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.

Updating the Tired Old Patient Questionnaire. Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers, including schools and community clinics. Read more…

Automatically Generated Medical Notes the Way You Would Have Written Them. John Lynn spoke to Matthew Ko at DeepScribe about the importance of using ambient voice to create medical notes that are not just accurate, but have a human feel. The ability to apply a customized style helps here. Read more…

Why Self-Scheduling Has Reached a Tipping Point. In an interview with Ryan Bengtson at Panda Health, Colin Hung learned patient self-scheduling tops the list of on-demand technology thanks to high ROI from increased productivity and labor cost savings. On the other hand, technologies such as chatbots and hospital at home need to do more to demonstrate ROI. Read more…

What Happens If We Do Nothing to Address Top Health IT Trends? Our latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community was the topics that leaders can’t afford to ignore. Most recommendations focus on understanding the role and impact of AI, along with shoring up cybersecurity and disaster recovery. Read more…

Context Makes Ambient Clinical Voice More Than a Note Generator. Abhinav Shashank and Dr. David Nace at Innovaccer talked to John about the value of integrating ambient voice tools with clinical, claims, and labs data as well as analytics, as it allows clinicians the power to make referrals and orders within their normal workflows. Read more…

Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care. Andy suggested the word “value” indicates healthcare is still more concerned with the payer’s point of view than the health of the patient. It’s time for a more holistic view of health – one that pays attention to community health and personal wellness, not just clinical health. Read more…

Emerging Technologies Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery. Answers to this question for Healthcare IT Today experts emphasize how predictive modeling, ambient documentation, inpatient telehealth, and virtual nursing are poised to change care delivery. Read more…

CIO Podcast: Health IT’s Role in Leadership. 2024 CHIME CIO of the Year Shafiq Rab at Tufts Medicine chatted with John about what projects today will have the greatest impact in 10 years, along with his advice for aspiring healthcare IT leaders. Read more…

AI ‘s Role in Healthcare Cybersecurity: Enhancing Threat Detection. One of the biggest challenges in healthcare cybersecurity is that threats are evolving rapidly while attack surfaces are expanding. Automated threat detection and response, as well as AI-driven risk management, helps organizations enable proactive security defense, said Nagaraj Kuppuswamy at Beaconer. Read more…

Bonus Features for February 11, 2024: HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, while Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Prior authorization automation vendor Cohere Health raised $50 million in equity.
• Enterprise imaging AI marketplace CARPL announced a $6 million seed funding round.
• Cybersecurity intelligence platform HEAL Security launched from stealth with $4.6 million in pre-seed investment.
• Patient navigation and scheduling vendor Fabric acquired GYANT, a conversational AI startup.
• Visual acuity test developer Visibly merged with EyecareLive, which provides real-time video visits for eye exams.

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