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 Current Pain Points and Building Capacity for Future Needs. Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth. Read more…
Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersecurity. Erik Decker at Intermountain Health and Ed Gaudet at Censinet sat down with John to discuss two initiatives to encourage collaboration among cybersecurity stakeholders, improve visibility into cybersecurity risks, and fight back against cyberattacks. Read more…
Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Laurel Williams, M.D., at Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium and Malekeh Amini at Trayt Health told Colin about their efforts to break down silos and improve data sharing among mental health stakeholders in the state. Read more…
Putting Social Determinants Data to Use. Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable, John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). The companies are integrating third-party data with patient self-reported data and public health data to help providers understand what kind of interventions will work best for certain patients. Read more…
Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Legislation and policymaking are a black box for most people. That’s why the Connected Health Initiative advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors on issues ranging from reimbursement to interoperability to FDA regulation, Colin learned in a conversation with CHI’s Brian Scarpelli. Read more…
How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences? John and Colin devoted the latest Healthcare IT Today to a review of spring conference season. Learn their thoughts on the biggest trends and topics at ViVE, HIMSS, and more – and the most notable things that were missing from the industry’s biggest events. Read more…
Why Greenway Is Emphasizing EHR Optimization. Job #1 for an EHR should be to help people provide better care, Greenway Health’s Michael Blackman, M.D. told Colin. That’s why Greenway is focused on “making the easy stuff easy” and optimizing EHR workflows based on user feedback. Read more…
Querying Patient Databases Through Chat. Clinical studies can patients for any number of reasons. Atropos Health spoke to John about using generative AI to query clinical systems, public health repositories, and other evidence-based data sources to get detailed data unavailable elsewhere. Read more…
RPM Can Reduce AI’s Bias Problem and Improve Health Equity. Algorithms trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias, which skews decision-making and often leads to discrimination. Arnaud Rosier, PhD, at Implicity talked about the need to improve representation in data sets, in large part by using remote monitoring to collect more data from more patients. Read more…
Large Language Models Will Transform Telemedicine. Deepak Singh at Teladoc Health described how promoting interoperability, improving technical infrastructure, and routinely evaluating AI models can help mitigate the risk of large language models and help healthcare organizations better leverage telemedicine to transform care. Read more…
Include User Experiences When Assessing AI-Based Solutions. The University of Michigan Health-West rolled out conversational AI to document patient visits. The results were startling: Providers saved 5 minutes per visit, or up to 2.5 hours each day, and reported feeling more productive and less rushed, while patients said providers were more focused during their appointments. Read more…
Improving Patient Care Through Connected Technology. Romina Elias and Jeff Kenkel at Dell Technologies discussed how to make the most of data from medical devices on the edge and empower clinical staff to detect patterns or make evidence-based recommendations they may otherwise miss. Read more…
Closing the Cloud Security Gaps in Healthcare. With ransomware impacting patient safety, organizations need to take proactive steps to protect cloud infrastructure and prevent future attacks, according to T.J. Houske at OTAVA. Auditing data, physical security, and disaster recovery strategies is an important start. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Procurement Coordinator at New York eHealth Collaborative, based in Albany, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for May 14, 2023: Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, while 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- AI vendor Lucem Health closed a $7.7 million Series A funding round.
- Payment and cost management company MultiPlan acquired Benefits Science, which makes analytics tools to predict clinical and financial risk.
- Recommendation engine Amino Health raised $80 million in equity and debt financing.
- Centene divested Apixio, an AI platform to support value-based care, to New Mountain Capital.
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