Ripped from the Headlines: Is Healthcare More Risky Because of Consolidation? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 136
For the 136th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are taking a look at the recent headlines to discuss if healthcare has become more risky due to consolidation. The first news we look at is the massive Change Healthcare breach and how the size of your organization causes major risk when security incidents happen. Then we take a look at Walgreens shutting down VillageMD and debate whether or not large companies are more likely to shut down care centers in order to make a profit with no regard for its community. Next, with the news of ChatGPT spitting out gibberish, we take a look inward to see if we’ve all b...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy AI Change Healthcare ChatGPT Colin Hung Cybersecurity Risks Google Google Source Type: blogs

Weaving the AI Threads Together: Essential Conversations for Integrating AI in Healthcare Transformation
The following is a guest article by Demetri Giannikopoulos, Vice President of Innovation at Aidoc In the ever-evolving landscape of AI, 2024 stands out as the year where artificial intelligence is poised to claim the coveted title of Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Nowhere is the buzz around AI more palpable than in healthcare circles, where the promise of AI to revolutionize a complex and, in many ways, fragmented system looms large. Despite notable successes, many AI solutions have fallen short, showcasing potential only in specific areas or departments. Why? Often, AI is treated as a technological bandage. Teams ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability AI Integration aidoc Artificial Intelligence Clinical AI Demetri Giannikopoulos Healthcare AI Healthcare Transformatio Source Type: blogs

Veradigm to Acquire ScienceIO
Veradigm to Leverage ScienceIO’s Leading Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform on the Company’s Large-Scale, High-Quality Data Set to Build Advanced, Private Language Models for Healthcare Expected to Provide Highly Differentiated and More Advanced Products to Veradigm Customers Acquisition Will Help Accelerate Platform Improvements Across the Veradigm Network, including the Provider, Payer, and Life Sciences Businesses Next-Generation Products Expected to Improve Outcomes and Lower Costs Across the Healthcare Ecosystem Positions Veradigm for the Future as Higher Margin Technology and Data Products Company ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Dr. Yin Ho Greg Garrison Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A ScienceIO Tom Langan Veradigm Veradigm Inc. Will Manidis Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories
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 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. News CHIME provided some clarity on the Smart Hospital Maturity Model initiative, noting it’s meant to “complement and enhance” the existing Digital Health Most Wired Program. The organization also announced C...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Akasa Apixio Availity Avalon Healthcare Solutions CenTrak CharmHealth CHIME Christina Rassi Claim.MD Claroty ECRI Institute Encoda Epic Research Evry Health Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HealtheLink HIM Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024
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. HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Colin Hung attended a media briefing with the HIMSS CEO and learned about HIMSS’ international expansion plans, its role as a tight-knit society and not a loose association, and its desire to promote scalable software, perhaps even at the expense of startups. Read more… HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas. Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act. The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then put pressure on health care providers to be more transparent. The second came with a class action lawsuit against Johnson & John...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Employer Healthcare Employer Insurance HCAA Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare Price Transpa Source Type: blogs

Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape
The following is a guest article by Jeanne Greathouse, Healthcare Development Director, AI Regulatory Services at BSI 77% of Healthcare Workers Say They May Be Ready to Let AI Take on Administrative Work Few industries have been stress-tested as thoroughly as the healthcare system during COVID-19 when, at the worst moments, 22% of US hospitals were reporting staff shortages. Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. Amid a period of tremendous medical uncertainty and service disruption, health workers and first responders functioned like a life v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence BSI Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare Transformation Improving Patient Care Jeanne Greathouse Medical Innovation Source Type: blogs

9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide
After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth, the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today. The financing round was led by The Cigna Group Ventures, with additional support from existing institutional investors, including 7Wire Ventures, Define Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Founders Fund. A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 7Wire Ventures 9amHealth Craig Cimini Define Ventures Founders Fund Frank Westermann Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Leaps by Bayer The Cigna Group Ventures Source Type: blogs

