Connecting Healthcare Clouds and Simplifying Solutions in a Secure Way
Healthcare cloud solutions have become much more sophisticated, reliable, and easier to connect. Gone are the days of a single cloud instance that can support all your needs. However, managing the various cloud options can be challenging if you don’t have a thoughtful approach to it and work with great partners.
At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we moderated a panel hosted by Rackspace Technology and Dell Technologies with healthcare multicloud experts and former CIOs who shared the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare. Plus, they discussed how these models can evol...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bluebird Leaders Dell Technologies Divurgent Epic Epic Cloud Epic Cloud Hosting Erik Pupo Guidehouse Healthcare C Source Type: blogs
From Wait Times to Real-Time: Assort Health Secures $3.5 Million to Scale First Generative AI for Healthcare Call Centers
Solution Erases Long Phone Holds for Patients, Supports Overwhelmed Medical Front Desk Workers, and Improves Patient Access to Physicians
Assort Health is introducing the first generative AI solution built specifically for healthcare call centers, promising to erase that dreaded hold music forever. The company is announcing $3.5 million in funding, which will be used to continue scaling the team to meet rapidly accelerating demand with large healthcare organizations.
Matt Humphrey, Partner at Quiet Capital led the funding round, joined by Four Acres, Tau Ventures, and a number of angel investors who are AI experts and heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aditya Khosla Assort Health Athena Health Dr. David Garelick FLatiron Health Four Acres Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Illinois Bone and Joint Institute Chicago Division Je Source Type: blogs
The Value of Sharing Health Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care
PointClickCare, having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particularly to connect it with post-acute care. Brian Drozdowicz is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Acute & Payer Markets. In this video, he and Chief Medical Officer, Hamad Husainy, DO, FACEP, parse the effects of new regulations at both federal and state levels, as well as the allure of value-based care.
Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability. They have received the Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) designatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC Regulations ACOs Brian Drozdowicz Hamad Husainy Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scen Source Type: blogs
Innovaccer Announces Acquisition of Pharmacy Quality Solutions to Accelerate Value-Based Care in Pharmacy Settings
Today, Innovaccer, a leading healthcare company, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Pharmacy Quality Solutions (PQS), a leader in Pharmacy-Payer performance technology. This strategic move reinforces Innovaccer’s commitment to accelerating value-based care across the healthcare ecosystem and to have the largest distribution of providers and pharmacy network combined.
PQS covers 95% of all community pharmacies and 10 of the Top 10 Pharmacy chains by store count including national chains and independent pharmacy groups. In addition, it covers up to 60 million lives, representing 9 out of every 10 Medicare l...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Abhinav Shashank Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Innovaccer Pharmacy Quality Solutions PQS Todd Sega Source Type: blogs
Health Care ’s Debt Problem
By KIM BELLARD
Among the many things that infuriate me about the U.S. healthcare system, health systems sending their patients to collections – or even suing them – is pretty high on the list (especially when they are “non-profit” and./or faith-based organizations, which we should expect to behave better).
There’s no doubt medical debt in the U.S. is a huge problem. Studies have found that more than 100 million people have medical debt, many of whom don’t think they’ll ever be able to pay it off. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates Americans owe some $220b in medical debt, with 3 million people owing mor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Bankruptcy Kim Bellard medical debt Medical Debt RIP Source Type: blogs
Differentiating Between Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Chest Pain
It is not always possible to be certain about the origin of chest pain just by its characteristics as the variation between individuals is quite a bit. A medical opinion should be sought in case of any significant chest pain so that important ailment is not missed. There can be a lot of overlap between symptoms due to heart disease and disease of other nearby organs.
Still some general observations are possible regarding chest pain originating from the heart. The typical pain of cardiac origin is a central chest pain which occurs on walking or other forms of exercise, known as effort angina. This pain is caused by insuffic...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 10, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
The Quiet Hospital Unit and Other Benefits of an Open and Interoperable Communication Platform
Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive you crazy. It’s notable that one of the simple ways Rauland‘s communication system improves the hospital experience is to reduce noise by routing alerts quietly to the person who needs to handle them.
