Microsoft Teams and Boostlingo Integration Improves Healthcare Interpretation Efficiency
Talking with a CIO this week, he described how telehealth is now just part of the infrastructure for how they see patients. Certainly telehealth balooned during COVID and has come back to more reasonable levels now, but in many cases telehealth appointments have still settled at 100 times what they were before COVID. Patients and clinicians are now more comfortable with telehealth as an option that provides great convenience for the patients.
One of the most common telehealth platforms being used right now is Microsoft Teams. My guess is that it was widely adopted because it was included in the Microsoft package that...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Boostlingo Healthcare Interpreters Healthcare Sc Source Type: blogs
RLDatix Finalizes Acquisition of Breitenbach Software
With the Acquisition of the German Software Company Completed, RLDatix will Expand Support and Coverage in the Region while also Driving Increased Innovation
RLDatix, the leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services, has finalized the acquisition of Breitenbach Software Engineering GmbH (Breitenbach), a Germany-based integrated solutions provider specializing in workforce management.
“Welcoming the rich history of Breitenbach and their team to our global RLDatix company is a critical step in our long-term investment and growth within the German market,” said Jeff Surges, RLDa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Breitenbach Breitenbach Software Breitenbach Software Engineering GmbH Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jeff Surges Markus Röhler Matthias Scholtz RLDatix Source Type: blogs
Infinx Reduces Errors, Turnaround Time, and Staff Burdens for RCM
Many factors make revenue cycle management (RCM) a big headache for U.S. health care providers. Aakarsh Sethi, Senior Product Manager at Infinx, lists the forms of “fragmentation” in payments: not just many different payers, but different plans with different coverage at each payer, along with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and other third party managers, and rules that are constantly changing.
Establishing eligibility, getting prior authorization, and billing are a “very manual process today,” which not only slows down the revenue cycle but leaves a lot of space for inaccuracies to enter and trig...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Aakarsh Sethi Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Healthcare S Source Type: blogs
When Insurance and Patients Start Demanding 24/7 Availability
It would be really nice if injuries, illnesses, and dental issues only happened during 9-5 working hours. However, we know that’s not the case. The need for medical and dental care can spring up at any time. In fact, it seems like most healthcare situations happen after hours at really inconvenient times. Of course, on the other hand, healthcare providers can’t be available 24/7. It’s a truly challenging situation that has to be navigated carefully by practices that want to provide the needed care and maintain their reputation, but also not burn out their staff.
Increasing Demand for 24/7 Availa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Complete Dental Care Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcare Staff Burnout Medical Answering Service Medical Receptionists Physician Burnout Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs
As most of you know, we’ve had a healthcare IT job board called Healthcare IT Central for a long time. In fact, it was integral to the growth of Healthcare IT Today. While we happily helped many health IT professionals find jobs and healthcare organizations fill their health IT positions, our focus has definitely moved from growing the job board to the content, podcasts, and videos we have been doing on Healthcare IT Today. With that change of focus, I’m sad to say that shortly we’ll be shutting down the Healthcare IT Central job board.
As part of that change, we still want to share health IT jobs w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Career and Jobs EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cerner Jobs Epic Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Careers Healthcare IT Jobs Meditech Jobs Source Type: blogs
VBA Provides A Suite of Tools for Payers and TPAs Including a New Generative AI Product
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—”one-stop shopping” for a large range of services. To ease the user experience with these services, the company has started using generative AI for training on their platform through a tool called VBA Assist.
At the HCAA conference, President and CEO Mike Clayton cites their mission to “make the health care experience better for everyone” and explains some of their services: 24/7 self-service for patients, real-time chat, notifications for picking up meds or scheduling visits, risk modeling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations HCAA HCAA 2024 Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare TPAs Source Type: blogs
Featured Collaboration at HIMSS24 Between MEDITECH, Google, and Mile Bluff Medical Center
I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The best example of this in our personal lives was when the iPhone was launched. There wasn’t much that Apple invented itself in the original iPhone, but what they did amazingly well was to package all of the various technologies such that the iPhone has transformed the world.
