MediFormatica Daily Digest – Thursday, April 6, 2023 – (42 posts)

In todays fast-paced world, it is easy to miss out on important information, especially if you are trying to keep up with a lot of different sources. That is where the daily digest comes in – it is a tool that compiles all the posts created on the previous day, providing you with a convenient summary of everything that happened so you can stay informed, educated, and engaged with the Digital Health world around you.

	Morning Headlines 4/5/23 April 4, 2023 Headlines No Comments A message from Bill Priemer Content services platform vendor Hyland Software lays off 1,000 employees, 20% of its workforce. Coalition for Health AI Unveils Blueprint for Trustworthy AI… — HIStalk
	Qure.ai joins Medtronic India’s stroke care initiative Qure.ai is the latest technology partner to join Medtronic’s initiative in advancing stroke care management in India. According to a press statement, their partnership aims to provide AI solutions to comprehensive stroke centres and primary… — MobiHealthNews
	ChatGPT Has Potential to Help Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer Patients What You Should Know:A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, may help improve health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer by providing easy-to-understand information about basic knowledge,… — HIT Consultant
	Alcidion’s Miya Precision goes live at Alfred Health Alfred Health, the main healthcare provider in the inner southeast of Melbourne, is now live with Alcidion’s Miya Precision modules for improving patient flow and bed management. WHAT IT’S ABOUT Alcidion was initially contracted to implement… — Healthcare IT news
	Total Specific Solutions acquires Irish software company IMS Maxims Total Specific Solutions (TSS) has acquired Irish Medical Systems (Holdings) Ltd, better known in the Irish and UK market as IMS Maxims, in what is its first acquisition in Ireland and sixth in the UK… — Digital Health
	Patients Know Best signs new London contract Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) has signed a 5-year contract with DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumnus, Patients Know Best (PKB), to provide their personal health record solution.PKB will enable the Trust to… — DigitalHealth.London
	Basildon Hospital carries out heart procedures with help of smart glasses Heart patients at Basildon Hospital are the first in the country to benefit from a new type of wearable technology, that is helping guide hospital staff through complex surgical procedures.Nurses at the Essex Cardiothoracic… — Digital Health
	Predicting patient decompensation from continuous physiologic monitoring in the emergency department Anticipation of clinical decompensation is essential for effective emergency and critical care. In this study, we develop a multimodal machine learning approach to predict the onset of new vital sign abnormalities (tachycardia, hypotension, hypoxia)… — npj Digital Medicine
	Exclusive: Healthtech firm IMMJ Systems strategically rebrands to Mizaic IMMJ Systems – the electronic document management system (EDMS) provider for the NHS, has rebranded to Mizaic, as the company gears up to double the size of the business over the next three years,… — Digital Health
	What will the future of digital health look like? The future of digital health is rapidly evolving and transforming the industry. Integration of digital technologies has revolutionised how healthcare services are delivered and created new opportunities for improved patient outcomes as well as… — Omnia Health Insights
	Contexture HIE Upgrades to Unified Platform for Improved EHR Interoperability By Hannah Nelson April 05, 2023 – Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western US, has announced plans to transition to a unified health information exchange (HIE) platform to enhance EHR interoperability for… — EHR Intelligence
	Why Sofinnova is Betting on the Confluence of Digital Technology and the Life Sciences In other words, the fund appears to be at least 100 million euros. “This is as far as I can go,” he demurred, declining to clarify whether the math was correct. He explained that 70% of… — MedCity News
	ViVE 2023: Health IT Leaders Must Work with a Sense of Urgency on AI AI Drives Operational, Clinical and Research Efficiency in HealthcareWhile ChatGPT has healthcare IT leaders excited, they are also cautious. Michelle Greene, executive vice president and CIO of Cardinal Health, said the tool needs governance… — HealthTech Magazine
	KPMG and Veradigm are 2023’s Most Improved Vendors When you read the Best in KLAS report, you’ll notice a special section focusing on the most improved vendors. These are vendors whose customer satisfaction scores have made a significant improvement over the past… — KLAS Research
	News 4/5/23 Top News Content services platform vendor Hyland Software lays off 1,000 employees, 20% of its workforce. The company blames the layoff on economic conditions and the unexpectedly high cost of moving to a cloud-based… — HIStalk
	Indian RPM startup Dozee gets $6M to kickstart global expansion Indian medical device startup Dozee has raised $6 million in a Series A2 funding round, which was joined by both its existing investors – Prime Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital, YourNest VC – and new… — MobiHealthNews
	4 Reasons Hospitals’ Tech Investments Can Go Awry As CEO of Avia, Linda Finkel has years of experience helping health systems navigate the digital transformation process. Her company, based in Chicago, provides consulting services to more than 50 health systems across the… — MedCity News
	Nuance Announces DAX Express Fully Automated AI Note Creation for Doctors Nuance recently announced DAX Express and I had to learn more about it and dive into the details of what Nuance is planning to offer.  I sat down with Diana Nole, Executive Vice President… — Healthcare IT Today
	Shining a light on Nordic healthcare excellence Creating an ecosystem of sustainable healthcare is a goal shared by countries across the globe, but Finland has set itself apart from others with world-class research and development to create future-proof hospital infrastructure, secure… — Omnia Health Insights
	Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access The following is a guest article by Nic McMahon, CEO at United Language Group Communication and connection are crucial in healthcare settings. To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are… — Healthcare IT Today
	Why Tomorrow Health’s CEO Is Calling for More Caregiver Reimbursement “Caregivers are overlooked by the healthcare system. When you look at the way that healthcare services are coded and billed for in the U.S., there’s no role for the caregiver there,” said Tomorrow Health… — MedCity News
