Join us at the NAHC Conference in Tampa this October and visit us at booth #333. See firsthand how our eSignature solutions for home health can transform your operations, eliminate waste, and position your agency for success under the new 80/20 rule.
Interlace Health attended the Future 2024 event in Nashville, a highly anticipated gathering of home care and healthcare leaders. This conference, organized by Home Health Care News, brought together industry CEOs, clinicians, and tech innovators to discuss the evolving landscape of home-based care. From payment models to AI-driven efficiencies, the sessions offered a glimpse into the future of healthcare delivery in the home setting. Here are some key takeaways from the event.
Nashville, March 5, 2024 — Nashville Business Journal unveiled its 2024 “40 Under 40” list, recognizing young professionals who are shaping the future of Nashville business. Interlace Health is excited to announce our President and CEO, Allison Reichenbach has been named to this year’s 40 under 40 class.
Interlace Health is a privately held healthcare IT firm delivering scalable and cost-effective eForms and eSignature solutions for healthcare organizations. Founded in 1992 by Allison’s Father, Rob Harding, Interlace Health (formerly FormFast) focuses on placing people over paperwork in healthcare and currently serves over 1,500+ organizations.
“Allison not only consistently demonstrates exceptional leadership to all of us at Interlace Health, but she also manages to do this while making community involvement a priority. It is no surprise that she has been recognized among the best and brightest for her efforts within our company, the healthcare industry, and the Nashville community,” said Chief Experience Officer at Interlace Health, Maggie Peña.
Leading the next generation of Interlace Health, Allison oversees all organizational activity including sales, marketing, engineering, client services, and administration with a focus on creating an organizational structure that best supports Interlace Health’s team so that they can focus on accomplishing their goals and the goals of our healthcare clients.
“I am honored to be named among such an outstanding group of men and women who are bringing so much to their individual organizations and to the city of Nashville,” said President & CEO of Interlace Health, Allison Reichenbach.
Allison is deeply involved in the Nashville community and is past board chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Nashville Chapter. She continues to serve on the CFF as a board member, she is a member of the Nashville Healthcare Council, a member of Leadership Health Care, a member of Junior League of Nashville, a member of BrainTrust, and a member of Chief. Allison was recently named to Becker’s Women in Health IT to Know list and Healthcare Innovation’s 40 Under 40 list.
Read more about the 2024 class of 40 Under 40 winners here. The winners will be celebrated at an event on March 7 at The Westin in downtown Nashville.
ABOUT INTERLACE HEALTH
For more than 30 years, Interlace Health, the next generation of FormFast, has pioneered EHR-integrated eForms, eSignature, and workflow technology. Our trusted solutions and unparalleled support have enabled our 1,500+ healthcare clients to save time, cut costs, reduce errors, and improve experiences. Interlace Health’s platform enables several solutions that are accessible by clinicians and patients inside and outside the walls of the healthcare system. Learn more at interlacehealth.com.
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Guest Blog – Author: Mike Knebel, CEO at Forward Advantage
During this year’s National Nurses Week, Interlace Health, the next generation of FormFast, posted on a topic we’re all keenly aware of right now – the nationwide nursing shortage. The demand for nurses is at an all-time high while the supply is at an unprecedented low. Why is this? Job burnout is at the core with many nurses feeling overworked and underappreciated. This has led to large numbers retiring, transitioning to new roles in healthcare, or taking up new professions. Healthcare organizations feel the pressure, too, with the end of the Public Health Emergency funds and the need to accomplish more with less resources.
Interlace Health’s post provides examples of how technology and automation can reduce nursing workload, and they asked Forward Advantage to participate in the conversation. I’ve devoted the majority of my career to healthcare IT, and my wife is a day surgery nurse at a children’s hospital, so this is a topic near and dear to my heart. “People over paperwork” is Interlace Health’s motto and it’s one our company stands by too. In response, we’re shining the spotlight on biometric patient identification and single sign-on for clinical mobile devices. From the moment a patient steps into the hospital, to any point of care, these solutions put time back into a nurse’s day so that it can be spent where it belongs – with the patient.
