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.
Hearing From the NCQA on FHIR, Quality Measurement, and Value-Based Care. CTO Ed Yurcisin sat down with Colin Hung to outline the role of standardization in measuring care quality and advancing value-based care, as well as to explain why data quality is paramount to making this happen. Read more…
Hyland’s Strategy for Moving from Data Chaos to Clarity. At RSNA, CEO Jitesh Ghai talked to Colin about making medical images, clinical notes and other unstructured data consumable so it’s easier to analyze and use for decision-making. Read more…
How Radiology Can Take the Lead During a Cybersecurity Incident. Colin also caught up with Dr. Raj Chopra at Merge Merative to learn why radiologists should take advantage of their position as a focal point of communication in the hospital – with the help of a well-written incident response playbook. Read more…
Darena Solutions’ Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest. John Lynn sat down with Patrick Schiess to chat about the origins of the contest, which offers cash prizes to startups using the MeldRx platform to connect their application to healthcare systems using SMART on FHIR. Read more…
CIO Podcast: Healthcare Data Management. Dr. John Lee at HIT Peak Advisors joined John to discuss how good healthcare data is, where we are at with it, and what will happen if we don’t improve it. Read more…
Hyperautomation’s Role in Revolutionizing Healthcare IT. Amol Dalvi at Nerdio explained how automating intricate workflows across the entire IT ecosystem can help health systems with resource provisioning, security monitoring, and incident response. Read more…
What Does Business Resilience Need to Look Like in 2025? Strategies for preventing and mitigating cyberattacks should be comprehensive, regularly assessed, and built on a strong foundation, according to Mike Garzone and Marc Johnson at Impact Advisors. Read more…
LLMs in Healthcare: A Measured Path to Impact. Julien Dubuis at Nym unpacked how large language models have demonstrated early wins in improving administrative efficiency and covered what it will take for LLMs to have a longstanding impact in healthcare. Read more…
A Fresh Approach to Safeguarding Healthcare Data. Andrea Hopkins at Juno Health offered four keys to implementing effective cybersecurity, including embracing zero trust and outsourcing to specialists amid resource constraints. Read more…
Why Healthcare Leaders are Turning to QR Codes. Amid ever-growing cyberthreats, QR codes can transform vulnerable touchpoints like medication tracking and patient identification into secure digital workflows, noted Sharat Potharaju at Uniqode. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for January 29, 2025: Several health systems seeking Epic expertise, plus openings for a CMO and CFO. Read more…
Bonus Features for January 26, 2025: 87% of dental patients prefer digital payment reminders; Consensus Cloud Solutions’ eFax free for those affected by L.A. wildfires. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Quality and safety nonprofit ECRI acquired The Just Culture Company, which focuses on workforce culture in high-risk industries.
- Decision support vendor HEALWELL acquired a 51% majority controlling interest in Mutuo Health Solutions, which makes an ambient scribe tool.
- Health benefits manager Soda Health closed an oversubscribed $50 million Series B funding round.
- Radiology workflow software vendor Sirona Medical secured $42 million in Series C financing.
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