Direct contracting reimbursement model proving popular among payers and providers; Mass General teams with YouTube to tackle medical disinformation. Also: Gamified strategies show only modest success in changing people's health behaviors.

Links to the stories:

Providers, payers see direct contracting's capitation as an important move to value-based care

YouTube tapped to support access to accurate medical info

Gamification boosts physical activity, healthy behaviors in new study

For the past several months, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki has been writing a series on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals throughout the US. For this installment of HIMSSCast, Bill and host Jonah Comstock are joined by Paul Coyne, NP,  clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Joe Fisne, associate chief information officer at Geisinger Health System, to discuss some of the biggest learnings to come out of the series.

This podcast is brought to you by Zoom and is a companion to 'Telehealth is here to stay', episode 1 of our Workplace Re-entry series.

Talking points

• How COVID taught us how fast we can innovate
• The importance of video conferencing, internally as well as externally
• Physician collaboration and rapid prototyping
• How COVID-19 aligned priorities within hospitals
• An unexpected lesson: Hospital HR systems need improvement
• Comfortable vs uncomfortable innovation
• The future of telehealth utilization

More about this episode

Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era (Bill's series)

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

What does the 'after COVID-19' business look like? IT leaders weigh in

CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 (Bill's previous series)

Security is not just a hardware or software issue. Privacy is not a static filter and safety is not just about signage.  Our world has changed, along with the working environment, threat landscape, and the lines between work and life.  Today’s IT Leaders need tools to address compliance. Technology partners can help IT Leaders address privacy, security, and safety compliance issues.  In this podcast, we will discuss these 3 compliance focus areas and give real world advice on how IT Leaders address these areas with support from their technology partners.

The 2020s mark the transition to digital-first healthcare. By 2023, 

65% of patients worldwide will have accessed care through a 

digital front door as healthcare providers look for better ways to 

improve access, engagement, and experiences across all 

services. As such, the rapid adoption of virtual reality, 3D print, telehealth, 

artificial intelligence (AI), microfluidics and other innovative 

technologies are enabling healthcare providers and patients to 

access their information conveniently and in real time. Such digital 

enabled technologies are supporting care coordination across the 

care continuum, connecting providers and patients, and bringing 

care to patients when and where it is needed. However, this rapid 

march to digital transformation has also shone a harsh spotlight on 

the digital divide in healthcare. According to the Pew Research 

Center, nearly 1 in 8 Americans lives in poverty, with low-income 

individuals having lower rates of smartphone ownership (71%), 

home broadband access (59%), Internet use (82%), and basic 

digital literacy (53%).

Listen in as Fran Ayalasomayajula, HP’s Head of Digital Strategies 

and Daniel Colling, Global Head of Healthcare Solutions and 

Practice talk about patient-first technology innovations ranging from 

VR, 3D Print and AI to Hospital at Home, Point-of-Care Diagnostics 

and Intelligent Care Coordination. In this episode, we’ll explore 

what happens when such technologies are developed and 

intentionally implemented with these communities in mind. This will 

be an engaging discussion on the new frontier of care delivery, one 

that brings all providers and patients together and has a positive 

impact on patient outcomes. 

The pandemic showed healthcare organizations the importance of mobility, collaboration and streamlining clinical workflow. Going forward, IT departments can better support providers in delivering patient care by leveraging these lessons.

Explore the most pressing challenges of the post-COVID landscape, and discover how Hospital Automation technology is the linchpin of an elevated telehealth platform that bothpatients and clinicians can depend on.

Among the many offerings at HIMSS21 is The Future of Healthcare, a continuation of the State of Healthcare data-driven virtual event HIMSS hosted back in June. On this special episode of HIMSSCast, we welcome all four HIMSS Trust Partners and presenters to give a sneak peak of what's to come at the August event.

Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett speak with Tom Kiesau, director and digital health leader at the Chartis Group; Lauren Goodman, director of market intelligence at HIMSS; Shreesh Tiwari, a principal at ZS; and Dr. Darryl Gibbings-Isaac, a senior manager in Accenture’s Health Strategy Practice.

Talking points:

• State of Healthcare takeaways
• Tension between learning technology lessons and getting back to normal
• Patient attitudes about machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Providers still looking for value proposition for AI, digital health adoption barriers
• How payers are embracing technological innovation
• The future of digital health investment
• Uncertainties: What will big tech companies do? What will providers prioritize?
• More uncertainties: Value-based care adoption, interoperability and patient data access
• Generational differences in patient attitudes
• New competitive threats for health systems, payers
• Keeping health equity and patient-centricity in mind as we build healthcare’s future
• The importance of trust in healthcare
• Technology’s potential to humanize healthcare
• How COVID-19 has and hasn’t changed healthcare

More about this episode:

Register for HIMSS21

The State of Healthcare, ICYMI

The Future of Healthcare

HIMSSCast: State of Healthcare recap and Future of Healthcare preview

68% of health system execs plan deeper AI investments to meet strategic goals

Atrium Health's quick turnaround allowed for digital innovation during the pandemic

Patients are looking to go back to brick-and-mortar post pandemic

Oscar Health's CEO on how insurance companies have transformed during COVID-19

Payers focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has flagged unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates; A recently approved Alzheimer’s drug could strain Medicaid budgets . Plus: Amazon gets FCC clearance for radar sensors for remote sleep monitoring.

Links to the stories:

VA EHR update: Watchdog flags unreliable cost estimates, training deficiencies

New Alzheimer's drug could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion

FCC gives Amazon green light to use radar for monitoring sleep

Explore the most pressing challenges of the post-COVID landscape, and discover how Hospital Automation technology is the linchpin of an elevated telehealth platform that bothpatients and clinicians can depend on.

In this episode, we discuss some of the key steps in moving to the cloud, focusing on 

four core concepts to help make your migration as smooth as possible.  Understanding 

your workloads, people and processes are critical to any major shift in operations, but 

this is magnified with a shift into cloud environments.  We talk with Jonnie Irvine, a 

Principal Architect with Hyland Cloud Services with experience in public and private 

cloud migrations from both sides of the process.