Healthcare IT Today

For the 204th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are making over/under bets on different healthcare IT topics! We have created a list of hot topics in healthcare IT, such as new health IT regulations, AI agent use, prior auth automation, etc., and assigned them a number or percentage. We then bet on whether we think what will happen will be over that number or if it will be under that number! Here’s a preview of the topics we bet on in this episode: Over/Under the number of new health IT regulations before the end of the year: 3 Over/Under the percentage of healthcare organizations that will have an AI agent in production by the end of 2026: 50% Over/Under the percentage of health systems that will seriously consider replacing their EHR in the next five years: 25% Over/Under the percentage of patients who will use AI to help them decide where/how to get care in 2026: 77% Over/Under the percentage of healthcare data that will still be effectively inaccessible or difficult to use because of interoperability/data-quality issues at the end of 2026: 30% Over/Under the percentage of prior auth that will be substantially automated by the end of 2027:  63% Over/Under the number of people who will be at the HLTH conference: 12,000 Over/Under the number of videos Healthcare IT Today will do in the Fall: 175 Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 203rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, sponsored by Rhapsody, we are debating if healthcare is vulnerable to runaway AI! We kick this episode off by discussing whether we are worried about AI Armageddon or if we think it’s overblown right now. Next, we talk about if healthcare should be concerned given the recent rash of runaway AI incidents. Then, we share what we ideally think we should (or shouldn’t) do relative to AI in healthcare. Lastly, we conclude this episode by debating whether we are closer to interoperability or to AI adverse events, aka failures, in healthcare. Thank you to our sponsor, Rhapsody! Interoperability is hard to say, and even harder to do. Rhapsody makes it easy. Built exclusively for healthcare, Rhapsody helps organizations connect systems, activate trusted data, and reduce the burden of integration so teams can move faster with confidence. Trusted by more than 1,900 healthcare organizations worldwide and ranked #1 in Best in KLAS for integration for 17 years running, Rhapsody is helping healthcare organizations build an AI-ready foundation for what’s next. See where you stand. Get the Rhapsody State of Interoperability report at interopreport.com. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: Are you worried about AI Armageddon, or do you think it’s overblown right now? Given the recent rash of incidents of runaway AI, should we be concerned in healthcare? Ideally, what do you think we should do (or not do) relative to AI in healthcare? So are we closer to interoperability in healthcare, or are we closer to AI adverse events (aka failures) in healthcare? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Rhapsody is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 202nd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are doing a preview of the upcoming health IT fall conferences! We kick this preview off by discussing what topics we think will rise to the top of the conferences this fall. Next, we share our ‘dark horse’ topics, the topics that may surprise us. Then, we talk about what topics are overhyped and verging on tired. Lastly, we conclude this episode by debating which of the conferences will have the most impact or which we will be talking about the most this coming season. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What topic is your pick to rise to the top of the conference this fall? What are your picks for the “dark horse” topics this fall – the topic that may surprise us? What topics this fall do you consider to be overhyped – verging on tired? Which conferences will be the ones that have the most impact or that we will be talking about the most this coming season? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 201st episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, sponsored by Rhapsody, we are talking about Epic UGM and Health IT Australia! We kick this episode off by comparing the general vibe of this year’s UGM to the previous one. Then we discuss the signs or portents of things to come that we noticed, as well as the areas where people were focusing their attention. Next, we share the announcements that stood out to us at Epic UGM. Then we dig into Australia being an EMR greenfield market. Finally, we wrap this episode up by discussing our biggest takeaways from Health IT in Australia. Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Rhapsody. Interoperability is hard to say, and even harder to do. Rhapsody makes it easy. Built exclusively for healthcare, Rhapsody helps organizations connect systems, activate trusted data, and reduce the burden of integration so teams can move faster with confidence. Trusted by more than 1,900 healthcare organizations worldwide and ranked #1 in Best in KLAS for integration for 17 years running, Rhapsody is helping healthcare organizations build an AI-ready foundation for what’s next. See where you stand. Get the Rhapsody State of Interoperability report at interopreport.com. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What was the general vibe at this year’s UGM compared to previous ones? Any signs or portents of things to come or areas where people were focusing their attention? What announcements stood out to you at Epic UGM? What’s this I hear about Australia being an EMR greenfield market? What were some of your big takeaways from Health IT in Australia? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Rhapsody is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 200th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, I am joined by a very special guest host— Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO at Rhapsody, the sponsor of this episode— to discuss what is holding AI back in healthcare! We kick this episode off by sharing what has surprised us most about AI adoption from the years of AI experimentation. Then we discuss where healthcare really is today. Next, we dig into why so many AI initiatives are succeeding in pilots but are struggling to scale. We then debate whether or not the industry is focusing too much on models and not enough on infrastructure, data, and operational readiness. Lastly, we wrap this episode up as we discuss what healthcare organizations need to do now to prepare for the next phase of AI innovation and more autonomous and agentic workflows. Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Rhapsody. Interoperability is hard to say, and even harder to do. Rhapsody makes it easy. Built exclusively for healthcare, Rhapsody helps organizations connect systems, activate trusted data, and reduce the burden of integration so teams can move faster with confidence. Trusted by more than 1,900 healthcare organizations worldwide and ranked #1 in Best in KLAS for integration for 17 years running, Rhapsody is helping healthcare organizations build an AI-ready foundation for what’s next. See where you stand. Get the Rhapsody State of Interoperability report at interopreport.com. