How AI and AIOps are Reshaping the Future of Healthcare IT
The following is a guest article by Scott Pross, VP of Technology at Monalytic, a SolarWinds Company The future of healthcare will be powered by artificial intelligence (AI). AI can enhance the speed and accuracy of diagnosis, book appointments, support clinical trials, reduce costs and errors, and improve cybersecurity posture. AI can also address the shortage of skilled healthcare workers – particularly in the field of IT operation. Indeed, a study by the Health Management Academy found that 47.5% of health systems currently use AI solutions to address workforce challenges and improve productivity, with the rest consid...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AIOps Cybersecurity Health IT Monitoring Healthcare AI Monalytic Scott Pross SolarWinds Source Type: blogs

Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2024 Health IT Predictions AI Concerns Artificial Intelligence Cautionary AI Views ChatGPT Full Spectrum Healthcare AI Healthcare ChatGPT Infor IQVIA Jason Source Type: blogs

Healthcare AI Regulations and Ethics – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 2024 Health IT Predictions Alison Sloane Anika Heavener ArentFox Schiff LLP athenahealth Barnes & Thornb Source Type: blogs

This Is An Important Statement Of A Perfectly Sensible Position On Health Information Access.
This was released a day or so ago. GPs and pathologists raise concerns over plans to remove 7-day delay for all pathology results on My Health Record Royal Australian College of GPs and Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) have warned the Government ’s (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management 2024 Health IT Predictions Amy Amrick Ashish Shah Aspirion Benjami Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 2024 Health IT Predictions Barnes & Thornburg Brian Drozdowicz CenTrak Christoph Pedain CloudWave CPSI Cristina Source Type: blogs

Here ’s What to Expect from IoMT Cybersecurity in 2024
The following is a guest article by Shankar Somasundaram, CEO at Asimily Healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) continue to be up against a fast-moving landscape trying to keep up with and mitigate cybersecurity threats to medical technology. But even setting aside the immense challenge of safeguarding Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices from increasingly sophisticated and frequent attacks, HDOs must also adapt to shifting cyber insurance practices and compliance mandates. All of these challenges are compounded by the budget and staff constraints facing most HDOs. To stay safe in 2024, understanding the current sta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Asimily Cyber Insurers Cybersecurity Data Breaches HDOs Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Cybersecurity Insurance Healthcare Deliver Source Type: blogs

25th Amendment Still Not the Right Response to a Mentally Ill Trump
By MIKE MAGEE On May 16, 2017 New York Times conservative columnist, Russ Douthat, wrote “The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump.”  That column was the starting point for a Spring course I taught on the 25th Amendment at the President’s College in Hartford, CT. I will not summarize the entire course here, but would like to emphasize four points: The American public was adequately warned (now 7 years ago) of the risk that Trump represented to our nation and our democracy. Douthat’s piece triggered a journalistic debate which I summarize below with four slides drawn from my lectures. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy 25th Amendment Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs

Econoclasm Chapter Two, continued: The Death Spiral
It ' s been a few days since the last post in this series, so I ' ll remind you that last time, we posed the question, " What would happen if insurers were simply required to cover people for pre-existing conditions? " Problem solved, right? No. Problem made worse. Imagine what would happen. All of a sudden a whole lot of people with serious chronic diseases, who couldn ’t get health insurance before, will buy it now. They’re expensive to cover, so the premiums will go up for everybody. At that point some number of people who don’t need it quite as badly will drop their coverage, leaving only sicker people in th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

The US needs a Chief Patient Officer
By KAT McDAVITT and LISA BARI Regulations are created by well-intentioned government employees who, understandably, focus on the loudest voices they hear. The loudest voices tend to be from organizations — vendors, associations, large corporations — that have the internal and external resources needed to access the federal government, navigate the 80,000-employee Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and ensure that the perspectives of their employers and members are heard. Patients do not have the resources to hire lobbyists or high-profile legal teams, nor do they have a large and well-funded tra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Kat McDavitt Lisa Bari Patients patients rights regulatory capture Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 3, 2024 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 2024 Health IT Predictions Anatomy IT Andrew Bayers ArmorText Claroty CloudWave Ele Source Type: blogs

Digression -- an important economic fact
I commend to your attentionJeffrey A. Winters in The American Interest, with the essential truth about our present historical moment, that gets obscured in the deliberate distractions thrown up by politicians and journalists who would rather make us think and talk about something else. Pull quote:Despite polls consistently showing that large majorities favor increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, policy has been moving for decades in the opposite direction. Reduced taxes on the ultra-rich and the corporations and banks they dominate have shifted fiscal burdens downward even as they have strained the government ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

2024 Prediction: Society Will Arrive at an Inflection Point in AI Advancement
By MIKE MAGEE For my parents, March, 1965 was a banner month. First, that was the month that NASA launched the Gemini program, unleashing “transformative capabilities and cutting-edge technologies that paved the way for not only Apollo, but the achievements of the space shuttle, building the International Space Station and setting the stage for human exploration of Mars.” It also was the last month that either of them took a puff of their favored cigarette brand – L&M’s. They are long gone, but the words “Gemini” and the L’s and the M’s have taken on new meaning and relevance now six decades l...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Google LLM Microsoft Mike Magee Source Type: blogs

Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed
The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm.  A perfect example of not only misusing AI, but also continuing to use a model to make decisions affecting individual care that can be error-prone involves a recent class-action lawsuit filed against one of the nation’s largest health plans and its subsidiary.  Both companies stand accused of illegally using an algorithm to deny rehabilitation care to seriousl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Artificial Intelligence Dr. Amy Hester Ethical AI HD Nursing Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation responsible AI Source Type: blogs

Econoclasm: Lesson four
I will interrupt myself here to note that yes, there are people who are pursuing economics as an empirical science, and they have indeed demonstrated that the so-called neo-classical economic theory as taught to first-year college students is not a description of the real world. My point in this presentation is that many people, including journalists and politicians, believe that it is. This pernicious falsehood horribly contaminates public discourse. So yes, it does require debunking. There are a couple of additional problems with the concept of the free market that don ’t stem directly from the faulty assumptions....
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs