Category: foundational

Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?

4medica, Acute Care, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Availity, behavioral health, Biofourmis, care management, care teams, Caregivers, Clinical Documentation, clinical workflows, cognitive overload, DrFirst, EHR Design, EHR Usability, Electronic Health Record, Electronic Medical Records, EVISIT, First Databank, Force Therapeutics, foundational, Health Disparities, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare technology, Heart, Hospital Readmissions, HSBlox, Interoperability, Machine Learning, MD, medical records, medication, medication reconciliation, Medicomp Systems, mental health, Mental Healthcare, Most Popular, NLP, Patient Adherence, Patient Care, Patient Monitoring, physician burnout, Physicians, point of care, post-acute care, Predictive Analytics, Prior Authorization, Provider Workflows, remote patient monitoring, risk, Stryker, Telehealth, telepsychiatry, transcription, unstructured data, Value-Based Care, Vital, Vocera / July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022

The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between 54,100 and 139,000 physicians predicted by 2033. No one would argue that …

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Why Mental Illness Is Not the Cause of Gun Violence

depression, foundational, MD, mental health, Mental Healthcare, Mental Illness, Opinion, public health, social media, WASHINGTON / July 15, 2022 July 15, 2022

I guess there’s just no way to have a sacred cow without also keeping a goat. Understand, I’m not talking about a GOAT, as in Tom Brady or Michael Jordan. I mean a goat, i.e, something or someone that takes the blame for an event, failed policy, etc., perhaps more commonly called a scapegoat. The …

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Geisinger & Tempus Create AI Model to Identify Structural Heart Disease

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Atrial Fibrillation, Circulation, digital health, ecg, foundational, Heart, heart disease, model, Patient Care, Physicians, Precision Medicine, risk, Tempus / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022

What You Should Know: – Tempus, an $8B precision medicine company, announced a collaborative study with Geisinger focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) model that can accurately identify patients at increased risk of undiagnosed structural heart disease (SHD). The study addresses a critical diagnostic gap – SHD is a progressive disease that affects the valves, walls, chambers, and muscles of the …

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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

assistants, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, Color, digital health, Diversity and Inclusion, FDA, foundational, global healthcare, H1, Health Disparities, Healthcare Data, Life Sciences, Opinion, patient population, Physicians, Premier / May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022

Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare. Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for …

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What’s The Role of Digital Health in Public Health?

apple, Apple Watch, digital health, Electronic Health Record, Facebook, foundational, health information exchanges, Health IT, Heart, Information Blocking, instagram, Internet of Things, IoT, Medsphere, Opinion, Physicians, public health, social media, Telehealth, workplace / April 29, 2022 April 29, 2022

To a certain extent, the national conversation about the importance of a robust public health system has been happening for the last couple of years in the context of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, rather than discussing how the system can be strengthened and expanded, we’ve instead largely limited it to what the …

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Komodo Health Secures $220M for Life Sciences Data Platform at $3.3B Valuation

Artificial Intelligence, cloud, cloud computing, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, foundational, Life Sciences, Patient Journey, Startups / March 22, 2021 March 22, 2021

What You Should Know: – Komodo Health announces $220M Series E investment to advance its enterprise healthcare and life sciences platform. At a $3.3 billion valuation, the investment underscores the company’s rapidly growing role as a foundational enterprise technology platform helping to drive digital transformation across the healthcare industry. – Founded in 2014, Komodo Health’s Healthcare Map™ is the industry’s …

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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

Advisory Board, Care Coordination, Caregivers, CMS, Electronic Health Record, f, Final Rule, foundational, google, health information exchanges, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Heart, HIEs, Interoperability, MD, Meaningful Use, Medicaid, medical records, Medicare, medication, Medication Adherence, mental health, Opinion, Patient Care, Patient Education, PhD, Physicians, Portal, primary care, public health, risk, Secure Messaging / December 22, 2020 December 22, 2020

Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties. Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a …

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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

Care Coordination, CMS, critical access hospitals, foundational, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Health Systems, healthcare it, Heart, himss, Hospital Readmissions, Information Blocking, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Office of the National Coordinator, ONC, Opinion, Partners, Patient Access, Patient Care, patient experience, Patient Privacy, patient safety, public health, virtual care, Vital / December 7, 2020 December 7, 2020

Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect this November and continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to …

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To Solve Healthcare Interoperability, We Must ‘Solve the Surround’

AI, API, apple, Clinical Trials, cloud, CMS, EHR Incentives, Electronic Medical Records, Final Rule, foundational, health information exchanges, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HIEs, Interoperability, MD, medical records, Microsoft, model, NIH, ONC, Patient Care, Philips, Portal, Precision Medicine, public health, risk / November 9, 2020 November 9, 2020

Peter S. Tippett, MD, Ph.D., Founder & CEO of careMesh Interoperability in healthcare is a national disgrace. After more than three decades of effort, billions of dollars in incentives and investments, State and Federal regulations, and tens of thousands of articles and studies on making all of this work — we are only slightly better …

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FDA Clears First-in-World Hematology App, Unlocking Potential of Diagnosis

AI, decision support, digital health, FDA, FDA Clearance, foundational / October 23, 2020 October 23, 2020

What You Should Know: – Scopio Labs announced FDA clearance of its AI-powered X100 microscope and decision support system with Full Field Peripheral Blood Smear (Full Field PBS) application. – Using advanced computational photography imaging and tailored AI tools, Full Field PBS gives clinical laboratories an unprecedented ability to capture digital scans with full-field view of …

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How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs

API, cloud, CMS, Data Integration, foundational, Health IT, healthcare technology, Interoperability, John Hopkins, Life Sciences, ONC, Opinion, Partners, Patient Care, patient experience, primary care, Public Cloud, Telehealth, Telehealth Services / October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020

Ruby Raley, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Axway Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement towards Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) began. Today, there are many shops, especially those in small and medium-sized organizations, with few programmers who build new applications from scratch. Yes, they …

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How Times of Crisis Spur Needed Change in Healthcare Delivery

Change Healthcare, Coronavirus (COVID-19), foundational, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare delivery, Interoperability, NantHealth, NaviNet, Opinion, Partners, Partners Healthcare, Patient Care, patient experience, Payers, Physicians, Prior Authorization, Provider Reimbursement, risk, Value-Based Care / August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change healthcare operations in the world, foundational systems are being adapted to meet these new demands. Sometimes it takes extreme circumstances to see the cracks in a system. COVID-19 has exposed areas with more room for improvement in the healthcare system, such as optimizing operational efficiency. Organizations and individuals …

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4 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Establish Partnerships to Drive Innovation

AI, Artificial Intelligence, behavior, Box, Data Analytics, EMR, foundational, healthcare spending, healthcare technology, integrity, Machine Learning, Opinion, Payers, Prior Authorization, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue integrity, risk, SSI Group / July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020

With public and private healthcare spending significantly outpacing that of other countries, U.S. hospitals face intense pressure to find new ways to capture greater value. More and more, organizations are finding that partnerships with existing vendors can help unlock next-level performance gains in a transformative environment. Take Nebraska Medicine, for example. In the early 2000s, …

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Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation

ALLSCRIPTS, Caregivers, cloud, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, foundational, Health IT, healthcare delivery, Internet of Things, Interoperability, Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, model, patient experience, Pharmacy, Public Cloud, radiology, revenue cycle, Telehealth / July 13, 2020 July 13, 2020

What You Should Know: – Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation. – The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user …

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