Better Servicing Patients and Staff at Scale with VMware
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Scaling up and down quickly is crucial for many businesses, including the health care industry. For instance, insurers have to handle spikes in requests from impatient potential customers during open enrollment periods. Cloud computing is the solution to widely varying workloads.
VMware has championed virtualization for the past 25 years, and have evolved along with the popularity of the cloud. They now offer tools for managing and taking advantage of healthcare organizations’ multi-cloud strategy. And they have a whole division devoted to healthcare.
In this video, Michael Ro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cloud Security Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Multi-Cloud Healthcare Scene Feat Source Type: blogs
Small and Medium Medical Practices Need Business Support
Small- and medium-sized medical practices are struggling. The uncertain economic environment, staffing challenges, and the increasing complexity of providing care is putting practice owners under tremendous stress. EverHealth, providers of end-to-end solutions for healthcare providers, believes that these practices need support from partners that can take on some of the administrative, operational, and financial tasks so they can continue to deliver care to patients.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Adam Laskey, General Manager of EverHealth at EverCommerce, to find out more about the company’s work, their vision for me...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Adam Lasky DrChrono EverCommerce EverHealth Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 medical payment processing Medical Pra Source Type: blogs
R.I.P. Newton Minow
Paul MatzkoFormer FCC Chairman Newton Minow died a few days ago and outlets dug deep into their archives to dust off their pre‐written obits for the 97‐year‐old who lived a full and eventful life. I had the opportunity to be on a panel with Minow back in 2021, which was a somewhat surreal experience given how few of the people that I covered in mybook on broadcasting in the 1960s are still around. I have a few thoughts about his legacy to share with you.Let ’s start with a positive note. Minow often had solid foresight. For instance, he was right when hetold JFK that launching the first telecom...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Take AI Out of the Conversation Completely and Focus on Results
When designing analytical systems for clinicians, “Take AI out of the conversation completely,” advises Sameer Sethi, Senior Vice President and Chief Data Analytics Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health. However, AI is woven throughout the 15-minute video interview below where Sethi is interviewed along with Prashant Natarajan, General Manager, Health & Life Sciences at H2O.ai. Sethi’s message is that your users care about what AI can do for them, not that it is AI that’s accomplishing the task.
Two critical uses for AI discussed by Sethi and Natarajan are conversational AI and searching unstr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Conversational AI Explainable AI H2O.ai Hackensack Meridian Health Healthcare AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Heal Source Type: blogs
5G Improves Patient and Staff Experience at NGHS
5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT the need for extensive training or changes to workflows. If implemented smartly, 5G also represents a rare opportunity to future-proof healthcare facilities.
To find out more about 5G and how it can be successfully deployed in healthcare, the team at Healthcare IT Today did a deep dive into this topic with:
Stuart Samples, Chief Technology Officer at Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS);
Robert Johnson, Communications Manager at NGHS; and
Bill Cune, Vice President at Corni...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 5G Bill Cune Corning Corning Optical Solutions Fiber to the edge FTTE Healthcare 5G Healthcare Scene Featur Source Type: blogs
The Promise of ChatGPT Will Be Buried Inside Health Care
The stunning achievements of chatGPT (along with the enormous work that remains to be done) raise the questions of how generative AI will change industries and interactions. As the term “generative AI” indicates, these technologies use AI to communicate, not to do predictive analytics or alter events. Thus, according to Murray Brozinsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Amwell, generative AI will automate peripheral aspects of communication rather than affect health care directly.
In the video interview below, Brozinsky and John Lynn undertake a far-ranging examination of the potential of chatGPT and similar technolog...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Amwell ChatGPT Conversa Doug Engelbart Ge Source Type: blogs
Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems
A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a ‘workstation on wheels,” which is a computer on a cart, accessorized with useful tools along with a wireless connection. Or they may grab a tablet or cell phone.
But can the busy staff person find a free workstation or device? Has it been properly cleaned? Is there enough power on it?
This is the problem solved by Enovate Medical through Rhythm, which provides an “asset management platform” to better manage the devices in your environment. In this vi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC COWs Enovate Medical Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcare WOWs JAR Systems Kevin Brid Source Type: blogs
ROI Healthcare Solutions Provides the Returns Healthcare Organizations Want
In these days of tightened payments and higher costs, organizations need to “do more with less” by finding better prices for their purchases while maximizing reimbursements—and above all, by making sure that technology improves ROI, according to Jeff Tennant, EVP of Healthcare IT Strategy & Services at ROI Healthcare Solutions. Tennant and his colleagues sat down with Healthcare IT Today to share how ROI (Return on Investment) is core to the culture of the work they do with healthcare organizations.
In this interview, Diana Van Blaricom, VP of ERP Strategy, emphasizes the waste created by IT system lice...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Diana Van Blaricom Healthcare ERP Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Jeff Tennant Legacy Health IT Systems Melissa Ursi ROI H Source Type: blogs
How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes
HCA Healthcare, one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. This investment made it possible to deploy an innovative sepsis detection project that has enhanced patient safety across the entire organization. That same project also had an unintended beneficial impact – it helped HCA facilities react faster during hurricanes and other emergencies.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Clinical Architecture Dr. Jim Jirjis Emergency Preparedness good quality health data HCA Healthcare Health Data Normalization hur Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 24th 2023
In this study, researchers show that mice lacking a functional ATF4 gene show little to no loss of grip strength and treadmill performance into late life; it is quite an impressive effect size. Assessments of muscle biochemistry do show age-related declines, but to a lesser degree than the controls. How ATF4 knockout functions to produce this outcome is an interesting question. The researchers point out a range of possible downstream and upstream targets that have been implicated in the regulation of muscle growth, but it will clearly require further work to identify the important mechanisms involved.
Aging slowly...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Tracking the Patient Experience Using Qualtrics at Intermountain Health
We all benefit from sharing our concerns communally. “What, you had the same problem I did?” We say to a friend. “How did you handle it?”
Intermountain Health, provider with 33 hospitals about 400 clinics, wanted to cull information of that type from the many interactions they have with patients—32 million phone calls in Utah alone, according to chief strategy officer Dan Liljenquist.
So Intermountain Health is adopting tools from Qualtrics, a company that analyzes interpersonal communications to “surface customer friction.” Liljenquist says that Intermountain Health plans to use this ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Dan Liljenquist Experience Management Healthcare Call Cent Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Biophysics Branch Chief
We’re seeking a highly qualified scientist to serve as a branch chief in our Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences (BBCB). Applicants should have interest and experience in the scientific areas managed by the Biophysics Branch. Position responsibilities include scientific and administrative planning, managing, and evaluating activities of the Branch; optimizing Branch procedures; and overseeing grant portfolio activities of Branch program directors. The branch chief will also manage a research grant portfolio and will work closely with the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology a...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 20, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
An Overview of Early Work on the mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin
The path to understanding that pharmacological inhibition of mTOR replicates some of the calorie restriction response to cause a slowing of aging started with studies of rapamycin. The primary mechanism of interest is upregulation of autophagy, a cellular housekeeping mechanism that is involved in a range of interventions that slow aging in short-lived species. Other mechanisms may well turn out to be involved, as altering metabolism is a complex business and still incompletely understood.
The various mTOR inhibitors are collectively one of the most studied, and arguably best of the existing approaches to alter meta...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 17, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Secondary Uses Come to the Fore with MediQuant ’ s Active Archive
A medical practitioner would retire. Thousands of dust-gathering paper records would sit in the good doctor’s basement, eventually to be trashed while patients start afresh with new doctors, losing decades of information. This rarely happens anymore, but when hospitals and health systems replace legacy applications nowadays—often after an acquisition—old data still might not be used the way it could be. Plus, organizations are often stuck paying maintenance fees for software they rarely use.
IT leaders sometimes overlook the importance of an enterprise archiving strategy. Converting patient data to PDF is too commo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Application Rationalization Health Data Archive Health Data Archiving Health Data Conversions Healthcare IT Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: I'm not making this up
This is an absolutely real screenshot from the group Facebook page for my town ' s residents. This is the true meaning of Easter, it seems. (The post also advertises the time and place of the Easter service, which I omit.). This is what Christianity in the U.S. has become. And no, I don ' t recall this sentiment in the Gospels from my Sunday school days.Consider joining us Resurrection Sunday at New Life! Contemporary music, inspiring faith building messages, and childcare through age 10.I have no further comment. Now, turning to Chronicles, Ch. 34 introduces the reign of Josiah. This is largely taken from the Book of King...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