Advanced Biometrics for Patient Identification
Duplicate records, identity theft, and changing regulations can make quick and accurate identification of patients a real headache for many organizations and their nurses. Biometric patient identification promotes safe, quick, and accurate patient care by eliminating the need for manual lookups, while also decreasing duplicate records and the potential for identity fraud. The technology uses advanced palm-vein pattern scanning to identify patients at any point of care directly from the registration screen. Not only is biometric patient identification more efficient with less potential for error, but it also allows for expedited care in emergency scenarios where a patient might not be able to identify themselves. This is a true example of people over paperwork.
Single Sign-On for Clinical Mobile Devices
Single sign-on (SSO) is broadly deployed in today’s hospitals and healthcare organizations because of its time-saving potential. The technology uses either fingerprint readers or proximity badges to quickly sign clinical staff in and out of workstations with the touch of a fingerprint or tap of a badge. By eliminating the need to remember multiple, complex passwords, SSO reduces provider frustration to expedite care. It also enhances security as staff are more likely to log out of workstations and less likely to write passwords down. If your nurses currently log on and off shared workstations using proximity badges, consider extending this convenience to your clinical mobile devices. SSO can be integrated with leading mobile devices like Honeywell, Zebra, and others so these devices are easily unlocked and locked with a simple badge tap. This eliminates the tedious entry of usernames and passwords at each device, which encourages user adoption and improves productivity for more in-person patient care.
For a real-life example of SSO for mobile device access, read this customer success story featuring Interlace Health and Forward Advantage customer King’s Daughters Medical Center. The hospital uses MEDITECH Expanse POC with Zebra clinical mobile devices to essentially consolidate the EMR and scanner into one, hand-held device. “It’s patient-facing, so I can walk into a room and scan the patient, scan the med, administer the med, and document it all on one device,” shares Joe Farr, RN and clinical applications coordinator at King’s Daughters.
The Takeaway
Forward Advantage provides a wide range of solutions that improve efficiency, access to clinical information, and the patient’s overall experience. As an authorized reseller and implementer for Imprivata, we offer Imprivata PatientSecure and Imprivata Mobile Device Access. Eliminating duplicate patient records, along with too many passwords and log-on prompts, are two attainable ways that hospitals and healthcare organizations can alleviate the strain on today’s nurses and allow more time for in-patient care. We hope to keep the conversation going with more vendors contributing their ideas on how healthcare can do more with less – without sacrificing quality or security. Click here to read MEDITECH’s recent white paper on the evolution and implications of healthcare workforce challenges.
If you are interested in learning more about Forward Advantage’s identity and security solutions please visit forwardadvantage.com or email them at info@forwardadvantage.com.
Mike Knebel is Chief Executive Officer for Forward Advantage. With over 30 years in healthcare, he has experience in organizations including payors, MSOs, IDNs, consulting, and as a vendor. He’s passionate about improving the delivery of care through better communication, information exchange, data security and building strong customer relationships and business partnerships.
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, the need for paradigm-shifting solutions becomes increasingly necessary. Leveraging technology and embracing new care delivery models, such as acute in-home care, are key factors in addressing the challenges faced by healthcare organizations.
Last month, I had the opportunity to join my colleague, Dessiree Paoli, as we hosted a webinar: Health IT in 2023 — Mid-Year Market Insights, to share insights and discussions from several of this year’s major healthcare conferences, such as ViVE and HIMSS. The webinar shed light on the potential of technology-driven transformation and the growing importance of emerging hospital-at-home care models. In this blog, I took the opportunity to further explore these timely topics that have the power to untap the potential of technology-driven transformation and the growing importance of emerging hospital-at-home care models.
Digital Transformation and Redefining Hospital Processes:
Digital technologies should not be seen as mere replacements for outdated processes but as tools to redefine and improve the care continuum. The focus should be on leveraging the novel capabilities of emerging technologies to redefine new processes. The future of care delivery is expected to move away from traditional hospital settings, opening possibilities to bring care to where patients are rather than into the walls of the hospital.
Transformation leaders emphasized that Change management is essential when implementing digital transformation in healthcare. Involving healthcare providers in the evaluation and sale of digital solutions, standardizing processes, and leveraging the existing electronic health records (EHR) infrastructure can enhance the adoption and impact of digital technologies. If a digital technology doesn’t improve access to care or the patient experience, then the hospital is unlikely to see a true return on their digital investment.