Bold Statements from Hal Wolf at HIMSS24
Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), made several bold statements at HIMSS24 about international growth, courting people in CIO-adjacent roles, and learning from other industries. HIMSS Expansion At a briefing during the HIMSS24 annual conference in Orlando Florida, Hal Wolf CEO of HIMSS laid bare the organization’s plans for continued growth an expansion. Key to the organization’s strategy is continued investment overseas with emphasis in Europe and Asia. In addition, Wolf shared how HIMSS is actively courting audiences beyond healthcare CIOs. “We want to be inclusive o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Highlighted Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Hal Wolf Healthcare Startups HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS Conference HIMSS24 Informa Shahid Shah Source Type: blogs

Empowering Frontline Leaders Using Technology to Create Change
One thing that’s amazing about technology is that it can help improve a wide variety of problems.  Not that technology is always the answer, but technology has the ability to impact everything that’s done in healthcare.  In fact, in many cases technology is the only solution that can scale to the problems of healthcare. That’s what we found at the Co-working with Tech session at the ViVE 2024 conference.  This session included a great discussion by Tanya Content, System VP of Talent at UNC Health and Russ Richmond, CEO and Co-Founder at Laudio’s platform for frontline leaders.  In the session, t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Frontline Leaders Healthcare Analytics Healthcare Dashboards Healthcare Leaders Healthcare Leadership Healthcare Scene Featured Source Type: blogs

UnityAI Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Hospital Flow
Company will Apply AI Technologies Including Reinforcement Learning and LLMs to Optimize how Patients Flow through Hospitals UnityAI, a healthcare technology startup founded by three seasoned engineers and data scientists with backgrounds at HCA Healthcare, a leading hospital and healthcare company in the United States, announced the successful closure of its seed funding round, securing $4 million in total capital to date. The founders, Dr. Edmund Jackson, Cody Hall, and Dr. Jason Parker, bring a wealth of expertise in the healthcare sector, where they identified a critical need for innovation in hospital operations. Usi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cody Hall Company Ventures Dr. Edmund Jackson Dr. Jason Parker Geoff Clark HCA Healthcare Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Max Ventures Nashville Capital Network Ryan Darne Source Type: blogs

A Look at Sunoh ’ s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions Including New EHR Integrations
One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice.  We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software.  However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money.  They’re doing this because the benefits of this technology are so impactful on doctors and patients. While at the conference, I had a chance to sit down with Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh.ai, and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interviews Podcast by Healthcare IT Today Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Automated EHR Documentation Cerner Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features, HIMSS2024 Edition – March 13, 2024 – AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, plus 18 more stories
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 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. This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2024 in sunny Orlando. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHIMA Amazon Web Services DocuSign emtelligent First Databank Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 Innovaccer James Henderson KeyCare Lightbeam Health Solutions Linus Health Source Type: blogs

Concord Technologies Completes Acquisition of Biscom, Inc.
to Create a New Industry Leader in the Secure Transmission and Intelligent Handling of Protected Information Concord Technologies (Concord), a leading provider of secure document exchange and workflow automation solutions, has acquired Biscom, Inc. (Biscom), a leader in on-premises enterprise fax and secure file transfer solutions. Together, these organizations serve over 4,500 customers and process over 4 billion pages of protected information every year, creating a new industry powerhouse and the largest provider offering secure document exchange and workflow automation solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud fa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Biscom Biscom Inc. Chris Moore Concord Concord Technologies Dave Lucey Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Source Type: blogs

Unlocking the Power of Interoperability for Revenue Cycle Management
Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Juli Forde Smith, Director of Strategic Partnerships at ZOLL Data Systems and Erica Gregory, Senior Vice President at Netsmart to discuss interoperability for revenue cycle management (RCM). Prioritize Intake for Effective RCM Patient intake is an important part of the revenue cycle proces...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Erica Gregory financial interoperability Inovalon Juli Forde Smith Netsmart Patient Experience Patient Financial Experience RCM RC Source Type: blogs