Welcome to our weekly review of IT Today in Healthcare. Each week, we’ll provide a look back at the articles we’ve published and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
The analysis will help Amazon (eventually) capitalize on a medical acquisition. Andy Oram talks to Imprivata CEO Gus Malezis about role of patient data harmonization and AI-based analytics in helping Amazon capitalize on One Medical purchase — and why it will take Amazon at least five years to get it all together. Read more…
Giving patients with rare diseases support – and a voice. At the last minute, John Lynn decided to attend the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit. He’s glad he went, not just because healthcare leaders must be close to patients and their caregivers but also because he saw salespeople and speakers working together instead of competing against each other. Read more…
Understanding MEDITECH’s culture and approach to health IT. John interviews MEDITECH EVP and COO Helen Waters about how MEDITECH approaches product design and development to help new features get into customers’ hands faster. The wide-ranging chat also covered the company’s recent leadership change, the impact of COVID-19 and MEDITECH’s long-term vision for interoperability. Read more…
How AI can democratize healthcare. Robin Farmanfarmayan’s latest book is called How AI Can Democratize Healthcare. She talks to John about The role of AI in shifting care from the clinic to the patient, along with other ways AI is changing the healthcare landscape and empowering the patient. Read more…
Giving patients control over reproductive health data. Andy interviews two product leaders at Virtu about SecureCycle, an app they developed during a company hackathon to provide secure exchange of reproductive health data – an annoying gap in the majority of applications currently in use. Read more…
Building a Roadmap for Telehealth’s Long-Term Plan. In the latest CIO Podcast, Linda Stevenson of Fisher-Titus Medical Center discussed how Ohio’s healthcare system developing a road map for telehealth after the initial surge of a pandemic and better telehealth integration with its Oracle Cerner EHR system. Stevenson also describes the difference between virtual and in-person visit workflows. Read more…
Helping rural healthcare bridge the cybersecurity gap. Rural healthcare systems are unfortunately an easy target for cybercriminals due to their typical lack of security resources. Terry Young of A10 Networks described how these organizations and the regional ISPs that serve them can make the most of their security investments. Read more…
Faster access to health data with Blockchain. Guy Tisch of Briya outlined the benefits of blockchain for fast and secure data access thanks to decentralized applications that are longitudinal, connected and alive, but only share anonymous data – and only when another entity requests it. Read more…
A new approach to tokenization. Crypto has tokens that work well for healthcare sales and marketing, but LexisNexis’ Josh Schoeller suggested that clinical studies and longitudinal patient records require more advanced tokenization techniques which make it possible to create and link de-identified datasets. Read more…
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