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
Academic Promotion at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
I am delighted to announce my promotion to Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. I am honored and grateful to be part of the Mount Sinai Health System – one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than eight hospitals and 400 outpatient practices, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, which is one of the largest departments of its kind in the country, is ranked No. 1 in US News & World Reports Best Hospitals.
My affiliation wi...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 25, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer end-of-life care geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Source Type: blogs
7 Things To Expect From AI In Healthcare This Year
The past year was all about artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on its integration into healthcare in our universe. At The Medical Futurist, we have extensively explored how AI is reshaping the healthcare landscape, outlining what to expect and how to prepare for these transformative changes.
As we move into 2024, it’s time to continue our forward-looking journey. This year promises to be a blend of consolidation and revolution. Some trends we’ve previously identified are beginning to solidify and integrate into the fabric of healthcare systems, while others are just starting to unfold.
In th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF AI AI in medicine artificial intelligence artificial intelligence in healthcare 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
Assessing hospital involvement in pediatric primary care
Children’s hospitals are acclaimed for their outstanding care, and they would be my absolute choice for my child’s hospital needs. Nevertheless, there is a pressing concern that the underlying philosophy of these institutions is shifting, with financial pressures incentivizing competition rather than cooperation in the field of pediatrics. If hospitals were to dominate primary care,
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Assessing hospital involvement in pediatric primary care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 24, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mick Connors, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Practice permanently closed: How to avoid this costly mistake
Imagine a patient searches online for you only to discover your online business listing says your practice is permanently closed. This recently happened to a well-respected, mid-career surgical oncologist with a loyal patient base. Opting for a new role, he joined a hospital an hour from his previous workplace. Unfortunately, his former employer managed his
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Practice permanently closed: How to avoid this costly mistake originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marita McCahill, MBA Tags: Tech Practice Management 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
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
Special circumstances where warfarin is favored over DOACs
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - January 21, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: cardiovascular hematology hospital medicine pharmacology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 20, 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.
2024 Health IT Predictions: Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI. Our ongoing series of 2024 Health IT Predictions turned to some reasons to be wary of AI. The Healthcare IT Today community emphasized the need to focus on proven AI use cases, apprehension about generative AI for clinical content, and meaningful discussions about the ethical use of AI. Read ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions Authenticx Availity Cara Brant care.ai Carenet Health Chakri Toleti Christopher Rogers Source Type: blogs