The Rise of Hospital-at-Home:
Hospital-at-Home (HaH) is a new level of care that challenges traditional definitions and names associated with home health and home care. The majority of healthcare actions already occur in the home, and HaH aims to provide hospital-level care in a patient’s own residence. This shift in care delivery has the potential to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations, improve nurse-to-patient ratios, and create new streams of revenue. CMS has already seen over 200 hospitals successfully apply for the Acute Hospital Care a Home (AHCaH) waiver, while commercial payers are quickly seeing the benefit of negotiating HaH contracts with their network of providers.
HaH offers a range of benefits, including improved access to care, better provider experience, and cost-effective care delivery. However, implementing HaH programs come with its own set of challenges. Logistics, such as ensuring devices stay charged throughout the day, and standardizing processes while maintaining personal connections with patients, are critical hurdles to overcome. Even simple things like getting paperwork signed by patients take on a new level of complexity when the patient is no longer bound to the hospital. Hospitals exploring HaH programs also must figure out if their current partners support in-home care, what new technologies will need to be adopted, and how to staff these programs.
At its core, HaH programs are simply shifting where care is being delivered. In practice, the process of delivering that care becomes more complex for hospitals. The two clearest examples are remote patient monitoring (RPM) and clinician staffing. Hospitals must have robust RPM capabilities to monitor patients and take vitals in order to rapidly respond to changes in a patient’s condition. Since the hospital room is the patient’s home, this means the RPM tools must have reliable internet connectivity. Panelists at HIMSS and ViVE mentioned a range of methods from subsidizing home internet for patients to installing cellular wi-fi enable RPM cradles in patient’s homes to ensure the patient is connected to the health system. Staffing is also a challenge as the hospital will need to deploy nurses into the field, having physicians on hand to coordinate care and meet remotely with patients, and have the flexibility to ensure 24/7 remote monitoring with patients. Currently, individual hospital leaders are all developing their own ways to manage these processes, though we may expect some standardization to occur over time. There are also lessons to be learned from the home health market, though several HaH leaders did mention that MedSurg nurses seem to be thriving in these programs.
AI in Healthcare: Promises and Ethical Considerations:
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hold great potential in healthcare, though it may sometimes feel impossible to separate the true value from the hype. The best bit of wisdom shared during the many AI-focused sessions across HIMSS and ViVE was to look at any AI-powered product and ask how it augments or automates a given job or task? Further, ask how does AI free up people for more high-value work? Leaders should not be asking how AI tools can replace FTEs, but rather how AI tools can enable people to do more fulfilling work and, ultimately, better patient care. However, ethical considerations, biases in data inputs, and the lack of unified principles pose challenges.
Healthcare leaders must carefully evaluate AI applications, ensure transparency, and address equity issues. Healthcare AI experts were careful to note that there are a number of players in the AI space who aren’t interested in being responsible, happily selling based entirely on hype. The stunning pace of evolution in AI creates a challenge for IT and other healthcare leaders to stay on top of the practical applications of these tools.
The Second Half of 2023:
We are nearly halfway through what feels like the first real year since the initial public health emergency was declared in 2020. This year began with an entrepreneurial spirit to transform Pandemic-era learnings into innovative ways to make healthcare better for people. But there is also so much more ground to cover through the rest of the year.
Hospital-at-home is just getting started, but the energy and money pouring into this space suggests a very bright future. In the second half of the year, we will likely see a lot more noise around how commercial payers are going to engage with this new care pathway. With the ACHaH waiver extended through 2024, there is both a lot of time to figure things out and some real concerns that CMS won’t fully support these fledgling programs. We should also expect more start-ups to emerge offering platform solutions to help manage HaH programs. While innovations will surely emerge, hospitals may benefit from working with current technology partners to see how their IT solutions may be extended to support HaH, rather than going out and adding to the tech stack.
And then there is AI. It is difficult to predict where AI will be in 6 months. Many of the most sophisticated generative AI models built specifically for healthcare are well under wraps or are very young. Google’s Med-Palm 2 promises some massive leaps forward but is still only being used by a very small, select group of testers. Through the course of 2023, we will likely see the market settle somewhat as vendors offering reliable, process-improving AI-powered products emerge as early winners, with imaging, clinical documentation, and elements of the revenue cycle delivering augmentation and automation solutions with a tangible ROI.
