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
- The latest Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon Business is here, and it found that system intrusion is healthcare’s top breach pattern. Attackers typically combine methods such as vulnerability exploitation, phishing, and credential abuse to gain access.
- About 1 in 8 medical practices have deployed an AI receptionist, according to a report from The Algorithm. Adoption is concentrated in practices with 4 to 10 providers, with solo practices and very large systems lagging.
Partnerships
- Demand-side advertising platform DeepIntent is partnering with Lane4.io, a supply-side platform for EHR and health media advertising. Plus, DeepIntent is partnering with epocrates, an athenahealth subsidiary, to bring point-of-care advertising into clinical workflows.
- Teladoc Health is now available through Walmart’s Better Care Services platform for a cash-pay price of $89 per visit.
- Wolters Kluwer Health announced a 10-year agreement to publish RSNA’s portfolio of five specialty journals. In addition, Wolters Kluwer Health launched a clinical AI validation framework to help support AI governance efforts.
Products
- Ambience Healthcare expanded chart-aware intelligence capabilities across its inpatient platform.
- CharmHealth launched CharmHealth Enterprise, a care coordination platform for large and rapidly growing medical groups.
- Clearsense unveiled a managed service provider offering for application rationalization and active archiving, building on a model developed in collaboration with Trinity Health.
- ConcertAI will unveil enhancements to its CancerLinQ Suite to provide real-world evidence for quality benchmarking and clinical research.
- Kythera Labs launched Wayfinder DataSync to give healthcare organizations a more complete view of patient movement.
- Clinical trial simulation company QuantHealth launched its predictive competitive intelligence solution.
- Talkie.ai released Smart Personalization, Conversational Scheduling, and Outbound Caller Agents to automate front-desk operations.
- Cardiometabolic care platform Twin Health launched its GLP-1 Stewardship Model, which has a goal of reducing patients’ long-term dependence on the drugs.
- WellSky announced the WellSky Point of Care app for Home Health, which integrates with the WellSky Home Health platform and is included for all current WellSky Home Health EHR clients.
Implementations
- Pennsylvania-based St. Luke’s University Health Network deployed Elisity for medical device microsegmentation.
- University of Pennsylvania Health System selected K Health AI agents to support virtual urgent care.
- Georgia-based Tanner Health selected Worki to support workforce operations, employee retention, and career mobility.
Company News
- Texas-based health information exchange C3HIE went live on TEFCA through connectivity with the eHealth Exchange QHIN.
- Utah Cancer Specialists selected AllyGPO and BioCareSD as its primary specialty group purchasing organization and specialty drug distribution partners.
- Tidepool’s Tidepool+ Direct Connect is now available through the Epic Showroom, bringing diabetes device data directly into Epic workflows.
People
- AI infrastructure vendor Caregentic made three executive appointments: Becky James as Chief Operating Officer, Matteo Carli as Chief Product Officer, and Sanjay Mahadi as Chief Technology Officer.
- Life sciences data discovery company Briya appointed Dr. Jonathan M. Samet as Chief Epidemiologist.
- Healthcare workflow automation company Penguin Ai appointed Nate Kiely as Chief Revenue Officer and Dan Wu as Head of Product.
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