Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Jared Johnson, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Marketer of the Year (Individual).   Learn why brand relevance and not having all the answers is so important and how he is striving to break down the silos in healthcare.   Connect with Jared Johnson:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredjohnson/  Join the HITMC community: https://www.hitmc.com/

In a recent survey by Proofpoint, the average healthcare organization received about 200,000 emails from over 10,000 different 3rd party domains, including those belonging to research organizations, construction companies, grantors and foundations and insurers. Of these clients, 98% received some email-based threat and 97% received threats from at least one of their suppliers’ domains via imperson...

In this interview, I sit down with with Matt Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect at Sentara and Optima Health and Chris Logan, Executive Healthcare Advisor at VMware.  You can check out the full interview at the bottom of this article..  Douglas shares why Sentara and Optima Health made the decision to move their Epic EHR to VMware vSphere and vSAN running on the Azure cloud.  That'...

Healthcare data is growing exponentially and taming it can seem overwhelming. The key, according to Kevin Campbell, Founding Partner and CEO at DTA Healthcare Solutions, is recognizing that some data is still exploratory. You are best to focus on the data that is needed. He recommends beginning by exposing how data is sourced, calculated, stored and used in your healthcare organization. That stron...

Joy Rios, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Health IT Podcast of the Year, is the founder of the podcast HIT Like a Girl .  Learn why she decided to start her podcast that aims to create a new normal of support and inclusion for women in healthcare and health IT as well as attempting to debunk the myth that there are a limited number of seats for women at the table. Join the HITMC com...

To better protect high-value healthcare data, organizations need to look at the vulnerability of their medical devices which are increasingly becoming a path of attack. An important step in securing those devices is having an accurate risk profile for each of them. We sat down to discuss device and IoMT security with Jonathan Langer, Co-Founder & CEO at Medigate.   Learn more about Mediga...

Matt DiVenere, winner of the 2021 Medigy HITMC Award for Rising Star in Health IT,  serves as Senior Content Specialist at naviHealth.   Learn how he went from journalist to healthcare marketer providing a safe haven for the senior community during the COVID-19 pandemic.    Join the HITMC community: https://www.hitmc.com/

As we explore the topic of Digital Identity in healthcare, we sat down with Daniel Cidon, CTO at NextGate.  For those not familiar with NextGate, they've been a leading provider of EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) solutions for healthcare for a long time.  They understand the ins and outs and challenges associated with patient identification and digital ID.   Learn more a...

Changing physician behavior is hard and the traditional approach of lecture-style training is quickly becoming ineffective. A new approach is needed. We talk to Dr. Andres Jimenez from CorroHealth, who is an expert in this field, about how technology can revolutionize training by closing the feedback loop and personalizing the education.    Learn more about CorroHealth: https://corroheal...

Interoperability remains a challenge in healthcare. More investment is needed, but maybe we need a little bit of "old school" mixed in with the latest technology. Fax is ubiquitous and simple to use. Pair it with the cloud and suddenly you can fax to a C-CDA. Healthcare IT Today sat down with John Nebergall, COO at Consensus Cloud Solutions, to talk about their unique approach to interoperability....

Before COVID-19, I think that many of us took for granted the supply chain and the ability to procure just about anything we wanted pretty easily.  Then, the pandemic hit and we realized that there's a lot more risk in the supply chain than we realize.  As we start to focus more on procurement and the supply chain, it turns out there's a lot of value that CIOs and healthcare organization...

Sam Hanna, PhD, EVP of Consulting & Innovation and Chief Strategy Officer at Divurgent, has seen the evolution of CIO's roles first hand through his work with a wide variety of healthcare organizations and CIOs.  We had a chance to talk with him and he shared some of the keys he’s seen to developing collaborative leadership as a CIO at a healthcare organization.  As part of that, he...

