Artisight to Scale and Advance AI-Driven Smart Hospital Platform with Oversubscribed $42 Million Series B Round
A Crop of New Investors Joins Existing Financiers such as AI Powerhouse NVIDIA
Artisight, Inc., a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, announced today that it raised $42 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. Multiple new strategic and client health system investors participated in the round, as well as full participation from Series A investors, including chipmaker NVIDIA (NVDA).
The Artisight platform, which was developed by clinicians for clinicians, marries IoT sensors with deep learning...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Gostine Artisight Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Northwestern Medicine NVDA NVIDIA Source Type: blogs
KLAS Research Putting More Focus on Patient Engagement
KLAS Research is continuing to expand beyond its traditional focus on healthcare IT buyers and has put a focus on incorporating the voice of patients into their research. Here is why this is important.
Expanding Audience Focus
For decades KLAS Research (KLAS) has been a go-to resource for healthcare IT research that helps organization make informed technology decisions. Their traditional audience has been IT buyers at healthcare organizations which they continue to serve well.
However, KLAS has smartly recognized the need to expand beyond this audience to include other healthcare stakeholders. Over the past several years, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interviews Podcast by Healthcare IT Today Adam Gale KLAS KLAS Research online appointment booking Patient & Consumer Innovation Summit patient engagement patie Source Type: blogs
Defining and Benchmarking World-Class Customer Service
The following is a guest article by Ron Jones, Director of Operations at Revenue Enterprises
Benchmarks are a hallmark of quality in both clinical and nonclinical healthcare processes. However, customer service as part of patient satisfaction is one area where there is no agreed-upon benchmark. The COPC (Customer Operations Performance Center), a global leader in contact center management, auditing, and training, recommends 84% or higher as the world-class patient satisfaction standard to strive for.
The Importance of the Patient Financial Experience
Patient loyalty is vital to an organization’s bottom line and brand r...
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Credo Health Announces Oversubscribed $5.25 Million Series Seed Funding
Credo Health, a leader in technology for value-based care, has successfully secured $5.25 million in series seed funding. FCA Venture Partners led the round with existing investors that include Hannah Grey VC, FirstMile Ventures, and SpringTime Ventures.
Credo Health is the only company that combines both digital and manual medical record retrieval with AI-driven analysis and human expertise to ensure providers have the complete clinical picture of every patient.
This substantial investment reinforces Credo Health’s mission to build the definitive platform for value-based care providers. Its core platform, PreDx, provide...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Carm Huntress Credo Health FCA Venture Partners FirstMile Ventures Hannah Grey VC Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment SpringTime Ventures Tom Hearn Vim Source Type: blogs
Easy Techniques to Improve IT Compliance & Automation in a Digital Health World
In case you missed it, we had a great webinar recently with Shereese Maynard, MS, MBA, Co-Founder at Nostradata Medical, Dan Sloshberg, VP Product & Customer Marketing at Exclaimer, and myself discussing IT compliance and automation. While there’s a lot of talk about IT compliance and automation, in this webinar we shared a wide variety of easy techniques and opportunities that were available to healthcare organizations to automate something for their organization in a compliant way.
Check out the full video below to hear all of the simple ways a healthcare organization can improve their IT compliance and auto...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Dan Sloshberg Email Signatures Exclaimer Healthcare Automation Healthcare Compliance Healthcare Email Signatures Healthcare IT Video Interviews He Source Type: blogs
An Urgent Call for AI Solutions to Tap Evidence-Based Research Best Practices
This study is pivotal for showcasing how AI enhances decision-making in critical situations. It finds that AI-supported workflows can outperform traditional stroke decision-making in meaningful and measurable ways to greatly improve time to relevant care.
Notably, as described in the study discussion, “Our results showed that a machine learning framework can substantially improve stroke recognition in medical helpline calls compared to solely relying on human call-takers. This improvement was observed across all performance metrics and for basic patient demographics (age and sex).”
There is Urgency in Establishing Trus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT ACV AI Solutions Ambient Clinical Voice Corti DTU Evidence Based Data Lars Maaløe Nature Technical University of Denmark Source Type: blogs
Turquoise Health Raises $30M Series B Financing, Expanding Healthcare Pricing Platform Offerings
Price Transparency is the Foundation for Eliminating the Financial Complexity of Healthcare
Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $30M Series B investment led by Adams Street Partners, with participation from Yosemite, as well as existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and BoxGroup. Turquoise will use the funding to further support transparent pricing workflows across its customer base of over 160 healthcare organizations.
