Healthcare IT Today Interviews

Data migrations are notoriously painful. Legacy systems trap your data and juggling multiple vendors usually guarantees missed deadlines and blown budgets.
Jim Hammer, Chief Operating Officer at Harmony Healthcare IT, discusses the messy reality of moving historical patient records. Hammer shares why health systems are rapidly consolidating their migration partners to a single vendor. He also reveals how to turn static archive data into an active asset for artificial intelligence and research while staying compliant with information blocking rules.
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Gurpreet (GP) Singh, SVP, Interoperability Strategy & Solutions at ELLKAY, shared in our recent interview that the exchange of health care data between organizations is still a "luxury." Although standards for representing data are in place and a lot of progress has been made, organizations are still operating with "silos" of data and aren't able to derive the value it promises in AI and other applications.
Every organization should combine its data into a single platform that handles the three aspects of data: the data network (its sources), universal access to data, and data aggregation (which includes normalization and data quality). ELLKAY is well positioned to create this platform, because it works with lab data, hospitals, ambulatory facilities, and legacy data.
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Healthcare organizations generate enormous amounts of safety and operational data—but much of it remains fragmented across disconnected systems.
In our recent interview with Rachini Moosavi, Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health, and August Calhoun, President of North America at RLDatix, a global provider of safety, workforce, and data solutions for healthcare organizations, we discussed how AI systems and integrated solutions support a culture of safety at provider organizations.
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Although Epic is a large, expensive product historically used by institutions with deep pockets, it is increasingly also the choice of community health centers, tribal health facilities, and other ambulatory practices. In our recent interview with two health IT leaders from Med Tech Solutions: Kaitlyn Nelson, Director, Strategic Accounts, and Imran Siddiqui, Chief Client Officer, we explore the process of adopting Epic even at these relatively smaller organizations.
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EHR downtime is inevitable. Cyberattacks, network outages, and even planned system upgrades can disrupt access to patient records, placing care delivery, patient safety, and operations at risk.
In this video, Jackie Rice, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Frederick Health, shares how her organization proactively prepared for EHR downtime by moving away from paper-based workflows to a near real-time digital environment that mirrors the EHR user experience. Ryan Dickerson, President of IPeople Healthcare (now part of RLDatix), explains how a purpose-built data resiliency solution supports safe, uninterrupted care during both planned and unplanned outages.
Built for MEDITECH EHR environments, IPeople’s Offline Suite captures near real-time clinical data in a secure on‑premises system, with optional cloud replication. When the primary EHR or local network is unavailable, clinicians maintain uninterrupted access to critical patient information through familiar workflows, without reverting to paper-based processes.
Watch to learn how healthcare organizations are safeguarding patient safety, reducing operational risk, and ensuring readiness for EHR downtime.
Learn more about iPeople Healthcare: https://www.ipeople.com/
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