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.
Flurry of AI, Partnerships, and New Features Announced at Epic UGM. Recap of the partners, product enhancements, and work into AI that Epic announced at this year’s Epic User Group Meeting (UGM). Read more…
Provider-Led Value-Based Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Two experts from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee describe how they implemented value-based care from the provider’s point of view. Read more…
Navigating Correlation and Causation with Life Sciences in the Age of AI. Generative AI is an amazing tool capable of sorting and analyzing large sums of data. It is not, however, very capable of discerning the difference between correlation and causation in the data, leading to hallucinations. Read more…
RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations. RFID is expected to grow in healthcare, which could trigger some security concerns. However, if done correctly, RFID technology offers significant potential for improving efficiency and patient safety in healthcare applications. Read more…
Addressing Patient Burnout With Digital Transformation. For healthcare brands seeking to address patient burnout as part of the broader care challenge, digital transformation of the voice channel is critical – not only to blunt the impact of robocalls but to restore trust between healthcare providers and their patients, states Jim Tyrrell Vice President of Enterprise Product Management at TNS. Read more…
A Demo of the Real Time Health System with Zebra and Oneview Healthcare. Steve Yerkey, Director Solutions Architecture at Oneview Healthcare demonstrates how the Zebra tablet combined with their bedside software creates a great patient experience platform. Read more…
The Importance of Patient Portal Usability. Patients will often only use the patient portal to complete one specific task and never use it again. If you want your patients to regularly use the patient portal it is vital to make it easy to use and clearly communicate its uses to the patient. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today: Health IT Topic Roulette. This episode has surprise topics! John and Colin wrote down a list of ten topics and rolled a d10 to pick which topics they would discuss in this episode. Read more…
What Trend in RCM Are You Keeping Your Eye on Right Now and Why? Members of the Healthcare IT Today Community share what trends in RCM they are looking out for and why. Read more…
Microsoft CEO Sees Generative AI as Transformative as Relational Databases. Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft and Sumit Rana, Senior Vice President at Epic sat down at Epic’s 2023 User Group Meeting for a one-on-one conversation about generative AI. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Information Services Support Specialist, a hybrid position at Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic located in Toppenish, Washington posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for August 20, 2023: Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Marathon Health acquired Cerner Workforce Health Solutions, expanding Marathon’s footprint and accelerating the reach of its unique population health model to more employers, locations, and members.
- Innovator in identity and access management, Abbey Labs raised a $5.25 million seed round led by Point72 Ventures.
- Waystar acquired HealthPay24, an EngageSmart Solution, furthering their mission to simplify healthcare payments for providers and patients.
- $49 million funding round by TytoCare leads to new care models.
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It is very good and nice to see lots of initiative and new devices coming out in Healthcare domain to facilitate Medical and paramedical fraternity.
But I feel we are missing the basic things, that is data collection from grass root level, inter-operativity of data. Sharing of data across the healthcare units and medical and para medical fraternity. Which we are lacking.