Healthcare IT Today Interviews

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.
Learn more about eHealth Exchange: https://ehealthexchange.org/
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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.
Learn more about The Sequoia Project: https://sequoiaproject.org/
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Radiology teams don’t need more dashboards. They need clearer signals about capacity, and better image quality. This conversation looks at how small, practical changes, powered by AI, make a real difference.
In this video, Lily Belcak, Customer Success Leader at GE Healthcare, explains how analyzing DICOM data directly from imaging devices helps health systems better understand how long exams actually take and where schedules can be adjusted. The result is more accurate appointment planning and improved access without adding staff or equipment.
You’ll also hear from Laura Hernandez, Chief Marketing Officer for Women’s Health and X-ray at GE Healthcare, on how Pristina Recon DL focuses on image clarity and reading efficiency. Clearer images support faster reads for radiologists and reduce the need for repeat scans, especially in breast imaging where precision matters.
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Sending data over the wire is just the start of health care data interoperability. Other critical tasks include identifying the right destination (in other words, a directory), identifying the patient and other security practices, and getting patient consent. In this video, we hear about these topics from two co-chairs of the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST): Jason Teeple, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture and Interoperability Strategy, Evernorth and Duncan Weatherston, CEO at Smile Digital Health.
Learn more about EverNorth: https://www.evernorth.com/
Learn more about Smile Digital Health: https://www.smiledigitalhealth.com/
Learn more about HL7 FAST: https://confluence.hl7.org/spaces/FAST/overview
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