Weekly Roundup – September 7, 2024
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.
How the Mayo Clinic Platform Integrates Healthcare AI Innovation. John Lynn sat down with Jeff Wu at Mayo Clinic Platform to discuss their efforts to alleviate the burdens of deploying AI technology, making it more like an app store experience and less like enterprise technology procurement. Read more…
Interesting Stats and Comments from Judy Faulkner at Epic UGM. Following up on last week’s roundup of announcements from Epic UGM 2024, John compiled additional commentary. Of note: 190 million patients use MyChart, Cosmos has 270 million unique patients, and Epic has done 72 billion API transactions in the last year. Read more…
Should Government Play a Bigger Role in Healthcare Cybersecurity? Colin Hung posed this question to Ty Greenhalgh at Medigate by Claroty; he noted the need for HHS to balance accountability, compliance, and flexibility in helping organizations align security best practices with their business objectives. Read more…
The Challenges and Barriers in Standardized Data Exchange. Areas of concerns raised in this latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community included the financial cost of losing patients who take their records elsewhere, the lack of a unique patient identifier, and limited use cases for non-traditional clinical providers. Read more…
Healthcare IT Today Podcast: The Death of Retail Health. John and Colin debated if the failure of Walmart and Dollar General clinics were predictable – and if Amazon, CVS, and Walgreens can expect the same fate. Read more…
The Consequences of Generic Healthcare Messaging in America. SriVani Ganti at mPulse unpacked why the lack of cultural consideration in American healthcare messaging is harmful and described how to address it by prioritizing empathy and inclusivity. Read more…
Safeguarding Healthcare Data and Systems in the Digital Age. Pukar Hamal at SecurityPal outlined 3 steps for strengthening cybersecurity and data protection in clinical systems. Key to the process is assessing weaknesses and their potential to cost you. Read more…
How Quick Patient Registration Drives Satisfaction and Retention. Scott Heatherly at Amenities Health discussed the importance of bringing customer-centric design to the patient registration process as a way to boost efficiency, accessibility, and convenience while reducing complexity. Read more…
This Week’s Health IT Jobs for September 4, 2024: Roles with a wide range of academic medical centers. Read more…
Bonus Features for September 1, 2024: 2 in 3 patients would schedule an appointment for a sensitive issue with a chatbot over a human, while patients with cancer more than twice as likely as other patients to access medical records online. Read more…
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