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.
Improving Quality of Life for People with Cognitive Disabilities. Remote monitoring and other types of smart technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities measure stress. John Lynn spoke with Andrea Palmer at Awake Labs and Edward Amey at Jay Nolan Community Services about the role of this technology in developing patient-centered support plans and helping patients respond to stress. Read more…
An Open Framework for Flexible Mobile Healthcare Interfaces. Single-use mobile apps don’t lead to a favorable patient experience. Colin Hung interviewed Gozio Health’s Joshua Titus and Lee Jones about the company’s new open platform for bringing together multiple apps – for scheduling, check-in- wayfinding, follow-up, and so on – in a single interface for patients. Read more…
Where There’s Room for Innovation in Digital Transformation. Technology hasn’t been rolled out evenly in healthcare, so Healthcare IT Today asked members of the community where innovation would still have a big impact. Answers ranged from more personalized care and decision support to financial navigation and more advanced wearable devices. Read more…
Community Hospitals Can Benefit from Health IT, Too. John sat down with Navin Jain at Cookeville Medical Clinic, a provider with four clinics in central Tennessee, to discuss how community health care providers can tap IT and process automation to improve patient experience and clinical workloads with the help of partners like of CareCognitics and athenahealth. Read more…
8 Interesting Exhibitors at #RSNA22. The annual the Radiological Society of North America conference is one of healthcare’s largest tradeshows. Colin Hung spend some time on the expo hall floor and talked to 8 companies bringing innovation to radiology reporting, image storage, the radiology workstation, and more. Read more…
One Physician Group’s Success with RPA in Claims Processing. Robotic process automation works well for claims processing because it can handle repetitive tasks and decide the next step to take. Colin talked to Dinesh Pai at Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group and Nicholas Frenette at AGS Health about how RPA helped the physician group solve its “penny problem” and get claims processed faster. Read more…
IT’s Impact on Healthcare as a Whole. In the latest CIO Podcast, John chatted with Skip Rollins at Freeman Health about the value of improving mobile communication between clinical staff members. They also discussed how Skip’s joint CISO and CIO role has a broader impact on the entire organization. Read more…
Real Change Is Needed to Address Healthcare’s Workforce Challenges. Colin recently sat down with MGMA President Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright to discuss how practices can attract and retain talent for administrative roles. The key is a multi-pronged approach of competitive salaries and benefits, improved culture, and a recruitment process that engages and energizes younger workers. Read more…
Preparing for New E&M Guidelines for Emergency Medicine. New CPT Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes and guideline go into effect in 2023. Fathom’s Amit Kayaker talked about why medical-decision making plays a greater role in E/M coding and how this could impact hospital’s approach to RCM. Read more…
Doing Digital Right: Leveraging Automation to Bridge Operational Gaps. Digital strategies in healthcare shouldn’t be disruptive or transformative, according to Orbita’s Patty Riskind, since most organizations can’t handle wholesale overhauls. Well-placed process automation, especially in improving the patient experience, can go a long way. Read more…
Why Digital Transformation Should Be a Priority for Pharma. On the other hand, pharma is due for a mindset shift when it comes to technology implementation, Gramener’s Nutan B said. Innovation is all too often siloed because digital transformation is seen as a project and not an enterprise-wide strategy tied to business outcomes. Clearly, that needs to change. Read more…
Featured Health IT Job: Oracle Cerner CommunityWorks R/C and DA2 Specialist at Stoltenberg Consulting, supporting a client based in the Northeast with two weeks onsite followed by fully remote support, posted to Healthcare IT Central.
Funding and M&A Activity:
- NextGen Healthcare acquired TSI Healthcare, a value-added reseller of NextGen solutions, for an upfront amount of $68 million with contingent consideration of up to $22 million.
- Data security firm CloudWave acquired Sensato Cybersecurity.
- Virtual care and analytics company Medical Informatics Corp. announced $27 million in funding with a $17 million Series B round and $10 million in debt.
- Academic medical center Hospital for Special Surgery announced a $21 million Series A funding round to launch RightMove Powered by HSS, an independent company providing virtual musculoskeletal physical therapy.
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