What Scares Healthcare Like EVs Scare Detroit
By KMI BELLARD
I’m thinking about electric vehicles (EVs)…and healthcare.
Now, mind you, I don’t own an EV. I’m not seriously thinking about getting one (although if I’m still driving in the 2030’s I expect it will be in one). To be honest, I’m not really all that interested in EVs. But I am interested in disruption, so when Robinson Meyer warned in The New York Times “China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball,” he had my attention. And when on the same day I also read that Apple was cancelling its decade-long effort to build an EV, I was definitely paying attention.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Biden Detroit EVs Hospitals Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims
Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.
In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker. He points out that not just payers, but some employers, are demanding ac...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations 1upHealth Don Rucker FHIR FHIR APIs Health Data Exchange Healthcare APIs Healthcare Interoperability Source Type: blogs
Home Health AI: Predicting Illness and Preventing Hospitalizations
The following is a guest article by Shveta Mangal, CEO at VitaWerks
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, the concept of home as an “extension of care” is gaining traction, ushering in a new era of patient-centered support. Traditionally, healthcare was confined to clinical settings, but with advancements in technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the paradigm is shifting.
These cutting-edge technologies are now being harnessed to predict health issues before they escalate, revolutionizing home health care and paving the way for proactive interventions tha...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare at Home Home Health AI Home Health Care Home Healthcare Hospitalization Prevention Illness Prediction Source Type: blogs
Fabric Secures $60M Series A to Streamline Care Experiences, Consolidating Fragmented Health Technology
Funding comes from General Catalyst, with Continued Participation from Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Salesforce Ventures, Box Group, and Others
Fabric will use the Funding to Bolster its Technology and Team, Accelerating the Development of Innovative Solutions that Serve 70 Health Systems, 3,800+ Clinicians, and Millions of Patients Across Urgent, Emergency, Surgical, and Primary Care
Funds will also be used to Advance AI Solutions and Explore Strategic Acquisitions
Fabric, developers of a leading care enablement system that is humanizing care by automating clinical and administrative work, today announced its $60M...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aniq Rahman Atento Capital Box Group Fabric General Catalyst Google Ventures GV Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Holly Maloney Luminis Health Saad Chaudhry Salesforce V Source Type: blogs
RapidClaims Uses AI to Help US Healthcare Providers Address $250B in Denied Claims
RapidClaims Launches from Stealth with $3.1M Funding to Tackle the Core Issues Behind Claims Denial
Healthcare organizations are turning to automation with “revenue cycle management” to protect operating margins and the increasing claim denials from the payors. Every year, close to $265B in claims made by US healthcare organizations are denied because of the way claims are coded on payor documentation and delayed submissions are two chief reasons for the denials. Coding errors account for over 40% of claim denials, while untimely submissions contribute to 35% of denials; eligibility and prior authorization being some o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Abhinay Vyas Ankit Jain Better Capital DeVC Dushyant Mishra Girish Mathrubootham Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Infinitus Jot Sarup Sahni Manav Garg Mass General Neon Source Type: blogs
Making AI Models in Healthcare Transparent One Bite at a Time – Regulatory Talk Series
This article is the third in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.
New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.
For EHRs faced with the daunting task of revamping platform technology and innovation roadmaps, the “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1)” final rule is like the elephant in the old proverb: too hard to consume all...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations 21st Century Cures Clinical Decision Support Clinical Grade AI DrFirst EHR Certification EHR Development EHR R Source Type: blogs
Fee-For-Service: Predominant, Winning & Stupid
By MATTHEW HOLT
In recent days and weeks, there have been three stories that have really brought home to me the inanity of how we run our health care system. Spoiler alert, they have the commonality that they all are made problematic by payment per individual transaction—better known as fee-for-service.
First, several health insurers who sold their reputation to Wall Street as being wizards at understanding how doctors and patients behave had the curtain pulled back to reveal the man pulling the levers was missing a dashboard or dial or three. It happened to United, Humana and more, but I’ll focus on Agilon becau...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Change Healthcare Colorado fee for service Humana UCHealth United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, 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.
