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.
HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. John Lynn headed east for the annual HFMA conference. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. This comes with a challenge, though: Keep care focused on what matters to patients and their families. Read more…
The Role of Technology and Data in Keeping the Cash Coming In. In the latest Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast, Colin Hung chats with Jess Stover at SimiTree and Derek Shaw at Invicta Health Solutions about the role of process automation and data analysis in improving revenue cycle management (RCM) and boosting cash flow at a time when many practices need it. Read more…
Encouraging Signs for Digital Health in Canada. While John was in Denver, Colin attended the Collision Conference in Toronto – and the energy he felt has him optimistic that health IT can weather an economic downturn. In particular, speakers and attendees showcased how technology is positioned to support primary care, reduce clinician burnout, and take some of the headaches out of claims administration. Read more…
Key Benefits of Successful Healthcare Data Management. Jane Hite-Syed, Vice President and COO of National Government Services, explains how using HCDM for data integration can address organizations’ concerns about security, interoperability, and data governance. Read more…
How New Approaches to Patient Data Can Improve AI. Vanessa Braunstein, Healthcare Product Marketing Lead at NVIDIA, explores efforts to better gather and label patient data in order to build AI models with better predictive potential. Read more…
Health IT: Buy or Sell? The Future of Epic, Prior Auth, and More. In the latest edition of the Healthcare IT Podcast, John Lynn and Colin Hung debate whether Epic will change when (if?) Judy Faulkner retires, whether prior authorization is getting better, and how well health IT can cope with a potential recession. Read more…
Why Automation Should Be a Priority for Rural Health. Baha Zeidan, CEO at Azalea Health, discusses how automation can lessen the administrative burden and offset the impact of the labor shortage that’s hitting rural hospitals hard. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Manager – Enterprise Applications role at Mental Health Partners in Lafayette, Colo. (about 12 miles east of Boulder) posted on Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Patient-centered research platform PicnicHealth raised $60 million in Series C funding and announced plans to build 30 additional real-world data cohorts.
- RCM company Aspirion received a majority investment from Linden Capital Partners.
- Medical and life science device risk management platform Asimily announced a strategic investment from MemorialCare Innovation Fund.
- Provider management platform Medallion raised $35 million in Series C funding; it’s the third funding round the company has received in the last 12 months.
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