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.
Diversity, Data, and Customer Relationships: Key Themes from ViVE 2023. Colin Hung and John Lynn had many interesting conversations in Nashville. Find out what they learned in interviews with industry experts from Divurgent, Laurel Road, Santa Clara Valley Health System, 314e Corporation, and Clinical Architecture. Read more…
At ViVE 2023, It Seems Like Everyone is Waiting for Something. Colin’s overall takeaway from ViVE 2023 was that everyone in healthcare seems to be waiting for better times, whether it’s lower interest rates, a drop in labor costs, or an end to the tech industry’s layoffs. In the meantime, organizations are focused on their must-do projects and not much else. Read more…
Bonus Features, ViVE Edition – March 27, 2023 and Bonus Features, ViVE Edition – March 28, 2023. While ViVE 2023 may not have had any splashy announcements or major policy updates, there was some news from Amazon, Babylon, Care Evolution, LexisNexis, Oak Street Health, Philips, Propellor Health, and more.
Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how to protect against the most common cyber threats. Vigilance is obviously important, and so is protecting infrastructure, implementing security controls, restricting who can access data, and updating disaster recovery plans. Read more…
Achieving the Vision of Healthcare’s Future. AdvancedMD envisions a more equal collaboration between patients and clinical staff, along with an increased emphasis on remote monitoring, process automation, and self-service capabilities. Andy Oram spoke to Tim Costantino about how the company sees healthcare getting to this point, along with what may stand in the way of progress. Read more…
Taking On Administrative Burdens With Generative AI. A well-tuned AI tool can complete administrative tasks for at least half the cost of human workers. Given healthcare’s massive skills shortage, most organizations are deploying tools to augment the work that existing staff are already doing, such as generating automated summaries of interactions, Stead Burwell and Jonathan Wiggs of Outbound AI told John. Read more…
The Changing Dynamic Between Clinical Operations and IT. As healthcare become more digital, IT and clinical departments have to work more closely together. But IT departments in healthcare typically get half the budget of their counterparts in other industries, Thomas Charlton at Goliath Technologies told Colin. That’s why vendor partnerships are so important to healthcare IT. Read more…
Learning From Consolidating EHRs and Achieving HIMSS Stage 7. In the latest CIO Podcast, LCMC Health’s Tanya Townsend told John about the health system’s EHR consolidation as part of its effort to get to HIMSS Stage 7 for the EMR Adoption Model. Townsend also addressed whether any parts of EMRAM would have been worth putting off if not for achieving Stage 7. Read more…
Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach and Data Leak Affecting 3.1 Million Users. Anne Zieger summarized the latest story of a digital health company facing heat for improperly sharing data. In this case, it was mental health provider Cerebral, which admitted that its pixel-based tracking technology used to mine use data was disclosing information to Google, TikTok, Meta, and other third parties. Read more…
Achieving Better Data at the Point of Care. It can take 20 minutes to reconstruct a single patient’s chart in a new EHR – and even then, it’s a mix and match information from multiple systems. Sarah Bavar at ReMedi described how data abstraction and a healthy dose of clinical knowledge can provide more accurate data in a lot less time. Read more…
Taking SDoH From Data to Analysis to Action. Payers and providers are investing in data on social determinants of health. Diana Zuskov at LexisNexis Risk Solutions discussed why SDoH data needs to be personal, granular, and high quality to effectively coordinate care, especially when resources to address social needs are limited. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: PACS Administrator at Salinas, California-based Natividad posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- RCM vendor Janus received a strategic growth investment from Enhanced Healthcare Partners.
- Autism care company SpectrumAI closed a $20 million Series A funding round.
- White-label telehealth service OpenLoop raised $15 million in Series A funding.
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