Studies
Roughly 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI within three years, according to a BRG survey. Additionally, 60% believe current AI regulations provide adequate safety measures.
While healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Amazon Web Services AnalyticsIQ Belong.life Berkeley Research Group Brand Engagement Network care.ai CharmHealth CHIME Deloitte Center for Health Solutions eClinicalWorks FHIR GE Healthcare Greenway Health hc1 Ins Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: LLMs for Everyone
Very large health care systems and academic medical centers can employ programmers to create their own LLMs, according to David Kereiakes, managing partner at Windham Venture Partners. In addition to patient data, they ingest organizational data such as how frequently a provider sees patients, the number of procedures performed, etc. Some of these providers also partner with large tech companies.
He says that these providers refuse to share data to create larger data sets because of the proprietary value of that data (with privacy concerns playing a minor role). He also says that organizations have invested a lot in cleani...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Administrative Burden Alex Tyrrell Amazon Bedrock Amazon Q Amazon Web Services Artificial Source Type: blogs
How Artificial Intelligence Could Completely Transform Mental Health
This article will focus on the use of AI for mental healthcare and its potential to revolutionize the ways we give and receive mental health services. But first, let’s take a look at the current state of affairs and the reasons why we could be dealing with a global crisis in this area.
The Demand Is Increasing
As per the recent WHO Mental Health report, about one in eight people in the world live with a mental disorder.
Urbanization, economic pressures, and the fast-paced nature of life have led to growing stress rates and the accelerated spread of psychiatric conditions worldwide. Fortunately, over the past decade, p...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alexey Shalimov anxiety Artificial Intelligence behavioral health Behavioral Health AI depression Eastern Peak mental heal Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: How to Get There
Previous articles in this series have shown how generative AI can be used for administrative and back-office functions in health care. Now we’ll look at how models are trained for these specific purposes.
Training Generative AI Models
Every industry has to develop domain-specific models, and health care has the extra burden of protecting personally identifying data. These requirements raise the question of when the general-purpose solutions offered by major tech companies are appropriate, where health care organizations can get large enough data sets to develop models, and how vanilla LLMs—or foundational LLMS—...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Abhishek Sharma Administrative Burden Akshay Sharma Arcadia Artificial Intelligence Avanade Back Office Bikham Cameron Andrews CitiusTe Source Type: blogs
How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine
My son was born in a small community hospital with breathing and heart issues requiring transfer to a children’s hospital several hundred miles away. I arrived at the children’s hospital, worried, exhausted, and overwhelmed many hours after he did. Everything had happened so quickly my head was spinning. After I checked on my son, I
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How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christine Marie Deeths, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Surviving a 28-hour hospital shift: a resident ’ s struggle and passion
I recently worked a 28-hour shift in the hospital. I am on a rotation where I work these long shifts every four days, and my last 3 or 4 of these shifts have been the kind that really tries a person’s soul. I got called all night to see new patients and take care of
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Surviving a 28-hour hospital shift: a resident’s struggle and passion originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Stephanie Wottrich, MD Tags: Physician Neurology Source Type: blogs
Sham peer review epidemic: A doctor ’ s career destroyed
An excerpt from The Medical Matrix: One Physician’s Story Maneuvering the Minefields of Medicine. It was a routine Monday morning in the middle of May 2011. I had custody of my boys that day, so I dropped them off at school and headed to work. As soon as I got to work I received a
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Sham peer review epidemic: A doctor’s career destroyed originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Aysun Alagoz, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: A Wealth of Uses
Previous articles in this series introduced the role of generative AI in the healthcare back office and examined its use in billing and revenue management. We’ll cover a lot of other uses in this article.
Patient Contact and Care Management
CEO Rahul Sharma of HSBlox says that the next version of its CureAlign platform will use generative AI to help improve the care management processes in its CareTracker module.
Many patients need reminders, if not actually coaxing, to come in for appointments. The CureAlign platform personalizes outgoing communication based on past interactions with the patient. Sharma says that ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Abhishek Sharma Accenture Administrative Burden AdvancedMD Amazo Source Type: blogs
