Environmental Health Surveillance Powered by GIS Technology Enhances Public Health Efforts at San Bernardino County
San Bernadino Public Health knows that monitoring the mosquito population benefits community health directly. This is why the public health team is tracking mosquitos breeding areas and leveraging GIS technology to better coordinate mosquito control efforts in order to prevent the spread of disease. Healthcare IT Today spoke with Serene Ong – Geographic Information Systems Analyst, Andrew Mackey – Statistical Analyst, and Anthony Arce – Research Analyst at San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (SBCDPH) to find out more. Mosquito Surveillance Mosquito Surveillance is used to monitor mosquito po...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Mackey Anthony Arce ArcGIS esri GIS technology Mosquito Surveillance Public Health San Bernardino County San Bernardino County Department of Public Health SBCDPH Serene On Source Type: blogs

Enhancing Patient Adherence & Improving Treatment Outcomes
The following is a guest article by Christine Lee, Head of Health Partnerships at AnalyticsIQ Patients seeking healthcare for their ailments often receive detailed treatment plans tailored to their individual needs. However, the efficacy of these treatment plans relies heavily on patient adherence. Unfortunately, research indicates that only about half of the patients adhere to their prescribed treatments consistently and correctly. This surprising statistic reveals a significant problem in our healthcare system, especially for those with chronic conditions requiring ongoing treatments. But how can we collectively combat t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AnalyticsIQ Christine Lee Chronic Conditions Healthcare Accesibility Healthcare Barriers Improving Outcomes P Source Type: blogs

Parker Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Transform American Healthcare
Parker Health an innovative biotech company for electronic health records, hospital developer & management, and subscription-based health services, today announced that it has secured $25 million in Series A funding led by Bias Capital, a multisector and multi-stage angel syndicate, joined in this round by L’PAJ Ventures, CGT Capital Group, and other angel investors and family offices. This funding empowers Parker Health to further its position as the industry’s most compliant and competitive solution helping expand our medical technology and services and to employ global teams. Parker Health has raised $26.3 milli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bias Capital CGT Capital Group Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment L’PAJ Ventures Maximillian Naza Parker Health Vincent Lopez Source Type: blogs

CIO Podcast – Episode 59: Data Privacy with Rob McDonald
For the 59th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rob McDonald, SVP of Strategy and Field CPO at Virtru and former CIO with Colin Hung replacing John Lynn on the episode. We kick off this episode with a discussion on data privacy. Where should healthcare organizations start and what are some cost-effective strategies that won’t break the bank to implement? Next, we talk about Zero Trust policies and how being data-centric is crucial to making it work. We also discuss where this policy is currently falling short in healthcare. McDonald then shares with us how to leverage emerging ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT CIO Leadership Colin Hung Data Privacy data security Health IT Leadership Healthcare Data Rob McDonald Virtru Zero Trust Source Type: blogs

The Future Is Now: Innovative Ways Virtual Reality Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Marketing
The following is a guest article by Ali Williams, Freelance Writer With there now totaling 171 million users of virtual reality (VR) around the globe, this innovative technology is revolutionizing almost every industry – and healthcare marketing is no exception. Since the healthcare sector is constantly evolving, marketers need to work to stay on top of new trends to create successful marketing campaigns. VR tech is a useful tool that can help you better engage with your target market, provide educational experiences, and open up new opportunities for growth. Automatic Data Collection Effective market research is the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ali Williams Body Language Data Collection Educational Experiences GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare Marketing Immersive Tours Innovative Technology Perth Childre Source Type: blogs

Eureka Health Launches with $7 Million For Patient-Led Platform To Share and Discover Better Treatments
Thousands of Members in its Long Covid Community; Expands into Metabolic Disease and Autoimmune Disorders Eureka Health, a new community dedicated to helping chronic disease patients share experiences and discover the latest treatments, launched today to provide hope to people living with chronic diseases. Emerging from stealth with thousands already engaged in its Long Covid group, the AI-powered platform added metabolic disease, autoimmune disorders, ME/CFS, and related conditions. It will expand into other conditions in the coming weeks. The company also announced that it has raised $7 million in funding. The seed rou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 23andMe Able Partners Adina Teklu Anne Wojcicki Beren Airstone Bling Capital Bow Capital Cancer Commons Eureka Eureka Health Forward Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Invest Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more
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 HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa. Fierce Healthcare confirmed the news as initially reported by Trade Show Executive. The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 1...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 3M ABOUT Partners Amazon AWS Babylon Carta Healthcare Cognizant CoxHealth eClinicalWorks eCW Gilead Gozio Health Healthbook Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Healthcare VR HealthLock HealthScribe HEDIS He Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023
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. How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data. We heard about the benefits of access to real-time data, the importance of data standards, and the need for mature data analysis and data management in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Payer Contracts, AI, and Poster Sessions – Fun Friday
Happy Friday everyone!  We hope you had an amazing week and are in for an even better weekend.  It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me dealing with some health issues and things, but things are on the up and up.  Given the craziness of the week, I knew we had to get in another edition of Fun Friday where we share something funny to start your weekend off right.  We have a great mix of things today. Renegotiating your payer contracts in #healthcare like ….. pic.twitter.com/18LPc8OA5M — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) July 20, 2023 This is just funny…and also sad. Payer contracts are so fun. Our #AI times 🙂...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Fun Friday Healthcare AI Healthcare Cartoons Healthcare Conferences Healthcare Humor Payer Contracts Source Type: blogs

