Re: Walmart Health: Just had a great dental visit this morning, which was preceded by helpful reminders from Epic, and…
News 3/11/24
Top News
Chamber Cardio, a value-based care optimization company focusing on cardiology practices, raises $8 million in seed funding.
Webinars
March 27 (Wednesday) 3 ET. “Houston Methodist: Deploying clinical AI at scale for improved outcomes.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. Presenters: Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH, chief of cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center; Brenda Campbell, RN, senior consultant, HM Health System Innovations; Nassib Chamoun, MS, founder and CEO, HDAI. The presenters will share how an interdisciplinary team collaborated to successfully use predictive models and a novel AI-driven approach to address post-discharge mortality. They will also describe how they expanded use of the platform to reduce clinician time spent digging through the EHR with a one-page risk profile, including codes extracted from notes using generative AI, and targeting their highest risk patients for extra attention. They will speak to how they overcame barriers to bringing AI at scale to support clinicians across the care continuum.
Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.
People
Walmart Health names Ken Silverstein, MD VP of clinical operations. Silverstein, a former ChristianaCare physician executive, had been consulting on operations for the chain of clinics.
Announcements and Implementations
Premier Radiology Services implements RamSoft’s OmegaAI and PowerServer PACS software across its teleradiology operation.
Research and Innovation
A survey of 400 Medicare patients, all of whom have had telehealth visits, finds that 69% would be comfortable conducting their annual wellness visits virtually from home. A slightly higher percentage say they’d even be comfortable conducting virtual wellness visits with providers who aren’t their regular primary care doctor, provided their medical records could easily be shared with their care team.
A survey of 1,400 adults gleans several interesting findings related to healthcare AI:
- Nearly 70% are not comfortable with AI-powered healthcare diagnoses.
- More than half are comfortable with using AI for online scheduling and estimating medical costs.
- Just 2% of those surveyed have used generative AI tools to search for healthcare information.
- While 70% of respondents turn to their physicians for healthcare information, younger patients rely predominantly on Dr. Google.
- Though 47% believe AI will majorly impact healthcare over the next five years, just 29% think it will have the same level of impact on their own patient experiences.
Other
The latest HIStalk poll, “Have you scheduled an in-person medical visit purely online in the past year?,” is incredibly timely, given that I did that exact thing on behalf of a family member just last week. Scheduling a same-day appointment using the Walmart Health website was easy. I was even able to easily figure out what the cost would be for the type of appointment scheduled – a bonus when you’re not using insurance. The visit wound up being just $25 more than an insured neighbor paid to visit the WellStar-owned urgent care just around the corner.
Sponsor Updates
- Nordic Consulting and SupraNet Communications extend their partnership to offer unlimited free WiFi services at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, WI.
- Bella Medical (TX) adds Sunoh.ai medical scribe software to its EClinicalWorks implementation.
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