The same is true in health IT. We h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aashima Gupta Dara Bartels EHR Burnout EHR Search Google Google Cloud Healthcare A Source Type: blogs
WebMD Health Corp. Acquires Healthwise, Incorporated ’ s Operating Assets, Building on Leadership in Member and Patient Engagement Solutions
Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, today announced it has joined forces with Healthwise, Incorporated, the patient and member health education and engagement company, through the acquisition of Healthwise’s current operating assets.
Healthwise delivers a powerful offering of consumer health content to help healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ann Bilyew Canaccord Genuity LLC Dr. Adam Husney Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthwise Internet Brands WebMD Health Corp. WebMD Ignite Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 71: Data, Analytics, and AI with Richard Clark, PhD
For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! To kick off this episode, we discuss Clark’s double role working for a payer and provider and how that has allowed him to do things that would otherwise be difficult if he wasn’t. Then we take a look at the use of AI and GenAI and talk about where it is making the most impact in healthcare today and where we think it will make the most impact 3 years from now. Next, Clark shares some tips for what peop...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AI Solutions CIO Leadership GenAI Google Cloud Healthcare Analytics Healthcare D Source Type: blogs
Why Managing Mobile Devices at Scale Matters in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are increasingly reliant on mobile devices for daily operations, enabling tasks that range from clinical communications to electronic record access. The proliferation of devices brings new challenges including loss, security risks, and a strain on IT resources. Managing those devices effectively not only reduces risk, but also improves workflow efficiency says Daniel Siegal, MD, CEO of Navv Systems, a company that offers a mobile device management platform.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Siegal to discuss the challenges of managing mobile devices in healthcare.
Healthcare Has Embraced Mobile...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy device tracking Dr. Daniel Siegal healthcare mobile devices Healthcare Scene Featu Source Type: blogs
Redi Health Lands $14 Million Investment to Continue Improving Patient Health Outcomes by Connecting Pharma, Providers, and Patients in One Platform
Series B Funding Round Led by Blue Heron Capital, with Participation from North Coast Ventures, Refinery Ventures, Mutual Capital Partners, Rev1 Ventures, and M25
Redi Health today announced that it has closed $14 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Blue Heron Capital, with participation from North Coast Ventures and existing investors Refinery Ventures, Mutual Capital Partners, Rev1 Ventures, and M25. Redi Health will use the financing to foster innovation, develop and launch new products, expand its unique network, and accelerate overall growth. The funding underscores Redi Health’s success...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Blue Heron Capital Gordon Crenshaw Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jim Clair Luke Buchanan M25 Mutual Capital Partners North Coast Ventures Redi.Health Refinery Ventures Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 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 Surveys
More than half (52%) of provider organizations use entirely manual workflows for credentialing and network management, according to a survey from Medallion.
A survey from Hakkoda found 92% of healthcare organiz...
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Weekly Roundup – March 23, 2024
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.
Addressing the Billing Cycle With Ambient Clinical Voice. John Lynn talked to Gautamdev Chowdary and Sean Ross at Medvise.AI, which has trained voice-to-text transcription to assign the best ICD or CPT codes and aims to provide fully automated and accurate billing. Read more…
A Look at Interesting Innovations at HIMSS 2024. Healthcare IT Today reco...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Voice-to-Billing Ambient Clinical Voice at Medvise.AI
The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features.
If the conversation did not provide enough information to assign the best ICD or CPT codes, the service asks a few simple questions of the doctor after the visit. The codes can then be assigned and stored in the medical record within 30 seconds.
COO Sean Ross says that a doctor who does not want to take time to review t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Ambient Clinical Voice Automated EHR Documentation CAC Computer Assisted Coding Guatamdev Chowdary Health Source Type: blogs
Transforming Clinical Quality & Value in Rehabilitation with Neurocognitive Technology
The following is a guest article by Jared Gillespie, Senior Director of Clinical Solutions at Academy Medtech Ventures (AMV)
In the landscape of rehabilitative care, the integration of neurocognitive technology stands as a beacon of innovation, charting a course toward improved clinical quality and patient outcomes. This journey into the brain’s potential within rehabilitation not only elevates the standard of care but also underscores the role of advanced technologies in shaping the future of healthcare.
Traditional rehabilitative care has predominantly focused on physical recovery, often overlooking the brain’...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Academy Medtech Ventures AMV Clinical Quality Healthcare Transformation Jared Gillespie Neurocognitive Technology rehabilitative c Source Type: blogs
