Healthcare IT Weekly Roundup – November 16, 2024

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.

More Insights From the Experts at HLTH 2024. Several more healthcare IT leaders took some time to share their thoughts on data integration, key use cases for AI, how to help frontline workers, and how to build trust. Read more…

What’s Your Healthcare Data Strategy? At HLTH, Komodo Health’s Julia Goebel shared some insights into how real-world data will impact healthcare decision-making, especially when it comes to closing care gaps and addressing health equity. Read more…

EMR and RCM in the Cloud Providing Value to HealthNet. At the recent eClinicalWorks user conference, John caught up with Dr. ?V Cantrell and Abigayle Gomez at the Indianapolis-based system to discuss how HealthNet is benefitting from the reliability and scalability of eCW in the cloud. Read more…

How to Scale Advance Care Planning in a Medical Practice. Dr. Rishi Sarna at Backline and Texas-based clinic owner Dr. Andy Gulbis joined John Lynn to discuss how to kickstart the difficult conversation about end-of-life planning with patients who’d rather talk about anything else. Read more…

Where Nabla’s AI Assistant Is Headed Next. Nabla has generated more than 8 million clinical notes. Also at HLTH, John caught up with Co-founder and CEO Alex Lebrun about what the company has learned from its 85 healthcare organization customers and what’s next for Nabla. Read more…

Why EMR Optimization Is a Continuous Process. John sat down with Darrell Bodnar at New Hampshire’s North Country HealthCare and CereCore’s Bob Gronberg about making sure EMR implementation goes beyond basic components to meet a health system’s needs. Read more…

Healthcare IT Today Podcast: RSNA 2024 Conference Preview. It’s one of healthcare’s oldest and biggest events, and John and Colin Hung talked what stands out on the RSNA agenda – and what’s not there but should be. Read more…

How AI Can Address Healthcare’s Customer Experience Pain Points. Dr. Raffaella Bianchi at Covisian USA explained the best ways to blend human and AI interactions into everyday encounters to streamline administrative tasks without losing the human connection. Read more…

Tackling Out-of-State Medicaid Claims and Credentialing Challenges. Lack of credentialing, misunderstanding of benefits, and unverified eligibility can all impact reimbursement. A proactive strategy can help, according to Crystal Campbell at Aspirion. Read more…

Integrating AI Without Losing the Human Touch. The market for AI in healthcare will see more than 11x growth by the end of the decade. It’s imperative for the industry to keep the focus on solutions for people amid this growth, noted Patricia Pomies at Globant. Read more…

This Week’s Health IT Jobs for November 13, 2024: Various roles in IT systems architecture and analysis, plus a Chief Medical Officer position at Wisconsin’s Vernon Memorial Healthcare. Read more…

Bonus Features for November 10, 2024: 22% of health-related search terms have a potential risk of malware; meanwhile, just 35% of health IT leaders say AI is essential. Read more…

Funding and M&A Activity:

• Definition Health secured about $7.5 million in pre-seed funding; the British company builds predictive AI products for surgical care.
• Hospital quality reporting platform Pharos closed a $5 million seed round.
• Mental health access vendor Resilience Lab acquired Options MD, which offers online psychiatric medication management tools.
• Investment firm Francisco Partners acquired AdvancedMD, which provides software to medical offices.
• Value-based care platform Reveleer acquired Curation Health, which provides point-of-care insights for risk adjustment and quality improvement.
• Community care technology company WellSky acquired Bonafide, which provides software to the durable and home medical equipment market.
• Home care management solutions provider HHAeXchange acquired Sandata Technologies, which helps optimize billing and claims processing for home care.
• Real-time location systems vendor Cognosos acquired Cox Prosight, an RTLS platform for hospitals.
• Document exchange and interoperability vendor Concord Technologies acquired Opero, which develops business process improvement applications for Salesforce.

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