Saturday, August 24, 2024

< + > Weekly Roundup – August 24, 2024

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 Plethora of Announcements at Epic UGM 2024…and a Few Weren’t Even AI: A lot of exciting announcements were made at Epic UGM 2024, so many, in fact, that we can’t write about all of them! Instead, John Lynn composites a list of some of the many announcements he found worth noting. Read more…

RingConn 2 Review: Earlier this year, John Lynn did a full review of the RingConn Smart Ring. With a Kickstarter going for the RingConn 2, they reached out to John so he and his wife could try out and review the 2nd edition. Read more…

What Healthcare Can Learn from Financial Services about Digital Experiences: Online resources published by health systems and payers are often out of date, leaving only 32% of respondents satisfied with their experience. On the flip side, 58% of respondents are satisfied with the digital experience of banks and insurers. What can healthcare learn from financial services to better the patient’s digital experience? Read more…

The Sensible, Business-Driven Approach to Cloud and Multicloud Deployments: Jason Jones, Executive in residence at Rackspace Technology, and Michael Fredericks, Global APEX and Multicloud Healthcare Lead at Dell Technologies, believe adopting multiple cloud, on premise, and hybrid cloud requires a thoughtful and strategic approach. Read more…

Advancing Healthcare Language Services and Leveraging Responsible AI: You can’t replace all clinical interactions with AI, nor can you ignore AI and only rely on clinical interactions. Adam Rademacher, Director of Operations at AMN Healthcare Language Services, says “The integration of AI presents a delicate balance between the use of human oversight and the integration of AI technology.” Read more…

PatientIQ Automates and Improves the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a very important tool in expanding our patient-centered care models. PatientIQ is at the forefront of automating and improving the data collection and analysis of these standardized and industry-validated surveys. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Ripped from the Headlines: CrowdStrike, ONC, Biden/Trump, and the Olympics: Taking inspiration from recent headlines, John Lynn and Colin Hung discuss big headline items like the CrowdStrike outage, ONC, and more! Read more…

Carle Health Chooses Nabla for Its Workflow Focus: Carle Health chose Nabla for their Ambient AI Assistant solutions, after testing many different ambient voice products. John Lynn sat down with Dr. Ed Lee, Chief Medical Officer at Nabla, and Dr. David Lovinger, MD, FHM, FACP, Associate Chief Medical Officer, and Chief Informatics Officer at Carle Health, to learn more about this decision. Read more…

How Healthcare Organizations Can Deploy Data Security More Holistically to Prevent Third-Party Breaches: As we continue to adopt more technological solutions from third-parties, keeping track of where sensitive data lies and who can access it becomes increasingly complicated – even more so in our recent push to share data. Asaf Kochan, Co-Founder and President at Sentra describes how to deploy data security in all areas of our organizations to prevent third-party breaches. Read more…

Beat Ransomware: Privacy Protection as Corporate Strategy: As cyberattacks are on the rise, so does the need for cybersecurity. Ron Zayas, Founder and CEO at Ironwall360, an Incogni company, details how to work together as a company to ensure that all areas of your organization are protected from all different forms of security breaches. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 21, 2024: Multiple roles revolving around data as well as informatics and analysis. Read more…

Bonus Features for August 18, 2024: 19% of physicians say generative AI undermines the patient-clinician relationship, Press Ganey surveys now integrated with MyChart, plus 23 more stories. Read more…

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