Six Months to a Virtual ICU at Houston Methodist
Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist, discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as well as hot technologies they’re looking at for the future. Their virtual ICU project started four years ago as a two-year project, but they managed to set it up in just six months as COVID-19 hit. Now they’re extending their insights into the whole hospital and beyond.
The video is full of intriguing details. For instance, they proudly offered every patient an iPad when the virtual ICU opened, to deliver care and allow patients to talk to their families outside the hospital....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Houston Methodist ICU Care ICU Techno Source Type: blogs
Simple Basics Are Still Needed to Thwart Cyber Threats
Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. In this video, two cybersecurity experts advise healthcare organizations not to fret over AI and advanced attacks, but to shore up the “basic fundamentals”: training against phishing attacks, practicing responses to attacks, and proven cyber technologies.
In the interview below, Ryan Witt, Managing Director, Industries Solutions Group at Proofpoint, guides viewers on how to apportion scarce resources. Figure out who is most likely to be attacked. (Interestingly, fo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 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 LTPAC Security and Privacy CDW CDW Healthcare Denial of Service Attacks Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare IT Vid Source Type: blogs
Data Sharing Transforms the way Physicians Practice; Let ’s Make it More Accessible
The following is a guest article by Timi Leslie, President at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health Coalition Leader, and Gregg Smith-McCurdy, CIO at Hill Physicians Medical Group
Hill Physicians Medical Group, the largest network of independent physicians in Northern California, considers obtaining discrete, contiguous patient health data one of the most important objectives and biggest challenges. The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients.
Any patie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability BluePath Health Connecting for Better Health Data Exchange Framework Data Sharing Data Sharing Agreement Discrete Healthcare Data DSA Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Ambulatory Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Ambulatory Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Llyod Staffing and is in Melville, New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
Responsibilities
Work closely with clinical and technical staff to implement and optimize the EPIC Ambulatory system
Provide technical support for end-users, including troubleshooting and issue resolution
Analyze and document system workflows, processes, and procedures to ensure optimal system performance and e...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Ambulatory Analyst Analyst Jobs Health IT Jobs Health IT Procurement Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Llyod Staffing Source Type: blogs
The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare
I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.
This was the topic of discussion at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference in the session titled “CXO Spotlight: Improve Patient Outcomes and Clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bill Wilson Clinician Experiences COVID-19 Geoffrey Brown Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Multi-Cloud Healthcare Scene Featured H Source Type: blogs
Just Get Connected Already
When my optometrist notices an odd lesion on one of my eyes, we agreed we should let my PCP know. The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data.
This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.
In the video interview below, Wilder and Li...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations CommonWell CommonWell Health Alliance FHIR FHIR Connectathon Health Data Interoperability Health Data Sharing Health Source Type: blogs
Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?
The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle
Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely. However, protecting patient data has grown more complex in recent years with the influx of new regulations, cloud computing and myriad other factors.
The modern healthcare IT team must possess an array of emerging skills that allow practices to share data while ensuring that no one but the intended targets gain access to it. Let’s explore the evoluti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy 21st Century Cures Act Ameesh Divatia asset management Baffle Baffle Inc. Bring Your Own Key B Source Type: blogs
Cascade Health Announces Venture Funding Round to Build Intelligent Platform for Healthcare Transparency
Company’s Advanced Generative AI-Powered Cloud Platform Creates Clarity Around Healthcare Pricing, Coverage for Consumers, Employers, Government Agencies, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, and Other Businesses in the Healthcare Industry
Cascade Health, an intelligent platform for healthcare transparency, announced it has raised $1.7 million in venture funding led by AlleyCorp with participation from other strategic angel investors. The company also announced the launch of its first two products: a generative AI assistant to personalize the consumer experience with full visibility around cost and quality of care, as w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI AI-Powered Cloud AlleyCorp Ana-Maria Constantin API Artificial Intelligence Cascade Health Datasets Generative AI Generative AI Assistant Generative AI-Powered Cloud Platform Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
Improving Internal Communications Leads to 50% Stroke Workflow Improvement
TigerConnect has seen its customers improve their stroke workflows by more than 50% when staff have access to and embrace the use of communication technology. By delivering the right information to the right person when and where they need it, organizations are able speed up patient care in an area where every second matters.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Will O’Connor, M.D., Chief Medical Information Officer at TigerConnect, to find out how these results were achieved and why improving internal communications can have such an impact.
Every Second Matters for Stroke Patients
According to the CDC, more than 795,000 pe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System door-to-needle Healthcare Scene Featured healthcare workflow improvements HIMSS23 provider-to-provider communications Quality of Car Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 55: Healthcare Security with Steven Ramirez
For the 55th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Steven Ramirez, VP & CISO at Renown Health to talk about healthcare security! We kick off the episode by discussing the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry today. And out of those, Ramirez points out the one that needs our immediate attention. Then look into zero trust and what it means for healthcare organizations. Next Ramirez shares what Renown Health’s cybersecurity looks like at a high level and how their third party vendors like Clearwater play into their strategy.
We then move on by taking a look at where ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Regulations Security and Privacy 405D CIO Leadership Clearwater Cybersecurity Firewalls Health IT Leadership Healthcare Cybersecurity Source Type: blogs
The Empathy-First Approach: Choosing Technology that Benefits All Healthcare Stakeholders
The following is a guest article by Jon Zimmerman, CEO at Holon Solutions
In today’s healthcare landscape, clinical information systems are valuable tools for coordinating care and improving outcomes. However, as healthcare workers have discovered time and time again, these technologies are not always optimally user-friendly, nor are they built for today’s complex world. Fundamentally, most of these different systems just don’t work well together.
When providers struggle to use their existing technologies while having to incorporate information from disconnected systems, it stands to reason that patients and payers...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Clinician Burnout EHR Empathetic Technology Healthcare Staff Burnout Holon Solutions Improving Patient Experience Jon Zimmerman Source Type: blogs
Prognos Health Raises $23 Million
Prognos Health, the largest real-world integrated data marketplace, has announced that it has raised $23 million in growth equity co-led by Marshall Wace and Safeguard Scientifics, with participation from Cigna Ventures, Hikma Ventures, Hunt Holdings, Labcorp, Maywic, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and Red and Blue Ventures.
“We are excited to have the support of such a strong group of investors who share our mission of unlocking the power of data to improve health,” said Sundeep Bhan, CEO at Prognos Health. “This funding will enable us to accelerate our growth and expand the reach of our platform, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Hanlon PhD Brown Rudnick Cigna Ventures Eric Salzman Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthcare Real World Data Hikma Ventures Hunt Holdings Joe Volpe LabCorp Lana Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, 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 and Research
More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Additionally, 87% of users said t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AccYouRate BeeKeeperAI Bill Lewkowski Cerner Cognizant Connected Health Initiative Cylera Deloitte Dispatch Health eClinicalWorks eHealth Exchange eHealth Initiative Epic EscrowAI HCTec Hea Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – May 20, 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.
Addressing Current Pain Points and Building Capacity for Future Needs. Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth. Read more…
Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Cybersec...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
A Talk with Epic at HIMSS23 Including Their Work to Incorporate Generative AI
Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience. Work with genomics and rare diseases is underway.
Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of R&D, talked about how they are integrating generative AI, in collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure AI. The tool can be used for something as simple as categorizing inbox messages, or on a higher level to draft a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ChatGPT Epic Epic EHR Erika Koch Generative AI Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video I Source Type: blogs
