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.
The Ever-Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to learn about how healthcare cyberattacks have been getting more sophisticated. The experts said the keys to modern cybersecurity including managing assets, access, networks, infrastructure, and data, along with continuous threat monitoring and tried-and-true training that meets employees where they are. Read more…
How Connectivity Impacts Patients and Providers. You may not realize it, but poor connectivity can contribute to burnout, as nurses don’t have time to submit Help Desk tickets when they’re treating patients. That was one lesson from John Lynn’s conversation with Heather Hudnall and Heather Haugen at NTT. Another key point: 5G and Wi-Fi 6 will help, but they can’t be turned on overnight. Read more…
Discussing the Potential Impact of QHINs. Colin Hung interviewed Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture about how Qualified Health Information Networks will shine a light on data quality issues. Information will be moving more freely, to be sure – but the providers on the receiving end may not be able to make much use of the data they get. Read more…
Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes. Storing data and achieving interoperability hasn’t helped most health care organizations. That’s why Teresa Bell and Travis White at Kno2 told John they focus on finding ways to use what’s in vast data repositories to improve condition management and even influence changes to workflows. Read more…
Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing. You can’t buy or sell interop, according to Mario G. Hyland at AEGIS – but you can test for interoperability to make sure software meets data-sharing standards. John spoke to Hyland about the benefits and challenges of interop testing and learned why it often takes a village to get it right. Read more…
ViVE 2023 Preview. The latest Healthcare IT Podcast is all about ViVE. John and Colin provide their expert recommendations for visiting Nashville. Oh, they also mention the trends and topics they’re looking forward to learning more about and discuss what makes ViVE different from HIMSS. Read more…
Finding a Partner in Digital Acceleration at ViVE 2023. Diving deeper into the event, John named Divurgent’s announced collaboration with NTT DATA as one of the highlights of the ViVE agenda, along with several networking events that show the event’s efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read more…
When Patients Know Things the Doctor Does Not. Many patients with rare diseases know more about their condition than the doctors they see, but it’s hard to bring together this information – from medical devices, research studies, and even everyday life – and put it into clinical practice. John spoke to Christine Von Raesfeld at People with Empathy about her lifelong efforts to do exactly that. Read more…
Empowering Clinical Teams with Data-Driven Insights. Cognitive AI is well positioned to help healthcare and life sciences ingest, analyze, and interpret unstructured data, according to Steve Lazer at Dell Technologies. This will bring benefits that range from faster creation of reporting documents to real-time performance monitoring. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Director of Information Technology and Security, at Windsor, Ontario-based TransForm Shared Service Organization, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Home care technology and service provider Maribel Health completed a $25 million Series A funding round.
- Drug discovery insight company Protai added $12 million to its Seed round, bringing the total amount of funding raised to $20 million.
- Musculoskeletal health management company Bardavon Health Innovations launched its Safety Intelligence Suite for employers and insurers.
- Health data platform Zus Health secured $40 million in financing and announced an integration with primary care technology platform Elation Health.
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