Healthcare IT Today

For the 144th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are discussing interoperability in healthcare! We kick this episode off by debating whether or not Epic is the biggest obstacle to interoperability in healthcare. Then we discuss the other obstacles we can see to interoperability. Next, we try to problem-solve and talk about what could be changed to help make interoperability more of a reality today. Finally, we look towards the future and theorize where we will be with interoperability 10 years from now. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Is Epic the biggest obstacle to interoperability in healthcare? What other obstacles are there to interoperability in healthcare? What could be changed that would help make interoperability more of a reality today? 10 Years from now, where will we be with interoperability in healthcare? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 143rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are discussing 4 random health IT questions provided by our colleague! First, we discuss which aspects of AI worry us when it comes to healthcare/health IT. Then we talk about the things in health IT that we feel are mid. The third random topic we discuss in this episode is the health IT companies we think are killing it right now and why. Lastly, we share what our favorite cities to attend a conference at are and why. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What aspects of AI worry you when it comes to healthcare/health IT? What are the things in health IT that you feel are “Mid”? Which health IT companies are “killing it” right now and why? What’s been your favorite cities to attend a conference at and why? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 142nd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are doing a preview of the HFMA Annual Conference! To kick this episode off, we discuss what we think the biggest topic of conversation will be at the upcoming HFMA Conference. Then we speculate on what content we will see around AI during HFMA. Next, we debate over where AI, Machine Learning, and Automation are actually having an impact in RCM. Lastly, we wrap up this preview by sharing who we are excited to see in the HFMA exhibit hall this year. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What’s going to be the biggest topic of conversation at the upcoming HFMA conference? What are we going to see at HFMA around AI? Where is AI, Machine Learning, and Automation actually having an impact in RCM? Who are you excited to go and see in the HFMA exhibit hall? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 141st episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the results from the recent Swaay.Health marketing Survey to learn about health IT media by the numbers. We kick this episode off by looking at AI. AI has been a hot topic for health IT, but are people getting tired of talking about it? Next, we discuss which health IT topics are increasing and which topics are decreasing in popularity. We then transition that into talking about which health IT topics are not showing up in the headlines. Lastly, we take a look at Health IT Conference giveaways – are people enjoying them and if so what items are their favorites? Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Are we tired of talking about AI? What health IT topics are increasing and which are decreasing? Which topics are not showing up in health IT headlines? What is your thought on the current state of Health IT Conference giveaways? Is it going up or going down? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 140th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. To kick this episode off, we share our insights on what has happened in the two months since the attack. Then we discuss whether or not we think this will be the inciting incident for healthcare organizations to wake up about their security. Next, we debate on whether or not this attack will have an impact on how healthcare organizations are approaching RCM. Lastly, we end this episode by sharing our thoughts on what we believe the long-term impact will be. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: We’re two months into the ransomware attack, what’s your take on what’s happened? Will this wake up healthcare organizations in regard to security? Will this impact how healthcare organizations are approaching RCM? What’s the long-term impact from this incident? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 139th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the patient experience! Putting patients first and focusing on the patient experience is something a lot of organizations have been talking about as a priority for a while now, but do they really mean it? We kick off this episode by diving into this topic and debating whether or not organizations truly care about the patient experience. Then we discuss what exactly the patient experience is as we share how we would each define it. Next, we take a look at provider organizations and talk about what their main focus areas are for patient experience. Lastly, we end this episode by sharing the best patient experience we’ve seen recently. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Do provider organizations really care about patient experience? What is patient experience? How do you define it? What are the main patient experience focus areas for provider organizations? What’s the best patient experience you’ve seen recently? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 138th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are doing a recap of the recent HIMSS conference! First, we discuss the main takeaways for health IT we walked away with. Then, we talk about the companies we thought stood out at the conference. We also discuss what topics we think should have been talked about at HIMSS but weren’t. Lastly, we finish our recap by sharing all our favorites from the event – favorite booth, party, session, etc. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What’s your main takeaway for health IT coming out of HIMSS 2024? What companies stood out to you at the event? What’s something that wasn’t talked about at the event that should have been? What was your favorite booth, session, party, etc? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

