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 Health IT Trends Deserve Even More Attention? We asked the Healthcare IT Today to weigh in on the topics that the industry isn’t talking about enough. Interesting answers included whether data really needs to be cleaned up before it’s ingested and how to get providers and payers on the same page. Read more…

Introducing Designing for Health. John Lynn spoke to Dr. Craig Joseph at Nordic, who co-authored a book about recognizing the importance of system design and making it easy for those in the system to do the right thing. Read more…

Improving Resilience With Computer-Assisted Professional Coding. Colin Hung learned how CMIO Dr. Beth Kushner at St. Joseph’s Health wanted clinicians spending more time with patients and less time looking up CPT codes online. CAPC technology helps staff identify the right codes – including those that may be missing – which has improved efficiency in more ways than one. Read more…

Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Care and Identify Suicide Risk. Using data from three dozen behavioral health providers, Netsmart trained algorithms to identify ED patients facing behavioral health risks and pair them with PCPs, the company’s Tom Herzog and Matthew Arnheiter told John. Read more…

The Digital Front Door Needs Access to Data Across Systems. John shared the highlights of a conversation with Bill Bruno at Celebrus, which is focused on improving digital identity verification across multiple points of engagement that a patient has with a health system and getting a more longitudinal view. Read more…

The Permanente Medical Group Endorses Ambient Voice Transcriptions. Andy Oram summarized a study from the medical group that found AI-generated transcripts were largely free from bias, succinct, and consistent, while 81% of patients said physicians using the solution spent less time looking at their computer screens. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: ViVE 2024 Preview. John and Colin offered their thoughts on the upcoming conference, including sharing tips for a successful ViVE as an attendee and exhibitor and putting ViVE in the context of other health IT conferences. Read more…

How AI is Preventing Revenue Leakage. Automation of claims processing, payment posting, and revenue reporting can help healthcare organizations capture more revenue and increase operating profit, noted Dan Parsons at Thoughtful. Read more…

A Technology-Driven Approach to Chronic Care Management. Chronic diseases account for 90% of healthcare costs. Managing these conditions properly means integrating services ranging from care planning to referral management to decision support, according to Kevin Riley at Zyter|TruCare. Read more…

Key Challenges for Providers and Payers Navigating the Interoperability Maze. Anthony Murray at MRO detailed how healthcare continues to grapple with fragmented standards, data security concerns, and resistance to workflow changes. Read more…

Bonus Features for February 18, 2024: 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, and 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Data and analytics platform Inovalon acquired VigiLanz, maker of clinical surveillance and patient safety software.
• Chartis acquired HealthScape Advisors, a consulting firm focused on the payer market.
• Generative AI vendor Ambience Healthcare raised $70 million in Series B funding.
• BI and workflow automation vendor Vital Interaction closed a $15 million Series A funding round.
• Provider sales analytics startup Bonfire Analytics raised an oversubscribed $2 million venture round.

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