Healthcare IT Weekly Roundup – October 26, 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.
Innovation on Full Display at AdvaMed’s MedTech Conference. Colin Hung shared his learnings from the conference focused on advancing medical device technology. Two innovations caught his eye: A platform embedded in a stretcher to transfer patients from their bed and a “gingerbread man” that makes readouts of vital signs easier to read. Read more…
Advice for Women in Healthcare Leadership Roles. John Lynn recently attended the SOAR conference and chatted with Dawn Whitney at ElevateX Leadership Collective about how women can overcome the fear of failure and other challenges they face as leaders in healthcare. Read more…
Cybersecurity and Business Continuity in the Wake of Cyberattacks. After the Change Healthcare outage, Availity experienced a 40% increase in electronic transaction volume after setting up a free digital connectivity option. Availity’s Mike Green and Kristina Hutson talked to John about how the company has been planning to respond to this type of crisis for quite some time. Read more…
Phoebe Putney’s Efforts to Address Staffing Challenges. At MEDITECH Live, John chatted with Mike Elder and Kelsey Reed, DNP, MHA, MSN, FNP-C at the southwest Georgia health system, which recently opened a Living and Learning Center to really recruit and train the next generation of nurses. Read more…
CIO Podcast: What Makes Mental Health Different. Erin Osbourn, MSc, CHCIO, CDH-E, PMP at Child Mind Institute joined John to discuss how her role differs from that of other CIOs in healthcare. They also addressed the important question of how AI could impact mental and behavioral health. Read more…
Mitigating Cyberattacks Is Truly a Life-or-Death Situation. In the wake of high-profile breaches and ransomware attacks, Congress is pushing bills to help health systems respond. That said, organizations need to remember human error remains the leading cause of data breaches, noted Mike Crouse at Everfox . Read more…
Your Patients Are on Mobile, So Why Aren’t You? If 65% of patients use a mobile device when interacting with their care provider, then it’s time for organizations to shift away from prioritizing web-based and portal offerings, said Lee Jones at Gozio Health.?Read more…
It’s Time to Combat “Instafraud” in Medicare Advantage. In the wrong hands, LLMs can generate false or exaggerated medical documentation in an instant. Staying a step ahead of this type of fraud requires a proactive approach to real-tine auditing and coding, noted David Lareau at Medicomp Systems, Inc. Read more…
Breaking Down Healthcare’s Data Walls. The limitations of interoperability has made value-based care more complex, said Ashay Thakurat Cedar Gate Technologies . Adopting enterprise data management can help organizations better align their technology resources and position themselves to support VBC. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 23, 2024: Multiple organizations with systems analyst roles to fill. Read more…
Bonus Features, HLTH Edition, for October 22, 2024: News from Amazon One Medical, GE HealthCare, Noom, NVIDIA, Suki AI, and Uber Health, among others. Read more…
Bonus Features for October 20, 2024: Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks; meanwhile, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare. Read more…
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