How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management
The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have.
Allow Programmer Creativity, With Sensitivity
Several of my respondents talked about giving professionals flexibility and autonomy. But programmers need to be sensitive to the unique needs of patients and clinicians. Health care is far different from most of the other industries they’re used to working in.
As Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph, puts it, software engineer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anmol Madan Avanade Digital Health Software Developers Health IT Deveopment Health IT Programmers Health IT Software Developers Healthcare Software Developers Inteleo Source Type: blogs
Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation
Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. Because the solution is fully automated and works in real-time, it can make recommendations during a patient interview, such as suggesting extra questions to ask or the direction for further investigations and treatment.
The tool can take input from a local microphone and display its recommendations on the clinician’s computer screen or device. The clinician has control over the amount of intervention the solution provides. It can also generate notes, suggest coding, and do other tasks for the clinician.
In this video, co-founder and CTO...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Corti Healthcare IT Video Interviews Lars Maaløe Source Type: blogs
How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Strategies
The first article in this series laid out the challenges in recruiting programmers to digital health firms and who tends to make a strong contributor in those firms. Now we can cover the strategies companies use and the arguments they make.
Make an Important Difference in Society
Dean says that many programmers choose health IT over other industries because they want to do something positive for humanity. The programmer may have suffered a health crisis, or seen family members go through one. In any case, they find more meaning in health IT than retail, finance, or social media.
Dean’s observation matches what I...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anmol Madan Carenet Health CliniComp Darena Solutions David Mulligan Dedalus Digital Health Software Developers Health IT Deveopment Health IT Programmers Health Source Type: blogs
Introducing Layer Health
Today, we are thrilled to introduce Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT and backed by $4 million in funding from GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health. We are committed to solving the information problem in healthcare.
The information problem begins the moment a patient visits a health institution. Every interaction generates a trail of breadcrumbs, including clinical notes, lab results, and patient messages. When combined, these breadcrumbs tell a rich story of a patient’s health journey and clinical care. However, the most nuanced and valuable data is unstructured and hard to un...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT David Sontag Distill Divya Gopinath Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin General Catalyst Google Ventures GV Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Inception Health Layer Source Type: blogs
My Cancer Story
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.
I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs
Patients are Not “Consumers”: My Cancer Story
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.
I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs
Quiz post: 2 similar patients with similar ECGs. Which, if any, or both, are OMI? Will you outperform the Queen of Hearts?
Written by Pendell MeyersTwo adult patients in their 50s called EMS for acute chest pain that started within the last hour. Both were awake and alert with normal vital signs. Both cases had an EMS ECG that was transmitted to the ED physician asking " should we activate the cath lab? "What do you think? Here they are:Patient 1, ECG1:Zoll computer algorithm stated: " ***STEMI***, Anterior Infarct "Patient 2, ECG1:Zoll computer algorithm stated: " ST elevation, probably benign early repolarization... "Queen of hearts interpretations:Patient 1, ECG1:Patient 2, ECG1:Patient 1 Clinical Course and Outcome:The EM physician d...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
A Diminished State Space View of Cognitive Aging
One can measure aging from the bottom up, looking at the most fundamental changes in cell and tissue biochemistry, or one can measure aging from the top down, looking at decline in specific high-level capabilities of the individual. For the two approaches to meet in the middle remains a distant prospect for even simple tissues, never mind the most complex organs, such as the brain. Therapies to reverse aging will be a going concern long before aging is completely mapped, top to bottom. As an example of starting at the top, in a very conceptual way, one might look at the paper here, and its view of one specific aspect of co...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards
This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store.
Start with Standards
A typical digital validation in health care must be recognized by software on the patient’s device as well as sites at multiple institutions: providers, payers, pharmacies, and more. Therefore, standards are a prerequisite to digital insurance cards. Luckily (as the saying goes), there are many to choose from.
HL7, which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CARIN Alliance Commons Project Foundation Digital Insurance Card FHIR hl7 JP Pollak Leavitt Partners Mark Scrimshire OnyxOS Patient Identificat Source Type: blogs
Awakening Your Dormant Talents
Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using?
I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app in years. My wish was to develop my coding talent again.
Fast forward to the present, I’m happy to report that I have been developing my coding talent! I’ve developed several apps in the past years, and I still do now. So, my coding talent is no longer dormant. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I’ve been working on it...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Will We All Have To Become Biologically Enhanced Superhumans?
Okay, hands up who can tell who’s the most famous biologically enhanced superhuman in the world? True, it’s a quite close call between Captain America and The Incredible Hulk (sorry Spidey, you’re not even close). But are human-invented superhumans just a thing of a Stan Lee comic, or is it an actual scientific idea from a real laboratory?
As a matter of fact, enhancing human capabilities has been on the minds of people for ages, but it has come a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. Will it be possibl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Bioethics Biotechnology Cyborgization Digital Health Research E-Patients Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Science Ficti Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 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
Three U.S. Representatives have introduced the WEAR IT Act, which would let Americans use money from Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts to pay for devices such as blood glucose and EKG monitors or sleep ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AccurKardia Aiberry Artisight Availity Avel eCare Azalea Health Bamboo Health BAMF Health BioIntelliSense CentralReach CHIME Fall Forum Circular Doccla Edifecs Equality Health Garrett Goldberg GE Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Chronic collaboration – My Light, My Sky – a song
TL:DR – Latest song from David Bradley out now on BandCamp, original lyrical inspiration from Clive-upon-Sea: My Light, My Sky.
I’ve worked with Simon Oliver (Clive-upon-Sea) on various musical collaborations since April 2012. At that time, we set up what we hoped (in retrospect) would be a Bowie-style Arts Night. It was very successful with a lot of people passing through the doors over the years.
One of the concepts was to pick a discussion topic and write a song or a poem, or create an image for the next session. We wrote a lot of songs in the first few years. Eventually, we played a few gigs, I produced a...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Pin Me, Please
By KIM BELLARD
You had to know I’d write about the new Humane AI Pin, right?
After all, I’d been pleading for the next big thing to take the place of the smartphone, as recently as last month and as long ago as six years, so when a start-up like Humane suggests it is going to do just that, it has my attention. Even more intriguing, it is billed as an AI device, redefining “how we interact with AI.” It’s like catnip for me.
For anyone who has missed the hype – and there has been a lot of hype, for several months now – Humane is a Silicon Valley start-up founded by two former Apple employee...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations
The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site—places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health.
Many people among impoverished and under-represented populations don’t use the services to which they’re entitled. The people might not realize these services exist, or don’t think they need help, or don’t think they deserve it. Many of these people enter the ecosystem of human resource o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Workflows Case Management Casebook Casebook PBC Diversity Equity and Inclusio Source Type: blogs