Another key benefit of using Rauland, according to Director of Product Management Joseph DeLisle, is that it checks the content of a call or alert and directs it to the right person. For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Healthcare Alerts Healthcare Burnout Healthcare Falls Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare I Source Type: blogs
Altera Digital Health: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals
Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. However, with smaller pools of talent and fewer resources, they need more help from their digital partners to address those challenges. Altera Digital Health (Altera) is leveraging the cloud to help this important customer segment.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Pratt, MD – Chief Medical Officer for Paragon at Altera Digital Health to learn more about the company’s efforts for rural and community hospitals.
Outsized Impact
Right from the start of the interview it was clear that Dr. Pratt is deeply passionate ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Altera Digital Health Ambient Clinical Voice Cloud EHR Community Hospitals Dr. Mark Pratt Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2024 Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs – April 10, 2024
It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.
Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found:
Application Coordinator – State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Epic Certified Cupid Analyst – Engage Partners Inc.
Senior Category Manager, Digital Technologies – Vizient
Oracle Cloud Benefits Functional ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Datavant Engage Partners Inc. ETG.COMPANY Family First Health GlobalSource IT HCA Healthcare Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Careers Healthcare IT Jobs Inceed Source Type: blogs
Suspicions of medical child abuse delayed my child ’ s cancer diagnosis
It was November 2014. I was leaving the parking structure of my local children’s hospital when I realized, “They don’t believe us.” I didn’t know it at the time, but it would take seven more months to find the cause of my eight-year-old daughter’s unremitting abdominal pain. An ultrasound ultimately revealed a malignant mass on
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Suspicions of medical child abuse delayed my child’s cancer diagnosis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Holly Cantley Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: In England, Conflicts Between Families and Hospitals Threaten the Lives of Young Women with ME
By David Tuller, DrPH ME patients and advocates in England have been alarmed by a series of ongoing cases in which the families of severely ill young women have struggled to convince hospitals to fit them with feeding tubes before they starve to death. I covered a similar situation last year in a piece about … Trial By Error: In England, Conflicts Between Families and Hospitals Threaten the Lives of Young Women with ME Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized feeding tube Maeve Millie NHS hospitals Source Type: blogs
Transparency and Data Sharing Can Also Ease Patient Burn-Out
Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results, co-Founder of Unblock Health, and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.
Cordovano and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, talk in this video about recent regulatory advances in data sharing and how both clinicians and patients are helped by transparency in bureaucratic areas such as prior authorization.
Cordovano says that patient access to data has...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Colin Banas DrFirst Grace Cordovano Health Data Sharing Healthcare AI Healthca Source Type: blogs
Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients
Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of payment systems that vary from patient. According to Krisi Hutson, Senior Director of Solutions at Availity, AI can help administrative staff from the front desk to the billing office negotiate the maze.
Hutson points out that the average turnover of clinical administrative staff is 12-18 months. In this video, she lays out a typical scenario where a patient arrives for treatment and wants to know what the likely payment is. How can you expect an administrator to collect and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy Availity Healthcare AI Ethics Healthcare Automation Healthcare Billing Healthcare IT Video Inte Source Type: blogs
CodaMetrix Announces $40M Series B Financing to Advance Medical Coding Quality and Clinically Enrich Claims Data Through AI
CodaMetrix, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) solution for transforming healthcare and revenue cycle management, today announced that it has closed its $40 million Series B funding round. Transformation Capital led the financing with continued support from existing investors SignalFire, Series A lead, and Frist Cressey Ventures. Todd Cozzens, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Transformation Capital, will join CodaMetrix’s Board of Directors. Series B financing will be used to further advance CodaMetrix’s AI-powered solutions which improve medical coding quality, produce clinically comprehensive data sets, reduc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT CMX CodaMetrix Frist Cressey Ventures Hamid Tabatabaie Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Henry Ford Health Mass General Brigham Mount Sinai Health System SignalFire Todd Coz Source Type: blogs
8 Mindblowing Examples Of Technology Innovation In Healthcare
Medical innovations often conjure images of sterile labs, high-tech equipment, and complex procedures. But every now and then, remarkable breakthroughs come with a dash of ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ ingenuity. From reimagined everyday objects to solutions inspired by the natural world, these innovations prove that effective healthcare doesn’t always need to be complicated.
Let’s see some medical innovations that are as surprising as they are effective. We collected eight of our favorites that show how a little out-of-the-box thinking is leading to big changes in healthcare.
1. Zip-up ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF creative healthcare healthcare innovation Source Type: blogs
