Healthcare IT Today Interviews

In every corner of health care—as with other industries—software tools are adding AI capabilities. AI has now come to HIPAA-compliant chat, as explained in this video by Jackie Frey, Product Expert - Healthcare at Zenzap.
Chat and text messaging themselves are complicated in a regulated environment. In the first part of our interview, Frey explains what secure chat must offer to be useful to healthcare organizations. Then, she shares what can go wrong when health care staff resort to common, insecure channels such as email and standard text messaging.
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[SPONSORED] Custom APIs Are Failing Interoperability: How Agentic AI Replaces Manual Data Entry
Healthcare systems spend billions attempting to force disparate software to connect through complex data standards. What if agentic AI could solve the problem without complex integration or the need for universal agreement on data standards?
In this interview, Rishi Nayyar, CEO of PocketHealth, explains how their platform, Conductor, automates longitudinal workflows across legacy systems. Discover why electronic health records are engineered for data storage rather than process orchestration, and learn how applying automated AI agents directly to user interfaces solves cross-system bottlenecks without massive IT overhauls.
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The sudden emergence of AI models for all sorts of healthcare procedures, along with advanced hardware such as NVIDIA's GPU processors, creates questions for healthcare practices that want to improve outcomes and costs with these technologies. In a recent video interview, Dan Schneider, Enterprise Platforms Product Specialist at NVIDIA, and Sandra Colner, GM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences at Dell Technologies dove into these important topics and shared some key insights as healthcare leaders navigate AI in their organization.
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Lindsey Bengfort, Managing Director, Healthcare Provider at NTT Data, cites two key principles that healthcare institutions are concerned with today. First, put the patient outcome at the forefront, which requires empathy but also a sense of urgency. Second, do more with less, which requires the right technology and, when AI is deployed, the right models for each situation.
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Renee Wiczorek, Lead Product Manager at Truven by Merative, wants healthcare institutions to ask the deep questions about the trends they're seeing: What caused a recent cost increase? What programs are working? Which of their populations need more attention?  When you ask the right questions and have the right data, healthcare organizations can glean a lot of value.
Truven's dashboards, which Wiczorek demos during this video, let managers find "clarity" in their data, and learn "not just what happened, but why." The demo is well worth viewing in full screen.
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