With the world of healthcare constantly updating and evolving, it’s very easy for topics and technologies to be forgotten and left behind. Though we may forget it in the excitement of something new, these technologies don’t stop being important and effective for our organizations. So for the 137th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are putting a spotlight on some important healthcare technologies that have fallen off the radar. Here’s a preview of the technologies we discuss in this episode: Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Secure Messaging RTLS for People and Assets Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 136th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are taking a look at the recent headlines to discuss if healthcare has become more risky due to consolidation. The first news we look at is the massive Change Healthcare breach and how the size of your organization causes major risk when security incidents happen. Then we take a look at Walgreens shutting down VillageMD and debate whether or not large companies are more likely to shut down care centers in order to make a profit with no regard for its community. Next, with the news of ChatGPT spitting out gibberish, we take a look inward to see if we’ve all become to reliant on large tech infrastructure. Lastly, with inspiration from Google’s Gemini image generation, we discuss how small changes to AI can have large scale unintended consequences. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Does our size cause major risk when security incidents happen? (Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack) Are large companies more likely to shut down care centers for profitability without regard for community impact? (Walgreens Shutting Down VillageMD) Are we too reliant on large tech infrastructure now? (ChatGPT Spitting out Gibberish) Small changes to AI can have lots of unintended consequences. (Google’s Gemini Image Generation) Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 135th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are busting some myths about being a healthcare entrepreneur! First, we discuss what topics can be the hardest to accept for company founders who are new to healthcare. Then, we examine the corporate landscape with all of the recent layoffs and tight margins to see if this is a good time to start a new company. Next, we pass along advice to healthcare company founders. Lastly, we debate over what health IT companies we would start right now if we had to. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: When you talk to company founders who are new to healthcare, what is the cold splash of water that is hardest for them to accept? Is this a good time to start a new company in healthcare given all the layoffs and tight margins? What advice would you give to a healthcare company founder? If you were to start a health IT company right now, what would that be? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

ViVE 2024 is rapidly approaching! The conference will be held in Los Angeles on February 25 – 28 this year, so for the 134th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are sharing our thoughts, predictions, and tips. First, we share what we are looking forward to the most at ViVE 2024. Then we debate who we think will be the most talked about company/organization. Then we discuss on thoughts on the entire conference itself and where we think it fits with all of the other healthcare conferences. Lastly, as seasoned veterans, we pass along our top strategies and tips for having a successful ViVE 2024. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What are you looking forward to the most at ViVE 2024? Who will be the most talked about company or organization at ViVE 2024? What are your thoughts about ViVE 2024 itself? Where does it fit with all the other conferences in healthcare? What are your tips for having a successful ViVE 2024? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 133rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about ambient clinical voice! We kick off this episode by debating the percentage of clinicians we think are going to adopt ambient clinical voice. Next, we discuss the key factors in determining which vendors will be successful in this market. Then, we debate whether we think ambient clinical voice will just do documentation or if it will become a two-way AI assistant. Lastly, we wrap the episode up by talking about how EHR vendors should be approaching ambient clinical voice and what it would mean for them. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What percentage of clinicians are going to adopt ambient clinical voice? What are the key factors that will determine which vendors are successful in the ambient clinical voice market? Will ambient clinical voice just do the documentation or will it become a true two-way AI assistant? How should EHR vendors be approaching ambient clinical voice? What does it mean for them? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 132nd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about 6 big tech companies in healthcare. But rather than just picking 6 big tech companies, we are going to have a little fun with it by leaving that selection up to random chance! We have compiled a list of 10 possible big tech companies to discuss and throughout the episode, we will randomly select 6 of them to discuss. So if you want to find out which ones we discuss in this episode, you’ll just need to tune in! Here’s the list of companies we will be randomly selecting 6 from in this episode: Amazon Google Microsoft Apple Salesforce NVIDIA Facebook Palo Alto Networks CDW Dell Technologies Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