“Healthcare pricing remains frustratingly opaque for many industry stakeholders, including patients,” says Tom Bremner, Partner at Adams Street, who wi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adams Street Partners Andreessen Horowitz BoxGroup Chris Severn Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Matt Bettonville Niyum Gandhi The Mass General Brigham Health System Tom Brem Source Type: blogs
From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. In this video, Jill DeGraff, Senior Vice President, Regulatory at b.well Connected Health goes deeply into these new rules and explains their value as well as the demands they place on health care systems.
Hopefully, interoperability will result in a “connected healt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC Regulations b.well b.well Connected Health FHIR Health Data Sharing Healthcare APIs Healthcare IT Video Interviews HT Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of Patient Communication: Trends and Technologies
The following is a guest article by Stephanie Maharjan, Director of Operations at WellReceived.
While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers. And this statistic is set to rise as more and more healthcare providers invest in new technology to support, monitor, and diagnose their patients.
So, what does the future of patient communication look like, and what role can we exp...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare IoT Healthcare Scene Featured HIPAA Medical An Source Type: blogs
Impact Advisors Announces Acquisition of First Quadrant Advisory
Partnership Enhances Firm’s Portfolio of Healthcare Services
Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare management consulting firm, announced it has acquired First Quadrant Advisory, a strategy and operations consulting firm specializing in the healthcare payer market. The strategic partnership will allow Impact Advisors to continue to grow and enhance its mission to improve the business and delivery of healthcare by offering comprehensive, value-driven solutions to both payer and provider organizations.
“Bringing the First Quadrant Advisory team into our fold enables us to further our advancement as a full-service, top-tie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Chicago Pacific Founders First Quadrant Advisory Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Impact Advisors Sandeep Sabharwal Vijay Murugappan Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 67: Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation with Inderpal Kohli
For the 67th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Inderpal Kohli, Vice President and CIO at Englewood Health about cybersecurity and digital transformation! We kick this episode off by discussing Kohli’s approach to cybersecurity, where he then shares a personal recommendation about cybersecurity for all healthcare CIOs. Then Kohli tells us all about his journey in digital transformation. From his personal experience, we discuss what it takes to successfully drive digital transformation. Next, we talk about generative AI. Kohli shares his views on generative AI and we debate how...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy CIO Leadership Cybersecurity Digital Transformation Englewood Health Generative AI Generative AI in Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Break free from screen addiction: a doctor ’ s prescription for smartphone sanity
Screentime addiction is real and it is everywhere. Over the past decade, I’ve worked with only one physician who doggedly held onto his pager, refusing to adopt the hospital’s HIPAA-compliant messaging app. He happens to be in his seventies, and a giant in his field; if he gets any grief for not using a smartphone
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Break free from screen addiction: a doctor’s prescription for smartphone sanity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Allison O. Ignatz-Hoover, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Women ’ s Health in the Digital Health Market: What 2024 Has in Store
The following is a guest article by Egle Jakimone, Product CEO at Kilo Health
In 2024, we are expecting to witness a significant change in women’s health, particularly centered around the transformative phase of menopause. The notable growth of female wellness apps is helping women to take an active role in managing their health. Additionally, the increased attention to women’s health topics is drawing interest from global players and investors.
As a lead of a holistic health product tailored to women, I have gathered some insights into what to expect from 2024 and how to come prepared.
Embracing the Menopause ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Digital Health Egle Jakimone FemTech Kilo Health Menopause Menstruation RPM Telehealth Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Care Continuity Secures $10M in Funding to Fuel Growth in Patient Navigation
Today, Care Continuity, a leader in data-driven patient navigation serving some of the country’s largest health systems, payers, and ACOs, announced the close of $10 million in Series A-3 funding co-led by Empactful Capital and Viewside Capital Partners with participation from Flat Creek Capital and Loop 289 Limited Partners.
The funding will enable Care Continuity to further its mission of helping health systems, payers and ACOs employ an efficient patient and member-centered care journey, as well as make strategic investments in growth, product development, and further enablement of AI to enhance Care Continuity...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Brad Prugh Care Continuity Empactful Capital Flat Creek Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Loop 289 Limited Partners Sal DeTrane Viewside Capital Partners Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – January 28, 2024 – 49% of orgs likely to invest in RCM tech in the next 18 months, v2 drafts of TEFCA Common Agreement and QHIN Technical Framework out, plus 27 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
The Sequoia Project released a bundle of TEFCA draft documents, including v2 drafts of the Common Agreement and QHIN Technical Framework. Interested stakeholders have until February 5 to provide feedback.
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