Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Imaging demand keeps rising, but building new capacity is slow, expensive, and disruptive. What if mobile imaging could feel less like a workaround and more like an extension of the hospital? In this interview from RSNA25, Henry Howe, CEO of Akumin, and Greg Sitkiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, explain why the company introduced a mobile drop trailer that lowers directly to ground level. They dis...

[SPONSORED] Health IT roadmaps used to span years. Now they are collapsing into months. The question many leaders are asking is whether vendors can actually keep up. In this interview, David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health, explains why the pace of change in healthcare has outgrown traditional multi-year planning cycles. He shares how Greenway is shifting to shorter...

AI is everywhere in healthcare. The challenge now facing providers is determining where it actually helps without getting in the way. In this conversation, Demetri Giannikopoulos, Chief Innovation Officer at Rad AI, unpacks why radiology has become one of the most practical proving grounds for clinical AI and how specialization changes clinician confidence in the technology. He shares his view on...

Radiology teams are stretched thin. Cloud imaging, once pitched as a boon for IT teams, is now seen as a technology that gives radiologists time back, allows them to work the way they need to, and improves access for patients. In this conversation, Dario Arfelli, Global Marketing Lead for Imaging Informatics at Philips, breaks down why cloud imaging discussions have shifted away from infrastructur...

Skepticism around AI scribes is common, especially in busy primary care settings. But when the workflow fits and the tool actually removes work, adoption can be surprisingly quick. In this conversation, Dr Ryan McFarland, Family Physician and Board Member at Hudson Physicians, breaks down how Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent changed documentation across their multispecialty group. He shares the m...

Geospatial AI sounds like science fiction until you see it applied to real problems. Then it gets very practical, very fast. In this conversation, Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer at Esri, talks through how satellite imagery and location intelligence are being used to answer questions that once took weeks or months to resolve. She covers how AI-powered image analysis can identify accessibi...

Every IT leader knows the pain of workflows that break the moment they cross a departmental line. Sri Velamoor isn’t tiptoeing around it. He argues the silos themselves are the problem. Sri Velamoor, President and CEO of NextGen Healthcare, lays out a direct challenge to how physician practices structure their systems and teams. He explains why clinical, RCM, and patient-experience workflows no lo...

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, discusses in this video interview some recent hot developments in health data exchange, and how he expects it to expand in the future. HHS's TEFCA project has been in force for some time, while the CMS-Aligned Network is new and has created confusion in the industry about the relatinship between them (Note: Steven Posnack has a great article that w...

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...