Weekly Roundup – March 4, 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.
Using AI to Detect Rare Conditions. Even though today’s physicians see a lot of patients, they may only encounter a handful of patients with rate conditions in their entire careers. John interviewed Joseph Zabinski at OM1 about the power of searching data sets for evidence that a rare condition might be emerging so physicians are better prepared to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Non-Competes with Dr. Glaucomflecken – Fun Friday
Happy Friday everyone! Yesterday I tweeted that to someone and then realized it was only Thursday and not Friday which probably says a little bit about how the week has gone for me. Time for an enjoyable weekend. And like we try to do on Friday, we want to kick off your weekend right with another edition of Fun Friday.
This week’s entertainment and absurdity is another gem from the entertaining Dr. Glaucomflecken looking at the hot topic of Non-Competes. It’s been in the news as there’s an effort to make non-competes illegal which would be a big change that would impact healthcare in a lot of way. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC @DGlaucomflecken Dr. Glaucomflecken Epic Epic Non-Compete Fun Friday Non-Competes Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Let the Adversary Operate In Your Blind Spot
The following is a guest article by Dave Bailey, VP of Security Services at Clearwater.
Today’s adversaries are successfully taking advantage of a user’s likelihood to open a malicious file, click a malicious link, or steal a user’s identity to launch disruptive and potentially destructive attacks. Once the weakness is exploited, they launch their attacks, steal sensitive information, and extort businesses for financial gain. In addition, most healthcare providers experience critical disruption to care delivery and mission-critical functions. A successful adversary was able to operate in an organization’s “blind...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Assess Risk Blind Spot Clearwater Compromised Data Cyber Vigilance Cyber-Criminal Cybersecurity CynergisTek Dav Source Type: blogs
Spacelabs Healthcare Expands Clinical Informatics Capabilities with Acquisition of Predictive Analytics Company PeraHealth
Spacelabs Healthcare today announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company PeraHealth. Founded in 2010, PeraHealth develops predictive enterprise software based on the Rothman Index, a score to quantify patient acuity. PeraHealth’s solutions alert clinicians to patient deterioration, helping to reduce in-hospital mortality, unplanned transfers to the ICU, and to drive more timely palliative care consults. PeraHealth’s Rothman Index is the only FDA-cleared predictive analytics solution of its kind on the market today.
The Spacelabs team will continue the journey that the Rothman brothers and PeraHealth start...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT FDA Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Joseph Beals Patient Care Perahealth Predictive Analytics Rothman Index Shalabh Chandra Spacelabs Spacelabs Healthcare Source Type: blogs
AI Uncovers Other Patients Like You to Support Doctors
Outside of common conditions, most doctors see only a few cases of some problem in their entire career. That’s why students and residents gather eagerly around hospital patients who were diagnosed with a rare condition. These doctors can’t compare large numbers of patients with a certain condition to see what works for each patient and why some respond to a treatment that fails on other patients.
But take common conditions that doctors see every day. Even here, exams and tests usually don’t detect the condition until it hits a certain stage. Treating it at an earlier stage could vastly improve the outcome...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Clinical Decision Support Healthcare AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Machine Learning Joseph Zab Source Type: blogs
To ChatGPT or Not to ChatGPT, That is the Question – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/3 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen (@thegr8chalupa) on the topic “To ChatGPT or Not to ChatGPT, That is the Question.“
It’s revolutionary.
It’s captivating.
It’s alarming.
It’s still rough around the edges and has room to grow.
But, all the cool kids are doing it…or so it seems.
So, what is it?
ChatGPT, my friends. ChatGPT.
Near the end of 2022, we dreamed as an #HITsm community about what would come from the fall conference season. We anticipated great ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erica Olenski Johansen Tags: #HITsm AI/Machine Learning Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Erica Olenski Erica Olenski Johansen Health IT Trends Natural Language Processing NLP Source Type: blogs
R-Zero Raises $105 Million Series C to Improve the Indoor Air We Breathe
R-Zero’s UV-C Technology Improves Indoor Air Quality for Millions of People; Reduces Reliance on HVAC Systems and Chemicals that Harm Environment
R-Zero, a global leader in healthy buildings and green buildings, today announced it has closed a $105 million Series C to continue scaling the adoption of its UV-C technology to address a growing health crisis: disinfecting the indoor air we breathe.
