MediFormatica Daily Digest – Thursday, March 16, 2023 – (49 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.
 | What Role Could ChatGPT Have in Clinical Trials? A Bigger One Than You Might ThinkLarge Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT have taken the world by storm, with everyone from researchers to tech enthusiasts excited about the almost limitless potential of these models. And yes, I’ll admit it that… — MedCity News |
 | Meet the President… — KLAS Research |
 | Blackbaud Pays $3M to Settle “Misleading Disclosures” Following Ransomware AttackBy Jill McKeon March 15, 2023 – Blackbaud agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges relating to a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers, the Securities and Exchange… — Health IT Security |
 | Planet Nourish launches NHS pilot opportunity… — DigitalHealth.London |
 | HC3 Report Uncovers Key Data Exfiltration Trends in HealthcareBy Sarai Rodriguez March 15, 2023 – Healthcare providers face a heightened risk of data exfiltration, according to a recent HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) brief that delves into the… — Health IT Security |
 | ONC: Majority of Office-Based Physicians Used Telehealth in 2021By Mark Melchionna March 15, 2023 – A report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology found that telehealth use grew noticeably over the course of the COVID-19… — mHealth Intelligence |
 | South Korean Health Ministry calls to make telemedicine permanentSouth Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.FINDINGS — Healthcare IT news |
 | Hopper Health launches to offer primary care for neurodivergent adultsHopper Health, a healthcare navigation and virtual primary care platform, launched this week to provide care for adults with conditions like Tourette’s, ADHD, autism and obsessive compulsive disorder.Patients will have access to healthcare providers… — MobiHealthNews |
 | Sengkang General Hospital to promote AI-assisted colonoscopiesSengkang General Hospital in Singapore is turning into a centre of excellence for AI-assisted colonoscopy with support from Medtronic International.The two organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote AI-assisted colonoscopy for colorectal cancer… — Healthcare IT news |
 | UPMC tackles medication nonadherence, achieves big clinical and financial ROIThe problem of medication nonadherence is well documented. In the United States. Nearly 30% of all prescriptions are never picked up at the pharmacy, and an estimated 18 million people are unable to afford their medications.THE… — Healthcare IT news |
 | Largest EPR implementation programme in UK already reporting benefitsMedication administration incidents have significantly reduced following the go live of an electronic patient record (EPR) at the largest trust in the UK, its leaders have said.Speaking at Rewired 2023, Sarah McGovern, chief transformation… — Digital Health |
 | FDA Clears TytoCare’s New Algorithm for Wheeze Detection
Virtual care company TytoCare on Wednesday received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its wheeze detection algorithm, allowing the company to begin commercializing the product in the U.S. — MedCity News |
 | ChristianaCare Rolls Out DTC Virtual Primary Care PracticeChristianaCare, a health system with headquarters in Delaware, on Tuesday launched a direct-to-consumer virtual primary care practice. The new service was rolled out to help increase access to round-the-clock, convenient primary care, as many… — MedCity News |
 | OpenLoop Secures $15M for White-Label Telehealth SupportWhat You Should Know:– OpenLoop, a leader in white-label telehealth support services powering virtual and hybrid care across the country, today announced it has raised a $15M Series A funding.– The round was led… — HIT Consultant |
 | Morning Headlines 3/16/23… — HIStalk |
 | Pfizer’s Seagen Acquisition Brings It Full Circle in a Hot Area of Cancer Drug R&DSeagen, the biotech company Pfizer is buying for $43 billion, is considered a pioneer in the class of cancer drugs called antibody drug conjugates. But the first ADC to reach the market wasn’t a… — MedCity News |
 | 5 Key Implications for Information Lifecycle Management in 2023The following is a guest article by Krishna Nacha, SVP and Head of North America and Latin America at Iron Mountain — Healthcare IT Today |
 | KLAS Reports Published in February 2023February is always a busy month for KLAS because we publish our Best in KLAS report, and 2023 was no exception. In addition to our flagship report, KLAS published four reports sharing important insights… — KLAS Research |
 | Racial Disparities Arise From Inconsistent Newborn Drug Screening PolicyBy Sarai Rodriguez March 15, 2023 – A study out of the University of Michigan found that the absence of a clear policy for newborn drug screening, physician bias, and institutional racism… — Patient Engagement HIT |
 | TytoCare receives FDA 510(k) for wheeze detection softwareVirtual primary care company TytoCare received FDA 510(k) clearance for clinical decision support software that analyzes lung sounds for possible wheezing. Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection uses TytoCare’s stethoscope to evaluate lung sounds and identify… — MobiHealthNews |
 | US Approach to Primary Care Access Struggles Is DisjointedBy Sara Heath March 15, 2023 – A new report from FAIR Health indicates that the United States is taking a patchwork approach to patient access to care and primary care, with… — Patient Engagement HIT |
 | Featured Health IT Job: Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and OutcomeWe like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT… — Healthcare IT Today |
 | CodeX Grows Steering Committee To Advance HL7 FHIR Interoperability
By Hannah Nelson — EHR Intelligence |
 | Morning Headlines 3/15/23… — HIStalk |
 | Resist ‘shiny things’ and ensure digital transformation delivers real benefitsEnthusiasm for digital change must be focused on outcomes and the things that matter to patients, urged national leaders from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in this morning’s keynote session on the Digital Transformation… — Digital Health |