The 131st episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast is our first episode in 2024! For this episode, we are looking forward and making a wish list of things we would like to see happen in healthcare this year. The first wish on our list is the two changes we would like to see happen in healthcare. Our second wish is about the regulation changes we want to happen in 2024. Finally, the last wish we make for healthcare is for a conference we would like to see that doesn’t exist today. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What two changes in healthcare would you add to the top of your wish list? What regulatory change is on your wish list? What conference would you like to see that doesn’t exist today? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

The 130th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast will be our last episode in 2023, so we are taking a moment to reminisce and look back at another great year of health IT! First, we share our biggest takeaways from 2023. Then we discuss our thoughts on the current state of the healthcare industry. Next, take a look back at all of the articles and interviews from 2023 and try to pick out our favorites. Then to wrap everything up on our last episode for the year, we talk about our favorite conference from the year. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What was your big takeaway from 2023? What is your take on the current state of the healthcare industry? What were your favorite articles or interviews in 2023? What was your favorite conference? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

With the year coming close to its end and the new year ever approaching, we are taking a look forward for the 129th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast and sharing our predictions for healthcare IT in 2024. First up, we debate over what we think will be the biggest topic (excluding workforce and AI) in 2024. Next, we discuss whether or not we believe that patient needs will be met or significantly improved in 2024. Then we share which companies we think will surprise us with something innovative and cool in 2024. Lastly, we talk about the company mergers and acquisitions we can see happening in 2024. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What will be the biggest topic in 2024? (excluding workforce and AI) Will patient needs be met or significantly improved in 2024? Which companies will surprise us with something cool and innovative in 2024? What company mergers and acquisitions could you see happening in 2024? Also check out all the health IT predictions from our community: John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions Value Based Care Predictions Pharma IT and AI Predictions Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud Predictions Healthcare Workforce Predictions Healthcare Generative AI and Data Predictions Healthcare AI Regulations and Ethics Predictions Cautionary Views of AI Patient Preditions Uses of AI in Healthcare Predictions General Health IT Predictions Health IT Predictions (on video) Healthcare AI Predictions Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 128th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are doing a roundup focused on health IT regulatory news! For those familiar with our weekly roundup article, this is the podcast version. For those unfamiliar with our weekly roundup article, we are gathering up some hot topics and news in the world of health IT regulations to share them with you while we dive a little deeper into the topic. So tune in as we discuss some hot topics and have some fun along the way! Here’s a preview of the topics we rounded up to discuss in this episode: TEFCA will include FHIR in 2024 Telehealth doctors don’t have to give their home address as their practice location Disincentives (Penalties) for Information Blocking HHS being sued by AHA and other parties to use tracking technologies like the Facebook pixel Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 127th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a look at all of the fall health IT conferences! While a lot of the conferences have happened already, there are still a few more to come. We are doing a little recap on the events of the past so you know whether you should have FOMO for the last few upcoming fall health IT conferences and what was talked about at those events. First, we look at what the discussions around AI have been happening this fall and comparing/contrasting them to past discussions. Next, we talk about the technologies people have been very excited to talk about this fall. Then, we discuss the challenges people are currently worried about. Lastly, we wrap everything up by talking about attendance at these conferences and deciding whether or not you should have FOMO! Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What has the discussion around AI been this fall and is it any different than earlier in the year? What technologies have people been excited about? What challenge has been on the minds of everyone? So should people have Fall Conference FOMO? How have the exhibit halls been? Have the conferences themselves been well attended? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 126th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are once again back with everyone’s favorite game: Buy or Sell, only this time we are doing a special AI edition! For anyone who’s new or would like a reminder, in these episodes, we select a list of topics and then debate whether we believe something will happen or will have an impact on health IT (ie. we ‘buy’ it) or if we don’t think it will happen or it’ll have no impact (ie. we ‘sell’ it). With that re-cap, let’s dive in and begin a new round of Buy or Sell! Here’s a preview of the topics we will be debating in this episode: Ambient Clinical Voice AI Bot for Searching Patient Data Diagnostic AI Website Chatbots Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 125th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are joined by special guest host, Brittany Quemby, Editor at Healthcare IT Today, to discuss women’s health IT! We begin our deep dive into this topic with telemedicine and other digital health apps. We discuss how these tools can be used to empower women in managing their own health and well-being as well as looking at what challenges these tools face in doing so. We then look at IT solutions, in general, to see how they can be tailored to what women need and make their experiences in healthcare better. Next, we narrow our discussion down to how data analytics and IT tools can be utilized to find and mitigate disparities in women’s health. Lastly, we tackle the difficult discussion of what health IT companies and healthcare providers can and should be doing to collaborate and address the inequality of healthcare for women. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: How can technologies like telemedicine and digital health apps empower women to manage their own health and well-being? What challenges or disparities should we be mindful of when implementing such solutions? How can IT solutions be tailored to address these specific women’s health needs (pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause), and what role can they play in optimizing women’s healthcare experiences? How can data analytics and IT tools help identify and mitigate disparities in women’s health, ultimately promoting more equitable access to quality care? How can health IT companies and healthcare providers collaborate to develop solutions that improve the overall quality of women’s healthcare and that address the unique health challenges that women face that may not always receive the same level of attention as more generic healthcare issues? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Then we discuss the acquisition of NextGen by Thoma Bravo. Lastly, we take a look forward and give a little preview of the upcoming HLTH and AHIMA conferences! Here’s a preview of the topics we discuss in this episode: UPMC and Intermountain Moving to Epic NextGen Acquired by Thoma Bravo HLTH Preview AHIMA Preview If you’re a vendor planning to attend the HLTH or AHIMA conferences this fall, reach out to us to learn more about how Healthcare IT Today can help you at health IT conferences or take a look at what options we have available in our media kit. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! We kick the episode off by going through the big announcements that were made at this year’s Epic UGM conference. Next, we talk about what wasn’t announced or talked about at Epic UGM that we thought would be. Then we dive into two topics from the Civitas conference including a debate whether TEFCA and QHINs are real or if they’re memorex. Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What were the big announcements at Epic UGM 2023? What was not talked about or announced at Epic UGM that you thought would be an important topic of conversation? Are TEFCA and QHINs real or are they memorex? What’s a health data utility (HDU)? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 122nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a look at the recent changes from the HIMSS Conference and other hot news topics. To kick the episode off we share our take on the HIMSS conference being sold to Informa. Then we talk about our predictions for HIMSS24 and how this transfer in ownership will change the conference and what will stay the same. Next, we take a look at some of the comments made by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) on a recent Healthcare Unfiltered podcast about whether doctors should have hobbies and the effectiveness of ongoing certifications by associations. And to wrap everything up, we discuss the lack of M&As and investments happening in Health IT. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: So what’s your take on the news that HIMSS has sold their conference to Informa – a company that specializes in running large industry conferences? What is your prediction for HIMSS24? What changes will we see or won’t see? On a recent Healthcare Unfiltered podcast, they had the ABIM there with several provocative comments about whether doctors should or shouldn’t have hobbies and whether ongoing certifications by associations are effective. Lack of M&A and investment in Health IT. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 121st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a little inspiration from TikTok’s Adventures In Aardia. Instead of “Roll for Sandwich” we will be rolling for the topics of today’s episode! We wrote down a list of ten topics and we are leaving it up to the dice gods to decide what we will be talking about. So join us as we roll a d10 (that’s a ten-sided die for all of you non-DnD fans out there) and let fate decide what the episode will be about! Here’s a preview of the topics we will be rolling for in this episode: Artificial Intelligence Hospital Finances RPA Epic Cerner/Oracle Health ONC Healthcare Analytics Patient Experience Workforce Patient Privacy Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 120th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a look at the patient experience outside of the hospital. We kick off this episode by detailing our own experiences with care outside of hospitals and clinics. Next, we share the promising technologies we’ve seen improving patient experience in other care settings. Then we discuss our worries about the potential decline in telehealth and how that will impact the patient experience. And to wrap everything up, we debate if all of this technology working on patient care from home will one day lead to everyone having an ICU in their house. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Can you share your own personal experience with care outside of the hospital or clinic? What are some of the interesting technologies that you’ve seen be deployed that are improving the experience in other care settings (ie: not the hospital or clinic)? Are you worried that the potential decline in telehealth (due to reimbursements rolling back to pre-pandemic status) will impact patient experience? Will we reach a point where we have an ICU in the home? