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March 03, 2025, Issue #298

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Connect & Optimize: Best Practices for Effective Contact Center Consolidation

When: Wednesday, April 09, 2025 · 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Where: Online (Zoom)

This webinar offers a sneak peek into how Sentara Health (an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system) unified its appointment scheduling and hospital communications contact centers into a Clinical Access Center and made it a Center of Excellence for further consolidation. This session will offer valuable insights for healthcare leaders and IT professionals looking to optimize patient experience while driving operational efficiencies.

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Digital Health in the News

Cedars-Sinai uses generative AI to extract data on pickleball injuries

HIMSS25 session will show how leveraging AI improves data accuracy and operational efficiency while minimizing manual efforts. Healthcare Finance

SimonMed Imaging uses AI to greatly improve full-body MRIs

Artificial intelligence reduced scan times, sometimes by 30%-50%. Diagnostic accuracy improved. And the chances of missed diagnoses were reduced, improving patient outcomes. Healthcare IT News

Athenahealth rolls out Abridge AI scribe to community practices, hospitals

Athenahealth will offer Abridge's ambient clinical documentation solution as part of its growing suite of artificial intelligence tools for small and independent provider practices. Fierce Healthcare

CHAI creates central repository for AI model cards

CHAI is working to build the model card registry for AI purchasers, like health systems, to get a basic understanding of a model’s training data, fairness metrics and intended use. Fierce Healthcare

This Week in The Big Unlock Podcast

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While There Should be Zero Tolerance for Failure, Embrace Experimentation to Drive Innovation.

In this episode, Dr. Mark Weisman, Chief Information Officer and Chief Medical Information Officer at TidalHealth, shares how to transform dirty data into clean data, the role of data governance, patient care technologies, and key digital initiatives. 

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Insights and Research

Ambient scribes decrease burnout by 60% for small primary care providers: Phyx

Primary care providers working mainly in small practices report decreased feelings of burnout and higher satisfaction with their practices when using an ambient AI scribe. Fierce Healthcare

AI Is in the Doctor’s Bag—And Primary Care Is Ready to Use It

Family physicians and other primary care clinicians reported that they already use digital health tools extensively at work. Rock Health

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Featured Events

HIMSS 2025: Join The Big Unlock Podcast to explore transformative trends shaping the future of healthcare. Connect with Rohit Mahajan, host, and Ritu M. Uberoy, Co-host, on LinkedIn to meet at HIMSS.

Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

NEW! Bridging Healthcare Gaps with Technology: Insights from Jeremy Cauwels, Chief Medical Officer at Sanford Health

One of the most significant challenges in the Upper Midwest is distance. Patients often travel hours to access care, which has driven Sanford’s commitment to leveraging technology to bridge these gaps. Damo Blog

NEW! Optimizing Patient Experience: Insights from Kristen Jacobsen

At a recent session during Becker’s Digital Innovation + Patient Experience + Marketing Virtual Event, Kristen Jacobsen, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at RevSpring, shared valuable insights on how healthcare organizations can optimize patient engagement. BigRio Blog

White paper: BigRio’s technical approach to data interoperability and integration in digital applications

This white paper explores the critical concepts, standards, and technologies shaping healthcare data integration. BigRio White Paper

Transforming Patient Experience: Standardizing and Optimizing Contact Centers at a Large Health System

Sentara Health, a leading not-for-profit healthcare system, faced challenges with fragmented patient experiences across 13 contact centers. Partnering with Damo, Sentara centralized scheduling through the Clinical Access Center and unified contact centers under a comprehensive strategy. The collaboration improved cross-functional collaboration, standardized operations, and enhanced patient care, establishing a seamless, high-quality experience. Damo Case Study

Books Corner

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Other Stuff We’re Reading

A New Machine Learning Approach Answers What-If Questions

Causal ML enables managers to explore different options to improve decision-making. MIT Sloan Review

AI Agents Are Changing How People Shop. Here’s What That Means for Brands.

With the advent of gen AI agents that assist consumers in their purchasing journeys, the balance of power will likely shift away from retailers and towards brands and AI-agents. That’s because AI agents will search for consumer goods more broadly, swiftly, and comprehensively than humans. HBR

Digital Health Funding and M&A

OrganOx secures $142M equity financing for organ technology platform

The company will use the funds to hasten the growth of its normothermic machine perfusion platform metra. mobihealthnews

Jobs Corner

Senior Business Analyst - EPIC Integration

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Epic Business Systems Analyst in a consulting role to join our engineering team, focusing on data integration with Epic EHR for Digital Health companies. 

Fractional CTO – Customer Success & Support (Due Diligence Expert)

We are looking for a Fractional CTO with deep expertise in Customer Success and Support to help strengthen our technical due diligence (TDD) process of SaaS companies in this area.

To advertise your job post here for free, please email it to us at info@bigr.io

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