Weekly Roundup – October 21, 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.
Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Patients are embracing the notion of monitoring their health every day, but health systems aren’t, John Lynn discovered in a chat with Rich Steinle and Scott Pradels at Carium. The conversation also covered how to remove barriers to adoption of remote monitoring technology. Read more...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Verato and CLEAR Come Together to Accelerate Adoption of Digital Identities in Healthcare
The HLTH conference is full of big announcements from various health IT companies. One of the most interesting announcements I saw at HLTH 2023 was a strategic partnership between identity companies Verato and CLEAR. I was really intrigued by this new partnership because far too often in healthcare two companies that are working in similar spaces choose to compete to the death rather than collaborating together. I love to see these two companies come together to work on one of the hardest problems in healthcare: identity management.
To learn more about the partnership between Verato and CLEAR, we sat down to chat wit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations CLEAR Healthcare Digital Identity Healthcare Identity Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Hlth Source Type: blogs
My takeaways from an entrepreneur and real estate conference for physicians
Navigating the dynamic world of real estate investment and entrepreneurship has always been an exhilarating journey for me. As both an investor in real estate and the proud business owner of a coaching program, I’ve always believed in the power of continuous learning and forging meaningful connections. I recently attended one of the largest entrepreneurship
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My takeaways from an entrepreneur and real estate conference for physicians originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Miguel Villagra, MD Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Ball Changes Shape with Breath for Mental Health Management
Researchers at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom have developed a shape-shifting ball that can inflate and deflate in response to someone’s breath. The idea is an advancement of many techniques designed to help people de-stress and manage their mental health, which all focus on awareness of the breath. For instance, mindfulness meditation often requires people to focus on their own breath, which can help to reduce anxiety and stress, but maintaining this focus is difficult. The ball, which the researchers call the Physical Artefact for Well-being Support (PAWS), is designed to be held in the hands, and sensors...
Source: Medgadget - October 19, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Questions grow about the validity and usefulness of direct-to-consumer blood tests for Alzheimer ’s Disease
For the first time, people worried about their risk of Alzheimer’s disease can go online, order a blood test, and receive results in the privacy of their homes.
This might seem appealing on the surface, but the development has Alzheimer’s researchers and clinicians up in arms.
The Quest Diagnostics blood test, AD-Detect, measures elevated levels of amyloid-beta proteins, a signature characteristic of Alzheimer’s. Introduced in late July, the test is targeted primarily at people 50 and older who suspect their memory and thinking might be impaired and people with a family history of Alzheimer’s or genetic risks for t...
Source: SharpBrains - October 19, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Judith Graham at Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health AD-Detect Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s biomarker amyloid-beta proteins brain health brain pathology cognitive cognitive-symptoms mini-strokes neurology neuropsychologist Quest Diagnostics sleep apnea Source Type: blogs
How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?
Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. This naturally made it a hot topic at the recent Civitas Conference. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective. How are health data utilities evolving? Where are we now with it and where do we see it heading? We’ve compiled their answers in this video below!
Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare –...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Allen Abshire Angie Bass Briljent CIvitas Civitas 2023 Deven McGraw eHealthExchange Grayson Miller Health Data Utility HealtHIE Nevada Inv Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data
This article shows how organizations are collecting it.
Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop, estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. The percentage is much higher in some areas.
Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.
He also says that collecting and processing the data is labor-intensive, because it can be hard to persuade patients to talk openly about financial and logistical problems. At the institu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Andrew Eye Arick Morton Carta Healthcare Case Management Casetivity CDC Clinical Archictecture Cl Source Type: blogs
GoodWill ’ s Lessons for Health Care
By KIM BELLARD
The New York Times had an interesting profile this weekend about how Goodwill Industries is trying to revamp its online presence – transitioning from its legacy ShopGoodwill.com to a new platform GoodwillFinds — in the amidst of numerous other online resellers. It zeroed in on the key distinction Goodwill has:
But Goodwill isn’t doing this just because it wants to move into the 21st century. More than 130,000 people work across the organization, while two million people received assistance last year through its programs, which include career navigation and skills training. Those opportu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Cleveland Clinic community health Goodwill HCA Kaiser Permanente Kim Bellard United Healthcare UPMC Source Type: blogs
Interview with Infermedica CEO, Piotr Orzechowski
At the HLTH conference Matthew Holt talked with CEO of Infermedica, Piotr Orzechowski, and also had a quick word with VP of Marketing Marcus Gordon. Infermedica has been around over a decade, and has been a slow burner in the symptom checker and patient digital front door market. But now it has a lot of clients and deals and its API is hiding behind several big names including Optum & Microsoft. Piotr graciously let me butcher his name, and still told me about how their model works and how LLMs will change it. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Digital front door Infermedica LLMs Marcus Gordon Microsoft Optum Piotr Orzechowski Symptom Checkers Source Type: blogs
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) Announces $31 Million Funding Round to Scale Predictive Risk Platform
Investment will Drive Expansion of New AI Platform, In Use by Houston Methodist and Additional Health Systems
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI)— an artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on empowering clinicians, optimizing care pathways, and improving patient outcomes — today announced an oversubscribed Series C financing to scale its predictive risk platform.
“We are grateful for the continued support of our investors, who recognize the value to be unlocked by transforming huge volumes of health data into actionable insights,” said Nassib Chamoun, Founder and CEO at HDAI. “HDAI is commi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cleveland Clinic Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ed Kania HDAI Health Data Analytics Institute Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthVision Hlth Houston Methodist Nassib Cham Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 14, 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.
AHIMA23 Attendees are Ready for the Challenges Ahead. The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry, Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. SDoH data illustrates this dilemma well: There’s a lot of it, but it’s often har...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Dichotomy Was the Through Line at AHIMA23
Dichotomy of Healthcare
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. He shared with the audience that is simultaneously frustrated at and excited by our industry.
On the frustrating side, clinicians have more regulations, financial uncertainty, and workload to deal with than ever before. These pressures are leading to an increase in moral injury (Dr Neuwirth’s preferred term for burnout) which is resulting in more clinicians leaving the profession. Dr. Neuwirth shared an especially poignant story of a colleague who t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability Revenue Cycle Management AHIMA AHIMA23 American Health Information Management Association Dessiree Paoli health data stewardship Interlace Health Johns Source Type: blogs
The “Green Pope” Loves Science and Is Cautious of AI
By MIKE MAGEE
By all accounts, they were mutually supportive. He was three years older and the chief scientific adviser to the world’s most powerful religious leader. The Scientific American called him “the greatest scientist of all time,” and not because he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a decade earlier for explaining the nuts and bolts of ozone formation. It was his blunt truthfulness and ecological advocacy that earned the organization’s respect.
Paul Crutzan is no longer alive. He died on February 4, 2021 in Mainz, Germany at the age of 87. What attracted the 86 year old “Green Pope” to Paul were t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Mike Magee Pope Francis Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more
This article will be a roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, partnerships, research studies, company launches, and more from the annual conference. Because there’s so much happening out there at HLTH that 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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VC firm General Catalyst is creating Health Assurance Transformation Corp., which will partner with 20+ health system partners to guide their transition to value-based care and potentially acquire a health ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Acuity aidoc athenahealth b.well Best Buy BrightInsight care.ai Circadian Health CLEAR ClearDATA DatosX DAX Copilot DeepScribe Dexcom DUOS Elation Health Evernorth Health Services General Catalyst Google Source Type: blogs
