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.
A Tribute to Casey Quinlan – Advocate and Renaissance Woman. Colin Hung wrote a heartfelt tribute to Casey Quinlan, an outspoken advocate for increased patient involvement in healthcare decision-making and a more accountable (and affordable) healthcare system. She may be gone, but her legacy remains strong. Read more…
Improving Device Management by Focusing on Physical Workflows. Clinical staff need physical workstations or handheld devices to treat patients. Waiting for devices that are fully charged and sanitized can waste precious time. That’s why Enovate Medical and JAR Systems partnered to create a device management platform tailored to the unique workflows of the inpatient setting. Read more…
Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want. Three leaders of ROI Healthcare sat down with John Lynn and talked about helping health systems get the payoff they want from investments in RCM, ERP, and EHR software. Two key steps: Revisiting licensing agreements and ensuring new systems aren’t tethered to old processes. Read more…
How Addressing Sepsis Helped HCA Better Prepare for Hurricanes. After improving the quality of data collected at the point of care, HCA rolled out a project to better detect and prevent sepsis. Jim Jirjis, MD, told Colin the back-end work for the project had an unintended benefit: By streamlining documentation, nurses had patient information readily available when facilities needed to be evacuated before a hurricane hit. Read more…
The Intersection of Informatics, Analytics, and Medicine. In the latest CIO Podcast, Ray Gensinger, MD, at Tegria talked to John about the journey from physician to CIO to CMO. With this perspective in mind, he also discussed how healthcare organizations should prioritize their informatics efforts – no small task given the large quantity of data they have in contrast to their limited informatics resources. Read more…
Tracking the Patient Experience at Intermountain Health. Like most health systems, Intermountain wanted to improve the patient experience but needed a systematic way to get information from its call centers, which receive more 32 million calls each year. Dan Liljenquist told John how Intermountain is using Qualtrics not only to gather data but to to build customer preferences into each individual’s record. Read more…
Maximizing Healthcare Data Starts with a Human-Centric Approach. The pandemic highlighted all too well the value of readily available and reliable public health data, noted Chris Anello at iTech AG. This has required the industry to rethink how this data is presented to the public, and getting that right requires an increased emphasis on how consumers interact with data. Read more…
Fueling Innovation in Healthcare by Scaling Access to Protected Data. Manually de-identifying, abstracting, or normalizing data doesn’t give healthcare organizations the insights they need, according to Suraj Kapa, MD, at TripleBlind. That’s where federated analytics comes into play, enabling organizations to use real data in a secure and scalable way. Read more…
Leveraging Data to Maintain Access to Care Amid the Medicaid Redetermination Process. Up to 18 million Medicaid beneficiaries are due to lose coverage as the public health emergency ends. Analyzing member data can help public and private Medicaid health plans determine who faces the greatest risk of failing to recertify their eligibility, said Ashley Perry at Socially Determined. Read more…
Unlocking the Digital Front Door. Digitizing the patient experience is necessary to drive the increased consumerization of healthcare, and it should be an operational imperative for every healthcare organization, argued John Squeo at CitiusTech. The most effective digital front door must support multichannel engagement and integrate with multiple front-end and back-end tools. Read more…
Aiming for Health Equity Through Personalized Medicine. Nearly 80% of medications are approved for a single dosage, which often fails to account for how patients of different races, ages, or genders may respond to a treatment. Hakim Yadi, PhD, at Closed Loop Medicine described the role of real-time remote monitoring in linking personalized, optimized dosing with outcome improvements. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Clinic Informatics Coordinator at the Cow Creek Health & Wellness Center, based in Roseburg, Oregon, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for April 23, 2023: 77% of doctors are confident in a chatbot’s ability to assess patients’ symptoms, while only 7% of executives are very satisfied with patient-facing payment products. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Data analytics platform Arcadia raised $125 million in funding from Vista Credit Partners.
- Confidential information disclosure management company Verisma merged with ScanSTAT, which specializes in managing confidential information. The new company will do business under the Verisma brand.
- Cloud-based data platform 1upHealth raised $40 million in Series C funding.
- Care management solution provider MedArrive announced $8 million in funding.
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