Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Someone who has a thorough understanding about the connection between post-acute care and readmissions is Chip Grant, MD, Founder & CEO at Watershed Health. As a doctor specializing in interventional cardiology, Dr. Grant experienced an inordinate number of readmissions and became literally obsessed with the issue of readmissions. He recognized the need to better connect post-acute care to the...

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data as a way to further increase their value. Higher quality data from HIEs helps healthcare organizations see their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it. Healthcare IT Today sat down with key executives from Healthix (an HIE), J2 Interactive and CareCom to learn more about t...

For decades, MGMA has been gathering valuable medical-practice information, analyzing it, and sharing the insights with their members. Now MGMA is investing in pooling all this information together in a single data lake which will allow them to provide even deeper analysis and make it easier for members to access themselves. We spoke with  Andy Swanson, VP of Industry Insights & Business...

Patient Access was never a straightforward challenge. It is a complex, nuanced, and layered issue that requires solutions as diverse as the people affected. The pandemic brought the varied nature of the challenge into focus. Thankfully forward-thinking organizations like Kyruus took notice and expanded their approach to the problem. We sat down with Erin Jospe MD - CMO and Chris Gervais - CTO &amp...

Duncan Weatherston, CEO at Smile CDR is a big believer in the HL7 FHIR standard, so much so that he bet the future of his company on it. Their business has taken off and they have grown from 5 people to over 250 in just a few years. Watch this interview to learn more about the company and it's FHIR based clinical data repository.    Learn more about Smile CDR: https://www.smilecdr.com/&n...

I was excited to sit down and talk with Casey Pittock, CEO of Smart Meter, to talk about this evolution because he’s been working at the front lines of remote patient monitoring for decades including leading the OneSource and Senior Living divisions of Lifeline which had 500,000 subscribers when it was acquired by Philips.  His knowledge and experience in this space and the movement from remo...

Advocating for our own health or the health of our loved ones starts with gaining access to and a better understanding of health information. The AHIMA Foundation, the non-profit arm of the American Health Information Management Association, launched an initiative to help increase the level of health literacy in the US. We sat down with Anisa Tootla, Executive Director at AHIMA Foundation sat down...

Given my passion for trying to understand how we can reduce the clinician documentation burden, I sat down with Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, to talk about their approach to this problem.  Given Soni's work previously at Google and then an e-commerce giant in India, he brings a unique outsider perspective to the problem with some great technical skill.   In the interview, Soni shares what the...

As a way to recognize those doing the hard work of healthcare interoperability, DirectTrust has started a new Interoperability Hero Initiative.  DirectTrust plans to recognize a new set of Interop Heroes every quarter.  For those interested in learning more about this effort and maybe nominate or be nominated as an interop hero, we sat down with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Director...

Message in the Music, Spreading Love, Not COVID   Hear from Lori Rose Benson, Executive Director and CEO for Hip Hop Public Health and Helen Shelton, Global Chief Diversity Officer from FINN Partners about their groundbreaking public awareness campaign: Message in the Music, Spreading Love, Not COVID that won them the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award Winner for Best COVID Public Awareness Campaign.

Yousuf Ahmad, President & CEO at AssureCare, has been working on the problem of population health for a while previously as a hospital executive and now at AssureCare.  Healthcare IT Today had the chance to sit down with him and talk about some of the market challenges healthcare organizations are facing and AssureCare’s approach to solving them.  Plus, he shares what makes AssureCar...

There's nothing better than learning about enhancing the digital patient experience than to hear from people who have been on the front lines doing it.  As part of the Healthcare Analytics Summit 21 Virtual Event put on by Health Catalyst, attendees got to hear from Carrie Rys, MBA, Assistant Vice President, Pediatrics Administration, and Grace Karon, Assistant Director, Business Operations a...

Goel Jasper is the winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Marketer of the Year (Agency).  Learn how is helping MedTech start-ups in Israel (and all over the world), is so inspired by Health Innovation & how he created a successful annual virtual summit by taking cues from Saturday Night Live.     Connect with Goel Jasper:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/goel-jasper-63...

