System availability not uptime is critical for patient care. Cyberattacks have a significant negative impact on availability. No single security solution will prevent attacks, so a layered approach is needed. One tool that is overlooked is packet monitoring which can be used to detect attacks early, find infrastructure vulnerabilities, and improve availability.   

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Ken Czekaj from NETSCOUT to talk about the latest cybersecurity trends, including extortion attacks, and how packet monitoring can help.  

Learn more about NETSCOUT: https://www.netscout.com/ 

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The financial and administrative experience is no longer considered separate from the clinical experience by patients. A poor experience after their procedure or visit can have just as much negative impact as a bad visit. Key to a positive experience is price transparency, which is not as challenging to achieve as we first believed – according to Cedar CEO Florian Otto.   

Healthcare IT Today had the chance to sit down with Otto for an in-depth discussion about price transparency, price certainty, prior authorization, and patient experience.  

Learn more about Cedar: https://www.cedar.com/   

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One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas.  If you're on Twitter, then you've probably seen him tweeting from his account @WearablesExpert where he shares great digital health content.  One thing I love about Bocas is that he brings a great international perspective to the conversation since he lives in Europe.  

We sat down with João Bocas, CEO at Digital Salutem, to learn more about this unique perspective and to learn more about his efforts to bring a new RPM platform to the US.  In the interview below, Bocas talks about this new platform which has seen success in the UK and is now available in the US.  He highlights why communication is key to success with an RPM platform.  

Learn more about Digital Salutem: https://digitalsalutem.com/ 

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In a recent Emerging Technology Spotlight report, KLAS Research found that provider organizations who are using CorroHealth’s autonomous coding product are highly satisfied with the solution’s functionality and that it has had a positive impact on their operations.  

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with the report’s lead author – Mac Boyter, Research Director at KLAS – to find out more.  

Download the Emerging Technology Spotlight Report: www.corrohealth.com/KLAS  

Learn more about KLAS Research: https://klasresearch.com/

Learn more about CorrroHealth: https://corrohealth.com/ 

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Despite the losing staff to the Great Resignation and early retirement, many healthcare organizations are facing higher labor costs. Why? Because of the increased reliance on agencies to bolster remaining staff. Controlling this cost and even weaning off of agencies is possible through a disciplined, evidenced-based approach to staffing. Futura Healthcare is helping its provider clients achieve this with a combination of software and expert service.  

Healthcare IT Today recently had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Talerico, Senior Vice President at Futura Healthcare, to discuss the healthcare staffing challenge and to find out more about their unique, disciplined approach to controlling labor costs.   

Learn more about Futura Healthcare: https://www.futuraworks.com/ 

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To dive into the challenges of Health Equity and Health Disparities, I sat down with Scott Afzal, President of Audacious Inquiry, to understand their thinking in this area.  In the interview, Afzal shares how he defines health equity and why it matters.  Plus, he shares some specific examples of health disparities and then discusses how health IT can help to address the problem.  

Check out their recently released eBook on the subject as well: https://ainq.com/health-equity-and-health-disparities/ 

Learn more about Audacious Inquiry, a PointClickCare company: https://ainq.com/ 

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The inability to easily exchange medical data is holding back healthcare improvements and innovation. Thankfully there has been concerted effort recently from governments, vendors, standards bodies, and healthcare organizations to address this. Key to this effort is a standardized way to measure our interoperability progress (or lack thereof). The Healthcare Leadership Council and other leading organizations have created a new measurement framework to address this gap.  

Watch this expert panel, hosted by Surescripts and moderated by Healthcare IT Today, discuss a proposed framework for measuring interoperability progress: 

• Mary Grealy, President of Healthcare Leadership Council 

• Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer at Surescripts • Ashok Chennuru, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Anthem 

• Cris Ross, CIO at Mayo Clinic 

• Matt Swain, Chief of Staff at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT  

Learn more about Surescripts: https://surescripts.com/   

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The pandemic has cast a harsh light on the unequal distribution of care. Instead of hiding from the reality, leading healthcare organizations like Adventist Health are addressing the problem head-on by adopting technologies and practices that prioritize access to care. Adventist has partnered with GetWell, Kyruus, VisitPay, and Tonic Health for example, to provide consumer-like experiences for patients to help make it easier to engage with them.   

Healthcare IT Today recently sat down with Jason Wells, Chief Strategy, Consumer & Innovation Officer at Adventist Health and Michael O’Neil, Founder and CEO at GetWell to discuss consumerism, patient experience and the digital transformation of healthcare.   

Learn more about Adventist: https://www.adventisthealth.org/   

Learn more about GetWell: https://www.getwellnetwork.com/ 

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I recently sat down with Trevor Colhoun, CEO & Co-Founder at TPN.health, to talk about the mental health referral problem and learn more about the network of behavioral health professionals they created.  Colhoun shares with us about the state of mental health and what he's hearing from behavioral health professionals he talks to every day.  Plus, he shares why they decided to create TPN.health and dives into more detail about the referral network problem we mention above.  

Check out this interview to learn more about the TPN.health network, how they vet mental health professionals for their network, and how they're able to offer free behavioral health CEs to their members. 

Learn more about TPN.health: https://tpn.health/ 

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While healthcare seems perennial behind in adoption of many technologies, the good news is that healthcare specific eSignature solutions are available and making a difference in healthcare organizations today.  I got a look at this first hand at the HIMSS 2022 conference when I sat down with Janelle Goff, Project Manager at Singing River Health System, Brandi Reiterman, Corporate Director of HIM Innovation, Standardization & Training, Health Information Management at Steward Health Care, and Dessiree Paoli, Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Interlace Health.  

Learn more about Interlace Health: https://interlacehealth.com/ 

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