Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Modern tools, including AI, offer healthcare institutions new windows onto their data with the potential for real business changes. In our recent interview, we sat down with Paul Brockington, Vice President of Integrations at the ONCare Alliance, a consortium of independent oncology providers sharing their data for research and to improve their operations, and Sergio Wagner, Salient Health's Chief Strategy Officer, to learn more about their efforts to leverage data to improve the care provided. ONCare Alliance has partnered with Salient Health to curate and interrogate their data in order to make it more actionable.
Learn more about Salient: https://salienthealth.com/
Learn more about ONCare Alliance: https://www.oncarealliance.com/
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In a recent Healthcare IT Today interview, Kelly Goolsby, Director of Solution Architecture at Nexcess, says that many clients come to them after trying another managed hosting provider who made impressive claims but failed to follow through on compliance, security, and other promises.
Claiming to be a "show me" kind of guy, Goolsby recommends that clients not rely on promises made by potential vendors, but ask for proof and transparency. Check the logs to make sure that the expected antivirus software and other security measures are present. Some hosting providers are now being punished for non-compliance with HIPAA and other regulations. Migration to a new hosting service can take six months, so clients should try to choose a reliable vendor at the start.
Learn more about Nexcess: https://www.nexcess.com/
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The first year that Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center deployed the Sunoh.ai ambient transcription software, it was getting very little use and therefore wasn't achieving their goals for installing it. To address this lack of adoption, Liz Massey, Executive Vice President of Clinical Operations, was put in charge of integrating it into their practice. In a recent interview with Massey, she explains what her team did and how Sunoh.ai  has transformed the organization. One doctor even said it "gave her back her life."
Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center has 22 locations serving 30,000 patients, mostly offering primary care but also having multiple specialties. The burden of writing clinical notes was leading to burn-out. One key step taken by the center, when choosing Sunoh.ai, was to define their goals: to capture the quality measures needed for regulatory and financial purposes, to increase the percentage of records closed within 24 hours of a visit, to reduce the time spent on documentation after-hours, and to increase the number of patient visits.
Learn more about Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center: https://www.cofmc.com/
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Ashish Desai, President of Benefits Lifecycle Solutions at Simplify Healthcare, believes that a health care provider should not have to call a payer to plan treatment or submit a bill; he should be self-served through a web search or chat. As we know, the health care field is far away from such simplicity.
In this video, Desai and Jami Hernandez, Senior Vice President of Product Engineering & Development at Simplify Healthcare, discuss how insurers can bring all their systems together around consistent content. Hernandez says this is critical so that an appeals department acts on the same information given to the member when that member signed up for the plan. But it's getting harder and harder as the number of channels for sharing information (web, chat, call center) proliferates. The member (as well as their providers and care managers) must get the same information through every channel they choose.
Learn more about Simplify Healthcare: https://simplifyhealthcare.com/
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Behavioral health rarely gets the funding or attention it deserves. Relying on makeshift tracking for controlled substances is a massive liability.
David Wilson, Vice President of Business Development at AdvancedMD, sat down with Healthcare IT Today to share the origin story of their new eMAR solution. He breaks down why mental health practices are shifting care in-house to combat shrinking reimbursements. You will learn how this targeted software rollout solves point-of-care medication administration and keeps organizations completely compliant.
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