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.
Addressing the Billing Cycle With Ambient Clinical Voice. John Lynn talked to Gautamdev Chowdary and Sean Ross at Medvise.AI, which has trained voice-to-text transcription to assign the best ICD or CPT codes and aims to provide fully automated and accurate billing. Read more…
A Look at Interesting Innovations at HIMSS 2024. Healthcare IT Today recorded close to 90 videos in Orlando. This post highlighted interviews about smart hospital rooms, predictive modeling, care coordination, and scaling generative AI. Read more…
How Provider Organizations Share Data With Payers Is Evolving. John sat down with Anthony Murray at MRO to chat about how FHIR APIs help organizations extract exactly the information they need – a process more efficient and less duplicative than sharing entire charts. Read more…
Tying Interventions to Patient Improvements. Dr. Paulo Pinho and Ben Hsieh at Discern Health talked to John about why transparency and accountability is so important for analytics, as well as why predictive models mush be retuned for different patient populations. Read more…
The Risks and Concerns of Ambient Clinical Voice. When it comes to this emerging technology, the Healthcare IT Today community said the biggest challenges include privacy issues, inaccuracies, and clinicians’ unfamiliarity with ambient voice. Read more…
Supporting “One Patient, One Record” With Legacy Data. Preserving data from legacy systems has wide-reaching benefits, as it ensures data accuracy and provides valuable insights. MediQuant CEO Jim Jacobs told John how health systems can make this data available amid the complexities of decommissioning legacy systems. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Is Healthcare More Risky Because of Consolidation? John and Colin Hung considered if relying on large technology infrastructure has a negative impact on cybersecurity or AI accuracy. They also weigh the impact of consolidation on access to community care. Read more…
Transforming Clinical Quality and Value in Rehabilitation. Jared Gillespie at Academy Medtech Ventures addressed the role of neurocognitive assessment in improving rehabilitative care by enabling a more holistic and personalized approach. Read more…
Four Steps to AI Implementation Success. The goal with any new technology is making adoption seamless and ensuring buy-in. Here, that involves pushing for process automation, getting stakeholders to collaborate, building on a solid foundation, and operationalizing AI, said Ben Cushing at Red Hat. Read more…
Essential Conversations for Integrating AI in Healthcare Transformation. Effective implementation of clinical AI means talking about human factors, infrastructure realities, the regulatory environment, and AI’s overall impact, according to Demetri Giannikopoulos at Aidoc. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 17, 2024: 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, and 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Veradigm will acquire ScienceIO, maker of large language models for healthcare.
- Consultancy DAS Health acquired Agility Holdings, which provides IT services to senior living facilities.
- Technology services company Endava will acquire GalaxE Group, expanding its footprint in North America.
- Patient-centered medical image exchange platform Pocket Health raised $33 million in Series B funding.
- Interoperability vendor Moxe Health received $25 million in growth capital from Trinity Capital.
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