The Big Consult: Additional Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
The previous article in this series laid out key criteria for choosing a digital solution to clinical problems. We’ll continue with some other less known, but still important, criteria in this article. In addition to the traits mentioned in the previous article, several others were cited by Christine Vogel, lead nurse educator at UbiSim: Ease of use: the vendor needs to bring in user experience (UX) designers and subject-matter experts. Flexibility: Because no two clinical sites are quite alike, the technology should be easy to adapt to each site. Accessibility: People with different physical and intellectual abilit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia care.ai Christine Vogel Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Colin Banas Denistry.One DrFirst Equality Health Health IT Selection Ka Source Type: blogs

GE HealthCare Announces Agreement to Acquire MIM Software
The Anticipated Acquisition Aligns to GE HealthCare’s Precision Care Strategy with the Goal of Strengthening the Company’s Digital Solutions Across Care Pathways MIM Software Provides AI-Enabled Image Analysis and Workflow Tools Across Multiple Care Areas, Including Oncology, Urology, Neurology, and Cardiology Today’s Agreement Reinforces GE HealthCare’s Commitment to Integrate Medical Imaging Products in Order to Deliver More Precise, Connected, and Efficient Care Across Disease States GE HealthCare today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire MIM Software, a global provider of medical imaging analy...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Nelson GE Healthcare Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A MIM Software Peter Arduini Taha Kass-Hout Source Type: blogs

Digital Health at CES 2024
CES is always a fun show for a tech guy like myself.  With 130,000 people, there’s a lot of noise that doesn’t relate to healthcare IT, but over the years the digital health portion of CES has really grown.  This year that growth was particularly true thanks to the great efforts of Catherine Pugh who put together an entire Digital Health track, a long list of digital health vendors, and a packed house digital health networking event. While I’m sure I missed plenty of the digital health happenings at CES, here’s a quick rundown of some of the things I found interesting. Digital Health Media Panel a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alzheimer's BeamO Blood Glucose Monitor Bone Density Test C.Light Technologies CES CES 2024 Concussions CTA Source Type: blogs

Smart Hospital Solutions from Artisight
Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO and president of Artisight, envisions a future where every hospital room hosts a camera and speaker in order to support two-way video. Hospitals are using Artisight’s capabilities for remote support of nurses, but they are expanding to other disciplines as well. When you leverage nurses at the bedside and others watching over video, each can focus on different aspects of care. The physically present nurse has more time to spend with the patient. Although this practice may seem like it requires more staff, Lahr says they’ve found that splitting the work saves time. Virtual nurses can al...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Artisight CHIME CHIME 2023 CHIME2023 Healthcare IT Video Interviews Hospital Tele Source Type: blogs

The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
This article, and the next, lay out criteria for choosing a solution. Even once you know what you need in your clinical setting, demonstrating the value of a new technology is hard. Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth, looks for real-world evidence of outcomes. A study by the vendor is nice to see, but is it peer reviewed by a neutral party? Dr. Tim Church, chief medical officer at Wondr Health, similarly recommends checking that the app follows modern, evidence-based treatment guidelines. “During the COVID-19 quarantine, literally thousands of new apps sprung up, particularly related to weight l...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein athenahealth AvaSure BrainCheck care.ai Cindy Gaines Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Colin Banas DarioHealth DrFirst Source Type: blogs

Featured Health IT Job: Service Desk CSM Lead
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Service Desk CSM Lead position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a hybrid position based in New York City, New York. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking a CSM to lead daily operations and oversight of the Epic and technical support service desk for a health system client in New York, serving as a liaison between the client and Stoltenberg Consulting. The CSM role is a hybrid role at the client site in Ne...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT CSM jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hybrid Position Job Seekers Service Desk CSM Lead Stoltenberg Consulting Jobs Source Type: blogs

Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They ’ ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology
Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? We all know what skills and qualifications we needed when we first entered the field, but regardless of how long you’ve been working in Health IT, the field has changed a lot since then. So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. Tom Liddell,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Azalea Health Brian Urban Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Darena Solutions FinThrive Harmony Healthcare IT Health IT Careers Health IT Qualifications Health IT Skills Heal Source Type: blogs

In Health Care, AI to Advance Rapidly Along With Its Regulation
This far-ranging video examines the current uses and future prospects for AI through the eyes of two experts from UST: Adnan Masood, PhD, Chief AI Architect, and Anand Nair, Head of Healthcare Payer. Masood pointed out that there is little point to regulating research and development in AI, because the rules tend to miss the point and impose unnecessary burdens. However, regulating the application of AI is useful, and Masood would like to see more of it. Singapore has led the way with regulation, and the EU is “moving fast.” He mentioned positively a recent AI risk management framework (RMF) from NIST as a ste...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Adnan Masood Anand Nair Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Regulation Healthcare IT Video Intervi Source Type: blogs

