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Bonus Features – December 22, 2024 – 83% of providers want virtual care to be a permanent part of their practice, Medicare home visits have dropped 17% since 2017, plus 24 more stories | Healthcare IT Today
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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
Weekly Roundup – December 21, 2024 | Healthcare IT Today
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. Delivering Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences
Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes | Healthcare IT Today
Integrating emerging technologies can make a huge difference in your organization. New technology can ease the clinical burden on your staff, which can be the difference between your staff facing burnout or not. Access to providers and healthcare can be increased with technology which can be the deciding factor for a patient to choose your
ThoroughCare Secures $5 Million in Series A Funding from Empactful Capital | Healthcare IT Today
ThoroughCare, a leader in care coordination solutions, has successfully closed its $5 million Series A funding round, led by Empactful Capital. This investment will support ThoroughCare’s continued focus on product development, strategic account management, and expansion into new markets. The funding marks a major milestone for the company as it continues its mission to simplify patient care through innovative, workflow-integrated digital solutions.
Funny Intake, Sick Hospital Patients, and Data Humor – Fun Friday | Healthcare IT Today
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you had an amazing week and you're ready for a great weekend. Plus, we're in the heart of the holiday season. Hopefully all of your shopping has gone well and that you'll have an amazing time over the next few weeks. For those not familiar with our Fun Friday editions,
BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare | Healthcare IT Today
To deliver the seamless patient and staff experience that Dr. Tim Davis envisioned for his state-of-the-art orthopedic health and surgery center, he built his own software solution and launched it as a standalone company – BluByrd. He also needed an EHR that could grow with him and that had open, well-published APIs. Only one vendor
Nebraska Medicine Prepares for Problems That Are 30 Years Out | Healthcare IT Today
In this video, two hospital managers present an extended and intriguing view of major design changes that bring in state-of-the-art technology making sure that it "fades into the background" while clinical care takes the focus. Kara Tomlinson is Executive Director of System Care Delivery and Innovation and Ron Carson is Executive Director of Enterprise Applications
Improving EHR Systems with User Experience and Interface Design to Reduce Clinician Burnout and Enhance Workflow Efficiency | Healthcare IT Today
A recent study found that primary care physicians (PCPs) spend 28.9 to 45.7 minutes on EHR per visit — trying to find the time to do this for every patient in addition to all of their other tasks is very difficult. This time-consuming task requires your organization to either cut back on the number of
Jimini Health Launches with $8M in Funding to Transform Mental Health with Responsible AI-Supported Therapy | Healthcare IT Today
Investment from Zetta Venture Partners, LionBird, PsyMed, BoxGroup, Arkitekt Ventures, SCB, and others Drives New Era in Clinician-Led, AI-Augmented Therapy Jimini Health, a digital health company setting a new standard in mental healthcare with its unique, clinician-led therapy model augmented by responsible AI, today announced its launch with $8 million in pre-seed funding, including from
Harnessing AI for Smarter Patient Flow | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Shoemaker, CEO at ABOUT Healthcare As hospitals and health systems face increasing pressure from capacity constraints, many are being forced to turn away patients while struggling to meet revenue and profitability goals. Inefficient patient flow management not only reduces revenue opportunities but also leads to delays in
A Prescription for Change: A Path to Affordable, Equitable Healthcare | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Meredith Kirchner, COO and Client Success Leader at Curae The medical debt crisis in the U.S. is worsening, with healthcare costs now deterring millions of patients from seeking essential care. Soaring medical costs are forcing millions of Americans to make impossible choices: pay for essential care or risk
This Week’s Health IT Jobs – December 18, 2024 | Healthcare IT Today
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
Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems | Healthcare IT Today
Although we have talked a lot about them, AI and machine learning are the new shiny toys of healthcare — this comes with pros and cons. With how versatile these technologies are, we are constantly finding new and exciting ways and areas to apply them in healthcare. However, since the technology can be applied in
INITIATE Ventures Closes $45 Million to Fund and Co-Create Companies at the Intersection of Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Tech | Healthcare IT Today
Led by Serial Founders, INITIATE Partners with Exceptional Leaders to Build Bold Companies that Solve Vital Healthcare Challenges Today, INITIATE Ventures announced the close of $45 million in its debut venture capital fund and affiliated company creation platform. INITIATE invests in and co-founds transformative companies at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences, and technology. It is
Is Your EHR Improving Patient ‘Techquity’? | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO at HiMS Technology has transformed healthcare, but the benefits have not been distributed evenly. Technology can actually be a barrier for some populations. Inequitable access to care in general and technology-based care in particular lead to inferior health outcomes among those affected. Electronic
Panasonic Let’s note FV4 Laptop Review for Healthcare | Healthcare IT Today
I remember when the iPad first came out that a number of people were predicting the end of desktop computers and laptops in healthcare. Needless to say, that prediction never came true. In fact, there are more laptops and desktops in healthcare than ever. Clinicians have become dependent on these devices for documenting and accessing
How emtelligent is Lifting the Clinical and Administrative Burden | Healthcare IT Today
The administrative demands on medical professionals are growing. Doctors, nurses, and other staff manage enormous quantities of patient data in electronic health records (EHRs), often needing to sift through hundreds or thousands of pages to find the nugget of information they need. Emtelligent lightens the load on clinicians with AI solutions that can handle unstructured data efficiently.