Finally, I have to spend a moment talking about TEFCA. 2022 into early 2023 was dominated by EHRs and big HIEs pledging to participate in TEFCA. My expectation was that health systems would start engaging with the common agreement sometime in 2024. So, reading multiple announcements of major health systems committing to the program at the halfway point of the year is encouraging. Most of the systems currently announcing their participation are large, big-name systems, but a recent survey from the AHA found that 51% of hospitals plan to participate, with another 23% considering participation. I am concerned that independent hospitals are far more likely to not be familiar with TEFCA. With interoperability and data sharing being critical to the future of care delivery and improving the patient experience, hospitals that aren’t participating could find themselves at a disadvantage, looking in from the outside. And, while the door to join TEFCA is not slamming shut, non-participating hospitals may see themselves become less competitive.
The post-Pandemic world has all of us in the healthcare industry living in interesting times. The necessity to reinvent care delivery and drastically overhaul processes to boost efficiency in the face of increasing staffing challenges require leaders to be innovators and managers of change. Even more, leaders must balance excitement with pragmatism as AI-powered technologies steal headlines and fill inboxes with fascinating ideas, and more than a little snake oil. Yet we still contend with the grit in the gears of healthcare, irritating patients, clinicians, and administrative staff; and real opportunities exist to remove the grit, grease the wheels, and make healthcare a better place.
About the Author:
Christopher Link, Interlace Health’s Research and Insights Manager, has 13 years of market research and analysis work within the healthcare market. For the last 7 years, Christopher has focused on addressing market and strategic challenges for payer, provider, and healthcare IT vendor leaders. He believes that sound insights and intelligence are essential for effective decision-making and long-term success. Christopher currently resides in the Washington D.C. area with his wife and their dog.
We enjoyed the opportunity to participate in Extract’s HealthyData Virtual Academy Winter ’23 event on March 7, 2023. The event theme was The Difference is in the Data and offered two AHIMA CEUs and hosts presentation sessions on Finding Support for an HIM or Revenue Cycle Project and Elevating Forms Management: How to Streamline Process & Enhance Compliance.
The session: “Elevating Forms Management: How to Streamline Process & Enhance Compliance,” was led by our own Director of Product Marketing, Dessiree Paoli, and Rochester Regional Health’s HIM Content Specialist, Diana Adam-Podgornik, RHIT. Diana oversees RRH’s Forms Committee and EPIC onboarding team. She works directly with new acquisition leaders to ensure smooth transitions. She is an expert on healthcare forms control, inventory management, and record shortage and destruction.
The conversation took a deep dive into the current state of patient forms along with what concrete steps healthcare staff and organizations can take to improve forms management. The session shared insight into optimal organizational structure, governance, eSignatures, and form structure, standardization, and specifications. With a focus on keys to success in establishing your healthcare organization’s forms committee, attendees learned steps they needed to get done and how to uniform processes. In short, it’s a presentation HIM professionals just can’t miss!
During National Nurses Week we’d like to honor the hard work, compassion, and dedication of nursing professionals and show appreciation for their invaluable contributions to our industry. But this year, we cannot overlook the difficulties those in the industry are up against. Across the country, high burnout, low availability, and raising costs related to retention and recruiting nursing staff are making headlines. These challenges of course are related. High burnout leads to retirement, career changes, or moving to a less stressful healthcare environment.
In each of these cases, that leaves fewer nurses to fill the roles available. Nurses in a number of healthcare organizations have reached a point of frustration with staffing levels that have led to strikes in a number of states, including the largest of 2022: 15,000 nurses in Minnesota, and 7000 in NYC. “There were 385 strikes in 2022, up 42% from 270 in 2021, according to the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The US Labor Department, which tracks only major strikes by 1,000 or more workers, recorded 20 strikes in the first 11 months of 2022, up 33% from the same period in 2021.” Those nurses who are working have seen pay rise considerably over the past year. As of March, the average yearly base pay for hospital nurses had reached $86,674, up 9% from $79,172 in June 2021, according to Premier Inc., a healthcare consulting, contracting and data-analytics company, which analyzed salaries of about 116,000 nurses.
