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HIMSSCast is a podcast produced by the HIMSS Media editorial team behind Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews, and Healthcare Finance News. In each episode, host Kat Jercich is joined by editors from one or more of the brands and/or special guests from around the health tech industry to discuss major news stories or trends in the space. The aim of the show is to add depth, analysis, and color to our ongoing coverage of the digital health, health tech, and healthcare finance realms, as well as to facilitate lively conversations about hot health tech topics. HIMSSCast is a member of the Health Podcast Network (www.healthpodcastnetwork.com).
As healthcare organizations increasingly embrace AI, including AI agents, “shadow AI,” or the use of unauthorized tools by clinicians and staff, poses a rising threat to cybersecurity and compliance. Join Jaimin Patel, identity strategist at SailPoint, as he discusses how an identity security approach can help organizations identify unmanaged AI agents and other risks, assign agent ownership, and protect data by enforcing access policies.
CIO Dr. Lee Ho-Young discusses sustainable AI investment, change management, and preparations for emerging risks
uPerform discusses role-based training, in-application guidance and just-in-time learning to assist healthcare organizations in improving adoption of EHRs and other enterprise software
Most health systems aren't asking whether to modernize patient monitoring; they're asking whether the upgrade in front of them is worth it. In this episode, two Intel Healthcare and Life Sciences engineers make the case that the real decision isn't about simply adding AI to a monitor; it's about whether your monitoring infrastructure is built for an AI-native, distributed care model — or whether it's locking you into a siloed architecture that limits your options as care delivery evolves.
How an AI platform helped a 94-year-old healthcare practice lower no-show rates and reduce cost.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations accelerated investments in EHRs, interoperability, and digital health infrastructure. These investments laid the foundation for a more connected healthcare ecosystem where data flows freely, patients can access care more easily with virtual visits, and remote patient monitoring enables earlier intervention and better care management. Join HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf as he discusses how the future of healthcare is expanding beyond the classic brick and mortar model.
The minister of health shares what challenges the Isle of Man's health system faces and the innovations being adopted to enhance the sector.
Agentic AI represents the shift from point solutions to interconnection across the front-, middle- and back-end of the revenue cycle.
Vivek Rajagopal of Narayana Health explains why most AI projects stall – and what it really takes to make them work in clinical workflows.
Financial pressure is no longer cyclical as the majority of healthcare organizations report consistently low margins
Using full-body composition scans that measure fat, muscle and bone density to support health longevity efforts.
As health plans expand their use of artificial intelligence for utilization review, hospitals and health systems are adopting AI tools of their own – for documentation, coding automation, denial prediction and more – in an effort to level the playing field. But in an era of aspiration toward value-based reimbursement and of consumer-focused price transparency efforts, could this arms race be cooled for the good of all? Instead of a battle with leading-edge technologies on both sides, can payers and providers find common ground and instead use AI for the greater good – even, just maybe, for their patients and plan members? We speak with Michelle Mello, professor of health policy at Stanford School of Medicine, about those questions and others.
The Bureau is asking health systems to share threat intelligence and indicators of compromise to help prevent attacks. But doing so the wrong way could run afoul of HIPAA or state privacy laws.
This upbeat roundtable discussion centers on issues central to working in health IT and where technology is taking healthcare delivery.
The borders between countries aren’t the only ones that healthcare data needs to travel across. The same principles behind the European Health Data Space can be applied to supporting people’s physical and mental health in their everyday lives: at school, at work, in community spaces, and in sports clubs. In Episode 5, the final part of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson ask important questions about how data and AI-powered tools can help European citizens actively engage in their health and wellness journeys.
The AI boom is redefining the traditional technology role to one of organizational strategist and leader, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO and chief AI officer at UCI Health.
Regulatory frameworks create a solid foundation, but cross-border healthcare can’t succeed without trust. Patients need to trust that their data is being used responsibly, that their provider is properly qualified, and that any AI tools used are free from bias and error. Join HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson in Episode 4 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders” to learn more about the four layers of trust — patients, providers, systems and AI algorithms — and how each can be addressed to ensure confidence in cross-border care experiences.
Wisp's CEO discusses how the women's digital health company has grown significantly and is profitable with only a small amount of investor capital.
The European Health Data Space aims to enable health data to move seamlessly and securely across Europe. However, the processes required to achieve this are complex, involving cultural, linguistic, diagnostic, regulatory, and coding elements. HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson explore what it will take to achieve true pan-European interoperability that goes beyond the floor of legal requirements, in Episode 3 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders.”
AI is a force multiplier, not a magic wand; health systems can’t turn AI tools into measurable ROI if their data remains siloed. Success with AI depends less on creating content and data and more on distilling that information into insights that produce better decisions. In this podcast, Health Catalyst’s Robbie Hughes discusses how leaders can move beyond individual building block tools towards integrated solutions that combine generative AI with statistical models.
This discussion with Tim Lawless, global health lead at Publicis Sapient, explores the benefits AI brings to patient access and addresses the potential fallout as provider usage in care delivery increases.
Cross-border healthcare raises distinct regulatory challenges. Among them are: aligning reimbursement and eligibility rules, verifying professional credentials, managing liability, and ensuring continuity of care. In Episode 2 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson talk about Europe’s 30-year journey to enabling cross-border care and how the European Health Data Space aims to align EU member states around a single European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format.
Formal cross-border care in Europe accounts for less than 1% of health spending, but that number doesn’t tell the whole story. For some 150 million European patients living near internal borders, the nearest care, the shortest wait, or the best specialist for their situation, may be in another country. Join HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson for Episode 1 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders” as they discuss how AI and virtual care are accelerating healthcare’s shift from a location-bound to a borderless activity.
Beyond issues relating to HIPAA, many questions about rules around consent, storage and archiving and many state and federal laws need to be considered, says Jennifer Geetter, partner at McDermott Will & Schulte.
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Healthcare transformation increasingly depends on solving deployment challenges, not just inventing new technology. The Mayo Clinic-ASU Health Care Accelerator offers clinical validation, expert mentorship and commercialization support to help startups translate innovations into clinical realities. In this podcast, Dr. Steven J. Lester, founder and CMO of the Health Care Accelerator, and Alex Flores, General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Vertical at Intel, discuss how the Accelerator can position startups to succeed in a complex healthcare ecosystem.
Healthcare’s long-standing silos — finance, clinical, and consumer — present a barrier to progress. Discover how partnering with the right vendor can help health systems break down these silos, turn their vast data reserves into actionable insights, and leverage AI to maintain care access and quality while creating sustainable revenue streams in a fiercely competitive market.
Medicaid may be the most underappreciated health IT innovation platform in the country, says Dr. Christopher R. Cogle, director, Florida health policy leadership academy, at the University of Florida. Here's what providers can learn.
Behavioral health technology and analytics company discusses mental healthcare access and the need for caution when using ChatGPT for care
The world's seventh largest healthcare company based on revenue shares how it validates AI models as safe for approvals and denials.
AI is continuously being used within healthcare with the aim of easing workforce burnout, but providers must be cautious on which AI to implement
Self-pay is an issue even for patients with insurance, says Seth Cohen, president of Cedar.
The Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, a national coalition, is working to guide responsible AI use. Reengineering workflows with AI should be led by nurses who use them, says Jing Wang, dean of FSU College of Nursing.
In today’s healthcare system, even patients with good insurance and strong support systems struggle to schedule appointments and get treatment approvals, while health systems face staffing shortages and operational drag. Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack and Alex Flores, General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Vertical at Intel, talk about how scalable, trustworthy AI can reduce friction for patients, relieve clinicians’ burden, and improve care outcomes.
Ashkan Afkhami of Boston Consulting Group discusses how AI agents and tech will transform healthcare, including how agentic AI will reshape the sector's workforce.
The independent health system's new technology can help physicians get better views of diagnostic images while saving time on the scanning end. The CIO explains these and other benefits.
Data integration was an integral part of the first CTO of the U.S.'s work under President Obama, and as AI has evolved, so have the changing administrations' priorities.
Providers can integrate medication adherence and positive behavior change strategies into patient care plans, says Dr. Amy Bucher, chief behavioral scientist at Lirio.
Low reimbursement, high utilization, star ratings and risk adjustment have formed a perfect storm.
Ambulatory leaders may believe care access problems are solved because their utilization metrics are high. However, these numbers may be hiding demand mismatches at the patient, provider, and clinic level. Discover how examining patient mix, no-shows, and late cancellations can help boost access to care and stop revenue leakage.
Technology is helping them from falling below the new 90% submission threshold, says Sandy Griffiths, senior product manager for Homecare Homebase.
In this view from the frontline, Tom Gillette, CIO, and Erich Glasbrenner, VP and chief nursing informatics officer, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, discuss how patient access and experiences will continue to transform in the year ahead.
"It's a positive moment," says Kyle Zebley, CEO of ATA and executive director of ATA Action, in a conversation about policy and healthcare advances. The organization plans to focus on its role as a catalyst for change at the state and federal levels.
Moving more than 19,000 patient cardiac devices across 15 locations to a cloud-based management platform was a big lift that improved clinical administration and patient care, says Amy Tucker of Advocate Health's Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute.
UnityAI discusses use cases for AI agents in healthcare and the challenges the company has faced training the AI models.
Using health data to rapidly identify clinical trial participants wherever they are broadens the reach of leading-edge oncology care and frees up nurses' time for patient care, says Dr. Aaron Gerds at the Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Institute.
We speak with Doug Meil, software engineer, analytics expert and author of the recent book, The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired.
Communication breakdowns such as missed calls, long hold times and voicemail tag cause frustration for patients and revenue and productivity loss for practices. Learn how AI and automation can ensure that every patient’s phone call is answered, simplify appointment scheduling and keep clinicians focused on care rather than on administrative tasks.
OpenAI's Sam Altman says individuals should use GPT-5 to help them with their healthcare journey. Dr. Doug Fridsma, former ONC chief science officer and current CMIO at Health Universe, says there are things to consider when using the tech.
Healthcare leaders can’t afford to build their incident response plans in the middle of a crisis. Discover how disciplined, ongoing practice leveraging tabletop drills and vendor partnerships can help build true cyber confidence and a culture of security.
As healthcare organizations race to adopt AI, many overlook the groundwork needed to scale solutions across departments and sites. This podcast offers insights from Hyland’s Lyle McMillin into how CIOs can assess and improve their organizations’ AI readiness.
Nursing leaders have access to more data than ever, but the challenge lies in using it meaningfully. Join us for this second episode of “Data Literacy for Nurse Leaders,” where Dr. Michelle Hamland and Meagan Mangus from the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee discuss how nurse leaders can turn data into action with the HIMSS Data Literacy for Nurse Leaders Toolkit.
As many healthcare organizations seek to optimize revenue cycle management, Ensemble offers a reasoning-driven agentic AI approach that can speed up appeals, reduce denials and recover lost revenue. Learn how Ensemble connects clinical data, financial data and human insight to solve revenue cycle problems in real time.
The St. Louis community health center extended the reach of multilanguage accessibility to its six FQHCs with large refugee and immigrant populations. Two Affinia execs discuss results of a generative AI pilot designed to enhance translation services.
In today’s data-rich but siloed healthcare environment, true AI transformation demands structure, not just algorithms. By building strong governance foundations, pharma and life sciences leaders can turn fragmented data into federated ecosystems that support innovation. Learn how safe, compliant AI implementation can transform research, development and patient outcomes.
Kim Dalla Torre, the new global health leader at EY, offers fresh perspectives on critical health IT subjects including AI, tech modernization, telehealth, closing health disparities and cybersecurity.
The future of AI in healthcare isn’t just about speed or automation; it’s about trust. Discover how Nabla deploys models that are reviewed by medical professionals to ensure that the AI doesn’t fabricate or misinterpret clinical facts, as well as how it is helping define standards for transparent, trustworthy clinical AI.
For the third episode of this series, Virtua Health CIO and its president of advanced care operations describe how lessons learned from hospital-at-home are now influencing process and strategy at its brick-and-mortar hospitals, such as throughput and capacity innovations with its Enterprise Care Logistics Center.
Responsible AI adoption is as much about governance and evaluation as technology. Lightweight, context-specific frameworks make it possible for even resource-limited health systems to implement AI safely. Discover how generative AI, paired with real-world evidence, can help fill gaps in traditional research, increase health equity and help clinicians make more informed decisions.
Connected, actionable data is the backbone of intelligent automation, and successful AI adoption hinges on strong workflows, accurate data pipelines and early wins that build user trust. Learn how aligning interoperability requirements with enterprise strategy can help healthcare organizations drive efficiency and gain a competitive edge.
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, Franklin Vibar, CIO of Asian Hospital and Medical Center in the Philippines, talks about how the hospital guided physicians and staff through the implementation of an EMR system and achieved 95% adoption.
In the second of this three-part series we explore how Virtua Health's successful hospital-at-home program gained traction and scaled up in the post-pandemic years. The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced care operations to offer their perspective.
Documentation burden takes clinicians’ time away from patients, and fragmented point solutions can complicate workflows and lead to errors in billing. Discover how end-to-end AI-driven solutions can streamline workflows, reduce denials and improve patient experience across the healthcare ecosystem.
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, experts from three Indonesian hospitals discuss the complexities of digital migration, including securing clinician buy-in, integrating systems and connecting to SATUSEHAT.
The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced care operations for the first in a three-part series on its successful hospital-at-home program. In this episode, they describe how what started by necessity during the pandemic quickly grew into something more substantial.
Recorded live in Chicago in collaboration with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast, join our hosts – alongside some special guests – for a wide-ranging discussion about targeting AI investments and aligning for strategic success.
Once spending more than 60% of their time on administrative tasks, nurse managers using scheduling and staffing technologies are positioned to support their teams, says Jessica Potts, SSM's senior director of workforce strategy and operations.
These may include stricter eligibility criteria, increased reporting requirements and potential reductions in reimbursement.
Seamless digital onboarding, longitudinal record sharing and AI-assisted care navigation is voluntary, but not optional., according to Bob Watson, CEO of Health Gorilla.
From phishing to prompt injecting to PHI leaks via consumer AI models, AI tools are reshaping healthcare cyber risks. Learn how frameworks like OWASP can help CISOs and IT teams bolster their defenses to protect organizations’ AI, data and cloud assets.
Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias, explains why healthcare orgs should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce and stay on top of compliance and ethics.
Healthcare is losing some $250 billion a year to billing inefficiencies. Smarter Technologies President Michael Gao, MD, explains how blending advanced AI with human expertise can turn revenue cycle from a liability into a strategic asset.
Michael Orlando, corporate and IP transactions attorney at Sheppard Mullin and a member of the firm's digital health team, offers a deep dive into where he sees these technologies headed – and challenges healthcare organizations must overcome.
An AI tech CEO walks through a comprehensive look at the problems doctors and nurses identify as most stressing and the ways artificial intelligence is helping the caregivers tackle the challenges.
In light of federal Medicaid cuts, states need greater efficiency to stretch every Medicaid dollar.
Payers have committed to streamlining the prior authorization process, but will this make a difference in the revenue cycle?
The forum, scheduled for Sept. 18-19 in Chicago, will focus on AI strategy for the healthcare C-suite. For the first time, HIMSSCast will be simulcasting from the event, with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast. Host Christopher Kunney joins us for a preview.
In the second episode of our conversations with APAC health IT leaders on their EMR experience, we dive into the complexities of the technology's implementation down under. Our guests share insights on navigating challenges like interoperability, third-party integrations and data exchange journeys. They also discuss the impact of statewide consultations and regional alliance groups on feature implementation and provide their perspectives on the evolution of My Health Record.
Chief Ambulatory Executive Blake Windham shows how urgent care visit time has been driven down, patient experience has been improved and overall expense-per-visit is down thanks in part to artificial intelligence.
The application, developed at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, can search EHRs and uncover data to identify kids who may have undiagnosed or rare conditions – and then refer them for genetic testing, helping them and their families find answers and get necessary care sooner.
From Brooklyn, HIMSS leaders discuss the excitement and challenges facing artificial intelligence as its healthcare applications evolve at a rapid clip.
When patients complete Cedars-Sinai's artificial intelligence-assisted virtual urgent care clinic intake questions via structured chat, the AI provides clinicians with diagnoses and treatment plan recommendations.
Ernst & Young Health AI and Data Leader Sezin Palmer explains how healthcare organizations should be strategic and selective, use what they have first, build with value and scale in mind, retool available talent, and partner effectively.
Kicking off a six-part series on EMR implementation in APAC, this first episode features guests from two Malaysian hospitals sharing lessons and successes from their organizations’ decades-long digital transformation journeys.
Josh Clark, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's VP of quality and safety operating systems, targets the problem care operating systems aim to solve and explains how they also help improve workforce engagement and satisfaction.
Dr. Tina Scott, North Carolina Central University's director of experiential learning for nursing, explains how a flexible virtual reality platform leveraging artificial intelligence improves nursing students' confidence, case prioritization skills and more.
Dr. Ronald Rodriguez of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio discusses why AI is so important to medical education today and how he foresees his groundbreaking dual degree program influencing the industry.
Nurses may underestimate the importance of the data they collect every day, from vital signs to treatment responses; however, this information goes beyond supporting immediate care to impacting workflows and protocols throughout the hospital. Learn how nurses can better understand data and use it to improve patient care and drive innovation in this podcast.
FTC, DOJ now requiring more information about mergers and acquisitions before they occur
Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at healthcare consulting firm CereCore, dives into artificial intelligence boosts, virtual CISOs' expertise and device management tactics.
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance makes new models of coordinated care attractive
With a big restructuring at HHS, a new executive order on AI and plenty of other changes in policy and regulation, a healthcare attorney offers some perspective for health IT developers trying to chart a strategic course for the years ahead.
How a personal experience with the healthcare system created a new focus on technology and integration in pediatric care.
James McHugh, managing director of research and consulting firm BRG, discusses his firm's new research that shows providers considering deal activity to address challenges and opportunities with AI, cybersecurity and digitization.
Dr. Vinay Vaidya, Phoenix Children's Hospital's CMIO and Dr. Wendy Bernatavicius, division chief, explain how collaboration improved patient care by surfacing EHR data in dashboards that clinicians helped build.
Accenture's Global Health Technology Lead Andy Truscott discusses integrating data and AI to improve decision making and patient experiences, training staff to lead AI adoption, creating trustworthy AI, and much more.
A recent WSJ journal op-ed made the case that not all businesses need to be embracing AI – in fact, some shouldn't. Does the same hold true for healthcare? A look at the pros and cons of artificial intelligence adoption from a biz school academic's perspective.
Upfront Healthcare worked with Hartford Healthcare to hyper-personalize digital outreach, closing gaps in care.
Kyle Zebley, head of ATA Action, and Andy Molnar, head of digital health at ATA Action, dig into four of their top concerns after ATA Action recently acquired the former Digital Therapeutics Alliance.
Tom Kiesau, chief innovation officer and leader, digital and technology transformation, at healthcare consulting firm Chartis, shows how AI will address the nation's rapidly aging population amidst ever-increasing financial pressures.
Chris Whelchel, CEO of HealthTok, discusses overcoming challenges healthcare organizations face in adopting new technologies and how emerging technologies like AI are transforming healthcare.
In the third episode of our three-part series, UNC analytics director Greg Kuhnen is joined by his colleague Ram Rimal for a discussion about artificial intelligence must-haves.
Once you've got a handle on your data – where it is, who needs it and how it can be accessed – it's time to put it all to work. Greg Kuhnen, system director for analytical solutions at UNC Health Care, offers some insights.
Greg Kuhnen, system director for analytical solutions at UNC Health Care, offers an up-close look at the health system's years of hard work to make the most of its data – and explains how HIMSS Analytics maturity models have helped.
Casey Bennett, chair of the health informatics program at Chicago's DePaul University, runs a lab creating technology to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets.
AI has been a major factor in cybersecurity strategies in 2024, and that will continue into 2025. However, cybercriminals are also continuing to pursue traditional phishing and social engineering methods to exploit vulnerable users. Jon Clay, Trend Micro’s VP of Threat Intelligence, offers insights into how organizations can strengthen their defenses and protect their data in the coming year.
Stephen Ferrara, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and associate dean for AI at Columbia University School of Nursing, offers a deep dive into the tech and its role with NPs. He also presents an AI/wearables use case.
2024 shone a spotlight on healthcare RCM’s need for strong cybersecurity and resilience strategies. FinThrive CISO Greg Surla recommends best practices for guarding your vital systems and data against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
Industry transparency and testing by artificial intelligence assurance labs could provide opportunities to develop tools and technologies that address healthcare inequities, says Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health.
PwC U.S. Health Services Advisory Leader Thom Bales goes into top healthcare challenges, advancements in care delivery, digital health lowering costs, and how health systems should consider addressing diverse patients via digital health.
A change in administration and health policy shifts will be worth watching over the next 12 months, and so will an array of new developments for AI, cybersecurity, virtual care, devices and digital therapeutics, reimbursement and more.
How technology, especially generative AI, can help healthcare organizations with the ongoing clinician shortage, and examples of successful use of digital tools to free up clinician time and improve access, experience and outcomes.
"We're at this place where we're still in the early days of what this technology looks like," says Oriana Beaudet, the American Nurses Association's VP of nursing innovation. ANA is watching the space closely.
ERP connects to the EHR to tie financial records and patient information and create efficiencies in staffing and inventory control.
Cybersecurity expert Scott Alldridge of the IT Process Institute/IP Services discusses zero trust and micro-segmentation in healthcare, leadership's role in a security culture, and much more.
Trust takes center stage in a conversation about data on how people feel about doctors and AI with Mark Polyak, president of analytics at IPSOS, and Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Peak Gastroenterology Associates
A physician VC exec talks about this kind of clinician involvement, as well as explores hybrid care models in telemedicine, the next 12 months in healthcare AI, and much more.
Managing and acting on social determinants of health data can be a difficult task for providers with limited resources, but digital tools are helping them address health equity, says Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia.
UpScriptHealth partners with pharma and med tech companies to help patients access treatment through telemedicine, says Peter Ax, CEO and cofounder.
Dr. Chris Harle, professor at Indiana University and researcher at Regenstrief Institute, draws from deep informatics experience to discuss the future of EHR optimization and UX, AI-enabled CDS, provider experience, patient safety and more.
Payers can use AI as an assistant, not as a replacement, to reviewing claims and prior authorizations.
Private equity firms have a short-term investment horizon while healthcare requires a long-term commitment.
Two PwC experts share insights on the ethics that healthcare organizations should consider when building out responsible AI and equitable healthcare experiences.
Collaboration between Sutter Health and PointClickCare allows ER physicians to know how many ER visits the patient previously made, not only at that hospital but in the region.
Brian Pieninck, president and CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of the Mid-Atlantic, shares insights on how integrating technologies, including artificial intelligence, can help address social drivers in healthcare.
Errol Weiss, chief security officer of Health-ISAC, discusses current and emerging threats – and explains why, in a continually challenging and increasingly fraught cybersecurity landscape, the value of threat intelligence and information sharing has never been higher.
The DoH has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AstraZeneca to establish a Rare Diseases Centre of Excellence.
Shahab Vagefi, managing director in Thomas H. Lee Partners' healthcare vertical, offers highlights of the technologies and trends on the stock market.
Heidi Raines, founder and CEO of Performance Health Partners and author of Shared Voices: A Framework for Patient and Employee Safety in Healthcare, discusses quality improvement, incident reporting and other strategies to maintain a healthy workforce and build a culture of safety.
Dr. Michael Dulin, one of the nation's leading authorities on pop health, discusses how artificial intelligence can, among many other things, curate complex data, evaluate risk and predict changes.
By never losing sight of patient care, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and other technologies can help to transition healthcare from a reactive, fee-for-service model to a value-based, proactive one, says one tech strategist.
What should the healthcare industry be doing to push back on public health misinformation and disinformation – especially as genAI and deepfakes make the problem more challenging?
A hospital’s financial success depends on the crucial period between patient registration and claims submission
Using the FHIR standard can help organizations like the VA connect rapidly to drug data, paving the way for real-time surveillance that is improving patient safety and identifying adverse events tied to medication.
Brent T. Hoard, a partner at Troutman Pepper and artificial intelligence expert, advises smaller hospitals and health systems on where to begin - most likely with a vendor.
Rising demand and shrinking budgets, including CMS’ 2.89% slash last year, challenge the homecare industry.
EO marks the first significant step to ensure critical protocols are in place to protect safety and privacy in the new world of AI.
Joncé Smith, senior executive strategic advisory consultant at Stoltenberg Consulting, talks assessing the current state of EHRs, new version upgrade best practices, enhancing EHR functionality, and the best way to train staff on optimal EHR utilization.
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform president, and Arcadia president and CEO Michael Meucci, discuss how healthcare organizations and policymakers must collaborate to ensure that AI is used ethically and equitably in care delivery.
The future of acute hospital care at home amid questions of the end of the CMS waiver this year.
Regenstrief Institute research scientist Brian Dixon discusses how the intersection of patient engagement, social determinants of health, AI-enabled clinical decision support and more can help providers with their population health management.
James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, discusses the firm's new study, which reveals great optimism among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.
Luis M. Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, and Jake Hochberg, VP of analytics and chief analytics officer at Arcadia, discuss how smaller organizations can prepare to leverage AI tools.
Heightened regulatory scrutiny, growing access to systems, poorly controlled cloud environments and significant deals activity will force healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders to bolster the defenses.
Risk-based contracts allow providers to think about the whole person, rather than focusing on billing for services, says Jaja Okigwe, CEO of First Choice Health.
Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of digital health advisory - North America at HIMSS, and Mary Kuchenbrod, vice president of data operations at Arcadia, discuss strategies for gaining the best possible insights from a data ecosystem.
Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Technology Institute, offers healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders advice on how best to protect their organizations from the vulnerabilities that lie within web apps.
The health system uses technology to ensure nursing residents can integrate research into their jobs.
Powerful new technologies can produce insights from previously siloed data but need the support of a strong IT infrastructure. Albert Duntugan, UCLA Health’s chief data officer, and Nick Stepro, Arcadia’s chief product and technology officer, discuss how healthcare organizations can build an infrastructure strategy.
Chrissy Daniels, chief experience officer at Press Ganey, says this year the patient experience must prioritize accessibility and equity in care. She shows how hospitals and health systems can accomplish this and much more.
Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at consulting firm CereCore and a former provider CIO, discusses when its time to optimize an EHR, the best place to start, who should be involved, and much more.
Implementing analytics and AI solutions aims to drive efficiency but can create disruptions for staff. Albert Marinez, Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Analytics Officer, and Michael Meucci, Arcadia’s President and CEO, discuss the concept of leading with empathy to encourage trust and adoption of new tools.
Prior authorization, complex claims, automated payments are now being tackled, says Venkat Kavarthapu, CEO of Edifecs.
Insurance has a long enrollment process that goes against the modern technology experience in all other areas of our lives, says National Practice Leader Gay Davis of Noyo.
In a short time online, organizations can capture more patient concerns, reduce more open cases and improve staff experiences, says Alpa Vyas of Stanford Health Care and Dr. Adrienne Boissy of Qualtrics and The Cleveland Clinic.
RevSpring coordinates patient interactions from pre-care to post-care to payment for rural organizations with limited resources, says Kristen Jacobsen, VP of omnichannel engagement and marketing.
"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.
Its integrated care helped earn two of its plans earn 5 stars in the most recent MA star ratings.
The lifespan for Americans has decreased from age 78 to 76 in the past year-and-a-half, says Andy Davis, principal for Deloitte Consulting’s Health Care practice.
Leaders at provider organizations must consider a distributed landscape for healthcare and health IT and various new technologies, says William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm.
Dylan George, director of the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, explains how the new public-private collaboration InsightNet is using advanced analytics and biosurveillance to respond to disease outbreaks and prevent future pandemics.
Kalderos focuses on drug programs to make sure they’re in compliance with the laws that created them or the contracts signed to negotiate those discounts, says President Micah Litow.
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The ability to give clinicians and care teams the right tools - integrated into their workflows and evidence-based - has a direct correlation not just with improved quality and outcomes, but better patient experience. These care tools can result in large amounts of data although much of it is retrospective. To truly optimize clinical decision-making, healthcare organizations need insights across a patient population. By leveraging these aggregated real-time insights during the patient care journey, providers can make more informed decisions that lead to better patient outcomes.
In this podcast, we'll speak with clinical informatics leaders and patient engagement experts about how data analytics and technology can be used to enhance clinical decision-making, optimize care delivery, and improve patient experience across the healthcare organization. We will discuss the next steps in CDS analytics and how to ensure that the medical information delivered through these technologies is accurate and reliable.
Explaining the bill, offering payment flexibility and finding financial assistance is critical, says Seth Cohen, president of Cedar.
DeLorean AI’s CEO & Founder, Severence MacLaughlin speaks about how AI can offer real-time support for improved patient health, enhanced value-based care, and decreased care costs and the challenges of AI adoption and overcoming barriers.
Rich Amelio, vice president of healthcare IT operations and consulting at consulting firm e4health, talks what’s needed during big EHR and other system changes to protect cashflow, improve data integrity in new systems, and drive better system adoption and satisfaction.
