Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Changing behaviors is hard. Everyone resists change, even when it’s in their best interest to do so. You don’t have to look farther than the difficulty healthcare leaders are having convincing people to stay at home to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus or persuading patients to adopt healthier lifestyles to prevent the onset of disease complications. The team at Bridgecom applies technology, discipline and an approach that uses well-established marketing techniques to change patient behaviors

There's been a lot of talk about a National Patient Identifier and we're seeing some progress in Washington around it. In this virtual meetup hosted by NextGate, we dive into the details of a National Patient ID with the following panel: • Julie Pursley Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA (@julezd), Director, HIM Practice Excellence at AHIMA • Mark J. Segal, PhD, FHIMSS (@msegal111), Principal, at Digital Health Policy Advisors, LLC • Dan Cidon (@dcidon), CTO at NextGate • Ben Moscovitch

We have more data than we know what to do with in healthcare. We have clinical data held in EHRs, results from lab systems, images from imaging platforms, as well as wellness data from personal devices and apps. So how do we sift through it all to find the relevant information? The solution starts with quality data. Watch this interview with Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture to learn: What the "informonster" is, how data give people superpowers and how to avoid "artificial uncertainty"

There are a lot of pressures holding healthcare back from achieving higher quality of care and lower costs. One of them is the challenge of sharing healthcare data. Whether that’s data between organizations, or patients sharing wearable and other home health data with their doctors, sharing data is a challenge with major consequences, especially when the data isn’t clean. In this virtual meetup, we talk about how a clean, healthy data pipeline is critical to solving today’s healthcare challenges and

COVID-19 has highlighted a number of challenges we face in healthcare. One of those challenges is healthcare interoperability. For a while we've known that the problem is largely a business problem and not a technical problem. To learn more about how to make interoperability a reality in healthcare, we sat down with Drew Ivan, Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Lyniate. We ask him what COVID-19 is teaching us about healthcare interoperability. He shares examples where health data sharing is

In a one-on-one interview with Healthcare IT Today, Wendy Deibert, VP of Clinical Solutions at Caregility, shared a surprising way to use telehealth: internally at a healthcare organization to monitor patients. This helps keep staff safe and reduces workload – top priorities during this COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to the full interview and learn: How Deibert helped create the first healthcare building with no patients, where you can start implementing virtual care at your hospital, and how virtual

Prior authorization (PA) is a check run by insurance companies and third-party payers before they agree to cover the cost of certain prescribed medications and medical procedures. For many healthcare providers obtaining a PA involves manually faxing documents to a payer. This process is inefficient and error prone. Technologies and best practices exist that can help. Watch this video as three PA experts share practical tips on what providers can do to streamline PAs. Learn more at