Healthcare IT Today Interviews

We sat down with Dr. Peter Tippett, Founder and CEO at careMESH, to talk a bit about the CMS final rule and what it's going to require hospitals to do when it comes to notification and data sharing.  He shares the timeline for these regulations and what some of the challenges healthcare organizations are facing trying to comply with the final rule.   Along with talking about this final r...

While we all know what a crazy year it’s been for medical practices, when we sat down with Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACMPE, President and CEO of Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), we learned some of the numbers and details around how much medical practices have been impacted by the pandemic and the impact is real and longer lasting than I would have imagined.  We sat dow...

We've often talked about the double edged sword of AI when it comes to bias.  On the one hand, the AI treats every patient exactly the same which can reduce bias.  However, on the other hand, if the data that powers the AI doesn't include a diverse set of patients, then by design it could impact certain patient populations adversely.   At VisualDX, they understand this problem reall...

EHR auto documentation using NLP and ambient clinical voice is every clinician's dream. The good news is that the technology to make all of this a reality is progressing quickly and is nearly there.     To understand some of what's happening in the area of NLP and EHR auto documentation, we sat down with Raghav Mani, Product Manager for Healthcare AI at NVIDIA, to learn about some n...

To dive into what patterns healthcare organizations are seeing with patients as we work through COVID-19 and to share some lessons learned, we sat down with Sarah Bennight, Director, Marketing at Stericycle Communication Solutions.  Stericycle is on the front lines of this as they provide a mix of live voice, automated patient communication, and patient self scheduling solutions to healthcare...

Seems like a week doesn’t go by with at least one or multiple healthcare systems being compromised by hackers.  As we talk with hundreds of healthcare organizations, they’re all in universal agreement that healthcare organizations are under attack by hackers more now than they’ve ever been before and that trend seems likely to continue.  Understanding all of the various ways your healthc...

In this video interview, we ask Paddy Padmanabhan from Damo Consulting and Co-Author of Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology, and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future if digital transformation is really accelerating or if it’s just hyperbole.  His response is fascinating since it means different things to different organizations.   We also ask Padmanabhan to sha...

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) holds great promise not only for convenient safe care in the comfort of home, but also for reduced costs from reduced readmissions. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that RPM is effective, but Dr. Devereaux and Dr. McGillion of McMaster University are working on a study that is looking to see how RPM impacts post-op patient outcomes. They hope that their work wi...

Cloud DX provides remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other virtual technologies that allows patients to remain safely at home and receive care. The company is experiencing tremendous growth fueled in part by the rapid need for telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to Robert Kaul, President and Founder of Cloud DX as he talks about how RPM is here to stay and drops hints about the result...

To get a better understanding of some of the early use cases for Digital Twins in healthcare, I sat down with Niels Thomsen, VP & Global Head of the Insight (IoT & AI) Practice, and David Sele, Consultant and Business Developer - IoT at Atos.  Along with talking about what a digital twin is and where it's being used in healthcare, I also ask them about the process of creating a digita...

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we're excited to share our interview with Andy Penn, Vice President of Virtual Health at Cerner.  In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they're approaching telehealth.  Are they developing telehealth in house or are they relying on partners?  If they have their own in-house telehealt...

Electronic admission, discharge transfer (ADT) notifications enable providers to access messages across the care continuum. This solution is currently in place at UPMC and I learned more about it when I sat down to talk with Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, and Medical Director of Interoperability at UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer.   UPMC implemented Secure Exchange Sol...

In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors looking at their approach to telehealth, we sat down with Allscripts to talk about their EHR agnostic telehealth solution, FollowMyHealth.  In this interview, we talk with Skyler Wason, Director of Product Management at Allscripts, and Kate Palazzolo, Vice President of Sales at FollowMyHealth, to understand what telehealth features they hav...

To get a look at what some of the leaders in healthcare are doing with IoT, we sat down with Dave Wilson, Managing Director of IoT Global Sales at Cisco, to talk about where IoT is really being used in healthcare and what value is being derived from their efforts.  Plus, we talk about how a healthcare organization needs to approach managing 1000s of devices and how they're going to pay for it...

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we're excited to share our interview with Tim Costantino, VP, Head of Product at AdvancedMD.  In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they're approaching telehealth.  Are they developing telehealth in house or are they relying on partners?  If they have their own in-house telehealth so...

For those involved in the 340B program, you know that there are some unique challenges associated with adding new locations.  In many cases, healthcare organizations have to wait years to start fully seeing the benefits of 340B for new locations.  The good news is that a new HRSA FAQ clarifies 340B Eligibility for new locations and it will make a big impact for healthcare organizations i...

To really dive into the issue of healthcare interoperability, I sat down with 4 experts to really understand where healthcare interoperability is working today:   * Matthew Michela, President & CEO, Life Image  * Drew Ivan, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Lyniate  * Dr. Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health  * Emad Rizk, M.D.; Chairman, President & CEO...

The damage a cybersecurity incident can have on an organization’s reputation and finances is well known.  What doesn’t get talked about is the impact cybersecurity can have on both patient safety and trust. As cybersecurity attacks have become more sophisticated, they are creating a slew of new patient safety issues.  Plus, each incident undermines patient’s trust in their health institu...

In our ongoing series of interviews with EHR vendors discussing their approach to telehealth, we sat down with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health.  We discuss Greenway's telehealth offering they're launching this Fall and what features you can expect.  Plus, we dig into how Greenway Health approaches partnerships with other telehealth vendors.   Lea...

Teladoc has become the darling of the telehealth industry given the explosive growth of telehealth during COVID-19.  The early days of telehealth weren't so glamorous, but definitely can teach us a lot about telehealth.  In this interview, we sit down with Michael Gorton, Founder and Former CEO and Chairman of Teladoc to hear about some of the early experiences of Teladoc with doctors an...

Transitioning elderly patients from acute care facilities continues to be inefficient, inconvenient and fraught with risk.. It shouldn’t be this way.   naviHealth is a company that makes a technology platform that uses evidence-based protocols along with dedicated staff to track patient recoveries, manage hospital discharges and improving support clinical decision making. Their goal is to hel...

One of the most exciting parts of healthcare technology right now is AI powered chatbots and virtual assistants.  In this interview, we sit down with Stefan Behrens, Co-founder and CEO, GYANT to talk about their work delivering virtual assistants and chatbots to healthcare organizations.  Plus, we talk about how COVID-19 has created an opportunity for these technologies to thrive.  ...

As we continue our EHR Telehealth series where we sit down with EHR vendors to see how they're approaching telehealth, we sat down with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health.  Watch this interview to learn more about how Azalea Health has approached telehealth integrated with their EHR and how they work with other outside telehealth companies.  Plus, we have a number of intere...

Given everything that's been going on with COVID-19, I wanted to catch up with Bronwyn Spira, Founder and CEO of Force Therapeutics to understand how far they've come when it comes to providing coordinated virtual care and digital therapeutics.  Plus, I wanted her to share how COVID-19 has impacted the market and her experience getting clinicians to adopt a digital solution like Force Therape...

Healthcare IT Today recently sat down with Justin A. Diehl, CHCIO, MBA, PMP, Vice President – Epic Services at CereCore to learn more about what he saw EHR experts do to manage the COVID-19 crisis.  Plus, we talk about the lasting impact for good and bad that these changes will have on healthcare organizations.  Then, we ask him where EHR software wasn’t ready for COVID-19 and what thing...