The Emergency Department is perhaps the singular environment in a hospital where the greatest concentration of decisions are made with the least amount of clinical data; and the acuity-level assigned at triage can massively impact the trajectory of care for a
patient. Additionally, Emergency Departments in the United States have experienced
unprecedented levels of crowding over the last two decades, with correlation to worsened patient outcomes, preventable errors, and staff burnout.
In 2017, the ED at Johns Hopkins deployed a CDS tool that leverages AI to generate
risk-driven triage acuity recommendations, instead of relying on resource-based ESI. The tool has provided more reliable detection of patients with critical illness and reduced the time patients wait for care. They’ve also seen marked decrease in those assigned to the mid-acuity level 3, and instead more utilization of the low-acuity levels 4 and 5, which lends to better fast-track throughput for those patients who are to be discharged.
Jeremiah Hinson, MD PhD, will speak of his experience developing and utilizing the tool
with his team at Johns Hopkins.
Pharma & Healthtech partnerships have great potential. But delivering on these
partnerships brings hurdles and challenges. From misaligned expectations to differences in culture and communication, it can be hard for the two worlds to find effective collaboration. Hear from Ameya Phadke, PhD. Patients Non-Pharma Solutions Leader at Chiesi Pharmaceuticals and Dennis Hermann, Head of Europe at Kaia Health discuss their partnership, as well as Dan Weinstein, Associate Principal at ZS Associates describe broader trends.
The mandate could have a detrimental effect on providers who can’t meet staffing levels, says Lee Hudson Teslik, founder and CEO of Reverence.
Clinical decision support is needed to handle the avalanche of data and to advance value-based care, says Yaw Fellin, VP of Products and Solutions for Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Effectiveness team.
Prophecy International is an Australian based, publicly traded corporation that
started in the early ‘80’s. For over 40 years, Prophecy’s ever-evolving focus
continues to bring reliable, secure, and trustworthy software solutions to
markets across the globe. In the early 2000’s, Prophecy acquired its flagship
cyber security product, Snare, which was designed for the Australian military and defense. Snare’s suite of solutions continues to be a market leading
centralized log management solution which is adopted by large enterprise
organizations, military & defense, and government agencies through the world.
Moving forward on value-based care requires the collective weight of employers in these models, says APG President and CEO Susan Dentzer.
While whole person care depends upon secure portability, there are three pathways to consider, according to Dr. Ben Zaniello, chief medical officer of PointClickCare.
Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain of MorganFranklin Consulting discuss the existing and evolving threat landscape – and give some tips on robust business continuity approaches.
The fastest growing part of healthcare expense is the current 20% of the bill that commercial patients owe, says PayMedix CEO Tom Policelli.
States are taking widely different approaches to the redetermination process, says John Barkett, managing director at Berkeley Research Group and a former White House Senior Policy Advisor.
Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer of 1Uphealth and former ONC chief, gives updates on TEFCA, FHIR, where the industry is at in terms of support, and what the main questions/comments/concerns from stakeholders are
Automation and AI represent time savings that take work out of the system, says Laudio CEO and cofounder Russ Richmond.
Ryan Sousa, chief data and analytics officer at Children's Minnesota, spells out what that data problem means for the future of health IT, and talks about AI and the right to health.
Amish Patel, CTO of Elevance Health, and Niranjan Ramsunder, CTO of UST, discuss how to build tech foundations for whole-health experience in a fast-evolving health tech landscape.
The number of connected devices in the healthcare industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. While designed to connect to the network, these devices were not developed with security in mind, leaving a large attack surface that requires constant monitoring, patching, and remediation. Bad actors pursue the lowest barrier to entry in efforts to accomplish theft, extortion, and service disruption.
John Vecchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phosphorus Cybersecurity, joins the HIMSScast to discuss the challenges in securing xIoT devices, like Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the personal nature of healthcare data, and the steps organizations can take to disappoint bad actors.
Dr. Melek Somai, CTO at Inception Health, a subsidiary of Froedtert Health, discusses incorporating cloud-native architecture, agile methodologies, product-driven development and DevOps.
Venky Anant, a partner at research and consulting firm McKinsey Digital, walks through how the technology can and is being used, and how health IT leaders need to respond.
Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic, discusses the company's data exchange efforts and describes its plans to help advance patient care across its 2,000 hospitals and 600,000 physician users.
Dr. Oscar Alleyne, managing director of the public health division inside the health federally funded research and development center operated by MITRE, talks technology, equity, workforce and policy.
More than 50% of medical devices have known vulnerabilities that are published and available to cybercriminals, says Mark Bowling, chief risk, security, and information security officer at ExtraHop.
Eddie Ades, executive advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton and former associate director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offers his perspective on data modernization imperatives.
Craig Behm, CEO of CRISP and CRISP Shared Services, explains how health information exchanges, regional health networks and other organizations building out the data sharing ecosystem. And he explains how hospitals and health systems should be partnering with those groups to broaden interoperability and advance the movement of key clinical and public health data.
Premier’s holistic balance dashboard brings together elements of hospital operations to reveal gaps, says President and CEO Mike Alkire.
A reduction in clinical note taking leads to better outcomes for both patients and physicians facing burnout, says Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli, co president and CEO of Cooper University Health Care.
Dr. Blackford Middleton, a preeminent figure in health IT who now is working on learning health systems, talks what provider CIOs and other health IT leaders must consider while moving forward with AI.
MPulse Mobile is a digital engagement platform for payers to engage members and improve outcomes, says CEO Bob Farrell.
The AI approach could vastly improve the efficacy and accuracy of ECG assessment, as the model enables interpretation of cardiac readings as language.
Jennifer Eaton, research director, value-based healthcare IT transformation strategies, at IDC Research, details these steps provider organizations can take to help their patients – and their overall quality.
This National AI R&D Strategic Plan – with key updates from OSTP for the first time in four years – describes the priorities and goals for federal investments.
Madaket Health coordinates real-time data between providers and payers, says CEO Eric Demers.
The rule would allow CMS to have more insight into what the most expensive drugs on the market actually cost to manufacture and distribute.
Ryan Oliver, research director at KLAS, discusses the correlation between Best in KLAS status and successful implementations, and offers a deep dive into some of the most important implementation best practices for provider organizations.
Names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medication lists and health insurance information were exposed in the breach
CMS has indicated its support by releasing RTM monitoring codes last year, says Bronwyn Spira, CEO and cofounder of Force Therapeutics, a digital care management platform.
David Metcalf, PhD, director of METIL.org at the UCF Institute for Simulation & Training, offers a deep dive into the Machine Learning and AI Forum at April's HIMSS23 Conference & Exhibition.
Masimo sued Apple in 2020 for allegedly poaching its employees and stealing trade secrets related to smartwatch technology.
Non-licensed but trained staff can make sure high-risk patients are safe and comfortable, says Lauren Prepchuck, Crothall Healthcare’s head of Patient Observation.
Experts discuss how healthcare data can help drive health equity initiatives and improve patient outcomes.
Smaller hospitals face having adequate funding and capital constraints, says Kate Pierce, Fortified Health Security’s senior virtual Information security officer, who testified before the Senate’s Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee.
QliqSOFT Founder & CEO Krishna Kurapati talks about how digital assistants can automate routine tasks and simplify administrative workflows to allow for patient engagement outside of healthcare facilities.
Manav Sevak joins HIMSSCast to discuss Memora Health's tech platform that aims to help patients and providers manage complex care. The startup recently raised $30 million.
Albert Marinez, chief analytics officer at Intermountain Healthcare, offers perspective on artificial intelligence for performance improvement: building effective models with "AI building blocks," getting buy-in from various stakeholders and more.
Julie Rish, associate chief improvement officer of design at the Cleveland Clinic, explains the principles of human-centered design and how they apply in healthcare.
Dr. Sonya Makhni, medical director of Mayo Clinic Platform Solutions, discusses some fast-evolving trends around artificial intelligence in clinical settings: promising use cases, deployment challenges, algorithmic integrity, patient safety and more.
Patricia A. McGaffigan, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses how health systems lost ground on patient and provider safety during the COVID-19 pandemic and where health IT can help.
Healthcare leaders discuss strategies for overcoming resistance to adopting analytics platforms.
The agencies came to this conclusion after a meeting of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, which released its annual reports late last week.
An estimated 771 alarms per bed, per day were measured at peak at John Hopkins and other locations, says Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave
The lawsuit criticizes PBM market consolidation, which has left the three largest PBMs, including Express Scripts, in control of more than 75% of the drug market.
Robert Booker, chief strategy officer at the Health Information Trust Alliance and a 30-year cybersecurity veteran, offers healthcare provider organizations his expertise.
Telehealth services are not a luxury for millions who cannot access in-person healthcare. A poor digital experience can result in an incorrect diagnosis, misinterpretation, risks, poor patient care, and low adoption. Are healthcare organizations willing to take the risk by turning a blind eye to poor Telehealth visits? In this podcast, Hubble IQ co-founder & CRO will discuss how healthcare organizations can proactively anticipate and avoid technical challenges that impact the digital experience of Telehealth.
The new IBM Quantum System One now deployed at Cleveland Clinic is being touted as the first on-site private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States.
Innovations that advance care play the largest role in the increased cost of healthcare, says Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil.
Paul Robke, President and Founder of Sparrow.AI discusses the challenges that must be overcome to bring innovative, accurate solutions to the healthcare market to improve patient outcomes. Process, defects and technology hurdles can be overcome to enable the subject matter experts to truly impact the end result of healthcare. Our healtchcare and healthcare technology community has the best and brightest minds on the planet yet getting their solutions to market is riddled with problems. How do businesses unlock revenue streams in a timely manner to keep funding improvements to the healthcare market?
CMS is saying the advance notice would result in a little over 1% increase for Medicare Advantage plans, while payers are saying this would result in a more than 2% decrease
Telehealth and virtual care are enabling cost savings and streamlined access to treatment and second opinions, says Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic.
The partners said their deal would pair the health system's established telehealth and hospital-at-home programs with Best Buy's in-home services and supply chain.
Consumers don’t care so much about price but what they’re going to pay out-of-pocket, says Cedar President Seth Cohen.
The top drug agency proposed tighter limits for online prescriptions of some medications, such as Adderall and opioids.
Sri Velamoor, chief growth and strategy officer at NextGen Healthcare, offers some thoughts on managing and improving EHRs, and discusses what appears to be a fast-consolidating vendor landscape.
BioPlus provides a range of specialty pharmacy services for patients living with complex and chronic conditions, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C, autoimmune diseases and conditions in rheumatology.
The trend is toward add-on transactions to bring in smaller companies, says Vin Phan, partner and national leader of BDO’s Healthcare Transaction Advisory Services practice.
The company said adding Natural Cycles' technology will "give users more detailed insight into their menstrual cycle."
Dr. Jackie Gerhart, VP of clinical informatics at Epic, and Phil Lindemann, its VP of business intelligence and analytics, discuss data-driven improvements that are enabling design of better trials and delivery of better healthcare.
Defendants purportedly engaged in a scheme to sell fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts to people seeking licenses and jobs as registered nurses.
Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, explains why adding health equity to the Quadruple Aim is so important, and how it affects provider CIOs.
Rosendale has harshly criticized the VA's new EHR since 2021, citing operational inadequacies and implementation struggles, as well as the expense of government funding.
The NSA’s “baseball arbitration” seeks to take patients out of the middle of provider and payer negotiations over rates, says K&L Gates Health Care partner, Gary Qualls.
Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers. With the power of data and analytics, users can track and improve patient outcomes and control healthcare costs while delivering better quality of care. Patient 360 can provide an optimal experience to patients and healthcare providers with first-rate payment integrity.
Optum Rx positioned the tool as an enhancement of the company's ability to offer a lower price on generics at about a 90% rate.
Steve Irvine, founder and CEO of integrate.ai, explains how a lack of quality data is hindering clinical AI models – and describes how federated learning approaches can enable secure access to a wider array of datasets.
The AG’s office accused drugmakers of "unlawful, unfair, and deceptive business practices"; GE HealthCare said it plans to fund the acquisition with cash on hand.
In their service lines, hospitals need to think about whether they can be all things to all people, says Peter Urbanowicz, a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal.
In this podcast, experts from Amazon Web Services and Quantiphi discuss how healthcare organizations can empower the healthcare workers with AI & data.
Carbon said its shifting it focus to its core primary care and urgent care services; 44.4% of ransomware attacks were disruptive to healthcare.
Mutaz Shegewi, research director at IDC Health Insights, discusses the research firm's 10 health industry predictions for the next year and beyond.
The telehealth group's ATA Action affiliate also praised the package for including provisions delaying the Medicare telemental health in-person requirement.
Hospital systems should focus on internal answers to the supply chain and not rely solely on group purchasing, says David Pennino, founder & CEO of LogicSource.
Drive-by downloads are a major entry point for sophisticated threat actors to deploy destructive ransomware. And cybercrime research shows these attacks are not limited to unwanted browser extensions and tech support scams but are also executed through threats like SocGolish, GootLoader, DarkTortilla, and others.
Keith Jarvis, CTU technical lead for cybercrime research, investigates the state of the drive-by download in 2022 where it maintains its place amongst malspam, scan-and-exploit, and credential theft as the preferred infection vector for malware. Keeping up-to-date on these and other evolving threats helps prepare your organization to defend against attack.
Senior Security Researcher and intel analysis lead for cybercrime Tim Mitchell will discuss how ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has significantly lowered the bar to entry for cybercriminals. As a result, the scale of ransomware operations has expanded, allowing cybercrime groups and their affiliates to exploit more networks resulting in higher revenue. Expertise has also improved as each element of the process has become specialized, making ransomware the formidable threat it is today.
Socio-economic factors such as geographic location, educational background, occupation, access to healthcare, etc. significantly impact a person’s health. With the power of AI to analyze complex interrelated patient data, multiple links to social determinants of health (SDoH) are revealed, which can positively impact health outcomes. Patient 360 and AI together can help make healthcare support services available to disadvantaged populations and develop inclusive policies.
Join members of the HIMSS Government Relations team as they look back at an eventful election – and look ahead to what its results might mean for 2023 and beyond.
Threat actors have been escalating cyberattacks on healthcare, especially
during Covid, with devastating ransomware attacks that cripple most health
systems. What can we do to be more resilient against those attacks to protect
our organizations and patients?
One in 2 CFOs predict stagnating or declining operating margins this year, says Tina Wheeler, U.S. Health Care Leader at Deloitte
BehaVR and OxfordVR say their combination creates the largest virtual reality healthcare delivery platform; Color Health has partnered with NIH to offer no-cost follow-up clinical DNA tests for patients.
HIMSS Media editors from Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance News get out their crystal balls and look to the year ahead.
Why integration of medical devices is criticalto patient care - Connecting medical devices, such as infusion pumps, patient monitoring systems and dialysis machines, to the electronic medical record (EMR) can help maximize resources while providing a pathway to critical clinical information. “Medical devices were seen as only able to deliver a therapy or service. That is changing,” said Donny Patel, vice president, Enterprise Technology at Baxter. “The real value of connectivity lies in delivering information that helps clinicians care for patients more efficiently or effectively – and medical devices can be an important source for that rich information.”
Pitfalls and opportunities with medical device data aggregation, storage, and consumption/usability – Healthcare data is growing exponentially, driven by multiple factors including the prevalence of consumer health devices, connected medical devices, and remote patient monitoring solutions. Aggregating and analyzing the mass amounts of data available can make a significant impact on the outcomes of patients through better insights into the diagnosis and treatment of disease. However, many challenges exist to bridge the gap between data and ‘valuable information’.
Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges: high staff turnover leading to nursing burnout, hiring of temp/travel staff requires regular onboarding and hits tight budgets, and scheduling in-person meetings and trainings can become bottlenecks. Mixed Reality simulation offers a fully virtual, on-demand tool. Users can train where they want, when they want reducing scheduling bottlenecks and reducing training T&E spend. It also supports reinforced learning and repetition, combatting the loss of information.
This discussion will focus on the security& privacy issues associated with remote patient monitoring applications and devices, including medical IoT (Internet of Things) devices. We’ll discuss how NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Langone Medical Center, and Center for Cybersecurity are collaborating on innovative research and educational programs around cybersecurity and healthcare.
United allegedly paid the group 30% of the amount the judges determined to be fair; recent cyberattacks provide precedent for FBI’s mitigation efforts.
In this special edition of HIMSSCast, recorded live at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, McKesson's Roshal Marshall talks about those issues and others: AI integrity, information blocking compliance and more.
Audits uncovered about $12 million in net overpayments for the care of 18,090 patients sampled; AGs say lax rules for safeguarding reproductive health data could harm patients or providers.
Geisinger's strategic plan has resulted in a redesigned workflow, cost savings and a happier workforce, says Emily Fry, VP of Innovation Operations at Geisinger.
This discussion will focus on the dangers of fragmented digital identity. Digital identities, or the unique identifiers and credentials an individual uses to interact online, are the most important part of an organization to secure. Although many solutions can bolster cybersecurity, a holistic digital identity management strategy is the best way to secure user identity and access without hindering workflow productivity. Organizations should implement products that follow this strategy, not uncoordinated solutions.
As healthcare embraces the cloud for surge capacity, agility, and to alleviate supply chain challenges, bad actors are intentionally targeting the industry. Comprehensive data management and ransomware protection is now critical. Please join Veritas for a discussion on protecting your healthcare organization from the edge to the cloud.
The accelerated digital transformation in healthcare has extended the healthcare ecosystem exponentially. Wearables and monitoring devices, the acceptance of telehealth as a care modality, and the explosion of patient-facing apps – and more — have all taken cybersecurity from something that was in the backroom in the mid-2000s to the boardroom today.
Given recent high-profile ransomware attacks affecting patient care and data security, the stakes have never been higher when it comes to ensuring care continuity while meeting expanding regulatory requirements.
The healthcare and life sciences cybersecurity profession must continue to meet the pace of need with the pace of speed when it comes to ensuring operational resilience, patient safety, and data security — into 2023 and beyond.
Blockchain expert Maria Palombini, director, healthcare and life sciences practice lead, global business strategy and intelligence, at the IEEE Standards Association, discusses where the tech is making progress and where it's lagging.
Patient 360 is a healthcare framework that consolidates patient and member data across the care delivery system to provide a unified view of patient, facilitating better outreach and improved health outcomes.
Patient 360 data sources: Appointment and encounter details, Current health conditions, active problem list, Past health conditions, Medications and allergies, Past medical and surgical history, Primary care visits, Labs and investigations, Imaging and scans, social determinants of health, Hospitalizations, Family history, Daily activity and lifestyle, Communication preferences.
Outcomes delivered by patient 360: Enable healthcare firms to rapidly leverage, utilize and monetize their data assets, Achieve HL7/ FHIR interoperability, support standard data models-OMOP, enables regulatory reporting and compliance, Accelerators to overcome data silos, Reference implementation built on AWS- Pay as you go.
Healthcare is no different from other industries from a threat landscape perspective. Of course, the stakes are higher because hospitals are responsible for ensuring the care of their patients, but the protections needed are quite standard. In this podcast we debunk the myths of healthcare cybersecurity. We focus on strategic security initiatives you must take specific to healthcare, how to invest in the right personnel, and immediate steps needed to secure your sensitive patient and organizational systems.
There are higher levels of organizational trust and a reduction in the after-hours workload, but staffing issues remain; Amazon’s clinic will operate in 32 states.
Mutaz Shegewi, research director, provider IT transformation strategies, at IDC Health Insights, talks where EHRs are evolving to, innovations leading the evolution, and where EHR technology will be in 10 years.
The VillageMD deal includes investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance and Cigna subsidiary Evernorth; Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wants to establish a new senior leader accountable for healthcare cybersecurity.
Tyler Cohen Wood, co-founder of Dark Cryptonite and a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency deputy division chief, talks where CISOs, CIOs and other health security leaders should begin, educational best practices, things to avoid, and how to keep cybersecurity education going.
Ransomware continues to remain the primary threat facing organizations, according to the most recent Secureworks® 2022 State of the Threat Report. Despite a series of high-profile law enforcement interventions, public leaks, and a small slowdown over the summer months, ransomware operators have maintained high levels of activity. Join Secureworks Security Threat Researcher Alex Tilley as he discusses ransomware and what you can do to defend against it.
Sophia Genetics' data display module leverages Microsoft Azure services to provide AI and machine learning capabilities; Teladoc CEO says the economy may determine the company’s outlook.
Babylon Health Global Chief Equity Officer discusses going digital in Rwanda and how lessons there can be applied in the U.S.
The use of intelligent medical devices increases health providers’ risk exposure—and that that the consequences of a cyberattack can go far beyond mere data theft. People’s health and safety are also on the line. Decrease the risk exposure with adversarial testing. Adversarial testing is essential to ensure the safety of patients, the confidence of regulators, and the continued acceptance of a technology that is transforming healthcare for the better.
Secureworks® State of the Threat Report 2022 has seen a 150% rise in the use of infostealers, making them a key precursor to ransomware. Join Secureworks Security and Threat Researcher John Mancuso as he discusses the growing concern of infostealers malware, malicious software targeting your information. This malware targets almost anything that a cybercriminal can use to turn a profit, from login credentials to stored browser information and cryptocurrency data.
HIMSS is advocating for the protection of COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities; Cerebral said its cuts would affect employees across the company, while Philips is planning on making cuts of its own.
Robin Farmanfarmaian, co-author of the new book How AI Can Democratize Healthcare, discusses how virtual therapeutics, voice recognition and fast-evolving artificial intelligence tools are opening new avenues in home-based care.
In this podcast, experts from Amazon Web Services and Quantiphi discuss how healthcare organizations can create positive patient experiences by bridging siloed data across the patient journey.
The feds claim Cigna artificially inflated the payments it received for MA coverage, while the new Calm Health app I designed to bridge the gap between physical and mental healthcare.
Necessary healthcare leadership skills have been changing for CIOs, CMIOs and other health IT leaders after the industry-changing events of the COVID-19 pandemic. J. Bryan Bennett, executive director of the Healthcare Center of Excellence, offers leaders help in navigating the changing environment.
The number of contracts earning 4.5 stars is also down significantly, as is the number of four-star plans, though Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and UnitedHealth Group continued to fare well.
UnitedHealthcare has activated an emotional support line, while others are waiving prior authorizations and adding support services.
HHS data reported that breaches of healthcare facilities rose 55% in 2020, with nearly 1 million patients affected monthly.
Healthcare IT organizations have weathered numerous storms over the past two
years—and the lessons these teams learned while on the forefront of the
pandemic are shaping their approaches looking ahead. Automation initiatives
and the resulting workforce transformation are delivering real-world operational
efficiencies while improving the patient experience. Hear Dr. Yan Chow, Global
Healthcare Leader at Automation Anywhere and Marcus Johnson, Managing
Director of Delivery at Lumevity, Highmark Health’s transformation specialist,
discuss how automation has and is improving key aspects of the business.
The merger will combine the owner of the nation’s largest health insurer and one of the nation's largest electronic data interchange clearinghouses.
Michael A. Stoto, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Health at Georgetown University, discusses what every health IT leader needs to know about these Affordable Care Act mandates.
The DHS final rule applies to non-citizens requesting admission to the U.S. or applying for a green card from within the country.
With a new mandate looming, Timi Leslie of Connecting for Better Health explains how Golden State stakeholders are working on the huge project of building an info exchange infrastructure for providers, payers and public health agencies.
Patients need to see their hospitals as their full continuum of care providers, says Duane Fitch, healthcare partner for Plante Moran.
Praduman "PJ" Jain, CEO of Vibrent Health and a principal investigator of the NIH All of Us Research Program, talks about patient engagement and more.
“We can engage patients when engagement needs to happen,” says Andrew Lovewell, CEO Columbia Orthopaedic Group.
David Bucciferro, vice chair of the Electronic Health Record Association and co-chair of the association's Opioid Crisis Task Force, explains how electronic records make a difference.
An explosion of data within healthcare coupled with new regulatory requirements are adding pressure to the already overworked medical industry. Automation can relieve many of these pressures – but some are hesitant to implement these solutions due to preconceived opinions. In this podcast, Dr. Yan Chow, Global Healthcare Leader at Automation Anywhere, will unpack the top five myths associated with automation in healthcare to help you overcome implementation barriers within your organization.
April Kapu, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, talks about how health IT can hurt and benefit nurses in their daily routine, and gets to the heart of the nursing shortage.
John Kansky, president and CEO of Indiana Health Information Exchange, discusses how statewide and regional exchanges have evolved during the pandemic – and predicts where they're headed next.
In healthcare, the simple correlations of data isn’t good enough, says Stephen Zander, chief analytics officer at Cedar Gate Technologies
The unparalleled nursing shortage facing the health care industry in a post-pandemic world is a result of many contributing factors, some that have been developing for decades. Hospitals cannot function without nurses, and we are just now starting to fully understand some of the far-reaching consequences of this shortage. In this podcast, Joel Ray, CNO at UNC Rex Health describes the extent of the nursing shortage, the real consequences of being understaffed at their facility, and how technology has helped them, both now and in the future.
With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks practical and ethical considerations.
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Strategies for protecting clinicians across the industry.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, violence against clinicians was a pressing concern for the healthcare industry – with violence about four times more prevalent in healthcare than in any other industry. The pandemic has added new stressors and exacerbated those already present, leading to an uptick in workplace violence against clinicians across the country. Join host Mike Miliard as he talks to Jennifer Schmitz, president of the Emergency Nurses Association and chief nursing officer for Southern Maine Health Care, and Whitney Lloyd, VP of Customer Experience at Baxter International, about what strategies have worked for them in addressing workplace violence – and what digital tools have helped.
The Congressionally enacted Information Blocking Rule takes effect across all healthcare system on October 6. This legislation will put new pressure on hospitals and medical establishments to provide patient-requested medical records in a timely manner—or face costly penalties. Automation can help. Hear Dr. Yan Chow, Global Healthcare Leader at Automation Anywhere share approaches to address this new regulation.
The CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Ann Mond Johnson, discusses the ATA's CEO Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities, and digs deep into various telehealth topics.
The director of virtual care at Detroit's Henry Ford Health System discusses optimizing telehealth integration into care pathways, conducting comprehensive exams via video and improving digital literacy.
Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, describes how non-clinical technologies such as TV monitors and wearable smart objects can enable a more human-centered approach to inpatient stays.
Shahab Vagefi, managing director at investment firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, specializes in healthcare information technology. He paints the landscape, talks how he "picks his spots" and reveals what's top of his mind on the sliding market.
There is a need to bring non-traditional organizations into value-based efforts, says Lynn Carroll, COO HSBlox
Firstsource uploads contract information to give patients a bill estimate, says Randall Shafer, executive VP and Global Head, Hospital Business.
Health Systems and Life Sciences organizations continue to be exposed to ransomware attacks during the global pandemic with increased impact to patient care and exposure to large global integrated health delivery systems. Patients have recognized significant patient care impacts such as rescheduled surgeries, increased patient wait times, delayed COVID-19 test results, and challenges filling prescription medications. This presentation will provide healthcare executives a guide to understanding how their organization is positioned to protect against emerging ransomware threats.
The connection between EHRs and physician satisfaction – and, by extension, clinician burnout – is one that has been well-explored over the past few years. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only made those issues more relevant.
Dr. Richard Baron, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM foundation, joined Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss his recent JAMA Network Open commentary about why some physicians may be happier with their EHRs than others – and what organizations might do about it.
Talking points:-People in physician-owned practices report higher EHR satisfaction
-Clinicians feeling technology is done to them, not for them
-The clinical purpose of an EHR gets lost
-How owning a practice makes a difference
-The burnout from "inbox overload"
-Using EHRs to answer broader population health questions
-Connecting technology to physician success
-The effect of COVID-19 on burnout
-What organizations can do
More about this episode:
EHRs are still a mess for physicians, but change is coming
Patient messages via Epic increased during COVID-19, raising burnout concerns
Female physicians spent 33 more minutes per day in EHRs
EHR satisfaction: A better way is possible
Mayo Clinic study links EHR usability with clinician burnout
KLAS: Clinician burnout is a worldwide problem
Sponsored: Dan Dennis, Hyland Software’s senior vice president and chief information security officer, outlines how organizations can navigate the ever-changing cyber threat landscape and keep staff engaged through talent retention and training.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had spillover effects on screening and preventive care. But even before the novel coronavirus, adequate screening for disease, especially among vulnerable people, was still a public health concern.
A recent study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University found that even though screening rates have improved, about one in five women still do not receive a test for syphilis during pregnancy –- which is recommended by the CDC given the serious threat syphilis can pose to the health of the fetus.
Brian Dixon, study senior author and director of public health informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, joined Healthcare IT News to speak about the research and the role IT can play in informatics.
Talking points:-Rates of congenital syphilis have been rising
-Previous studies have largely only used claims data
-The benefits of syphilis screening during pregnancy-Disparities in syphilis screening rates, and what might be behind them
-The potential effects of COVID-19 on screening rates
-How public health leaders could use information like this
-More ways health IT can be used to support public health objectives
-The next projects on deck at Regenstrief
More about this episode:
Regenstrief, IU launch public and population health program
Regenstrief launches initiative to disseminate SDOH data
How HIEs can enable public health reporting when EHRs fall short
Hospitals facing big hurdles to public health data reporting
CIOs plan big investments in EHR optimization and pop health IT
Patients in rural parts of the United States often face specific and numerous barriers to care, including financial hurdles, logistical concerns and trust in the healthcare system.
