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.
Helping Providers in Ontario Adopt AI and Improve EMRs. Colin Hung sat down with Rob Fox at OntarioMD about the organization’s work collaborating with vendors to give physicians a role in shaping EMR enhancements as well as helping physicians decide which AI innovations will work best for them. Read more…
What Tools are Necessary for Handling the Cloud in Healthcare? We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to help us identify the technology that lets organizations make the most of their cloud deployments. Answers include infrastructure management, resource utilization, data management, data protection, and security and compliance monitoring. Read more…
Overcoming Obstacles to Healthcare Training Data Accuracy. AI models need to be trained on high-quality data. John Lynn talked to Mark Christensen at Xelex.ai about what it takes to clean up and annotate data, along with why it’s important to have the right people doing the annotation. Read more…
Why Healthcare Organizations May Want to Run AI Locally. In a conversation with Robert Daigle at Lenovo, John learned some of the advantages of running AI locally. These include keeping sensitive data off the wide area network and cutting down on data transfer costs. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: The AI Edition of Buy or Sell. John and Colin dive into ambient clinical voice, chatbots, diagnostic AI, and AI-powered patient data searches. Find out which of these they think will have the most impact on healthcare – and the least. Read more…
Innovative Ways to Use QR Codes in Healthcare. QR codes are well positioned to being efficiency to healthcare operations, said Ravi Pratap at Beaconstac. They’re particularly helpful for managing equipment and enabling fast access to information. Read more…
How Healthcare Can Embrace the Cloud Without Jeopardizing Data. One of the biggest challenges with using the cloud is lack of visibility into how much and what types of data are being stored in the cloud. Tools such as a Cloud Access Security Broker can help organizations add a layer of security between the clod and the end user, noted Rodman Ramezanian at Skyhigh Security. Read more…
Embracing a Symbiotic Future Between AI and Human Touch. AI’s greatest potential is handling mundane tasks so people have more time to take on complex work, according to Ed Watal at Intellibus. This can only happen, though, if workers are willing to learn alongside AI models and increasingly adapt to them. Read more…
Helping Healthcare Professionals Evaluate AI Offerings. Both patients and providers are skeptical of AI’s usefulness in healthcare, noted Bay Area professors Steve Weber and AJ Grotto. Cybersecurity, privacy, and interoperability represent the biggest hurdles that vendors will need to overcome. Read more…
Unpacking the Potential of Generative AI for Mental Wellness. Generative AI could support diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions, and it can help document visits and track symptoms. At the same time, though, mental health practitioners and patients alike must weigh the security, privacy, and legal challenges of using generative AI, along with bias in algorithms. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Data Warehouse ETL Developer and Administrator (Epic), a remote position, posted by Stoltenberg Consulting to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Medicaid primary care service provider Pair Team raised $9 million in Series A funding.
- Digital engagement vendor Uniguest acquired pCare, a patient engagement company.
- RCM vendor Access Healthcare acquired Envera Health, a patient engagement vendor.
- Community care coding and RCM company WellSky acquired Corridor, a service partner for post-acute care.
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