Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Getting patient data to the proper person—including doctors and the patients themselves—is a many-layered task involving standards, privacy protections, consent, and usability. In our recent interview, Mariann Yeager, CEO at a major nonprofit in health interoperability, The Sequoia Project, describes the organization's continuing work and upcoming plans. Check out our interview with Marianna Y...

Radiology teams don’t need more dashboards. They need clearer signals about capacity, and better image quality. This conversation looks at how small, practical changes, powered by AI, make a real difference. In this video, Lily Belcak, Customer Success Leader at GE Healthcare, explains how analyzing DICOM data directly from imaging devices helps health systems better understand how long exams actu...

Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in other words, a directory), identifying the patient and other security practices, and getting patient consent. In this video, we hear about these topics from two co-chairs of the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST): Jason Teeple, Senior Director Enterp...

Sepsis has been on hospital priority lists for years, yet it still slips past clinicians every day. The challenge is not awareness. It is variability, speed, and too many signals competing for attention. In this conversation, Robin Carver, Senior Vice President of Commercialization at Prenosis, explains why sepsis is so hard to diagnose early and how a more precise, biologically grounded approach...

Hyland Brings Enterprise Content Management to Pathology with Tribun Digital pathology adoption is picking up speed, but many organizations are discovering that scanners and AI alone do not solve the hard problems. The real challenge is the lack of standards that holds back efforts to scale and optimize. In this interview, Michael Campbell, Chief Product Officer at Hyland, breaks down why enterpri...

Cloud imaging promised speed and simplicity. Many health systems got longer rollouts, higher costs, and workflows that still feel tied to the data center. The issue isn’t the cloud. It’s how imaging platforms were designed to use it. In this conversation, Brad Levin, General Manager, North America at Visage Imaging, explains why streaming-first architecture changes the equation. The discussion cov...

Healthcare still runs on fax. The real question is what happens after those documents arrive. In this conversation, Roy Vincent, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at medQ, and Marianne Soucy, Solutions Engineer at Consensus Cloud Solutions, unpack why unstructured data remains so deeply embedded in healthcare and how it slows radiology workflows, intake processes, and patient care. They expl...

Most leaders talk about AI. Far fewer put it to work inside their own walls. This conversation digs into what happens when a healthcare IT company decides to rebuild its operations, engineering cycle, and support model around AI instead of waiting on the sidelines. In this interview, Richard Atkin, CEO of Greenway Health, explains why he returned to the role and why he believes the company needs t...

When a claim fails because of a missing field or outdated insurance detail, it is easy to blame the billing process, but it is incomplete or inconsistent information captured at registration that is often the root cause. This seemingly innocuous oversight may be the reason why AI adoption in revenue cycle management (RCM) has been slow. In this conversation, Clarissa Riggins, Chief Product Officer...

[SPONSORED] AI scribes have quickly become part of the daily routine for many clinicians. The question now is whether that momentum keeps building or slows as attention shifts to other operational priorities. In this interview, Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health, talks about what he is seeing on the clinical front one year after launching their ambient scribe. He shares...

Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in other words, a directory), identifying the patient and other security practices, and getting patient consent. In this video, we hear about these topics from two co-chairs of the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST): Jason Teeple, Senior Director Enterp...

If you’ve ever wondered why ambulatory EHRs feel stuck in time, you’re not alone. A lot of clinicians and IT leaders have been waiting for signs of real movement, and this conversation surfaces why the shift may finally be underway. In this interview, Troy Wasilefsky, Chief Revenue Officer at Greenway Health, talks about the stagnant EHR market, the practical roles AI can play inside physician pra...

Will AI actually fix the problems in front of us, or will it fade out the way blockchain did in healthcare? In this conversation, Tilak Mandadi, EVP Ventures and Chief Experience and Technology Officer at CVS Health, tackles that question head on. He lays out what it will take for AI to have real impact and why the next five years will determine whether healthcare changes for the better or breaks...

