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.
Welcome to Swaay.Health! Swaay.Health is the evolution of the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC), which has been sharing knowledge for 12 years. As Colin Hung said, “We launched Swaay.Health because we felt it was time that there was an open-access publication dedicated to the healthcare marketing community.” Read more…
What’s Your Health IT Legacy? The world of healthcare IT lost some bright lights recently with the passing of Chilmark Research founder John Moore, Jr., Damo Consulting CEO Paddy Padmanabha, and patient advocate Casey Quinlan. Colin and John Lynn devoted the latest Healthcare IT Today podcast to the memory of these amazing people – and what they hope their own legacy will be. Read more…
Knowing What’s Worth Automating. Matt Haberman at Acclara talked to John about how healthcare organizations can get started with automation by simply helping staff resolve issues faster. The next step is partially automating tasks and then letting end users take things from there. Read more…
Uncovering the Right Data for Better Cancer Treatment. The benefits of reducing the administrative burden of patient charting are well known. Kathy Ford at Ronin told John how the company takes this a step further by using AI models to determine the likelihood of oncology patients needing to visit the ED and recommend care plan adjustments. Read more…
Driving Savings in Non-Clinical Spending. More than 20% of a health system’s annual revenue is non-clinical spending, David Kirshner and Susan Tyler at LogicSource told John. Taking a closer look at areas such as facilities, packaging, security, and pest control can help organizations reduce costs without compromising patient care. Read more…
Demand Grows for Advancements in the Digital Front Door. The majority of patients and providers want to improve access to health using digital tools, Experian Health Chief Product Officer Clarissa Riggins said. The biggest challenge is helping patients find doctors and schedule appointments quickly, and the combination of automation technology and more interactive portals can help. Read more…
Transforming Patient Care and Cost Management With the Internet of Medical Things. Ad hoc implementation of IoMT devices leads to redundancy and increased IT costs. That’s why organizations should take an ecosystem approach to implementing devices and syncing data to enterprise systems, said Zack Tisch at Pivot Point Consulting. Read more…
Digital Transformation Relies on Strategic Data Center Storage. Data is at the center of healthcare’s digital transformation, and organizations need ton consider accessibility, uptime, resiliency, and privacy as they build their storage strategy. This is where data center partners can playa key role, according to Ken Parent at Element Critical. Read more…
The Why and How of Anonymizing Patient Data. Patient data is underutilized in care delivery and treatment decisions, largely because of the risks involved in moving and storing data. Tokenization is useful but reversible, while anonymization irreversibly removes all identifiable information from data, noted Philip Russmeyer at FITFILE. Read more…
How Automation Tech Is Fixing Healthcare’s Hiring Pipeline. According to Dr. Kit Latham at Credentially, burnout is essentially a capacity problem that can best be solved by hiring more staff in less time. That starts by bringing automation to both recruiting and onboarding so administrative staff spend less time on repetitive HR tasks. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator at Washington-based Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, with residents of certain U.S. states eligible as remote candidates, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for July 9, 2023: Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, and 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Independent primary care practice network Aledade secured $260 million in Series F financing.
- Care access platform DexCare closed a $75 million Series C funding round.
- Virtual agent provider Outbound AI completed a $16 million funding round.
- Computational imaging company Altis Labs raised $6 million in seed funding.
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