Bonus Features, HIMSS2024 Edition – March 13, 2024 – AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, 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.
This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2024 in sunny Orlando. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHIMA Amazon Web Services DocuSign emtelligent First Databank Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 Innovaccer James Henderson KeyCare Lightbeam Health Solutions Linus Health Source Type: blogs
The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
This article, and the next, lay out criteria for choosing a solution.
Even once you know what you need in your clinical setting, demonstrating the value of a new technology is hard. Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth, looks for real-world evidence of outcomes. A study by the vendor is nice to see, but is it peer reviewed by a neutral party? Dr. Tim Church, chief medical officer at Wondr Health, similarly recommends checking that the app follows modern, evidence-based treatment guidelines.
“During the COVID-19 quarantine, literally thousands of new apps sprung up, particularly related to weight l...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein athenahealth AvaSure BrainCheck care.ai Cindy Gaines Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Colin Banas DarioHealth DrFirst Source Type: blogs
Nabla Raises $24M in Series B to Fuel Expansion of its Ambient AI Assistant to Transform Care Delivery
New financing, led by Cathay Innovation, will be used to expand capabilities and adoption of Nabla Copilot, the leading ambient AI assistant designed to alleviate the administrative burden placed on providers, and reduce clinician burnout.
Launched in March 2023, Nabla Copilot has experienced rapid growth with +20,000 providers who have already adopted the solution for its accessibility, accuracy, and speed and have helped build Copilot to better serve the provider community’s needs.
Nabla, the leading ambient AI assistant for practitioners, today announced the initial close of a $24M Series B funding round led by ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Alex Lebrun Brigham and Women's Hospital Cathay Innovation Dr. Andrew Lundquist Dr. Haipeng (Mark) Zhang Dr. Megan Mahoney Dr. Raghu K Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jac Source Type: blogs
Athelas + Commure: Merging to Create a $6B Healthcare Infrastructure Company
Press release written by Tanay Tandon, CEO at Athelas
We are beyond excited to share that Athelas and Commure – a leading provider of enterprise healthcare software – are merging, and I am taking over the combined entity as CEO, Deepika Bodapati as COO, and Dhruv Parthasarathy as CTO. We’re also raising fresh capital from General Catalyst, valuing the combined entity at $6B.
In the past few years, Athelas RCM and RPM have grown rapidly to thousands of healthcare providers and hundreds of thousands of patients. We process hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare claims and power critical workflows for small pract...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Athelas Commure CommureOS Deepika Bodapati Dhruv Parthasarathy General Catalyst HCA Healthcare Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hemant Taneja Jefferson Providence Qasar Younis Quentin Clar Source Type: blogs
Greenway ’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off
Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. They are not just making it more user-friendly. The company is working hard on enhancements that enable clinicians to be more efficient. To do this, they are taking a step back and reviewing all the workflows in their system and looking for opportunities to make things easier for their end-users.
Healthcare IT Today recently caught up with Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities.
Job #1 for an EHR
“An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Best in KLAS clinical workflow improvements Dr Michael Blackman EHR Burnout EHR Optimization EHR Satisfaction EHR Workflow Greenway Greenway Health Health Data Access Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – May 13, 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.
With Data Quality, We’re Still Learning the Lesson Charles Babbage Taught Us in 1821. Two centuries ago, the Englishman introduced the world to the concept of Garbage In, Garbage Out. At HIMSS23, Colin Hung tuned in to a session with Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture and learned that providers have little trust in the patient data they collect ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, 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
Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Sponsored by Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii),...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Accenture ACCESS Family Care Amy Klobuchar Anne Walker ATA Atropos Health Avi Mukherjee Blancco Technology Group Bright.md Cardinal Health CLEAR Converged Outreach COTA CRIP Crossroads Treat Source Type: blogs
Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD
Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD, a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS, virtual care platform.
“Healthcare technology is rapidly evolving, particularly in the primary care sector where we have the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes and raise the standard of our healthcare system for everyone,” said Kyna Fong, co-founder and CEO of Elation Health in a press release. “...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Brian Esser Elation Health Kelly Schoenfeld Kyna Fong Lightning MD Medical Billing Primary Care Revenue Cycle Management Source Type: blogs
Improving Patient Experience with Digital Transformation
Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. This is especially important when you are establishing new practices in your organization, such as when you’re integrating digital transformation. That way your organization will be patient centric from the beginning, rather than having to go back and re-do it.
But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience? We reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Community for their ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Brad Genereaux Brad Kittredge Branden Neish Brightside Health Cala Health Dan Rodrigues Source Type: blogs
Stop going through the motions and actually have the life you dreamed of [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Try incorporating the three small practices of your choice into your day-to-day for two weeks and watch your experience of your life transform. You have worked far too hard to just go through the motions forever. Starting today, you can begin to enjoy all
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive
The world of healthcare embracing the digital world has been a very well celebrated move. This move has helped so many people in so many ways. It allowed people to stay at home and be safe during the pandemic. It allows people in rural areas to connect to specialists far away without all of the travel. And it has been a huge benefit to everyone with mobility issues. Knowing that they can get immediate access to their doctors without the physical toll it would usually take.
But if everything is moving towards digital, where does that leave physician practices? How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards vir...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amit Jayakar athenahealth Budgets CareCloud Catalyst Health Group Chad Anguilm Chris Baird Chris Larkin Colin Banas Concord Tech Source Type: blogs
Ways to stop good clinicians leaving pain management (i)
After the heartbreaking post last week that seemed to resonate with so many around the world, I thought I’d look at what we can do to stop good clinicians leaving pain management.
While our jurisdictions have differences in pay rates, reimbursement approaches and treatment codes, at the heart of good healthcare is good people who want to help. So why, when healthcare is populated with caring clinicians, do we strike bullying, lack of support for one another, non-existent teamwork, and poor career pathways? What is going on?
I’ll tackle these in bite-sized chunks, starting with the funders. And of course, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 31, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Interdisciplinary teams Professional topics Science in practice Clinical reasoning Health healthcare Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
To Become Proactive About Brain Health, the Industry Needs Digital Approaches
The following is a guest article by David Bates, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of Linus Health. During the pandemic, the healthcare industry navigated both unprecedented challenges and an unprecedented rush of innovation. From small practices to large health systems, healthcare organizations continuously pivoted to serve their patients as circumstances changed, adopting numerous improvements […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Alzheimer Brain Health Cognitive Care COVID-19 David Bates Linus Health World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
Primary Health! Now from Circulo
BLUF – in October, Circulo acquired my little company, Huddle Health. We are now fully integrated into Circulo – and it’s time to describe the rationale for our convergence and some of what comes next.
If you haven’t read my short essay on Primary Health, please go read that first. We’ll wait.
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Ok … back? Great. Now, let’s resume the story.
Years ago, I was on the faculty at Albany Medical College. We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and enga...
Source: Docnotes - January 3, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Restorative Steps for Healing through Racial Trauma, Systemic Mis-attunement, and Grief
The past few weeks have given the world a glimpse inside the continuous reality of the existence of Black women and men in this country. It has allowed other groups to fathom racism’s impact on the minds and nervous systems of strangers, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members who reside in Black bodies.
By default, it can be said that when Black, the nervous system remains in a constant sympathetic state of fight or flight. To remain in existence while Black, one must constantly pick up on triggering environmental cues and somatic signals that help guide us along routes focused solely on survival. Yet for B...
Source: World of Psychology - June 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carmelle Ellison, LCSW Tags: Racism Self-Help Stress Trauma George Floyd Prejudice racial justice racial trauma Source Type: blogs