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqq4jZuTrv8] We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 119th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving into the world of non-competes in healthcare and looking at their pros and cons. We kick off this episode by sharing our insights on the current efforts made by the FTC to make non-competes illegal. Next, we discuss whether non-competes hinder innovation, in healthcare or any other industry. Then we move from the organization to the employees. Are non-competes effective at keeping employees and do they force the company to protect the investments they made in their employees? Lastly, we talk about the areas we see non-competes in play right now and share how we think this will impact healthcare. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What do you think of the current efforts by the FTC to make non-competes illegal? Do non-competes hinder innovation in healthcare or any other industry for that matter? Are non-competes important for companies to protect their investment in employees? Are non-competes effective at keeping employees? How do you think this will impact healthcare and where do you see non-competes playing now? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3z8yyAEsOQ] We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 118th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are doing a tribute episode to some bright lights in healthcare that we lost recently, Paddy Padmanabha, CEO at Damo Consulting, John Moore, Founder of Chilmark Research, and Casey Quinlan, Patient Advocate. In honor of these amazing individuals, we are sharing the fond memories we have with them and looking at all of the good they put out into the world. We transition that into the legacy of CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, etc., what should they be and what do we want ours to be? So join us as we reminisce and reflect on the lives of 3 incredible individuals. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Memories of Paddy Padmanabha, CEO at Damo Consulting, John Moore, Founder of Chilmark Research, and Casey Quinlan, Patient Advocate What should the legacy of CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, etc be? What do you want your (John and Colin) legacy to be? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxQFNkpjGzE] We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 117th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving into the Facebook pixel breach that impacted most healthcare organizations! To start off we discuss whether the breach was a big deal or not. Then we take a look at the impact the resulting penalties of the breach have on the industry. Next we share ways healthcare organizations can navigate around these privacy requirements. And to finish off the episode, we debate whether this casual use of patient data is just the beginning as new AI tools continue to pop up and casually use health data. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Is the Facebook pixel breach much ado about nothing? What impact is the Facebook pixel penalties causing the industry? How can a healthcare organization navigate around these privacy requirements? Is this casual use of patient data just the start as things like generative AI and ChatGPT want to consume any and all data? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 116th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are mixing things up a little bit! In this episode we are taking a look into the future of Health IT and discussing what won’t change 10 years from now. There are 4 main topics of discussion that Colin and I talk about, however if you want to find out what they are you’ll just have to listen to find out. That’s right! There’s no sneak-peek preview this time other than the first one! Here’s a “preview” of the topics we discuss in this episode: 10 Year Unchanging Topic 1 – Security 10 Year Unchanging Topic 2 – Listen to Find Out 10 Year Unchanging Topic 3 – It’s a Surprise 10 Year Unchanging Topic 4 – You’ll Love This One Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 115th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are talking about the ever growing presence of AI in healthcare! To kick us off, we begin by discussing why we think AI is such a big topic and the goal of AI at this current moment. Next, we share the most exciting things we have seen AI doing in healthcare. But AI can’t be the answer for everything, so we also discuss what areas of healthcare won’t be impacted by AI. And with AI still being so new there’s so many unexplored areas with it. So to finish off the episode we dive into some of those unexplored areas by talking over the different ethical and equity considerations that could be involved with AI. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: Why is AI having a moment right now? What are the most exciting things you see happening with AI in healthcare? What areas of healthcare do you think won’t be impacted by AI? What ethical and equity considerations do we need to think about with AI? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 114th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are reviewing the Health IT Conferences we’ve had this spring! First we discuss the technology trends that we’ve seen this far. Next we examine what were the hot topics of discussions from all of the conferences. Then we share what we thought was missing and/or lacking from the spring 2023 conferences. And to finish off this episode, we go into our impressions of all of the conferences so far from an event standpoint. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What are the technology trends you have seen in the spring 2023 conferences so far? What are the hot topics of discussion at the conferences so far? Is there anything that has been missing or lacking from the 2023 spring conferences? Overall, what has your impression been of ViVE2023, HIMSS23, and the other conferences from an event standpoint? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 113th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are dusting off the crystal balls we haven’t touched since 2021 for another round of Hit or Miss! Step on in to our re-opened fortune telling shop as we go through various topics buzzing around in the world of healthcare right now and predict what will happen with each one in the future. Plus, enjoy all the “Hit” or “Miss” baseball references in our predictions as we celebrate the start of the baseball season as well. Here’s a preview of the topics we will be giving our predictions on: Large Language Models – ChatGPT, Google Bard, Doximity, etc. AmazonCare EHR APIs In-person Health IT conferences Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

Today is the first day of HIMSS 2023!! So for the 112th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are doing a little preview! First we dive into the topics that we think are going to be covered, that weren’t talked about at ViVE. Then we discuss the stories that we are seeking out at HIMSS. Next, we share what we are the most excited for this week. And lastly, we give out our recommendations on how to have the absolute best time during this conference and in Chicago! So depending on when you listen to this episode, you can either look out for our guesses during the conference and utilize our tips or see afterwards if we were right! Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What topics are going to be talked about at HIMSS that aren’t talked about at ViVE? What stories are you on the hunt for at HIMSS? What are you most looking forward to at HIMSS? Let’s talk Chicago…what are your recommendations? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 111th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving deep into experience management! We start off by examining where we are today with our approach to experience management in healthcare. Next, we look towards the future by discussing some ways that we should be working to improve patient experience management. Then, we do the same with employee experience management. Lastly, we take a look at other industries and how they approach experience management to see if there are any methods that healthcare organizations should take notes from. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: How does healthcare approach experience management today? What are some ways healthcare organizations should be approaching patient experience management? How should healthcare be approaching employee experience management? What can healthcare learn from other industries when it comes to experience management? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 110th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are giving a little sneak peak into 2023’s ViVE! ViVE 2023 is only a week away and we personally cannot wait! First we discuss what topics we think are are going to be talked about at ViVE. Then, we dive into what we are the most excited about for this conference. Next we discuss how ViVE is going to be different from HIMSS. And lastly, as seasoned veterans of Nashville, we share our tips and tricks on some of the amazing things to see, do, and eat in Nashville. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What topics are going to be talked about at ViVE? What are you most looking forward to at ViVE? How will ViVE Be Different from HIMSS? Let’s talk Nashville…what are your recommendations? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 109th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are back with everyone’s favorite game, Health IT: Buy or Sell! In these episodes we look at different Health IT topics and debate over if we believe that it will happen (i.e. we buy it) or if it won’t happen (i.e. we sell it). We’ve got a number of hot topics for this episode included TEFCA, QHINs, Homecare, Healthcare Workforce, and Hospital Robots vs Nurses. Join us as we play another round of Buy or Sell! Here’s a preview of the topics we will be debating in this episode: QHINs? Homecare will make an appreciable difference. IT salaries in healthcare will continue to go up. There will be more robots in hospitals than nurses in 10 years. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 108th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we decided to mix things up. Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. With that context in mind, we thought it would be fun for this episode to let ChatGPT take over and asks us the questions. We asked ChatGPT the following question “Can you come up with 4 questions for a podcast on healthcare IT (technology)?” and it generated the following questions: How is healthcare technology impacting the delivery of patient care? What are some of the most promising advancements in healthcare IT currently under development? How is the healthcare industry addressing concerns about data privacy and security with the increasing use of technology? What role do you see technology playing in the future of the healthcare industry? As you can see from the questions, they were pretty generic and not that good. We almost did the episode on these questions and figured we could make it interesting using our responses since the questions were so generic. However, then we decided to see if ChatGPT could do better. So, we asked ChatGPT to make the questions more specific and interesting. Here’s a look at the 2nd set of questions that ChatGPT provided us after this extra prompt: How is the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) changing the way doctors and nurses document patient care? Can you discuss the use of telemedicine and how it’s being used to reach underserved communities? How is the healthcare industry using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve patient outcomes? Can you discuss the challenges of implementing and maintaining a successful healthcare IT infrastructure, and what solutions are being proposed to address these challenges? As you can see, much more specific and interesting. We used these four questions as the framework for this episode. We’ll let you decide after listening to the episode if this was a good idea of bad. We look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments and on social media. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 107th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving deep into generative AI (You may know it better as ChatGPT) in Healthcare! First, we share how we think generative AI will impact the world of healthcare. Then, we speculate on the different use cases we can see generative AI playing a part in. Next, we discuss how people’s trust in healthcare may or may not change based on generative AI. Lastly, we debate if generative AI should be used in healthcare marketing. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What do you think the impact of generative AI will be on healthcare? What use cases do you foresee for generative AI in healthcare from a clinical or operations perspective? What’s the impact of generative AI on trust in healthcare? Should we be using generative AI in marketing? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 106th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are discussing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)! First we analyze what IoMT makes us think of and what it includes. Then, we share what devices we’re excited to see come out. Next, we take a look at what the recent explosion of IoMT means for healthcare organizations. And lastly, we debate on the impact IoMT has on security and privacy. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What do you think of when you see the term IoMT? Are there devices or categories of devices that you are excited about? What will the explosion in IoMT mean for healthcare organizations? What impact does IoMT have on security and privacy? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

In the last episode, we took a look back. Now, for the 105th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are looking forward! Join us as we discuss our predictions for what Healthcare IT will look like in 2023. First we try to guess what the biggest topic, outside of the workforce and revenue, will be in 2023. Next we debate whether this will finally be the year that patients needs are met or significantly improved. Then, we move on to the organizations. We share what companies we’re keeping an eye on for something surprising and innovative this year. And lastly, we talk about the mergers and acquisitions we think could happen this year. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What will be the biggest topic in 2023, excluding workforce and revenue? Will patient needs be met or significantly improved in 2023? Which companies will surprise us with something cool and innovative in 2023? What company mergers and acquisitions could you see happening in 2023? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 104th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are taking a look back at the year! As this will be the last episode in 2022, it is time to review all of the major trends and stories from this year. First we share the story that stood out the most for us in 2022. Then, we share what we thought was the most surprising trend in health IT. And in that light, we also share what topic we wished we had seen more of throughout 2022. And to wrap up we discuss what term/topic was overplayed and should be put on the “tired” list for 2023. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What story sticks out most for you in 2022? What was the most surprising/unexpected trend in health IT in 2022? Was there a topic that we wished we had seen more of in 2022? What term or topic should be on the “tired” list for 2023? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 103rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are sharing 7 tips for healthcare event marketing! As we share these few tips, we will be debating some questions along the way pulling from our experience attending hundreds of healthcare IT conferences. First up, we dive into whether healthcare customers buy at events. Next, we take a look outward to discuss which company’s event marketing efforts stood out to us. Then, we analyze if being a speaker at a healthcare conference is really valuable to your organization. Lastly, we wrap up by going over the ways to attract media attention at a conference. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: Do healthcare customers buy at events? Which company event marketing efforts stand out to you? Is speaking at healthcare conferences really valuable? How do you attract media attention at a conference? If you’re interested in learning more about healthcare marketing, be sure and join us at the annual HITMC conference in Las Vegas, February 1-3. This is the largest community of healthcare marketing, PR, and communications professionals focused on B2B healthcare marketing. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 102nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving into digital transformation. We begin by examining what digital transformation means to us and what we think it means to others. Next we look at the areas that needs to be transformed the most and what areas need it the least. Then we dive into the barriers that are present in the field of digital transformation and the effect they’ve had on the field. Lastly, we discuss who we think will provide the most transformation. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What does Digital Transformation mean to you? What do you think people think it means? Where do we need digital transformation the most? The least? What are the barriers to digital transformation? Why have we only seen small successes? Who will provide the most transformation? EHR companies? Healthcare Startups? Consulting companies? Health systems? Health outsiders? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 101st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are doing another episode of everyone’s favorite buy or sell! In these episodes we pull out a list of topics in the world of Health IT and decide whether we ‘buy’ that it’s going to happen or ‘sell’ it because we don’t think it will. So join us in our latest round of debate on some possible upcoming trends and topics in Health IT. Here’s a preview of the topics we will be debating in this episode: Workforce Challenges are going to get better in 2023. EHR Vendor analytics solutions will make analytics vendors obsolete. Big Tech will buy a Payer or Provider. We have reached the low point in terms of healthcare conference attendance. Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 100th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are celebrating! Join us as we take a look back at the journey that brought us here. We’re discussing the big hits and lessons from the previous episodes. And then we look forward at what’s to come for us in the next 100 episodes. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What stands out for you from the last 100 episodes? What were some of the big learnings from the 100 episodes? In these 100 episodes, what trend or announcement surprised you the most? What do you see coming in the next 100 episodes? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 99th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about physician practices. We dive into the challenges that physician practices are currently facing and discuss what changes can be made to help them thrive. Next we take a look forward to see what technology will have the most impact on physician practices. Lastly, we discuss what organizations to look out for when it comes to physician practices. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: Will physician practices survive? How do physician practices need to adapt to thrive? What technology is going to most impact physician practices? What are some organizations to keep your eye on when it comes to physician practices? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 98th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re joined by a special guest host, Anders Brown, Managing Director at Tegria. It was awesome to be able to sit down with Anders Brown to get his first hand experiences dealing with the topic we are discussing in this episode: healthcare’s inflection point and the way forward. We first dive into the widespread and painful issues that exist in healthcare. Next we take a look into what we can do to fix these issues, and maybe even more importantly, what not to do. Lastly, we debate what needs to be the priority in healthcare today. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What are some of the major healthcare trends you see at work? What are some of the universal and painful issues you see in healthcare? What can we do to address these issues? What’s the wrong way to approach it? What needs to be the priority right now? Let’s take a moment to thank our sponsor, Tegria. Tegria is solely focused on healthcare and offers integrated, scaled solutions to improve every aspect of a provider or payer’s business, from the patient welcome experience and EHR optimization to revenue cycle management and everything in-between. Tegria meets you where you are in your journey to transform healthcare and helps you move forward on a customized path to improved financial performance. Learn more about how Tegria can help you at Tegria.com Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 97th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about our predictions and solutions for the healthcare workforce. Join us as we dive into the different methods we’ve seen or experienced that were effective at keeping people engaged in their organization. Next, we speculate what the healthcare workforce will look like over the next two years. Then, we get into the technology solutions that are helping the current workforce issues we’re facing. Lastly, we take a look into what technology solutions are indirectly helping. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What are some of the effective ways you’ve seen or experienced in terms of keeping people engaged at an organization? What’s your prediction of the healthcare workforce situation over the next 2 years? What are some of the technology solutions that are directly helping with the workforce issues we face in healthcare? What are the technology solutions or process changes that are indirectly helping? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 96th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the upcoming fall health IT conference season. We discuss the different conferences we’re looking forward to and speculating what attendance will be like. Next, we dive into what topics we expect to be covered in these conferences. Then we discuss whether companies and providers get more value from in-person conferences or digital conferences. Lastly, we take a look into conference organizers to see what they’re doing to improve the experience for attendees. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: What conferences are you excited about/planning to attend and what will attendance be like? What are the hot topics being covered in the fall conferences? How can Health IT Companies and Healthcare Providers get more value from in-person conferences? Are there any interesting things conference organizers are doing to improve the conference experience? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 95th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the future of primary care. We discuss the different challenges primary care is currently facing. Then we take a look at retail care and tech players to see how they can impact primary care. Lastly, we dive into what is needed for primary care to move forward. Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episode: Has there been a time more tumultuous for primary care? What are the biggest challenges for primary care at the moment? How will the entry of retail care and tech players impact primary care? What’s really needed to do primary care going forward? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes: