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.
Healthcare Innovation: Disrupting Traditional Models and Understanding Regulations. We asked the Healthcare IT Community to talk to us about what it takes to stand out and get your innovation funded. It’s important to address a meaningful need, find collaborators in the pharma or provider markets, and validate proof points for customers and regulators, the expert said. Read more…
Unpacking Surescripts’ Commitment to Interoperability. The company is committed to TEFCA and intends to become a QHIN, Justin McMartin at Surescripts told Colin. Along with sharing prescription information, Surescripts is supporting the sharing of vaccination status, demographic information, and clinical notes. Read more…
Trustworthy AI is Key to Preventing the Erosion of Trust at Scale. AI’s potential to spread misinformation – think the Pope in a puffer jacket – can make it hard to trust, Reggie Townsend at SAS told Colin. Building trustworthy AI means ensuring systems are unbiased, transparent and accountable. Read more…
Healthcare’s Data Resolution Problem. Healthcare isn’t paying enough attention to the nuance of patient data, Colin learned from Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture. Analytics tools all too often relies on “low resolution” codes when they would learn a lot more from clinical notes and other data sources that paint a high-resolution picture. Read more…
Outsourcing Clinical Notes to the Experts. John Lynn spoke to Jim Boswell at OnPoint Healthcare Partners about the benefits of combining ambient clinical voice technology with expert human reviewers to capture, securely upload, and deliver clinical notes in as little as an hour. Read more…
Is AI Eating Healthcare? In the latest Healthcare IT Podcast, John and Colin tackle the topic on everyone’s mind. In particular, they address what areas of healthcare won’t be impacted by AI and also discuss the ethical and equity questions about widespread use of AI. Read more…
Know Your Patient and Prevent Insurance Fraud. For busy CISOs, fraud prevention can easily slip under the radar. Verifying patient identity and requiring authentication on an ongoing basis can help safeguard providers against fraud, said Bala Kumar at Jumio. Read more…
How A Security Operations Center Can Help Maintain Healthcare Cybersecurity. Increasing costs for cybersecurity insurance are hitting many health systems hard. Preston Duren at Fortified Health Security described how SOC provides 24/7 monitoring, threat assessment, and incident detection, response, and recovery. Read more…
What ChatGPT Needs to Succeed in Healthcare. Large language models struggle when they don’t know the answer to a question, noted Dr. Michael Blum at BeeKeeperAI. And to keep learning, they need a lot of data – which in healthcare means PHI. That’s where confidential computing platforms will come into play. Read more…
Further AI Adoption Requires Better Data Infrastructure. More than half of healthcare organizations are prioritizing AI investments in the next five years. Making the most of AI means overcoming imitations on data storage, access, security, and protection, according to Jon Kimerle at Pure Storage. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Director of Application Development and Integrations at New York eHealth Collaborative, based in Albany or Manhattan, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Bonus Features for May 28, 2023: 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, plus an 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Chronic condition virtual care management platform HealthSnap raised $9 million in Series A funding.
- Reveleer acquired MDPortals, maker of prospective risk adjustment software.
- Personalized care company Validic acquired Trapollo, a remote care logistics company. Trapollo had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Communications since 2015, and Cox is now an investor in Validic.
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