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.
Using AI to Detect Rare Conditions. Even though today’s physicians see a lot of patients, they may only encounter a handful of patients with rate conditions in their entire careers. John interviewed Joseph Zabinski at OM1 about the power of searching data sets for evidence that a rare condition might be emerging so physicians are better prepared to treat it. Read more…
The Potential of Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI. While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. John spoke to Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma at Ambience Healthcare about their approach to real-time automation of the scribing process. Read more…
Can a Modern Approach to Data Collection Save the CDC? Given the nation’s lack of lab data standards, there are 40 different ways to code a negative PCR test result. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Read more…
The Key to Retaining Patients – and Employees. John sat down with Tiffany A.S. Wright at CareMax about the importance of involving patients in their own care, especially in fee-for-value models. This has the twofold benefit of improving patient retention while improving employee engagement and motivation. Read more…
The Good and Bad Sides of Healthcare AI and Automation. The industry’s concerns about AI aren’t entirely new, but process automation presents a new wrinkle. Experts in the Healthcare IT Today community said automation works best on routine, repeatable, and rules-based activities that get in the way of patient care, but they cautioned that automation only works on processes organizations already do well. Read more…
Don’t Let Cyber Criminals Operate in Your Blind Spot. Dave Bailey at Clearwater said the key to managing cybersecurity blind spots is to make them smaller (since they’ll never go away completely). Getting this right is a matter of continuous risk assessment and monitoring paired with employee education and identity protection. Read more…
The Hidden Barrier to Better Healthcare. Medical advances take too long to reach patients, according to Josh Miller at Gradient Health. One solution is to make the clinical validation process go faster by making data more readily accessible; this will get products to market sooner and ensure that data is ready for regulatory submission. Read more…
Addressing Cybersecurity Issues in IoT Devices. IoT device security should be a shared responsibility between device manufacturers, institutions, and end users, said Inviggo’s Tamara Badza. Policy requirements need to focus not only on cybersecurity (confidentiality, access controls, and so on) but also on resiliency, availability, and reliability. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst at New York eHealth Collaborative, based in Albany or Manhattan, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Patient monitoring technology maker Spacelabs Healthcare acquired PeraHealth, a predictive analytics company.
- Green building company R-Zero raised $105 million in Series C funding to expand the adoption of its UV-C technology.
- Primary care EHR vendor Elation Health acquired Lightning MD, a cloud-based billing and claims management company.
- Mental health and wellbeing platform Spectrum.Life completed a €5 million raise.
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