Healthcare IT Weekly Roundup – July 13, 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.
Greenway CEO Sets Company on a Bold Path. Colin Hung caught up with Pratap Sarker to follow up on his promise from the company’s recent user group meeting that all future innovations from Greenway would be based on AI. One part of this initiative is using 30 years’ worth of data to train an internal version of ChatGPT. Read more…
What Signs of Hope and Excitement Do You Have? We posed this question to the Healthcare IT Today community back at HIMSS 2024. FHIR use cases, back-office process automation, advances in digital therapeutics, and the potential of generative AI all came up. Read more…
Personalization, Patient Centricity, and Cost Savings. John Lynn sat down with Maigari Jinkiri at Celebrus to talk about bringing data together from various sources to create a “journey map” for call center agents so they are better equipped to meet patients’ unique needs. Read more…
Bringing the Fax into the 21st Century. Dr. Seth Eaton at pediatric provider MedPeds talked to Colin about using AI to read faxes, match them to patients, and insert the fax into the right record in the EHR. Read more…
Data Integration and Patient Engagement in Canada. Healthcare IT Today heard from Michael Kearney at Altera Digital Health Read about how the company supports interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada, which includes electronic prescriptions, referrals, and patient summaries. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Is Epic the Biggest Obstacle to Interoperability in Healthcare? John and Colin talked about the biggest question in healthcare IT these days. They also touched on other main barriers to interoperability and tried to predict where interop would be in 10 years. Read more…
Why Healthcare in the Cloud Is a Secure Path to Improved Care. Jake Madders at Hyve Managed Hosting recommended embracing cloud diversification, routine maintenance, access controls, and other proactive steps to improve cloud security. Read more…
The Impact of Effective Revenue Cycle Management. Janet Boos at Veradigm outlined why outsourcing RCM services makes sense for many providers, as it can lead to cost savings and improved compliance – and also why some organizations prefer not to outsource RCM. Read more…
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Cybersecurity Resilience in Healthcare Can Save Lives. Known security vulnerabilities in medical devices have increased 59% increase since 2022. Mary Lou Prevost at Splunk explained how endpoint security, network segmentation, and strict rules for access can protect organizations. Read more…
The Hidden Pitfalls of Incomplete Healthcare Data. Jeff McDonald at Kythera Labs discussed how missing claims and prescription data skews insights and predictions, making it harder for health systems to make data-driven business decisions. Read more…
How Tech Improves Workflows in Pharmacies. This post from a guest author covered the role of e-prescribing, automated dispensing, telepharmacy, and mobile health in making pharmacies more efficient. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for July 10, 2024: Roles in system administration and IT support, along with a Chief Medical Information Officer job posting for NYU Langone Health. Read more…
Bonus Features for July 7, 2024: Number of vulnerable DICOM devices up 28% in two years, plus MEDITECH and Inovalon announce integration. Read more…
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