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.
Discussing Practical Applications of AI Research. NYU Langone Health is building an AI tool to rank the level of care that a patients in the hospital needs. Critically, professor Vincent J. Major told John Lynn, the toll also accounts for internal issues such as nurse staffing. Major and Lynn also talked about where the data comes from and how it integrates with clinicians’ everyday workflows. Read more…
Bringing Low-Code and No-Code Software to Healthcare. For organizations looking to accelerate digital transformation, embracing a low-code / no-code approach to application deployment can make it fast and easy to roll out online forms, Colin Hung learned in a conversation with FormAssembly’s Cedric Savarese. Read more…
Optimizing the Healthcare Workforce With Technology. With burnout at an all-time high in the healthcare workforce, how can technology automate simple tasks and alleviate workers’ burden? Members of the Healthcare IT Today community discussed the benefits of technology-enabled remote monitoring, care coordination, scheduling, communication, and more. Read more…
Keeping the Healthcare Workforce Engaged. The latest episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast covered a similar topic – how technology is improving healthcare workforce engagement. John and Colin also and provided some short-term predictions for the future of the workforce. Read more…
AI and the Human Mind Are Taking on Healthcare’s Challenges. AI works best in healthcare when it draws attention to vital information that helps clinicians make diagnoses and determine treatment paths, said Concord Technologies’ Christopher Larkin. It’s also important to remember that the clinician ultimately has the final say. Read more…
Why Securing Medical IoT Devices Is Different. Many industries have Internet of Things devices, but healthcare has to be careful when it comes to securing IoMT vulnerabilities. Asimily’s Constancio Fernandes identified four factors that make IOMT security unique and emphasized the importance of identifying and addressing the biggest risks first. Read more…
How AI Can Help Spot Telehealth Fraud. As telehealth use has increased, so have instances of telehealth fraud. Detecting and mitigating telehealth fraud can be difficult using traditional business rules around utilization and provider location – which is why Shift Technology’s Mandy Fogle recommended AI models that can learn to find bad actors hiding in the data. Read more…
The Role of Information Exchange in Health Equity. Summing up The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, Audacious Inquiry’s Robert Horst provided three examples of how HIEs can show their commitment to improving health equity by breaking down barriers to to data collection and use. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Epic Ambulatory Principal Trainer for Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., on behalf of a client based in the Bay Area, posted on Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Latino-focused virtual primary care service Zócalo Health raised $5 million in seed funding.
- Surgical coordination software provider Surgimate received a significant strategic investment from Banneker Partners.
- Enterprise imaging provider Intelerad Medical Systems acquired Life Image, a network of clinical and imaging data.
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