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.
Burnout’s Effect on Healthcare Staffing. As burned-out healthcare workers leave their roles, the workers who remain must do more with less. John Lynn asked members of the Healthcare IT Today community if technology can help health systems facing a staffing crisis. A range of solutions – from automation of repetitive tasks to more flexible schedules enabled by virtual care – are positioned to help. Read more…
DirectTrust’s Ongoing Effort to Improve the Provider Directory. DirectTrust is adopting a FHIR-based approach to making updates to its provider directory, which contains more than 1 million addresses. DirectTrust President and CEO Scott Stuewe talked to John about what this project entails and how it will make a difference for information sharing. Read more…
One RHIO’s Path to Interop With Direct Secure Messaging. Sara Abrams of the Rochester (New York) RHIO spoke to John about the organization’s recent Health Information Service Provider migration process and how Direct Secure Messaging has benefitted patients and enabled more payer-provider collaboration. Read more…
How to Address Healthcare’s Inflection Point. In the latest Healthcare IT Podcast, John chatted with Tegria’s Anders Brown about the most painful issues healthcare is facing and the best way to address them – along with identifying what not to do and knowing which problems are the highest priorities. Read more…
8 Information Blocking Reminders Now That the Rule Is In Effect. With the October 6 information blocking deadline now in place, ONC has published a series of reminders about what the information blocking rule requires, as well as who is subject to the rule. Read more…
Managing Complex Change? This Framework May Help. It’s no secret that change management often goes sideways, especially when multiple parties have to change. John shared a framework that can help individuals and organizations manage change, noting what needs to be in place and what happens when those things are missing. Read more…
How the Right Data Can Advance Health Equity. Healthcare providers acknowledge that they need to know about patients’ lives outside the four walls of the clinic. Kno2’s Tina Feldman suggested that home health and post-acute care offer an untapped opportunity to identify what patients really need and share this information with the rest of the care team. Read more…
Overcoming Low Adoption Rates for Patient Portals. Fewer than 40% of patients log into a portal at least once a year, in large part because most patients don’t want to view their medical records online. Timothy Miller of Plus Technologies recommended secure email as a way to share important documents with patients – and direct them back to the portal. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Systems Analyst – Data Innovations Instrumentation at MaineHealth, posted to Health IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Senior mental healthcare delivery startup Rippl launched with $32 million in seed round funding.
- Patient ward monitoring tech provider Doccla closed a £15 million Series A funding round.
- Surgical data and image sharing company DocSpera announced a $10 million Series B financing round.
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