Monopoly Money
First, let me acknowledge Chuck ' s comment on the previous Economics 101 post. I ' m going to get to public goods, it ' s extremely important, but I figured I ' d push it down the list because it ' s easier to deal with the rest of the assumptions first. (To put it formally, the ones having to do with public goods are that all good are non-exclusive and non-rivalrous, and also that there are no positive externalities. I will explain anon.)Today, I ' m going to deal with the Many sellers, Many buyers assumption. It ' s obviously impossible even for Milton Friedman to bamboozle people into thinking that this is somehow a na...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 8, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Home-Based Care Provides Powerful Example for Harnessing Technology Across the Care Continuum
The following is a guest article by Laura Templeton, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Compassus
There’s no denying that increased delivery of patient care in the home was accelerated by the pandemic. The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology. Many patients now prefer to receive care at home, when possible, and almost 93% of older adults say aging in place is important to them.
Today’s innovative home-based care providers are leveraging technology in meaningful ways to accommodate patient preferences and improve care. They...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Care Continuum Care Coordination Compassus Home Health Home-Based Care Laura Templeton Patient Centered Care Remote Care Remote Source Type: blogs
HealthSnap Closes $25 Million Series B Funding Amidst Continued Triple Digit Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform
New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions
HealthSnap, a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million. The round was led by Sands Capital, with new investments from Comcast Ventures, Acronym Venture Capital, and Florida Opportunity Fund. Existing shareholders, Asclepius Growth Capital, Florida Funders, MacDonald Ventures, and TGH Ventures also participated in the round. Scott Frederick, a Managing Partner at...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Acronym Venture Capital Angela Orsky Asclepius Growth Capital Comcast Ventures Florida Funders Florida Opportunity Fund Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthSnap MacDonald 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
ACT plus exercise, vs exercise alone …
and what a shame there was no ACT alone group…
No secret here, I like ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) as an approach for living well with chronic pain. I like it for many reasons, but probably the most compelling ones are that the hierarchy between therapist and person living with pain is minimised (we’re both humans finding our way through life) and that it doesn’t require the person to delve into challenging or disputing thoughts – this in turn enhances adherence to the core elements of ACT: living a life aligned with what really matters to this person. People seem to find using ACT mor...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 3, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice pain management Therapeutic approaches 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
Healthcare Review of the Brother MFC-L6915DW All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier
When I first started doing IT in healthcare, I remember the thought and excitement around the paperless office. I remember seeing all those paper charts stored in the HIM office and thinking how nice it will be when everything is paperless. No more managing those charts and everything quickly accessible with a few keystrokes. While those paper chart rooms have disappeared, the paperless office hasn’t really come to fruition the way that many of us thought it may.
The reality in healthcare is that there’s still a lot of paper floating around the office. It turns out that paper is a great form factor that...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Brother Brother 6915 Brother All-in-One Devices Brother MFC-L6915DW Brother Printers Brother Scanners Healthcare Printer Review Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Back Office Applications in Health Care
This article delineates the advantage of generative AI over earlier forms of AI and machine learning. We’ll look at several areas in health care where generative AI is in use, and discuss ways to make it widely available to small clinical organizations with few resources. We’ll also see how different organizations are training their models for maximum accuracy and value.
The Generative AI Advantage
The impacts of generative AI throughout society will be hard to assess for some time because it is so new and has become the darling of computer science so fast. Stepro describes the pace of change as “extrem...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Administrative Burden Amazon Web Services Arcadia Artificial Intelligence AWS Back Office Bikham Caen Contee ChatGPT David Kereiakes Gauri Source Type: blogs
Economics 101, Lesson One
One
way you can create jobs is to lower people ' s taxes. If people have more money
to spend, it means somebody has got to produce more for them. And the producers
then need to hire people. It ' s Economics 101! -- George W. Bush, Springfield, MO,
January 14, 2002*Mr. Bush was very fond of saying " It ' s Economics 101! " It was a catch phrase for him, and other politicians often say it. But can you think of a critique of the above statement? Is there anything wrong about it?(Jeopardy! music plays.) Okay. When government acquiresrevenue from taxes, what happens to the money? Does it just disappear? Why no.T...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention
There are a lot of new ideas and technologies being made to better the world of healthcare. These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend.
So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? What should be trending ri...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia Ariel Gamiño Bobbi Weber CliniComp Colin Banas Dr. Lawrence Werlin DrFirst Epocrates Health IT Trends Heather Bassett HRC Fertility Joan But Source Type: blogs
Fetal aortic valvuloplasty
is considered for fetuses with severe valvar aortic stenosis and echocardiographic features suggesting a risk of progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Though surgical options are available for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, morbidity and mortality are high. So if progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome can be prevented by fetal aortic valvuloplasty, that would be theoretically a great boon. But centers which offer fetal aortic valvuloplasty are very few and cases suitable for fetal aortic valvuloplasty are quite rare. Hence there is difficulty in attaining good case volumes for optimal proc...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 22, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Structural Heart Disease Interventions Source Type: blogs
Hoovering up the cash
I think I might have shown this before. It ' s spending on " healthcare, " i.e. medical services and goods in the U.S., as a percent of GDP. It leveled off for a while after passage of the ACA, but it ' s going back up: All that moolah isn ' t buying us better health though. We ' re spending twice as much as comparable countries and getting the least for it: Naturally, all that cash is going mostly to one place: capitalists.Recent
decades have seen one overarching trend: consolidation of the medical industry into fewer and larger entities.•Horizontal
consolidation: similar institutions merge into chains. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 22, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group
This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.
Evaluating This Study
TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. After deploying the Nabla ambient voice solution in October 2023, the organization quickly built up a large database of AI-generated clinical notes to run through their study.
Note that this study was carried out by the team at TPMG who installed the ambient voice solution. A study by an independent organization would be more authoritative. But results were strong enough for us to pay attentio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Voice Technology EHR Clinical Documentation Healthcare Generative AI Nabla PDQI-9 The Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 17, 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.
Updating the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire. Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers, including schools and community clinics. Read more…
Automatically Generated Medical Notes...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?
There are so many exciting new ideas and technologies being implemented in the field of healthcare. For the most part, these changes can be the very necessary answer to a problem we’ve been facing for a long time. But sometimes, these changes can be concerning. While everyone seems to be excited about it, you might be left with questions and concerns about what its impact will be. These worries and concerns can be very isolating when the topic is trending with seemingly everyone else being excited for it. But you are not alone with your doubts – so let’s unburden ourselves and air out these concerns. What...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AVIA Health Brent Dover Calian IT & Cyber Solutions Carenet Health Carta Healthcare Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Christopher Rogers Dave Benn Source Type: blogs
