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.
Talkiatry Finds Features and Flexibility in eClinicalWorks. Colin Hung connected with CEO Robert Krayn to talk about how the telemedicine service connects psychiatrists with patients and handles the many types of mental health referrals using eCW EHR, which Talkiatry chose based on its flexibility. Read more…
What Are the Most Compelling Uses of AI You’ve Seen? At HLTH, Healthcare IT Today also asked members of our community what has made for the most effectives use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare. We heard about personalization, tech-enabled services, back-office workflows, and expanding the use of effective but little-known models. Read more…
What Does It Take to Achieve Epic Gold Stars Level 9? John Lynn chatted with Ray Lowe at AltaMed and Bill Lewkowski at HCTec about what it takes to demonstrate continuous improvement in using Epic software – and why organizations such as AltaMed may not be in a rush to achieve Level 10. Read more…
Asking the Right Questions to Support Patient Self-Scheduling. John talked to Hari Prasad at Yosi Health about asking the right questions and supporting the right workflows to enable self-scheduling, whether it’s for in-person or virtual appointments. Read more…
Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data. In the first post in a series, Andy Oram examined the challenge of going beyond wellness hype to truly measure wellness. At the heart of the issue are outcomes measuring medical change and process indicators showing that steps to improve wellness are happening. Read more…
Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want. In part two, Andy explored why interventions, goals, and metrics for wellness programs depend a lot on who’s paying for the service – whether it’s employers, providers, commercial health plans, or government health plans. Read more…
Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures. In part three, Andy discussed how standards for documenting wellness and measuring progress are constantly evolving, vary significantly from one person to the next, and are even more difficult to define for mental and behavioral health. Read more…
How Workflow Automation Delivers Services to Marginalized Populations. Andy had a conversation with Tristan Louis at Casebook about helping social service organizations connect to patients who may not be using services they qualify for. One key, of course, is EHR integration. Read more…
What Healthcare Policy Would You Change If You Could? At HLTH, Healthcare IT Today also asked what policy or regulations they’d like to change. Answers included changing nurse reimbursement and workflow standardization; there was also a vote for accelerating enforcement of the information blocking rule. Read more…
Making Interoperability a Priority for Canada’s Largest Province. Aidan Lee and Matt Leduc at OntarioMD spoke to Colin about the organization’s efforts to advance interoperability in Ontario through the adoption of FHIR-based standards and other initiatives. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Should You Have Fall Conference FOMO? Colin and John take a break from their travels to recap the events they’ve attended, focusing on if the conversations about AI are different than they used to be and if any other technology is catching their eye. Read more…
Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies With RFID. Medication delivery in the hospital is a vital but tedious process that’s unfortunately prone to errors, said Dr. Jennifer Splawski at Bluesight. RFID improves visibility into inventory and utilization, helping to ensure that needed supplies are readily available. Read more…
The Answer to Provider Data Management May Already Be in Your Tech Stack. Leveraging relationship data from sales, marketing, service, and call center departments is an important step to building a single source of truth for contracting and credentialing, noted Karra Hendrix at Verifiable. Read more…
Reimagining Health IT on the Cusp of ONC’s Final HTI-1 Rule. In the first post in our new Healthcare Regulatory Talk series, Dr. Nick Barger at DrFirst covered how the 21st Century CARES Act requires EHR vendors to support information sharing and sets guardrails for using AI for clinical decision support. Read more…
Bonus Features for November 12, 2023: 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, and telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR, a clinical intelligence company that identifies therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions.
- SCAN Group announced a strategic investment in Dina, which provides digital care-at-home services to providers and health plans.
- Abridge raised $30 million in Series B funding; the company focuses on generative AI for clinical documentation.
- Senior care coordination platform Sage raised $15 million in Series A funding.
- MIDAS Healthcare Solutions received a $2 million Series A extension; the company produces technology that aids in the safe disposal of controlled substances.
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