Healthcare IT Today Interviews

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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Treating healthcare AI like a standard software rollout creates a dangerous false sense of security for health system executives. Slapping human oversight onto agentic AI does not eliminate operational risk, it simply shifts massive legal and operational liability onto overburdened clinicians.
In this interview from eHealth26, Julia Zarb, founder of Blue x Blue, breaks down why traditional IT playbooks fail when applied to agentic AI. She explains how small, logical micro fissures in AI outputs bypass manual checks and multiply when autonomous agents interact across an organization. Viewers will gain a practical framework for identifying governance blindspots and protecting clinical teams from hidden operational traps.
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Healthcare organizations are rushing to implement artificial intelligence tools without establishing basic operational safeguards. Moving too fast exposes your health system to severe compliance failures and massive security risks.
In this interview, Patrick Lo, CEO of Privacy Horizon, maps out the critical framework needed to govern clinical AI before signing vendor contracts. Discover how to move past basic compliance checklists, apply clear lines of team accountability, and handle automated errors before they impact patient care.
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Health information management conferences expose a massive continental divide: US teams fight endless billing complexity while Canadian facilities struggle to capture basic clinical facts. Structural differences in healthcare funding alter the daily operational reality for professionals on each side of the border.
Healthcare IT Today sits down with Jodi McMullin, CEO of ScoJo Consulting, at the eHealth26 conference to unpack how distinct funding models dictate the daily reality of clinical coding. You will discover how portfolio funding versus multi-payer commercial models impacts code volume, and why both systems face severe data accuracy challenges. Learn how clinical documentation improvement programs protect patient safety, reduce claims friction, and secure stable resources.
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Anurag Mehta, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder at Omega Healthcare, has seen a 10-20% increase in human productivity through AI in revenue cycle management (RCM), and expects at least another 20% improvement over the next couple of years. In our recent interview, Mehta describes the current stresses in healthcare RCM and where AI can help.
When you improve RCM, Mehta says, you improve profits in two ways: by handling bills more efficiently and by getting higher reimbursements by avoiding errors. Thanks to traditional techniques known as robotic process automation (RPA) and the latest AI, you can check 100% of submissions and prior authorization requests rather than just a small subset. Plus, for provider organizations, improved profitability also leads to better credit ratings and further savings.
Learn more about Omega Healthcare: https://www.omegahms.com/
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