Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023
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.
How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data. We heard about the benefits of access to real-time data, the importance of data standards, and the need for mature data analysis and data management in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
IoMT – Helping Data Reach Its Full Potential
The importance of data in healthcare has been beaten into our heads again and again and again. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about making sure our organizations have all of the healthcare and patient data we can get our hands on. But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the sheer amount of data that healthcare organizations need to run properly. One tool that can help in this endeavor is the Internet of Me...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Asensus Surgical Dustin Vaughan Grayson Miller Internet of Medical Things Source Type: blogs
Expanding Healthcare ’s Reach on the Edge
This article focuses on ways to take advantage of cloud solutions on the edge.
Digital Transformation Equals A Lot of Data
Technology is being used in new and interesting ways in healthcare. For example, tablets are now commonplace in healthcare facilities with some hospitals providing bedside connected tablets. Patients can use the devices to check their medication, read about their doctors, and even order their meals, freeing the staff to focus on medical care.
Wearable medical devices can monitor vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure, and health monitors can help with remote care. These wearabl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Adonay Cervantes cloud solutions CloudBlue Digital Transformation Edge Edge Computing Edge-Connected Devices Healthcare 5G Healthcare Data Int Source Type: blogs
How Do We Review Technologies?
Health sensors, fitness trackers, AI-based technologies and chatbots, and genetic tests are the air The Medical Futurist breathes. We test the user experience and publish our independent, honest and objective opinion. We have no connection or other financial interest in any of the companies sending us their products, and we do not have any economic gains out of testing. Read about The Medical Futurist’s review policy in detail!
The chroniclers of health technology
We aim to be the chroniclers of the development of digital health technologies. We analyze plenty of sensors, trackers, wearables, patches, apps or genet...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers review digital health health apps future Innovation Medicine personalized wearables Source Type: blogs
Why And How To Regulate ChatGPT-Like Large Language Models In Healthcare?
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT or Bard, hold immense promise but also pose significant challenges for healthcare and medicine. To unlock their enormous benefits, we must ensure their safe application in an environment where lives are at stake. In other words, our task is to establish a robust, ethical framework for these generative AI models – without making the boundaries so tight that it kills innovation.
Our latest paper published in Nature’s npj Digital Medicine, “The Imperative for Regulatory Oversight of Large Language Models (or Generative AI) in Healthcare” published wi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI in healthcare AI in medicine large language models MedPaLM ChatGPT in healthcare Bard Source Type: blogs
Health Tech ’s Magic Wand: The Anti-Social Bent of Modern Medicine
BY MIKE MAGEE
In George Packer’s classic 2013 New Yorker article titled “Change the World: Silicon Valley transfers its slogans – and its money – to the realm of politics,” there is a passage worth a careful reread now a decade latter.
Packer shares an encounter with a 20-something techie critiquing his young colleagues who said, “Many see their social responsibility fulfilled by their businesses, not by social or political action. It’s remarkably convenient that they can achieve all their goals just by doing their start-up. They actually think that Facebook is going to be the panacea for many o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Mike Magee Silicon Valley Solutionism Source Type: blogs
The Promise — and Pitfalls — of Researching Extremism Online
How big of a problem is extremism in the United States and around the world? Is it getting worse? Are social media platforms responsible, or did the internet simply reveal existing trends? We have few answers because this research is easy to do poorly and hard to do well. The challenges fall into three buckets: users, platforms, and content. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 17, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Heather J. Williams; Alexandra T. Evans; Luke J. Matthews Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA
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
The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative, which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Arcadia AT&T Availity Brightside Health Cerner Christine Swisher ClearDATA CMS CommonWell Health Alliance Cotiviti CVS CareMark Dave Wichmann Dr. Amy Compton-Philips eClinicalWorks eCW eLovu Health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 15, 2023
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.
Welcome to Swaay.Health! Swaay.Health is the evolution of the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC), which has been sharing knowledge for 12 years. As Colin Hung said, “We launched Swaay.Health because we felt it was time that there was an open-access publication dedicated to the healthcare marketing community.” Read more…
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management
The following is a guest article by Zack Tisch, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting
Medical devices have long existed and added value at points in the healthcare experience. From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations. Now, healthcare organizations are facing a paradigm shift where it is essential to move this disparate information ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Data Privacy Data Regulations data security EMR Workflow Healthcare Cost Mana Source Type: blogs
Open Data Platform Simplifies Payment Estimates
With laws such as the “No Surprises Act,” government has thrown its considerable weight behind the pressure on payers and clinicians to give patients good-faith estimates of the total cost of treatment. According to Marcus Dorstel, VP of Operations at Turquoise Health, both payers and providers have struggled and invested large amounts of effort in meeting the new requirements.
Payers and providers who want to meet the intent of the law by adding up or “bundling” the many parts of treatment offer “service packages” that estimate what a patient will pay. These service packages get very de...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Bundling Healthcare Bundles Healthcare Price Transparency Healthcare Prici Source Type: blogs
The Business Reality of Healthcare AI
BY KIM BELLARD
I was at the barbershop the other day and overheard one barber talking with his senior citizen customer about when – not if – robot AIs would become barbers. I kid you not.
Now, I don’t usually expect to heard conversations about technology at the barber, but it illustrates that I think we are at the point with AI that we were with the Internet in the late ‘90’s/early ‘00s: people’s lives were just starting to change because of it, new companies were jumping in with ideas about how to use it, and existing companies knew they were going to have to figure out ways to incorporate it if they ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Healthcare AI healthcare delivery Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more
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 Research
HHS and the Office of Inspector General released the final rule implementing information blocking penalties, with fines of up to $1 million per violation for vendors and HIE entities. Penalties for providers h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Adam Boehler Asimily Avalon Healthcare Solutions Black Book Cotiviti DAX Express Dennis E. Dahlen DexCare Double Black Imaging Doximity eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Evelyn Source Type: blogs
Top 4 money mistakes doctors make
Yes, this sounds very ominous. However, there is a reason why I wanted to alert you to the fear of mismanaging your finances. Doctors live in the limelight and are highly traceable on the internet. Also, physicians earn large amounts of money, which can sometimes be overwhelming, giving a false sense of never running out
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Top 4 money mistakes doctors make originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jordan Benold, CFP Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Should doctors prescribe Leqembi (lecanemab) to women with early Alzheimer ’s Disease? The evidence-based answer is probably No
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring this time a range of interventions for brain/ cognitive/ mental health plus a few brain teasers to test our perception and cognitive skills.
#1. Should doctors prescribe lecanemab (Leqembi) to women? The answer, given available evidence, is probably No
Huge (and mostly overlooked) red flag regarding newly approved “anti-Alzheimer’s” drugs: “To put it bluntly, if lecanemab doesn’t work in women it would be unethical to supply it to women. Recall this costly immunotherapy comes with substantive risks, including high incidence of ARIA and even death....
Source: SharpBrains - June 28, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation ADHD-symptoms Alzheimers-disease Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs anti-amyloid drugs ARIA Brain Teasers brain teasers for adults cognitive-behavioral-therapy cognit Source Type: blogs
