A Case Study in Ambient Clinical Voice at Children ’ s Hospital Los Angeles
Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. What’s most exciting about this technology is that it’s mature enough to be used by doctors and provide a lot of value today and yet we’re still in the early days of what’s going to be possible with this technology. I believe every CIO, CMIO, and CMO should be evaluating this technology and understanding how it can help their organization.
As we continue to share more about ambient clinical voice, we’re excited to share ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ambient Clinical Voice CHLA Ed Lee EHR Documentation Healthcare CIO Healthcare CMIO Healthcare IT Video Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 74: Ambient Clinical Voice with Ray Lowe
For the 74th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed! We kick this episode off by discussing how the role of CIO is different at an FQHC than at other organizations. Then Lowe shares with us the patient experience projects he is actively working on and discusses how those projects have changed over time. Next, we debate over ambient clinical voice to decide if it is real or if it’s all just hype. We transition this debate into how Lowe himself is approaching ambient clinical voice. Lowe then shares with us the other AI projects he is working on as we...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT AltaMed Ambient Clinical Voice Change Healthcare Change Healthcare Breach CIO Leadership Data Breach FQHC Healthcare Leadership John Lynn Patient Experi Source Type: blogs
SnapCare Expands Healthcare Portfolio with Strategic Acquisition of Medecipher
SnapCare, a leading healthcare workforce solutions provider, has acquired Medecipher, Inc., a cloud-based predictive analytics staffing decision support tool, to further deliver facility control, low-cost, and transparent solutions across the continuum of care.
Medecipher automates and improves the manual process of staff scheduling through a research-backed decision support tool. Their predictive staffing command center provides patient census and workload predictions and intelligently prescribes optimal shift plans to achieve appropriate staffing levels. By matching the skill sets of clinicians with patients’ needs, t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jeff Grant Medecipher SnapCare Stephanie Gravenor Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories
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
Walmart Health is closing, with 51 in-store clinics in five states closing within 90 days and the retailer’s virtual care offering being phased out over the next year. It’s a big blow for Walmart, which accordin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT American Medical Administrators Anatomy IT athenahealth Marketplace Baton Health Clearsense CLEW Medical Concert Genetics DICOM Hacks eClinicalWorks GE Healthcare Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HITRUST Certificati Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – May 4, 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.
Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. John Lynn attended the event, which at its core emphasizes the value of data that directly reflects that patient perspective. He also summarized how Qualtrics and Epic are working together to address service recovery, boost MyChart adoption, and further boost engagement. Read more…
Cyber...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient
The following is a guest article by Kristin Quinlan, CEO at Certified Languages International (CLI)
With 1 in 5 residents speaking a language other than English at home and an expanding diversity of languages spoken in the U.S., language access services are only increasing in importance for healthcare organizations. Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.
That’s why a small but growing number of leadi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Certified Languages International CLI Healthcare Costs Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare IT Burden Hybrid Model In-Hou Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: General and Long-Term Considerations for Obesity
This series of articles has covered the ways that digital technologies contribute to weight loss. To round out the series, this final article covers general topics applying to the field.
Maintaining Success
Both surgery and medications help some people lose weight, but a lot of patients gradually gain it back. Some of the technology solutions I cover in this article can be used either by themselves in behavioral changes for weight loss, or to maintain a desired weight after other medical interventions.
Virta Health is an example. A recent study showed that it can help people go off of GLP-1 drugs and maintain the weight ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Atrium Health Bariatrics Behavior Management Source Type: blogs
Providence Spins Out Praia Health with $20M in Oversubscribed Series A Funding Led by Frist Cressey Ventures to Scale New Consumer Platform for Health Care
Following Providence’s Successful Implementation, Community Health Network Becomes Praia Health’s First External Customer; Praia Health Welcomes Seventeen Health Organizations to the Ecosystem as Program Partners
Praia Health, a newly formed digital health company, today announced the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed Series A financing led by Frist Cressey Ventures and backed by SignalFire, Epsilon Health Investors, and Providence Ventures. The funding will bolster the platform’s ability to revolutionize the delivery of individualized health solutions at scale, enabling digitally driven health s...