The Big Consult: Clinicians Who Entered Digital IT Speak About the Differences
We’ve been through several waves of health IT adoption, and are witnessing a new phase of growth (temporarily interrupted by the rise in interest rates) with exciting new ventures. All these digital health companies bring in expert doctors, nurses, or other clinical staff to help them design products and interact with potential customers. These highly experienced people, with one foot firmly in the world of medicine and the other in IT, form bridges between technologists and the clinicians still out in the field. For this four-part series, I interviewed more than a dozen clinicians who work in IT now, asking them in ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein Arcadia AvaSure Cindy Gaines Clever Care Health Plan DarioHealth Equality Health Healthcare IT Development Healthcare IT Solutions John Showalter Kate Behan Kh Source Type: blogs

Accenture Invests in QuantHealth to Accelerate Use of AI-Powered Clinical Trial Simulations to Drive Cost-Effective Drug Development
Accenture announced it has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in QuantHealth, an AI-powered clinical trial design company that simulates clinical trials in the cloud, allowing pharmaceutical and biotech companies to more quickly and cost-effectively develop treatments for patients. With proprietary AI technology trained on a massive dataset of 350 million patients, large biomedical knowledge graphs, and clinical trial data, QuantHealth’s simulation platform can predict trial outcomes with significant accuracy. It can test thousands of protocol variations and discover the optimal trial design for su...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Accenture Accenture Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Orr Inbar Petra Jantzer QuantHealth Tom Lounibos Source Type: blogs

CHIME23 – What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment and Why?
There are so many good ideas in healthcare, but tragically so little time, resources, people, and money. Because of our limitations, not every project immediately gets invested in and there are also lots of projects that had their investments slowly run dry until they disappeared entirely. The true tragedy of all of this is that even though we don’t have the resources to effectively do what we need to, these projects cannot move forward without investments and often get left behind, all the while new projects keep on coming. In order to help bring attention to some areas in healthcare that are currently being overloo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aditya Bansod CHIME CHIME 2023 Clearwater Clint Drawdy Divurgent Healthcare CIO Healthcare Investment Healthcare Triangle Hospital CIO iMethods Impri Source Type: blogs

6 Big Tech Companies in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 132
For the 132nd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about 6 big tech companies in healthcare. But rather than just picking 6 big tech companies, we are going to have a little fun with it by leaving that selection up to random chance! We have compiled a list of 10 possible big tech companies to discuss and throughout the episode, we will randomly select 6 of them to discuss. So if you want to find out which ones we discuss in this episode, you’ll just need to tune in! Here’s the list of companies we will be randomly selecting 6 from in this episode: Amazon Google Microsoft Apple Salesforce NVIDI...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Amazon Apple Big Tech Companies CDW Colin Hung Dell Technologies Facebook Google Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Big Tech Healthcare Podca Source Type: blogs

Empowering the Behavioral Health System with Home-Based Technology Solutions
Conclusion In many ways, home-based health technology is the natural next step in the evolution of behavioral healthcare. Individuals who face the daunting challenges of mental health conditions and substance use disorders need ongoing support, but they also need a sense of control over their own lives. A person-centered, technologically-supported, home-based approach not only allows people to manage their well-being independently, it provides a more cost-effective and efficient model of care for a healthcare system under strain. As technology continues to advance, the potential for home-based care to make a lasting impact...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Altruix behavioral health Eric Elliott Home Health Home Healthcare Home-Based Care Medherent Medication Manage Source Type: blogs

Arbital Health Completes Acquisition of Santa Barbara Actuaries and Closes Series A Financing
Arbital Health’s Vision is to be the Neutral Adjudicator of Outcomes-Based Contracts, Helping Healthcare’s Shift to Value-Based Care Santa Barbara Actuaries is a Leading Specialist in the Design and Measurement of Value-Based Programs $10 Million Series A Investment Led by Transformation Capital, with Participation by Shaper Capital, Healthy Ventures, and Individual Data and Healthcare Luminaries Arbital Health, a technology startup focused on accelerating the healthcare industry’s transition to value-based care, today announced the acquisition of Santa Barbara Actuaries, Inc. (SBA), and $10 million in ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arbital Health Brian Overstreet Dr. Ian Duncan Flex Capital Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthy Ventures Santa Barbara Actuaries Inc. SBA Scott Rosen Shaper Capital Transformation Capital Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – January 21, 2024 – Number of compromised patient records in cyberattacks rose 108% in 2023, USCDI v5 draft announced, plus 18 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 and Studies ONC released the draft United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v5, along with a Standards Bulletin to explain the proposed two new data classes (Observations and Orders) and 13 new data elements (...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Kruse Avel eCare Biofourmis bitewell CAE Healthcare Christian León CLARA Analytics eClinical Solutions Equality Health Feel Therapeutics FOLX Health Fortified Health Security GigXR Healthc Source Type: blogs