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.
Aiming for Transparency, Reliability, and Credibility With Ambient Clinical Voice. John Lynn and Dr. Shiv Rao at Abridge chatted about the power of going beyond speech recognition to build trust with physicians thanks to EHR integrations and maps to ontologies such as SNOMED and LOINC. Read more…
Keeping Large Language Models and AI Tools Honest. No one can keep up with the explosion of information in medicine. John spoke to Peter Bonis at Wolters Kluwer Health about constantly updating and training large language models so they’re well positioned to assist clinical staff. Read more…
Making AI Part of the Clinical Conversation. John spoke to Lars Maaløe at Corti about developing ambient clinical voice that can make recommendations during a patient interview along with generating notes, suggesting clinical codes, and doing other common administrative tasks. Read more…
The Role Predictive Analytics in Serving Front-Line Clinics. Colin Hung interviewed Dr. Hari Nallapaneni, CMO of St. Louis-based FQHC CareSTL Health, about identifying patients at risk of missing appointments and offering services that can help them, whether it’s transportation vouchers or remote monitoring devices. Read more…
Unexpected Delights from the RSNA23 Exhibit Hall. Meanwhile, Colin went to Chicago and saw much more positive energy in the RSNA expo hall than in previous years. It was also interesting to see VR making a comeback after a few years on the sidelines – and to see Yoda getting an X-ray (fortunately for routine care). Read more…
How Digital Health Attracts Software Engineers: Goals. Since startups can’t pay engineers what big tech companies do, how do they attract talent? Andy Oram explored this topic in a three-part series. The first installment discussed how firms focus on finding people who want to solve problems, know healthcare, and understand patients’ needs. Read more…
How Digital Health Attracts Software Engineers: Strategies. Part two outlined how digital health companies should emphasize their mission and purpose as a key part of the recruitment process, as that will help leaders find engineers who want to make a difference in the world. Read more…
How Digital Health Attracts Software Engineers: Talent Management. In part three, Andy discussed creating a culture where engineers can thrive. In many cases, it’s a matter of ongoing training – and sometimes, it’s helping medical professionals learn to code so they can build better software themselves. Read more…
What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment? At HLTH, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this important topic. And we heard a lot of worthy answers, including public health, rural health, senior health, post-acute care, and cutting down on healthcare’s spending on administration. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Teamwork and Leadership. John spoke to Anna Turman at CommonSpirit Health about connecting IT and business terminology with everyday language to help stakeholders understand the value of tech. Read more…
A Medical Receptionist Service Can Improve the Patient Experience. Today’s medical receptionists are the gateway to the healthcare facility, according to Stephanie Maharjan at WellReceived. Virtualized services, personalized interactions, and seamless scheduling all make for a better patient experience. Read more…
Recommendations for Strengthening Radiology Cybersecurity. Radiology departments are a desirable target for hackers because of the volume of PHI and PII they handle daily. A combination of authentication, encryption, monitoring, and other services offer valuable protection, said Jatin (JT) Thakkar at Carestream. Read more…
Go Beyond Just Managing Content and Activate It. Most healthcare organizations focus on managing content from a compliance perspective. This is a missed opportunity, according to Jeff Lusby at Quest Diagnostics, who said there’s potential in optimizing content to be searched, analyzed, and used to influence decision-making. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: EHR Strategic Advisory Specialist, a hybrid role for an Ohio-based hospital, posted by Stoltenberg Consulting to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for December 3, 2023: Only 40% of orgs say EHRs help manage burnout; meanwhile, cost optimization is top strategy for 70% of payers. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Bain Capital is acquiring Guidehouse, a consulting firm that federal agencies and businesses, for $5.3 billion.
- RCM vendor AAPC acquired Semantic Health, maker of inpatient medical auditing software for insurers and hospitals.
- HOPPR launched Grace, a multimodal foundation model for medical imaging, and announced a $3 million funding round.
- AI company Layer Health announced its launch, backed by $4 million in funding.
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