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.

The Big Consult: Clinicians Who Entered Digital IT Speak About the Differences. For this four-part series, Andy Oram spoke to more than a dozen clinicians now working in IT roles. Most made the switch to broaden their impact on the industry, Andy learned. They also discussed lending their expertise to helping clinicians decide on the right technology. Read more…

The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service. Clinicians have a lot to consider when evaluating their IT needs. Advice included adherence to evidence-based guidelines, transparency in AI models, good design, scalability, and a limited administrative burden. Read more…

The Big Consult: Additional Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service. The experts told Andy about some more nuanced considerations as well, including evaluating a solution with the needs of the entire organization in mind and helping clinicians feel comfortable with new technology. Read more…

The Big Consult: Bringing Technology to Life. Andy’s final piece looked at how to evaluate vendors and plan for deployment, paying particular attention to how a vendor intends to partner with you in the long term and how to engage with clinicians during implementation. Read more…

Health IT Leadership’s Role in Patient Data Security and Privacy. Leaders need to be proactive to address emerging cybersecurity threats, the Healthcare IT Today community told us. This means partnering with business leaders to develop security policies and prioritizing risk assessment. Read more…

How Sunoh Automates Clinician Note Creation. In the latest installment of our Ambient Clinical Voice series, Saurabh Singh explained how Sunoh has been trained to handle differences in accents, dialects, and types of articulation, as well as how it can detect context from conversations. Read more…

Is the Future of Healthcare Modular? Colin Hung visited Fero International and sat down with CEO Sabrina Fiorellino to discuss how modular buildings can help hospitals address capacity issues quickly, thanks to construction that happens in a climate-controlled environment and brings nearly-finished buildings to the jobsite. Read more…

Digital Health at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show. John Lynn took in CES and shared his thoughts on potentially groundbreaking technology such as videos that record vital signs, lasers that measure blood glucose, and devices that measure eye movement as a marker of brain health. Read more…

How Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT Have Evolved. As technology advances, success in health IT takes on a new meaning. The Healthcare IT Today community told us the keys to success include curiosity, empathy, and understanding the needs of clinical staff – along with keeping up with tech, of course. Read more…

Health Care AI – and Regulation – Are Advancing Rapidly. John chatted with Adnan Masood, PhD, and Anand Nair at UST about how Singapore and the European Union are regulating the application of AI, along with where it makes the most sense to deploy AI with little risk. Read more…

The Future of Smart Hospital Solutions. Stephanie Lahr, MD, at Artisight told John how virtual nursing saves time, reduces staff turnover, and lowers expenses by helping nurses be more present with the patient. Read more…

What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment – and Why? We posed this question to the experts attending CHIME23. Answers ranged from staffing to process improvement to cybersecurity. Read more…

Where Is AI Already Being Used in Healthcare? We also asked this question at CHIME23, and documentation, operational efficiency, and revenue cycle automation were the main answers. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Big Tech Companies in Healthcare. John and Colin pick from a hat to discuss the impact of big tech companies in care delivery, data management, and cutting-edge hardware. Read more…

Empowering Behavioral Health With Home-Based Technology. The combination of medication adherence solutions and remote monitoring can support behavioral health providers at a time when they’re tasked to do more with less, according to Eric Elliott at Altruix. Read more…

Featured Health IT Job: Service Desk CSM Lead, a hybrid position for a New York City-based health system client of Stoltenberg Consulting, posted to Healthcare IT Central.

Bonus Features for January 21, 2024: The number of compromised patient records in cyberattacks rose 108% in 2023, and the USCDI v5 draft was announced. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Suicide prevention and care management vendor Vita Health announced a $22.5M Series A funding round.
• GE HealthCare acquired MIM Software, maker of imaging analysis for radiation oncology, molecular radiotherapy, and urology.
• Value-based care adjudicator Arbital Health acquired Santa Barbara Actuaries and received $10 million in Series A funding.
• Accenture invested in QuantHealth, which simulates clinical trials in the cloud.

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