Healthcare IT Today Interviews

While collecting blood, Versiti collects data. Versiti is a nonprofit founded in 1947 with the two goals of providing a sustainable blood supply to clinical settings and advancing research. Over the past 20 years, the company has tripled in size and provides blood to more than 400 hospitals. The company is now using AI and partnering with Lenovo to improve donor outreach and research.
On the blood donation side, Versiti tries to treat donors as well as a good clinician treats their patients. CIO Lynne Briggs says "we know who you are when you come in the door." Versiti integrates the data from all its partners. CEO Chris Miskel says they get more than 300,000 blood donors every year, so they are using AI to improve engagement and "be more donor-centric."
One simple application is AI-drive chat, but Justin T. Collier, MD, Healthcare CTO in North America at Lenovo mentions also the use of AI to automate documentation and mundane tasks such as engaging with insurers. He says that the value of AI makes it worthwhile to collect more data and keep it "forever." AI can lead to meaningful insights and better research outcomes.
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[SPONSORED] Healthcare organizations invest heavily in analytics, yet improvement often stalls. Reports arrive late. Dashboards feel disconnected from real clinical work. In this conversation, we unpack why timing, trust, and ownership matter more than another metric.
At IHI Forum 2025, Holly Rimmasch, Chief Clinical Officer and SVP of Improvement Services at Health Catalyst, and Kathleen Merkley, SVP of Clinical Improvement, spoked candidly about what actually drives measurable improvement in healthcare. They explore how near-real-time data, AI-guided prioritization, and frontline clinician ownership are changing how health systems approach sepsis, heart failure, cost management, and sustained improvement.
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[SPONSORED] IT teams hear the same question every budget cycle: does interoperability actually pay off? It turns out the ROI shows up in places most organizations never track.
In this interview, Muhammad Chebli, Vice President of Product at NextGen Healthcare, breaks down where interoperability creates measurable value across scheduling, referrals, inbox load and patient engagement. He also shares why Info Blocking enforcement is not about technology gaps but policy missteps and what NextGen’s Kno2 partnership means for QHIN connectivity.
Plus you’ll hear why Chebli believes APIs are the future front-door to EHRs.
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Staffing shortages. Growing waitlists. Fixed capacity. Radiology leaders are running out of room to experiment, and AI is moving from “nice to have” to operational necessity.
In this interview, Roland Rott, CEO and President of Imaging at GE Healthcare, explains why health systems are rethinking how AI fits into daily radiology operations. The focus is not on future promises, but on how AI is already being used to save time, reduce friction, and turn long-unused data into practical workflow improvements. The discussion spans staffing constraints, trust in AI, and why operational impact is now driving adoption.
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Healthcare organizations keep adding new tools, yet frontline frustration continues to grow. More dashboards. More data. Slower decisions. This conversation digs into why focusing on integrating existing technologies together can make a bigger difference for clinicians and patients.
In this interview, Josh Clark, Vice President of Quality & Safety Operating Systems at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), shares what he’s seeing across health systems globally. He explains why integration, not acquisition, has become the real bottleneck in healthcare IT, how delayed data undermines frontline decision-making, and where process-level insights can improve care in real time.
Josh also discusses why IHI often advises organizations to pause new technology adoption, how CIOs can gain space to focus on integration, and where AI has the most practical potential to improve quality and safety without adding more burden.
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