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Ready for Robots?
By KIM BELLARD When I was young, robots were Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet, etc.), the unnamed robot in Lost in Space, or The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot. Gen X and Millennials might think instead of the more malevolent Terminators (which, of course, are actually cyborgs). But Gen Z is likely to think of the running, jumping, back-flipping Atlas from Boston Dynamics, whose videos have entertained millions. Alas, last week Boston Dynamics announced it was discontinuing Atlas. “For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists and leapt over technical barriers in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Kim Bellard robots Source Type: blogs

Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024
The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. From integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare and health data platforms to establishing robust data standards that reach beyond clinical settings to managing patient consent and increased patient access, it is fair to say that health data exchange and data management have many important intricacies worthy of careful attention. The scope of health data sharing and use of health data have expanded far beyond electronic health record...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops CIvitas Civitas Networks for Health Data Segmentation For Privacy DS4P HDU HDUs Health Data Health Data Management Health Data Util Source Type: blogs

Jeff Gartland, Relatient
Relatient focuses on intelligent scheduling, specifically for the larger specialty groups. They touch over 50m patients and 45,000 providers a year, and are now a significant player in the key part of patient experience–converting a patient looking into an actual appointment with the provider. I spoke with CEO Jeff Gartland at HIMSS in March 2024.–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech THCB Quickbites Jeff Gartland Patient Experience Relatient Scheduling Source Type: blogs

Non-opioid post-op pain relief [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we sit down with Amy Baxter, a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine, to explore how societal factors, deceptive marketing, and profit-driven health care systems have contributed to the opioid epidemic. Amy will shed light on the effectiveness Read more… Non-opioid post-op pain relief [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Pain Management Source Type: blogs

Aasim Saeed, CEO of Amenities
Aasim Saeed is the CEO of Amenities. He’s a doc, ex-McKinsey Consultant and spent a lot of time building a version of his tool for Baylor Scott & White. We had a wide ranging conversation about how health systems treat patients (not well), whether health systems know the value of their customers (no!), and how to bump up “in network” utilization. Amenities is a front door tool that essentially replaces those sh*tty MyChart portals, and eventually will lead to creating a loyalty membership experience. He gave me a tour of the new-ish tool that is live at MemorialCare in southern California, and coming ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Aasim Saeed Amenities Baylor Scott & White Mckinsey Patient Lifetime Value Source Type: blogs

The Change Healthcare hack: a wake-up call for the health care industry
In a recent cybersecurity breach, Change Healthcare, one of the largest health care technology companies in the United States, fell victim to a sophisticated cyber-attack. This incident has sent shockwaves through the health care industry, significantly impacting revenue cycles for numerous health care providers who rely on Change Healthcare’s services for billing, claims processing, and Read more… The Change Healthcare hack: a wake-up call for the health care industry originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs

The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It ’ s Impact on the World of Healthcare
The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting ou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academy Medtech Ventures Alaina Victoria Brenden Hayden Cara Lunsford Carrie Nelson Cindy Gaines Digital Communication Discern He Source Type: blogs

Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic
More Americans are seeking mental health care than ever before, but many people receiving treatment have never met their psychiatrist in person—or even at all. Telemedicine has been growing in popularity for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic sent tele-health care utilization rates through the roof. Now, after sharp increases brought by COVID-19 lockdowns, American telehealth utilization Read more… Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Meds Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical. As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Brian Gonzalez CancerX Digital Medicine Society Doug Mirsky Moffitt Cancer Center Source Type: blogs

Working patients and health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join Benita Talati, a patient advocate who illuminates the biases health care providers may hold toward patients unable to adhere to traditional appointment hours. We explore how limited paid time off, extended wait times, and financial barriers impact working patients’ ability Read more… Working patients and health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trigger Universal Health Care in America? What do expert Academics say?
By MIKE MAGEE In his book, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” (MIT Press/1994), Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, famously wrote, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.” A year earlier, psychologist Karl E. Weich from the University of Michigan penned the term “sensemaking” based on his belief that the human mind was in fact the engine of productivity, and functioned like a biological computer which “receives input, processes the information, and delivers an output.” But comparing the human brain to a computer was not exactly a complemen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bob Wachter Erik Brynjolfsson Karl E. Weich Medical AI Mike Magee Paul Krugman productivity Source Type: blogs

AI ’ s role in simplifying communication [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Carlo Mahfouz, a technology executive and author, to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care communication. Carlo delves into AI’s historical roots, its recent acceleration in adoption, and the unique challenges facing its Read more… AI’s role in simplifying communication [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Health IT Source Type: blogs

Practicing patience with patients
Patience is a notoriously hard skill to master. When working in health care, your patience is constantly tested, a lesson I have repeatedly learned in my time as a medical assistant in a large orthopedic surgery practice. Whether it is taking the time to reexplain instructions to a patient when I know am running behind Read more… Practicing patience with patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Primary Care Source Type: blogs

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance
At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community.  This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). CommonWell was formed 11 years ago from a consortium of major EHR vendors to carry out the mandate for interoperable data exchange in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts. As Executive Director Paul L Wilder points out, they are a “switchboard” throu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC Change Healthcare CommonWell CommonWell Health Alliance ELLKAY FHIR Health Data Exchange Health Information Exchange Healthcare AI Healt Source Type: blogs

Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training. This interview with Healthcare IT Today took place in the shadow of the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, which is still preventing thousands of health care providers from receiving payments. Witt says that training, processes, and t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Children's Hospital of Orange County CHOC Healthcare Breaches Healthcare Credentials Breach Healt Source Type: blogs