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.
Helping Children With Gamified Interactive Physiotherapy. Psychiatrist Dr. Geoff Frost struggled to encourage pediatric patients with spinal muscular atrophy to do their necessary exercises. As he explained to Colin Hung, that’s why Raft Digital Therapeutics created a game called Cloud Bazaar to captures a child’s movement as a way to advance the main character through the game. Read more…
AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation. Amazon and 3M are the latest to enter the market for ambient clinical voice products, so John sat down with Detlef Koll at 3M Health Information Systems and Tehsin Syed at Amazon Web Services to talk about why the companies are partnering and what they’re doing differently. Read more…
Unpacking Use Cases for VR in Healthcare. At HIMSS, John spent some time at the HTC VIVE to see some demos of virtual reality in action, including VR for surgical prep, VR for physical therapy, and immersive VR as a replacement for anesthesia. Read more…
Exploring All-in-One Medical Graphic Stations and Tablets. Operating rooms need high-quality monitors with a lot of processing power so surgeons know exactly what they’re looking at. Robert Droppa at DT Research recently demonstrated the company’s NVIDIA-powered units to Healthcare IT Today. Read more…
Transforming Pharmacies into Health Clinics. There are nearly 74,000 pharmacies in the United States and Canada, and increasingly they’re being given the authority to treat minor ailments. Colin spoke to Joella Almeida at MedEssist about supporting pharmacies as they take on a greater role in care delivery through documentation, scheduling, and more. Read more…
Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR. Eli Ben-Joseph at Regard talked to John about the benefits of analyzing EHR data to find old data relevant to new treatment, along with the importance of making this functionality available with a single click. Read more…
What More People Should be Talking About in Healthcare, HFMA Edition. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Today community attending this year’s HFMA conference to weigh in on this always-popular topic. Answers included empowering the healthcare workforce, understanding the economics of SDOH, and putting technology to practical use. Read more…
Moving the Industry Forward With an RCM Adoption Model. Maturity models help organizations see how advanced they are in adopting technology. Healthcare has many models, but until recently RCM has been missing. Jeff Becker and John Yount at FinThrive described their roadmap for RCM implementation and realizing value as an organization. Read more…
A Look at the Nobi Smart Lamp. Sensors to monitor movement and detect falls in the home don’t have to be obtrusive, Roeland Pelgrims at Nobi told Healthcare IT Today. That’s why the company designed its sensor, which also enables communication with caregivers if a fall happens, to be a lamp. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Patient Engagement. Rich Temple at Deborah Heart and Lung Center sat down with John to discuss whether EHRs and AI are helping or hurting patient engagement efforts. They also touched on some lesser-known parts of the patient experience that organizations may want to address. Read more…
Why Healthcare Needs to Digitize Before – Not During – the Next Crisis. The Montgomery County (Texas) Hospital District started its journey of process automation in 2019. MCHD’s Shawn Henners said having automation technology in place laid a foundation for centralized recordkeeping and resource coordination during the pandemic. Read more…
Use Cases for Deep Learning for Medical Imaging. Deep learning mimics how the human brain processes data and extracts insights. Deep learning enhances medical image analysis by reducing the risk of diagnostic errors and ensuring timely interventions, noted Mariia Kovalova at Itransition. Read more…
Transforming Patient-Centric Healthcare with Digital Humans. Many organizations have rolled out chatbots. Steve Lazer at Dell Technologies said the next step forward is digital humans that add generative AI capabilities, sentiment, and non-verbal capabilities to automated communication. Read more…
Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access. Enforcement of the information blocking final rule goes into effect Sept. 1. History suggests most HIEs aren’t prepared to supply patients with their health records, Deven McGraw at Ciitizen indicated – so they may not want to go it alone in the new regulatory environment. Read more…
The Post-Pandemic Trends Influencing Digital Transformation. Addressing consumerism, improving telehealth, and providing the infrastructure to support them both are guiding the work of today’s healthcare IT decisionmakers, according to Lynne Bell at Spectrum Enterprise. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Radiation Oncology Revenue Cycle Specialist, a part-time and remote role with a client of Stoltenberg Consulting, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for August 13, 2023: 75% of executives think generative AI has reached the point where it will reshape healthcare, plus 64% of patients would trust AI over a doctor to make a diagnosis. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- CareDx acquired MediGO, which provides supply chain and logistics technology for organ transplants.
- Surgical technology company Proprio raised $43 million in Series B funding.
- RapidAI announced $75 million in Series C funding; the company makes workflow technology for cardiovascular care.
- Senior living community technology provider K4Connect secured $8.9 million in funding.
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