Healthcare IT Today Interviews

When designing analytical systems for clinicians, "Take Ai out of the conversation completely," advises Sameer Sethi, Senior Vice President and Chief Data Analytics Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health. However, AI is woven throughout the fifteen-minute video interview below where Sethi is interviewed along with Prashant Natarajan, General Manager, Health & Life Sciences at H2O.ai. ...

5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT the need for extensive training or changes to workflows. If implemented smartly, 5G also represents a rare opportunity to future-proof healthcare facilities. To find out more about 5G and how it can be successfully deployed in healthcare, the team at...

Watch this video with Jim Jacobs, CEO of MediQuant, to see the value of archiving for both immediate clinical workflows as well as for modern data crunching, and how the field has evolved since MediQuant was founded in 1999. MediQuant can help health care systems prioritize the order of doing conversions and enabling applications—a process they call application rationalization—taking into account...

Over the past two decades the relationship and dynamic between IT and Clinical Operations has changed. The two must now work in close collaboration with each other to improve clinician experiences and patient outcomes. Yet, healthcare IT departments do not have sufficient financial or human resources to deliver on everything that is expected of them. Technology and third-party support are needed....

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. Vendors can help by contributing clinical efficacy studies to CHI’s new Digital Health Evidence Resource...

Access to medication, water, and food are critical before, during, and after natural disasters. With over 9600 retail pharmacies across the US, CVS is uniquely positioned to help when a disaster strikes. The company is leveraging Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to better prepare for and react to emergency situations. At CVS, enterprise resilience means being a lifeline to people in...

The stunning achievements of chatGPT (along with the enormous work that remains to be done) raise the questions of how generative AI will change industries and interactions. As the term "generative AI" indicates, these technologies use AI to communicate, not to do predictive analytics or alter events. Thus, according to Murray Brozinsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Amwell, generative AI wi...

A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a 'workstation on wheels," which is a computer on a cart, accessorized with useful tools along with a wireless connection.  Or they may grab a tablet or cell phone. But can the busy staff person find a free workstation or device? Has it been p...

In these days of tightened payments and higher costs, organizations need to "do more with less" by finding better prices for their purchases while maximizing reimbursements—and above all, by making sure that technology improves ROI, according to Jeff Tennant, EVP of Healthcare IT Strategy & Services at ROI Healthcare Solutions.  Tennant and his colleagues, Diana Van Blaricom, VP of E...

HCA Healthcare, one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. This investment made it possible to deploy an innovative sepsis detection project that has enhanced patient safety across the entire organization. That same project also had an unintended beneficial impact – it helped HCA fa...

The Geographic Information System (GIS) team at Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) successfully created internal advocates by educating their peers and showing them what is possible with GIS technology. Not only did this accelerate the adoption of GIS technology at their organization, it also helped leaders gain valuable operational insights sooner than if the technology was left to organically gain...

We all benefit from sharing out concerns communally. "What, you had the same problem I did?" We say to a friend. "How did you handle it?" Intermountain Health, provider with 33 hospitals about 400 clinics, wanted to cull information of that type from the many interactions they have with patients—32 million phone calls in Utah alone, according to chief strategy officer Dan Lilje...

According to the latest National Progress Report from Surescripts, over 2.5 billion medication histories were requested through their platform in 2022. Having the latest medication information is key to reducing medication related adverse events. The Report also showed a significant increase in the use of real-time prescription benefits which decreases the out-of-pocket cost of medications for pat...

The recent release of GPT-4, the newest version of OpenAI's platform, shows that generative AI is evolving even more quickly than we can find uses for it. Bill Rogers, co-founder and president of Orbita, discusses the implications of OpenAI's chatGPT, Orbita's recent improvements, and the ways that tools such as chatGPT can make health care more efficient. Learn more about Orbita: http...

Nuance recently announced DAX Express and I had to learn more about it and dive into the details of what Nuance is planning to offer.  I sat down with Diana Nole, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nuance Healthcare, where she shared more details about DAX Express, how it differs from DAX Ambient Solution, and what the workflow looks like for this new product.  We also ask her if ther...

One of the most frustrating burdens on health care workers today is the drag of administrative tasks. New AI technologies that interpret and generate natural human speech (illustrated most famously in ChatGPT) can remove more of the burden of such tasks. According to Stead Burwell, co-founder and CEO of Outbound AI, a well-tuned AI agent can do many tasks at 50-80% the cost of human workers. In th...

I recently sat down with Heather Hudnall, BSN, RN, Director of Connected Industry, Healthcare at NTT, and Heather Haugen, PhD, VP of Healthcare Practice, Digital Advisory, and Innovation at NTT, to learn what they are hearing from customers when it comes to the impact of connectivity on nurses, doctors, and patients. Learn more about NTT: https://www.global.ntt/ Find more great health IT content:...

In this interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2, revives the term "meaningful" in health care technology.  However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations.  Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability...

AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR properly during development, QA, integration, and ultimately at the client site. Most healthcare organizations underestimate what it takes to ensure their interoperability infrastructure is working correctly. As new softwa...

Data analysts know that all data is dirty. Although numerous services offer data cleaning and harmonization, their accuracy is usually too poor to make them useful. According to Amit Garg, CEO and co-founder of HiLabs, even AI-based solutions produce too many false positives—a problem his company has solved by working with business domain experts and creating healthcare-specific ontologies. Learn...

When it comes to e-prescribing and medication management, I always underestimate some of the nuances involved with the process.  While e-prescribing is one of the biggest healthcare interoperability successes, there is still plenty of work to be done to improve how medication is managed in healthcare today.  To learn more about how far the industry has come, where we are at today, and wh...

Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. To the experts at Clearsense, the problems are not so much the shortage of data experts or lack of motivation, but rushing to use data without preparing it adequately or knowing what your business needs are.   Learn more about Clearsense: https://clearsen...

Interoperability, an idiosyncratic term for data sharing, has been a key buzzword for both regulators and digital product vendors in health care. Jon Elwell, CEO at Kno2, says the conversation is finally moving away from interoperability - a measure of simple technological achievement - to digital transformation, which encompasses the technology, process, and cultural change that must happen for m...

Outside of common conditions, most doctors see only a few cases of some problem in their entire career. That's why students and residents gather eagerly around hospital patients who were diagnosed with a rare condition. These doctors can't compare large numbers of patients with a certain condition to see what works for each patient and why some respond to a treatment that fails on other patients....

Ambience Healthcare just came out of stealth mode with what they describe as fully automated AI medical scribes.  I hopped on camera with Mike Ng, Co-Founder & CEO, and Nikhil Buduma, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Ambience Healthcare to learn more about how they're approaching this EHR documentation burden problem.   In the video interview they share about Ambience Healthc...