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.
Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud. It’s a topic on everyone’s mind, so we asked the Healthcare IT Today community for advice. Tips include improving legacy systems before moving them to the cloud, ensuring what gets moved to the cloud is optimized for scalability and flexibility, and weighing the appetite to maintain on-premises and cloud infrastructure in the interim. Read more…
The Evolution of Suki’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solution. John interviewed Suki CEO Punit Soni, about how ambient clinical voice is changing rapidly, including how Suki works as a voice assistant and not just a clinical documentation tool. They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more…
Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation. Malekeh Amini at Trayt Health spoke to Healthcare IT Today about the importance of coordinating mental health resources so the right challenges are ultimately addressed. Read more…
eClinicalWorks Details Practical Application of AI. Reporting from the vendor’s national conference, Colin Hung found eCW customers delighted by announcements of AI to manage inbound faxes and AI to save robotic process automation (RPA) actions much the same way you save macros in Microsoft Office. Read more…
Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR. Meanwhile, John spoke to Suhas Uliyar about Oracle Health’s moves to create tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients. One example is helping with follow-up tasks such as ordering medication and scheduling a phone call in addition to generating a visit summary. Read more…
Driving Optimal Use of Temporary Nurses. Andy Oram spoke to Craig Allan Ahrens at ShiftMed about automating onboarding, provisioning, and training of temporary nurses so they can hit the ground running. Additional steps such as hiring temps as full hires and aligning their schedules with union rules for full-time staff can improve retention and reduce liability. Read more…
Choosing a Trustworthy Consultant to Build a Sustainable Program. Palomar Health CIO Anis Trabelsi highlighted what to look when hiring a consultant. The right consultant will ask a lot of questions, help your team grow and learn, and offer a solution tailored to your needs, he said. Read more…
Security, Privacy Hurdles Plague AI-Driven Health Services. The intersection of HIPAA and AI technology presents new challenges for developers and patients alike, according to Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan at Inflectra. Generally speaking, HIPAA applies if AI takes data from medical records and processes it to provide decision support, though of course there’s more to consider as well. Read more…
Secure Data Archiving Is Critical to Fortifying Your Technology Stack. Data archives often sit on legacy infrastructure that’s siloed and not routinely monitored. That makes it imperative to ensure both vendors and employees are committed to cybersecurity best practices, noted Shawn Fergason at MediQuant. Read more…
Turn Increased Ambulatory Volumes into Financial Strength. As healthcare increasingly moves out of the inpatient setting, ambulatory providers need the financial strength to support additional volume and the operating costs that go with them, said Pete Heydt at Patient Pay. One strategy for building this strength is digitizing and streamlining RCM. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Senior Architect with Epic MyChart integration experience, a remote position posted by Llyod Staffing on Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for October 22, 2023: 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, plus 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Mental health startup Headway raised $125 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation.
- RCM vendor Alpha II acquired RCxRules, a revenue cycle automation vendor.
- Pediatric autism services company Cortica closed a $40 million Series D extension.
- Remote monitoring and RCM vendor Athelas has merged with Commure, maker of enterprise healthcare software.
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