Unfortunately, the demand for nurses is increasing while the supply of nurses is decreasing – with no near-term solution in sight. In addition, with financial pressures increasing with the end of the Public Health Emergency, it’s clear health systems will need to accomplish “more with less” while avoiding pushing nursing unions to call strikes. Adding to the rising costs and a shrinking supply of nurses to staff hospitals, the amount of time being spent with patients is well below 50%. Less than one-third of registered nurses’ work time was spent with patients. They allocated the most time to the dimensions of ‘communication and care coordination’ and ‘care planning’, whereas ‘optimizing the quality and safety of care’, ‘integrating and supervising staff’, and ‘client education’ were allocated the least time.
Although it’s a complex problem, if we can begin to address these issues now, we can guarantee a better future for nurses, patients, and providers alike. But, how can health systems accomplish this balancing act? For a number of organizations, effective deployment of technology is the best option to accomplish these goals. Below are three examples of how technology has made a positive impact on nursing staff:
Tacoma, WA- based Multicare Health deployed Moxi – an AI enhanced Robot – earlier this year. In its first week, Moxi saved nurses and clinical staff 320,000 steps and saved 364 person-hours…all in one week! I personally have also seen Moxi in operation at Corewell Health (formerly Spectrum Health) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was impressive to watch several unattended deliveries take place to different patient rooms while I was visiting a relative.
Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth launched a project to give nurses technology that provides tools to capture patient data and said it saved nurses 64,800 hours by simplifying documentation processes within its Epic EHR. The project optimized the system’s nursing documentation by reducing 18 minutes of time spent in flowsheets per nurse shift, reducing the amount of time and number of actions needed to complete documentation and cutting the required nursing documentation for the average patient by more than half.
Miami, Florida-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital replaced labor intensive paper-based consents for patients with an automated workflow provided by Interlace Health which includes EHR integration and electronic signature capabilities. Leveraging iPad tablets and Interlace Health software, Nicklaus estimated they saved 4914 hours of nursing time. How are these hours saved at this regional pediatric hospital? The surgery department is the primary option for patients in the region, so they have a high volume of surgeries. They are required to collect informed consent the day of the surgery or procedure and so the nurses are responsible for printing the necessary forms and putting them into the chart. They are later scanned, filed, and shredded. This amounts to thousands of pieces of paper and over four-thousand hours of nurse time.
With the implementation of eSignature for Informed Consents the entire process is condensed. During pre-op, the nurse launches the consent forms on either a computer or tablet, and all the patient and provider information related to the procedure is automatically populated. The physician comes in and reviews the consent with the patient guardian and both sign right then using the touch screen. The time and date are applied electronically, and the form is locked from any future edits and instantly archived to the EHR. Copies can later be emailed to the patient. During timeout, the physician confirms consent was collected and they begin the procedure.
There is no paper trail related to the consenting of these patients. Those nearly 5000 hours of nurse time are repurposed for patient care. All three of these examples, highlight how technology reduces the amount of time nurses spend on tasks not consistent with operating at top of licensure. Thousands of hours in each of these systems, have been redirected towards patient engagement and care. Additionally, with nursing costs ranging from $29.11 in South Dakota to $59.62 in California, the financial return on investment of these technologies can be quite high.
What do these three projects have in common? Close collaboration among Nursing Leadership such as CNOs and CNIOs, the CIO’s office and vendor partners were critical to their success. Tackling time-intensive administrative tasks is not an option or nice to have, these solutions are “must haves”. While hours costs may be flattening, the overall labor supply for nursing is only getting worse.
A recent report from McKinsey predicts potentially dire nurse staffing issues in the next few years, as the nationwide nursing shortage could reach 450,000, or 20 percent, by as early as 2025. This same report noted that 90% of hospitals are unable to increase surgery volumes due to limited nursing staff, impacting the ability to grow revenues and offset cost pressures.
Last year, for the first time in 20 years, nursing school enrollment decreased, right at the time when it needs to be increasing by double digits. The current staffing challenge will only get worse without increasing productivity. Technology can be the key to help harmonize workflows, automate documentation processes, and simplify communication to create optimal work environments for nurses.
