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 tal ..read more

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 ..read more

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 thi ..read more

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 certific ..read more

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/O ..read more

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 ..read more

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 i ..read more

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 indi ..read more

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 que ..read more

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 t ..read more