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.

HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Colin Hung attended a media briefing with the HIMSS CEO and learned about HIMSS’ international expansion plans, its role as a tight-knit society and not a loose association, and its desire to promote scalable software, perhaps even at the expense of startups. Read more…

HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions. John Lynn sat down with Saurabh Singh and Rakhee Langer at Sunoh.ai and discussed Sunoh’s integration with Epic, eClinicalWorks, and Oracle Health (Cerner), along with how ambient clinical voice is poised to change the healthcare landscape. Read more…

Bonus Features for March 13, 2024: HIMSS Edition. AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, plus 18 more stories. Read more…

Price Transparency Trends Shifting Responsibility to Employers. Meanwhile, at the HCAA conference caught up with Mark Galvin, Founder at TALON to talk about how the transparency in coverage law and a Johnson & Johnson lawsuit highlight the employer’s role in pushing for price transparency. Read more…

Empowering Frontline Leaders Using Technology to Create Change. John recapped a ViVE 2024 session with Tanya Content at UNC Health and Russ Richmond at Laudio about ensuring technology meets the needs of nurses and other clinical staff instead of imposing it on them. Read more…

Unlocking the Power of Interop for More Effective RCM. Colin connected with Juli Forde Smith at ZOLL Data Systems and Erica Gregory at Netsmart to discuss how prioritizing patient intake leads to better RCM – and how APIs streamline the process of sharing financial data. Read more…

Next-Generation AI: Exploring Safe, Accurate Innovation in Healthcare. John spoke to Dr. Tim O’Connell and Kim Perry at emtelligent. They said NLP in healthcare has been 10 years away for the last 50 years – but added that large language models may finally make it possible to put AI in the hands of experts. Read more…

Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice: Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits. As ambient voice has gotten a lot of attention lately, this was a good question to pose to the Healthcare IT Today community. Insights included emphasizing the impact on the patient experience, ensuring tight EHR integration, and routinely reviewing outputs. Read more…

CIO Podcast: The Role of the CMIO. John sat down with Dr. Donald Levick, formerly at Lehigh Valley Health Network, about how CMIOs can respond to shrinking margins and increasing demands. They also discuss who the CMIO should report to and what their primary role should be. Read more…

3 Ways AI Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape – If We Trust It. More than half of adults worldwide believe AI can help ease pressure on the healthcare system. AI is poised to improve care delivery, increase efficiency, and drive innovation, according to Jeanne Greathouse at BSI. Read more…

Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthcare Technology. The ongoing risk of cyber attacks is causing cyber insurance costs to rise, noted Justin Kozak at Founder Shield. Organizations can respond by investing in preventive technologies, employee training, and frequent audits. Read more…

Bonus Features for March 10, 2024: Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, plus Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Robotics vendor MMI raised $110 million in Series C financing.
• Virtual cardiometabolic care provider 9amHealth raised a $9.5 million Series A extension.
• Patient flow vendor UnityAI secured $4 million in seed funding.
• Autism and IDD software maker CentralReach acquired SILAS, provider of social and emotional learning and behavior tools for education.
• Workflow automation vendor Concord Technologies completed its acquisition of Biscom, maker of enterprise fax and secure file transfer solutions.

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