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.
Navigating Long Buying Cycles in Healthcare Innovation. We asked the experts in the Healthcare IT Today community how startups can stand out from the crowd when it’s time to raise money. Factors including FDA approval, a clear value proposition, demonstrated ROI, and an understanding of regulatory processes can all work in a founder’s favor. Read more…
Surveying Lab Tests From a Health IT Perspective. Lab tests are critical to the care process, but labs struggle to share data with other care providers, Andy Oram noted in the first piece in a three-part series on lab tests. Data sharing matters because in most cases clinical staff need to help patients understand their results, even if they’re delivered straight to the patient portal. Read more…
Gaining More Control With a Cloud-Based EHR. Jesse Burke, Director of IT at HealthWorks for Northern Virginia, had to manage multiple third-party service providers to maintain on-premises IT infrastructure. Moving to the eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR simplified the IT environment – and improved account management and authentication. Read more…
How Thoughtful Design Influenced a Wheezing Detection Tool. Hone care vendor Tytocare received FDA approval for a product that analyzes lung sounds captured a handheld device. Eran Hertzmann recently gave Colin a demo of the product, which does its analysis in the background before results go to a clinician so they see high-priority results first. Read more…
Determining the Next Best Step for Member Care. Blending claims data, demographic data, and other data sources is helping Evernorth Health Services gain a holistic view of their members and decide the best action to take to improve clinical outcomes, Casey Dudek told Colin. Read more…
Shifting From Data Dashboards to Valuable Action. Not everyone in an organization uses information in the same way. John spoke with Angela Burgess at Randolph Health and George Dealy at Dimensional Insight about how to ensure that all staff get value from data and what success is possible through data-driven operations. Read more…
One Health System’s Perspective on Digital Transformation. In the latest CIO Podcast, John and Khalid Turk at Santa Clara County Health System discussed how the EHR has been transformative for the organization, along with how health systems can cut through the noise about AI and which technology vendors are most likely to lead the way on innovation in the future. Read more…
Educating Executives on Cybersecurity Risks in Healthcare. The average hospital is hit with one cyberattack almost every week, yet many executives don’t understand the risks and threats their organizations face. Cybersecurity playbooks and IT involvement in technology contracting can close the knowledge gap, according to Palomar Health CIO Anis Trabelsi. Read more…
Paving the Digital Roadmap for the Patient Journey. With Forrester predicting that retail health will continue to make gains in primary care, organizations need to act quickly to improve their approach to care delivery and communication, said Patrick Reetz at LinkLive. The key to this approach is a centralized and omnichannel platform for engagement. Read more…
The Role of Automation in Alleviating Staffing Shortages. More than 60% of providers are looking to automate at least part of their administrative burden. Unfortunately, these efforts are doomed to fail if frequently updated data such as credentialing and licensing remains in silos, noted Eric Demers at Madaket Health. Read more…
Concerns for Providers and Developers in ONC’s HTI-1. The EHR Association’s David Bucciferro argued that the latest interoperability proposed rule from ONC doesn’t sufficiently consider the burden compliance will place on provider organizations and health IT developers. Specifically, the deadline doesn’t give stakeholders enough time to develop and deploy software that will comply with the new rules. Read more…
The Vital Role of Revenue Integrity in Healthcare Organizations. Revenue integrity is a matter of improving the revenue cycle by identifying and correcting process inefficiencies, said Kyle Sherseth at Savista. One of the most critical steps is breaking down silos between departments, as it provides better visibility into the patient’s journey through the clinical process. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance, based in Albany with the New York eHealth Collaborative, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for June 4, 2023: 51% of hospitals plan to participate in TEFCA, but only 18% of orgs have implemented email security software correctly. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- AI-powered healthcare communications company Hyro raised $20 million in Series B funding.
- Recently launched capacity management vendor Florence acquired Zipnosis, a virtual care solution provider.
- Data quality vendor Intelligent Medical Objects acquired Melax Technologies, which extract information from biomedical textual data.
- RCM vendor Aspirion acquired FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services.
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