One of the biggest challenges that healthcare faces with heart failure patients is the high number of hospital readmissions that occur. These readmissions are expensive to healthcare organizations, a bad experience for patients, and many of them are completely avoidable. This is according to Spencer H. Kubo, MD, Chief Medical Officer at CareCognitics and Shahid Shah, Member, Board of Directors at...

If you’ve ever felt like “one big AI” can’t possibly handle the complexity of healthcare, you’re not alone. Clinical work moves in too many directions for a single model to reliably keep up. In this interview, Jacob Sims, Chief Technology Officer at NextGen Healthcare, explains why they have taken the approach of coordinated teams of specialized AI agents and what that means for clinicians, IT tea...

The common, classic fax is a fascinating case study in the difficulties of automation. Watch this video as Jess Czelusniak, Associate Vice President of Applications and CNIO at VHC Health, and Tim Hoskins, Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Vyne Medical, discuss the challenges of classifying and sorting incoming fax documents. Through machine learning, automation, and staff training, they...

It’s easy to talk about AI in broad terms. It’s harder to show how the technology supports a person trying to navigate benefits, costs, or a complex health journey. That’s exactly what Mike Serbinis and Sarah Donnelly break down here. In this interview, Mike Serbinis, CEO of League, and Sarah Donnelly, the company’s Chief Product Officer, break down how their multi-agent approach works and why it...

Every clinic wants a simple recipe for digital health adoption. The problem is that most recipes fall apart the moment real-world workflows enter the picture. In this conversation, Dr. Chandi Chandrasena, Chief Medical Officer at OntarioMD, lays out why the province is shifting toward a flexible digital health toolkit instead of a rigid playbook. She explains why “technology is an enabler to the p...

As those who read Healthcare IT Today regularly know, we attend a lot of healthcare IT conferences throughout the year. One of the newest conferences we attend that has grown to be one of the most influential is the ViVE conference that is co-organized by HLTH and CHIME. As ViVE is just around the corner, we thought it would be valuable for healthcare IT leaders that are attending or still conside...

Healthcare IT leaders are finding innovative ways to address one of medicine’s challenges: the exponential growth of clinical knowledge that physicians must navigate daily. In our recent interview, we hear from Julia Vu, Pharm. D., Vice President, GTM North America at Elsevier and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst about their partnership to integrate AI-powered clinical decisi...

Ben Beadle-Ryby, Senior Vice President and Co-founder at AKASA, says that a typical patient record contains 50,000 words spread across 59 clinical documents. Trying to code a single patient's conditions is comparable to reading The Great Gatsby and extracting key facts. Historically, he says, organizations "have thrown armies of people at the problem." Not only is that unfeasible; th...

Just as Internet providers and transportation companies often struggle with the "last mile" of reaching the customer at the end of the chain, hospitals are too often blind to what's happening in the patient's room. This problem drives the recent acquisition of eVideon, smart room solution provider, by TigerConnect, a unified communication platform. In this video we hear about the...

If you’ve ever watched a clinician dig through an EHR for a single piece of information, you know the look. The pause. The sigh. The slow click-through of screens that feel like they were designed for someone else. This conversation starts with the moment that broke that pattern. In this interview, Dr. Max Solano, hospitalist and clinical informatics advisor at Ascension, explains how a workflow b...

Shawn Fichter, CEO and Head of Product at Legacy Data Access, believes that archived clinical, financial, and operational data represents an untapped resource for health systems. However, access to legacy data must be done in a way that doesn’t increase the risk of a breach. The balance between these needs – along with the financial and operational benefits of archiving legacy applications – is at...

Hospitals and clinics in some areas see enormous numbers of people who don't speak the local language well. While human interpreters have been common in exam rooms during patient care, it turns out that interpretation is beneficial throughout many areas of healthcare that previously haven't had easy access to interpretation. That's the problem Pocketalk addresses with technology that p...