Interlace Health is dedicated to providing solutions that put people over paperwork (now and in the future) – with critical nurses and clinicians at the top of our list of staff whose workflows we aim to improve through automation.
About the Author:
Art Nicholas, Chief Commercial Officer at Interlace Health, has over 20 years of experience in launching and expanding technologies in the healthcare field. He was a pioneer in getting speech recognition used by both doctors and nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings. In every role, his teams have successfully implemented automated workflows which benefit patients, providers and the healthcare ecosystem. A strong believer in the healthcare IT community, he has been an active member of CHIME, HIMSS, and MUSE, sitting on a number of their committees. He is committed to improving the quality of patient care and lowering the cost of care delivery through well-designed and well-supported technology workflow solutions.
Collaboration between Interlace Health and Samsung enables industry-leading eForm technology to be delivered on state-of-the-art Samsung Tablets, advancing care and promoting smart hospital room initiatives
ST. LOUIS, March 11, 2023 — Interlace Health and Samsung announced today a collaboration focused on delivering better workflows for hospital patients, nurses and doctors.
Interlace Health’s new and enhanced Informed Consent offering, Informed Consent Nova, is a cloud-based solution designed to allow patients to review surgical procedures with their doctors and sign their consent through a fully electronic process. The doctor also signs the consent form on the tablet, and it is immediately archived as part of the electronic health record.
“Joining the power of Informed Consent Nova with state-of-the-art Samsung Tablets provides health systems with an affordable and mobile solution which surpasses paper-based consenting, and the cost and compliance issues associated with them,” said Director of Product Marketing at Interlace Health, Dessiree Paoli.
According to a study from JAMA Surgery, paper consents can cost a typical hospital over $580,000 in labor, delayed surgery starts, printing, scanning and shredding. A signed Informed Consent must be documented before surgery can begin, but the reality is that those forms go missing 66% of the time. This leads to delayed surgeries, upset patients, overwhelmed staff, lost revenue and non-compliance. Interlace Health aims to improve the informed consent experience for patients, staff and providers with an electronic solution that streamlines this critical process.
“We’re excited to work with Samsung who shares in our commitment to provide staff and patients with more mobile options in the quest to achieve “Smart Hospital Rooms”. We are working with our hospital clients to place these smart devices into patient rooms to make consenting an easy and entirely digital process for everyone,” said Chief Commercial Officer at Interlace Health, Art Nicholas.
“Samsung sees great value in working with SaaS partners such as Interlace Health to provide best-in-class solutions for our joint healthcare customers. Informed Consent Nova is another application which benefits from having highly reliable, affordable mobile devices available to patients, nurses and doctors to support more efficient Clinical Workflow & cost-effective care,” said Head of Business Development, Samsung Healthcare Mobile B2B, Trevor Smith.
Interlace Health will be demonstrating Informed Consent Nova on Samsung Tablets at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition at booth 8136.
About Interlace Health
For more than 30 years, Interlace Health has pioneered EHR-integrated eForms, eSignature, and workflow technology. Our trusted solutions and unparalleled support have enabled our 1,500+ healthcare clients to save time, cut costs, reduce errors, and improve experiences. Interlace Health’s platform enables several solutions that are accessible by clinicians and patients inside and outside the walls of the healthcare system. These include Forms on Demand, Patient Intake, and Informed Consent. Visit: interlacehealth.com to learn more.
About Samsung
Samsung operates one of the most advanced medical centers in the world, located in Korea – and applies that expertise in developing digital healthcare solutions that drive staff productivity and improve patient experience in hospital, at home and through virtual care. The Samsung platform empowers providers with innovative smart technologies, through a connected ecosystem of secure mobile devices and signage that are easy to manage and transition seamlessly across clinical workflows. Enhance patient care, streamline critical communications, and raise the visibility of your brand with Samsung advanced, digital solutions for healthcare.
