Healthcare IT Today

For the 56th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Online Scheduling, Patient Check-in, and Consumer Choice. No doubt the pandemic and the social distancing requirements have pushed these topics to the forefront of every healthcare organizations minds. Many of these technologies were available prior to COVID, but now they’re becoming an essential […]

For the 55th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re going asking the question “Why Isn’t RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) exploding like telehealth video visits? Everyone loves to talk about the explosion of telehealth that has occurred in healthcare thanks to COVID-19. In fact, we’ve highlighted the growth of telehealth ourselves. The problem is that […]

For the 54th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re going shed some light on the areas of healthcare interoperability that don’t get talked about enough. Many people in healthcare talk ad nauseum about clinical healthcare interoperability. While that’s an extremely important topic of discussion, there are a lot of other areas of healthcare interoperability […]

For the 53rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’ll be making predictions on what we can expect from health IT in 2021. As we put 2020 in the rear view mirror, it’s time to look ahead to 2021. No doubt, 2021 will be dealing with many of the things that happened in 2020, but […]

For the 52nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the The Good, the Bad, and the Messy in 2020. That’s right! We’re taking a look back at the year that was 2020 in healthcare IT. What a year it’s been. One that I’m sure none of us will forget and healthcare IT […]

For the 51st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the COVID-19 Vaccine. Obviously, being a healthcare IT publication, we’re not going to dive into any of the clinical details of the vaccine. Instead, we’ll focus on the areas of healthcare IT and healthcare marketing that are impacted by the vaccine. To open […]

For the 50th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re sharing gratitude with the healthcare IT community. While this year has been a massively hectic and challenging year for pretty much everyone, there’s also still a lot to be grateful for in the world. This is particularly true in the world of healthcare and health […]

For the 49th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about a number of virtual events we’ve attended and some of the insights coming out of those events. One of the advantages of virtual health IT conferences is that we can easily attend all of them. We don’t have to necessarily choose which ones […]

For the 48th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the 2020 Presidential Election and Its Impact on Health IT. Tomorrow is election day in the US and with every presidential election, there’s an impact on healthcare. Whether it’s new legislation or other changes, the one reality with a US presidential election is […]

For the 47th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the various phases of EHR (or EMR if you prefer). In a recent article by Colin Hung, he identified 4 phases of EMR. As we look at the current EMR and EHR market, we see healthcare organizations across nearly all 4 phases. However, […]

For the 46th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the battle for telehealth. More specifically, we’re talking about EHR vendors entrance into telehealth and third party telehealth vendors. For those that have been following our EHR Telehealth vendor series, you know that EHR vendors are all diving into the live video telehealth […]

For the 45th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the financial impact of COVID-19 on healthcare organizations. Plus, in this episode, we’re excited to welcome a special guest host, Jon Kimerle, Head of Epic Solutions at Pure Storage. Jon was a great guest host that brought a lot of knowledge and experience […]

For the 44th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the return to work amidst COVID-19. This topic is literally ripped from the headlines as Epic’s decision to return to work hit mainstream media. They’ve since dialed it back a little, but they are still pushing to have their employees return to the […]

For the 43rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re getting a few things off our chest in an episode we’re calling “Healthcare Beefs.” We all have plenty of things that annoy us about healthcare, so we thought we’d take a minute to share a few (no doubt there are many) things that are bothering […]

For the 42nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re asking the question, “Is Healthcare Social Media Dead?” There’s certainly a lot of things that have been going on with social media and a lot of people complaining about what social media has become. As Colin and I spend way too much time on social […]

For the 41st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the new digital front doors of healthcare. We previously introduced the idea of the 2 new digital front doors of healthcare. Needless to say, we think this is a really important topic to be discussing and ensuring we each understand as the healthcare […]

For the 40th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about healthcare inequality. Sadly, there are a whole lot of directions we could have taken this discussion and so we’ll no doubt discuss it more in the future. If there’s something we didn’t discuss in this episode that you think we should, let us […]

For the 39th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the retro technologies that are still popular in healthcare. We dive into why many of these technologies are still popular. Plus, we talk about how many of these “retro” technologies have evolved into something much more robust than what most people think about. […]

For the 38th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re feeling the rush. No, it’s probably not what you’re thinking. We’re talking about this new world we live in where we had to rush all sorts of things. This is especially true in health IT with the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode we talk about […]

For the 37th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about how to better enable your Remote Workforce. Plus, in a first for our podcast, we have a guest host, Susmit Pal, Healthcare Field Director at Dell Technologies. It was great to have Susmit Pal join as guest host so he could share his […]