Breaking News: Judy Faulkner from Epic Sneezed
We just got a special report coming out of Verona, WI that Judy Faulkner sneezed. Our source which wanted to remain confidential for fear of retribution said that they were walking down the hall of Emerald City office and as they passed a conference room, they heard someone sneeze. Once they heard the startling noise, they looked up and saw Judy Faulkner with her hand to her mouth.
Those at Epic said that Judy’s sneeze was spreading like wildfire on the internal Epic Teams channel. Employees weren’t sure what the sneeze meant and they were trying to help each other process such a reaction from the visiona...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company April Fool's Day Fun Friday Personal Musings Source Type: blogs
The Long and Tortured History of Alpha-Synuclein and Parkinson ’s Disease
This study tracks the decades-long journey to harness alpha-synuclein as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Steven Zecola an activist who tracks Parkinson’s research and was on THCB last month discussing it, offers three key changes needed to overcome the underlying challenges.
A Quick Start for Alpha-Synuclein R&D
In the mid-1990’s, Parkinson’s patient advocacy groups had become impatient by the absence of any major therapeutic advances in the 25 years since L-dopa had been approved for Parkinson’s disease (PD).
The Director of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) se...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Parkinson's Disease Steven Zecola Source Type: blogs
VBA Provides A Suite of Tools for Payers and TPAs Including a New Generative AI Product
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—”one-stop shopping” for a large range of services. To ease the user experience with these services, the company has started using generative AI for training on their platform through a tool called VBA Assist.
At the HCAA conference, President and CEO Mike Clayton cites their mission to “make the health care experience better for everyone” and explains some of their services: 24/7 self-service for patients, real-time chat, notifications for picking up meds or scheduling visits, risk modeling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations HCAA HCAA 2024 Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare TPAs Source Type: blogs
A Look at a Number of Innovations at HIMSS 2024
At HIMSS 2024, we got a chance to sit down with a number of amazing individuals and companies who were doing great things. I think we did close to 90 videos at the conference, so be sure to subscribe to Healthcare IT Today, follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, or TikTok, and Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube to get all the latest information. We wanted to highlight a number of the short videos we recorded that talked about some of the great innovations that were happening at HIMSS 2024.
First up is Ginny Torno, Executive Director, Innovation and IT Clinical Systems at Houston Methodist who shared with...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Agamon Health Care Coordination care gaps CitiusTech Di Source Type: blogs
The Latest AI Craze: Ambient Scribing
By MATTHEW HOLT
Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way
If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.
Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about how terrible the original transcript was. But then...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt abridge AI Ambient Scribing Anthropic clinical care Coding Google Microsoft Nabla Nuance OpenAI Suki 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
How to face our mistakes: Using the military ’s after-action review to improve morbidity and mortality conferences
Nearly three decades ago, David Hilfiker, a family medicine physician in rural Minnesota, authored an essay in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Facing our mistakes.” In the piece, he chronicles three major medical mistakes he made during his long career practicing medicine. Some of the mistakes are horrifying and others simply tragic, but
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How to face our mistakes: Using the military’s after-action review to improve morbidity and mortality conferences originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Neel Vahil, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine 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
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
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
But I digress
The UCONN women ' s basketball team has been short-handed all season because five players are out with season-ending injuries. So they ' ve lot some game to the top teams but they ' ve still managed to be undefeated in Big East conference play. Yesterday they faced Providence College in the second round of the Big East tournament. PC ' s strategy was to beat the crap out of UCONN center Aaliyah Edwards, which the referees for some reason allowed them to do, causing Geno Auriemma nearly to have a stroke on sideline. The assistant coaches had to put him in a double arm bar to keep him off the court.Providence managed to hang...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Three Key Takeaways From ViVE2024
Cybersecurity and the Change Healthcare outage dominated the hallway conversations at ViVE2024. AI was everywhere at ViVE2024, but companies were much more realistic with their productivity claims this year. In the exhibit hall, larger booths were more noticeable.
The three key takeaways from the ViVE2024 event for me were:
Cybersecurity risk and the Change Healthcare outage was top-of-mind for attendees
Vendors are being more realistic in their deployment of AI
Larger booths are starting to appear in the ViVE exhibit hall
Lots of Cybersecurity Concerns at ViVE2024
Healthcare’s vulnerability, specifically to cybersecu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Change Healthcare Healthcare AI Healthcare Breaches Healthcare Conference Healthcare Cybersecurity ViVE ViVE 2024 ViVE2024 Source Type: blogs
Why Flight Emergency Medical Kits Need A Digital Health Upgrade
A few weeks ago a doctor used an Apple Watch to aid an elderly woman who suffered a medical emergency on a flight. NHS doctor Rashid Riaz, from Hereford, borrowed the device from a flight attendant to check the patient’s oxygen levels.
“The Apple Watch helped me find out the patient had low oxygen saturation,” the medic explained. Later, he also called on all airlines to consider having emergency physician kits as standard, which would ideally include tools to take basic measurements, diabetic and blood pressure meters, and an oxygen saturation monitor.
We all know that aircraft have some medical su...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers portable diagnostics emergency medicine Healthcare technology flight medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 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.
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U.S. Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024, which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into cer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accenture Authenticx Availity AXYS Biofourmis Brightside Health Dandelion Health Digital Health Collaborative Edifecs EHR Association Experity FHIR API Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Healthcare Legislation H Source Type: blogs
