Healthcare IT Today Interviews

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine.  In this series, we talk with an EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.  Are they developing teleahealth in house o...

To learn a little more about LiveProcess and their experience amidst COVID-19, Healthcare IT Today sat down with Terry Zysk, CEO of LiveProcess, to discuss how LiveProcess came to be and to hear some of the stories from their healthcare customers amidst COVID-19.  We also talk with Zysk about how COVID-19 is different from other crisis situations they were dealing with before and what a real-...

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn - health economist, communicator & trend weaver - sits down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the current state of healthcare and health IT. From telehealth to payment structures and from art to privacy legislation, she weaves together a unique perspective that will have you looking at the present situation in a new light - one that is filled with small "gifts" if we look...

Healthcare IT Today is doing a series of interviews with EHR vendors talking about their approach to telehealth.  In this interview, we sit down with Paul Brient, Chief Product Officer, athenahealth, to learn about how athenehealth is approaching telehealth and integrations with their PM and EMR.  Learn more about athenahealth: https://www.athenahealth.com/

A newer company called Doceree sees the lack of pharma marketing in EHR and Health IT as an opportunity.  They want to offer programmatic marketing across a network of physician only platforms including health IT solutions like EHR and telehealth.   To learn more about their plans, I sat down with Dr. Harshit Jain, Founder & CEO at Doceree Inc to discuss pharma marketing and Doc...

As the DEA reopened the ECPS interim final rule for comments, DrFirst has suggested a number of improvements to ePrescribing of controlled substances that embrace today's technology while still maintaining the privacy and security needs of ECPS.  To learn more about their suggestions, we sat down with Cam Deemer, President of DrFirst to talk about the following ECPS suggestions:   * Inco...

As telehealth as exploded amidst COVID-19, every EHR vendor has taken a different approach to help their customers manage telehealth.  In this series of telehealth interviews, we're sitting down with EHR vendors to better understand how they're approaching telehealth.  Are they building it in house?  Are they partnering with outside telehealth companies?  What features and func...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the normal operating procedure for many Health IT companies. Carefully crafted product roadmaps set out the beginning of 2020 are no longer valid. Companies like FollowMyHealth (part of Allscripts) have embraced the chaos and adapted their product and development processes to the new reality. In this interview Healthcare IT Today speaks with Kim Franks Vice Pres...

Listening to customers is always a good thing, especially during the pandemic. TigerConnect had carefully laid product plans at the beginning of 2020, but all that went out the window when COVID-19 hit. Smartly, the company listened to feedback from their customers and made the decision to focus exclusively on delivering on their planned Telehealth product (TigerTouch) and halt all other developme...

The Health IT landscape changes quickly and despite what insiders want to believe, not every technological advancement is well received by clinicians and patients. EHRs, for example, are a blessing and a curse for clinicians. Portals were loathed initially by patients. Finding and deciphering the winning trends in Health IT is tricky, but Jane Sarasohn-Kahn seems to have found a way.   ...

The Digital Front Door of healthcare is changing and how we integrate virtual care is going to have a big impact on every healthcare organization.  In this virtual meetup hosted by Dell Technologies, we led a discussion on how to know which patients to engage in virtual care, the best way to engage with patients, and how to measure the effectiveness of the engagement.   Thanks to our pan...

To better understand what's happening with genomics and precision medicine amidst COVID-19, we sat down with Joel Diamond, MD, FAAFP, Co-founder and CMO at 2bPrecise to learn more.  We also dive into what it will take for precision medicine to be a normal part of patient care and some of the misconceptions around genomics.   Learn more about 2bPrecise: https://2bprecisehealth.com/

Want to learn about the new AI Assistant technology from Saykara that helps reduce the physician documentation burden?  In this interview, we interview Graham Hughes, President and Chief Operating Officer at Saykara, Ryan Plasch, Vice President Business Development and Strategy at Saykara, and Gabe Charbonneau, Family Physician at Providence Montana to learn more about the Saykara AI assistan...

Information Builders was founded in 1975 with a simple mission – to enable people without formal computer programming skills to work with information systems which were still emerging at that time. Over the years, the company evolved to become a provider of business intelligence, data integration and data analytics. Rather than throw away such a rich legacy, the IBI team decided to embrace a new d...

We sat down with Micky Tripathi, CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) to talk about why the organization recently announced the decision to shut down operations and transfer assets to Arcadia.io  Plus, we ask Micky to share some lessons learned from his experience with EHR adoption and healthcare interoperability.  If you want to understand some of the history of EMR and ho...

When transitioning to a new EHR, it's important to really understand what's required to appropriately convert your data from your old system to the new system or an appropriate archiving option.  As more and more organizations move to MEDITECH's latest EHR, Expanse, they're experiencing this challenge first hand.     In order to better understand how to navigate data conversion...

In the complex world of patient care delivery, “cloud” can mean anything from public cloud to private cloud on-premise and everything in-between. Different workloads call for different solutions – e.g. the latency and service delivery requirements for advanced medical imaging is vastly different from that of modern EMR databases. As a result, most organizations operate in multiple clouds – experie...

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Suzanne Cogan, Chief Commercial Officer at SPH Analytics and Lisa Slattery, VP Accreditation & Recognition at NCQA, to have a wide ranging conversation about patient engagement in healthcare and how it can be used to drive great population health outcomes.   Here's a look at some of the questions we discuss:  1. Is broad based patient engagement dead...

In order to better understand the problem of securing medical devices and IoT in healthcare, we sat down with Renee Tarun, Deputy CISO at Fortinet and Michael Archuleta, CIO at BridgeCare Health Network – Mt San Rafael.  Here's a look at the questions we discuss:  * How has COVID-19 impacted healthcare security?  * What are you seeing in the marketplace regarding securing the growin...

Healthcare has always been a target for hackers and other cybercriminals that wanted to breach their sensitive data.  Amidst COVID-19, healthcare organizations are being attacked even more. In order to help organizations make sure they're taking the right approach to their cybersecurity efforts, Healthcare IT Today sat down with Renee Tarun, Deputy CISO at Fortinet to learn about her top 4 se...

If you've worked in health IT for any reasonable amount of time, you've no doubt heard of Marc Probst.  Probst recently retired as CIO for Intermountain, has been on a number of health IT government committees and recently received the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award.  As I've found with a number of CIOs, their idea of "retirement" is a little different than most and the same is t...

As we enter this new world of hybrid patient care where we have a mix of virtual and in person care offered to patients, it's easy to see how workflows need to be adjusted.  To learn how these workflows are changing, we sat down with Josh Weiner, President and CEO of Solutionreach, to learn what he's been seeing with his customers.  What were some of the lessons learned and what does the...

Provider Matching has always sounded like something that should be relatively easy, but like everything else in healthcare, it is more complex than it appears. In fact, according to Dr Suzanne Clough, Chief Medical Officer at ArmadaHealth matching is just one piece of something larger - clinical navigation. Helping patients better navigate healthcare means better outcomes, lower costs and reduced...

Telehealth is here, but the question of whether the shift to virtual chronic care in all its varieties is here to stay is still an important discussion. In this meetup hosted by Dell Technologies, we brought together a panel of experts to discuss virtual chronic care solutions and how healthcare organizations are adopting these solutions as we prepare for the next normal. Watch and learn from our...

As the number of COVID-19 cases begin to decline, healthcare leaders are finally able to take a step back and assess the gaps that the pandemic has exposed in their operations. When they do, workforce management, should be on their list of key areas to address, according to Nanne Finis, Chief Nurse Executive at Kronos. Watch the full interview with Finis to learn more about: * How COVID-19 has bro...