Welcome to the first edition of the 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.
Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? John Lynn decided to let the dust settle a bit before offering his thoughts on what the Oracle co-founder and executive chairman called a “National EHR Database.” The goal is certainly lofty – a full longitudinal record for a patient is well nigh impossible, as it would require Oracle and Epic to cooperate. Something akin to the Epic Cosmos dataset, with most but not all of the data, is far more likely. At the same time, Lynn says it was refreshing to hear a technology leader focus on how a national EHR database would benefit primarily benefit patients and public health efforts. He’s also interested in how an integration of Oracle ERP and Cerner EHR would play out – a goal that, once again, could be stymied by Epic. Read more…
What’s Really Causing Burnout and What Can Be Done About it? Geri Lynn Baumblatt offers a recap of the American College of Physicians (ACP) conference, where there was a clear focus on shifting the conversation on burnout and moral distress among health professionals. Instead of talking about building personal resilience, leadership needs to make it both safe and easy for clinicians to have candid and confidential conversations about the problems they face. The conference also provided strategies for helping patients, clinicians, and administrators better empathize with how each other experiences the healthcare system. Read more…
Where Are We At With FHIR? Watch Joe Gagnon, CEO at 1upHealth, and Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth, dive into where the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard has been succeeding and where it’s still a little weak. Gagnon and Rucker also explore the potential for FHIR to impact health at a population level, by making data available for analysis that informs clinical decision support and tracks those decisions to the cost of care. Finally, the 1upHealth executives address whether we can expect another standard to follow FHIR. Read more…
Is Healthcare AI Essential or Nice to Have? with CIO Steve Hess. Listen to Hess, the CIO at UCHealth, talk about how healthcare organizations should be approaching artificial intelligence and machine learning. Hess also identifies the skills that CIOs should be developing to be effective leaders in a healthcare environment increasingly powered by AI. Read more…
How IoT Medical Devices Save and Improve Lives. Erik Kling, Interim Head of Internet of Things Americas at Vodafone Business, provides three examples of how connected healthcare devices – projected to be a $176 billion market in less than five years’ time – improve clinical outcomes as well as quality of life. Read more…
5 Trends in Healthcare IT. Ed Macosky, Chief Innovation Officer at Boomi, discusses five ways that the challenges presented by COVID-19 have provided opportunities for healthcare organizations to turn their attention to digital transformation. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: EHR implementation specialist position at New York-based Cayuga Centers posted on Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Physical therapy patient and practice management vendor Spry announced a new round of investment for $10 million raised to date
- Telehealth infrastructure provider SteadyMD has acquired BlocHealth, a clinician licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment platform.
- Public health disease surveillance service provider InductiveHealth Informatics announced a growth investment partnership with Diversis.
- Virtual opioid addiction treatment provider Bicycle Health announced $50 million in Series B funding.
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