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.
The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring. Our latest outreach to the Healthcare IT Community focused on the many ways to use RPM. The experts didn’t disappoint, offering their thoughts on how RPM impacts the patient and the staff experience as well as what it takes to succeed with RPM and use it more efficiently. Read more…
IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth. The more connected devices a hospital has, the more effort is needed to manage then. Colin Hung sat down with Sameer Khanna at NETSCOUT to discuss what it takes to monitor how devices communicate – and why it’s important to have a single view of network, device, and application information. Read more…
How Intelligent Devices Enable Value-Based Remote Monitoring. John Lynn spoke with Brandon Haag at OMRON, maker of remote monitoring devices, about blending devices and data-driven clinical guidelines to help patients improve outcomes and enable health systems to hit their value-based care targets. Read more…
The Promise of Data-Driven Behavioral Health. Andy Oram talked to Dr. Thomas Young at Proem Behavioral Health about the ability to collect and interpret data from personal devices to provide personalized treatment recommendations – something typically done for chronic conditions but not as frequently for behavioral health. Read more…
The Role of Generative AI in Healthcare. In the latest Healthcare IT Today podcast, John and Colin discussed generative AI, also known as ChatGPT. The podcast addresses whether healthcare will find clinical, operational, or marketing use cases for generative AI, as well as whether people may trust healthcare less if they find out ChatGPT is being used. Read more…
How IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship. Thomas Serval at Baracoda talked about how connected devices can monitor patients and AI can enhance decision-making – helping doctors treat patients outside the four walls of the hospital. Read more…
Enterprise Visibility Improves the Clinical and Patient Experience. Scott Hondros at CenTrak looked at how real-time location systems ease operational burdens and enhance safety for both patients and staff. Read more…
Fall Prevention Programs are Helping the Aging Population. Dr. Byron Crowe at Solera Health described the benefits of digital programs for fall prevention, which can help older adults build balance while remaining in their own homes. Read more…
AI’s Place in Healthcare’s Future. Jonathan Jesneck at Firefly Lab explored AI’s potential in the clinical care setting, from decision support to personalized care to triage powered by chatbots as a way to relieve the burden on physicians. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Support Technician – C.N.A. with Arrowleaf, a service organization based in southern Illinois, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Data platform Clearsense raised $50 million in Series D capital.
- Value-based care technology and service provider Pearl Health raised $75 million in Series B funding.
- Data exchange technology provider Smile Digital Health closed $30 million in Series B funding.
- Lab result reporting platform Elaborate raised a $10 million seed funding round.
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