In her role at Hackensack Meridian Health, Pam Landis brings together IT, Communications and Operations to craft digital solutions that meet the needs of staff as well as patients. Hear her share some amazing projects from 2020 and tips on how to forge a successful career in marketing & IT.   Learn more about HITMC: https://www.hitmc.com/

While it’s great for a company to have an inspiring origin story, the real question is what are they doing to address the problem.  Sitting down with Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum, we dove into the problem of dirty data in healthcare.  Noshay shared how we look at health data today and what we should be doing to think about it differently. &...

Like many companies in healthcare, there’s a good reason why Verinovum is so interested in making sure the data in healthcare is clean.  It’s personal for Mark McCurry, President and CEO at Verinovum.  Check out his story and how Verinovum is working to ensure data provides value to healthcare organizations in the interview below.   Learn more about Verinovum: https://www.verinovum....

In case you missed it, some of the latest malware is targeting container technology including the very popular Kubernetes.  Considering the large number of healthcare vendors, this is an important topic to learn more about.  To dive into what's happening, I sat down with Ian Eyberg, CEO of NanoVMs.  Eyberg shares what he thinks is really happening and what it means for healthcare.&n...

What we don’t often talk about with natural disasters is the impact on healthcare and the role healthcare IT could play in helping during a disaster.  Plus, we often wait to talk about it after a disaster happens.  Since September is National Preparedness Month, we wanted to talk with an emergency preparedness expert, Lauren Knieser, Senior Director at Audacious Inquiry, to hear how they...

Patients and physicians hate the referral process. It's inefficient, full of gaps and is frustrating for everyone involved. Yet the solution is simple: better relationships between referral partners. John Ellis from ReferralMD shares how improving referrals improves patient outcomes, saves $$$ and is what smart, growing practices are doing.    Learn more at: https://getreferralmd.com/ &n...

In order to share Magnolia Regional Health Center’s experience migrating EHRs, we sat down with Brian Davis, CHCIO, Chief Information Officer at Magnolia Regional Health Center, and Jim Hammer, PMP, SVP at Harmony Healthcare IT, to hear why they chose to only migrate part of the records to the new version of MEDITECH and what they did with the EHR data they didn’t migrate.   Learn more about...

We recently talked with Leon Lerman, CEO & Co-Founder of Cynerio, the leading provider of IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, about the security challenges healthcare faces.  In our interview, Lerman shared how important it was for healthcare organizations to have a well thought out plan to address risks associated with IoT devices.   Learn more about Cynerio: http...

I recently sat down with Kevin Bridges, VP of Marketing and Business Development, and Marc LaFleur, VP of New Customer Development at Enovate Medical, to talk over all the various EHR documentation workstation options available today and how healthcare organizations should navigate them.  They share the latest options and the explosion of peripherals that are needed with the workstations...

Memorial Health System (MHS) rapidly implemented Lifelink's conversational AI platform to help triage patients during COVID. Now that the pandemic is winding down, MHS is finding new ways to leverage the platform to improve patient experience and reduce staff burden.   Learn more about Memorial Health System: https://www.choosememorial.org/   Learn more about Liflink Systems: https://www...

While many people know DirectTrust for their work with direct messaging, over the years they’ve been doing more and more work when it comes to building Trust Frameworks.  Creating a trust framework that is trusted and respected by multiple organizations is a hard process, but a powerful one when done right.   This is what makes the news that DirectTrust is assuming the assets of SAFE Ide...

In a recent discussion with Gerry Blass, President & CEO of ComplyAssistant, he pointed out a number of things about ransomware that make it a unique challenge for healthcare organizations from a disaster recovery and business continuity perspective.  Not the least of which is that any healthcare organization could be hit by ransomware.  Plus, unlike many other disaster recovery situ...

A few good women in healthcare IT have put together an initiative that I thought would be worth highlighting to the health IT community at large.  Regular readers will be familiar with Janae Sharp who's been a regular contributor to Healthcare IT Today and is the Founder of the Sharp Index which works to address physician suicide in healthcare and reduce physician burnout.  She got toget...