Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Radiology has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to adopting new technology—but what’s driving its rapid embrace of AI today? In this interview, Vijay Ramanathan, Co-Founder and CEO of RamSoft, breaks down why radiologists demand AI that works seamlessly in their workflow, how smarter imaging systems are improving efficiency, and what IT leaders need to consider when integrating radiolog...

Many people are dealing with a medication mess. They get prescriptions from different specialties (neurology, cardiology, etc.), who are busy and can't always check for contraindications or adverse effects. The patient then picks up drugs at different pharmacies and uses different payment methods, so that neither pharmacies nor payers know the patient fully. No one tracks the patient as they m...

AI is making its way into EHRs, but how do we make sure it actually helps clinicians rather than adding more frustration? In this interview, David Cohen, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Greenway Health, shares how the company is taking a practical approach to AI—focusing on reducing administrative burden, streamlining workflows, and improving efficiency for both clinicians and patients....

Medication management is taking a big role in health care today and at HIMSS for several reasons. More medications are coming on the market, providing impressively successful treatments for many conditions. More people of all ages are taking more medications. And specialty medications, which are very expensive, are also burgeoning. In this video, we hear some current expert perspectives on medicat...

In this interview, we discuss the current state of cybersecurity in health care with a specific focus on impersonation attacks, featuring Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint and Erik Decker, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Health. Witt shares many of the learnings from Proofpoint's healthcare customer advisory board where they le...

Rackspace Technology is one of most deeply rooted companies in the cloud space, having started many years before Amazon.com entered the market with S3, at a time when we spoke of "hosted services" rather than the "cloud." In this video, PV SubbaRao, Senior Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Rackspace, offers guidance to healthcoare firms in adopting or making bet...

Northwell Health, a health care system based on the region in and around New York City, has implemented Smart TV and digital whiteboard solutions from eVideon called Vibe Health to create "smart rooms." According to Juan A. Contreras, CPXP, Director, Patient Experience at North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health, smart means not just capturing a lot of information, but using it t...

The creation of the not-for-profit CommonWell Health Alliance in 2013 was a turning point for data use and interoperability in the U.S. health care market. Many of the largest EHR vendors, clinicians, and others came together to cooperate on carrying out the mission of the HITECH act and the foundations for value-based care. This video interviews Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, and Liz Lewis, D...

PointClickCare isn’t just talking about AI—it’s proving its value. In this interview, Dean Slawson, VP of Advanced Technology, breaks down how the company is taking a responsible approach to AI, ensuring that it delivers real clinical benefits without adding unnecessary risk. He discusses their recent peer-reviewed study in JAMDA, why transparency matters, and how AI can be a trusted tool for clin...

Virtual care at the bedside is more than just a convenience—it’s becoming a critical tool for hospitals facing staffing shortages and rising patient demands. In this interview, Mike Brandofino, President & COO at Caregility, and Susan Krisiniak, Chief Nursing Officer, break down how virtual nursing and AI-powered monitoring are improving patient care and easing the workload for overburdened st...

In this far-ranging interview, Ajay Kapare discusses the goals and collaborative methods of ELLKAY from his perspective as its new President & CEO.  Kapare is one of the most connected people in healthcare IT and so we were excited to learn about what's next for ELLKAY and their partners with him as the new CEO.ELLKAY provides interoperability solutions, planning to be "anything and e...

Steve Heard, Chief Innovation Officer at J2 Interactive, presents a strategy in this interview for dealing with new forms of data known as Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and how traditional HIEs can evolve to help organizations exploit this data. Heard points out that SDoH has the strongest impacts on people who are poor, isolated, or otherwise marginalized, but that those populations have i...

The health care system wastes an estimated $150 billion each year because patients can't get transportation to their preventative care appointments. This is the problem addressed by Kinetik, a company that manages non-emergency transportation (NEMT) for health care. In this interview, we hear about the far-reaching consequences of poor transportation coordination and the benefits of modern RCM...