Health IT ’s Role in Fixing Healthcare’s Biggest AI Misconceptions
The following is a guest article by Dave DeCaprio, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ClosedLoop No matter where you look – from TikTok filters to the latest ChatGPT release – artificial intelligence (AI) has a profound and growing impact on our daily lives. The market for AI is expected to show strong growth in the coming decade; its current value of nearly $100 billion USD is expected to increase twentyfold by 2030, reaching nearly $2 trillion. AI has the potential to transform the ever-growing healthcare industry. However, many healthcare organizations don’t know where to start. Leaders struggle to disting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Solution Algorithmic Bias Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT ClosedLoop Dave DeCaprio EHR Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare ChatGPT La Source Type: blogs

Verifiable Lands $27M Series B from Craft Ventures to Automate Healthcare Provider Credentialing
With Efficient Growth, Innovation, and Marquis Healthcare Customers like Humana – Verifiable is Shaking up the Multi-Billion Dollar Provider Network Management Category Verifiable,  an API-first innovator to the antiquated provider network management software category, has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures to accelerate its next stage of growth and product innovation. Verifiable’s comprehensive suite of network management solutions and real-time verifications empowers healthcare organizations to expedite credentialing from multiple weeks to a matter of days. For customers, these efficien...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 137 Ventures Brian Murray Cooley Craft Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthcare Automation Highland Capital Partners Humana Nick Macario Provider Credentialing Source Type: blogs

IoMT – Helping Data Reach Its Full Potential
The importance of data in healthcare has been beaten into our heads again and again and again. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about making sure our organizations have all of the healthcare and patient data we can get our hands on. But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the sheer amount of data that healthcare organizations need to run properly. One tool that can help in this endeavor is the Internet of Me...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Asensus Surgical Dustin Vaughan Grayson Miller Internet of Medical Things Source Type: blogs

How Automated Lineage Improves Healthcare Data
The following is a guest article by Ernie Ostic, Chief Evangelist at Manta The healthcare industry creates a vast amount of data each year — roughly 30% of worldwide data — the bulk of which must conform with regulatory standards. That data lives in a complex and evolving ecosystem, integrated with multiple applications and infrastructures, creating countless dependencies. Between the volume of data and the web of interconnected systems, those dependencies remain hidden from most users in a “black box” of sorts. Without insight into the inner workings of their own flow of information, most healthcare organizations...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability CHRISTUS CHRISTUS Health Data Breaches Data Lineage Ernie Ostic Healthcare Automation Healthcare Data HIPAA Lineage in Health Source Type: blogs

Gradia Health Secures $4.2M in Seed Funding to Improve Ongoing Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions
The Platform is set to Reinvigorate Patient-Physician Communication Pathways by Partnering Directly with Brick-and-Mortar Practices to Deliver Superior Virtual Care Beyond the Doctor’s Office Gradia Health, the integrated concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions, today announced its seed funding totaling $4.2M. The round was led by Adrian Fenty at MaC Venture Capital with participation from YCombinator, Soma Capital, Atlanta Ventures, and several angel investors, including Gene Lee (Ramp), Eric Feldman (Bolt), David Tsao (BillionToOne), Austen Allred (Bloomtech), Juan Bene...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adrian Fenty Andrew Zelaya Atlanta Ventures Austen Allred BillionToOne Bloomtech Bolt Chronic Conditions David Tsao Eric Feldman Gene Lee Golden Gradia Gradia Health Health IT Funding Healt Source Type: blogs

MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically
Requests for medical records have grown enormously in recent years—and that’s as it should be. Because data allows for better decision-making, patient records are being requested by payers, communities of care, and patients themselves.  However, this can sometimes be overwhelming for healthcare provider organizations that are now getting larger and larger volumes of requests from payers which inundate their systems. We recently sat down with Mo Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO, to talk about their newly announced Payer Exchange product which implements near-frictionless interoperability for payer exchange. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability Revenue Cycle Management Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HFMA HFMA 2023 HFMA23 Medical Records Mo Source Type: blogs