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Weekly Roundup – April 5, 2025
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. Transforming Hospital Operations With Innovation and […]
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.
Transforming Hospital Operations With Innovation and AI. At HIMSS25, John Lynn moderated a panel discussion with experts from Augusta Health, AltaMed, AMD, and Dell Technologies on topics such as optimizing supply chains and transforming the workforce through digital health adoption. Read more…
Handling the Tasks Clinicians Get Stuck With. IKS Health CEO Sachin K. Gupta talked to John about the importance of automating clinical tasks that distract from the core task of patient care, such as documentation, coding, and prior authorization. Read more…
Unpacking Automated Document Processing and Information Extraction. Chris Larkin at Concord Technologies described how extracting key information from clinical documents can streamline workflows and get the right data into clinicians’ hands quickly. Read more…
Understanding AI Risk Levels Matters. Ben Scharfe at Altera Digital Health told Colin Hung that not all AI use cases have the same level of risk, as clinical uses of AI require a much higher level of validation to ensure patient safety. Read more…
Sharing Cybersecurity Insights to Strengthen the Healthcare Ecosystem. Tom Niehaus and Chad Alessi at CTG explained how automated monitoring, Zero Trust, and scenario-based testing can help organizations reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Read more…
Unleashing Your Data Archives to Empower AI Efforts. MediQuant CEO Jim Jacobs told John AI applications need to have the full historical data to work effectively. All too often, that means taking it from disparate legacy systems and cleaning it. Read more…
Making AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions Accessible and Equitable. Advice from the Healthcare IT Today community on how to get this done included providing solutions that can be tailored to the population, investing in provider and patient education, and using representative data sets. Read more…
5 Things You May Have Missed From a HIMSS25 Expert Panel on AI. Looking back at his notes, Colin discovered key thoughts such as understanding the time and effort providers need to put into AI as well as meeting providers’ data integrity standards. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Longevity Is More Than Long Life. Rony Angel at Centarix joined Danny Libermann to chat about slowing slows down and even reversing the aging process on a molecular level – and assessing which therapies and interventions are truly effective. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: HIMSS and ViVE Recap. This one’s pretty self-explanatory. The most interesting conversation to me? How John and Colin feel about the impact of big conferences these days. Read more…
Ensuring Accuracy When Translating Medicare Advantage Materials. MA organizations need to translate coverage and beefits documents into as many as two dozen languages. Patrick Kehoe at Messagepoint outlined how generative AI can streamline this process. Read more…
Will Video Reshape the Future of Healthcare? Rasmus Almqvist at Hibox described telemedicine’s role in offering convenient care, particularly for preventive care and patients with chronic conditions, and in closing key care gaps. Read more…
Why Healthcare Cybersecurity Gaps Remain Despite Spending Increases. Strict access controls, reduced reliance on data brokers, and routine software updates can all help organizations dramatically reduce their cybersecurity risk, said Rob Shavell, CEO at DeleteMe. Read more…
How Data Storytelling Spotlights the Customer Voice. Process improvement is best informed by combining quantitative and qualitative conversation data, as that helps organizations foster empathy and connection, according to Dr. Sally Perkins at Authenticx. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 2, 2025: Multiple roles in information management, compliance, and patient access. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 30, 2025: 83% of physicians say patient portals add to administrative workload; meanwhile, 91% of healthcare CISOs considering a job change. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Revenue cycle automation vendor CareCloud acquired MesaBilling.
- Sweat-sensing wearable maker Epicore Biosystems raised $26 million in Series B funding.
- Medical specialty technology vendor ModMed announced a significant majority growth investment from Clearlake Capital.
- Records management vendor Reveleum secured an investment from NEC X, the venture studio backed by NEC.
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