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.
3 Key Takeaways From ViVE 2024: Live from Los Angeles, Colin Hung shared some quick takes on the main conversations at ViVE 2024: AI maturity, Change Healthcare and the stage of cybersecurity, and the booths in the expo hall getting bigger. Read more… and don’t forget to check out our special edition of Bonus Features from ViVE 2024!
What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited? Responses to our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community included large language models, the availability of SDoH data, and increased adoption of ambient monitoring. Read more…
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Back-Office Applications. In the first installment of a five-part series, Andy Oram outlined the valuable uses of generative AI in administrative tasks such as billing, resource management, and contract writing. Read more…
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Revenue Management. In the second installment, Andy explained the many stages of RCM that can benefit from generative AI: Claims, prior authorization, appeals, resource management, and contract generation. Read more…
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: A Wealth of Additional Uses. Next, Andy unpacked generative AI for care management, call center support, and life science research – all valuable for improving workflows that ultimately improve patient care. Read more…
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: How to Get There. Andy’s fourth installment covered the nuts and bolts of training highly specialized large language models. He noted that actual patient data is key – and that the industry has learned the lessons of IBM Watson, which was trained on research papers. Read more…
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: LLMs for Everyone. Andy finished with thoughts on how to make large language models available to small providers, rural providers, and front-line facilities – and whether ChatGPT can help him write like Tom Wolfe. Read more…
How Will Regulators Address AI in Healthcare? Caleb Williamson at the Connected Health Initiative sat down with Colin to discuss hopes that regulators understand there are different risk levels to AI’s use in healthcare, with process automation not subject to the same scrutiny as clinical decision support. Read more…
Review: Brother’s Latest All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier. It turns out paper is a great form factor with infinite flexibility that everyone can use with no training, especially for healthcare. With that in mind, John Lynn looked at the Brother MFC-L6915DW, which isn’t much bigger than the standard laser printer. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Healthcare Access in Rural Communities. Dr. Michael Hasselberg at University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center (URMC) spoke to John about the partnerships and technology tools that expand access to care in rural areas – and how they can only go so far. Read more…
Radiology’s Next Phase: Real-Time Collaboration. Thanks to connections with remote radiologists, real-time radiology provides diagnostic imaging results before patients leave the exam room. Faster answers leads to faster diagnoses and better clinical outcomes, noted Vivian Liu at Braid Health. Read more…
Use Data to Uncover Actionable Insights for Service Desk Support. Tech support in healthcare must manage a large volume of high-priority requests to fix complex systems. Performance monitoring and automated ticket management can help lighten the load, according to Dan O’Connor at HCTec. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst, a remote position with a California-based client of Stoltenberg Consulting, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for February 25, 2024: 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, while 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Advanced primary care and occupational health providers Everside Health and Marathon Health closed their merger.
- In-home health support company Hamilton Beach Brands acquired HealthBeacon, which develops connected devices to manage injectable medications.
- Unlearn raised $50 million in Series C funding; the company creates digital twins of clinical trial participants.
- Chronic insomnia management startup Stellar Sleep raised a $6 million seed round.
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