As the founder of Caravan Health and Chief Innovation Officer at Signify Health, Lynn Barr is deeply involved in rural health policy. She joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss her journey of working with health systems, what role population health programs and value-based payment can play in inequities, and what policy changes are necessary for safety-net providers.
Talking points:
-60 million people live in rural America
-What data measurement can reveal about quality
-The divide in life expectancy between rural and urban Americans
-Population health programs and value-based payment addressing inequities
-The HITECH Act's effect on independent physicians
-Small numbers don't work for judging cost
-Leading indicators of success for population health
-Why regional benchmarks may not be useful for safety-net providers
More about this episode:
Rural hospitals face growing sustainability threats on multiple fronts, AHA says
Rural hospitals need more than telehealth to survive the pandemic
CMS announces a new value-based payment model for rural healthcare providers
HHS puts $48M toward rural public health IT, workforce expansion
The fee-for-service model of healthcare has been reexamined over the past few years, with alternative models increasingly gaining traction. Zak Holdsworth, CEO and co-founder of Hint Health, tells Healthcare Finance News Executive Editor Susan Morse he believes the status quo payment models are on their way out – and the question isn't "if," but "when."
Talking points:-How Hint Health got started
-How the direct primary care model works
-The benefit for health systems
-What about specialty care?
-Employers are starting to explore new options
-Should insurers be scared?
-The difference between this model and the ACO REACH model
-The future for Hint Health
More about this episode:
Employees want direct primary care from their employer plans
Flat-fee primary care model helping fill a niche in Texas, but it isn't insurance
Fueled by health law, 'Concierge Medicine' reaches new markets
Hint Health rolls out value-based primary care direct contracting network
How a direct primary care model provider benefits from an easy-to-use EHR
Physician Partners of America has agreed to pay $24.5 million for allegedly billing for unnecessary services, while the American Hospital Association says CMS’ proposed rule doesn’t increase payments enough.
This week: The end of the public health emergency is nearing; Federal agencies hit with EHR outage. Plus: Akili's video game-like intervention improved users' cognitive functioning.
Links to the stories:
HHS is giving clear signals of wind down of public health emergency
EHR outage takes down federal Cerner systemsAkili Interactive's DTx improves cognitive function in adults with MDD
Artificial intelligence tools in healthcare, as with any other software, are not immune to bias – especially if they have been trained on data sets that do not accurately reflect the global population.
Last year, VisualDx, which provides diagnostic support software, launched Project IMPACT, a global effort to reduce disparities in medicine and highlight ways to bridge gaps of knowledge and improve healthcare outcomes for patients of color.
VisualDx Director of Clinical Impact Dr. Nada Elbuluk joined Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss the project and the roles individuals and clinicians can play in working toward health equity.
Talking points:
- Why it's so important to have a broad range of images across different skin types
- Achieving health equity is a complicated problem
- How individuals can contribute to reducing health inequity
- The effect of providers' knowledge gaps on patient care
- How technology can address some of those gaps
- The role AI and ML tools can play in reducing bias – or worsening it
- What's missing from the wider conversation about health outcomes
- Real action is needed to promote health equity
More about this episode:
VisualDx to unveil vastly expanded clinical decision support system at HIMSS16
Even innocuous-seeming data can reproduce bias in AI
FDA highlights the need to address bias in AI
How an AI-powered tool could help diagnose skin cancer in veterans
How augmented intelligence can promote health equity
(Sponsored) Jennifer Jones, CNIO at Integris Health, explains how standardizing and optimizing their care communications technology may help lead to better and safer workflows for their caregivers and ultimately stronger outcomes for patients.
The world has gone digital. How are you adapting? In this episode, we are sitting down with Julie Campbell, VP of Healthbox to talk about digital strategy. Healthbox, a HIMSS solution, supports and advises orgs that are developing, adopting, and investing in the digital solutions that will transform healthcare. How do our preconceptions about seniors, Medicaid, cybersecurity, EMR/EHRs, and digital strategy influence our progress towards the ideal digital health ecosystem? Join us as we walk through the myths holding back digital transformation and how we can use the Digital Health Indicator (DHI) to build a plan to overcome them in the post-COVID world.
From registration to imaging, smart hospitals deploy AI, IoT, 5G networks, and other technologies from edge to cloud for improved connectivity and secure data sharing to deliver better patient experiences, streamline workflows, and reduce costs. On this podcast, we’ll be focused on how virtual care is being reimagined; transforming patient rooms and critical care environments to streamline operations and improve patient care. Chris Gough, General Manager of the Health and Life Sciences at Intel, works with partners and hospital systems of all sizes to solve complex challenges related to the future of care. In-patient virtual care solutions that utilize predictive analytics, machine learning, and computer vision technologies are becoming more prevalent and have expanded. We’re seeing applications expand into remote patient observation, virtual ICUs, and many more. The benefits of these virtual care solutions include improved patient outcomes, increased operational efficiency, and reduced COVID-19 exposure for both patients and healthcare staff
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard sat down at HIMSS22 with Google Cloud Director of Global Healthcare Strategy and Solutions Aashima Gupta and Healthcare and Life Sciences Industries Managing Director Joe Miles to discuss the future of hybrid care, what COVID-19 revealed about information silos and how technology can strengthen human-to-human connections.
Talking points:
-How interoperable data is driving strategy and insights
-COVID-19 shined a bright light on the siloed information in the industry
-What Google Cloud is hearing from customers
-Helping providers and payers have better visibility into problem areas
-Is hybrid care the new future?
-Seamless data exchange is necessary for patient experience
-How to make sense of unstructured data
-AI helping to reduce costs and make the system more intuitive
-"Big AI" versus "small AI"?
-Lowering the barriers to AI adoption
-The acquisition of Mandiant
-How healthcare rose to the challenge of the pandemic
More about this episode:
Google Cloud, Amwell foresee a 'new narrative' of virtual care
Google Cloud Healthcare API focused on interoperability, during pandemic and beyond
Google Cloud unveils AI tools to help healthcare analyze unstructured medical text
Google Cloud intros new interoperability platform
AI can play a key role in turning unstructured data into actionable insights
Google to acquire Mandiant for $5.4B
Hi from HIMSS22! We're on the ground in sunny Orlando, Florida, for Global Conference.
In this episode, Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich is joined by Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Executive Editor Susan Morse to talk about what they've seen at the conference and any predictions for next year.
Talking points:
-Using the hard lessons of COVID-19 as inspiration moving forward
-The importance of using data to address inequities
-Data cleanliness and governance as AI takes a larger role in healthcare
-How clinicians can be supported in times of increasing stress and burnout
-What cybersecurity experts have to say about ransomware
-How the pandemic has accelerated change
-Any predictions for next year?
More about this episode:
HIMSS22 opening keynote: 'What will we do to reimagine health together?'
'Recognize it, monitor it, audit it': Taking action to avoid biased healthcare AI
Health inequity solutions require data, analytics and awareness turned into action
To work toward health equity, 'be a data detective'
National Coordinator: TEFCA will enable 'North Star' architecture for public health
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley addresses workforce challenges at HIMSS22
Health equity takes a village: community leaders, providers, payers, and most importantly, the patients themselves. Join Ankoor Shah, Accenture’s Health Equity Lead, community member Nicole Gyimah, and Kelly Binder from Unite Us as they speak to the challenges patients face when trying to access healthcare, as well as how systems can form community-led collaborations to drive forward health equity.
Providers quickly adopted virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual specialist care company Summus Global saw the utilization rate of its platform jump by 3.1 times between January 2020 and January 2021, with membership growing more than 1,000%.
CEO and founder Julian Flannery tells Healthcare Finance News Executive Editor Susan Morse he does not see virtual use declining to pre-pandemic numbers.
Spurred by the growth, seasoned players joined emerging startups in the M&A virtual care space. Oak Street Health acquired RubiconMD for $130 million; MDLive launched a remote patient monitoring program for virtual chronic care management; and One Medical and Humana introduced their own virtual chronic care offerings. Flannery believes these acquisitions will continue.
Talking points:
- Summus Global has raised over $40 million in the last 12 months
- Summus sells to both employers and large health systems
- Patients are set up with consultations within a network of more than 4,000 specialists across 48 hospitals
- Over 80% of consumers say they will use virtual care, post COVID-19
- Over 75% of doctors say they will continue to use virtual care
- The U.S. physician shortage will play a role in the growth of virtual visits
- Virtual care is evolving rapidly to more tailored care
More about this episode:
The COVID-19 crisis has 'forced people into virtual mediums,' says CEO
RPM startup Athelas raises $132M and more digital health fundings
Oak Street Health invests only in value-based care
Oak Street Health buys virtual specialty care company RubiconMD for up to $190M
In January, President Joe Biden announced plans to reignite the Cancer Moonshot, setting the ambitious goal of reducing the cancer death rate by 50% over the next 25 years.
Through genomic testing, precision oncology and immunotherapy, the goal is reachable, said Dr. Suresh Nair, Physician in Chief at Lehigh Valley Health Network’s Topper Cancer Institute, in an interview with Healthcare Finance News Executive Editor Susan Morse.
Talking points:
- Innovations include strong robotic surgery programs for less invasive treatments and faster recovery
- The alliance reduces the delay between cancer research and care due to advancements in technology
- The Topper Cancer Institute, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, is participating in clinical trials on the molecular profiling of tumors. This is a real-time tumor tracking system
- Genomic testing, precision medicine and immunotherapy will help reach the goal of the Cancer Moonshot to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% over the next 25 years
- The combined expertise of multidisciplinary teams in cancer treatment can leverage new research and clinical trials, sometimes years ahead of other cancer research and treatment
- The alliance allows for the rapid deployment of increased standards of care – in real time – as new research becomes available.
More about this episode:
CMS expands coverage of lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography
The benefits of using genomic data for health systems and patients
Cancer patients potentially overlooked in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Aetna launches gene therapy network as a standard medical benefit
Lack of diversity in clinical trials influences drug development
The rise in telehealth utilization, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted the potential of virtual care to expand access to services.
These can be particularly important for those who may face hurdles to brick-and-mortar care. Dr. Jerrica Kirkley, co-founder and chief medical officer of Plume, joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss the potential of telemedicine for trans and gender-nonconforming people.
Talking points:
- The need for data to support gender-affirming care
- The dynamic, multifactorial process of providing services for LGBTQ people
- Patients are based across the country, including large metro areas
- Younger people are increasingly likely to identify as trans or gender-nonconforming
- Insurance coverage doesn't necessarily guarantee care
- What gender-affirming care entails
- The role of state licensing in telehealth expansion
- How communities are being centered in care
More about this episode:
More inclusive EHRs can help extend welcome, save transgender lives
Beyond 'male, female, unknown' – informaticists propose gender-inclusive HL7 model
Telehealth has enabled wider access during COVID-19 – but not for everyone
States can make a difference in long-term telehealth policies
Digital transgender health company Plume scores $14M in Series A funding
Given the strain on hospital resources caused by the pandemic, many informaticists have focused on the ability to try and predict patient populations. In January, researchers at the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University found that machine learning models trained using statewide health information exchange data can actually predict a patient's likelihood of being hospitalized with COVID-19.
Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jericch to discuss the study's implications are two of its lead authors, Dr. Shaun Grannis and Suranga Kasturi.
Talking points:
- How tools like this might be useful for health systems and hospitals
- Connecting system-generated data with public health
- How COVID-19 has shined a light on cracks in different systems
- The Indiana Health Information Exchange as a data repository
- Seeing data-sharing blossom during the pandemic
- Biases in the model and how they can be addressed
- How integrated data can be a powerful tool to shape policy
More about this episode:
Regenstrief launches initiative to disseminate SDOH data
HIE-trained AI models can forecast individual COVID-19 hospitalization
Data from 175K COVID-19 patients fuels predictive severity model
Predicting COVID-19 hotspots: Kaiser Permanente tool uses EHR data to forecast surges
Even innocuous-seeming data can reproduce bias in AI
In February, the federal government announced that the DOJ's Civil Division had recovered more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act, or FCA, for fiscal year 2021. This was a huge increase from the previous year – and almost 90% of that money was related to health industry claims.
Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss past and future enforcement initiatives is Ethan Davis, partner at King & Spalding.
Talking points:
- A government wake-up on private equity enforcement
- DOJ's new cybersecurity initiative
- How COVID-19 shifted the federal approach to investigations
- Forthcoming focus on potential Provider Relief Fund fraud and clinical trial fraud
- The Anti-Kickback Statute and how it affects providers
- EHRs as a stated area of focus
- What listeners should be aware of around telehealth
- How stakeholders can protect themselves
- Predictions for the rest of 2022
More about this episode:
OIG warns EHR vendors it will 'vigilantly' crack down on false claims tied to meaningful use
DOJ slams Greenway with $57 million False Claims fine
DOJ lawyer in Greenway case: EHR vendors are now on notice
CareCloud to pay $3.8M to settle kickback allegations with DoJ
Athenahealth to pay $18.25M for alleged False Claims Act violations
Florida woman to pay $20.3M after using telemedicine to shield alleged fraud
Judge awards whistleblower $390K in athenahealth kickback case
Fitbit Ionic smartwatches recalled due to burn risk; ONC analyzes information blocking claims. Plus: More than $1 billion in annual excess healthcare expenditure due to turnover of primary care physicians.
Links to the stories:
Fitbit recalls Ionic smartwatches due to burn hazardONC receives nearly 300 info blocking reportsPrimary care physician turnover leads to almost $980M in excess healthcare costs
Analysts and stakeholders have put a lot of energy toward trying to predict the future of telehealth: Are we at the peak of a bubble, or is it only up from here?
A new report from Trilliant Health takes a measured view, arguing that telehealth use tapered in 2021 from its early-pandemic spike. Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss the report is Sanjula Jain, Trilliant Health chief research officer and senior vice president of market strategy.
Talking points:
- Contextualizing the data around telehealth
- Telehealth's market share as a parallel to luxury brands
- Who's still using virtual care?
- Reasons for telehealth use rates
- How market segmentation can empower stakeholders
- What this means for equity
- Psychographics versus demographics
- Predictions for the future
- Telehealth as a commodity good
More about this episode:
Study of 36.5M people reveals huge jump in pandemic telehealth use
Report: Telehealth use beginning to taper
Like it, love it, gotta have it? A health economist on attitudes toward telemedicine
Health systems see telehealth dip, but the tech is here to stay
Telehealth revenue could hit $20B in five years, say analysts
This week: EHRs vulnerable to cyberattackers, agency claims; Senators urge CMS to keep Medicare Advantage rates stable. Plus: Mindler purchasing Medified Solutions Oy for an undisclosed sum.
Links to the stories:
HHS cyber arm warns of EHR vulnerabilitiesSenate calls on CMS to keep Medicare Advantage rates stable
Mindler scoops up Finnish mental health tracker Medified Solutions Oy
The HHS 405(d) Program was created as a provision of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. It's designed to offer resources and best practices for healthcare organizations and public health agencies to help mitigate and respond to cybersecurity threats.
Joining Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about 405(d), and the work that went into developing its cornerstone document, are Nick Rodriguez, program manager for 405(d) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Healthcare and Eli Fleet, director of government relations at HIMSS.
Talking points:
- A brief background on 405(d) and what it means for healthcare stakeholders
- How the HHS 405(d) Task Group was convened, with 150 individuals from government and the healthcare industry
- Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients, or HICP, a cyber preparedness 'cookbook' with recipes for readiness
- The top 5 threats to cybersecurity, as described in that report
- How recent legislation is impacting 405(d)
- What healthcare organizations should be doing to avail themselves of these efforts
- Where healthcare security leaders can find vetted cybersecurity practices and other resources for risk mitigation
- How HICP will be evolving in the years ahead
- Why "Cyber Safety is Patient Safety"
- What attendees can learn about cybersecurity at HIMSS22 in Orlando.
More about this episode:
5 key takeaways from Cybersecurity Act of 2015
HHS releases voluntary cybersecurity guidance
Security chief touts the value of HICP, a cyber preparedness 'cookbook' with recipes for readiness
HHS launches website for the 405(d) Aligning Health Care Industry Security Approaches Program
There's no 'magic bullet' to enhance cybersecurity, say experts
HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum
HIMSS22 Cybersecurity Command Center
A negative billing experience can cause patients to lose trust in a provider. Michael Axt, Chief Member Empowerment Officer for Zelis, talks about enabling the patient financial experience from initially shopping for services to post-service financial responsibility.
This week: Mayo irks insurers by ceasing MA patient scheduling; Mercy locks down ICU after online attacks . Plus: VillageMD announces plans to buy chronic care management company Healthy Interactions .
Links to the stories:
Mayo Clinic halts scheduling of out-of-network Medicare Advantage patients
'Baseless attacks' online trigger lockdown at Oklahoma hospital ICUVillageMD buys chronic care management company Healthy Interactions
Acute-level care at home is another innovation driven by the pandemic, though the concept is not new. But as hospitals needed to free up beds and CMS loosened restrictions, health systems both set up programs and invested in partnerships that could help.
Medically Home offers the logistics, hardware and software technology to make it possible for care providers to give the same acute level care at home that they would in the hospital, says CEO Rami Karjian, who spoke to Healthcare Finance News Executive Editor Susan Morse. The result has been good for both providers and patients.
Talking Points:
- Kaiser Permanente and Mayo Clinic are providing hospital-level care at home through Medically Home
- Patients getting kidney and bone marrow transplants at Mayo are recovering at home
- Kaiser and Mayo invested $100 million in Medically Home in May 2021
- Other strategic partners such as Global Medical Response have added $110 million
- Medically Home provides the technology and logistics to scale about 20% of what is done in brick and mortar hospitals
- The hospital at home model is not new, but interest has risen during the pandemic
- This has been spurred by CMS flexibilities during the PHE
- A coalition of over 25 health systems have asked CMS to continue the flexibilities
- Payers and providers in value-based care contracts need not worry about Medicare FFS incentives
More about this episode:
Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services
Mayo Clinic announces advanced care at home model with Medically Home
Mayo Clinic, Kaiser put $100M toward hospital-at-home care
The rise of hospital at home care
Healthcare groups urge Congress to extend Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver
With private equity investing billions, digital products are in a boom period. Clover COO Jamie Reynoso, whose area of expertise is on health insurance innovation, talks about what healthcare leaders need to know about the intersection of digital health and private equity.
Healthcare organizations are at the center of clinical technology innovation, and with good reason: Healthcare technology advancements need to remain focused on the patient experience. Join Mobile Heartbeat VP of Product Management Bill Reid as he provides insights into the development of clinical collaboration technology. Learn how to future-proof your organization’s technology investments, and develop an actionable strategy for transitioning to cloud technology.
This week: Racial, ethnic minorities experience worse care than whites; Amazon Care expanding to 20 new cities. Plus: Epic announces Cheers, a new customer relationship management system.
Links to the stories:
Medicaid enrollees in minority groups experience worse care than white counterparts
Amazon Care expanding in-person services this yearEpic to showcase new CRM system and more at HIMSS22
Many health IT experts, innovators and vendors have touted digital health as a mechanism to overcome hurdles to care. But at the same time, we also know that digital health tools can exacerbate difficulties, especially for people with disabilities.
Josh Basile, community relations manager for accessiBe, joins Kat Jercich, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, to discuss how organizations can ensure websites and other software are accessible for everyone.
Talking points:
- COVID-19 as a catalyst for driving online accessibility
- Disability as a matter of "when," not "if"
- Frequent misconceptions about disability
- The challenges —and advantages—presented by telehealth
- Why accessibility in healthcare websites is so important
- The different needs of different groups of people
- The evolving nature of accessibility
- The business case for ensuring tools are accessible
More about this episode:
Telehealth may worsen digital divide for people with disabilities
Expansion of remote tech can help safeguard care for people with disabilities
For people with disabilities, accessing care can be 'overwhelming'
Telehealth as a tool to keep people with disabilities out of the hospital
Telehealth making it easier for people with disabilities to access care
This week: VA struggling with data migration into Cerner HER; AliveCor debuts personal ECG tech. Plus: Federal court bans Martin Shkreli from pharmaceutical industry for life.
Links to the stories:
Watchdog: VA did not ensure quality of migrated data in EHR modernization effortsAliveCor rolls out credit card-sized ECGCourt bans Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli for life from the pharma industry
Among the many mysteries of COVID-19, a major one regards "long COVID": symptoms that persist for weeks, and sometimes months, after someone first tests positive for the disease.
Experts and scientists have begun using data repositories to try and answer some of the questions surrounding long COVID. Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss how health IT can advance long COVID research are Michael Simon, director of data science at Arcadia, and Dr. Brett Giroir, former assistant secretary for health and a member of the COVID Patient Recovery Alliance.
Talking points:
- How COVID-19 changed the potential for data analysis
- A recent study suggesting the effects of vaccines on long COVID
- The policy implications of the findings
- Virtually everyone is at risk for long COVID
- Some necessary caveats about the findings
- What follow-up research should investigate
- The Patient Recovery Alliance's history and mission
- Hopes for the near future for data and policy
More about this episode:
UC Health creates unified data set to aid COVID-19 researchers
Research Data Alliance finalizes COVID-19 data sharing guidelines
NIH All of Us program makes more COVID-19 data available
UK announces five new COVID-19 vaccine research projects
Meet the informaticist trying to solve the mystery of long COVID
When payers adopt electronic payments, reimbursement can be slowed down by legacy systems and manual processes. Kimberly Scaccia, VP of Revenue Cycle for Mercyhealth, talks about end-to-end solutions to accelerate the payment cycle.
(Sponsored) Pandemic-induced delays have exacerbated gaps in patient care. Technology can help empower your clinicians to close these gaps and boost the overall success of population health management programs.
This week: OSHA rescinds vaccine mandate for employees at large companies; Akili to merge with Social Capital. Plus: Vulnerabilities found in Log4J logging tool.
Links to the stories:
OSHA scraps rule mandating vaccines for large employers after SCOTUS decision
Video game therapeutic developer Akili Interactive to go public via SPAC
Feds: Health sector bad actors 'actively leveraging' Log4J vulnerabilities
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, also known as TEFCA, is now officially live.
Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about how TEFCA's implementation will affect those at multiple levels of the healthcare industry is Dr. Dan Golder, principal at the consulting firm Impact Advisors.
Talking points:
- Why everyone should learn about TEFCA
- The journey from the 21st Century Cures Act
- The "TEF" and the "CA"
- Wait, what's a QHIN?
- The role the Sequoia Project plays in the framework
- Not every current HIE can become a QHIN
- How will TEFCA affect individual health systems?
- Who could benefit the most from TEFCA
- The role cost will play, and ensuring long-term financial viability
- Potential effect on patients
- Who should be responsible for potential data breaches
- The non-healthcare data included
- Predictions for 2022
More about this episode:
ONC names Sequoia Project as TEFCA coordinator
TEFCA could introduce a 'new exchange paradigm'
TEFCA, framework for nationwide health info exchange, now live from ONC
So TEFCA is live. Now what?
Everything you wanted to know about TEFCA (but were afraid to ask)
The future includes decision-support tools, remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics, says Jodi Daniel, partner in Crowell & Moring’s Health Care Group.
This week: U.S. on high alert as Russian cyber actors target healthcare; MA emergency orders meant to ease staffing strains. Plus: Thread purchases inVibe for an undisclosed sum.
Links to the stories:
Feds sound alert on Russian cyber threats amid potential Ukraine escalationMassachusetts governor releases emergency orders to ease strain on the healthcare system
Decentralized clinical trial platform Thread scoops up voice tech inVibe
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the gas pedal on the use of virtual care, particularly synchronous video chats. But virtual care's potential extends beyond one-on-one conversations – it can also leverage remote patient monitoring technology to take services out of the brick-and-mortar facility.
Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about telehealth's capabilities now and in the future is Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer at Biofourmis.
Talking points:
- The transition of care to "virtual-first"
- The evolution of the definition of telemedicine
- The use cases of telehealth beyond synchronous video calls
- Using acute-level hospital services as inspiration
- Looking at different disease processes
- Can technology drive equity?
- Algorithms assisting clinicians in making decisions
- Evidence for telehealth's longevity
- Ensuring that patients are receiving appropriate care
- How virtual care can be a tool rather than a hurdle for clinicians
- Consolidation and integration will drive adoption
More about this episode:
Telehealth's post-COVID challenge: Integrating in-person care
How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home
Hospital at home: How healthcare orgs can set programs up for success
Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy
Mayo Clinic, Kaiser put $100M toward hospital-at-home care
(Sponsored) Some organizations are abandoning population health programs because of inability to scale. Population health success requires taking a marathon approach; ensuring leaders and providers are committed to the long haul is key.
This week: EHR vendor QRS sued following cyberattack; New York mandating booster shots for healthcare workers . Plus: Headspace Health acquires Sayana.
Links to the stories:
EHR vendor hit with lawsuit following data breach
New York now requiring COVID-19 boosters for healthcare workers
Headspace Health acquires mental wellness tracking, sleep app maker Sayana
New host Kat Jercich brings together the HIMSS Media leads – Mike Miliard, executive editor at Healthcare IT News; Susan Morse, executive editor at Healthcare Finance News, and Laura Lovett, executive editor at MobiHealthNews – to discuss Oracle's recent acquisition of Cerner.
Talking points:
- What are the basics of the deal?
- Oracle's interests in the cloud arena
- What this might mean for the health-tech industry
- How providers are feeling
- The role of voice recognition tech
- Epic and Cerner: The Coke and Pepsi of EHRs?
- What we're keeping an eye on for 2022
More about this episode:
Cerner names Dr. David Feinberg president and CEO
Oracle acquires Cerner for $28.3B
Industry analysts react to Oracle's big-ticket Cerner buy
How Oracle's acquisition of Cerner is positive for providers
What Oracle's acquisition of Cerner could mean for big tech in health
The most significant mergers and acquisitions of 2021
This week: Former Theranos CEO found guilty of fraud; Broward Health reports data breach incident . Plus: Healthcare is among the top three industries cited in a 3% rise in the monthly "quits rate."
Links to the stories:
Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on 4 of 11 chargesHackers breach info of 1.3M in Florida health system incidentHealthcare second largest sector hit by Great Resignation
Host Jonah Comstock is joined by editors from all three HIMSS Media brands — Kat Jercich, senior editor at Healthcare IT News; Susan Morse, executive editor at Healthcare Finance News and Laura Lovett, executive editor — to look back at the biggest health tech and finance trends of the past year, and to chat about what to expect in 2022. We'll be taking a few weeks off after this, so enjoy the final HIMSSCast of the year.
Talking points:
- Trend: Health tech companies going public through SPACs
- Trend: Hospital staffing shortages and staff burnout
- Trend: New care modalities, especially in the retail world
- Trend: Virtual services accelerated by COVID-19
- Trend: Innovation in kidney care
- Prediction: More ransomware attacks
- Prediction: More hybrid and online primary care
- Prediction: More hospital at home services
- Prediction: Bigger strides toward value-based care
- Prediction: Rethinking insurance
- Prediction: Moving forward with interoperability and price transparency
More about this episode:Digital health in 2021: A look back
The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring
Healthtech companies reap benefits of robust year in venture capital funding
Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange
The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021
Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 202
A turbulent year, and a retooled future, for the VA's EHR rollout
2022 will require augmented intelligence, IoT and wearables data, and info outside EHRs
(Sponsored) Digital healthcare has long-term potential to improve the patient experience, particularly in reducing costs and removing barriers to care. Combining AI and data with digital endpoints for patient care is the future of healthcare.
In our final Workforce Re-entry companion podcast, HIMSSCast welcomes Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare to discuss the cybersecurity risks and challenges created by telehealth and other teleconferencing accomplishments in healthcare.
This podcast is brought to you by Zoom.
Talking points:
- ChristianaCare’s preparation for the pandemic
- Steps to take to secure virtual communications
- Responding to Zoom-bombing and similar threats
- Protecting against threats and bad actors in healthcare
- Why telecommunications platforms are important, even beyond telehealth
- Keeping data secure in multiple locations
- Advice for securing communications
- Importance of multi-factor authentication
- Keeping in mind clinician workflow and patient experience
- Moving toward hospital at home — the benefits and challenges
- Provider and patient security education
- Security is a patient safety issue
More about this episode:This episode's companion video on HIMSS TVTelehealth is biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity, says reportTelehealth poses big cybersecurity dangers, Harvard researchers warnAnahi Santiago, Christiana Care Health System: 'Security a safety issue'Cybersecurity in a pandemic year: One CISO's perspectiveCIO Spotlight: ChristianaCare's Randy GaboriaultCEO's perspective: Cybersecurity is a strategic imperative
The technology leader looks back on his decision, 10 years ago, to transition a 130-year old diversified conglomerate into a company focused on healthcare. He also describes the forward-looking investments Philips is making in data and informatics – and discusses the future of telemedicine, remote monitoring, imaging, artificial intelligence, patient experience and more.
Clover Health wants to improve physician performance by giving them access to cutting edge AI technology. But the company chose to enter the market not as a technology vendor but as an insurer, disrupting traditional payment structures and care navigation technology in one fell swoop. On today's HIMSSCast, Clover Health's Andrew Toy joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about his story and his own particular take on solving the healthcare cost crisis in America.
