Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patients to get the care they need. By closing these care gaps, not only are they better serving the community, Sun Life Health is also able to secure more federal funding. Learn more about Sun Life Health: https://www.sunlifehealth.org/ Learn more about eClinicalWorks: https://www.eclinicalworks.com/ Learn more about Healow Insights: https://www.healowinsights.com/ Health IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

In the over 1000 healthcare IT video interviews we’ve done on Healthcare IT Today, there’s some people where 20-30 minutes just doesn’t feel long enough. You wish you had a couple hours to talk with them and go really deep on a number of different topics. That feeling led to an idea. What if we tried a 2 hour interview where we dive deep into a topic and the person’s history and experience in healthcare IT? Once I had the idea, I knew the perfect person to try out this long form interview: Brendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health. 2 hours and 17 minutes later with no breaks or cuts, I knew the Healthcare IT Today was going to love learning from Brendan. Learn more about HTD Health: https://htdhealth.com/ Health IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO and president of Artisight, envisions a future where every hospital room hosts a camera and speaker in order to support two-way video. Hospitals are using Artisight's capabilities for remote support of nurses, but they are expanding to other disciplines as well. When you leverage nurses at the bedside and others watching over video, each can focus on different aspects of care. The physically present nurse has more time to spend with the patient. Although this practice may seem like it requires more staff, Lahr says they've found that splitting the work saves time. Learn more about Artisight: https://artisight.com/ Health IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

As we explore the topic of Digital Identity in healthcare, we sat down with Daniel Cidon, CTO at NextGate. For those not familiar with NextGate, they've been a leading provider of EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) solutions for healthcare for a long time. They understand the ins and outs and challenges associated with patient identification and digital ID.

Learn more about NextGate: https://nextgate.com/

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Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart, says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are asking, “What does the system do for me?” It’s time to “aggregate” that data and get a million “second opinions.” Matthew Arnheiter, senior vice president of innovations, described Netsmart’s project with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council (MBHC) to use predictive analytics and identify people at risk of suicide. Their AI system ingested data across the “silos” of more than 30 behavioral health providers and other sources, such as death certificates of those who took their own lives. Using this data, clinicians could hook up with people in the ER and make sure they had a primary care provider to return to. The results were not only fewer ER visits, but more access to care. Learn more about Netsmart: https://www.ntst.com/ Health IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/