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Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Listen to the latest happenings in Healthcare IT in this series of interviews with leading experts in healthcare technology. Whether you"re trying to understand EMR and EHR, healthcare communications, security and privacy, analytics, telehealth and telemedicine, and much more, these interviews will dive into what"s really happening on the front lines of healthcare. Learn more at: https://www.healthcareittoday.com

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00:22:45

Integrating Prescription Intelligence and CMEs Into...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/27

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 decision support directly into e-prescribing workflows.Both leaders bring extensive backgrounds in clinical

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00:17:28

Generative AI Crucial for Coding Complex Conditions

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/26

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; these people are not as accurate they need to be. Due to this and other reasons, claim denials have

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00:22:42

Connecting the 'Last Mile' in Healthcare: Leveraging...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/23

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 goals of the combined companies from Sean O’Neal, CEO of TigerConnect, and Jeff Fallon, General Manager

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00:18:17

How an Echocardiogram Went From 12 Clicks to Zero...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/22

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 burden he had simply accepted for years disappeared the moment Wellsheet went live. He shares what it meant

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00:13:29

Providing Access to Archived Legacy Data While Saving...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/20

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 the core of our discussion with Fichter at the AHIMA conference.Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare

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00:24:16

Secure Language Translation Device by Pocketalk...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/19

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 provides secure language translation throughout a healthcare organization.Pocketalk is differentiated

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00:22:02

Healthcare Quality and Equity Through Data Exchange...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/16

When MedAllies was founded in 2001, the healthcare landscape looked vastly different from what it does today. Long before the HITECH Act spurred the widespread digitization of medical records, the company set out with an ambitious goal: using technology to enhance healthcare quality. Today, as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) at the forefront of implementing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), MedAllies is poised to significantly expand its reach through its

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00:14:18

AI Perspectives and New AI Assistant with Don...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/15

InterSystems, a major data management and healthcare information systems vendor over many decades, has joined the AI rush and is working on a step-by-step approach to making data more useful to healthcare systems through AI. In this video, Don Woodlock, Head of Global Healthcare Solutions, explains the evolution he's seeing in the use of AI, and how AI providers can build trust.Interoperability, as provided by InterSystems, is key to going beyond use of the individual patient record. There are a

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00:15:12

Making the TEAM (Transforming Episode Accountability...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/13

A new program from CMS, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), promises to shake up the industry in a fashion similar to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in 2012. In a recent video interview, Robin Roberts, Director of Health IT Regulatory Affairs at PointClickCare, describes how hospitals can implement the program through technology, better coordination with post-acute facilities, and changes to incentives.Learn more about PointClickCare:

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00:15:23

Cybersecurity Aligns With Business Goals at First...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/12

It’s easy to say that security is critical to healthcare operations, since breaches can force hospitals and clinics to cancel patient visits, damage their reputation, and even lead to fines. But how do security professionals get buy-in from board members and the executive-level suite? Some great answers are provided in this interview with two executives from First Health Advisory: Trish Alexander, Executive Vice President of Strategy, and Rick LeMay, Chief Delivery Officer.Learn more about First

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00:26:31

A New HIPAA Compliant LLM Focused on Health Literacy

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/09

The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), a non-profit with the mission of helping individuals obtain and understand the health care information they need, found that some healthcare organizations were having trouble getting started with implementing effective, scalable health literacy solutions. But two months ago they released the AI-based HealthLiteracyCopilot, developed through a partnership with HealthcareGPS, to make health literacy scalable and available to all.Michael Villaire, Chief

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00:28:24

Farzad Mostashari's Aledade Helps Doctors Get Paid...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/08

CMS provides numerous avenues to implement value-based care. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology during a critical period of EHR implementations in the U.S., co-founded Aledade 11 years ago to make value-based care feasible—or as he puts it in this interview, “make it more profitable to prevent a stroke than to treat a stroke.”Aledade now works with 2,400 practices and community health centers in 46 states and the District of Columbia. They have