Talking points:
- What Clover does and how its different from other payers and other startups
- Clover Assistant, Clover’s provider-facing tech stack, and how it fits into their model
- Getting away from the idea of networks
- What does value-based care mean for Clover
- Who holds the risk? And why it should be the insurers
- Why the incentive alignment argument for value-based care is more complicated than people think
- Incentivizing doctors by giving them more powerful tools
- How health systems should fit into the value-based care landscape
- Why Clover launched as a payer and not a technology vendor
- Why Clover built its Assistant outside of the EHR
- Fixing healthcare means fixing healthcare for everyone
- How can innovation in insurance push through incumbent players?
More about this episode:Medicare Advantage insurtech startup Clover Health raises $500M
Clover Health will join the public market by merging with Social Capital SPAC
Clover Health's new subsidiary will rely on members, machine learning to fuel drug development
Clover Health laying off 25 percent of staff as it seeks new healthcare expertise
Clover Health gets $130M from Greenoaks, Google Ventures, others
Clover Health planning expansion into 101 new markets
Clover Health taps MedArrive to vaccinate its homebound MA members
Walmart partners with Clover Health to offer Medicare Advantage plans
Telehealth and virtual care have advanced leaps and bounds in 2020 and 2021, but there are still many ways in which the technology is inefficient or inaccessible, at least compared to what it could be. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, to talk about what the future might hold for telehealth and virtual care.
This is the latest episode in our Workforce Re-Entry series sponsored by Zoom.
Talking points
- Where are we now with virtual care?
- Data integration, triage chatbots, and other hallmarks of the future
- Aligning incentives to end data siloes
- Imagining a Google Maps/Waze for healthcare
- The blurring boundaries between health and wellness
- How do we handle privacy while unlocking novel biomarkers?
- Big Brother is watching… your health?
- Sorting out the advantages of physical vs virtual in the future
- Using technology to enhance clinicians
- Coordinating and integrating technologies we already have
- What’s on the horizon for health tech?
More about this episodeThe Virtual Care Paradigm: Going beyond telehealth for the future – and present – of care
Doctors look to tech for the future but need assurance it will work
HIMSSCast: Peeking into the future of healthcare
The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it
Zoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine
Kraft: Healthcare data-flow of the future will be fluid, proactive, and personalized
While the world has been glued to Elizabeth Holmes' trial, the digital health startup world hasn't given up on the original dream of Theranos: convenient, accessible, low-cost blood testing available at retail locations in the community. In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock checks in with David Stein, CEO of Babson Diagnostics. The company has developed a low-volume blood test that can be operated without a phlebotomist and can perform a large panel of often-requested diagnostics. Jonah and David discuss why this technology is important, how it works, and what it's like to operate in this space when the wounds from the Theranos scandal are still fresh.
Talking points:
- Babson’s pitch (and the elephant in the room)
- Doing accessible blood testing “without cheats”
- Partnering with retailers, Siemens, and BD
- Innovating the blood draw itself, and why its important
- Innovating the logistics of the testing industry
- A win-win for consumers, payers, providers, and retailers
- How easy consumer blood testing can fit into other virtual care trends
- The impact of the Theranos scandal on the blood testing industry
- How Babson approaches innovation at scale
- Consumer blood testing and health equity
- Helping people take control of their own health
- Integrating point solutions into one healthcare ecosystem
More about this episode:Theranos whistleblower talks ethics in health tech startups
Time for Innovation in Blood Testing Technology (from Babson's website)
'Omnichannel' is the new watchword as big tech, retail get serious about healthcare
Blood testing startup partners with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center to support COVID-19 quarantine measures
In the second episode of "Industry Voices", we talk to a range of healthcare changemakers encountered at HLTH in Boston last month about health equity. Is the industry's attitude toward this important topic changing? Is it changing fast enough? And what steps and attitudes will be necessary to make the future of healthcare an inherently equitable one?
This episode features the voices of Cityblock Health President Toyin Ajayi, UC Davis Chief Information and Digital Health Officer Ashish Atreja, Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, Deloitte Partner Peter Micca, and Uber Global Head of Health Caitlin Donovan.
More about this episode:Cityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundings
Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid means addressing the affordability crisis
Deloitte's Gebreyes: 'Health equity is a moral imperative that requires a business solution'
Leveraging technology to achieve health equity
Addressing health inequities upstream can curb later health disparities
Health equity, SDOH key priorities for ONC, says deputy national coordinator
Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities (Healthcare IT News Special Collection)
HFMA's first Black chair tells finance leaders to focus on diversity, inclusion and health equity
To give patients the healthcare experience they expect, providers and payers must first free themselves from rigid data architectures, legacy hardware, and monolithic patient record and care applications. Hear how Humana is using FHIR to address these challenges and build the future of connected healthcare.
In a field as quickly changing as healthcare, ongoing training and education are essential. And just as it did with telehealth and physician collaboration, COVID has helped to accelerate work that was already going on in remote medical education. In today's episode of HIMSSCast, we will talk to two startup founders working on remote workforce training from different angles. First, host Jonah Comstock chats with Osso VR CEO and cofounder Dr. Justin Barad, then Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich talks to Jennifer Fried, CEO and cofounder of ExplORer Surgical.
This podcast is part of our Workforce Re-entry Series, brought to you by Zoom.
Talking points:
- Justin's background in video games and surgery
- Issues with healthcare workforce training: a lot to learn, complex procedures, no way to assess
- What’s the role of VR and what it can do
- How did we teach and practice surgery before VR?
- What it takes to become proficient in a surgical procedure
- How medical education broadly is changing
- VR fidelity — how it’s changing and why it is (and isn’t) important
- How ExplORer Surgical helps to make surgeries accessible remotely for teachers and students
- Disadvantages to physically observing surgeries
- Advantages to remote observation
- Dealing with connectivity issues in hospitals
- How to maintain a secure environment with remote training
- What’s coming up in technology and regulation
More about this episode:At ortho meeting, VR companies announce industry-advancing partnershipsSurgeon training company Osso VR closes $27M Series BSurgical training tool Osso VR adds assessment, more language supportIntraoperative support platform ExplORer Surgical collects $2.5M in new fundingSurgical support software maker ExplORer raises $5M
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have widespread potential in healthcare, from diagnostic analysis and clinical decision support to data management and patient engagement. On today's episode, GSR Ventures partners Sunny Kumar and Justin Norden join host Laura Lovett for a far-reaching discussion of what they're seeing in the world of healthcare AI.
Talking points:
- What investors are looking at/for in AI
- Low hanging fruits and hard problems
- AI is not currently about replacing doctors
- AI’s potential for mental health
- How AI can make medicine more, not less personal
- The lack of innovation in clinical trials and how it’s changing
- Culture clash in healthcare and startups
- Regulatory updates and reimbursement challenges
- The present and future of digital therapeutics
- Health equity and value-based care
- Driving efficiencies in care and looking for the next telemedicine
More about this episode:Healthcare innovation, digital health rake in big investment dollars in Q3Q&A: Deloitte's Peter Micca on the digital health investment boom, going public and value-based careAI development must be guided by ethics, human wellbeing and responsible innovationHow CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 yearsAI and the tradeoff between fairness and efficacy: 'You actually can get both'
The American Telemedicine Association and other business groups want Congress to continue allowing telehealth services to be treated as an excepted benefit, and senior assistance company Papa raises $150 million in Series D funding.
Health care employee well-being is often touted as a business necessity, and strong evidence confirms that it’s smart business. Accenture’s multi-industry “Care to do Better” study shows how it unlocks workers’ full potential, with significant positive business impact. The study references the Accenture “Net Better Off” framework, which quantifies human well-being in terms of six dimensions. Learn how human pressures affect your health workforce and uncover our four suggestions to leave your staff (and business) better off.
After its rapid adoption during the pandemic, virtual care is here to stay. Going forward, providers must balance in-person and virtual care to provide a seamless experience for patients along every step of the care journey.
Lisa Johnson, managing director, Tegria, and Srini Surendranath, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Andor Health, discuss how understanding the patient journey is vital for developing workflows that incorporate both virtual and in-person care.
Recently, the HIMSSCast team had a chance to sit down with a wide range of healthcare innovators at HLTH in Boston to discuss what they saw as the major trends shaping the evolution of heathcare. One that came up over and over again was value-based care. We talked to notables including Jonathan Bush, Glenn Tullman, Toyin Ajayi and many more about how changing how we pay for healthcare is opening the door to radically re-imagine how we provide it.
This is the first in a series of "Industry Voices" episodes where we'll feature a wide range of guests speaking on a single theme.
More about this episode:'You can’t navigate your way through a broken system': Transcarent's Glen Tullman on healthcare cost, quality
'Omnichannel' is the new watchword as big tech, retail get serious about healthcare
How retail giant Walmart plans to disrupt the healthcare industry
Retail giant Best Buy snaps up remote monitoring company Current Health
Innovation can increase the value of employer-sponsored care
Firefly Health launches virtual-first health plan for small and mid-sized employersCityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundings
Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid means addressing the affordability crisis
A shortage of nurses and other healthcare workers continue to hurt hospitals' financial performance, and senior living communities and health systems will soon be able to use the Alexa voice assistant at scale.
Democrats push for healthcare provisions in reconciliation bill; Google unveils mobile version of Care Studio. Plus: Providence CIO touts benefits of AI and machine learning.
Links to the stories:
CBO estimates $553 billion price tag for healthcare provisions in reconciliation package
Google rolls out mobile app version of Care StudioHow CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years
In the final podcast in our Virtual Care paradigm series, we look at how virtual care for mental health can benefit not only patients but also physicians themselves, who face many barriers to mental health care and as a result suffer from high levels of stress, burnout, and even suicide. To discuss this issue and its potential solution, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Kavi Misri, founder and CEO of Rose Health, and Dr. Matthew Peters, chief medical officer at Rose Health and an associate professor and practicing physician at Johns Hopkins.
Talking points:
- How the Rose Health system works and why it was developed
- Mental health assessment scores and why they help
- Using the Rose Health system to combat physician burnout
- Issues that arise when clinicians seek mental health treatment
- Physician burnout in this pandemic moment
- Virtual care and how it can help
- Fitting mental health into the busy physician lifestyle
- The vicious cycle of staff shortages and burnout
- Positive indications from Rose’s early efforts
More about this episode:Brigham and Women's pilots new program to support provider mental health
Burnout in the Age of COVID-19, a Healthcare IT News special project
Gaining trust starts with knowing the patient, provider (this episode's companion HIMSS TV episode)
Digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' available to 50 million adults in Germany
Clinicians share technology’s two-sided effect on burnout
Here why Fast Interoperability Health Resources, or FHIR, is the new agent of change in healthcare. Organizations around the world are capitalizing on FHIR adoption, using the new data standard to kickstart their legacy modernization and digital transformation journey.
Medicare Advantage star ratings released; Security firm raises FIN12 ransomware attack concerns. Plus: Withings receivesan FDA clearance for Scan Watch’s ECG and SpO2 monitoring features .
Links to the stories:
See the rankings: More than 70 health plans earned 5 stars in Medicare Advantage star ratings
Cyber experts warn of 'aggressive' threat actor targeting healthcareWithings scores FDA clearance for smartwatch ECG and SpO2 monitoring
The CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program is one of the first lifestyle and behavior-based interventions to be proven, in a large clinical study, to be more effective than a comparable drug (in this case metformin). Digital implementations can make the DPP more accessible and more scalable, and a number of digital health companies have been tackling this for the last few years.
Fruit Street Health is one of those companies and its CEO Laurence Girard joins host Jonah Comstock on today's HIMSSCast to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and successes his company has had in this space.
Talking points:
- A brief history of the CDC Diabetes Prevention Program
- Why Fruit Street and others are taking the DPP digital
- Challenges and opportunities of virtual DPP implementation
- Ongoing reimbursement challenges with Medicare and Medicaid
- Advantages of group-based programs via video chats
- Questions and misconceptions about scalability
- Making sure pre-diabetes interventions work for everyone
- Cultural food expectations and combatting food deserts, both through partnerships
- Direct-to-consumer DPP outreach
- Are DPP programs (in-person and virtual) making a dent in the problem?
More about this episode:Fruit Street to deliver CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program through live video classesFruit Street Health raises $3 million in doctors-only round
UK passes on Apple, Google's Bluetooth contact tracing tool, Fruit Street Health launches COVID-19 telemedicine platform and more digital health news briefsAHIP, CDC to partner on diabetes preventionMedicare to reimburse for Diabetes Prevention Program, including Omada's digital versionDiabetes Prevention Program under the Affordable Care Act is working, HHS Secretary Burwell saysAmerican Medical Association pushes public, private health plans to cover National Diabetes Prevention ProgramCMS calls for extending Diabetes Prevention Program into Medicare, proposes new doc fees to boost chronic care
Join Mobile Heartbeat Chief Operating Officer, Mike Detjen, as he uses his expertise to project future capabilities of the clinical collaboration space.
Lenovo will discuss what was learned by attending all the sessions at HIMSS. They will offer their impressions and opinions for how Lenovo can best adapt and transform the way we got to market and productively enable our customers. We want to be the number one technology provider that Healthcare leaders think about when making new technology decisions.
State licensure and differing regulations on privacy, licensure, and more have always been a barrier to virtual care models that seek to care for anyone with an Internet connection. Which of those hurdles have been overcome and which still remain? And how did COVID-19 and its associated waivers affect this complex issue?
On this episode of HIMSSCast, a tie-in to our Virtual Care Paradigm series, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Heather Alleva, an associate at Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney specializing in healthcare law, to get a rundown on some of these issues, including some little-known practice restriction. If you're thinking about starting a multi-state virtual care business, be sure to give this one a listen.
Talking points:
- How COVID affected licensure laws and what’s happening to them now
- How different state laws affect telehealth reimbursement
- How reimbursement affects adoption and investment
- Pros and cons of payment parity
- Telehealth licensure compacts and where they are today
- Limits and levers of federal government power
- How the government can lead by example
- How restrictions can hinder telehealth innovation
- Privacy and security legislative barriers
- The corporate practice of medicine prohibition
- Antitrust laws and health technology
- How to navigate the complexities of telehealth regulations
More about this episode:Virtual care regulation: What's next (this episode's companion TV segment)
Now is the time for providers to be proactive about telehealth
22 states changed telemedicine laws during the pandemic
Report shows 'vast improvement' in state telehealth reimbursement policies
The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes
Building an interstate regulatory framework for telemedicine
How a Supreme Court case about teeth whitening could bolster telemedicine interests (2015 throwback)
Cerner mandating COVID-19 vaccines for all U.S employees; SWORD Health acquires wearable firm Vigilant Technologies . Plus: Air ambulance services among commercial insurers have risen 27.6% .
Links to the stories:
Cerner announces vaccine mandate as Feinberg takes the reinsSWORD Health buys workplace health-focused wearable company Vigilant TechnologiesAir ambulance charges rise 28% in four years, analysis finds
Digital transformation has increased exponentially in the healthcare industry over the past year, as organizations harness the power of digital to reach patients, accelerate research and develop new therapies to beat the global pandemic. Unfortunately, this digital transformation has been paired with an increasing cohort of highly capable cyber extortionists that have been using ransomware to compromise operations and hold patient data hostage to extract money from health organizations. As ransomware attacks become more rampant and advanced in our industry, the risk of an organization falling victim is more real than ever. In light of this reality, one question stands central for all of us: how do we make sure we are prepared to prevent and respond to a ransomware attack.
As Healthcare organizations explore how to evolve the care delivery model, they must consider how to safely evolve within an ever-increasing threat landscape. Modernizing Healthcare IT solutions provide great promise to improve Secure Care environments, but in order to ensure adoption and achieve maximum value, all stakeholders must be involved.
Join Kevin Crosby, Dell Technologies Healthcare Director, Americas as he discusses how Healthcare IT can enable innovation and the evolution of the care delivery model, ultimately helping Healthcare providers provide better outcomes for the organization and their patients.
Walmart to begin rolling out Epic platform in its healthcare centers; 73% of metropolitan areas are controlled by large health insurers . Plus: Amazon adds to its fitness tracking line with Halo View.
Links to the stories:
Walmart Health announces partnership with EpicAMA: Nearly three-quarters of metropolitan areas are concentrated health insurance markets
New Amazon Halo device and features compete against Fitbit, Apple Fitness+
TytoCare's Marcos Domiciano joins host Jonah Comstock for a discussion for the unique opportunities and challenges of telehealth in schools, and how TytoCare's approach to combining video visits with connected devices has proven a good fit for this area.
Talking points:
- TytoCare’s differentiator — telehealth plus remote examination tools
- Unique challenges to school-based telehealth
- How COVID-changed school-based telehealth
- Telehealth at universities vs grade schools
- Controlling the spread of COVID-19 at universities
- Patient engagement through telehealth with students
- The components of the TytoCare virtual care kit
- Specific clinical use cases common in schools
- Efficacy data of TytoCare’s school-based efforts
More about this episode:Expanding telehealth into schools proves effective to address children's health needs
How a remote Maine school union uses telehealth for a variety of needs
Schools turning to telehealth to improve care for the underserved
TytoCare raises an additional $50M for its oversubscribed Series D round
TytoCare, Prisma Health partner to expand telehealth services
In this new episode of the HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast series, a HIMSSCast production, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Sue Feldman, RN, PhD, director of the graduate programs in health informatics at University of Alabama at Birmingham.
We chat about some of her projects at UAB before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the “Map it, Zap it” coronavirus symptom tracker she has helped develop, and the GuideSafe initiative she spearheaded with support of Alabama’s governor, which has helped maintain in-person learning at schools across the state.
We also discuss her ethos of “innovation, implementation and collaboration” and learn more about new health IT projects she’s working on as we seek a new normal beyond the public health emergency.
Earlier this year, HIMSS (parent company of Healthcare IT News) named the first recipients of the Changemakers in Health Awards, meant to recognize leaders worldwide who are harnessing information and technology toward better health outcomes. Check back in the weeks and months ahead for more podcast interviews with other healthcare leaders from this year’s list.
Themes and talking points in this Changemaker Podcast episode:
- The health and safety trackers developed and stood-up quickly at UAB in March 2020
- How those tools enabled safer reopening and face-to-face learning in Alabama schools
- Lessons learned and surprises from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Why it’s important to have a “We can do this!” approach to technology challenges
- How public health crises can spur lasting innovation
- How Feldman’s experience as a nurse shapes her IT and informatics work
Increasing adoption of 5G in healthcare organizations and new developments in AI and machine learning are two major trends of the moment in health IT. On today's show, HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich and CHOC Chief Intelligence and Information Officer Dr. Anthony Chang join host Jonah Comstock for a conversation about how these trends intersect and why 5G (and beyond?) will help support the future of healthcare AI.
This episode is brought to you by Verizon.
Talking points:
- 5G’s impact on health technology in the next 10 years
- Standout AI use cases in the COVID-19 era
- How AI can help manage patient-generated health data
- AI, information overload, and information insufficiency
- Federated and swarm learning — sharing insights without sharing data
- How 5G will enable new kinds of AI
- AI for clinical decision support
- Playing the long game and avoiding another AI winter
- Preventing AI bias (with AI’s help)
- The future of AI and 5G
More about this episode:5G is here: How health systems can capitalize on the new cellular standard
5G is primed to enable continuous, data-heavy health innovations, but hospitals need to prepare
5G: Are we ready for the next generation?
5 use cases for private 5G networks in hospitals
AI is fast-evolving for an array of use cases
AI in healthcare: Separating myth from reality
AI could help make physician work 'more interesting,' cardiologist says
To develop effective AI, developers and clinicians must work together
Misconceptions of AI and ML in healthcare debunked
Hospitals poised to lose $54B in net income this year; Apple looks to create new mental health detection feature . Plus: Ransomware attacks during COVID-19 have impacted patient safety and care availability.
Links to the stories:
Hospitals projected to lose $54 billion in net income this year
Apple looks to digital biomarkers for features detecting depression, cognitive declinePonemon study finds link between ransomware, increased mortality rate
Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSCast a team of HIMSS Media editors — host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, MobiHealthNews Senior Editor Emily Olsen, and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard —talk about the developing story and try to put it in the context of digital health and health IT news trends.
Talking points:
- The GetHealth data breach: What happened?
- The FTC response — enforcement and clarification of breach notification rules
- Consumerized health plays catch-up with HIPAA
- How this news affects other trends like Apple health sharing
- Apple’s recent spyware breach
- Why your health data is valuable to bad actors
- Lessons learned from this data breach and questions going forward
- Affect on consumer trust and lessons for consumers
- What comes next?
More about this episode:
Fitbit, Apple fitness tracker data exposed on unprotected database
FTC says it will fine digital health companies that don't disclose data breaches
FTC warns connected device orgs: Comply with breach rule, or pay up
Apple releases emergency update to fix spyware vulnerability
Apple's health data sharing feature now live
HIMSSCast: What the new info blocking rules mean for you — with Deven McGraw
Drug prices are a major topic of conversation these days as the Biden administration grapples with federal options for mitigating what many see as out of control costs for specialty drugs. To put some context to the news, HIMSSCast host and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome to the show AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx, to talk a bit about why drug pricing is the way it is and what can be done.
Talking points:
- Why are drug prices so poorly defined for doctors and patients?
- Capital Rx’s market-efficiency hypothesis
- How Capital Rx operates and negotiates lower prices
- Why rebates are a part of drug pricing
- What the government can and should do to affect drug pricing
- Drug pricing needs to be transparent and consistent
- Why US prices affect global pharma companies and vice versa
- Who benefits from drug pricing inflation?
- Could startups reduce drug prices the way Robinhood reduced investment costs?
More about this episode:Linking U.S. prescription drug prices to those paid in other nations could cut costs in half
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra releases proposal to lower prescription drug costs
PhRMA battles Biden on proposal for Medicare to negotiate drug prices
Biden pushes for lower drug prices in $3.5 trillion budget proposal
Govs. Chris Christie and Terry McAuliffe trade jabs at HIMSS21
Folx Health lands $25M to develop its LGBTQA+ health platform, Digital PBM Capital Rx scores $50M and more digital health fundings
Lawsuit alleges Aetna discriminates against LGBTQ+ members; Organizations at security risk due to skills gaps. Also: Elvie launches smart breast pump.
Links to the stories:
Aetna hit with lawsuit claiming LGBTQ+ fertility discrimination
Skills gap in healthcare IT industry cause security threats, according to new reportElvie launches new smart breast pump in the US covered by insurance
The chief innovation officer of Geisinger's Steele Institute for Health Innovation discusses how COVID-19 led to new thinking about technology-enabled cost and quality improvements – and why the pandemic has shown that fee-for-service doesn't work.
The EHR revolutionized medical record-keeping, but it also created burdensome workflows that create barriers to positive patient-doctor relationships, negatively impacting the experiences of both patients and physicians and even contributing heavily to clinician burnout.
Augmedix CMO and practicing physician Dr. Davin Lunquist joins us on today's episode of HIMSSCast to talk about the realities of documentation burden and what his company is doing to combat it.
Today's podcast is brought to you by Medallia.
Talking points:
- Davin’s background in clinical practice and at Augmedix
- How the introduction of the EHR has led to documentation burnout
- Documentation’s impact on the patient experience
- The difference between electronic and paper records
- Different approaches to solving for documentation burden
- Differences between dictation, transcription, and scribing
- The advantages of tech-enabled, remote scribing
- Real-time and recorded scribing
- Security and privacy provisions for scribing
- How do patients feel about a third person in the room?
- Augmedix’s scribing offering and telehealth
- What’s next for Augmedix?
- How scribing affects note accuracy
More about this episode:Nursing leaders share strategies for reducing documentation burden
How to improve clinical documentation
AI-assisted EHR documentation will need human help
EHR automation is helping reduce clinician burden
Augmedix's device-based remote scribing system announces $19M Series B
Augmedix raises $23M for Google Glass-powered remote scribe platform
Amazon expanding telehealth and in-person care to 20 more cities; Cityblock Health raises $400M in funding round. Also: AHIP is concerned about the timeline for an interim final rule on surprise billing.
Links to the stories:
Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more citiesCityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundingsAHIP wants more time for insurers to implement the interim final rule on surprise billing
Before COVID, many practices were hardly using telehealth for anything. During COVID, many practices had to use telehealth for nearly everything. The next era in telehealth will be about picking and choosing the right use cases for telehealth.
On today's HIMSSCast, Oak Street Health Regional Medical Director Dr. Laolu Fayanju joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich and host Jonah Comstock to discuss telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and choosing the right patients and use cases for virtual care.
This episode is brought to you by BlueJeans.
Talking points:
- A little about Laolu and Oak Street Health
- High-touch doesn’t necessarily mean in-person
- How COVID-19 forced telehealth adoption
- Oak Street’s telehealth operation, including tablet delivery and remote patient monitoring
- Deciding when to use telehealth and for whom
- Remote patient monitoring’s potential
- “It takes a village” - the importance of team-based care
- Health equity and advocating for the patient
- Embracing technology across different demographics
- The potential — and dangers — of consumer wearables
More about this episode:How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth?
How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician
American Board of Telehealth launches certificate for virtual primary care
Will virtual primary care become a new model of healthcare delivery?
Zooming into the next phase of care delivery: 10 emerging trends in a post-COVID-19 world
Contributed: Patients deserve virtual care that better integrates, and doesn’t compete with, in-person care
Oak Street Health decision support system reduces readmissions by 26%
How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most
California union workers score raises in new contracts; Inspiration4 to collect data on effects of space flight. Also: Telehealth should focus on interoperability, usability.
Links to the stories:
Caregivers at three California Tenet Healthcare hospitals approve double-digit pay raises in new contracts
Inspiration4 mission expands health research on spaceflightStanford researchers: Telemedicine optimization requires training, interoperability
On today's HIMSSCast, we welcome Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of telehealth for the UPMC health plan, and Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News managing editor, to discuss the link between telehealth and value-based care: how new payment models can enable adoption of telehealth and how technologies like telehealth can push the industry towards new payment models, as well as the extent to which both of these things have happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This podcast is part of our Workplace Re-entry series and is brought to you by Zoom for Healthcare. It is a companion piece to this HIMSS TV episode with Danielle Louder.
Talking points:
- Does value-based care make payment parity irrelevant?
- Telehealth after COVID-19
- Telehealth is more than video visits
- How technology is driving us toward value-based care
- How telehealth and value-based care are working at UPMC
- How UPMC uses telehealth for urgent care
- The utilization question and supply-induced demand
- The future of reimbursement
- How telehealth adoption post-COVID is going
- Telehealth and behavioral health
- Advice for value-based care implementation
More about this episode:
Future of telehealth for health systems depends on infrastructure and analytics
Value-based care gains traction during COVID-19
CMS announces a new value-based payment model for rural healthcare providers
HIMSSCast: The future of telehealth reimbursement
Telehealth is expected to drive $29 billion in healthcare services in 2020
athenahealth's VP predicts more value-based care, investor interest and an evening out of telehealth in 2021
Everyone is talking about value-based care, and everyone says it's coming soon. But how soon is soon? And what, specifically, is value-based care? You may be familiar with the concept, but are you familiar enough that you'd know how to change your workflow if your hospital announced a shift to value-based care tomorrow?
To address this information gap, Humana and the University of Houston launched a value-based care education course on Coursera earlier this year. Tray Cockerell, director of strategic relationships at Humana, and Avra Bowers, medical director at Humana, join host Jonah Comstock to discuss the course, how it came about, and why it's needed now.
Talking points:
- How the value-based care course came about
- Defining value-based care as more than a payment method
- Value-based care as team-based, coordinated care
- Pro-active vs reactive care — preventing poor outcomes
- Limitations of fee for service around social determinants of health
- What the course does and who it’s for
- Practical skills around value-based care for providers
- How to use the course if your organization hasn’t switched to value-based care yet
- The importance of measuring and communicating metrics
- The role of technology in the future of value-based care
- Tray and Avra’s parting thoughts
More about this episode:Humana, University of Houston announce value-based care specialization program
Value-based care Specialization on Coursera (the course in question)
Humana collaborating with providers to offer value-based care for those with original Medicare
2021 will bring more value-based care
We have reached a 'pivotal moment' for value-based care
Health leaders question how, not if, value-based care should be implemented
CMS issues roadmap for states to accelerate adoption of value-based care
Feinberg’s departure, and Google’s strategic shift, has raised questions about whether big tech firms are truly equipped to take on the healthcare space.
*FHIR, AI, and the cloud are reshaping healthcare, radically altering how organizations engage with patients. Learn how to embrace the changes, and drive more meaningful healthcare outcomes with MongoDB.
Patients expect a more personal and digitally enabled healthcare experience. In this podcast, Jeff Needham, Principal, Healthcare Solutions and Robert Oberhofer, Head of Product Solutions at MongoDB discuss how the most successful providers and organizations will be those who embrace new technologies, like the cloud, and leverage data to deliver the best patient experiences and health outcomes.*
For a long time, the standard of care in mental and behavioral health has been some combination of pharmaceuticals and talk therapy. But with FDA-cleared, rigorously vetted digital health apps, there's a new piece of the puzzle, and it has the potential to combine the advantages of therapy with the scalability of drugs.
