Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Ambient note-taking scribes have achieved such successes—according to Mustafa Ammar, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Ampla Health—that the first question from doctors interviewing for jobs at his federally qualified health center is whether they offer a scribe. Luckily, they do: Sunoh.ai.Burnout is often on the top of doctors' and their managers' minds. And Sunoh.ai definitely delivered results here. Doctors report that they are going home on time and avoiding the need to spend their personat time writing notes, even though they are seeing more patients than before. The notes are also closed with...

Hospitals are sitting on hundreds of hours of unwatched surgical video. Residents and attendings simply do not have the time to review it together. The footage sits on thumb drives and gathers dust.Dr. Chloe Nobuhara is a general surgery resident at Stanford. She sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss a new AI application built specifically for laparoscopic surgery. This tool watches the footage and analyzes surgeon performance. It automatically chunks the operation into distinct steps. Viewers will learn why generic large language models fail in the operating room. You will discover how a highly...

In a recent video interview, Brian Yavorsky, CTO at Imagenet, discusses how the company helps payers use AI and other data technologies to achieve efficiencies. Emphasizing the difficulties in getting skilled staff, Yavorsky says that automation can reduce labor not by removing people, but by automating areas that are difficult to staff.  Plus, by automating the mundane tasks you allow staff to work on higher value tasks that they enjoy more.Many payers are burdened with legacy systems and workflows, especially after acquiring other companies. Although the systems work individually, the fragmentation in systems and data introduces i...

The Financial Math of Value-Based Care Fails + How TPMG Cracked the CodeValue-based care is the goal for everyone. Achieving it in a financially sustainable way is a completely different story. Most independent groups struggle to align their technology and processes with risk contracts without drowning in overhead.Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jeff Morrison, Vice President and CMIO at TPMG. We discussed how his independent medical group maximizes the eClinicalWorks platform to make value-based care actually work. You will learn how they made smart decisions and made organizational changes to capture new revenue...

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...

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...

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 c...

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...

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.🔔 Subscribe for more great interviews with Health IT leaders. Learn more about AdvancedMD at https://www...

In our recent interview at the AMGA 2026 conference, Mayank Pant, Executive Vice President of Product Management at IKS Health, focuses on making patient engagement effective. IKS Health covers the entire "patient journey from schedule to cash," introducing automation and AI where they can improve the experience and cut the time wasted by patients and staff alike.Learn more about IKS Health: https://ikshealth.com/Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

One of the biggest challenges facing healthcare organizations today has to do with revenue integrity and healthcare compliance.  Every organization is focusing on improving its revenue while still ensuring compliance.  Plus, this is becoming even more challenging as the government is leveraging AI to increase the number of audits and holding payments from many providers. This crackdown means provider organizations operating in Medicare or Medicaid programs will feel the impact across their entire compliance and revenue cycle footprint.What's interesting about this is that MDaudit was built for exactly this situation.  With that in mind, I had a c...

Rigid phone trees frustrate your patients. They also waste your staff’s time.MyCare Medical decided to fix their digital front door. They implemented healow Genie AI to handle calls. Gary Moorefield, VP of Technology at MyCare Medical, explains how they did it. He breaks down why handling messy, non-linear patient conversations is critical. He also shares how automation gives valuable time back to front desk teams without cutting jobs. Are your patients still stuck on hold listening to bad elevator music? Or are you still forcing them into “press 1” or “say yes” decision trees? If you are...

The potential applications of AI are endless; there are so many solutions in the marketplace that health care organizations can get "paralyzed," according to Kim Lynch, Founder and CEO at Metis Health Technologies. She advises organizations not to debate endless what to do, but to "try something" with "a bias toward action." Jeffrey Nelson, Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Mosaic Health, similarly says to "try and fail," but "move the ball forward."Of course, nobody advises just throwing money at fancy technologies. In our recent interview at the Navina Ascend user conference, Lynch and Nelson along with...

Everyone knows that rural health care systems are stressed: costly populations, low reimbursements, staffing shortages, transportation problems—and the 900 billion to one trillion dollar cuts upcoming in Medicaid will severely add to those stresses. But rural providers also have advantages when it comes to the chances for transformation. In a recent video interview, we explore the opportunities in rural health, particularly the use of technology for value-based care with Pranam Ben, Founder & CEO at The Garage and Brittany Sachdeva, COO at Cibolo Health.Learn more about The Garage: https://www.thegaragein.com/Learn more about Ci...

Family Health Centers in Louisville, Kentucky adopted the ambient note-taking tool from Sunoh.ai to cut down on doctors' filling out notes during family times in the evenings and even way into the night. In this information-rich interview, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer Cynthia Cox discusses how Family Health Centers adopted Sunoh.ai and the main ways it's helped them on this key goal and others.The initiative came about after a few doctors heard of ambient scribes and wanted to try it. The health center started by offering the tool to these doctors, but then realized it...

While at the recent Navina Ascend user conference, Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with three of Navina's customers to learn more about their experience using Navina at their organizations.  Needless to say, the doctors were all candid with their experience with the technology and the impact it was having on their organization.Learn more about Privia Health: https://www.priviahealth.com/Learn more about CVFP: https://www.cvfp.net/Learn more about Summit Medical Group: https://www.summitmedical.com/Learn more about Navina: https://www.navina.ai/</p...

Asking doctors to remember twenty patient encounters at the end of a packed day guarantees burnout and bad documentation. The same goes for forcing front desk staff to have awkward money conversations in a crowded waiting room.Healthcare IT Today sat down with Kate Steele, Director of IT Applications at Axia Women’s Health. We discussed how her team used platforms like eClinicalWorks to tackle these exact problems. You will learn how ambient AI scribes restore the patient connection and why moving payments to digital check-in removes friction for everyone.🔔 Subscribe for more great interviews with...

Trying to stitch together legacy software after a merger is a guaranteed way to bleed productivity. The smartest health systems bypass the politics and build from scratch.Anthony Boggs, Senior Director of Support Services at Corewell Health, reveals how his team completely overhauled their foodservice operations following a massive three-system merger. He shares how standardizing on Illumia NetMenu and connecting it directly to Epic eliminated food waste and automated patient dietary safety. You will learn the exact strategy they used to cut food SKUs by 70 percent and why retail operations actually dictate hospital food tech.🔔 Sub...

You cannot open new clinics if your administrative workflows are stuck in the past.Healthcare IT Today sits down with Robert DeLuca, EHR Innovation Administrator at MedFlorida Medical Centers. We explore how deploying point-of-care automation, AI in revenue cycle and AI scribes allows their practice to expand without bottlenecking their back office. You will see how giving clinicians the right tools speeds up billing and directly powers sustainable practice growth.🔔 Subscribe for more great interviews with Health IT leaders. Learn more about MedFlorida Medical Centers at https://medflorida.com/ Learn more abo...

MediQuant is a data migration and health data archiving company for hospitals, health systems and medical practices. It offers healthcare organizations the opportunity to retire legacy applications while maintaining compliance needs.  Plus, they keep important metainformation about the healthcare data so that the archive can be searched and data can be retrieved quickly. In a recent interview with Mike McGuire, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy, we dive into the wide variety of new products and features that MediQuant announced leading into the HIMSS conference.Learn more about MediQuant: https://www.mediquant.com/Healthcare IT C...