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Patient Experience Insights from Qualtrics ’ X4 Conference
This week I’ve been able to attend part of the X4 user conference that’s hosted by Qualtrics. I’m slightly biased to this conference since when I attended last year I happened to meet my wife on that trip, but that’s a story for another day. Let’s just say that my conference ratings and experience last year were off the charts. However, even if I hadn’t found the love of my life on that trip, I still love X4 because it looks at healthcare from a very different perspective than most of the other conferences out there. Part of that is that their Chief Medical Officer, Adrienne Bois...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Adrienne Boissy Craig Richardville Epic Patient Insights Praise Mail Qual Source Type: blogs
How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient
The following is a guest article by Kristin Quinlan, CEO at Certified Languages International (CLI)
With 1 in 5 residents speaking a language other than English at home and an expanding diversity of languages spoken in the U.S., language access services are only increasing in importance for healthcare organizations. Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.
That’s why a small but growing number of leadi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Certified Languages International CLI Healthcare Costs Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare IT Burden Hybrid Model In-Hou Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How Tracking Feeds Into Behavior Change for Weight Loss
This article is part of a series on today’s philosophies regarding weight change and how digital interventions can help. In this article, we’ll look at the contribution of tracking. The article looks at standards, making sure data meets a useful need, and some particular applications of tracking to metabolic control and diet.
Finding Meaning in Data
Device manufacturers are finding more and more things to track. While some people love measurements such as steps taken through the day, and there’s even a site called Quantified Self exploiting this fad, most people don’t care about data unless they s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Management Behavioral Change Candice Source Type: blogs
Pelago Announces $58 Million Series C Funding to Strengthen Leadership in Substance Use Management
Investment Follows Strong Employer and Health Plan Demand as Substance Use Management Moves from Niche Solution to Essential Benefit Resulting in 287% Revenue Growth in 2023 and 100% Client Retention
Growth Follows 500% Increase in Substance Use Disorder-Specific RFPs from Employers and Payers in the Past Twelve Months
Platform Covers More than 3.4 Million Eligible Lives
Pelago, the leading digital clinic partner to U.S. businesses and health plans for substance use management, today announced $58 million in new funding on the strength of customer growth and validated ROI, bringing total funding to $151 million.
The additi...
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Three Tough RCM Questions with Michael Quinn from Inovalon
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is hot topic right now due to the cybersecurity incident at Change Healthcare. Hear honest answers to tough questions related to that incident and how AI will impact RCM.
To explore this topic, Healthcare IT Today, wanted to ask an executive that works in this area to come on-camera for a “Three Tough Questions” interview. Michael Quinn, VP of Strategic Partner Development at Inovalon, graciously agreed to be interviewed.
Inovalon is a company that offers a platform that brings together national-scale connectivity, real-time primary source data access, and advanced analytics in a cloud-ba...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Healthcare IT Highlighted HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AI Coding AI-assisted RCM Change Healthcare Claims Processing data redundancy Healthcare AI Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare S Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: Behavior Change for Weight and Obesity
This article, part of a series about obesity, interviews a number of experts to explore the philosophy and practice of behavioral therapy for obesity.
Medical and Behavioral Interactions
Dr. Luke Twelves, medical director of the contract research organization Lindus Health, says, “Obesity is a multifactor disease.” He believes that technology helps people take control of their own treatment. For instance, a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) allows patients to decide what food or medication they need at each moment in the day.
A similar viewpoint was cited by Eric Bormel, a director in the Healthcare Group at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 9amHealth Amwell Avantika Waring Behavior M Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs – May 1, 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:
Director of Business Development – Healthcare Information Technology – Planet Technology
Coding Manager – BMPG – Blount Memorial Hospital
Patient Services Representative – Memorial West Clinic – INTEGRIS H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Blount Memorial Hospital Centene Corporation CereCore CFS Creative Financial Staffing Dice Fairview Health Services HCA Healthcare Health IT Jobs Healthcare Source Type: blogs