In this episode of HIMSSCast, Big Health CEO Peter Hames joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about the future of mental health and lessons learned so far.
This episode is brought to you by Carahsoft.
Talking points:
- What Big Health is all about
- Scalable mental health therapies
- Treating algorithms and therapies like drugs
- Efficacy data and safety of digital therapeutics vs drugs
- How pharma companies are responding to digital therapeutics
- Predicting the future of mental health care
- Big Health’s partner relationships
- Mental health stigma and digital therapeutics
- Digital therapeutics have arrived
- What’s next for Big Health?
More about this episode:Sleep, stress app maker Big Health locks in $39M Series B raise
Big Health follows up Sleepio with Daylight, an app for anxiety
CVS Health kicks off digital health-friendly service for PBM clients with Big Health’s Sleepio
Simulation model: Big Health's Sleepio drives greater cost savings than group CBT or drug therapy
From Big Health:
- Sleepio randomized controlled trial showing 76% of patients achieved remission from insomnia.
- Daylight randomized controlled trial showing that 71% of patients achieved remission from clinical anxiety.
- Economic evaluation of a Fortune 500 employer showing $1,677 lower annualized healthcare costs per employee.
- JAMA study showing that Sleepio improves broad health outcomes including: functional health, psychological well-being, and sleep-related qualities.
Healthcare IT is on the cusp of finally realizing the long-discussed, much-hyped, yet ever-elusive promise of true interoperability. Why now? Because of the cloud, and cloud vendors’ embrace of open standards in their APIs. The cloud also offers other potential benefits to healthcare IT – for instance, wider use of AI and robust analytics – but the real game-changer will be widespread system interoperability. In this podcast, PatientKeeper CTO John Kelly discusses how the migration of health IT to the cloud will make the vast trove of patient data that has been digitized over the past decade more broadly accessible and clinically useful.
This week the HIMSS global conference was back in person after the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined last year's event. After a week packed with hundreds of educational sessions, scores of vendor demonstrations and new meet and greets, the HIMSS Media editors sit down for a debrief on cybersecurity, patient experience, public health, and more.
Talking points:
- The mood and feel at HIMSS21
- New cyber attacks require innovations in cybersecurity
- More attention paid to the voice of the patient
- Public health infrastructure gaps exposed by the pandemic
- More work still needed on interoperability
- Incorporating health equity and clinical trial diversity into the conversation
- AI/ML in a low-key but foundational role
- Star Trek and the Jetsons -- models for healthcare
- Some keynote highlights
- COVID lessons, positive and negative
- The telehealth explosion and its aftermath
- Value-based care is coming, but when?
- Notes from the Pharma forum
More about this episode: ONC, CDC want to fix the fragmented public health system COVID-19 exposed
HIMSS21 tech news: cloud, analytics and interoperability developments
Updates and lessons learned from AstraZeneca, MGH's AMAZE platform
Govs. Chris Christie and Terry McAuliffe trade jabs at HIMSS21
COVID-19 shined light on new opportunities for public health on social media
AI is the new paradigm in forecasting infectious disease risk
Former ONC head Rucker: APIs will ‘empower totally new business models’Rainn Wilson makes us grateful for being number two
DHA director: Information and technology drive effective pandemic response
As technological advances continue to disrupt the traditional primary-care model, providers must find a way to reconcile patients’ expectations for personal attention and on-demand service with an increasingly tech-driven healthcare landscape.
COVID-19 pandemic exposes vulnerabilities in the digital ecosystem; CMS anticipates $33 Medicare Part D Premiums . Plus: WellSky is deepens its social determinants of health offerings by acquiring Healthify.
Links to the stories:
Healthcare data breaches on the riseMedicare Part D average premiums to increase nearly 5% in 2022, CMS says
WellSky beefs up community care tools with Healthify acquisition
Limitations and uncertainty around telehealth reimbursement have always been an impediment to adoption. During the COVID-19 emergency, that burden was eased somewhat, but now the new normal is starting to take shape. What barriers still remain to telehealth reimbursement, and how might they be overcome? To answer that question, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome McKinsey & Company Partners Oleg Bestsennyy and Gunjan Khanna.
This episode is brought to you by BlueJeans.
Talking points:
- COVID-19 reimbursement changes and which of them will stick around
- Adoption lessons learned and how they’ll influence reimbursement policy
- Holistic tele-care and care beyond the video visit
- Influence of new entrants and innovation on the space
- Is fee-for-service reimbursement an innovation blocker?
- Reimbursement for different telehealth modalities
- Time to lead rather than follow for private payers?
- The still-unresolved question of induced utilization
- The rise of value-based care and hybrid care models
- Telehealth reimbursement and health equity
- How are patients feeling about telehealth now?
- Final thoughts: the future of telehealth reimbursement
More about this episode:Report shows 'vast improvement' in state telehealth reimbursement policies
COVID-19 may permanently alter the telehealth landscape, from reimbursement to utilization
Telehealth reimbursement parity spurs insurer concerns of overutilization
CMS will reimburse for 11 new telehealth services during the public health emergencyTelehealth: A quarter-trillion-dollar post-COVID-19 reality? (McKinsey)
COVID-19 Consumer Healthcare Insights: What 2021 may hold (McKinsey)
How COVID-19 has changed the way US consumers think about healthcare (McKinsey)
Health systems across the board are increasingly embracing digital transformation initiatives as the impact of the pandemic subsides. The events of the past year have highlighted areas in need of immediate change that demand a different approach. Key among these changes is simplification of the clinical IT experience, reducing and removing IT backpressure that distracts caregivers from the clinical experience. By deliberately approaching the resources and information clinicians need, presented as a simplified and aggregated set of tools, Healthcare IT can accelerate the digital transformation efforts.
2020 was the year that "Zoom" entered our vocabulary as a verb meaning "to video chat". For Zoom it was a year that their customer base exploded, including in the healthcare space. It was a year of validation for the then nine-year-old tech company, but also a year of the sorts of challenges that come from rapid, unexpected scaling.
On today's HIMSSCast, Zoom Head of Healthcare joins guest host Kat Jercich to look back at a tumultuous time, and look ahead to the future.
This episode is brought to you by Zoom.
Talking points:
- Zoom’s pre-pandemic healthcare business and how it changed
- Factors that helped Zoom in healthcare thrive during the pandemic
- Dealing with a huge uptake in customer and end user volume
- Patient engagement with telehealth, a pleasant surprise
- Focusing on convenience and flexibility, with or without reimbursement
- Accommodating people with disabilities and different needs
- Zoom’s journey to ubiquity
- Dealing with Zoom bombing and other security and privacy challenges
- Zoom’s mission to “deliver happiness”
- Looking ahead to the future at Zoom
More about this episode:How to ensure your telehealth offering is up to code
What Zoom is bringing to telemedicine
Enterprise video conferencing company Zoom teams up with Epic to launch configurable telehealth platform
TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use
Using Zoom with Epic to bring telehealth to kids during COVID-19
Weaving Zoom into workflow and updating EHR saves clinic during COVID-19
As Point-of-Care Ultrasound use continues to proliferate through the healthcare landscape, organizations are being challenged to properly capture, manage, and integrate that imaging content with the rest of the enterprise. It is imperative to develop a strategy early in your adoption of POCUS for consistent management of all types of clinical images. Proper planning ensures their availably and integrity for both clinical care and future research efforts. Julie McDonald, RN (Senior Customer Success Manager) and Lyle McMillin (Product Manager) will walk you through considerations and best practices Hyland has discovered for developing end-to-end POCUS workflows.
In this new episode of the HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast series, a HIMSSCast production, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Isaiah Nathaniel, chief information officer at Delaware Valley Community Health, a private, non-profit health system, based in Philadelphia, that provides medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients – whether or not they're able to pay.
In this interview, Nathaniel explains how Delaware Valley Community Health, which operates seven Federally Qualified Health Centers in the region, was able to respond to the early days of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and configuring and scaling up its IT resources and telehealth capabilities. He talks about interoperability, public health information exchange, vaccine outreach, SDOH data management and much more.
In June, HIMSS (parent company of Healthcare IT News) named the first recipients of the Changemakers in Health Awards, meant to recognize leaders worldwide who are harnessing information and technology toward better health outcomes. The awardees will be recognized at the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, scheduled for August 9-13 in Las Vegas. Check back in the weeks and months ahead for more podcast interviews with other healthcare leaders from this year's list.
Themes and talking points in this Changemaker Podcast episode:
- The importance and the value of FQHCs
- How DVCH was able to maintain its full workforce during the pandemic
- Deploying telehealth capabilities in just a week and a half
- Enabling interoperability that's equitable
- Building technology that better serves the patient and provider experience
Links related to this episode:
HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners
The role of health systems in empowering communities
Hospitals facing big hurdles to public health data reporting
Digital health literacy as a social determinant of health
FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M
Digital health tools can help with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Medical groups urge racial data collection efforts for COVID-19 vaccinations
Jenna Date and Adam Paulisick will share their ‘how to’s’ on the interactions, environment and process it takes to make services and products simple. They collaborated with a brilliant cross-functional team, and together they created a mobile interface for physicians. The team started with empathy for the doctors they served, they mixed in Human-Centered Design and a good dose of the agile development process. What emerged was a simple product; built by, and for, physicians. With wit, speed and a bit of humor, Jenna and Adam will retell their story, and reveal the growth mindset and 'secret sauce' that made the team’s collaboration a success for the physicians they serve.
Amwell pursues M&A to grow into new markets; AMA joins the call for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers . Plus: The Department of Veterans Affairs will not continue to deploy its Cerner electronic health record at any more sites for at least the next six months.
Links to the stories:
Amwell furthers behavioral health, patient automation services via SilverCloud, Conversa Health M&AAMA adds voice to providers and others calling for vaccine mandates for healthcare workers
VA will stop Cerner EHR rollouts until next year
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome Heather Mack — former MobiHealthNews Associate Editor and now the head of content and editorial and Greylock Partners — to look back at another serious funding quarter for digital health, and identify some of the trends that drove the investment.
This episode is brought to you by OnTrak.
Talking points:
- How the pandemic exposed the promise, and importance, of digital health
- Mental health care as a major investment trend in the quarter
- Is "digital health" just health now?
- People are realizing how much digital health can do
- Digital health is here to stay — not a bubble
- Adoption, not innovation, is the current biggest driver
- Telehealth beyond the video visit
- Online healthcare habits are becoming the norm
- What's the over-saturation risk for digital health niches?
- SPACs and IPOs — what do they mean?
- M&As — consolidation vs diversification
- The impact of Amazon Haven's rise and fall
- Quiet innovation in backend AI/ML
- Expectations for the second half of the year
More about this episode:Q2 wraps up with more than $6.2 billion in digital health investments
Healthcare automation startup Olive scores $400M
Digital MSK startup SWORD Health lands $85M in Series C
With more mega deals on the table, 2021 has already surpassed last year's funding total, says Rock Health report
Maker of computerized cardiac models HeartFlow to go public via $2.4B SPAC merger
Baby tech company Owlet hits NYSE after closing SPAC merger
Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings
Weight loss app Noom scores $540M in Series F funding
Ro raises $500M, bringing its D2C virtual care business to a $5B valuationOscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19
Amazon Pharmacy offers customers six months of prescription medication for $6
Despite the widespread adoption telehealth saw during the COVID-19 pandemic, many telehealth deployments still fall short of real user-friendliness, providing less-than-ideal patient experiences, especially for certain populations that might have less access to reliable internet or less experience with telecommunications.
On this episode, guest host and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich welcomes Amy Sheon, research director at the Telehealth Equity Coalition, to discuss this important topic.
This episode is brought to you by BlueJeans.
Talking points:
- For whom is telehealth not working?
- Why it took health systems some time to tumble to their equity challenges
- Testing devices on the right groups
- Community health workers might be the key to reaching difficult populations
- The Telehealth Equity Coalition
- Other resources available for people making telehealth offerings more equitable
- Equity issues around internet access and digital redlining
- What can telehealth vendors do?
- Policy solutions for health equity
- Telehealth accessibility for people with disabilities
- Asynchronous communication as an accommodation
More about this episode:To achieve healthcare equity, telehealth must be expanded to rural and underserved communities Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study findsEliminating audio-only telehealth coverage could put safety net clinics at riskWomen are less likely to use video for telehealth careTelehealth may worsen digital divide for people with disabilitiesTelehealth has enabled wider access during COVID-19 – but not for everyoneCould telehealth worsen inequity? 'Not under my watch,' says HHS Sec. BecerraHims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition
Mobile Heartbeat CEO, Ron Remy, shares his perspective on the evolving clinical communication & communication landscape across the healthcare continuum. He explores the developing market needs and emerging trends that are informing the roadmap of his company.
Hear how enterprise IT strategies present numerous opportunities for improving and transforming healthcare including; improving administrative efficiencies, facilitating clinical advancement, and improving staff efficiency across numerous health system departments. As organizations look for a competitive edge, a cohesive IT strategy is critical to avoid the short-term outcomes of patch work approaches.
Direct contracting reimbursement model proving popular among payers and providers; Mass General teams with YouTube to tackle medical disinformation. Also: Gamified strategies show only modest success in changing people's health behaviors.
Links to the stories:
Providers, payers see direct contracting's capitation as an important move to value-based care
YouTube tapped to support access to accurate medical infoGamification boosts physical activity, healthy behaviors in new study
For the past several months, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki has been writing a series on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals throughout the US. For this installment of HIMSSCast, Bill and host Jonah Comstock are joined by Paul Coyne, NP, clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Joe Fisne, associate chief information officer at Geisinger Health System, to discuss some of the biggest learnings to come out of the series.
This podcast is brought to you by Zoom and is a companion to 'Telehealth is here to stay', episode 1 of our Workplace Re-entry series.
Talking points
- How COVID taught us how fast we can innovate
- The importance of video conferencing, internally as well as externally
- Physician collaboration and rapid prototyping
- How COVID-19 aligned priorities within hospitals
- An unexpected lesson: Hospital HR systems need improvement
- Comfortable vs uncomfortable innovation
- The future of telehealth utilization
More about this episodeHealth IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era (Bill's series)
Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year
What does the 'after COVID-19' business look like? IT leaders weigh in
CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools
How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges
Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 (Bill's previous series)
Security is not just a hardware or software issue. Privacy is not a static filter and safety is not just about signage. Our world has changed, along with the working environment, threat landscape, and the lines between work and life. Today’s IT Leaders need tools to address compliance. Technology partners can help IT Leaders address privacy, security, and safety compliance issues. In this podcast, we will discuss these 3 compliance focus areas and give real world advice on how IT Leaders address these areas with support from their technology partners.
The 2020s mark the transition to digital-first healthcare. By 2023,
65% of patients worldwide will have accessed care through a
digital front door as healthcare providers look for better ways to
improve access, engagement, and experiences across all
services. As such, the rapid adoption of virtual reality, 3D print, telehealth,
artificial intelligence (AI), microfluidics and other innovative
technologies are enabling healthcare providers and patients to
access their information conveniently and in real time. Such digital
enabled technologies are supporting care coordination across the
care continuum, connecting providers and patients, and bringing
care to patients when and where it is needed. However, this rapid
march to digital transformation has also shone a harsh spotlight on
the digital divide in healthcare. According to the Pew Research
Center, nearly 1 in 8 Americans lives in poverty, with low-income
individuals having lower rates of smartphone ownership (71%),
home broadband access (59%), Internet use (82%), and basic
digital literacy (53%).
Listen in as Fran Ayalasomayajula, HP’s Head of Digital Strategies
and Daniel Colling, Global Head of Healthcare Solutions and
Practice talk about patient-first technology innovations ranging from
VR, 3D Print and AI to Hospital at Home, Point-of-Care Diagnostics
and Intelligent Care Coordination. In this episode, we’ll explore
what happens when such technologies are developed and
intentionally implemented with these communities in mind. This will
be an engaging discussion on the new frontier of care delivery, one
that brings all providers and patients together and has a positive
impact on patient outcomes.
The pandemic showed healthcare organizations the importance of mobility, collaboration and streamlining clinical workflow. Going forward, IT departments can better support providers in delivering patient care by leveraging these lessons.
Explore the most pressing challenges of the post-COVID landscape, and discover how Hospital Automation technology is the linchpin of an elevated telehealth platform that bothpatients and clinicians can depend on.
Among the many offerings at HIMSS21 is The Future of Healthcare, a continuation of the State of Healthcare data-driven virtual event HIMSS hosted back in June. On this special episode of HIMSSCast, we welcome all four HIMSS Trust Partners and presenters to give a sneak peak of what's to come at the August event.
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett speak with Tom Kiesau, director and digital health leader at the Chartis Group; Lauren Goodman, director of market intelligence at HIMSS; Shreesh Tiwari, a principal at ZS; and Dr. Darryl Gibbings-Isaac, a senior manager in Accenture’s Health Strategy Practice.
Talking points:
- State of Healthcare takeaways
- Tension between learning technology lessons and getting back to normal
- Patient attitudes about machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Providers still looking for value proposition for AI, digital health adoption barriers
- How payers are embracing technological innovation
- The future of digital health investment
- Uncertainties: What will big tech companies do? What will providers prioritize?
- More uncertainties: Value-based care adoption, interoperability and patient data access
- Generational differences in patient attitudes
- New competitive threats for health systems, payers
- Keeping health equity and patient-centricity in mind as we build healthcare’s future
- The importance of trust in healthcare
- Technology’s potential to humanize healthcare
- How COVID-19 has and hasn’t changed healthcare
More about this episode:Register for HIMSS21
The State of Healthcare, ICYMI
The Future of Healthcare
HIMSSCast: State of Healthcare recap and Future of Healthcare preview
68% of health system execs plan deeper AI investments to meet strategic goals
Atrium Health's quick turnaround allowed for digital innovation during the pandemic
Patients are looking to go back to brick-and-mortar post pandemic
Oscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19
Payers focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has flagged unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates; A recently approved Alzheimer’s drug could strain Medicaid budgets . Plus: Amazon gets FCC clearance for radar sensors for remote sleep monitoring.
Links to the stories:
VA EHR update: Watchdog flags unreliable cost estimates, training deficienciesNew Alzheimer's drug could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion
FCC gives Amazon green light to use radar for monitoring sleep
Explore the most pressing challenges of the post-COVID landscape, and discover how Hospital Automation technology is the linchpin of an elevated telehealth platform that bothpatients and clinicians can depend on.
In this episode, we discuss some of the key steps in moving to the cloud, focusing on
four core concepts to help make your migration as smooth as possible. Understanding
your workloads, people and processes are critical to any major shift in operations, but
this is magnified with a shift into cloud environments. We talk with Jonnie Irvine, a
Principal Architect with Hyland Cloud Services with experience in public and private
cloud migrations from both sides of the process.
In the inaugural episode of The Changemaker Podcast, Alison Connelly-Flores, CMIO at Bronx-based Urban Health Plan, describes the hard-hit early days of COVID-19, strategies for vaccine distribution and the value of social determinants of health.
Medical, social services organizations advocate for passage of a new social determinants of health bill; Fitbit files patent for a ring that collects medical data . Plus: Supreme Court to hear challenge to HHS move to cut 340B drug reimbursement.
Links to the stories:
Hundreds of stakeholders support passage of SDOH bill in CongressFitbit patent reveals it could be working on a health monitoring ringSupreme Court to decide legality of drug payment cuts to 340B hospitals
CMS lacks authority to ensure hospital preparedness for next pandemic, says OIG; Virtual health company Ro plans to buy Kit in second acquisition in two months . Plus: Telehealth usage starting to decline as the pandemic wanes.
Links to the stories:
OIG says CMS lacks authority to ensure hospital safety during pandemicsRo purchases at-home diagnostic company Kit, marking its second M&A in two monthsReport: Telehealth use beginning to taper
The last 18 months in digital health have been tumultuous, to say the least, but as companies consolidate and go public some order is starting to emerge from the chaos. Scott Shreeve, CEO of Crossover Health, has some theories about what that is going to look like. Scott and host Jonah Comstock discuss payers, employers, providers, and patients and their relationships of trust and incentives in the newest episode of HIMSSCast.
Talking points:
- Consolidation in the telehealth space
- Comparing today’s telehealth landscape to the platform wars of the past
- A Cambrian explosion in digital health
- The pillars of “full stack” primary care
- Different approaches to digital health plays, and how they’ve evolved
- Why the employer makes sense as a customer, and how that dovetails with patient-centricity
- The role for a new kind of provider entity
- Trust as a currency in healthcare
- The future of healthcare payment models
- The difference in incentives between insurers and employers
- What effective incentive alignment looks like
More about this episode:
The Great Consolidation, Part 1: The Employer Health Platform Wars
The Great Consolidation, Part 2: The Four Pillars of Full Stack Care
The Great Consolidation, Part 3: The Three Organizing Categories for Employer Health Services
The Great Consolidation, Part 4: Trust as the Currency of Future Health
Digital-backed care provider Crossover Health hauls in $168M Series D
Why Crossover Health shut down Sherpaa, and how it's taking its lessons into the future
Scripps Health hit with multiple lawsuits following a ransomware attack; Amazon Web Services seeks to boost technical training for 10 digital startups. Plus: Five Blues plans launch for-profit pharmacy solutions startup.
Links to the stories:
Scripps Health hit with class action suits after ransomware attackAWS looks to digital health with new acceleratorFive Blues plans launch Evio, a for-profit company focused on lowering drug prices
At WWDC this month, Apple announced new health sharing features that allow users to share their health records and patient-generated data with family, caregivers, or their healthcare provider. On today's HIMSSCast, Michael Abrams, managing partner at Numerof & Associates, joins host Jonah Comstock to discuss the news and how it fits in the larger context of the healthcare system.
Talking points:
- Context for Apple’s latest health records announcement
- The impact of the new Apple capabilities
- How Apple is set up against the competition
- Apple’s ecosystem play
- Are patients ready to own and control their health data?
- Are physicians ready for patient-generated health data?
- Injecting coaches and other stakeholders to fill the data usage gap
- Wellness, prevention, and systemic incentives
- Do tech companies see value-based care on the horizon?
- The rise of the "payvider"
- Technology and the bottom line
More about this episode:Apple adds walking stability, family and provider health sharing, and more at WWDC 2021Apple's new health data sharing feature is part of the patient-controlled data trendApple Health Records launches out of beta with 39 health systemsHow patient-generated data contributes to clinician burnoutThe real-time health system: Adapting healthcare to the new normal
Earlier this week, HIMSS Trust Partners from the HIMSS, the Chartis Group, Accenture, and ZS came together to share new data and insights at the HIMSS State of Healthcare event. If you missed it, you can still register and check out the event on demand here.
But on this week's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett discuss some of the most interesting things they heard at the event. Then stay tuned for a special segment with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, who talks about what's to come at the companion, in-person event Future of Healthcare, scheduled for HIMSS 21 in Las Vegas in August.
Talking points:
- Changes in consumer attitudes about telehealth
- The state of healthcare from the patient’s perspective
- What’s holding back the “low-hanging fruit” technologies?
- Which changes are staying and which are going “back to normal”?
- AI & ML: Providers are bullish in general but light on specifics, while patients are generally uncomfortable but excited when they hear specifics
- Hospitals are bouncing back financially, but were lessons learned?
- Are hospitals underestimating new competitive threats?
- Looking ahead at the Future of Healthcare event
- How COVID-19 changed everything, and the role technology has to play
- How healthcare could follow in the footsteps of auto manufacturing
- Future of Healthcare highlights
More about this episode:68% of health system execs plan deeper AI investments to meet strategic goals
Payers focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning
To make new tech implementations work, patient consultant says to focus on the person
Oscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19
Atrium Health's quick turnaround allowed for digital innovation during the pandemic
A direct-to-consumer telehealth company looks to expand globally with new acquisition; AHA asks Express Scripts to rescind its 340B claims policy. Also: EHRs say customers can establish greater patient control over record-sharing with Apple Health app.
Links to the stories:
Hims & Hers eyes UK expansion with Honest Health acquisitionAHA wants Express Scripts to rescind 340B claims reporting policy
Cerner, Meditech to support record-sharing via Apple
Health Current’s CIO Keith Parker and IMO’s Chief Strategy Officer Dale Sanders discuss big data management in healthcare: challenges and lessons learned.
UnitedHealthcare institutes policy allowing it to retroactively deny ED claims; Apple unveils walking stability assessments in iPhone update . Also: Mount Sinai Health System teams with Caregility and Language Line to help cater to patients with limited English proficiency.
Links to the stories:
UnitedHealthcare looks to retroactively deny emergency room claims
Apple adds walking stability, family and provider health sharing, and more at WWDC 2021Mount Sinai eases translation in 200 languages through its Epic telehealth platform
These days, insuretech is its own burgeoning startup ecosystem. But in 2012, a startup elbowing into a space dominated by big longterm players like United, Humana, Cigna, and the Blues was audacious and unheard of. Enter Oscar Health, the health insurance startup that’s been pushing the envelope, exploring ways technology can improve the experience. For today's HIMSSCast, Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser joins host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse to tell his story and answer some questions about the company's latest moves. Along the way we discuss telehealth, value-based care, and more.
Be sure to check out Mario next week at the HIMSS State of Healthcare event on June 15th, where he'll represent the payer perspective on a panel of healthcare experts.
Talking points:
- What makes Oscar’s full-stack approach to technology different
- Differentiators: Automation, virtual primary care, +Oscar
- Major factors driving trends in healthcare
- How COVID boosted the virtual primary care business
- How Oscar overcame (and overcomes) healthcare’s first-mover curse
- ‘Shifting the battlefield” toward value-based care
- Driving Oscar towards profitability
- Oscar’s relationship with Cigna, and with other payers
- Moving toward the frontier of risk-based payments
- Why telemedicine and value-based care need each other
- The Catch-22 of risk-sharing in healthcare
- The emerging “orthogonal” healthcare system
- The last mile in telehealth
- Increasing provider interest in being in the health plan business
More about this episode:With $400M injection, tech-savvy health insurer Oscar eyes 1M member mark(from 2016)
Alphabet's $375 million in Oscar Health will expand insurer into Medicare Advantage business(from 2018) Oscar's new program aims to give providers and third-party payors access to its tech-backed insurance platformCigna, Oscar plan to expand affordable coverage for small businesses in ConnecticutOscar launches no-cost virtual primary care in planned 2021 expansionTech-minded insurance company Oscar Health announces IPOHealth insuretech company Oscar scores $225M in new fundingOscar lands $140M more as it prepares to scale in 2021
Eugene Borukhovich, COO of YourCoach, former global head of digital health at Bayer, and co-host of the podcast "A Shot of Digital Health Therapy", joins HIMSSCast for a wide-ranging discussion about his career and his unique perspective on digital health and health innovation. Be sure to check out host Jonah Comstock's appearance on Eugene's podcast as well.
Talking points:
- YourCoach: Applying digital health ideas to health coaching
- How the business of YourCoach came together
- Missing pieces in the healthcare picture
- Eugene’s experience in pharma and how it set him up for the entrepreneur world
- Doing things better versus doing better things
- Lessons learned from the health accelerator space
- Eugene’s book-in-progress “Hard Pill to Swallow”
- The health tech podcast experience
- Eugene’s thoughts on the current funding boom
- Thoughts about the term "patient engagement"
More about this episode:YourCoach looks to employer space with new version of wellness platform
With many regulatory barriers clear, remaining roadblocks for digital therapeutics are cultural, logistical
Bayer plans launch of US accelerator focused on self care markets
Digital health completes a record-breaking first quarter driven by mega deals
Hard Pill to Swallow on Substack
President Joe Biden’s proposed 2022 budget includes funds set aside for healthcare, including health IT infrastructure and the Strategic National Stockpile. Plus: A new digital health accelerator with a focus on pharma.
Links to the stories:
HHS: Biden's FY22 budget will invest in pandemic preparedness, expanding affordable care
Biden's $6T budget includes cybersecurity, broadband infrastructure
New accelerator aims to help pharma and digital health companies get on the same page
Is losing your mental faculties just a part of getting older? In his new book, Dr. Charles Alessi, HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer, says no. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Alessi to discuss "Increase Your Brainability — and Reduce Your Risk of Dementia", his recently published book with co-authors Larry Chambers and Sir Muir Gray.
Talking points
- Why write this book now?
- Reducing the mystery and misinformation about dementia
- Dr. Alessi’s co-authors, Muir Gray and Larry Chambers
- Misconceptions about dementia and inevitability
- New technology addressing cognitive decline
- Resilience and neural plasticity
- Other things people can do to stave off cognitive decline
- Questioning the inevitability of aging
- The digital divide and the importance of designing products for older people
- The link between mental and physical health
More about this episodeOrder the book
Improving education levels, heart health trigger decline in dementia prevalence, JAMA study says
Clinical trial explores whether video conversations can prevent dementia in isolated seniors
Newly launched, Brain U Online aims to stymie dementia in aging consumers
InterSystems, Cognetivity partner on early dementia detection
Hospital financial performance beginning to improve, though there’s still a long road ahead; Google helps fund new data platform that highlights COVID-19 impacts on marginalize communities . Plus: FBI warns of Conti ransomware attacks on healthcare and first responder networks.