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: After several years of AI experimentation, what has surprised you most about AI adoption, and where is healthcare really today? Why are so many AI initiatives succeeding in pilots but struggling to scale? Is the industry focusing too much on models and not enough on infrastructure, data, and operational readiness? What do healthcare organizations need to do now to prepare for the next phase of AI innovation and more autonomous and agentic workflows? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Rhapsody is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 199th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are talking about our healthcare AI pet peeves! Don’t get us wrong; in general, we’re big supporters of AI in healthcare. But like all technology, it’s not perfect. There are things here and there that irk us just a bit or get under our skin, and that is the focus of this episode. We made a list of healthcare AI topics and we share our pet peeves with them! Here’s a preview of the topics we discuss in this episode: Use of AI in Healthcare AI Technology Itself AI Startups Healthcare AI Policy Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 198th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, sponsored by Rhapsody, we are talking about leadership succession! We kick this episode off by sharing our thoughts on Sumit Rana leaving Epic. Next, we discuss what we can learn from past leadership successions when a founder or longtime executive steps away. Then, we debate how important the leadership and a succession plan are to customers. Lastly, we conclude this episode by talking about the keys to ensuring a continuous path forward for a company when the founder or a C-level executive leaves. Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Rhapsody. Interoperability is hard to say, and even harder to do. Rhapsody makes it easy. Built exclusively for healthcare, Rhapsody helps organizations connect systems, activate trusted data, and reduce the burden of integration so teams can move faster with confidence. Trusted by more than 1,900 healthcare organizations worldwide and ranked #1 in Best in KLAS for integration for 17 years running, Rhapsody is helping healthcare organizations build an AI-ready foundation for what’s next. See where you stand. Get the Rhapsody State of Interoperability report at interopreport.com. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What are your thoughts on Epic’s Sumit Rana leaving the company? What can we learn from past leadership succession when a Founder or a longtime executive steps away? How important is the leadership and the succession plan to customers? What’s the key to ensuring a continuous path forward for a company when the founder, or any C-level executive, leaves? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Rhapsody is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 197th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are talking about the World Cup of health IT! We kick this episode off by discussing who in healthcare deserves a yellow card (given for reckless fouls, time-wasting, or unsportsmanlike conduct) right now. Next, we talk about who we think deserves a red card (given for serious fouls against players or officials) in healthcare right now. Then, we share what international health IT developments have caught our attention recently. Finally, we conclude this episode by debating who we think should win the match between a cybersecurity project and a clinical efficiency and burnout improvement project. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: In soccer/football, a player gets a yellow card when they commit a reckless foul, waste time, or show unsporting behavior. Who deserves a yellow card in healthcare right now? A player gets a red card for a serious foul against players or officials. Who deserves a red card in healthcare right now? The World Cup is a big international event – what are the international health IT developments that have caught your attention recently? There are a lot of close-scoring matches in soccer/football because teams are very competitive and comparable. In other words, it’s very hard to pick a winner. In healthcare, there are many important IT priorities and it is difficult to pick one vs another. Who should win the match between a cybersecurity project and a project that improves clinical efficiency + burnout? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 196th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are talking about revenue cycle management! We kick this episode off by sharing what we have been hearing at the recent conferences we’ve both been attending in the RCM space. Next, we talk about what technology actually helps the coding personnel shortage we are currently facing. Then, we discuss what we think the reality and the promise of AI is in RCM. Lastly, we debate whether we are heading towards having totally autonomous coding/RCM one day. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: We’ve both been to conferences recently in the RCM space; what are you hearing? We are facing a coding personnel shortage. What technology actually helps? What is the reality and promise of AI in RCM? Are we heading for a day when we have totally autonomous coding/RCM? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes:

For the 195th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are taking a look at healthcare IT failures! We kick this episode off by debating what we think has been the biggest health IT policy failure. Next, we share our thoughts on the biggest healthcare technology failure. Then, we take a look at the healthcare system to see what its biggest structural failure is. We then end this episode by sharing a personal failure we experienced or were a part of in health IT. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What’s been the biggest health IT policy failure? What’s been the biggest healthcare technology failure? What is the biggest failure, structurally speaking, of the healthcare system? What’s a personal failure you have experienced or been part of in health IT? Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks to our friends at Healthcare Now Radio, you’ll be able to listen to the latest episodes of Healthcare IT Today on their radio station for the first two weeks. Then, we’ll be publishing each episode as a podcast and YouTube video here after it finishes on the radio. You can also subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today podcast on any of the following platforms: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher Podcast Radio TuneIn Spotify iHeartRadio Pandora Thanks for listening to Healthcare IT Today and if you enjoy the content we’re sharing, please rate the podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube. Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on HealthcareITToday.com. If you work in Healthcare IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with the perspectives we shared. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, with @Colin_Hung or @techguy on Twitter, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening! Listen to Our Latest Episodes: