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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 […]

For the 36th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Nurses!  This month is Nurses month and so we thought what better way to celebrate nurses than to make it the topic of our show.  Nurses are such an important part of our healthcare system and they often don’t get the credit they […]

For the 35th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about What We’ll Need for the 2nd Wave of the Pandemic. The inspiration for this episode came from the following graphic that shared one perspective on the various “waves” healthcare will see during the coronavirus. As our friends and colleagues brave the font lines, […]

For the 34th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Permanent Changes to Healthcare Because of COVID-19.  Is anything in healthcare the same since COVID-19?  Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the healthcare world has definitely been turned upside down thanks to COVID-19.  Regulations have been relaxed.  Reimbursements for things like […]

For the 33rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about technologies that are in the spotlight because of COVID-19.  Would you imagine us talking about anything but COVID-19?  Be sure to check out all our coverage of COVID-19 and health technology. In this episode, Colin and I wanted to dive into a number […]

For the 32nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Patient Communication and Telehealth Greenspace. Who would have known when we recorded this on March 2, 2020 that this topic would become so important thanks to COVID-19. Please take that into account when listening to this episode though. No doubt a lot has […]

For the 31st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re doing a preview of the upcoming HIMSS 2020 Annual conference happening in Orlando. For those not familiar with the event, it brings together 40-50k people from the health IT community and around 1300 health IT vendors. You can find Healthcare IT Today at HIMSS20 at […]

For the 30th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re doing another edition of Buy or Sell. For those not familiar with this format, we’ll offer up some health IT assertion and then Colin and John will discuss whether they’re buying or selling that assertion and why. In this edition of Buy or Sell we’ll […]