Links to the stories:
Hospitals saw gains in volume, revenue and margin in April, finds Kaufman Hall
Google rolls out Health Equity Tracker platform, highlighting disparities between communitiesFBI warns of Conti ransomware attacks targeting U.S. healthcare networks
In this very special episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes his mother Carol Hornbeck, a marriage and family therapist in Minneapolis, and her colleague Edwin Shurig, a mental health counselor in Indianapolis. Along with Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich, we discuss what it was like for small practices and independent therapists to make the sudden move to telehealth in the face of COVID-19 — and how the experience will shape the future of their practice.
This podcast is brought to you by OnTrak.
Talking points
- Edwin and Carol’s telehealth experiences prior to the pandemic
- Which telehealth tools helped with the transition
- Pros and cons of teletherapy
- Telehealth: Great for couples, tough for kids
- Going beyond telehealth: apps in the session room
- Therapeutic applications of fitness apps and trackers
- Thoughts on teletherapy startups
- The importance of therapists connecting to each other
- Regulatory challenges of teletherapy— especially licensure
- How Edwin and Carol will use telehealth going forward
- Payment parity and reimbursement challenges
- Advice for telehealth tech vendors
More about this episodeThe Virtual Care Paradigm Episode 1
The Virtual Care Paradigm Episode 2Carol on "Talking Your Way to Change"
COVID-19 ratcheting up demand for virtual behavioral healthcare, Cigna finds
Telehealth use on rise for behavioral healthNow is the time for providers to be proactive about telehealth
Teladoc Health data shows virtual mental healthcare boom
Angel Mena, MD, and Steven Rube, MD, discuss the challenges of managing and sharing patient data post-pandemic and lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis.
Merging clinical, technical and data realms to capture and share patient data most effectively has been ramping up quickly during the pandemic, according to Steven Rube, MD, Senior Vice President, Global Clinical Services, IMO. He and Angel Mena, MD, Adult Medicine Physician, TriHealth, and CMIO of Clinician Collaboration Platform, Halo Health, share their expertise on adapting technology to the clinical world in this podcast.
Specifically, Mena and Rube talk about:
- The impact of the pandemic on provider organizations' access to patient data
- How technology can overcome bottlenecks to patient data access
- Lessons learned to ensure accessing complete picture of patients post-pandemic
The first technology-enabled remote clinical trial was launched nearly a decade ago, and that field — now generally referred to as "decentralized clinical trials" — has been advancing and gaining traction ever since. But, like so many other remote tools, it's been greatly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome John Reites, CEO and cofounder of THREAD Research, to give us an update on where this new paradigm for clinical trials is today, and where it's headed.
Talking points:
- The effect of the pandemic on decentralized clinical trials
- Reconciling cultural differences between pharma and tech
- How vaccine trials are their own animal
- How decentralized trials can help improve clinical trial diversity
- The role of consumer wearables in clinical trials today
- Why clinical trial innovation must be global
- How physicians, researchers, and patients are responding to new clinical trial models
- What everyone should know about decentralized clinical trials
More about this episode:THREAD Research
That Apple videoTrials and tribulations – the new world of decentralized trials
Spurred by the pandemic, AI is driving decentralized clinical trials
Virtual clinical research company Thread acquired by two private equity firms
Exo raises $40M for handheld ultrasound; decentralized trial platforms raise nearly $100M; and more digital health funding news
Current Health launches decentralized clinical trial initiative
Decentralized clinical trial startup Florence lands $80M for company growth
Labcorp updates its clinical trial process with a technology-enabled platform
The year for mobile-enabled clinical trials: 2013 or 2030? (Throwback #1)
ResearchKit update: Notes from the field on trial retention, Android integration, and more (Throwback #2)
Cyberattack leads to a network outage at Scripps Health; HRSA tells 6 drugmakers they’re in violation of the 340B statute. Also: Google using AI to help patients find answers to dermatology questions.
Links to the stories:
Scripps Health network still down, 2 weeks after cyberattackSix drugmakers are in violation of 340B statute, says HRSA
Google gives a sneak peek into its new AI dermatology assistant
Susan Collins, Twilio’s Global Head of Healthcare Services, joins us to discuss the changing landscape of healthcare and the need to consider both the provider and patient when thinking about consumerization. Learn about strategies healthcare organizations can take to create a sustainable patient-centric experience that enhances value-based care.
Smart hospital rooms are on the horizon, with some medical centers already rolling them out. In addition to cost and logistics as limiting factors, health systems must consider cybersecurity and resilience when implementing smart room technology. On today's episode HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich speaks with Thanos Drougkas, a network and information security expert at the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
This is part three of a three-part podcast series on hospital network security brought to you by Aruba Networks.
Talking points:
- What is a smart hospital?
- Advantages of remote patient monitoring and smart hospital tech
- Security challenges of smart hospitals
- Cybersecurity threats: Looking beyond the malicious outsider
- How the pandemic has affected smart hospitals
- How cybersecurity threats can impact patient care
- Best practices for smart hospital security
More about this episode:Understanding smart hospitals and why most aren't there yetSmart buildings present a unique healthcare cybersecurity threatHow to assess the security of hospital IoTHow healthcare organizations can enhance RPM security, resiliency
CaptureRx ransomware attack exposes patient information from multiple provider systems; Insurers are concerned that telehealth reimbursement parity may lead to overutilization. Also: Bigfoot Biomedical receives FDA clearance for its Bigfoot Unity Diabetes Management System.
Links to the stories:
Thousands of patient records exposed after ransomware attack on CaptureRxTelehealth reimbursement parity spurs insurer concerns of overutilization
FDA greenlights Bigfoot Biomedical's insulin recommending diabetes management system
New trends in computing require new frameworks and architectures, so that when stakeholders want to merge or collaborate they can trust that their technologies will work together. For edge computing, that framework is Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE. This network architecture rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and security into a single cloud service.
Samuel Hill, senior manager for healthcare at Aruba Networks, joins host Jonah Comstock to dig into what SASE is and why it's important for healthcare technologists to know about.
This podcast is brought to you by Aruba Networks.
Talking points:
- Why SASE is coming out strong as the pandemic abates
- What SASE is and why it makes sense as more work goes remote
- Healthcare as an illustrative use case for SASE
- Hospital use case example: radiology
- Security implications of SASE frameworks
- Benefits and drawbacks of SASE
- How SASE relates to SD-WAN and SD-Branch
- Tips for implementing a SASE framework
- What is ZeroTrust and how does it fit in?
More about this episode:Last week on HIMSSCast: Edge Computing 101 with Tao ZhangHealth passports and distancing tools among COVID-19 tech climbing Gartner Hype CyclePonemon Survey
ATM Digital: WAN & Security Transformation
Theresa Payton Keynote
Biden Administration aims to get 70% of Americans at least one vaccine dose by July 4; Healthcare among the top industries affected by tracked ransomware incidents . Also: Employer health benefits management platform Collective Health has scores $280 million in Series F funding .
Links to the stories:
Biden sets new goal of 70% of adults getting the COVID-19 vaccine by July 4
Healthcare hackers demanded an average ransom of $4.6M last year, says BakerHostetlerCollective Health scores $280M to scale employer health benefits platform
Encouraging girls and young women to study for careers in health IT is
ongoing. Experts say it will take years to reach gender parity. In this podcast,
IMO CEO Ann Barnes talks about her philosophy on what’s needed now, the
changes she’s made in her company and how the health IT industry can come
together to bring about gender equity in a cohesive, collaborative way.
In this podcast, we’ll discuss:
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Learning from one another to bring more parity to the health IT
industry
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Best practices in developing women leaders in health IT
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How the industry is collaborating and sharing best practices for
greatest impact
On this podcast Christina Sung, Twilio’s Director of Product for Healthcare, shares how scalable and secure Programmable Video solutions are easily integrated into clinical workflows throughout the patient journey. She discusses the benefits of a platform approach versus a point solution and the tools that providers should consider as communities adjust to hybrid in-person and virtual health appointments.
This podcast is presented jointly with Twilio.
While the last five years have seen computing move from local networks to the cloud, especially in healthcare, the trend of edge computing is seeing organizations move back to move forward: Moving key computing and intelligence back to the point of care while still retaining the benefits of cloud computing. This not only reduces latency, which can be especially important for healthcare, but also has important implications for privacy and security.
On today's episode, we welcome NIST Fellow Tao Zhang to give us a primer on edge computing, and explain what it can do for healthcare organizations.
This podcast is brought to you by Aruba Networks.
Talking points:
- What is edge computing and why is it gaining traction now?
- Striking the balance between the edge and the cloud
- The history of edge computing
- Why the healthcare space is turning to edge computing
- Security implications of edge computing for IoT
- Downsides to edge computing
- More edge computing use cases
- Tips for adopting edge computing
- What next for edge computing: edge and AI
More about this episode:NIST Resources
Hospitals embracing IoT must be prepared to secure a decentralized environment
Striking a balance between medical device security and innovation
GE Healthcare unveils new edge computing tools for clinicians
Nvidia launches AI edge computing platform
Tech Optimization: Medical device and IoT operating secrets
How Vail Health ensures consistent medical device security and firmware patching
A healthcare coalition releases a framework protecting the safety and security of patient information; Biden signals goal to lower ACA premiums, deductibles and prescription drug costs. Plus: Accolade eyes the telemedicine space with the acquisition of PlushCare.
Links to the stories:
Patient ID Now coalition releases national strategic framework for identity, matchingIn his first joint address, Biden promotes giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices
Accolade acquires virtual primary care platform PlushCare
In this podcast, presented jointly with Twilio, we welcome Twilio’s Sr. Global CX Consultant, Mauro Faili joins us to talk about innovation and different strategies to reimagine your communication operations using the existing data your system has. Additionally, learn about different ways you can personalize your patient communication.
Mauro Failli is a Senior Global CX Consultant is currently the team lead for Twilio Foundry - a consulting practice designed to inspire executive engagement vision. With over 20+ years of industry experience his knowledge spans from communication technologies, IT service management and lifecycle frameworks, and customer engagement / experience management. He enables customers to deliver their engagement vision through reference architectures, milestone planning and facilitating the creation of success criteria through diversified stakeholder discussions.
Peloton comes under fire for safety concerns about its Tread+ treadmill; Electronic health record usability scores take a nosedive, possibly contributing to burnout among nurses . Also: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said the U.S. needs to do more to promote racial equity.
Links to the stories:
Consumer safety group warns parents to stop using Peloton Tread+ after reports of child injuries and deathNurses give EHR usability an 'F' in new studyDerek Chauvin conviction prompts HHS vow to tackle racism as a serious public health threat
Host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett and MobiHealthNews Associate Mallory Hackett welcome Startup Health President Unity Stoakes to discuss Q1 2021 digital health funding. With more than $7 billion raised according to MobiHealthNews's tracker and more than $8 billion according to Startup's, we can all agree it was an impressive month. But how do those numbers compare to the past? To other industries? And what does it all mean for the health of the space? Tune in to find the answers to those questions and more.
Talking points:
- 2021 funding in a larger historical context
- The changing geography of digital health startups
- Dramatic changes to digital health market dynamics
- The talent infrastructure underpinning digital health
- How today’s startups are putting together decades of pieces
- Is the digital health market oversaturated?
- We’re far from the ceiling for digital health funding
- Digital health subsectors to watch
- “Boomerang” innovation from other geographies
- Where digital health investment is headed next
- Frugal innovation and what it can teach us
More about this episode:Investors pour $7.1B into digital health investments during Q1 2021Digital health completes a record-breaking first quarter driven by mega deals
With $8.5B Raised Globally in Q1, Health Innovation Funding Hits New Milestone (Startup Health's Q1 Report)
SPAC deals attract younger, less-funded digital health startups
Startup Health NOW Podcast
StartUp Health’s 2020 Midyear Insights Report: A Conversation With Jonah Comstock
The CDC and FDA halt use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to rare, severe reactions; Mayo Clinic launches new AI-powered clinical decision support platform . Also: Omada Health rolls out new physical therapy tool.
Links to the stories:
CDC and FDA pause Johnson & Johnson vaccine over rare blood clot concerns
Mayo Clinic launches remote diagnostics platform, forms 2 new companies to support itOmada's latest MSK tech empowers physical therapists to conduct remote appointments
Dr. John Sedor and Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury join host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss innovation in the kidney space, especially the fruits so far of the US government's Kidney X innovation prizes.
Talking points:
- What is Kidney X and what’s it’s mission
- The Redesigning Dialysis prize competitions
- The implantable kidney and patient innovation prizes
- Why has innovation been so slow in the kidney space?
- Health equity implications of kidney disease
- Kidney disease’s “cellphone moment”
- Why patient-centricity is important to innovation
- Remote monitoring and IT infrastructure for kidney care
- What’s next for Kidney X?
- The kidney space is open for business — and seeking innovators
- Kidney care Dr. McCoy's way
More about this episode:The KidneyX Innovation AcceleratorHHS CTO: Opioids, open data, kidney disease are key focus areas for departmentHHS, American Society of Nephrology launch Phase 2 of KidneyX project
The Fed’s plan for 2020? Bring long-awaited innovation to kidney disease
HHS, American Society of Nephrology announce $10M prize for artificial kidney
$10M artificial kidney prize now live via HHS, American Society of Nephrology
With his new company Transcarent, Glen Tullman and his team are looking to go through self-insured employers to create a healthcare experience in line with 21st Century consumer expectations and free of the waste and misaligned incentives endemic in the larger healthcare system. It's a lofty aspiration and one that's been tried before with varying degrees of success — notably with the failed Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JP Morgan Chase venture Haven.
On today's episode, Tullman sits down with host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse to discuss his new company's mission and game plan.
Talking Points:
- The problems Transcarent is trying to solve
- Making healthcare convenient like other industries
- What healthcare consumers want: Unbiased information, trusted guidance, ease of access
- Bringing together the worlds of consumer tech and healthcare… again
- The misnomer of patient engagement
- Lessons learned from Livongo
- Moving toward consumer-directed, always-on healthcare
- Patients lack a real advocate in healthcare
- How Transcarent fits into the move to value-based care
- How to counteract misaligned incentives in healthcare
- Finding and eliminating waste in the healthcare system
- Looking ahead to the future of telehealth
More about this episode:Transcarent
Transcarent looks to overhaul self-insured market
Amazon Care's nationwide telehealth expansion 'may be bigger than the sum of the parts,' says firm
Livongo's lead investor on what the next model of care could look like
Haven disbands, ending speculation on what innovation at such a scale could do
With price transparency an inevitability, hospitals need to start working toward compliance
U.S. Anesthesia Partners files lawsuit against UnitedHealth alleging market shenanigans; Insurtech company Bright Health looks to strengthen telehealth foothold with Zipnosis acquisition. Also: AstraZeneca is teaming with Massachusetts General Hospital to create and clinically validate patient-centric digital health solutions.
Links to the stories:
U.S. Anesthesia Partners files lawsuits against UnitedHealthcare
Insuretech company Bright Health buys telemedicine startup ZipnosisAstraZeneca working with Mass General on tech for heart failure, asthma
WHO says the introduction of the coronavirus through a laboratory incident is “extremely unlikely”; Amazon secures EAU for an at-home COVID-19 test kit. Plus: Digital health and wellness practitioners believe their sector to be high-risk.
Links to the stories:
Spread of coronavirus from lab is extremely unlikely, WHO report says
Coronavirus likely escaped from a Wuhan lab, says former CDC Director Robert Redfield
Amazon lands EUA for COVID-19 test with home sample collection89% of digital health leaders perceive the industry as risky, says report
In her new book Humanizing Healthcare, out April 6th, Dr. Summer Knight leverages her experiences as a physician, an entrepreneur, a patient, and a mother of a son with cancer to present a paradigm for how healthcare can change — to be a better experience for healthcare consumers, and find better cost savings and outcomes along the way.
Dr. Knight joins host Jonah Comstock to discuss some of the key ideas in the forthcoming book.
This episode is brought to you by League.
Talking points
- Dr. Summer Knight’s story and why she wrote Humanizing Healthcare
- Humanizing Healthcare as a North Star for reforming all the parts of healthcare
- The 3 +1 key drivers of healthcare transformation
- Why humanity has to be hardwired in as technology improves
- Changing the culture of care delivery and creating therapeutic alliances
- Rethinking the healthcare consumer as client, not patient
- Healthfulness hubs - an infrastructure for operationalizing care networks
- Reforms to preventative care and healthcare finance
- Dr. Knight’s advice for HIMSSCast listeners
More about this episode:Pre-order the bookHumanizing Healthcare: the website
Firecracker Health
Allegheny Health Network team enhances transitional care management
Hands-free voice tech helps Saratoga Hospital save PPE and ensure staff safety
Weaving Zoom into workflow and updating EHR saves clinic during COVID-19
Memorial Health uses chatbots to boost patient experience, streamline workflows
Care coordination, telehealth startups merge to support vulnerable senior populations
Health equity focused startup Cityblock lands $53.5M in funding
Unite Us raises $35M to connect healthcare with social services
AstraZeneca vaccine shows 79% efficacy in trials but is not without controversy; Everlywell acquires PWNHealth and subsidiary Home Access Health . Plus: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs undertaking a strategic review of its Cerner electronic health record modernization program .
Links to the stories:
AstraZeneca vaccine shows 79% efficacy in phase III trial
AstraZeneca is questioned over potential use of outdated information in its COVID-19 clinical trial
Everlywell forms new at-home lab testing subsidiary through PWNHealth purchaseVA to undertake strategic review of EHR modernization program
HIMSSCast welcomes healthcare privacy expert Deven McGraw, currently Chief Regulatory Officer for Ciitizen who previously served as Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy at OCR, as well as Acting Chief Privacy Officer at ONC, to discuss the forthcoming information blocking rules, upcoming HIPAA overhaul, and more with host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard.
Talking points:
- Challenges of complying with the new info blocking rules
- How the new rules flip the script on data sharing
- Info blocking rules vs CMS rules on APIs
- Patient right of access and form and format requirements
- Market opportunities created by the new rules
- What could happen next with national privacy legislation?
- Defining health data for legislative purposes
- Looking at the upcoming updated HIPAA rules
- Privacy implications of vaccine credentialing
- Misconceptions about when HIPAA applies
- What Ciitizen is working on these days
- Deven’s parting advice on the info blocking rules
More about this episode:Privacy protections to encourage use of health-relevant digital data in a learning health system (Deven's paper with Ken Mandel)
Ciitizen's website
HHS publishes final regs on info blocking, interoperability
HIMSSCast: How providers and payers should be preparing for new info blocking and patient access rules
ONC officials offer update on information blocking rules compliance
Info blocking compliance date nears: Legal experts offer toolkit to help
COVID-19 highlights the importance of ONC info blocking rules, says Rucker
Healthcare industry groups react to extended info blocking compliance timeline
HHS floats major changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule
HIMSSCast: HIPAA Privacy Rule proposed changes - What they mean and what to expect
Office of Civil Rights extends comment period on changes to HIPAA privacy rule
Three ways providers get HIPAA right of access wrong
How to solve the 'Goldilocks' dilemma of health data sharing?
Apple requires COVID-19 vaccine passport developers to work with public health authorities
Amazon Care set to expand app-based services nationwide in the coming months; Doctor on Demand signals merger with Grand Rounds. Also: HHS releases new funding aimed at helping schools reopen and to expand access to COVID-19 testing and treatments.
Links to the stories:
Amazon confirms nationwide expansion of telehealth servicesDoctor on Demand merges with Grand Rounds to form new virtual healthcare companyBiden administration invests in expanding COVID-19 testing and treatments
We're getting on toward the end of the quarter, so we've welcomed back the HIMSS Government Relations team — SVP of Government Relations Tom Leary, Senior Director Jeff Coughlin, and Director for Government Relations and Health Policy David Gray — to share impressions, hopes, and predictions for the new Biden Administration. From the HIMSS Media side, host Jonah Comstock, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard, and HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich lead the conversation.
This episode was recorded on Thursday March 10th, just before President Biden's prime time address and about a week before Xavier Becerra's confirmation vote.
Talking points:
- Prioritizing equity and access in vaccine distribution
- HIMSS’s letter to the Biden administration
- What can we learn from the American Rescue Act?
- Spending billions to save trillions — modernizing public health
- What to expect when the info-blocking rules kick in
- The role of the government, if any, in vaccine credentialing
- Broadband and health equity
- Predictions and expectations about Biden’s healthcare appointees, from HHS to FDA
- Impacts of the Democratic party’s slim majority
More about this story:HIMSS's letter to the Biden AdministrationNew HHS Secretary Becerra urged to expand digital health accessONC chief Micky Tripathi talks public health data systems and 'health equity by design'COVID-19 relief package includes health IT expansionCompliance with ONC and CMS rules could offer growth opportunityFDA streamlines pathway to at-home asymptomatic COVID-19 test approvalMedicare for All push resurrected by U.S. House of RepresentativesHospitals and insurers applaud Senate confirmation of a Xavier Becarra as HHS SecretaryBiden Administration invests in expanding COVID-19 testing and treatments in schools and underserved communitiesBiden announces national vaccine finder website, May 1 eligibility for all adultsHouse approves $1.9 trillion rescue plan which now goes before Biden for his signature
House gives final approval to the $1.9T American Rescue Plan; Bad bots are complicating vaccine sign-ups. Also: PatientPoint merges with Outcome Health to facilitate patient-clinician communications.
Links to the stories:
House approves $1.9 trillion rescue plan, which now goes before Biden for his signature
Big uptick in bot traffic jeopardizes vaccine appointmentsPatientPoint merges with Outcome Health to form combined patient engagement entity
NurX CEO Varsha Rao joins host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett to discuss her telehealth company's journey from a laser focus on contraception to a broader play for women's (and men's) health that includes dermatology and migraines. Along the way, we also discuss broader trends in telehealth, challenges of femtech, and NurX's foray into COVID-19 testing.
Talking points:
- NurX’s story
- What does it mean to be a female-focused telehealth company?
- Following a patient through her lifelong patient journey
- How NurX got into home COVID testing
- Digital health companies as service companies
- Challenges and advantages of a woman-led startup
- Things men don’t understand about contraception
- NurX’s roadmap for new products, and COVID’s effect on it
- Should telehealth be a one-stop shop?
- The advantages of asynchronous telemedicine
- Dealing with stigma in healthcare
- The future of digital health and telehealth
- NurX’s role in COVID-19 testing
- What’s next for NurX?
- Varsha’s advice for healthcare startups
More about this episode:Nurx CEO on what's next for women's health in 2021
Nurx sets sights on the migraine and headache space
Nurx collects another $22.5M for birth control & STI treatment deliveries
At-home COVID-19 testing services pump the brakes after FDA warns of 'fraudulent' kits
EverlyWell, Nurx to release at-home COVID-19 test kits within a week
Nurx gets another $52 million to deliver mail-order birth control, PrEP, STI test kits
Nurx adds STI testing to its mail-order product suite
Nurx gets $36M for telemedicine for birth control, adds Chelsea Clinton to board
Nurx raises $5.3M for app-based birth control and PrEP service
Medical groups urge racial data collection efforts for COVID-19 vaccinations; Apple and the University of Michigan share first results from hearing study. Also: Merck and Johnson & Johnson partner with the federal government to ramp up vaccine manufacturing.
Links to the stories:
Medical groups urge racial data collection efforts for COVID-19 vaccinationsApple, University of Michigan share first results from Apple Hearing StudyMerck to open facilities to Johnson & Johnson for speedier COVID-19 vaccine production
We know that telehealth can be a tremendous opportunity to expand healthcare access for people who might face barriers to medical services. But it also may be replicating the digital divide.
In a recent study, researchers examined data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. They investigated who completed those visits, and how.
Two of those researchers, Dr. Lauren Eberly, a fellow in cardiovascular medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Srinath Adusumalli, assistant chief medical information officer for connected health and assistant professor of clinical medicine, cardiovascular at Penn Medicine, joined MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss their findings and the importance of centering equity in virtual care.
Talking points:
- Structural inequities are pervasive, and the digital divide is real
- Patients of color have lower rates of access to broadband and digital connectivity
- In this study, older patients, Asian patients, Medicaid users and non-English speakers were less likely to complete telehealth visits
- It’s important to meet patients where they’re at and to meet their clinical needs
- There are many opportunities for telehealth outside of rural care
- It's a matter of population health as well – and we have to get it right sooner rather than later
- This is the chance to rethink strategies to deliver care
- Vendors should incorporate equity into their design
- Laying a stronger foundation for reimbursement of care —especially payment parity—would be helpful to safeguard care
- Broadband access will also be key
More about this episode:Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care
Study: Black patients more likely than white patients to use telehealth because of pandemic
Telehealth may worsen digital divide for people with disabilities
Telehealth's digital divide is real, and members of Congress want to address it
Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Operating margins and other hospital metrics are struggling to recover from a winter COVID-19 surge; HHS pick Becerra praises telehealth. Plus: Google launches CareStudio to tackle EHR navigation issues.
Links to the stories:
U.S. hospitals and health systems face a long road to recovery
HHS Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra signals support for virtual careGoogle rolls out EHR navigation tool Care Studio
HIMSSCast host Jonah Comstock welcomes Sheldon Fields, RN, PhD, a researcher, health policy analyst, educator and advocate. He serves as Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at Penn State, First Vice President at the National Black Nurses Association, and founder and CEO of his own consulting firm, the SDF Group. On today's episode, they talk about some of the current health equity challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to combat them.
Talking points:
- Dr. Fields' history as a nurse and academic
- The mission of the National Black Nurses’ Association
- How caregiver representation aligns with care equity
- Comparing the COVID-19 pandemic with the HIV/AIDS epidemic
- How pandemics can illuminate health disparities
- The history of medical atrocities in the US, and its aftereffects
- Is vaccine hesitancy as big an issue as vaccine access?
- How minority nursing associations can help expand vaccine access
- Health equity beyond the pandemic — including medical research
- How the NIH’s All of Us initiative has continued throughout the pandemic
More about this article:Nurses You Should Know
The National Black Nurses Association
Dr. Fields' PSU Faculty Page
All of Us
In-depth: Health organizations harness the power of technology to address health disparities during pandemic
AMA past president Dr. Patrice Harris advocates for equity in the COVID-19 era
AI bias may worsen COVID-19 health disparities for people of color
NIH All of Us program gearing up for 'precision engagement,' Eric Dishman says
Human rights law can provide a fair, transparent framework for vaccine allocations
Disadvantaged census areas are linked to COVID-19 incidence
CVS Health, Lyft and YMCA team for equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccination site
Big tech, digital health coalition forms to undercut COVID-19 healthcare disparities
California taps Blue Shield to oversee an equitable vaccine distribution plan
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Online platform ClassPass unveils a new COVID-19 vaccine locator, while New Jersey struggles with its Microsoft-powered vaccine registration portal. Plus: Insurers are feeling the financial effects of the pandemic.
Links to the stories:
ClassPass adds COVID-19 vaccine search feature to its platformNew Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of vaccine rollout glitchesFourth quarter COVID-19 costs catch up to insurers
With a small population distributed over a large geographical area, North Dakota doesn't lend itself to the easiest vaccine rollout. But the state has a secret weapon: a robust database called the North Dakota Immunization Information System (NDIIS).
NDIIS manager Mary Woinarowicz joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about the early days of the COVID rollout, and how having a robust data management system has helped the state to make the most of its allocated COVID-19 vaccine doses.
Talking points:
- The NDIIS and its pre-COVID function
- How NDIIS is supporting the COVID-19 vaccine rollout
- Logistical challenges to vaccine administration, especially in rural areas
- The challenges of launching a state-level response that’s part of a national rollout
- How NDIIS has responded to strong vaccine demand
- Patient-facing tools to improve the vaccine rollout
- Additional challenges related to the second dose
- The NDIIS’s Immunization Forecasting tool
- The slip in non-COVID vaccination during the pandemic
- What still lies ahead for COVID-19 vaccination
- Should people who have had COVID get the vaccine?
- How to decide which vaccine patients get which vaccine
More about this episode:
NDIIS
Athenahealth developer creates COVID-19 vaccine website from maternity leave
How patient engagement tools can help ensure 2nd COVID-19 vaccine doses
How top EHR vendors are prepping their systems for COVID-19 vaccines
Epic, Cerner offer updates on COVID-19 vaccine rollout efforts
AI has advantages for COVID-19 vaccine rollout, but potential dangers too
Healthcare Finance News' latest updates on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution
California taps Blue Shield to oversee an equitable vaccine distribution plan
Hospitals need vaccine supply predictability 'all the way to the loading docks'
6,500 pharmacies to get 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Apple requires COVID-19 vaccine passport developers to work with public health authorities
Google adds feature to help users find COVID-19 vaccination sites
Google Cloud launches vaccine distribution tool for local governments
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Best practices for weathering the COVID-19 pandemic are emerging among hospital CEOs, while reimbursement restrictions for telehealth have been removed at a rapid pace. Plus: Fitbit introduces blood glucose monitoring.
Links to the stories:
The top 10 things CEOs got right during the pandemic
Report shows 'vast improvement' in state telehealth reimbursement policies
Fitbit adds blood glucose tracking to its connected app
Matthew Zachary — cancer survivor, patient advocate, influencer, pianist, and podcast DJ — joins host Jonah Comstock to tell his story and break down his patient's-eye view of the healthcare system and what needs to change for it to serve its consumers better. In a wide-ranging conversation with Matthew's irreverent style, they address topics like patient experience, financial incentives, socio-economic disparities, and more.
