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.

Exploring the Intersection of Patients and AI at OpenNotes Lab. Liz Salmi and Dr. Chethan Sarabu talked to Colin Hung about applying OpenNotes’ expertise in research, advocacy, and innovation to studying many aspects of AI, including algorithmic bias, generative AI, and ambient clinical voice. Read more…

Connecting Healthcare Clouds and Simplifying Solutions in a Secure Way. At HIMSS 2024, John Lynn moderated a panel with Rackspace and Dell that highlighted the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare, especially with it comes to hosted EHR. Read more…

The Value of Sharing Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care. Brian Drozdowicz and Dr. Hamad Husainy at PointClickCare sat down with Colin and discussed how TEFCA and other regulations are driving interoperability efforts – and how data-sharing is key to reaping financial benefits under value-based care. Read more…

The Benefits of an Open, Interoperable Communication Platform. Joseph DeLisle and Michelle Allen at Raukand spoke to John about using standard communication protocols to connect alerting systems, ensuring the right staff members get the message and reducing the noise in the typical hospital ward. Read more…

Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals. Colin heard from Dr. Mark Pratt at Altera Digital Health about the company’s Paragon product line and how migrating to the cloud improves security and resilience for customers with limited resources. Read more…

Filling Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement With Patients. Krisi Hutson at Availity talked to John about deploying AI to help administrative staff collect and analyze details for billing, eligibility verification, prior authorization, and more. Read more…

Can Digital Technologies Really Help Overcome Diabetes? Andy Oram assessed the recent PHTI report digital interventions for diabetes. Though the literature review was criticized for focusing more on financial savings and less on clinical outcomes, it should spark a conversation about what works and what needs improvement. Read more…

CIO Podcast: South Shore Hospital Chicago’s Interoperability Journey. John caught up with Donald McGruder to discuss how clinical exchange services support operational and clinical business objectives and enhance patient care. Read more…

Securing Patient Data in Open-Source Healthcare Content Management Systems. Jon Stewart at ZenSource detailed why cloud infrastructure, routine audits, and access controls are important for hosting healthcare content. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 10, 2024. Roles for individuals with EHR, ERP, supply chain, and IT service experience in the health system and vendor markets. Read more…

Bonus Features for April 7, 2024. 86% of health systems had at least 10% of nurses quit in 2023, and 25% of providers intend to deploy generative AI for patient engagement. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Introducing the first gen AI solution for healthcare call centers, Assort Health raises $3.5 Million in funding.
• Ai-powered RCM vendor CodaMetrix closed $40 million in Series B financing.
• Population health management company Innovaccer acquired Pharmacy Quality Solutions, which provides reporting on medication use metrics.
• Alzheimer’s and dementia detection vendor Linus Health acquired Aural Analytics, which provides clinical-grade speech analytics software.

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