During a recent panel, three health system executives shared some of the most important lessons they’ve learned from the digital initiatives they’ve worked on in the past couple years. Some of their nuggets of wisdom included starting with a problem instead of a solution and being sure not to use financial ROI as the only metric for success.
HHS recently published guidance outlining voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the healthcare sector. Taylor Lehmann, a cybersecurity executive at Google Cloud, noted that "what is on HHS paper will most likely become what is in the actual final rulemaking or new regulatory requirements that become law."
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
With the PTC model, providers can remain independent, continue "driving the bus," generate revenue for their practice, treat more patients virtually and scale their practice like never before.
From our experience providing identity management services to healthcare SaaS companies, here are five rules for building more secure SaaS applications. The list can serve as a guide either for healthcare organizations looking to move key operations to SaaS or to makers of SaaS applications for healthcare customers.
MedCity News is launching a new ongoing show called Debunked: Slaughtering Myths, Bad Practices and Sacred Cows in Healthcare. In this show, co-hosts Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra will discuss healthcare news and call out things that seem utterly insane to us. The goal is to inspire change in the healthcare industry.
Establishing site-neutral payments for outpatient services is a hot issue in Capitol Hill right now. Advocates say that such policy would lower healthcare costs, saving both patients and taxpayers money. Opponents say that it would put hospitals’ financial security at risk and jeopardize access to care.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Health aid from the private US healthcare community to Ukraine is stalling. To re-engage and do more we should take a bottom-up and people-centric approach to aid and focus on long term needs.
Mayo Clinic has entered into a collaboration with TruLite Health — Mayo is helping the Phoenix-based startup develop its software platform designed to address providers’ clinical bias. The health system said it chose to collaborate with TruLite because of the platform’s potential to mitigate health inequities and enhance patient outcomes at the point of care.
Adapting to healthcare consumerism is vital for providers to stay competitive. Shifting from traditional roles to informed consumers requires embracing transparency, technology, and personalized care.
Foodsmart is rolling out its new program that enables doctors to refer their patients to Foodsmart's dieticians and healthy eating platform, as well as write prescriptions for healthy food just as easily as they might a normal pharmacy prescription. The initiative is being rolled out at Advocate Health, Intermountain Health and Memorial Hermann Health System.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
To succeed in ACO Reach, groups need to accurately identify the social determinants of health (SDoH) barriers affecting their patient population and determine which barriers could be addressed effectively. Some technology can accurately note specific SDoH risk factors facing a given patient and offer targeted intervention recommendations based on that patient’s unique SDoH risk factors.
When it comes to AI, the consensus is that healthcare organizations have an opportunity right now to take an enterprise-wide approach that encompasses everything from workforce to infrastructure to governance and beyond. Here are these ten essential elements of an enterprise-wide AI strategy for healthcare organizations.
Health system VC arms appear to have a lot more to offer to startups than traditional VC funds. Startup founders say that the tech pilots they launch with their health system partners end up being more effective because they are more incentive-aligned. For health systems, investing in a startup allows them to have a hand in shaping the tools they will eventually deploy across their enterprises to solve issues like burnout, payment delays and excessive hospital readmissions.
Virtual reality reduces the cost of training while also improving learning efficiency and knowledge retention. It’s not just universities and medical students that are embracing VR technology for learning. I travel all over the world to work with healthcare teams implementing VR and have observed, that a growing number of hospitals are using it for continuing education.
Turquoise Health closed a $30 million Series B round, which brings its total funding to date to $55 million. The San Diego-based startup, which has more than 160 customers, sells a platform that makes it easier for hospitals and payers to comply with price transparency regulations.