Health Note Integrates Pre-Visit Interviews Into Ambient Voice Solution | Healthcare IT Today
As a major differentiator from other AI-based ambient voice scribes, Health Note integrates pre-visit information into the note, shortening visits sometimes for 30 minutes. Pre-visit information is obtained from patients by sending them a text message several days before they show up for their visit. The information gathered is far more detailed and sophisticated than
CIO Podcast – Episode 86: Cybersecurity Needs with Kate Pierce | Healthcare IT Today
For the 86th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Kate Pierce, Senior vCISO and Executive Director of Govt Affairs at Fortified Health Security and a Former CIO and CISO at a provider organization, to talk about cybersecurity! We kick this episode off by discussing the recent administration
The Role of Health Information Management in Improving the Accuracy and Accessibility of Patient Information Across Different Healthcare Systems | Healthcare IT Today
Sharing really is caring, especially in healthcare. Quality data is necessary to make sound decisions that better your organization and the lives of your staff and patients. However, quality data is hard to get in the quantitative measurements you need when you only have access to your own data. The immediate solution to this is
TEFCA, QHINs, Interoperability, Security, and more from The Sequoia Project and Carequality Annual Meeting | Healthcare IT Today
At the heart of healthcare interoperability is The Seqoia Project and Carequality. I was blessed to attend their combined annual meeting to hear from some of the leading experts in healthcare interoperability. A lot of information was shared including some very technical, complex, and nuanced conversations. Not to mention the excitement of everything that's happening
Upheal Secures $10M to Help Reduce Provider Burnout and Improve Client Outcomes with Their AI-Powered Platform | Healthcare IT Today
We’re delighted to share that Upheal has raised a $10M Series A round to help create better balance for mental health professionals. The round was led by Headline with participation from Credo Ventures and Kaya Ventures, bringing our total funding to $14.35 million. The burden on mental health professionals is a heavy one. Providers must remain
Bonus Features – December 15, 2024 – Only 1 in 8 hospitals have made inpatient virtual care a standard part of care delivery, eCW survey says 90% of clinicians view AI favorably, plus 26 more stories | Healthcare IT Today
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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
Weekly Roundup – December 14, 2024 | Healthcare IT Today
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. Which EHR Innovations Can Enable Seamless
AI Throughout the Process Simplifies Use of Freed Ambient Clinical Voice | Healthcare IT Today
Doctor note generation at Freed focuses on customization and personalization, to build "something to make clinicians happy." Indeed, comments posted by physicians online about the product are highly positive, such as "I got two hours of my day back." In pursuit of personalization—without adding complexity to the interface—Freed starts a generic ambient clinical note based on
Health-Related Biometrics Open Up Privacy Risks | Healthcare IT Today
Detecting clinical depression from vocal patterns, identifying an individual through their way of walking, determining a caller's emotion during a customer service session—these are examples of biometric analysis in use today. Both the science of biometric analysis and the exploitation of such analysis has progressed far beyond fingerprints and facial recognition. The Mozilla Foundation describes
Innovating EHR Systems to Improve Interoperability and Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers | Healthcare IT Today
We have made a lot of strides in healthcare — looking for ways to recenter the patient in our decisions, inventing technologies like AI to reduce the clinician burden on our staff, and so much more. However, all of these improvements mean nothing if they are contained solely to your organization. In order to truly
Impilo Secures Series A Funding! Looking to Transform Healthcare Access Nationwide | Healthcare IT Today
We are very excited to announce the successful closure of an $11.5 million Series A funding round, led by Construct Capital. The round also saw participation from GC 1 Capital, One Way Ventures, 2048 Ventures, and influential strategic angels. Since our inception in 2020, Impilo has rapidly positioned ourselves at the forefront of healthcare innovation, using cutting-edge technology
How OCR is Transforming Healthcare With Automation and Efficiency | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Yeelen Knegtering, Co-Founder and CEO at Klippa The healthcare industry is an epicenter of innovation, but one area that has struggled to keep up is document management. From patient intake forms to insurance claims, managing the large volume of paperwork has always been challenging. Traditional methods consume valuable
Interoperability Perspectives and Insights from the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting | Healthcare IT Today
This week I had a chance to attend the eHealth Exchange Annual meeting to learn more about what's happening with their network along with a wide variety of inteorperability topics. The conference covered a wide range of topics from public health to TEFCA and everything in between. Here are some of the highlights I heard
Predictive Heart Monitoring Startup, GPx, Secures New Investment from NEC X; Joins Elev X! Boost Venture Studio Program | Healthcare IT Today
New Implant and Needle-Free Solution, CardioID, Uses AI and ML to Surpass Accuracy of Conventional Heart Monitoring NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC’s portfolio of advanced technologies and global businesses, today announced a new investment in General Prognostics Inc. (GPx), a fast-growing MedTech startup revolutionizing chronic disease monitoring and management. The investment
Jonathan Bush, Patient Access to Health Data, and Is Epic a Monopoly? with Brendan Keeler – Part 3 | Healthcare IT Today
We wrap up this interview series with Brendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health, with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic's rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data. In case
Modernizing Healthcare Communications with Cloud Fax | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Tim Armstrong, Head of Product Management at Retarus Throughout the healthcare industry’s digital transformation revolution, fax servers have remained a staple due to their reliability, interoperability, and regulatory necessity. However, traditional fax servers come with hidden risks, inefficiencies, and vulnerabilities. Under HIPAA compliance, healthcare organizations must ensure that
A Student Health Center’s Experience with an AI Medical Scribe | Healthcare IT Today
Unless you've been reading Healthcare IT Today for 19 years when I first started writing about EMR, you may not realize that my first job in healthcare was at the UNLV student health and counseling centers. My first entry into healthcare was to implement an EMR for the student health and counselor center. Given this
Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories | Healthcare IT Today
At Healthcare IT Today we enjoy interesting stories and perspectives. Sometimes those stories are “big news” that move the industry. However, more often, the truly interesting stuff bubbles under the radar. Over the years we have learned this is the best place to find future trends and innovations in healthcare. While we were at the
This Week’s Health IT Jobs – December 11, 2024 | Healthcare IT Today
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
Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) | Healthcare IT Today
The advancement of technology can be a double-edged sword in healthcare. Through technological advancements, we can make the lives of our staff and our patients much easier and make healthcare more accessible. However, with the same advancements in technology, cybercriminals are finding new ways to breach into healthcare systems and take what they want. We
Using Open-Source Technology to Transform Healthcare and Housing for the Homeless | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by Graham Dodge, President at PathCheck Foundation The homelessness crisis in the United States has reached alarming levels with over 650,000 people in the U.S. experiencing homelessness in 2023 according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meanwhile, the politics on how to address this issue have
VitalHub Announces Acquisition of Strata Health | Healthcare IT Today
VitalHub Corp. is pleased to announce that it has acquired Strata Health Solutions Inc., a leading provider of patient flow solutions internationally. Based in Canada, Strata Health designs, builds, and deploys software that improves access and navigation to care. Strata Health has over 80 health system partners and works with over 500 hospitals to provide
Elation Health’s AI Assistant Can Have a Big Impact on Primary Care | Healthcare IT Today
Elation Health provides an EHR along with a tightly integrated ambient voice tool, Note Assist, that generates notes on visits. But to Kyna Fong, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder, the ambient voice solution's main value and differentiator is to look beyond the note to ask "What other actions need to happen?" It can suggest referrals and prescriptions