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 – and, with this week’s roundup in particular, anything you may have missed from the hustle and bustle of HIMSS 2024 in Orlando.

Celebrating 500 Episodes: Reliving the Best Moments From the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast. Before getting into our HIMSS coverage, check out John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Brittany Quemby discussing the milestone of 500 podcast episodes – born from the idea to tell good stories that help IT leaders do their jobs better and to push podcasts on as many social channels as possible to get the good word out there. Read more…

Advancing Healthcare With High Performance Computing and Cybersecurity. John summarized a panel he moderated at HIMSS where heavy hitters in health IT highlighted how processing power can turn data into insights faster – and how modern platforms bake security into place for better infrastructure management. Read more…

Revolutionizing Healthcare With Generative AI. Adeel Sarwar and A. Hadi Chaudhry at CareCloud talked to John about the value of training accurate AI models for clinical and financial uses, especially for often-overlooked ambulatory practices. Read more…

Bringing Contextualized Health Data into Diagnosis and Treatment. John sat down with Dr. Paulo Pinho at Discern Health and Dr. Tim O’Connell at emtelligent to learn about the importance of summarizing unstructured information and the role of automation in supporting this key step. Read more…

Unlocking Healthcare’s Secure Mobile Future. With 45% of healthcare data breaches occurring on mobile devices, Dallas-area Alliance Clinical Network turned to Hypori to help create a formal, HIPAA-compliant BYOD policy with a virtual machine running on the mobile device, John learned. Read more…

Modern Approaches to Master Data Management. John highlighted how New York state HIE Healthix is using Verato to manage patient identity across dozens of clinical systems a patient may engage with and get rid of millions of duplicate entries. Read more…

Demo: Nabla Ambient Clinical Voice. John got a demo from Dr. Ed Lee and Laurent Landowski at Nabla. John was particularly impressed with the editing features, the ability for doctors to personalize their experience, and “dot phrases” that act like verbal macros during a patient visit. Read more…

Helping Payers and Providers See the Same Ledger. Meanwhile, at ViVE 2024 John talked to Mo Weitnauer at MRO and Piyush Khanna at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield about building a single data repository and using it for “bidirectional conversations” between the payer and its provider partners. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Technologies That Have Fallen Off the Radar. In the latest podcast, John and Colin explored technologies that have always been important and ineffective in healthcare, even if they get lost in the excitement of new innovations. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 3, 2024: Roles seeking expertise with Epic, MEDITECH, and Oracle, in cities such as Cleveland, New York, and Arlington, Texas. Read more…

Bonus Features for March 31, 2024: 55% of Change Healthcare customers expect adverse impacts on patient care, while a mobile app helped 84% of seniors lower their blood pressure after 6 months. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Carenet Health is acquiring Health Dialog, the clinical decision support software subsidiary of Rite Aid.
• AI platform Kinsa Health was acquired by Healthy Together, a software provider for state health departments.
• Digital cognitive assessment maker BrainCheck received $15 million in new financing.
• Direct Recruiters and INNOVA People completed their merger and announced the launch of INNOVA Healthcare and INNOVA Tech staffing practice areas.

Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups.