in similar spaces choose to compete to the death rather than collabor...

Lenovo has been famous for their laptops for a long time, but they also have a strong business in computer servers. They offer hardware for data centers as well as edge locations, along with a SaaS style pricing model called TruScale. According to Robert Daigle, Director of Global AI at Lenovo, a new system called the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 makes it possible to run compute-heavy tasks such as g...

One of the biggest problems with AI solutions in healthcare right now is getting quality data that you can use to train your AI models. When you train an AI model using generic data, it is like a child trying to teach another child. For the AI models to be effective, they require the highest quality data including meta data that helps the model to understand the context of the data. This is partic...

OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives. One is aimed at helping EMR users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendors. The other is aimed at determining the best path forward for the adoption of AI. In an insightful conversation with Healthcare IT Today, Rob Fox, the Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD, shared the organization's pivotal role in advancing heal...

When I first had a chance to interview, Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, two years ago I was impressed with his accomplishments and intrigued by his unique view of the ambient clinical voice market.  In technology, 2 years is a long time.  In the world of AI, it's an eternity.  Needless to say, Soni and his company have evolved a lot since I last talked to him and so I wanted to get an update on where...

For Suncoast Community Health Centers, moving to a cloud-based EHR was a no-brainer. Not only did it save them money, but it also reduced staff frustration and stress. The move also helped improve the organization’s resilience through better redundancy and disaster recovery. With careful planning, cross-department collaboration, and help from their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, the migration to the...

Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. Oracle Health wants to move further. In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses,...

According to Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium, many healthcare organizations haven't created a culture of "my health is every day" even though many of the DIY approaches to health like wearables are being fully embraced by patients.  This type of proactive monitoring of their health indicates that patients want to be more engaged and involved in their care.  In fact, trends like these ind...

We’ve all been there: you arrive at a healthcare provider for an appointment, and there’s no one available at the check-in area. You might just see a kiosk to check in. Imagine, now, how frustrated you’d feel if that kiosk was out of order. Or its software is frozen. For people with disabilities, any healthcare kiosk that isn’t fully digitally accessible may as well be out of order every single ti...

When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it's always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that experience.  That's why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI, to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company. Learn more about healthKERI: https://healthkeri.com/ Health IT Community: https:/...

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools. Gail...