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.
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Technology can be a great solution to help ease that burden off of your staff so they aren’t likely to join the wave of burnout. Read more…
How Queuing Technology for Pharmacies Can Improve Safety & Efficiency. With the current staffing crisis, changing regulations, and pharmacists being given more tasks to do, getting a prescription can be a tricky and time-consuming task. But on an organizational level, there are ways for you to make it easier. Read more…
What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About? Since interoperability is a way of combining workflows in the interest of simplicity, there are so many topics and angles to discuss. At the recent Civitas Conference, we stopped to talk to all of you to see what you thought wasn’t being talked about enough. Read more…
Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector. Cyberattacks are forever on the rise, making it crucial that we have good cybersecurity. Sam Manjarres, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Identity Security at WatchGuard shares some ways to keep us safe. Read more…
AI Will Help Bridge Gaps in Canadian Healthcare. The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference returned to in-person for the first time since COVID-19. Catch up on what they said about AI at the conference. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today: Health IT Potpourri. We take a look at big health IT news topics and look forward to upcoming health IT conferences. Read more…
The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers. Burnout is becoming a huge problem in healthcare. Forbes reported almost 3% of the healthcare workforce is resigning each month, accounting for 1.7 million people who quit last year, a quarter of that is due to burnout. Read more…
A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation. Ambient clinical voice is a hot topic for John Lynn and one that he will defend against some of the cynics out there. To build up his defense he sat down for an interview with Alex Lebrun, Co-Founder and CEO at Nabla, who is working in this space. Read more…
How Will the Current Macroeconomic Environment Impact Digital Health and Healthcare IT Decision-Making? How will the current macroeconomic environment impact digital health and healthcare IT decision-making? How are AI and automation addressing healthcare labor shortage challenges? We interview Don Hooker, analyst at Capital One Healthcare to get those answers. Read more…
What are the Cost Implications of Implementing Cloud Technology in Healthcare? We’ve talked a lot about implementing the cloud in healthcare, but have we thought about the costs of doing so? Our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community shared their insights on this topic with us. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer, a position located in Minneapolis, MN, posted by Hennepin Healthcare at Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for October 1, 2023: 45 Percent of patients prefer telehealth for minor but urgent issues and much more. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Leading Digital Front Door platform Amenities Health raised a total of $10 million.
- Avel eCare, a leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, acquired Fident Health, a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider.
- Briya, an end-to-end healthcare data exchange platform, raised $11.5 million in their Series A round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $17 million.
- Atropos Health has completed a strategic financing from Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation Venture Group, Samsung Next, a venture arm of Samsung Electronics, Gaingels, Audere Capital, and others.
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