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Weekly Roundup – November 9, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Digital Health’s Role in Enhancing Population Health. Telehealth, preventive care reminders, predictive analytics, and remote monitoring are just some of the advances driving improvements in population health, according to the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more… Insights From the Experts at HLTH 2024.

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Weekly Roundup – October 12, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Colin interviewed John Anilraj and Ryan Christensen at AGS Health about the company’s Intelligent RCM Engine, which optimizes workflows and improves efficiency while preventing claims denials and boosting cash flows. More than 80% said they would recommend a scribe to colleagues.

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Webinars

Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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Trending Sources

Bonus Features – October 20, 2024 – Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare, plus 22 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Half of the investment in AI for digital health in 2024 has been administrative , according to a report from Silicon Valley Bank. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of RCM leaders believe generative AI will substantially impact medical coding operations , according to an AKASA survey.

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Webinars

Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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Bonus Features – December 8, 2024 – AI risk top ECRI tech hazards list for 2025, Siemens and NVIDIA join forces to bring AI to imaging, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

News from RSNA 2024 Siemens Healthineers has adopted NVIDIA’s MONAI Deploy , an open-source research and development platform for AI applications used in medical imaging. Company News HHS agency Indian Health Service selected eHealth Exchange as its QHIN. Real-time location service vendor Kontakt.io

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eHealth RCM EMR Healthcare IT

Weekly Roundup – July 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2024

We posed this question to the Healthcare IT Today community back at HIMSS 2024. FHIR use cases, back-office process automation, advances in digital therapeutics, and the potential of generative AI all came up. One part of this initiative is using 30 years’ worth of data to train an internal version of ChatGPT.

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RCM Interoperability Healthcare IT FHIR

Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

At HIMSS 2024, John Lynn moderated a panel with Rackspace and Dell that highlighted the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare , especially with it comes to hosted EHR. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 10, 2024. Million in funding.

Interoperability

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Weekly Roundup – February 3, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Read more… Improve IT Compliance and Automation in a Digital Health World. Read more… What 2024 Has in Store for Women’s Health.

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RCM Healthcare IT Digital Health Interoperability

Weekly Roundup – June 15, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

John and Colin Hung discussed the most anticipated topics for the upcoming event – namely, where AI and automation are actually impacting RCM. Integrating disparate systems helps all types of clinical staff access patient records , noted Herat Joshi at Great River Health.

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Weekly Roundup – March 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

3 Key Takeaways From ViVE 2024 : Live from Los Angeles, Colin Hung shared some quick takes on the main conversations at ViVE 2024: AI maturity, Change Healthcare and the stage of cybersecurity, and the booths in the expo hall getting bigger. What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited ?

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Life Science Healthcare IT RCM FHIR

Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Studies Market intelligence vendor Panda Health released The Digital Health ROI Report. A Trilliant Health report, 2024 Trends Shaping the Health Economy , indicated behavioral health represents more than 72% of telehealth volume, while cardiology is the specialty with the greatest use of clinical AI.

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The distressed HealthTech M&A landscape in 2025

Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Many startups that ballooned during the 2020-2022 digital health boom fuelled by cheap capital and telehealth hype, are now struggling. Kaufman Halls 2024 data already showed a record 30.6% billion R1 RCM take-private, thrives on snapping up undervalued assetsdistressed HealthTech fits the bill. Subscribe Today!

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AI and Automation in Healthcare – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Sameer Bhat, Co-Founder and VP of Sales at eClinicalWorks In 2024, AI became accepted across the healthcare industry. In 2024, we saw an increase in the use of AI medical scribes. billion in 2024 to $10.9 Adopting AI is no longer a choice it is critical for healthcare providers to thrive and remain competitive.

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Weekly Roundup – October 5, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Ben Scharfe at Altera Digital Health outlined why organizations must address the challenge of integrating semi-structured data from ambient listening tools into EHR, analytics, and RCM systems. Read more… Harness Ambient Listening to Revolutionize Documentation.

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Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Compared to 2024, more healthcare financial professionals expect their margins to increase in 2025 (36%) than those who expect margins to decrease (14%), according to the latest data from Strata Decision Technology. Prior authorization technology vendor careviso announced a strategic alliance with XiFin , an RCM vendor.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR

Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

News The 2024 Best in KLAS have been named. Lindus Health launched a unified technology, site services and contract research organization services package for digital therapeutics and digital health trials. Following a 2023 merger, Virgin Pulse and HealthComp unveiled a new company brand , Personify Health.

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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

A report from KLAS Research and UPMC’s Center for Connected Medicine found only 16% of health systems have a governance policy in place for the use of AI. To support 2024 business objectives, 62% of health plans are investing in technology for digital transformation , according to a HealthEdge survey.

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HIMSS 2024 – It Is A Tough Time to Be In Healthcare Right Now as Budgets Continue to Be Tight. What Sign of Hope and Excitement Do You Have Looking Forward?

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2024

At the HIMSS 2024 Conference, we asked that question to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. Sandeep Allam, Executive Chair and President at Syra Health Well, for us it’s been an exciting time – we continuously are actually winning contracts and a lot of wins in multiple states.

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Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Medicare Telehealth Telemedicine RCM

DAS Health Expands Into Canadian Market with Recent Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2024

DAS Health Ventures, LLC (DAS Health) , a provider of healthcare IT and business solutions, proudly announces the acquisition of the North American Digital Health division from a leading established digital transformation provider based in Canada. Originally announced July 9th, 2024

RCM

RCM Medical Billing Health IT EHR

SteadyMD and Bridge Partner to Make Health Insurance Acceptance for Telehealth Consultations Effortless

SteadyMD

MAY 6, 2024

Bridge’s national insurance coverage, end-to-end RCM capabilities, and easy-to-integrate, compliant technology platform, provide a plug-and-play billing solution for telehealth companies. “SteadyMD has always been one of the premier telehealth infrastructure companies.

Telehealth

Telehealth RCM Telemedicine Digital Health

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Optum and Uber are partnering to make non-urgent medical transportation and healthy food delivery covered benefits for certain Medicare Advantage plans beginning in 2024. Highmark Health tapped Spring Health for increasing access to behavioral health.

Life Science

Life Science EHR BioTech RCM

Weekly Roundup – January 20, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

2024 Health IT Predictions : Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI. Our ongoing series of 2024 Health IT Predictions turned to some reasons to be wary of AI. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: AI Use Cases in Healthcare. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : AI’s Impact in Healthcare.

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization.

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Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Medicare

Bonus Features – August 27, 2023 – Trilliant Health Opens its National Provider Directory for the First Time Ever, 60% of Patients Trust Independent Practices over Corporate Healthcare, and More

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2023

More than one-third of the 321 participating health system executives are planning to automate two or more RCM or finance functions in 2024 a recent survey by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Eliciting Insights reports.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT Digital Health

Weekly Roundup – November 9, 2024

Weekly Roundup – October 12, 2024

Webinars

Trending Sources

Bonus Features – October 20, 2024 – Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare, plus 22 more stories

Webinars

Bonus Features – December 8, 2024 – AI risk top ECRI tech hazards list for 2025, Siemens and NVIDIA join forces to bring AI to imaging, plus 25 more stories

Weekly Roundup – July 13, 2024

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Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

The distressed HealthTech M&A landscape in 2025

AI and Automation in Healthcare – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Weekly Roundup – October 5, 2024

Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

HIMSS 2024 – It Is A Tough Time to Be In Healthcare Right Now as Budgets Continue to Be Tight. What Sign of Hope and Excitement Do You Have Looking Forward?

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

DAS Health Expands Into Canadian Market with Recent Acquisition

SteadyMD and Bridge Partner to Make Health Insurance Acceptance for Telehealth Consultations Effortless

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Weekly Roundup – January 20, 2024

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Bonus Features – August 27, 2023 – Trilliant Health Opens its National Provider Directory for the First Time Ever, 60% of Patients Trust Independent Practices over Corporate Healthcare, and More

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