The round brings R-Zero’s total amount of capital raised to more than $170 million. Funds from the Series C will help the company scale deployments of its disinfection and risk modeling technology to meet growing dema...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arc Beam Bedrock Capital BMO Financial Group DBL Partners Dr. Christie Whitbeck Fort Bend Independent School District GHG Greenhouse Gas Emissions Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT In Source Type: blogs
Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI
As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of all the efforts going on to improve the physician documentation process. It’s a burden that’s burning out physicians. One of the biggest efforts out there right now is called Ambient Clinical Voice. The biggest player in this right now is Nuance (now part of Microsoft) and their DAX product (They like to call it ambient clinical intelligence). 3M through MModal is playing in this space as well. Suki is another AI assistant that’s taking a very different approach to the problem. Plus, there are also a number of scribe companies literally putting peop...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 3M Ambience Healthcare Ambient Clinical Intelligence Ambient Clinical Voice EHR Auto Documentation Healthcare AI Heal Source Type: blogs
The Hidden Barrier to Better Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health.
As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to.
This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics. However, despite new innovations being created, funded, and announced every week, the speed with which these new technologies are being adopted is slow if they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Artificial Intelligence Clinical Validation Computed Tomography CT Gradient Health Healthcare Da Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Data Analyst Health IT Jobs Healthcare Data Analyst Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity
Conclusion
The security of IoT devices is a shared responsibility between device manufacturers, institutions, and end-users.
Addressing cybersecurity issues in IoT devices requires following best practices for cyber security and cyber resiliency, such as implementing encryption mechanisms, access controls, and two-factor authentication.
Governments around the world are increasingly introducing regulations aimed at protecting users and ensuring the safe and secure deployment of IoT systems. These efforts play a critical role in promoting cyber security and resiliency in the healthcare industry and help create a safer and mo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy 2FA Cyber Resiliency Cybersecurity Healthcare Security Identification and Authenticatio Source Type: blogs
How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?
This article summarizes their responses.
Paths to Interoperability
A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. I wonder whether the path to complete integration requires adopting a single, worldwide, FHIR-based standard (which is time-consuming and probably requires jettisoning old database systems) or programming these systems to translate data from one format to another.
I heard details about problems with COVID-19 lab reporting at a state level from Dr. Paulo Pinho, vice president & medical director of innovation at Availity Clin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Healthcare IT Regulations 21st Century Cures Act Amazon Amazon Healthcare Amazon S3 Availity Availity Clinical Solutions CDC Data Exchange Diameter Health EMPI FDA Gus Malezis Health Gorilla hl7 Imprivata Interoperability Source Type: blogs
Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD
Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD, a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS, virtual care platform.
“Healthcare technology is rapidly evolving, particularly in the primary care sector where we have the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes and raise the standard of our healthcare system for everyone,” said Kyna Fong, co-founder and CEO of Elation Health in a press release. “...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Brian Esser Elation Health Kelly Schoenfeld Kyna Fong Lightning MD Medical Billing Primary Care Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: blogs
Retaining Patients and Employees in Healthcare
Health care institutions, like many colleges and businesses, have trouble retaining people. Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax, says that it’s one thing to engage with patients but a much bigger challenge to retain them.
Retention is particularly key to maintain the funding for fee-for-value programs, which are growing in popularity. What if you spend a year investing heavily to improve the health of a patient, only to see her leave and give another institution the benefits of your investment?
This video is therefore important viewing for anyone concerned with making a fee-for-value program ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CareCognitics CareMax Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Medicaid patient engagement Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?
There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard to tell what the exact impact will be. On one hand the automation will solve a lot of problems. It can stop a lot of human error and take mundane tasks off of healthcare’s shoulders. Thus helping lift the burden that so quickly leads to burnout. However, where does the automation end? The thought that a computer can do your job for you makes a lot of people worried that it lead to them being replaced.
So let’s ta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC 4medica Advata AristaMD Artificial Intelligence Automation Source Type: blogs
