Weekly Roundup – September 3, 2022

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.

Unpacking Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure Needs. Despite the industry’s move to the cloud, healthcare organizations are still in the IT infrastructure business. John Lynn spoke to several industry leaders about how orgs can best manage their existing infrastructure (and all its complexity) while planning for a future where less is likely to be more. Read more…

What Are the Industry’s Interoperability Infrastructure Needs? John gathered feedback from several more industry leaders about healthcare’s most critical data and infrastructure needs. Volume and velocity are concerns, of course, but the biggest challenge is likely to be adapting to changing sources of data, data types, and sites of data analysis. Read more…

Where Healthcare Organizations Want Interoperability Help. In a conversation with John, Innovaccer CIO Anil Jain, MD discussed where interop is happening, what’s holding interop back, and why providers and vendors need to build more robust interop infrastructure over the next few years. Read more…

VBC Adoption Is Slow, and Claims Denials Have Doubled. Colin Hung provided a roundup of stats from a recent Medical Group Management Association report. MGMA found that value-based care is less than 15% of practice revenue, and less than 7% of primary care revenue. In addition, claims denials saw a 2x increase from 2020 to 2021. Fortunately, most practices reported that patient volume is steady or on the rise. Read more…

The Benefits of Attending the ATA Conference. It can be hard for physicians and nurses to justify taking time away from practice to attend a conference. Sara Gallo provided five reasons clinicians should attend next year’s ATA conference, from receiving valuable policy updates to building a network of like-minded clinicians interested in advancing digital health. Read more…

Addressing Informed Consent Challenges in the ICU. Patients in intensive care are often unable to provide consent, which means they may miss opportunities to receive investigational treatments. IQVIA’s Karen Maduschke explained the potential of eConsent tech – a user-friendly, multimedia solution to educate patients and capture signatures quickly. Read more…

How Tech and Compassion Can Help the Chronically Lonely. Loneliness isn’t the same as social isolation, and addressing loneliness requires more than access to people and resources. Pyx Health’s Cindy Jordan described the benefit of combining “friendly tech” with human connections to combat chronic loneliness and help patients avoid visiting the ED. Read more…

Digestive Diseases Are Digital Health’s New Frontier. The majority of Americans who experience gastrointestinal symptoms never discuss them with their doctor. That’s why Bill Snyder of Vivante Health said the time is ripe for digital health to address GI care and help patients track symptoms and get help changing their diets. Read more…

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Brian Eastwood

Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003.

When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England. When he needs a break from cardio, he's usually reading a history book.

   

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