Weekly Roundup – March 22, 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. Creating Trustworthy AI Tech. Colin Hung […]
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.
Creating Trustworthy AI Tech. Colin Hung was quite busy at HIMSS. (No surprise there!) Here, he interviewed Dean Slawson at PointClickCare about ensuring AI tools produce reliable, unbiased insights that truly support clinical decision-making. Read more…
The Hospital Room of the Future: Better Care with Fewer Staff. Colin also caught up with Caregility’s Mike Brandofino and Susan Krisiniak and learned how virtual nursing supports the nurse working in the hospital, such as speeding up admissions and discharge processes. Read more…
Reframing the Benefits of Interoperability. Meanwhile, Colin took in a MEDITECH panel discussion about making sure providers and researchers understand how data access makes their jobs easier. Read more…
Guiding Customers Through Optimization and Innovation in the Cloud. That’s not to say John Lynn had nothing to do at HIMSS. PV SubbaRao at Rackspace joined him here to chat about looking beyond infrastructure to generate the most value from cloud computing investments. Read more…
How Smart Hospitals Rooms Improve Care Delivery. John also connected with Juan A. Contreras and Joseph A. Narvaez at Northwell Health to hear about how deployments of smart TV and digital whiteboard solutions have created a better patient experience. Read more…
CommonWell: Forging Ahead With Data Exchange and Patient Access. Paul L. Wilder and Liz Lewis joined John at HIMSS to discuss CommonWell’s push to solve the prior authorization problem, along with the one vendor’s pledge to use CommonWell to provide patient access. Read more..
The Future of Enterprise Data Management. Back at ViVE, John sat down with new ELLKAY CEO Ajay Kapare to discuss how to get data out of silos, ensure data quality, and navigate the complexities of healthcare alongside your partners. Read more…
Mitigating the Challenges of Integrating AI Into Existing IT Infrastructures. This was the latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community. Advice included addressing data governance up front, adopting new solutions incrementally, and centralizing data as much as possible. Read more…
Addressing SDoH Through the Community Information Exchange. Steve Heard at J2 Interactive described how to create a framework for sharing SDoH data at both the individual and community level – including the spreadsheets and paper forms many organizations rely on. Read more…
Life Sciences Today Podcast: Predicting How Patients Will Respond to Therapy. Danny Libermann interviewed Orr Inbar at Quanthealth about helping pharma improve protocols in Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials, where the consequences of failure are significant. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: Potpourri Edition. John and Colin discussed a few topics, including momentum in the medical scribe space and EHR vendors’ differing approaches to AI. Read more…
Avoiding The Long Tail of a Cyberattack. Protecting healthcare organizations amid today’s looming security threats is a matter of risk assessment, strong governance, and thorough documentation of both policies and incidents, according to Michael Hamilton at Lumifi Cyber. Read more…
How AI is Advancing Cancer Diagnosis. AI can detect and diagnose cancer with unprecedented precision and speed, said Razik Yousfi at Paige. Change management remains the biggest hurdle to adoption in the lab, in part due to challenges in integrating AI with existing workflows. Read more…
How Multimodal Biometrics: Safeguarding Healthcare Data. Philipp Pointner at Jumio outlined how processes such as iris scanning, fingerprinting, and facial recognition provide layers of verification that can reduce errors and reduce an organization’s vulnerability to cyber attacks. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for March 19, 2025: Various systems analyst positions, plus roles in telemetry, operations, and utilization management. Read more…
Bonus Features for March 16, 2025: 69% of healthcare staff say admin work interferes with ability to provide patient support; 76% of patients receiving alerts from medical devices had their issue successfully diagnosed. Read more…
Funding and M&A Activity:
- Nutrition counseling platform Berry Street raised $50 million in capital.
- Hospital information system Avelios Medical raised €30 million in Series A funding.
- Digital whole-family mental health care Little Otter raised $9.5 million in a strategic funding round.
- Workflow automation platform Keragon secured a $7.5 million seed funding round.
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