News 7/14/23

Top News

The Defense Health Agency announces that stateside roll out of MHS Genesis has been completed on time and on budget. The Oracle Health-powered EHR will be implemented at DOD facilities overseas in the coming months.

The DOD and VA will oversee synchronous deployment of MHS Genesis at the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (IL) in March 2024.

Webinars

July 26 (Wednesday) 1 ET. “Lessons We’ve Learned Since Launching our Cancer Prevention Program.” Sponsor: Volpara Health. Presenter: Albert Bonnema, MD, MPH chief medical information officer, Kettering Health System, and Chris Yuppa, product owner for oncology services and cancer prevention, Kettering Health System. Kettering’s IT department has played a critical role in providing an EHR-driven framework to bring cancer risk assessment and individual prevention plans to more than 90,000 patients. Primary care, OB/GYN, oncology, and imaging providers are now able to assess the hereditary, genetic, and lifestyle factors that affect the risk of developing lung, breast, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancer in any patient encounter. Learn how Kettering brings together people, processes, and technology to be more proactive in the fight against cancer and where its cancer prevention program is headed next.

July 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Use Generative AI.” Sponsor: Orbita. Presenter: Bill Rogers, co-founder, president, and chairman, Orbita. The advent of generative AI tools truly represents a paradigm shift. And while some healthcare leaders embrace the transformation, others are hesitant. Invest 20 minutes to learn why you shouldn’t wait. When combined with natural language processing, workflow automation and conversational dialogs, generative AI can help leaders address a raft of challenges: from over-extended staff, to the rising demand for self-service tools, to delivering secure information to key stakeholders. You will learn where AI delivers the greatest value for providers and life sciences, how it can solve critical challenges faced by healthcare leaders, and how Orbita has integrated generative AI into its conversational platform so healthcare leaders can leverage its full capabilities safely and securely.

July 27 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Denial Prevention 101: How to stop denials from the start.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Crystal Ewing, director of product management, Waystar. There’s a reason denial prevention is prominent everywhere in healthcare RCM. Denials reduce cash flow, drive down revenue, and negatively impact the patient and staff experience. More than half of front-end denials don’t have to happen, but, once they do, that money is gone. It’s a pretty compelling reason to take some time now to do some preventative care on your revenue cycle. This webinar will help you optimize your front end to stop denials at the start. We’ll explore the importance of not only having the right data, but having it right where staff need it, when they need it.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Wavely Diagnostics raises $1.35 million in seed funding. The company has developed a telemedicine app and companion medical device that can help pediatricians virtually diagnose ear infections.

Parker Health, developer of FHIR-based health management software that aggregates patient data from a variety of sources, raises $25 million.

Sales

• Novant Health will offer NeuroFlow’s digital mental health resources and support to patients suffering from depression, and to its team members as a resource for self-care and burnout prevention.

Announcements and Implementations

North Country Hospital (VT) establishes a NICU telemedicine program that gives its pediatricians access to real-time video consults with neonatologists at University of Vermont Medical Center.

Censinet announces GA of its new HIPAA Security Rule enterprise risk assessment and remediation module.

Get Well announces eight new smart patient room implementations in conjunction with new hospital tower construction projects.

Government and Politics

VA officials say they are opposed to proposed legislation that would impose strict requirements on the department’s EHR Modernization program, but express support for legislation that would increase oversight of future acquisitions projects.

Other

UMass Chan Medical School will use a $17 million federal grant to launch the Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide through Technology Translation. The school will work with partnering organizations to establish best practices for implementing new and existing suicide-prevention technologies. CAPES will also focus on patient-centered care, business development, and ethics.

Nearly 60% of surveyed IT decision-makers are looking to adopt or replace patient engagement technologies, according to the latest research from Black Book. Survey-takers gave InteliChart top marks for its patient engagement and consumer outreach capabilities.

Epic is working to develop a sixth campus in its hometown of Verona, WI. Still in the preliminary design phase, the expansion will be preceded by a recently approved underground parking structure that will open in 2025. The company is already planning to add two new buildings to its Wizards Academy campus to accommodate an additional 1,700 employees. Those facilities are expected to open next year.

The State Medical Board of Ohio permanently revokes the license of former plastic surgeon Katharine Roxanne Grawe, also known as Dr. Roxy on TikTok, for neglecting patients as she livestreamed surgical procedures, spoke directly into the camera, and responded to live viewer questions.

Sponsor Updates

• Divurgent releases a new podcast, “Mastering Epic’s Hyperdrive Migration.”
• Primary Care Joliet (IL) enhances its patient experience with EClinicalWorks EHR and Healow patient engagement solutions.
• Ellkay will sponsor CHIME’s CIO Boot Camp July 26-29 in Salt Lake City.
• Fortified Health Security names Carrie Card accounts payable accountant.
• Healthcare Triangle publishes a new whitepaper, “The Future of Healthcare Infrastructure: An In-Depth Look at the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) Landscape.”
• Rhapsody publishes a new case study, “BioMerieux reduces deployment time by 66% with Corepoint Integration Engine.”

Blog Posts

• How Analytics Can Solve the Top Challenges in Healthcare IT (Dimensional Insight)
• Communication: A Key Enabler of Change Management (Impact Advisors)
• Improving patient outcomes in healthcare through test automation technology (Keysight)

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