News 11/27/24

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England’s three-hospital Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust cancels outpatient appointments due to an unspecified cybersecurity incident. Patients were asked to avoid visiting the emergency department for non-emergencies.

A hospital employee told a newspaper that “everything is down” and records can’t be accessed.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Cofactor AI, which offers AI-powered software to help providers appeal denied claims, launches with $4 million in seed funding.

Medication affordability, access, and adherence software company TailorMed secures $40 million in new financing.

Sales

• Self Regional Healthcare (SC) will adopt Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging Cloud.
• Carle Health (IL) selects value-based care software and services from Lumeris.
• The Queen’s Health Systems (HI) will implement remote patient monitoring services from Health Recovery Solutions as a part of a new RPM program offered through the Native Hawaiian Health Department.
• Hartford HealthCare (CT) will use WellStack’s data integration and analytics software to enhance the efficacy of its Google Cloud Platform and overall digital health strategy.
• Cambridge Health Alliance (MA) selects Abridge’s AI-powered speech recognition and clinical documentation technology.

People

Steve McDonald (Nordic Global) joins Pivot Point Consulting as executive partner.

Announcements and Implementations

WVU Medicine goes live on DrFirst’s medication management platform.

Emory Healthcare (GA) implements Switchboard.MD’s MDAware Inbox Management software across four specialty clinics. Switchboard.MD founder, CEO, and CTO Blake Anderson, MD is also an Emory physician.

Teladoc adds AI-powered patient movement detection capabilities to its Virtual Sitter solution that will allow staff to intervene in fall risk situations. 

Other

Mount Sinai Health System opens the Hamilton and Amabel James Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health in a repurposed building on the campus of its hospital in Manhattan. The new center will serve as a space for the research, development, and application of new AI solutions.

Industry luminary and friend of HIStalk Ivo Nelson posted a link to this video of the Glaser Society presentation, at which Epic’s Judy Faulkner was named the recipient of the John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award. Check out the fireside chat with John, Judy, and Ivo at the 25:50 mark of the video that was made by the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Sponsor Updates

• CereCore publishes a new info sheet, “MEDITECH Regulatory Reporting and Submission Services.”
• EClinicalWorks publishes a new customer success story, “Smarter Patient Care with AI Technology.”
• AGS Health publishes a new e-book, “eBook Medical Necessity in Ambulance Coding.”
• Altera publishes a new client story, “Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Advances Digital Transformation with Provation IPro: Streamlining Elective and Acute Care Pathways at Waikato.”
• CIO Outlook names Ascom Americas Managing Director Kelly Feist one of the year’s most influential female leaders in healthcare technology.
• The American Telemedicine Association Virtual Nursing Insights Summit recognizes AvaSure with its Best Case Study Award.
• Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast,” “Pharmacy Benefits 101: Formularies & Formulary Management, with Nisha Bhide, PharmD.”
• Cardamom Health sponsors and hosts the HFMA Colorado Chapter’s Women in Leadership conference.
• DrFirst publishes a new guide, “Navigating the New Norm in a Regulatory Storm.”
• First Databank will present at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2024 Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition December 8-12 in New Orleans.
• FinThrive publishes a new “Contract Management Case Study: Midwestern Health Network.”
• Fortified Health Security wins the Healthcare Cybersecurity Solution of the Year Award from CyberSecurity Breakthrough.

Blog Posts

• Empower Clinical Informaticists for Reimbursement Wins in 2025 (CereCore)
• National Rural Health Day: An RN’s POV (Altera)
• Artera’s Approach to AI (Artera)
• Clearwater Cyber Briefing: Key Trends and Takeaways for November 2024 (Clearwater)
• Getting Down to Business with AI: Key Observations from HLTH (Consensus Cloud Solutions)
• Beyond Legacy Systems: Unlocking Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings Through Application Rationalization in Healthcare (Cordea Consulting)
• AI in Healthcare is Only as Effective as the People Using It (Dimensional Insight)
• Redefining Patient Access: The Rise of Intelligent Contact Centers (EClinicalWorks)
• Medicare Bad Debt 101 (FinThrive)
• Modernization and Expansion of an Outpatient Surgery Center (Health Data Movers)
• Elevating data security with HITRUST certification, HIPAA compliance, and employee awareness (Healthmonix)

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