	Zócalo Health Teams Up with Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy to Increase Medication Access for Latino Patients Zócalo Health, a virtual primary care provider designed for Latino patients, on Tuesday announced a collaboration with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (Cost Plus Drugs). Now all Zócalo patients have access to Cost… — MedCity News
	10 key lessons for embedding digital in your trust A succinct new guide tells NHS leaders everything they need to know to make digital transformation a success. By Cate McLaurin, director at Public DigitalThree years ago, we partnered with NHS Providers to launch… — Digital Health
	What Bulk FHIR can do for quality measurement and more For the past decade or so, HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard has been enabling more widespread and intuitive data exchange across the healthcare ecosystem for a variety of mission-critical use cases.The FHIR innovation… — Healthcare IT news
	Data Must Lead to Better Outcomes – Divurgent at ViVE2023 According to Hannah Ellerbee, Chief Customer Officer at Divurgent, health data was a hot topic of discussion in the ViVE2023 exhibit hall. However, what she didn’t hear enough of, was how that data was… — Healthcare IT Today
	What Tends to Go Wrong With Medication Adherence? This is the third article in a series about problems people have taking their medication. The previous article categorized various ways that information technology can help. This article looks at special conditions that weren’t… — Healthcare IT Today
	Readers Write: The Myth of the Golden Health Record The Myth of the Golden Health RecordBy Peter Bonis, MD Peter Bonis, MD, is chief medical officer of Wolters Kluwer Health. In 2009, President-elect Obama signaled his plan for the federal government to support… — HIStalk
	Coalition for Health AI Releases Blueprint for Trustworthy AI in Healthcare By Shania Kennedy April 05, 2023 – The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare’ this week, which outlines recommendations to increase trustworthiness and promote… — Health IT Analytics
	Featured Health IT Job: Vice President, Compliance and Program Development We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Vice President, Compliance and Program Development position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT… — Healthcare IT Today
	Commonwealth Pain and Spine’s new EHR leads it to create an MSO Commonwealth Pain and Spine, a provider organization that serves Indiana and Kentucky, was undergoing rapid growth, but its electronic health record system was not keeping up with needs.THE PROBLEM The system staff were using at… — Healthcare IT news
	Readers Write: HLTH, CHIME, ViVE, HIMSS — Choose and Invest Wisely HLTH, CHIME, ViVE, HIMSS — Choose and Invest WiselyBy Steve Shihadeh Steve Shihadeh is founder of Get-to-Market Health of Malvern, PA. Many vendors in the health technology space have just attended ViVE and/or are… — HIStalk
	Illinois Medical Practice Settles Lawsuit After Data Breach Impacts 228K By Sarai Rodriguez April 05, 2023 – Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG) has settled a class-action lawsuit for an undisclosed amount after a data breach puts the patient privacy of more than 227,943 individuals at risk…. — Health IT Security
	Kore.ai announces integration partnership with Mediktor  Kore.ai, the world-leading enterprise conversational AI software platform and solutions company, has announced an integration partnership with Mediktor, an advanced AI-based medical assistant for triage and pre-diagnosis. The collaboration delivers a digital-first healthcare assessment… — Digital Health
	Reproductive health app Clue scores €7 million Femtech company Clue, which offers an app focused on menstrual cycle tracking and reproductive health, raised €7 million ($7.6 million) in funding led by existing investors Union Square Ventures and Balderton Capital. The company also… — MobiHealthNews
	Barriers to Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures for Gender-Affirming Care By Sara Heath April 05, 2023 – Gender-affirming care offers a great use case for implementing patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs), but PROMs for gender-affirming care need a bit of a tune-up before that can fully… — Patient Engagement HIT
	Preference for Future Telehealth Use Does Not Exceed That of In-Person Care By Mark Melchionna April 05, 2023 – New research published in the Practice of Medicine described that although telehealth gained a high level of approval and application throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, most users prefer to… — mHealth Intelligence
	Healthcare AI News 4/5/23 News Carle Health will use Scanslated software to convert radiology interpretation notes into patient-friendly language for reading in MyChart, including in Spanish when requested and with illustrations. The software was developed by Duke Health… — HIStalk
	Restricted EHR Configuration Does Not Improve Clinician Efficiency, Study Finds By Hannah Nelson April 05, 2023 – A restricted EHR configuration limited to one patient record open at a time did not impact clinician efficiency, despite perceptions that an unrestricted EHR was more efficient, according… — EHR Intelligence
	Expanding PDMP Use for Public Health Surveillance in Nebraska’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is promoting the use of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and health information exchange (HIE) tools to address the opioid epidemic in the… — DistilINFO Hospital IT
	Alcohol recovery companies Monument, Tempest shared health data with advertisers Online alcohol recovery programs Monument and Tempest shared users’ personal information with third-party advertisers for several years, according to a data breach notification filed last week with California’s attorney general. In the notice, first reported… — MobiHealthNews
	Dot Compliance Launches First AI Based ChatGPT Powered eQMS for Life Sciences What You Should Know:Dot Compliance, a leading provider of eQMS compliance solutions for the life sciences sector, has introduced an industry-first, ready-to-use AI-Based electronic Quality Management System for life sciences, powered by an embedded… — HIT Consultant
	Northwell Health selects Philips for patient monitoring standardization Northwell Health this week announced a new seven-year agreement with Philips designed to standardize patient monitoring technology across its 21 hospitals and 850 outpatient facilities.WHY IT MATTERS By taking an enterprise-wide approach to its IT… — Healthcare IT news