Diana Van Blaricom, SVP, ERP Strategy at ROI Healthcare Solutions, says that the surge of EHR adoption in the wake of the 2009 HITECH Act has played itself out, and many organizations are turning to ERP systems to improve operations. But as explained in this video by Van Blaricom and Jeff Tennant, Executive Vice President of AI/HIS Strategy and Services, many organizations miss out on millions of...

What if the key to better patient outcomes isn’t more reminders but smarter ones? In this interview, Chandra Osborn, Chief Behavioral Officer at Adhere Health, explains how behavioral science can help patients stick to their care plans—without feeling pressured or overwhelmed. She breaks down why traditional engagement strategies fall short and how small, well-timed nudges can make all the differe...

This video explains how IKS Health is expanding its ambient scribe solutions with a combination of generative AI and human review. Andrew Dickmeyer, VP of Product, says that some customers still prefer human scribes. When they choose a generative AI scribe, IKS Health gives them a choice of three options. Scribble Now produces a fully automated note within two minutes of the end of the interview....

What does patient access really mean, and how can we make it better? Adam Mariano, General Manager of Healthcare at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, tackles this question head-on. In this interview, he discusses why patient access is more than just a DEI issue and shares what healthcare organizations can do to remove barriers to care. Plus, he gives a sneak peek into what LexisNexis Risk Solutions is wo...

Drew Ivan, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Architect at Rhapsody, a global leader in digital health enablement, describes in this interview their recent addition of machine learning to their Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) tool. Patient matching is hard work and there are risks both to making an incorrect match and to maintaining separate records for the same patient. An incorrect match ru...

Infinx applies AI to revenue cycle management in health care to provide organizations a superior result. Navaneeth Nair, its Chief Product Officer, views AI refinement as a life cycle in which humans constantly monitor and evaluate its results, giving AI feedback so that it keeps up with the evolution of RCM.Essentially, at Infinx, AI takes on the large volume of low-complexity tasks in order to f...

Clearsense creates and manages data lakes for health care sites, retrieving data from multiple sources and supporting multiple applications from different vendors. In this video, CEO and Board Member Jason Z. Rose and CTO Jonathan Cook describe the rebranding of Clearsense as a data enablement platform, and the context in which their ReviveCS and RevealCS products operate. Rose says that their pro...

In this interview, Dr. Samir Shah, Chief Medical Officer at Qure.ai, shares why achieving FDA approval is crucial for their AI solutions and for fostering trust in the technology. Dr. Shah discusses how their FDA-cleared tools are assisting clinicians with diagnosing lung cancer, detecting fractures, and identifying critical abnormalities in medical imaging. Learn about Qure.ai’s commitment to ens...

AI scribes are everywhere, but not all of them actually make life easier for clinicians andadministrators. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Nikhil Buduma, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AmbienceHealthcare to find out what differentiates on AI scribe solution from anotherand why considering non-clinical users of generated notes is critical. Buduma alsoshares details on Ambience’s recent win at...

Our avid readers may remember my review of the ElliQ by Intuition Robotics.  ElliQ is a robot designed to help the aging population live healthier and happier.  That's how I'd describe my father-in-law's experience with ElliQ.  The robot has become part of the family and created a great connection between my father-in-law and myself. While at the CES conference, I had a chance to sit d...

In 2019, iScribeHealth recognized that AI could produce accurate doctors’ notes, and that the company would no longer need the 120 human scribes it was offering clients. But it kept the leading experts among those scribes to work closely with them to review the notes being generated by AI to make sure they could reproduce the physician’s style as well as documenting the information being recorded...

Front desks and call centers in health care struggle with overloads at peak times, according to Ada Andruszkiewicz, COO & Co-founder at Talkie.ai. At 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning, staff may have to deal with 20 times as many calls as they get at other times of the day. Health care institutions can’t scale the staff to handle these interactions, 70% of which take place on voice calls. Andruszkie...