Weekly Roundup – September 17, 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.

Analytics Will Help Amazon (Eventually) Benefit From the One Medical Acquisition. Andy Oram talked to Imprivata CEO Gus Malezis about the role of patient data harmonization and AI-powered analytics in helping Amazon capitalize on its One Medical buy – and why it will take at least five years for Amazon to put it all together. Read more…

Giving Patients With Rare Diseases Support – and a Voice. At the last minute, John Lynn decided to attend the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit. He’s glad he went, not only because healthcare leaders need to near from patients and their caregivers but also because he saw vendors and speakers working together instead of competing with each other. Read more…

Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT. John interviewed MEDITECH EVP and COO Helen Waters about how MEDITECH is approaching design and product development to help new features get into customers’ hands faster. The wide-ranging chat  also covered the company’s recent leader change, the impact of COVID-19, and MEDITECH’s long-term vision for interoperability. Read more…

How AI Can Democratize Healthcare. Robin Farmanfarmaian’s latest book is called “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare.” She spoke to John about AI’s role in shifting care from the clinic to the patient, along with other ways that AI is changing the healthcare landscape and giving power to the patient. Read more…

Giving Patients Control of Reproductive Health Data. Andy interviewed two product leaders at Virtu about SecureCycle, an app they developed during a company hackathon to provide secure exchange of reproductive health data – an unfortunate gap in the vast majority of apps currently in use. Read more…

Building a Roadmap for Telehealth’s Long Haul. In the latest CIO Podcast, Linda Stevenson from Fisher-Titus Medical Center discussed how the Ohio-based health system is developing a telehealth roadmap after the initial pandemic rush and better integrating telehealth with its Oracle Cerner EHR system. Stevenson also detailed the difference between workflows in virtual and in-person visits. Read more…

Helping Rural Health Close the Cybersecurity Gap. Rural health systems are unfortunately easy targets for cyber criminals due to their typical lack of security resources. Terry Young of A10 Networks described how these organizations and the regional ISPs that serve them can make the most of their security investments. Read more…

Faster Access to Health Data With Blockchain. Briya’s Guy Tish outlined the benefits of blockchain for fast and secure data access thanks to decentralized applications that are longitudinal, linked, and live but share only anonymized data – and only when another entity asks for it. Read more…

A New Approach to Tokenization. Crypto has tokens work well for healthcare sales and marketing, but LexisNexis’ Josh Schoeller suggested that clinical research and longitudinal patient records call for more modern tokenization techniques that make it possible to create and link deidentified data sets. Read more…

Featured Health IT Job: IT Support Analyst for the Windsor, Ontario-based TransForm Shared Service Organization, posted on Healthcare IT Central.

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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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