This podcast is brought to you by RingCentral.
Talking points:
- Matthew’s patient story
- Patient advocacy in a nutshell
- The beginnings of the modern patient-centered movement and the founding of Stupid Cancer
- Challenges in today’s healthcare system
- What can healthcare stakeholders do to make life better for patients?
- Aligning monetary incentives with patient needs and experiences
- Clinical trial databases as an example of profits over patients
- The challenge of bringing good care to minority and underserved groups
- The gaps between innovation, adoption, and patient awareness
More about this podcast:A more active role for consumers will decelerate health spending over the next two decadesThe role of health systems in empowering communities
3 patient experience trends that IT leaders should act onFocus on Health Equity (our new collection page)
The Stupid Cancer Show (Matthew's previous podcast)
Out of Patients (Matthew's current podcast)
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Google Cloud joins the national COVID-19 vaccination effort with a new tool, while the feds plan on additional doses. Plus: A security breach at a New York health system.
Links to the stories:Google Cloud launches vaccine distribution tool for local governments
One million COVID-19 vaccine doses are going to 6,500 pharmacies
EHR snooping at Montefiore leads to security breach
Omada CEO Sean Duffy and Chris Hogg, former COO at Propeller Health, join host Jonah Comstock to talk about virtual care, remote chronic condition management, and just what healthcare will look like into the next decade.
Talking points:
- What is virtual care?
- Virtual care in a post-COVID telehealth landscape
- Adoption curves: virtual visits vs virtual care
- Multi-modal provider-patient communication
- When the adoption curve lags against the innovation curve
- What’s the product? the transition from hardware to software to experience
- Using a jobs-to-be-done framework for healthcare
- How to integrate virtual care with traditional brick-and-mortar care
- Fitting virtual care into a patient-centric care ecosystem
- The changing concept of primary care
- What virtual care companies have to offer for telemedicine (Sean’s non-answer on American Well)
- The role of Amazon, Walmart, and other big players in the new provider ecosystem
- How traditional providers are reacting to the changing market
- Looking ahead
More about this episode:MobiHealthNews' predictions for 2021: Price transparency tools will be a game changer, telemedicine use will even out
After COVID-19, telehealth's momentum will be sustained by younger consumers seeking convenience
Omada reports blood sugar, weight improvements after 12 months with its digital diabetes prevention program
Omada Health acquires Physera, adds virtual MSK therapy to its chronic care programs
Amazon dives deeper into health in 2020
Walmart snaps up digital health company CareZone's medication management tool
Amwell CEO reflects on year of unprecedented telehealth adoption and predicts more digital chronic care for the future
Rock Health's COO talks digital health funding, M&As and 'Teladongo'
Previously on HIMSSCast: The Teladongo episode
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: the House of Representatives seeks to safeguard telehealth access beyond the end of the COVID-19 pandemic; DarioHealth acquires Upright Technologies. Plus: the AHA pushes back on a new CMS rule.
Links to the stories:U.S. lawmakers reintroduce House bill safeguarding access to telehealth
DarioHealth buys into MSK with Upright Technologies acquisition and announces $70M private placement
AHA condemns most favored nation model and asks CMS to withdraw it
Right now, COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the United States is facing supply chain and volume problems. But there's another, thornier challenge lurking beneath the surface once those challenges are addressed: a significant portion of Americans who may choose not to get the vaccine.
In today's episode, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Shawna Butler, host of the See You Now podcast, and Melody Butler, founder of the nonprofit Nurses Who Vaccinate (no relation), two nurses who discuss vaccine resistance and vaccine hesitancy and how we can get ahead of them to address the current crisis. They also touch on the role of nurses in the healthcare innovation ecosystem.
Talking points:
- Why Melody founded “Nurses who Vaccinate”?
- Vaccine hesitancy vs vaccine resistance: reaching the people who can be reached
- What is (and isn’t) unique with the COVID vaccines
- mRNA vaccines aren’t a brand new technology
- Vaccine development was an optimized process — not a truncated one
- How COVID has worsened under-vaccination in other conditions
- How could innovators help address undervaccinization?
- Addressing hesitancy in communities of color
- What can you do to help the vaccination effort?
- The importance of including nurses in the conversation
More about this episode:
Overcoming vaccine hesitancy and skepticism, especially for those at higher risk for COVID-19
Here are the latest updates on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Google takes on COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Epic, Cerner and other health IT heavy hitters join forces for Vaccine Credential Initiative
AHIP launches resource page dedicated to COVID-19 vaccines
Confusion about flu shot, efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines may slow adoption
Shawna Butler's SEE YOU NOW podcast
Two relevant episodes: Frontiers in Public Nursing and Nurses Who Vax
Nurses Who Vaccinate
Additional vaccine education resources from NWV
On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich welcome eMocha CEO Sebastian Seiguer to look ahead at the Biden administration and discuss what needs to happen next for telehealth. In particular, we look at vaccine distribution as a medication adherence problem, the important role of finance reform, and much more.
This podcast is brought to you by Kajeet.
Talking points:
- How 2020 changed healthcare
- Telehealth largely hasn’t addressed care disparities
- The importance of asynchronous care toward addressing chronic conditions
- How the COVID telehealth boom has and hasn’t affected asynchronous virtual care
- What regulators can do to make next-gen health tools accessible
- Changing incentives by moving to value-based care
- To make machine learning and AI work, we need better data
- The importance of continued federal COVID relief
- COVID-19’s affect on school-based health
- How can we use technology to support the vaccine rollout?
- Vaccine administration is a medication adherence problem
- Interstate licensure as a barrier to access
- Let’s redefine medication adherence
More about this podcast:What's next for telehealth under the Biden administration?
Telehealth's digital divide is real, and members of Congress want to address it
MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage
Patient engagement tools can speed, streamline COVID-19 vaccine rollout
As telehealth becomes the new normal, NCQA updates quality measures
Mayo Clinic uses $1M in FCC funds for connected devices to expand telehealth
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse, Joe Biden begins his presidency with an aggressive healthcare agenda, including new appointments and nominations for HHS and CMS positions. Plus: YouTube will push for higher quality medical content on its platform.
Links to the stories:
President Joe Biden's pan to control the COVID-19 pandemic on day one
Micky Tripathi named by Biden Administration to lead ONC
Biden nominates Dr. Rachel Levine as assistant secretary of health
YouTube taps Dr. Garth Graham to lead new health partnerships team
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse, Flo Health lands in hot water with the FTC for allegedly deceitful practices; Feds are no longer holding back on vaccine doses. Plus: a new coalition looking to improve the vaccine rollout infrastructure.
Links to the stories:Fertility app Flo Health settles with FTC over sensitive data sharing complaint
Federal government tells states not to hold vaccine in reserve for second dose
Epic, Cerner and other health IT heavy hitters join forces for Vaccine Credential Initiative
The Orsini Way has been helping train doctors on handling patient relationships for a number of years, and New Jersey's Englewood Health has been a long-time user of the innovative teaching method. But last year, as doctor-patient interactions overwhelmingly went online, already difficult patient-doctor interactions became even more fraught. In today's episode, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Anthony Orsini, founder and president of The Orsini Way and Dr. Tanganyika Barnes, program director for internal medicine at Englewood Health, to talk about their novel training approach and how they have had to adapt it in response to COVID-19 and the telemedicine boom.
This podcast is brought to you by Twilio.
Talking points:
- What the Orsini Way is and how it came about
- The deficit in communication training for physicians, especially around delivering bad news
- How the program has worked at Englewood
- Why the program uses professional improv actors
- The importance of one-on-one instruction and self-reflection
- Communication training as a form of medical simulation
- The long affects of delivering news badly
- How the program was adapted for telehealth
- What not to do when delivering bad news
- ROI of trust and communication
- Where do we need to go vis a vis patient empathy
More about this story:The Orsini Way
Englewood Health
Difficult Conversations (Dr. Orsini's podcast)
Clinicians' empathy must not be sidelined by virtual care technologies
Conveying empathy through digital tools requires education, support
Patient advocates: Tech can help improve experience, but empathy is most important
HIMSS and Cleveland Clinic's Patient Experience Digital Series
In today's Top Stories: Optum and Change are joining forces to create a new healthcare powerhouse; Haven pulls the plug after a three-year run. Plus: How patient engagement tools can help with the vaccine rollout.
Links to the stories:Optum to acquire Change Healthcare
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan's employee health joint venture is officially winding down
Patient engagement tools can speed, streamline COVID-19 vaccine rollout
HIMSSCast is back from a short holiday hiatus with our first annual predictions podcast. In this episode, host Jonah Comstock, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard, Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse, and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett engage in a round table discussion of trends and predictions for each of their respective coverage areas.
Notes: This episode was recorded Tuesday morning, before the Georgia results were final and before the tumultuous events at the Capitol. Additionally, Laura's prediction piece is forthcoming and will be added to the show notes later this afternoon.
Talking points
- What comes next after 2020’s telehealth boom?
- How virtual visits could evolve in different specialties
- The importance of mental health in 2021
- Virtual care is the new telemedicine
- How will a Biden administration and a Democratic Congress affect health policy?
- Digital therapeutics will continue to accelerate in 2021
- Cross-sector use cases for AI and machine learning
- How the pandemic could accelerate value-based care
- Trends in cybersecurity
More about this episodeHealth IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021The move to value accelerates in 2021, spurred by lack of fee-for-service payments during pandemicHere are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwCWhat to expect in 2021 and beyond? IDC offers 10 healthcare predictionsFrost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021Best Buy Health VP talks what's next for senior tech in 2021
Athenahealth's VP predicts more value-based care, investor interest and an evening out of telehealth in 2021
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Matthew Fisher, a Partner at Mirick O'Connell and a specialist in healthcare law, about the new proposed HIPAA rule changes. They discuss the content of the rules, what effect they're likely to have, and the timing of the rules as the Presidential administration changes over.
This will be the last episode of the year. We'll be back with more podcasts in 2021.
Talking points:
- How big are these changes?
- How the right of access is being strengthened
- Alignment with the info-blocking rules
- Expanded definitions for care coordination and care management
- The extent to which the rule is playing catch-up with current practices
- Reducing HIPAA’s role as a blocker of legitimate information access
- The impact of the new rules on HIPAA’s privacy protections
- The timing of this announcement and the Presidential transition
- Advice for providers and vendors
More about this episode:
HHS floats major changes to HIPAA Privacy RuleOCR issues guidance on disclosure of protected info using health information exchangesIs HIPAA outdated? AHIMA questions whether law is keeping pace with changeHIPAA update inches closer to realityThree ways providers get HIPAA right of access wrongHIPAA right of access: In what looks like a new trend, another costly settlementHow to solve the 'Goldilocks' dilemma of health data sharing?
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Hackers use the SolarWinds platform to target the National Institutes of Health in a large data breach; Vaccine preparedness gets a boost from the federal government. Plus: Apple is rolling out a new low VO2 Max feature on its Apple Watch wearable.
Links to this week's stories:
NIH among agencies targeted by Russian 'Cozy Bear' hackers, says WaPo
What healthcare orgs should be doing in response to the SolarWinds breach
CDC is giving $227 million for COVID-19 vaccine preparedness and tracking
New low VO2 Max feature comes to Apple Watch
Telehealth is here to stay and it's dramatically changing the healthcare landscape. But there is no telehealth, no virtual visits, and no remote patient monitoring without reliable, secure connectivity — and that's not something that can be taken for granted.
In this episode, created in collaboration with sponsor Kajeet, host Jonah Comstock talks to Kajeet Director of Strategy Dominic Marcellino about some of the different roadblocks to secure, reliable connectivity and how to approach tackling them.
Talking points:
- Dominic’s journey to Kajeet and healthcare IoT
- Common healthcare connectivity pitfalls
- Connectivity in the consumer world vs the enterprise world
- The importance of patient and provider user experience
- What to do when patients lack necessary connectivity infrastructure?
- The current state of health data interoperability
- A lot of things have to line up for remote monitoring to work well
- Making health data not just readable but useful
- How to maintain security in IoT connectivity
- The relationship between security and HIPAA-compliance
- Dominic’s advice for providers
More about this episode:'The health system of the future will be consumer-centric, wellness-oriented and digitally connected'
Pandemic-era burnout: How EHR vendors are redesigning UI and UX to battle stress
Interoperability consortium an 'even higher priority' post-pandemic
Cerner expands tools available for rural hospital clinical trials
Endpoint security is vital, even as 'the definition of endpoint itself has changed'
Mount Sinai-linked computer pads keep patients at home during COVID-19
In today's Top Stories: With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, cybersecurity concerns have emerged; Despite this, the rollout is already underway in the U.K. Plus: Google launches a new app for clinical trial research.
Links to the stories:Vaccine distribution pipeline faces serious cybersecurity risksThousands in the United Kingdom are the first to receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccineGoogle's new research app shows participants how their data is driving health insights
Host Jonah Comstock welcomes John Sharp to the show on the occasion of his retirement from HIMSS. Until recently the director of thought advisory at HIMSS, John has worn many hats in his career and become one of the most well-known, respected, and beloved voices in the digital health community.
We talked about that community, John's career, and all the ways the space has changed and developed — not to mention where we see it headed next.
Talking points:
- How John found his way to the fledgling digital health space
- Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, and the early days of digital health
- Social media and the digital health community
- “10 years of growth in six weeks” — the rapid adoption spurred by COVID-19
- Telehealth adoption after COVID-19
- Value-based care, reimbursement, and virtual care
- How virtual coaching fits into the future of care
- Digital health has moved from niche to mainstream
- The “who will own telehealth?” debate
- John’s hopes for the future of health IT: better incentives for value-based care
- Virtual reality’s ascendancy in healthcare
More about this episode:John on TwitterCOVID-19 brings a boom in use of virtual consumer-centric care
Telehealth set for 'tsunami of growth,' says Frost & SullivanTeladoc Health data shows virtual mental healthcare boom
'Weeks where decades happen' (Healthcare Dive)The Empathy Machine: COVID-19 and Therapeutic VR, part 2 with Dr. Brennan Spiegel
The Teladongo Episode
On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock sits down with Gabe Gumbs, head of product strategy and innovation at Spirion about his experiences with, and views on, data security and privacy. Gabe and Jonah talk about the difference between privacy and security, when to focus more on one or the other, the advantages healthcare has in this realm, and the challenges it is still facing.
Click here to register for next week's Healthcare Security Forum.
Talking Points:
- Healthcare’s edge in security: Experience with privacy
- Privacy vs security: Which is important for what data?
- The state of privacy and security regulation and where it might go
- What personal information should be private?
- Does the United States need its own GDPR?
- Privacy concerns around COVID-19 contact tracing
- The limits of de-identification
- Data security trends for healthcare providers
- How to prepare for ransomware attacks
- The paradox of compromise
More about this episode:Gabe's podcast "Privacy Please"Protect what matters most — patient information (Spirion whitepaper)
More about Spirion
Major security incidents are the new normal for hospitals and health systems
Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up
HHS: More than 2M patients affected by breaches reported in October
FBI, HHS warn of 'increased and imminent' cyber threat to hospitals
Contact tracing tech sparks privacy concerns, but most consumers and IT experts still support their use
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: CMS allows 60 new telehealth services to be covered by Medicare, drawing commendation – and caution – from the American Telemedicine Association. Plus: Google's Deep Mind AI makes protein-folding breakthrough.
Links to the stories:Congressional action is needed for telehealth not to return to a rural benefit, Seema Verma saysATA responds to CMS final rule making some telehealth coverage permanentDeepMind AI's protein folding prediction achieves unprecedented accuracy, opening doors to new disease treatments
Note: We are publishing this week's episode early so our listeners can enjoy it over the holiday break in the United States. Also note there is no episode of Top Stories this week. Happy Holidays!
In today's episode of HIMSSCast, guest host Laura Lovett, managing editor of MobiHealthNews, checks in with Maria Velissaris, founding partner at SteelSky Ventures and Colette Courtion, founder and CEO of Joylux about some of the challenges facing the burgeoning women's health and reproductive health, or femtech, industry. In particular, they chat about advertising double standards, funding shortfalls, and where the space is headed next.
Talking points:
- The under-funding of women’s health tech companies
- The advertising double standard in sexual and reproductive health
- The downstream effects of inconsistently applied “taboos”
- Changing advertising policies through education
- How women’s health is not a niche opportunity
- Why women VCs aren’t enough to close the funding gap in femtech
- The need for a focus on culturally competent care
More about this episode:Femtech players call out Facebook for rejecting women's health ads
Femtech's potential to capture data about women's health beyond reproduction
Femtech's sexual health revolution
Femtech market has potential but struggles to score investor dollars
'Femtech and women’s health issues have become more mainstream. We must do more though'
VC Maria Velissaris looks to change male-dominated digital health world with femtech investments
Femtech market has unmet segments despite industry growth, report says
Online sexual, cosmetic health company Hims lands $100M in funding
The COVID-19 crisis has spurred all kinds of technical innovation, not just virtual visits. For United Methodist Communities in Neptune, New Jersey, the pandemic gave them the opportunity, and the necessity, to launch a remote monitoring program, starting with fall detection, that has led to an 80% reduction in falls.
On today's episode host Jonah Comstock welcomes Larry Carlson, CEO of UMC, to look back at that experience and look ahead to the future of remote patient monitoring at UMC.
This podcast is brought to you by Kajeet.
Talking points:
- How United Methodist Communities took advantage of CARES Act funds to make bold changes
- Finding the right balance of privacy and efficacy for remote monitoring
- Pre-empting, not detecting falls
- How UMC achieved an 80% reduction in falls
- Implementation challenges
- The importance of connectivity to technology innovation
- Advice for others adopting RPM tech
- What's next for UMC
More about this podcast:United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPMA guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendorsHospitals get additional $20 billion infusion of CARES Act fundsHow fall detection is moving beyond the pendant
In today's Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: NorthShore University HealthSystem is utilizing targeted labor strategies and robust analytics to weather the COVID-19 surge; Amazon muscles into the online pharmacy space. Plus: What's taking up clinician's time? (It's not patient care!)
Links to the stories:
NorthShore University HealthSystem's digital strategy is being tested against second wave
Amazon furthers foothold in digital pharmacies with launch of Amazon Pharmacy store
Frontline workers say they spend more time on EHRs than patient care
On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome back Tom Leary, Jeff Coughlin, and David Gray, all from the HIMSS Government Relations team, to discuss what to expect in the lame duck session of Congress as well as when the Biden administration gets underway in 2021. We also delve into the recent extensions in the info blocking rules, where we stand with telehealth waiver extensions, and last week's Supreme Court oral arguments about the future of the Affordable Care Act.
Talking Points:
- What a Biden administration could mean for health tech policy
- What could happen under different Senate control scenarios
- Health tech policy priorities: telehealth, public health infrastructure, and patient identification
- Patient ID ban update
- Health IT’s enduring bipartisan appeal
- What to expect re: COVID-19 relief
- The future of telehealth waivers
- What we learned at ACA oral arguments
- What Biden can do on the ACA without Congress
Previously on HIMSSCast:Healthcare on the Ballot: The 2020 Election, Obamacare and COVID-19How providers, payers should be preparing for new info blocking, patient access rules — with Jeff Coughlin
The US needs a patient identification strategy yesterday — with Tom Leary and David Gray More About This Episode:
ONC offers new compliance extension for information blocking rules
Healthcare industry groups react to extended info blocking compliance timeline
HHS publishes final regs on info blocking, interoperability
Supreme Court appears favorable to keeping Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments this morning to determine validity of Affordable Care Act
Payers are working to meet deadline for interoperability mandate
New ONC, CMS rules put everyone in interoperability businessONC Announces Additional Flexibilities Around Interoperability Final Regulation Implementation
COVID-19 Global Policy Call to Action Report
COVID-19 and the Digital Health Policy Impact
Adopting Connected Care Policy Waivers Permanently to Develop Resilient Healthcare Systems Report
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: The Supreme Court appears favorable to keeping the Affordable Care Act after hearing arguments this week; Google launches a pair of AI tools. Plus: Epic and Cleveland Clinic partner on COVID risk model.
Links to the stories:Supreme Court appears favorable to keeping Affordable Care ActGoogle Cloud unveils AI tools to help healthcare analyze unstructured medical text
Epic makes Cleveland Clinic-devised COVID-19 risk model available in MyChart
In today's HIMSSCast we're once again looking at the COVID-19 telehealth boom, but this time through the lens of staffing and workforce. Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett are joined by Michelle Davey, CEO of Wheel, to discuss how a rise in virtual care is changing how physicians work.
This episode is brought to you by AmWell.
Talking points:
- What Wheel does
- How telemedicine is changing the physician workforce
- The telemedicine learning curve
- How much of the workforce is doing telemedicine now?
- Telemedicine and physician burnout
- The role of virtual care post-pandemic
- Benefits of telehealth beyond patient care
- The future of telemedicine and virtual care
More about this episode:Wheel launches telehealth staffing platform alongside $13.9M raise
CEO of telehealth vendor and staffing services startup Wheel talks scaling out during COVID-19
AI, telehealth could help address hospital workforce challenges
Keeping frontline healthcare workers physically and psychologically safe is paramount during COVID-19
Pandemic-era burnout: How physicians manage crushing workloads and IT demands
In this episode of Top Stories with Jonah Comstock: Under Armour sells off MyFitnessPal for $345 million; HHS unveils final five-year plan for Health IT. Plus: CMS approves controversial Georgia ACA waiver.
Links to the stories:
Under Armour sells off MyFitnessPal for $345M, will shut down Endomondo by 2021HHS unveils new 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
CMS approves Georgia waiver to transition to a non-ACA private sector marketplace
Last week, HIMSS held Global Health Equity Week, a week of education and action around disparities in public health. Hundreds of participants around the world attended virtual webinars and virtual marches and wrote to their governmental representatives, while HIMSS announced grants to support industry diversity and a new tech challenge, all around the theme of maternal health.
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcomed HIMSS Chief Americas Officer Denise Hines to the show to look back at the week, and look ahead to the work still to be done.
Talking points:
- How National Health IT Week became Global Health Equity Week
- The (ongoing) virtual policy march
- HIMSS member engagement and participation
- The HIMSS Foundation grants to support industry diversity
- How virtual meet-ups helped convene the HIMSS community
- The Global Maternal Health Tech Challenge
- What it means to support healthcare for all
- How you can still help by joining the Global Health Equity Network
More related to this episode:Join the Global Health Equity Network
Join the Virtual March
More about Global Health Equity WeekImproving outcomes for expectant Black women is focus during HIMSS Global Health Equity WeekHIMSS announces global tech challenge to improve maternal health outcomes worldwideCOVID-19 hasn't just spotlighted healthcare inequity – it's made it worse
Digital divide remains, despite big COVID-19 tech innovation
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Intelligence agencies warn of cybercriminals’ renewed push to target healthcare providers; President Trump’s claims of COVID-19 over-reporting draws backlack from hospital groups. Plus: A new digital eye health tool from CVS.
Links to the stories:FBI, HHS warn of 'increased and imminent' cyber threat to hospitals
Provider groups push back against Trump claims that doctors are inflating COVID-19 numbers
CVS launches telemedicine enabled contact renewal service
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Experts agree that racial bias makes it more difficult for communities of color to combat COVID-19; Hospital admissions are down 10.5% this year due to the coronavirus. Plus: How Borderlands 3 is helping scientists map the microbiome.
Links to the stories:COVID-19 hasn't just spotlighted healthcare inequity – it's made it worseHospital admissions projected to be down 10.5% in 2020
Borderlands 3 is using its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome
HIMSSCast is out early this week to give you a chance to listen to our election edition before Thursday's presidential debate. In this episode, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse break down the ways that healthcare is on the ballot in 2020, how the candidates' platforms, such as they are, differ, and how a new administration might handle COVID-19 differently.
Talking points:
- The state and fate of the Affordable Care Act
- Does HIPAA really protect pre-existing conditions?
- Trump’s healthcare plan (for lack thereof)
- What’s left on the ballot of Medicare for All?
- Trump and Biden’s ideological divide on health care
- Biden’s plans to make health insurance more accessible and affordable
- Forces pushing the industry toward value-based care
- Trump’s price transparency and drug price agendas
- Could we see Obamacare 2.0?
- How much has COVID-19 shaped the election?
- How would President Biden handle COVID?
- What to listen for in Thursday’s debate
More about this episode:Trump has no specific plan to replace ACA, despite grilling by Savannah Guthrie
5 Charts About Public Opinion on the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court
In chaotic debate, Trump, Biden clash on future of ACA, COVID-19 handling
Two-thirds of Americans say candidates' healthcare plans, COVID-19 strategy are "very important"
Vice presidential debate will likely spotlight divergent views on healthcare
Civil vice presidential debate short on answers as VP Pence evades question on Trump's plan to replace ACA
America's response to COVID-19: 'A tale of two countries'
COVID-19 has accelerated a digital transformation that was already underway in hospitals across the United States. Now two healthcare experts — Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO of Damo Consulting, a digital transformation advisory firm, and longtime healthcare CIO Ed Marx, now chief digital officer of HCI Group — have written a new playbook to help providers accelerate that transformation, while developing what they call a 'digital roadmap' to help ensure lasting value from IT investments."
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard sat down with Padmanabhan this week to discuss the book, the lessons therein, and other trends in healthcare including patient engagement and the evolving role of the electronic health record. Enjoy the conversation."
Talking points:
- Who should lead digital transformation in healthcare?
- The digital transformation roadmap
- Telehealth’s role in digital transformation
- How the pandemic is changing the landscape of virtual care
- The growing importance of patient loyalty and patient choice
- How the EHR is evolving
- AI, machine learning, voice recognition, and other promising new technologies
- Thoughts on the new info blocking rules
More about this episode:The book: "Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future"
COVID-19 digital transformation update, with Hal Wolf
ONC officials offer update on information blocking rules compliance
HITN's Technology Optimization Best Practices series
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: The federal government awards $481 million to a diagnostics startup to ramp up COVID-19 testing; Operational risks of owning a public hospital could compound fiscal challenges for counties. Plus: New concerns about CMS data reporting rules.
Links to the stories:Cue Health awarded $481M from HHS, DoD to ramp up production of its app-connected COVID-19 rapid diagnostic
Public hospitals are compounding COVID-19 budget risks for large urban counties, Moody's finds
Trump administration crackdown 'couldn't come at a worse time' for hospitals
Within healthcare, virtual reality (VR) applications are currently being used to control pain, decrease anxiety, and reduce stress. New research has demonstrated a strong case for VR use in care both at home and in the hospital. How can this new, effective therapy be scaled to a broader population of patients? John Sharp will answer just that question as he speaks with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai & Author of the upcoming book: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine.
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With its recent launch of the Digital Health Center for Excellence, the FDA has shown a new spotlight on its ongoing work of changing how the regulation of digital health and digital therapeutics works, to better match the realities of modern technology. But is the organization taking the right steps for the right reasons? Or is it heading into dangerous territory for developers and their end users — the patients?
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio discuss this pivotal question with Bradley Merrill Thompson, a Member of the Firm at Epstein Becker Green, founder of the AI Startups in Health Coalition (AISHC), and occasional MobiHealthNews contributor.
Talking points:
- The FDA’s new Center for Excellence
- Why launch the Center now?
- What’s going on with Pre-Cert?
- The risk of FDA surveillance overreach
- Data subjectivity in post-market surveillance
- How should FDA regulate AI?
- FDA time is money — the importance of prioritization
More about this episode:FDA establishes Digital Health Center of Excellence
Q&A: A firsthand account of FDA's Pre-Cert ProgramThe AISHC's position paper
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Hospitals must now include flu data along with their COVID-19 data; Mental health tops the list of preferred uses for telehealth. Plus: Clover Health goes public.
Links to the stories:HHS will require hospitals to report flu information, in addition to COVID-19
Americans want mental healthcare via telehealth, but data security worries remain
Clover Health will join the public market by merging with Social Capital SPAC
The COVID-19 crisis thrust hospital supply chain issues into the national spotlight as we heard about shortages of personal protective equipment almost daily during the early days of the crisis. But the issues that lead to these shortages are only a few of the many challenges that hospital supply chain managers face every day. For this week’s episode, co-host, Rob Havasy is joined by Rich Kucera, Principal of Symmetric Health Solutions and the winner of the 2019 SCAN Health Design Competition to discuss their innovative solution to the supply chain problem.
For more information about the SCAN Health Design Challenge, click here.
Learn more about how Accelerate Health is redefining health at HIMSS here.
On a very special episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf to talk about his experiences, HIMSS's experiences, and what he's observed in the industry more broadly in the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Talking points:
- What HIMSS is all about
- How COVID has spurred digital transformation in healthcare
- The Global Consortium for eHealth Interoperability
- The Global Health Equity Network
- How HIMSS is working to make sure no one’s left behind
- What we’ve learned about healthcare regulation
- Health beyond borders
- The importance of just-in-time information
- Preparing for the next pandemic
- Supply chain management
- Envisioning change through people, processes, and technology
More about this episode:How health systems worldwide can build and benchmark their digital maturity
HIMSS, in statement on racial inequity, pledges to 'drive meaningful change'
Responding to COVID-19 with innovation, cultural change, redesigning healthcare strategies
'Global standards with local implementations'
Global Health Equity Network
Global Consortium for eHealth Interoperability
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Cyberattack hits Universal Health Services, forcing shutdown of user access to IT applications; Anthem reaches $40M settlement in in 2015 cyberattack. Plus: Is the Apple Watch causing unnecessary healthcare utilization?
