Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

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.

Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult. That’s why HiLabs couples domain experts with its machine learning models to assess data and improve accuracy throughout the cleansing process, John Lynn learned. Read more…

How Greenway Expects to Stay Best in KLAS. Fresh off its Best in KLAS designation, Greenway Health is emphasizing workflow optimization, practice automation, and training in its future rollouts, David Cohen told Colin Hung. In addition, the vendor is looking at how to support patients in managing their health outside the clinical setting. Read more…

What It Takes to Digitize Patient Intake Forms. No one likes paper forms. Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs. Read more…

BetterHelp Hit With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses. The FTC is continuing its crackdown on companies that share healthcare data inappropriately. Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. The FTC also seeks $7.8 million in damages from the company. Read more…

Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. California is a unique healthcare market, with a wide range of provider types, health plans, and populations. In the latest CIO Podcast, John chatted with the California Medical Association’s David T. Ford about EHR deployment and HIE adoption in the state and discussed lessons that others can learn from the experiences of the Golden State. Read more…

IT’s Role in Addressing Clinical Staffing Shortages. Cloud-based EHRs, telehealth, remote monitoring, and AI tools all need fast and reliable connectivity, noted Doug McDonald at Extreme Networks. What’s more, secure infrastructure can provide an added layer of protection against every-prominent cyberattacks. Read more…

Using AI to Improve the Customer Experience in Healthcare. Dmitrii Evstiukhin at Provectus provided a framework for incorporating AI into the customer experience. Key steps include taking a fresh look at your data, infrastructure, and processes before getting started and ensuring an AI product provides value before rolling it out at scale. Read more…

Key Implications for Information Lifecycle Management. Managing and protecting sensitive information has never been more critical for healthcare. Krishna Nacha at Iron Mountain highlighted access management, data residency, data quality, and other information lifecycle trends. Also important: Keeping tabs on physical data assets as they reach the end of their life. Read more…

Are You Doing the Basics to Protect Against Ransomware? Attacks on healthcare have more than double since 2016. That means healthcare organizations need to take a more offensive approach to defense, according to Chad Peterson at NetSPI. That involves stepping up vulnerability scanning, continuously patching, improving access management, and building stronger contingency plans. Read more…

Addressing Nursing Shortages With Mobile Employment Technology. With 1 million nurses expected to retire by 2030, staffing shortages are looming. But for most organizations, the administrative stress of hiring and onboarding sets a bad example for new hires. Suzanne Arroyo and Christopher Ryan at Avionté described how mobile technology can make application, credentialing, onboarding, and placement seamless. Read more…

Featured Health IT Job: Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome, at Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health, posted to Healthcare IT Central.

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Brian Eastwood

Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003.

When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England. When he needs a break from cardio, he's usually reading a history book.

   

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