Rochester RHIO transferred its HISP infrastructure and started using Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for clinical data exchange and HISP services.  To learn more about this move, we sat down with Sara Abrams, MPH, VP, Data Analytics and Quality Assurance at Rochester RHIO. Sara managed the HISP migration process and shared her perspective about the decision to move to SES and what it took to make this transition seamless. The HISP transfer wasn’t a small project since it had to transition 160 healthcare organizations and providers, representing over 1,000 Direct-enabled endpoints.  

Learn more about Secure Exchange Solutions: https://www.secureexsolutions.com/ 

Learn more about the Rochester RHIO: https://rochesterrhio.org/ 

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To learn more about the evolution of UV technology and how healthcare organizations are using it today, I sat down with Grant Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder at R-Zero Systems at R-Zero Systems.  He shared with us about UV technology and what healthcare organizations are doing when it comes to disinfection systems.  Morgan also shared some of the challenges healthcare organizations face when they take the wrong approach to disinfecting their healthcare buildings.  

Learn more about R-Zero Systems: https://rzero.com/ 

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To better understand what’s really causing burnout in physicians, I had a chance to interview Dr. Eve Bloomgarden, MD, COO at IMPACT and CDO of Women in Medicine, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, MD, CEO & Founder at CareAlign and Hospitalist at Penn Medicine, and Shane Danaher, COO at Divurgent.  They each dive into the nitty gritty details of the causes of burnout that many of us don’t even recognize as issues.  

Learn more about Divurgent: https://www.divurgent.com/ 

Learn more about CareAlign: https://carealign.ai/ 

Learn more about Women in Medicine: https://www.womeninmedicinesummit.org/ 

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AI in healthcare has become a huge topic of interest, but what does the practical application of AI look like? At the recent Ai4 Conference, we sat down with Vincent J. Major, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health and Lead in Operational Machine Learning EHR Integration at NYU Lagone Health to learn more about him and his work with AI in healthcare.  

Learn more about NYU Lagone Health: https://nyulangone.org/ 

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Did you know there are over 1 million addresses in the DirectTrust directory?  That’s right.  There are 1 million endpoints that can easily receive a direct message sharing patient information.  Considering there are only a little over 600k doctors in the US, this is good progress.  However, any directory of this nature also has its challenges.  That’s why DirectTrust put together a directory improvement initiative, which they unveiled at a session at the DirectTrust Summit, to remedy some of those challenges.  

Being able to find the right address is so important and so we wanted to learn more about this effort and what DirectTrust is doing to take their direct address directory to the next level.  In the video interview below, Scott Stuewe, President and CEO at DirectTrust, shared the vision for the DirectTrust directory going forward.  

Learn more about DirectTrust: https://directtrust.org/ 

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It wasn’t that long ago that blogs and blogging were the most effective way to demonstrate thought leadership and drive interested parties to your website. With the rise of podcasts, video, and social media platforms, blogs have declined in popularity. Are blogs still worthwhile? And if so, what can you do to make your blog stand out?  

We sat down with one of the original healthcare bloggers, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, to discuss blogging, the evolution of blogs, and her personal journey. Sarasohn-Kahn is a stalwart supporter of HITMC, a health economist, advisor, author, trendweaver, and winner of the 2022 Medigy HITMC Award for Blog of the Year.  

Learn more about Jane Sarasohn-Kahn: https://www.healthpopuli.com/ 

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Adopting technology solutions that have a no-code or low-code approach makes sense for healthcare organizations right now as the industry continues to grapple with workforce challenges. This is especially true when considering form solutions that capture patient information.   

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Cedric Savarese, Founder and CEO of FormAssembly, a company that makes a secure, HIPAA compliant forms platform that is easy enough for end-users to maintain, to find out more about forms, forms management, and why healthcare IT leaders should not overlook how forms are used in their organizations.   

Learn more about FormAssembly at: https://www.formassembly.com/ 

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What does it take to be a consistently successful healthcare PR Professional? According to Grace Vinton, Account Director at Amendola Communications and all-around media guru, it’s about 5P’s – purpose, persistence, patience, people, and policy.  

Grace drops about a dozen pearls of wisdom in our short interview.  

Learn more about Amendola Communications at: https://www.acmarketingpr.com/ 

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Given the relatively recent transition of leadership at MEDITECH, I thought it would be a good time to check in with MEDITECH's Executive Vice President & COO, Helen Waters.   In our discussion, we cover a broad range of topics including how the leadership change has gone, the impact of COVID, and where they're headed in the future.  

Learn more about MEDITECH: https://ehr.meditech.com/ 

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Marketing budgets are never easy. Everything from determining the right amount to ask for to defending your spending allocation is challenging. It is even more difficult when there is misalignment between Sales and Marketing. One way to budgeting better is to use a bottom-up approach (start with meetings booked and leads generate vs revenue) and more realistic math.   

HITMC sat down with Eric Meerschaert, Executive Director for Growth and Innovation at StudioNorth and Doug Duty, Executive Director for Business Development at StudioNorth to learn the secrets behind better marketing budgeting.

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