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Media Contact:
Lauren Ziegler, Director of Marketing Communications
314-677-3765
lziegler@Interlacehealth.com
Media Contact:
Lauren Ziegler, Director of Marketing Communications
314-677-3765
lziegler@Interlacehealth.com
Healthcare IT veteran with a 26-year career at Cerner Corporation will lead Interlace Health’s product management and innovation
ST. LOUIS, April, 2022 — Interlace Health (formerly FormFast), a process transformation company that has pioneered EHR-integrated eForms, eSignature, and workflow technology for over 30 years, is excited to officially announce the hire of Sameer Brahmavar to the role of Chief Product Officer. Brahmavar will serve as a key member of the Interlace Health executive team and provide leadership for the product management, quality assurance, and engineering teams.
“Sameer is incredibly versed in all areas of the healthcare software business and brings extensive expertise in driving vision, strategy, and roadmaps for product portfolios and high-performing software teams,” said President at Interlace Health, Allison Reichenbach. “Sameer’s vision, leadership, and energy will be instrumental in driving our product strategy, and we look forward to the impact he will have on our customers and company’s growth.”
Brahmavar joins Interlace after an impressive 26-year tenure with Cerner Corporation. Most recently, he led Cerner’s Cloud Strategy team responsible for cloud modernization across Cerner’s product portfolio working closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS). During his time at Cerner, Brahmavar held leadership positions ranging from VP-GM of Cerner’s Retail Pharmacy and Extended Care (LTPAC) business units and engineering organizations to VP of Product for the Care Coordination portfolio.
“Interlace Health has built an incredible company, with an innovative product offering and unparalleled team. With exciting advancements on the horizon, I’m thrilled to be a part of helping Interlace Health accelerate its next phase of growth as we work to help our customers improve their processes to better support their caregivers, patients, and communities,” said Chief Product Officer at Interlace Health, Sameer Brahmavar.
About Interlace Health
Interlace Health lives at the intersection of the relationships, environments, and experiences at the heart of modern healthcare. For more than 30 years, Interlace Health (formerly FormFast) has pioneered EHR-integrated eForms, eSignature, and workflow technology.
By enabling seamless data capture and information exchange among providers, staff, and patients, Interlace Health solves many of healthcare’s central challenges through process transformation. The result for its clients is reduced costs, increased collections, uplifted patient experiences, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced support of an organization’s integration strategy. Interlace Health’s platform enables several solutions that are accessible by clinicians and patients inside and outside the walls of the healthcare system. These include Forms on Demand, Patient Intake, and eConsent. To learn more, visit www.interlacehealth.com.
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ST. LOUIS, April 7, 2022 —Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager at Interlace Health, Dessiree Paoli, will be talking about all things product management at the 2022 Product Marketing Summit in Denver, Colorado April, 7 & 8.
On Day 1, she will serve as Chairperson, opening up the session and introducing all speakers, and leading the Q&A. On Day 2, she will be leading a keynote presentation at 2pm titled: PIVOT! Succeeding as a Product Marketer when the market doesn’t shift; it flips upside down. In this keynote presentation, Dessiree Paoli will share her wealth of experience working as a product marketer within the healthcare industry, and what the last two years have taught her about how to adapt and thrive in a climate of enormous market shifts and digital transformations.
Dessiree has 20 years of experience in developing strategic marketing plans, leading teams, and driving integrated campaigns. A passion for helping people led her to the healthcare industry, where she has been expanding her skills for more than 14 years. Dessiree enjoys uniting cross-functional project teams, translating complex information into consumer-facing stories, and public speaking engagements.
To learn more about the PMM Summit and for the full agenda, visit the conference’s website: https://productmarketingworld.com/location/denver
About Interlace Health
Interlace Health lives at the intersection of the relationships, environments, and experiences at the heart of modern healthcare. For more than 30 years, Interlace Health (formerly FormFast) has pioneered EHR-integrated eForms, eSignature, and workflow technology.
By enabling seamless data capture and information exchange among providers, staff, and patients, Interlace Health solves many of healthcare’s central challenges through process transformation. The result for its clients is reduced costs, increased collections, uplifted patient experiences, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced support of an organization’s integration strategy. Interlace Health’s platform enables several solutions that are accessible by clinicians and patients inside and outside the walls of the healthcare system. These include Forms on Demand, Patient Intake, and eConsent. To learn more, visit www.interlacehealth.com.
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