 | ChristianaCare Launches Virtual Primary Care to Improve Patient AccessBy Mark Melchionna March 15, 2023 – ChristinaCare has launched a virtual primary care practice that aims to allow patients to build and maintain relationships with a primary care team through various… — mHealth Intelligence |
 | TytoCare Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection– TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it received FDA clearance for its Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection, paving the way for its rollout in… — HIT Consultant |
 | Connecting patients with outpatient services through their NHS AppHealth Call, which has been at this year’s Rewired event this year, is a unique NHS-owned digital health company. It was set up to share digital health expertise and resources to drive down the… — Digital Health |
 | Growing Nephrology Nursing Workforce Crisis Demands Policy Attentiondial — MedCity News |
 | Deep-Learning Tool Helps Identify Patients with Cirrhosis
By Shania Kennedy — Health IT Analytics |
 | Opioid Settlements are Making Headlines; Is Now The Time to Soften Guidelines?Jeremy Bloom, CEO, NorthSight RecoveryThe United States only represents five percent of the world’s population; however, Americans consume 80 percent of the world’s opioids.1 The U.S. is the world’s leader in the use of… — HIT Consultant |
 | Rewired 2023: Hera crowned Pitchfest start-up winnerHera has been crowned the winner in the start-up category of Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2023.Hera is a digital-first maternity and child health platform, launching in postnatal care. The company edged out close runners-up… — Digital Health |
 | Maribel Health raises $25M and more digital health fundingsMaribel Health, a company that helps healthcare systems design, build and operate technology-enabled home and community clinical care services, secured $25 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst. The New Hampshire-based… — MobiHealthNews |
 | How SAMHSA Is Tackling the Mental Health Workforce ShortageAbout 37% of Americans live in areas where there is a shortage of mental health providers. By 2025, the U.S. will be short about 31,000 full-time equivalent mental health practitioners, said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, assistant… — MedCity News |
 | Indian EMR startup HealthPlix scores $22M in Series C fundingHealthPlix, a startup that runs one of India’s biggest EMR platforms, has raised $22 million in a Series C funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners and SIG Venture Capital. The round was also… — MobiHealthNews |
 | NHS shouldn’t use tech risks fear to avoid embracing innovation – FerrisThe health service needs to ensure that fear of the risks of technological innovation don’t slow the pace of change, national director of transformation at NHS England Dr Tim Ferris told a keynote session… — Digital Health |
 | Greenway Listens to Customers to Be Best in KLASGreenway Health’s Intergy Practice Management (PM) solution was recently ranked in the top five as a ‘Best in KLAS’ solution. This recognition was, in part, thanks to improvements that were made from direct user… — Healthcare IT Today |
 | Protai Raises $20M to Build an Oncology Drug Discovery PipelineWhat You Should Know:– Protai, a proteomics and AI-powered drug discovery startup revolutionizing the way new drugs are discovered, today announced a $12 million extension of its seed round, bringing the total amount to… — HIT Consultant |
 | Big wins in the medical imaging industry amid high hospital demandsThe rising burden of multiple diseases and the growing rate of mortality in recent times has amplified the increase in healthcare spending to cater to the surging requirement for early diagnosis. According to the… — Omnia Health Insights |
 | Can State Policy Levers Catalyze Health Information Exchange Use?
By Sarai Rodriguez — EHR Intelligence |
 | Amboy Street Ventures Launches $20M Fund to Support Femtech StartupsWhat You Should Know:– Amboy Street Ventures, the world’s first venture capital firm focused on women’s health and sexual health for all genders, closed its debut $20 million fund.– Amboy Street plans to invest in… — HIT Consultant |
 | HHS Cites 27 Medicare-Covered Drugs Whose Prices Rose Faster Than InflationAbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, and Roche are among the companies that must cut a check to the U.S. government. Those companies have Medicare-covered medicines whose prices rose faster than inflation and according to a… — MedCity News |
 | Maribel Health Raises $25M to Create the Future of Advanced Care at HomeWhat You Should Know:– Maribel Health, a turnkey partner for health systems looking to design, build, and operate a full continuum of advanced home and community services, announced today the completion of a $25 million Series A… — HIT Consultant |
 | Curating Digital Spaces for Patients with Sara VaezyAdam Cherrington and Dan Czech are joined by Sara Vaezy, Executive VP Cheif Strategy and Digital Officer at Providence Health.Sara has spent her entire career in or adjacent to healthcare. Working in everything from… — KLAS Research |
 | Vendor notebook: New health assessment AI tools could improve outcomes and reduce costsResearchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the… — Healthcare IT news |
 | PointClickCare Acquires Value-Based Care EHR Patient PatternWhat You Should Know:– PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. Financial terms of… — HIT Consultant |
 | No significant clinical harm from Advanced cyber attack says Phil HugginsFollowing the Advanced cyber attack in August 2022, Phil Huggins has revealed to a Digital Health Rewired audience that the NHS has “seen no clinical impact or significant clinical harm”, after a review to… — Digital Health |
 | Vendor notebook: New health assessment AI tool could improve outcomes and reduce costsResearchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the… — Healthcare IT news |
 | Spotlight GuardRFID… — KLAS Research |
