Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Tytocare’s Mission to Make Home Medical Care Easier and More Accurate. Demand for care at home is rising, but traditional telehealth and remote monitoring doesn’t support examination and diagnosis in the patient’s home. Colin Hung talked to TytoCare at HLTH about the company’s new Home Smart Clinic and its efforts to bring primary care into the home. Read more…
Practical Process Automation with Genzeon and Penn State Health. John Lynn sat down with Penn State Health CIO Cletis Earle and two Genzeon leaders to discuss how healthcare can benefit from intelligent automation, particularly when it comes to low-code and no-code solutions for workforce management. Read more…
Addressing Healthcare’s Top Cybersecurity Challenges. In the latest episode of the CIO Podcast, John spoke to Inspira Health CISO Francois Bodhuin about managing third-party risk from the perspective of cybersecurity, along with what it takes to get other executives and board members to buy into cybersecurity investments. Read more…
Using AI to Reduce Denials and Manage Staff Shortages. Two-thirds of health systems use AI for at least some RCM tasks. Helen Lamons at Advata pointed out that denials management is one of the most mature use cases for AI in RCM – and when used effectively it can help organizations improve collections with limited impact on billing staff. Read more…
How Third-Party Risk Management Minimizes Data Breach Impacts. Because data breaches are unfortunately inevitable, healthcare organizations need effective and comprehensive third-party risk management programs. Aaron Kirkpatrick at Venminder provided six key third-party risk management actions that improve breach response time and limit their impact. Read more…
Organizations Can’t Let HIPAA Become Criminal. Five former employees of Tennessee’s Methodist Hospital were indicted for allegedly selling patient medical information. Now the entire organization is subject to a compliance audit. Mike Semel said the incident shows that HIPAA training can’t be an afterthought and should show how staff could put the organization – and their careers – at risk. Read more…
Solving Healthcare’s Labor Problem May Require a Change in Strategy. Many health system leaders believe contingent staff contribute to rising labor costs, but the real culprit is a lack of visibility into where and how they’re used, according to Maria Luoni at RightSourcing. Strategic, centralized management can help control costs and better control the staffing process. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Delivery Consultant – Core (Cerner implementation) for a New York-based client of e4 Services, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Virtual chronic pain solution Override emerged from stealth and announced seed funding of $3.5 million.
- Virtual reality mental and behavioral health companies BehaVR and OxfordVR merged and raised a $13 million Series B round.
- Managed security services provider Fortified Health Security announced a growth investment.
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