Bonus Features – March 10, 2024 – Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air, plus 27 more stories

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

News

• The Biden Cancer Moonshot is advancing a recommended minimum set of key cancer-related data elements under USCDI+ Cancer, a subset of United States Core Data for Interoperability.
• Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic Hyperspace natively on MacBook Air. It’s the first deployment of Epic on a Mac.

Studies

• Only 36% of healthcare CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks unique to AI, according to the EY CEO Outlook Pulse Survey. Additionally, 0% of clinicians have access to analytic insights about their patient population to improve outcomes.
• More than 40% of patients with diabetes only see their doctors two or three times a year, according to a report from CCS. Worryingly, 57% of patients believe weight loss drugs alone will help them achieve their health goals.
• The latest insights from Trellix ATLAS found PowerShell, AdFind, and Cobalt Strike are the top tools that cyberattacks are using to target the healthcare industry.

Partnerships

• Voice AI technology from Suki is now integrated with Amwell Converge.
• FDB and WebMD Ignite are collaborating to enhance patient discharge education to improve prescription drug safety and adherence.
• Health payment vendor TrustCommerce now supports PayPal and Venmo.
• Customers of payment accuracy vendor Lyric can now access Medicare Coordination of Benefits capabilities from Strout.
• Workforce enablement vendor Relias is partnering with AlayaCare to provide training for home care providers.
• Nomi Health and CHG Healthcare are partnering to expand medical support to underserved commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid populations.
• Resourcing vendor Experis is now reselling ClearDATA‘s CyberHealth Platform and Managed Services.
• The Cromwell Hospital London performed surgery using Apple Vision Pro and mixed reality technology from eXeX.
• Five hospital systems are collaborating with Quanterix to improve and simplify Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis.
• Analytics vendor MDClone is partnering with the University of Chicago and UChicago Medicine to establish the ADAMS Center for innovation.

Products

• Virtual care platform Pager launched an SMS-based engagement tool that doesn’t require the use of a portal or app.
• ModMed announced three AI integrations: Documentation, patient collaboration, and claims processing.
• Lindus Health launched an all-in-one package of contract research organization services to support research within the metabolic space.
• Financial diagnostics vendor Rivet launched Rivet Benchmark to help providers see how their payer rates compare to competitors.

Sales

• UMass Memorial Health chose Google Cloud for advanced analytics to bring personalized care to cardiometabolic patients.
• Cincinnati-area Mercy Health – Kings Mills Hospital chose pCare by Uniguest for patient engagement technology.
• Johns Hopkins Hospital is piloting Healthy.io Minuteful for Wound for patients suffering from chronic diabetic wounds.
• Miami-based Premier Radiology Services extended its relationship with RamSoft, adding cloud-based PACS services.
• Florida-based Millennium Physician Group chose WellSky for technology to support acute, post-acute, and home care.
• Decision support platform for fertility treatment FertilAI is launching in 10 U.S. clinics.
• Supplemental insurer Allstate Benefits selected Osara Health for its behavior change intervention for cancer.

People

• Somnee appointed Tim Rosa as CEO; the company makes a headband that uses neurostimulation to improve sleep quality.
• Consumer engagement vendor RadiantGraph named Dr. Geeta Nayyar as Chief Medical Officer and Kirk Goodman as Senior Vice President of Commercial.
• Cost management analytics vendor MultiPlan appointed Jerry Hogge as Chief Operating Officer.

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