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.
TEFCA’s Role in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to discuss TEFCA’s role in interoperability. Highlights included the potential for standards-based data exchange at a national level and an expanded “universe” of healthcare entities that can send and receive information. Read more…
Bringing Engagement – and Also Privacy – to Mental Health. John Lynn connected with Zack Lamb at Bambu AI to discuss using patient data to improve mental health support without collecting data, enabling ongoing engagement in between visits with a clinician while maintaining privacy. Read more…
Charm Health Adding Features for Larger Practices, Encouraging Innovation. Colin Hung reported from the EHR vendor’s user conference, which emphasized integrations with Salesforce and other moves to help physicians growing beyond solo practices. Read more…
Bridging the Data Gap Between Acute and Post-Acute Care. John unpacked a case study from the Management in Healthcare Journal by Real Time Medical Systems on how readmissions rates drop when acute and post-acute care facilities share information. Read more…
CIO Podcast: The Current State of Nursing in Healthcare. Dr. Yolanda VanRiel at North Carolina Central University joined John to discuss whether virtual nursing and other technology is helping to address staffing ratios and other key challenges facing today’s nurses. Read more…
As Data Breach Costs Soar, Double Down on Security Non-Negotiables. With the price tag for mitigating a breach hovering at $10 million, organizations need to focus on vulnerability management, access management, and vendor security, according to Dylan Border at Hyland. Read more…
Why You Need to Consider Cybersecurity and Equity Before Deploying AI. Tim Boltz at Carahsoft outlined what the industry needs to do to keep data safe when it’s used in AI models, as well as how to use AI to make care more accessible. Read more…
Just the Facts on Fax in Healthcare Today. Fax isn’t going anywhere – but it’s taking the form of cloud fax that’s capable of sharing many documents at once and extracting relevant data as documents are received, according to Chris Larkin at Concord Technologies. Read more…
The Future of AI in Laboratory Payment Accuracy. The lab payment landscape is complex; there are 800 CPT codes to represent genetic tests, and one-third of tests are ordered in error. AI is positioned to review claims, detect anomalies, and identify patterns, noted Dr. Bernard Steinbacher at Lyric. Read more…
Embedding Light Therapy in Smart Sleep Wearables. This guest post from Australia-based retimer described how retimer 3 uses light therapy to adjust circadian rhythm – a valuable tool for shift workers, travelers overcoming jet lag, or insomnia. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for August 28, 2024: Many roles looking for Epic expertise, along with listings seeking experienced engineers. Read more…
Bonus Features for August 25, 2924: More payers are using fax to accept prior authorization requests and return prior auth determinations. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Value-based care service provider Guidehealth closed a $14 million seed round.
- Data analytics vendor Health Catalyst closed its acquisition of Lumeon, a care management company.
- Payment processing vendor HPS/PayMedix acquired TempoPay, which offers healthcare financing options to employer-sponsored health plans.
- Biotech software vendor Seqera acquired tinybio, maker of a ChatGPT tool for medical researchers.
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