On Adaptation
Erec SmithIn my “Communication in Professional Cultures” course, I tell my students that adaptation, the ability to readjust one’s disposition based on unforeseen situational changes, is one of—if notthe—most important skills one could have in a pluralistic, civil democracy. This country’s diversity of standpoints, values, interests, and conditions will, naturally, create a diversity of situations. Though these situations can overlap in a variety of ways, they offer enough distinction to warran t the efficacy of adaptation. The ability to roll with the punches, as it were, seems to be an obvious necessity in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 115, Thursday February 9
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday February 9 at 1PM PT 4PM ET were futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); and delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis). There was the usual chat and a lot of conversation about the future of Medicare, Medicare Advantage and the CVS acquisition of Oak Street.
You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Ian Morrison Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Top 3 healthcare M & A trends for 2023
From mega-mergers to matchmaking, here are a few of the deal-making trends that bear watching as the healthcare and health IT industries continue to navigate an era of disruption and change. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - February 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar TODAY Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
Arrive Health Creates First-of-Its-Kind Medication Access Solution with Acquisition of Pharmacy Technology from UPMC Enterprises
Arrive Health, the leading provider of real-time benefit tools and integrated solutions that improve patient affordability, today announced the acquisition of a suite of innovative patient engagement and automation technologies developed by UPMC Enterprises and the UPMC Pharmacy Network.
Arrive Health will add AI-driven virtual assistant technology and a robust patient management system to its affordability offerings, expanding support for more than 200 million patients on their journey to fill and refill their medications. The combined assets will – for the first time – empower providers, care teams, and patients wi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI AI Virtual Assistant Arrive Health Artificial Intelligence Brenton Burns Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kyle Kiser Medication Adherence Patient Affordability patient engagement Patient-Sp Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 28, 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.
Lessons Learned From a Health System’s Internal Data Breach. An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. Mike Semel said this is a telltale example of why health systems need to enforce HIPAA’s minimum necessary access rule, along with logging access and updating incident respo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Talent Group Announces Acquisition of Queen Consulting Group
Talent Group, a leading national IT staffing company, announced today the acquisition of Queen Consulting Group, a nationally recognized IT staffing and consulting company specializing in healthcare and pharma IT, Epic EMR implementations, financial services, and niche technical recruiting.
Queen Consulting Group was founded in 2015 by staffing industry veteran Carl Foster, who has more than 30 years of IT staffing and consulting experience. Foster joins Talent Group’s senior leadership team, along with Queen Vice Presidents, Jessica Doherty and Amy Migliore.
Matthew Ripaldi, Chief Executive Officer at Talent Group, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Migliore Carl Foster EdgeLink EHR Epic Health IT Acquisitions Health IT Talent Healthcare Consulting Healthcare M&A Jessica Doherty Matthew Ripaldi Michael Babb Osceola Capital Queen Quee Source Type: blogs
Avel eCare Announces the Acquisition of NightWatch to Expand Pharmacy Telemedicine Services
The expansion of remote pharmacy services strengthens Avel eCare’s portfolio of telemedicine offerings and helps meet the growing demand for pharmacy telemedicine services across the United States
Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch, a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region. The acquisition strengthens Avel’s existing suite of telemedicine offerings and enables the company to expand its reach to better ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Avel Avel eCare burnout Christopher Vaught Doug Duskin Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A NightWatch pharmacy Pharmacy Telemedicine Vaught Inc. Source Type: blogs
LeanTaaS Acquires Hospital IQ to Create AI Innovator for Hospital Operations Optimization
Acquisition creates a combined company valuation exceeding $1 billion
LeanTaaS, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based leading provider of AI-powered and SaaS-based capacity management and patient flow software for health systems, today announced it has acquired Hospital IQ, a leading provider of intelligent automation solutions for hospitals. The acquisition values the combined company at more than $1 billion in enterprise value and enables it to power intelligent operations across more than 180+ U.S. health systems. Together, LeanTaaS and Hospital IQ will drive improved patient access, staff satisfaction, and revenue producti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT AllScripts Altera Digital Health Artificial Intelligence Bain Capital Private Equity Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hospital IQ Kirkland & Ell Source Type: blogs
Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar on Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
My family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART
Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the secondin a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients.
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because of, as Pro Publica puts it, “easy money and a lack of regulation.” The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring.
My mother...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs
Careficient Acquires Home Health, Hospice, Home Care, Palliative and RCM Solutions from Net Health
Careficient Inc., a leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Net Health’s EMR line of home health, hospice, home care, and palliative solutions and RCM services (collectively, “home health and hospice”). Net Health, an EMR and analytics provider focused on rehab therapy and wound care, divested the HealthWyse, Hospicesoft, and RCM division in order to focus on its core specialties and ensure its home health and hospice customers and employees benefitted from the focus Careficient brings to these areas.
In a time where major consolidations in healthcare are resh...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Creach Brad Caldwell Careficient Careficient Inc. Electronic Medical Record Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthWyse home care Home Health Home Health and Hospice Hospicesoft Source Type: blogs
2023 Healthcare IT Predictions – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 105
In the last episode, we took a look back. Now, for the 105th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are looking forward! Join us as we discuss our predictions for what Healthcare IT will look like in 2023. First we try to guess what the biggest topic, outside of the workforce and revenue, will be in 2023. Next we debate whether this will finally be the year that patients needs are met or significantly improved. Then, we move on to the organizations. We share what companies we’re keeping an eye on for something surprising and innovative this year. And lastly, we talk about the mergers and acquisitions we think could...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts 2023 Health IT Predictions Health IT Companies Health IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Predictions Healthcare IT Topics Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions Health Source Type: blogs
Revenue Cycle Management Company RSi Announces Acquisition of Invicta Health Solutions
Decisive move brings Invicta’s Insurance Discovery, Claim Status, Eligibility Verification, Medicaid Enrollment, and Out-of-State Medicaid Billing solutions to the RSi portfolio
RSi, LLC, a leading national provider of revenue cycle services for the hospital and large physician practice market, has announced its acquisition of Invicta Health Solutions, LLC (Invicta). Invicta, based in Houston, Texas, has earned a reputation for progressive tech integrations, unique partnerships with established entities, and a mastery of business intelligence to recast traditional revenue cycle management services such as Insuranc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Brent Rollins Derek Shaw Donny Zamora Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Invicta Health Solutions Jude Crowell Matt Carroll RCM RCM Acquisitions RSi WestView Capital P Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, 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
On Dec. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill. The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. This includes expansion of originating...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 4medica ADAPT AdvancedMD AHA Ardent Health Services Blendid Brian Berning Cadence Carenet Health Carol DeVol CharmHealth CipherHealth Comcast Healthcare CORL directtrust East Tennessee Health Information Netwo Source Type: blogs
