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.
Why AI Is an Add-on for Healthcare, Not a Replacement. The nuance of healthcare means that AI will never replace the human touch, experts in the Healthcare IT Today said. Relationship management is still a personal process – but even processes such as workflow automation and security threat benefit from a human touch. Read more…
How to Continue to Improve Medication Management. E-prescribing is an interoperability success, but regulatory standards get in the way of bringing innovation to medication management. John Lynn spoke to Cam Deemer at DrFirst and Nele Jessel, MD, at athenahealth about the challenges doctors, patients, and pharmacies face under the industry’s current current approach and what it will take to move forward. Read more…
Knowing Your Data and How You’ll Use It. The biggest healthcare data challenge is rushing to use it before identifying business needs, John learned in a conversation with three leaders at Clearsense. Curation and integration of data is also critical, especially as data sources grow in number and complexity. Read more…
Pushing From Interoperability to Digital Transformation. Colin Hung spoke to Jon Elwell and Therasa Bell at Kno2 about healthcare’s move from interop as a technological achievement to an enabler of data-driven care delivery and both digital and business transformation. Read more…
Unpacking the Potential for QHINs, Homecare, and More. The latest Healthcare IT Today Podcast was a Buy or Sell Episode. John and Colin debated topics related to interoperability, the hospital at home, and the interesting question of whether robots will outnumber nurses in hospitals 10 years from now. Given workforce challenges, it’s not a far-fetched idea, is it? Read more…
Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations. Josh Wilda, CIO at University of Michigan Health-West, described the health system’s unique partnership with Exalta Health, which serves a population that’s largely uninsured and Spanish-speaking. Using telehealth for specialty care, remote monitoring, and interpreter services is helping close care gaps and treat patients who are often overlooked. Read more…
Processing Petabytes of Streaming Clinical Data at the Edge. ICU patients generate 900,000 data points every hour. There will be 55 billion IoT devices by 2025, and 30% will be medical devices. Simply put, health systems need AI capabilities to process, analyze, and act on that data, Steve Lazer at Dell Technologies said. Read more…
As TEFCA Gets Underway, CommonWell Marks a Milestone. CommonWell has come a long way from its inception at HIMSS13, Executive Director Paul Wilder said. With CommonWell recently named one of six QHINs under TEFCA, Wilder reflected on the organization’s progress and its ongoing commitment to interoperability, accuracy, and data normalization. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Senior Epic Application Analyst at Washington-based Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- RCM company CodaMetrix closed $55 million in Series A funding.
- Advisory firm Chartis established the Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions and announced the addition of DES Health Consulting to the firm.
- Independent primary care network Aledade added more than 450 primary care practices to its network in 2023; in addition, the company acquired Curia, a value-based care analytics platform.
- RCM technology and service provider AGS Health acquired Availity’s India-based patient access outsourcing business unit.
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