Healthcare IT Today Interviews

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 Executive Officer at IHA, says that in the United States, only one in ten people has the skills and ability to get the information that helps them manage their conditions—which includes getting resources, managing treatments, and reducing costs. Health literacy means "the ability of individuals to understand, find, and apply healthcare information in a way that's meaningful for them."Stan Hudson, Director of Professional Development and Training at IHA, says that their focus has evolved from empowering the individual to training organizations to support those individuals and provide the tools they need.Learn more about IHA: https://www.iha4health.org/Learn more about HealthcareGPS: https://healthcaregps.ai/Learn more about HealthLiteracyCopiloty: https://healthliteracycopilot.ai/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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 built their own technology to better facilitate value-based care, which includes interoperability, a prediction engine, user-friendly guided workflows and cutting-edge data analytics, all tied together to surface actionable insights at the point of care and drive/inform care coordination workflows.Learn more about Aledade: https://aledade.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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 in years.Rasband discusses the choices CIOs are wrestling with, the pressure remote reading is putting on legacy systems, and the surprising trend of providers who thought they were “behind” but are actually moving faster than expected.What’s your cloud imaging experience been like? Are your systems aligned or still speaking different languages?🔔 Subscribe for more great interviews with Health IT leaders. Download the KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2025 Report at https://klasresearch.com/report/enterprise-imaging-2025-as-ei-continues-to-advance-which-vendors-are-improving-customer-experiences/3755 Learn more about KLAS Research at https://klasresearch.com/Find more great health IT content at https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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 clients lease temporary services on shared systems) and private clouds (where particular computers are devoted to a client). Lankes says that Rackspace helps healthcare systems decide how to cut costs and support their innovation by using the best combination of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud systems.Learn more about Rackspace: https://rackspace.com/HealthcareHealthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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 Yost, Chief Medical Officer at Skriber, claims that the quality of the note is "astronomically higher" if the physician prepares the scribe that way.Learn more about Skriber: https://skriber.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/