Links to the stories:
UHS hospital chain hit with apparent ransomware attack
So you've been hit with a ransomware attack. What now?
Anthem settles 2015 cybersecurity breach for $39.5 million
Apple Watch's abnormal pulse feature driving many unnecessary healthcare visits, Mayo Clinic researchers say
This week's episode will feature co-host Indu Subaiya, President of Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and Senior Advisor to HIMSS speaking with Farzad Mostashari, Co-founder and CEO of Aledade and Former Head of the Office of the National Coordinator.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari will provide an expert perspective on what a 21st century public health system could look like including real-time disease surveillance, targeted prevention and the smart allocation of resources. He will discuss how healthcare providers can effectively partner using new technology and data-enabled primary care models.
Learn more about how Accelerate Health is redefining health at HIMSS here.Subscribe to the Accelerate Health podcast here.
In this inaugural episode, Kerry Amato kicks off the Accelerate Health Podcast with Omkar Kulkarni, Chief Innovation Officer for Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Managing Director for KidsX, a new pediatric health accelerator. KidsX is a global ecosystem of pediatric innovators, anchored by a consortium of 30 children’s hospitals from North America, Europe and Australia motivated to partner with early stage digital health companies to transform pediatric care. Omkar Kulkarni will discuss how this amazing consortium will build, test and deploy software solutions to make pediatric care exceptionally effective, safe, efficient and convenient for children and families.
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In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsurg’s absence on the Supreme Court throws the future of the ACA into question; Femtech companies bemoan advertising difficulties on social media. Plus: the emergence of 'social informatics'.
Links to the stories:
Death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have ramifications for Affordable Care Act
Femtech players call out Facebook for rejecting women's health ads
A new health IT discipline: Social informatics
Epic users at some Wisconsin providers to get EHR-embedded SDOH tool
It's a bit of a pot pourri this week as the MobiHealthNews team shares some of what they've heard at a variety of (virtual, of course) industry events. First host Jonah Comstock recaps what Apple announced at its product launch event last week, then Associate Editors Dave Muoio and Mallory Hackett discuss the Digital Therapeutics East event. Finally Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Jonah talk about the Rock Health Summit.
And if you haven't gotten enough of events yet, we've got one of our own coming up next week. VIsit https://www.himss.org/event-accelerate-health to learn more about Accelerate Health.
Talking points:
- Apple Watch’s new blood oxygenation sensor
- New studies from Apple
- Apple’s “Peloton” killer, Fitness+
- The role of digital therapeutics in COVID-19 response
- Decentralized clinical trials in a pandemic world
- The importance of clinical trial efficacy data
- Pharma’s perspective on digital therapeutics
- The need for diversity in the digital health startup ecosystem
More about this episode:
Apple adds SpO2 & V02 Max to Apple Watch Series 6, and launches three new studies
Apple, Anthem launch 2-year study of asthma app, connected devices
Apple plants a flag in the home fitness market with Fitness+ for Apple Watch
Apple Watch sleep tracking feature is more about habits than graphs (VIDEO)
Hands-on with Apple Watch's New Blood oxygenation sensor (VIDEO)
Why digital therapeutics are flourishing under COVID-19
Pharma companies don’t want unicorn digital therapeutic partnerships
DTx regulatory teams talk the power of research beyond ticking FDA's boxes
With many regulatory barriers clear, remaining roadblocks for digital therapeutics are cultural, logistical
To boost inclusivity, words matter in the healthcare world
What startups are missing when they talk about the 'consumer' experience
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome guest Jeff Coughlin, senior director of federal and state affairs at HIMSS to revisit our discussion of the groundbreaking information blocking rules that dropped back in February — and go into affect November 5th.
Talking points:
- What the rules do and how the ONC and CMS rules differ
- Why the rules are important
- How providers and payers have responded since the rules dropped
- How these rules could have improved COVID-19 response
- What providers and payers should be doing right now to get ready for the November 5 compliance date
- Looking ahead to a possible new HIPAA rule this fall
More about this episode:
What providers, payers, and tech developers should know about sweeping new patient access rules
HHS publishes final regs on info blocking, interoperability
With info blocking rules, concerns for patient privacy, small practices
CMS final rule poses big hurdles for payers
COVID-19 highlights the importance of ONC info blocking rules, says Rucker
Final rules on info blocking pose multiple challenges – but also big opportunities
CMS releases final and proposed rules on price transparency bound to get provider and payer pushback
Price transparency, still up in the air, not likely to reduce costs
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Apple partners with VA to offer telehealth services for veterans – and announces new health-tracking functionality for its next Apple Watch. Plus: Hospital CEO changeover rates are dropping after a five-year hold.
Links to the stories:
Here's what primary care clinicians say they need to effectively implement telehealth
VA working with Apple to broaden telehealth access for veterans
Apple adds SpO2 & V02 Max to Apple Watch Series 6, and launches three new studies
Hospital CEO turnover rate dipped in 2019 for the first time in five years
In this episode of Top Stories: Former CEO of Zocdoc files a lawsuit alleging that executives forced him out of the company in 2015; Telehealth likely represents the biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity.
Links to the stories:
Ousted Zocdoc CEO accuses fellow cofounders and CFO of foul play in new lawsuit
Telehealth is biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity, says report
Personal information of 348,000 people potentially exposed in NorthShore data breach
Full coverage: HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event 2020
AmWell and GoodRx seem to be ushering in a second wave of digital health IPOs. Why is this happening now? Who's next? With Healthbox President and HIMSS EVP Neil Patel as their guest, the MobiHealthTeam (host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett, and Associate Editor Mallory Hackett) dive into these questions and more.
Plus, in the second half of the show, they discuss Amazon Halo, the tech giant's long-awaited entry into the wearable space.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
Amwell inks deal with Google Cloud and files to go public
Amazon releases wearable health tracker with app called Amazon Halo
GoodRx files to go public, revealing jumps in year-over-year revenue growth
SOC Telemed going public through 'blank check' acquisition
Hims eyes deal to go public and expands its remote mental health services
Why buying Physera made sense for Omada
Ro receives $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.5 billion
Verily launches new health insurance venture
Earlier this week, an HHS working session met to discuss a long-simmering topic in American health policy: the need for a universal patient identification strategy. In this episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and Senior Editor Kat Jercich welcome HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary and Government Relations Senior Manager David Gray to the podcast to discuss the events of the working session, the history and current state of patient identification in the United States, and why this topic is so important in this pandemic moment.
More about this episode:
Accurate patient matching is even more vital amidst the COVID-19 crisis, say industry groups
House votes to overturn unique patient identifier ban
HIMSS Becomes Founding Member of Patient ID Now Coalition (himss.org)
In this episode of Top Stories: California has passed the nation’s first law mandating a 45-day supply of PPE; Digital health company GoodRX has filed to go public after a strong financial showing in 2020. Plus: The top technical challenge of the pandemic.
Links to the stories:
California passes nation's first bill requiring hospitals to keep a 45-day supply of PPE
GoodRx files to go public, revealing jumps in year-over-year revenue growth
Healthcare execs say telehealth is their No. 1 pandemic tech problem
In this episode of Top Stories: VA healthcare is slated for modernization with a new scheduling platform; Nursing homes are now required to test staff for COVID-19. Plus: AmWell going public with $100 million of Google's money.
Links to the stories:
First component of VA EHR modernization goes live in Ohio
Nursing homes are now required to test staff for COVID-19
Amwell inks deal with Google Cloud and files to go public
Check out a video version of this episode here
Host Jonah Comstock convenes a panel of HIMSS Media editors — HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich, MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio and HFN Associate Editor Jeff Lagasse — to discuss recent delivery slowdowns at the post office and how they have and haven't affected healthcare stakeholders, including startups and patients. The team also looks into the broader trend of politicization of traditionally apolitical government agencies and how that could affect public faith in COVID-19 treatments or vaccines.
More about this episode:
USPS service delays are hitting some mail-order pharmacies and telehealth platforms harder than others
Mail delays may affect medication supply for nearly 1 in 4 Americans over 50
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's full testimony (C-SPAN)
The Package Coalition homepage
In this episode of Top Stories: Larger hospital systems such as AdventHealth are feeling the COVID-19 pinch; ICD-10 codes may not effectively capture patients with cough and fever. Plus: How postal service delays are affecting the healthcare sector.
Links to the stories:
AdventHealth laments $260 million in losses since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr. Anthony Fauci 'cautiously optimistic' that a vaccine will be available in 2020 or 2021
ICD-10 codes don't accurately capture COVID-19 symptoms, study shows
USPS service delays are hitting some mail-order pharmacies and telehealth platforms harder than others
In a wide-ranging discussion, Mathematica Senior Fellow Dr. Diane Rittenhouse joins host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about the unique impact of COVID-19 on primary care, how digital tools like telehealth can help, and how primary care providers can move forward in this new world. We talk about why primary care is important and how technology can only go so far in what is fundamentally a very human field. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.
Further reading:
Telehealth seems here to stay – so how can it be improved?
Expanding access to telehealth is a 'hundreds-of-billion-dollar question'
Effectively Implementing Telehealth in Primary Care (from Mathematica)
Saving Primary Care: Is it Time for A New National Service Corps for Primary Care Practices? (from Mathematica)
America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis (from the New Yorker)
In this episode of Top Stories: Health Information Exchanges can expect a monetary boost from the ONC; M&A activity is down precipitously Plus: Medtronic's latest acquisition.
Links to the stories:
ONC to offer new funding for state and local HIE innovation
At ONC Tech Forum, Rucker touts value of HIEs in COVID-19 response
Healthcare M&A transactions see large decline from Q1 to Q2
Medtronic plans to buy connected insulin pen startup Companion Medical
Kistein Monkhouse, CEO and cofounder of Patient Orator, and Dr. Tamir Wolf, CEO and cofounder of Theator, join host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett to discuss disparate health outcomes for racial minority groups, how their startups are looking to address these inequities, and what else those in the healthcare industry can do to help.
More about this episode:
Rock Health survey on startup diversity
HIMSS Global Health Equity Network
Patient Orator
Theator
Enabling Patient Engagement and Population Health Management (webinar)
Meet 10 Black People Disrupting the Digital Healthcare Industry Today
Coronavirus exacerbates health inequities: How tech can help
As health tech brands scramble to respond to protests, critics stress need for representation
The MobiHealthNews team — host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio — sit down to unpack the major shakeup that hit the digital health markets this week when telemedicine giant Teladoc announced its plan to merge with chronic condition management success story Livongo. We talk details, motivations, and implications of this digital health mega-company in the making.
More about this episode:
Teladoc Health absorbs chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B mergerUnitedHealth Group offering Dexcom G6 CGMs, Fitbit trackers, virtual coaching to 230,000 Type 2 members
European Commission expands Google-Fitbit acquisition probe into full-scale investigation
In this episode of Top Stories: Telehealth companies propose $18B merger; Trump issues executive order to make telehealth permanent. Plus: dispatches from the Taskforce of Telehealth Policy’s virtual town hall.
Links to the stories:
Teladoc Health absorbs chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B mergerOnline prescription discount platform GoodRx reported to be filing for IPO
Telehealth to become permanent under Trump executive order
CMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump executive order
Taskforce on Telehealth Policy holds town hall to solicit public input
On Monday, President Trump dropped a surprise executive order making regulatory allowances for telehealth permanent. But what exactly does that mean? And how much authority does Trump have to make his pronouncement a reality? HIMSS Media editors Jonah Comstock, Mike Miliard, Susan Morse, and Kat Jercich answer these questions and more in this breaking news edition of HIMSSCast.
Mentioned in this episode:
Telehealth to become permanent under Trump executive order
CMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump executive order
The Executive Order
In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Ro and Hims would both be valued at more than $1 billion if the latter completes its sale to an unknown acquisition company, while the healthcare industry says more funds are needed to make up for lost revenue due to the pandemic.
Links to the stories:
Ro receives $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.5 billion
Hims eyes deal to go public and expands its remote mental health services
Doctors and hospitals are asking for $100 billion in next COVID-19 relief bill
AMA & other med groups express 'dismay' at prospect of waivers made permanent
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and host Jonah Comstock chat about some recent trends in cybersecurity including telehealth security, securing remote patient monitoring, ramped up ransomware attacks, and the danger of a coming "cyberpandemic" as organizations rapidly adopt new technologies like cloud hosting.
Referenced in this episode:
The Cybersecurity Implications of Telehealth: Safeguarding the New Normal of Virtual Care (Editorial Webinar)
Babylon Health admits GP at Hand app data breach caused by ‘software issue’
Tech optimization: Fine-tuning cybersecurity defenses
Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem (NIST)
Hasty rush to cloud hosting during COVID-19 crisis could set stage for 'cyberpandemic'
Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security
UCSF pays $1.14 million to decrypt files after ransomware attack
The cybersecurity framework organizations should follow to keep data safe
Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (FDA)
Megan Zweig and Sean Day, chief operating officer and consultant respectively at Rock Health, join host Jonah Comstock for a discussion of digital health funding, M&A, and IPOs in the first six months of 2020.
Per Rock Health's recent report on the subject, US digital health companies pulled in $5.4 billion so far this year, in spite of (or, perhaps, because of) a global pandemic that has sparked a recession in the broader economy. Listen in for a dive into the details of those numbers and some ideas about where the space may be headed next.
More related to this episode:
Rock Health reports record digital health funding of $5.4B set to the backdrop of a pandemic
2020 Midyear Digital Health Market Update: Unprecedented funding in an unprecedented time (Rock Health)
Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020
Digital health’s IPO window is back open (Rock Health)
Halfway in, 2020 looks like a banner year for digital health M&As, with 35 deals
Agility and innovation were always the name of the game for health tech startups, but the past few months of COVID-19 have shifted the demands of providers, payers and consumers in a way few could have predicted. Many entrepreneurial teams are fighting the clock to review or revamp their products or commercialization strategies – but what are their options, and what should they be keeping in mind when rewriting the rules of their startups?
In this episode of the HIMSSCast, Dr. Roxie Mooney, CEO and healthcare commercialization strategist at Legacy DNA, joins Editor-in-Chief Jonah Comstock to discuss the challenges – and opportunities – health startups are facing in the "new normal."
This isn't a second wave. It's a first wave that never really went away. That's what experts are saying about the current COVID-19 resurgence. And just as the virus isn't going anywhere soon, neither are the financial woes it's creating for hospitals and health systems.
On this episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse and Associate Editor Jeff Lagasse to talk about the current state of affairs for hospitals.
More related to this episode:
Hospitals continue to bear the burden of the COVID-19 surge
Primary care doctors say they're not ready for the next COVID-19 surge
COVID-19 is forcing rural hospitals to rethink their business models
Hospitals see an increase in jobs for first time in two months, BLS reports
Hospitals have received most of the loans from the Paycheck Protection Program
HHS announces billion-dollar push toward experimental COVID-19 vaccine
Telehealth claims increased significantly between April 2019 and 2020, report shows
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. The team also discusses the state of telehealth more broadly, including the trends Kat observed at last week's congressional hearing.
This episode is brought to you by AmWell.
Subscribe to HITN's new Telehealth Connect newsletter here.
Check out our first two editorial webinars here and here.
More related to this podcast:
Telehealth: ATA president says 'we have a lot more work to do'
The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care
How telemedicine can help close the maternal health gap
Screeners, navigators and nudgers: The future of conversational AI in healthcare
A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?
ATA CEO: 'Technology can be used to reimagine experiences'
Senator Tina Smith: 'We have to learn from our experiences' on telehealth
Hundreds of industry groups call on Congress to advance permanent telehealth reform
Senate HELP Committee weighs the future of telehealth
Telehealth's post-COVID challenge: Integrating in-person care
After initial spike, telehealth visits are on the decline, report finds
MobiHealthNews founding editor Brian Dolan, now founder and lead writer at Exits and Outcomes, joins the host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett, and Associate Editor Dave Muoio for a bit of a post-mortem on Proteus Digital Health, the sensor-enabled pill company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week.
More related to this episode:
'Digital pill' maker Proteus Digital Health files for bankruptcy
Proteus parts ways with Otsuka as it pivots toward oncology, infectious disease treatment adherence
Proteus furloughed majority of employees last month after collapse of $100M funding round
The Proteus Digital Health Report at Exits and Outcomes (subscription required)
Following up on last week's episode, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio chat with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. As well as picking up on the thread of COVID-19's effect on the burgeoning field of virtual medicine, Speigel also talks about some of his own experiences with therapeutic VR, lays out his vision for the technology's future, and gives a preview of his forthcoming book on the subject.
More related to this episode:
COVID-19 and therapeutic VR adoption, part 1
In-Depth: Despite some hiccups, COVID-19 is VR's time to shine
In-Depth: Therapeutic VR in 2018 is no longer just a distraction (therapy)
VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine (Amazon pre-order)
Virtual Medicine event page
VR researcher and advocate Dr. Robert Louis gives HIMSS Media insight on the current state of VR in healthcare, and how the virus has impacted his hospital's rollout of the technology.
Digital health spectators have long eyed therapeutic virtual reality's progression from an interesting research concept to an evidence-backed treatment for pain, phobias and other conditions. But with COVID-19 throwing a wrench into healthcare's status quo, will the virtual technology be seen as a key resource, or as a novelty to be sidelined until things can return to normal?
In this episode, VR researcher and advocate Dr. Robert Louis, endowed chair and program director at the Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, and director of XR Development at Hoag Memorial Hospital, joins host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio to discuss how his hospital's VR initiatives have been affected by the pandemic.
(Editor's note: Louis serves as an advisor for Cleanbox Technology, mentioned in this episode)
More related to this episode:
In-depth: Despite some hiccups, COVID-19 is VR's time to shine
XRHealth raises $7M to expand its VR telehealth platform
Oxford VR puts patients with social anxiety into virtual scenarios with new program
Reimagining Brain Surgery (YouTube demo)
Following up on our episode from a few weeks ago, host Jonah Comstock sits down (virtually of course) with Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, medical director and vice president of Mental Health Services at Teladoc Health to discuss findings from a recent survey on COVID-19 and behavioral health as well as his own experiences seeing patients via telehealth during the pandemic.
Here's a release from Teladoc about the survey.
In Harry Glorikian's MoneyBall Medicine, he writes about various interconnected trends that have been shaping healthcare for the past few years: value-based care, precision medicine, cost transparency, digital health and big data. Some of those trends have been accelerated by recent seismic shifts in healthcare, others could still be slowed down by regulatory and reimbursement barriers.
In today's episode, Glorikian joins host Jonah Comstock for a wide-ranging discussion of healthcare's future.
Be sure to check out the book and Glorikian's same-titled podcast.
Telehealth of all stripes has exploded since COVID-19, but one particular subset deserves further examination: telebehavioral health, an area in which the crisis has upended the norms of supply as well as demand as the crisis take's a toll on the world's collective mental health.
In this episode, host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editors Laura Lovett and Susan Morse and Associate Editor Dave Muoio discuss some recent trends and developments in this space.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
Heal kicks off telepsychology service for California residents
Optum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase of virtual behavioral care company AbleTo
Pear rolls out digital therapeutic for schizophrenia, after FDA loosens regulations in COVID-19 response
FDA: Devs can release digital products for psychiatric disorders without 510(k) submission during COVID-19 crisis
Akili's digital therapeutic launches early for housebound children with ADHD
Wellable acquires MeYou Health's Daily Challenge product, Omada's mental health program free for six months and more digital health news briefs
As healthcare systems around the world battle COVID-19, they haven't stopped fighting another battle: the constant struggle against hackers and other security threats. On this episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock talks to Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard about cybersecurity in the age of COVID-19. They also catch up on the ONC info-blocking rules that dropped in March, and how the pandemic has illustrated the importance of those regulatory changes.
Articles referenced in this episode:
As COVID-19 cases increase, so do privacy concerns about EHR snooping
Cyberattack on Czech hospital forces tech shutdown during coronavirus outbreak
WHO, coronavirus testing lab hit by hackers as opportunistic attacks ramp up
Cyberattacks continue to mount during COVID-19 pandemic
Cyber-attacks on healthcare facilities 'growing threat' during coronavirus pandemic
Temporary hospitals are rife with cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Penn Medicine CISO offers tips for COVID-19 cybersecurity response
AMA, AHA partner on COVID-19 cyber threats guidance for hospitals, physicians
Google says it blocks 18 million COVID-19 related scam emails each day
And HIMSS's latest cybersecurity report.
Christopher Kerns, Advisory Board’s Vice President for Executive Insights, joins Jonah and the Healthcare Finance News team, Managing Editor Susan Morse and Associate Editor Jeff Lagasse, for a conversation about what this pandemic means for hospital bottom lines, how they're surviving, and how they should be preparing for a re-opening of elective and nonessential procedures.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
Hospitals furlough staff, reduce physician salaries waiting for CARES Act funds
Hospitals get additional $20 billion infusion of CARES Act funds
U.S. hospitals are suffering financial damage due to COVID-19 pandemic, Kaufman Hall finds
COVID-19 may permanently alter the telehealth landscape, from reimbursement to utilization
And be sure to check out Advisory Board's weekly webcast here.
Through its Healthbox subsidiary, HIMSS is facilitating peer-to-peer sharing of COVID-19 technology solutions and lessons learned on the COVID-19 Digital Think Tank. On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock chats with Healthbox President Neil Patel about how to use the platform, how it came about, and what he's seen on it so far.
Neil and Jonah also get to talking about the effect the current crisis has had on telemedicine adoption, and how that might look when this is all over.
Check out the Think Tank for yourself here: https://www.himss.org/news/covid-19-digital-think-tank
Even before today's big announcement from Apple and Google, it was clear that phone-based contact tracking was going to be an important weapon in the war against COVID-19. But might that weapon be a double-edged sword? In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by the MobiHealthNews team — Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio, to discuss the various companies, researchers, and governments working on COVID-19 contact tracking and population mapping, and what privacy concerns that may entail.
Articles mentioned in this podcast:
Apple, Google have teamed up to build system-level COVID-19 contact tracing, interoperable APIs for iOS, Android
Chinese government releases public app to gauge potential coronavirus exposures
Bahrain launches electronic bracelets to keep track of active COVID-19 cases
Facebook rolls out three new COVID-19 related health tracking maps
Google mobilizes location tracking data to help public health experts monitor COVID-19 spread
US military going on deployment told to leave wearable trackers at home (from 2018)
MIT's COVID-19 app uses smartphones' Bluetooth to anonymously spot disease contacts
It's been turbulent times for the FDA. On the one hand, the U.S. regulator has found itself carefully unravelling its guidances to bolster COVID-19 testing and treatment – sometimes leading to confusion for companies searching for new ways to combat the global epidemic. On the other, the agency continues to push forward with broader initiatives to remap its processes so that novel software treatments won't be gummed up in regulatory red tape.
Each of these challenges was on full display over the past couple weeks. In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio recap two major FDA stories on at-home COVID-19 testing regulation and the first digital therapeutic product to pass through the Software Precertification Pilot Program.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
EverlyWell, Nurx to release at-home COVID-19 test kits within a weekScanwell Health, myLAB Box unveil more at-home COVID-19 testing servicesAt-home COVID-19 testing services pump the brakes after FDA warns of 'fraudulent' kitsFDA expands use of vital sign monitors to enable remote care, modifications during COVID-19 emergencyFDA clears Pear's digital insomnia therapeutic through 510(k), Pre-Cert pilot pathwaysQ&A: A firsthand account of FDA's Pre-Cert Program
Host Jonah Comstock talks to Dr. Steve Miff and Dr. Keith Kosel, authors of a new book from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation.
"Building Connected Communities of Care: The Playbook for Streamlining Effective Coordination Between Medical and Community-Based Organizations”. With each chapter addressing a different stakeholder, the book is a practical guide for making digital health technology work for improved population health and community care.
Get the book here.
The number of COVID-19 cases has climbed to 167, 515 globally, according to the World Health Organization. Cases in Europe and the United States are rising quickly. Health systems are looking for new ways to deal with the increase in cases. New initiatives including drive-thru testing, chatbot helpers and hotlines are among the solutions proposed.
In today's HIMSSCast, we discuss how government and healthcare systems are responding to the pandemic, with host Laura Lovett from MobiHealthNews, and an international team of editors including Healthcare Finance News' Jeff Lagasse, and MobiHealthNews/Healthcare IT News AsiaPAC Editor Dean Koh (joining us by phone from Singapore) and MobiHealthNews/Healthcare IT News EU Associate Editor Leontina Postelnicu.
Healthcare IT News Editor Mike Miliard, Healthcare Finance News Senior Editor Susan Morse, and MobiHealthNews Associate Editor Dave Muoio delve into ONC and CMS's new rules, how people are reacting, and what might happen next.
Articles mentioned in this podcast:
HHS publishes final regs on info blocking, interoperability
ONC officials describe requirements of new API, information blocking rules
With info blocking rules, concerns for patient privacy, small practices
HHS finalizes rules requiring EHR access and an end to information blocking
Interoperability rules risk patient privacy, say insurers, hospitals
HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps
COVID-19, perhaps still better known as coronavirus, is a dangerous and rapidly spreading disease that governments and healthcare stakeholders are working around the world to contain. But how is new technology shaping the narrative of this epidemic, and is it making it easier to manage than previous outbreaks? In today's HIMSSCast, we explore that question with host and Editor-in-Chief Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews's Laura Lovett, Healthcare Finance News's Jeff Lagasse, and MobiHealthNews/Healthcare IT News AsiaPAC Editor Dean Koh (joining us by phone from Singapore).
Articles referenced in today's episode:
Roundup: Tech's role in tracking, testing, treating COVID-19
Israel's Sheba Hospital turns to telehealth to treat incoming coronavirus-exposed patients
Chinese government releases public app to gauge potential coronavirus exposures
Buoy Health, HealthMap team up to quell coronavirus fears, collect epidemiological data
iHealthtech researchers working on Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) detection kit
Facebook pledges to curb spread of misinformation about novel coronavirus
Combating the spread of coronavirus in China through continuous temperature monitoring
Veredus Laboratories announces development of detection kit for Wuhan Coronavirus
HIMSS offers coronavirus updates ahead of Global Health Conference
HHS collaborates on development of coronavirus treatment, vaccine
Coronavirus transmission has slowed, World Health Organization announces
CMS develops specific billing code for coronavirus test
Coronavirus outbreak could disrupt supply for U.S. healthcare companies
CMS prepares healthcare facilities for coronavirus threat
HHS Secretary Alex Azar: No public health emergency declared in U.S. for coronavirus
UPDATE: World Health Organization again decides against declaring a global emergency over coronavirus
In this grab-bag episode of HIMSSCast, MobiHealthNews Editor Laura Lovett chats with host Jonah Comstock about three recent in-person reporting experiences here in the Boston area, where MobiHealthNews is based. They included an office visit to the mindLab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Patient Safety in a Digital World symposium held at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the MassChallenge Health Tech Accelerator's Opening Night.
Articles referenced in today's episode:
As digital becomes the new norm in healthcare, how is patient safety being considered?
In-depth: Beth Israel's digital psychiatry division looks to integrate passive, active phone data into patient care
HITN and HFN editors Mike Miliard and Susan Morse join host Jonah Comstock for an on-site recap of the HIMSS Media Healthcare Security Forum, held in Boston this week. Jonah, Mike, and Sue talk trends, lessons, and how the world of healthcare security has changed over the years.
Other coverage from the Healthcare Security Forum:
What we learned at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum
Machine learning, AI, telemedicine and other technologies will pose data security risks, says Dr. John Halamka
Former Twitter CISO: Biggest cybersecurity threats are old problems, not new ones
Cybersecurity needs to be put in business terms
HHS cybersecurity leader describes the active threats on agency's radar
Managing risk in a hyper-outsourcing world requires facilitating good vendor relationships
Hospitals embracing IoT must be prepared to secure a decentralized environment
The HFN team discusses some recent pieces of news from federal and state governments, and speculates on how these developments might fit into a more patient-centric healthcare future.
Articles mentioned in this podcast:
CMS releases final and proposed rules on price transparency bound to get provider and payer pushback
American Hospital Association, provider groups to sue over final rule
California bill may have ramifications for telehealth reimbursement
Telehealth laws, especially for behavioral health, are increasing access despite remaining legislative barriers
Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini talks about CVS, the Amazon experience and how insurers stay relevant
The MobiHealthNews team breaks down the week's news from big tech. Why does Alphabet want to buy Fitbit? Why does Facebook want to help you get a check up? And what is Amazon up to with its latest acquisition?
Articles referenced in today's episode:
Alphabet makes offer to acquire Fitbit
Facebook's new tool tells users what checkups they need, where to get them
Amazon makes its second digital health acquisition with Health Navigator
Members of the HIMSS Media editorial team discuss the top takeways from the Connected Health Conference in Boston, including the changing role of healthcare payers, the challenges of behavior change, worrying digital health adoption stats and more.