To better understand how healthcare is transforming and the role of big data and AI in this transformation, we sat down with Alissa Hsu Lynch, Global Lead, MedTech Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud, to learn about some of the transformative things she and the team at Google Cloud are working on and the impact it will have on healthcare.  Plus, we ask her if the hype around big data and A...

During the COVID-19 pandemic consumers turned to their healthcare providers as a trusted source of information. Those that had the right educational content ready to meet that demand saw an increase in patient loyalty. Eric Silberman, CEO at True North Custom talks about the unique opportunity healthcare has to build on that trust in a transparent way.    Learn more about True North Cust...

The reality is that current plans are failing employers.  We see this every day with headlines that talk about the impact of healthcare costs on businesses.  We see elaborate efforts by employers to partner with other employers to address these costs, but those seem to always fail.  Is a value-driven health plan the solution?    In this interview with Ryan Day, President a...

The digitization of health records coupled with the increasing capability of Natural Language Processing has made autonomous coding possible. The main benefit of this technology is not the potential cost reductions, but rather the potential improvement in revenue that it brings. Neal Somaney, Co-Founder of Medical Savant and EVP at CorroHealth sat down with us to educate us on this new technology....

Earning media coverage is hard. Doing that AND becoming an expert that media outlets turn to for quotes, comments and articles is VERY HARD. Dr. Anton Bizzell, CEO of The Bizzell Group, channeled his passion for two important causes and pulled off this rare feat in the past 18 months. See how he did it.    Learn more about The Bizzell Group: https://thebizzellgroup.com/  Learn about...

Eliminating and streamlining administrative tasks helps clinicians spend more time with patients and reduces stress. Solutions like the one from Provation can help. Their platform can streamline workflows like patient intake, post-procedure followup and clinical documentation. We sat down with the company's leaders to find out more and get a peek at what they are working on next.    Lear...

In my interview with Sara Gallo, PA-C, VP of Clinical Services at Care on Location, she shares her experience with telehealth and remote patient monitoring and the impact this effort has had on disadvantaged communities.  Plus, she shares what would help her to be able to do this more effectively.  She also shares the unique solution that Care on Location has created that helps them remo...

Patients want to recover and receive care in the comfort of their home. Implementing care-at-home services is surprisingly challenging. Healthcare IT Today sat down with experts from NTT Data Services Key to understand the key success factors for starting up care-at-home programs.    Learn more about NTT Data Services: https://us.nttdata.com/  Find more great Health IT Content: http...

Figure 1 is the Instagram for healthcare. Thousands of clinicians around the world engage on Figure 1 to help each other with difficult medical cases. Josh Wildstein, CEO at Figure 1 sits down with us and reveals the secret to their success. Wildstein also gives us a preview of where the company is going next.    Learn more about Figure 1: https://www.figure1.com/   Find more great...

In a recent video interview I did with Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products, H2O.ai, Niki Athanasiadou, Data Scientist and Healthcare AI Product Manager at H2O.ai, and Ljubomir Buturovic, VP, Machine Learning at Inflammatix, we dive into this topic and a diagnostic approach to sepsis prediction paired with machine learning and AI.   Learn more about H2O.ai: https://www.h2o.ai/&nbsp...

In this interview, I sat down with Carl Smith, CIO at King's Daughters Medical Center (KDMC), Dessiree Paoli, Sr. Manager, Solution Marketing at Interlace Health, and Maggie Peña, Vice President of Client Services at Interlace Health to talk about their project that converted and consolidated 2,500 paper forms to 1,000 digital forms.   They share why forms are frequently overlooked and Smith...

At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Bill Grana, Chief Executive Officer at HCTec, and Monica Bolbjerg, MD, Founder and CEO at Qure4u, to get their first hand perspectives on virtual care.  We ask them to share something about virtual care that not enough people are talking about.  Plus, we talk about reimbursement for virtual care and what's going to continue regardless...