Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Skepticism around AI scribes is common, especially in busy primary care settings. But when the workflow fits and the tool actually removes work, adoption can be surprisingly quick.
In this conversation, Dr Ryan McFarland, Family Physician and Board Member at Hudson Physicians, breaks down how Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent changed documentation across their multispecialty group. He shares the moment a skeptical physician became a believer in under two minutes, how ambient listening improved follow-up accuracy, and what happened when Oracle’s engineers watched real clinical workflows up close.
What has your experience been with ambient AI or clinical documentation tools? Drop your thoughts below.
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Geospatial AI sounds like science fiction until you see it applied to real problems. Then it gets very practical, very fast.
In this conversation, Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer at Esri, talks through how satellite imagery and location intelligence are being used to answer questions that once took weeks or months to resolve.
She covers how AI-powered image analysis can identify accessibility curb ramps across an entire city, assess wildfire damage to individual homes in minutes, and help health systems and public agencies respond faster during emergencies. Dr. Geraghty also breaks down the difference between geoAI, AI assistants, and agentic AI, and why lowering the barrier to insight matters just as much as the analytics themselves.
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Every IT leader knows the pain of workflows that break the moment they cross a departmental line. Sri Velamoor isn’t tiptoeing around it. He argues the silos themselves are the problem.
Sri Velamoor, President and CEO of NextGen Healthcare, lays out a direct challenge to how physician practices structure their systems and teams. He explains why clinical, RCM, and patient-experience workflows no longer function as separate jobs and why AI makes the divide even harder to sustain. Velamoor also opens up about quarterly releases, No UI as the New UI, and how 90 percent of NextGen engineers are already using AI-assisted coding.
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Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, discusses in this video interview some recent hot developments in health data exchange, and how he expects it to expand in the future.
HHS's TEFCA project has been in force for some time, while the CMS-Aligned Network is new and has created confusion in the industry about the relatinship between them (Note: Steven Posnack has a great article that works to clear this up). eHealth Exchange is a designated QHIN under TEFCA and plans to implement the criteria necessary to become a CMS-Aligned Network as well. Nakashima recommends that anyone who has started to work with TEFCA continue to do so.
He calls TEFCA "prescriptive" and thinks that more varied options will become available.
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Getting patient data to the proper person—including doctors and the patients themselves—is a many-layered task involving standards, privacy protections, consent, and usability. In our recent interview, Mariann Yeager, CEO at a major nonprofit in health interoperability, The Sequoia Project, describes the organization's continuing work and upcoming plans.
Check out our interview with Marianna Yeager from The Sequoia Project to learn more about the ways they're making health data sharing more trusted and compliant.
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