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 that 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.
Studies
- A survey from Take Command found 51% of consumers believe employees should control their own health insurance choices.
- Research from Verato found 81% of patients have to repeat the same personal or health information multiple times, often across visits, departments, and systems.
- A Nordic survey found 61% of healthcare IT leaders say outsourced managed services are now a central part of IT strategy.
Partnerships
- Alluvium and Adobe are collaborating in an effort to improve healthcare capacity management.
- GLOBO Language Solutions has integrated with Enghouse VidyoHealth‘s videoconferencing platform.
- National infusion service provider InfuCare Rx is now available through the Tendo Marketplace.
- Pharmacy navigation company Transcarent added SmithRx as a PBM partner.
- Viz.ai is collaborating with the National Rural Health Association to help rural hospital leaders better understand and implement AI tools.
Products
- Availity unveiled Availity Extend to help organizations build automation and AI on the Availity data network.
- Cohere Health launched Cohere Surface to help modernize data mining for health plans.
- IMO Health announced direct access to its Knowledge Graph to help build AI systems grounded in real-world data.
- RCM vendor Revecore announced AI capabilities across underpayment recovery and denial appeals.
- Sage launched Tasking, which unifies planned and unplanned care into a single workflow for senior living facilities.
- Cybersecurity vendor ShelterZoom announced Spare Tire, which aims to enable zero-downtime continuity and operational resilience for EHRs.
- SYNERGEN Health launched SYNERGEN Health IGNITE, an RCM tool for labs and diagnostic providers.
- Wellsky announced WellSky Ambient Documentation for Personal Care, enabled by AutoMynd’s ambient AI tool.
Implementations
- UChicago Medicine is deploying Artisight‘s Smart Hospital Platform across multiple care settings.
- Outpatient imaging provider SimonMed deployed AIRS Medical’s SwiftMR MRI enhancement technology across its nationwide network.
- Boston’s Beth Israel Lahey Health is rolling out Heidi to all health system physicians following a smaller-scale implementation of the ambient AI tool.
- San Juan Regional Medical Center selected Pivot Point Consulting to assume operations of its IT Service Desk.
People
- Butterfly Network appointed Dr. Arun Nagdev as Chief Medical Officer – Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS).
- Analytics vendor Cotiviti appointed John Hallock as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer.
- Medication management vendor Omnicell named Rick Couldry as Senior Vice President, Chief Pharmacy and Clinical Officer.
- Lantern established the Lantern Quality and Safety Institute, a Patient Safety Organization listed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and named Dr. Stephen Speicher as Associate Chief Medical Officer.
- Neuroscience venture studio NeuFluent appointed Dr. Anthony Asher as leader of its Clinical Intelligence initiative.
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