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00:23:05

KLAS Explains Why Cloud Confusion Is Slowing Down...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/06

Cloud imaging should feel like a clear next step, yet most teams still can’t agree on what “cloud strategy” actually means. In this interview, Monique Rasband, Vice President of Strategy & Research for Imaging and Oncology at KLAS Research, breaks down what she’s hearing directly from providers in the new KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2025 Report. We talk about why cloud adoption is speeding up, why some vendors are falling behind, and why the market is seeing one of the most active replacement cycles

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00:13:58

Healthcare Cloud Hosting and Innovation at Rackspace

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/05

Rackspace is one of the world's most prominent hosting services, going back long before the term "cloud" was applied to these offerings. In our recent interview, Vice President of Healthcare Tim Lankes says that healthcare is the largest industry segment covered by Rackspace, and that it is the largest private cloud hoster of Epic outside of Epic itself.One of Rackspace's strengths, going back to its early days as a hosting service, is that it supports both public clouds (where

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00:30:03

Priming the Ambient AI Medical Scribe with Skriber

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2026/01/02

Many companies promoting AI-driven medical scribe products boast that the physician doesn't have to change their behavior in order to use the product. In contrast, Skriber trains the physician how to use it well, and offers guidance as the physician goes along.The chief advice is to prime the scribe in advance of a medical session by telling it about the patient: just a few sentences about the patient's conditions and diagnoses, the purpose of the visit, and their complaints. Dr. Connor

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00:12:51

Seeing What’s Been Missing: How Surescripts Is Making...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2025/12/31

Millions of prescriptions go unfilled every year and until now, the system had no way to see them.In this interview, Dr. Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Surescripts, joins Healthcare IT Today to discuss how her team is surfacing invisible medication gaps and tackling healthcare’s biggest workflow frustrations: prior authorization and prescription abandonment. She explains how Surescripts’ new First Fill Abandonment tool and touchless prior authorization are turning real-time data

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00:13:53

Optum Real Delivers Clarity in Claims and Reimbursement

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2025/12/29

The vision for Optum Real is to create real-time transparency between payers and providers in the moments of care that matter. Current AI technology, according to Puneet Maheshwari, SVP, GM of Optum Real is making this possible now.Optum is a major force in health care, serving nine out of ten health care systems and four out of five payers in the U.S. Optum Real is in pilot now with a number of health care organizations. During the pilot, the platform has achieved a 25% reduction in call volume in

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00:16:16

IBM and enGen Collaborate to Eliminate Errors in...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2025/12/26

According to research by enGen, a healthtech company that serves payers and providers with automated solutions, they found that each error in member enrollment data costs an average of $172 in fixes and downstream problems. A new solution called enGen enRoll(TM), an AI-driven collaboration between enGen and IBM, was designed to address this problem. Maynd Jolly, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Client Partnership at enGen, and Matt Gierhart, Vice President of Product Management

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00:23:12

Sound Physicians’ Rapid Pivot: Why APIs Won the Day...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2025/12/24

What do you do when your EHR vendor suddenly shuts down and you only have months to find a replacement? For Sound Physicians, that deadline sparked a bold pivot - one that put APIs and collaboration at the center of their technology strategy.In this interview, Dria McCluskey, SVP of Innovation and Technology at Sound Physicians, and Venky Chellappa, VP of Sales and Business Development at CharmHealth, share how they tackled a high-stakes RFP and built a partnership that will help both organizations

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00:14:45

Billings Clinic on AI in Healthcare: Why Trust Beats...

Healthcare IT Today Interviews ·

2025/12/22

Everyone talks about AI fixing documentation. But the real story is whether patients and clinicians will trust it enough to use it every day.In this interview, Dr. Randy Thompson, Chief Health Analytics Officer at Billings Clinic, shares what it takes to bring Oracle Health’s AI tools into daily practice across Montana’s largest independent health system. From rethinking governance structures to gaining patient buy-in even during psychiatric visits. Thompson explains why adoption depends on building

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