Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Clinicians, health IT professionals, and policy makers all want to protect patient privacy. This is a hard goal, made harder by the increasing pressures to open up data and share it for treatment and research purposes, and harder still by the proliferation of state laws on data privacy. These laws are only getting stricter and more detailed, and are fragmenting wildly even as the federal government tries to bring everyone together around standards.
The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit consortium, is dedicated to implementing data interoperability in health care, securely and respecting patient needs. In our recent interivew, we hear from two co-chairs of the Privacy and Consent Workgroup at The Sequoia Project: Mel Soliz and Kevin Day, where we learn more about these complex regulations and how their workgroup is providing guidance to make it simpler to navigate.
Learn more about The Sequoia Project: https://sequoiaproject.org/
Learn more about the Privacy and Consent Workgroup: https://sequoiaproject.org/interoperability-matters/privacy-and-consent-workgroup/
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Interoperability looks solved on paper. In practice, clinicians are still switching systems, managing workarounds, and waiting on data that should already be there.
In this conversation, Robert Fox, CEO of OntarioMD, breaks down why health IT progress depends less on new tools and more on coordination across systems, vendors, and care teams. He explains what convergence actually looks like in healthcare, why team-based care exposes the limits of point integrations, and where AI delivers real operational value beyond documentation.
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Learn more about OntarioMD at https://www.ontariomd.ca/
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Avoiding readmissions after acute care is just one manifestation of the move to value-based care, according to Shweta Shanbhag, Director Product Management at PointClickCare in a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today. She points out at least one out of every five Medicare acute stays results in admittance to a skilled nursing facility. It's important across the board for different teams to work together.
She recommends that the various providers who are partnering in value-based care agree on a small set of shared metrics. These feed into shared goals of reducing readmissions and improving care.
Learn more about PointClickCare: https://pointclickcare.com/
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If your clinicians are still charting after dinner, you are not imagining the burnout curve. Many teams have hit the wall and are looking for relief that didn’t require hiring staff they could not find.
In this conversation, Dr. Derrick Hamilton of Juniper Health and Kathy Halcomb of White House Clinics share how NextGen Healthcare’s Ambient Assist changed daily life for their clinicians. Along with Dr. Robert (Bob) Murry, Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare, they talk openly about pajama time, rising chart backlogs, unexpected early adopters, and the speed at which ambient documentation shifted patient, staff, and family experience.
This conversation shows the surprising speed at which AI scribes can have an impact on a physician practice.
What surprised you most about the results of implementing AI scribes at your organization? Share your experience below.
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Learn more about Juniper Health at https://juniperhealth.org/
Learn more about White House Clinics at https://whitehouseclinics.com/
Learn more about NextGen Healthcare at https://www.nextgen.com/
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[SPONSORED] What happens to radiology workflows when the cloud is unavailable, connectivity drops, or systems are under strain? For many health systems, these scenarios are no longer hypothetical.
In this interview, Karim Karti, CEO of RapidAI, explains how radiology AI platforms need to be built for real-world conditions. The conversation spans resilient cloud architecture that can shift on-prem when needed, why continuity matters in acute care like stroke, and how AI’s long-term value in radiology is moving toward prediction rather than just faster reads.
How are you thinking about resilience and continuity in your imaging and AI strategy? Share what you’re seeing in your organization.
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Learn more about RapidAI at https://www.rapidai.com/
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