Healthcare IT Today Interviews

One-fifth of all the health care institutions in the U.S. were involved in mergers and acquisitions between 2015 and 2020. Harmony Healthcare IT helps firms through the data management aspect of a merger, especially with data conversion and archiving.
In a a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Chief Revenue Officer Sharon Cook points out that acquiring companies are hoping to achieve cost reductions that go beyond merely reducing administrative staff and computer systems. They require "synergy" between the two merging companies, and that requires them to merge their data accurately.
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Ruben Amarasingham, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Smarter Technologies, is often asked by medical students whether they're in the right profession. He responds that we may be entering a "golden era" for practicing medicine, thanks to AI.
In the age of generative AI, it can follow clinical sessions and produce doctors' notes; AI can also automate much of the frustrating and time-consuming tasks related to revenue cycle management. But now AI can do much more by combining work on notes (the frontend) and RCM (the backend); this is the area where Smarter Technologies's  SmarterNotes operates.
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There is a lot of talk about staffing shortages and cost pressures in the health care industry. But Scott Gildea, Executive Vice President, Managed Services at Optimum Healthcare IT, has found that one challenge the providers have is just keeping up with the "cycle of innovation." He charactizes the technology of health care as being in a "constant state of innovation" that forces on providers a "constant state of implementation."
In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Gene Scheurer, Founder and CEO at Optimum Healthcare IT, and Gildea explain how the company is helping hospitals and health systems free their staff to focus on strategic change by creating a managed services platform—a Center of Excellence—that can take on routine operations and maintenance near shore in Costa Rica.
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In this video, we hear about trends and future expectations in health IT from LaDonna Worrell, Senior Director of IT Operations at Duke Health and Justin T. Collier, MD, Healthcare CTO North America at Lenovo.
The hospital of the future is coming soon at Duke Health, which is planning to open a brand new facility in North Carolina in three years. Already, according to Worrell, three units at an existing hospital have been designated as "Beta units" (using a term common in computing for products that are not fully tested but are being tried out in real-life production). Some of the products being used there have been designated for the upcoming hospital They also have simulation labs.
Collier listed several exciting technologies that he thinks will be central to health care. Top of the list, of course, is AI, which he prefers to call "assistive intelligence." Statistics report that the healthcare industry is adopting AI at twice the rate of other industries.
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Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners, envisions a wholesale move by the health IT industry to open standards, health care providers moving data from the EHR into their own data centers for more flexibility in AI use, patients sharing the insurance information with providers without paper cards, and 93% of prior authorizations requests answered in real time.
In a recent interviw with Howells, we explore the regulatory and technical advances in interoperability that might even kill the clipboard that patients fill out on each visit. And yes, "Kill the Clipboard" is a reference to a paper that Howells and Leavitt Partners published wich many of the ideas expressed in the paper being reflected in CMS' Kill the Clipboard effort.
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