Though the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated some aspects of health IT, it slowed others, including EHR replacements and back-office system upgrades. CIOs from some of the nation's leading health systems shared not only the projects they put on hold, but also how they made those decisions and the challenges they faced when trying to reignite their efforts.
The lawsuit alleges that UPMC and the chair of its cardiothoracic surgery department knowing submitted false claims for concurrent surgeries that violated regulations. But, according to UPMC, there is no regulation that prohibits overlapping surgeries or billing for them.
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.
Called Novasenta, the company is focused on the tumor microenvironment and will leverage its machine-learning platform to pinpoint targets for drug development. It aims to launch its first clinical trial by the end of 2023.
Realyze Intelligence, incubated at and funded by UPMC Enterprises, provides a platform that uses EMR data to identify chronic disease patients and help clinicians link them to appropriate treatment options. The platform leverages not only the structured data available in EMRs but also unstructured clinical notes.
There were nearly 600 healthcare data breaches in 2020, a 55% jump from 2019, a new report shows. Not only did the number of data breaches spike in the past year, but the average cost per breach increased by about 10%.
Providers are the most common targets for cyber criminals attacking the healthcare industry, and now, two major health systems have added their names to the list of recent data breach victims. The recently divulged information breaches affected 255,000 individuals.
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.
Astrata, a spinout of UPMC's innovation arm, has developed natural language processing tools that can help providers and payers adhere to quality measures. This can, in turn, help healthcare organizations bolster their finances as reimbursement is increasingly being tied to these measures.
The initiative, called Freedom House 2.0, will provide emergency medical services training to people from economically disadvantaged communities. It aims to address social determinants of health as well as help support those who have experienced job losses amid the pandemic.
In line with the persistent shift to remote medicine, we are seeing innovation happening in more distributed medical technology regions.
Six hospitals received grants from the Federal Communications Commission to expand their telehealth programs to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The first six grants are just a portion of the $200 million the FCC will distribute through the program.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The company, which is called Infectious Disease (ID) Connect, aims to virtually connect UPMC infectious disease specialists to other hospitals.
William Shrank, who is currently serving as the chief medical officer of the insurance services division at UPMC, will take over from the retiring Roy Beveridge
Rasu Shrestha, UPMC's chief innovation officer and executive vice president of UPMC Enterprises, will join Atrium Health as its chief strategy officer in February 2019.
Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, the organizations said the combined company will serve almost 100 facilities in 14 states.
The Seattle-based company's new feature will initially go live at two health systems: Providence St. Joseph Health and UPMC.