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March 17, 2025, Issue #300

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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

Why Hybrid Intelligence Is the Future of Human-AI Collaboration

Hybrid intelligence combines the best of AI and humans, leading to more sustainable, creative, and trustworthy results, writes visiting scholar Cornelia Walther. Knowledge at Wharton 

Providers’ Contracts with AI Companies Should Share Risk, This Hospital Exec Says

When hospitals enter into contracts with AI developers to build tools that are the right fit, the two parties should share risk. That way, hospitals won’t be stuck paying for tools that don’t deliver results. MedCity News

Google Cloud’s head of healthcare on the state of AI

Aashima Gupta shares why she’s excited about advances in artificial intelligence and what’s coming down the pike for Google’s AI products. Healthcare DIVE 

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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Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

NEW! The Power of Data: Optimizing Staffing & Service Levels in Healthcare Contact Centers

The ability to deliver seamless patient experiences depends on efficient, data-driven contact center operations. Damo Blog

NEW! Transforming Healthcare Data and Enhancing Patient Care with Digital Innovation

Dr. Mark Weisman discusses the challenges of transforming dirty, unstructured data into clean, actionable insights, the role of data governance in maintaining quality, and the latest patient care technologies shaping the industry. Damo Blog

White paper: Unlocking the Potential of Data Integration in Digital Health

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

Three Things to Know About M&As and Technology

Here’s what recent research says about the impact of technology on mergers and acquisitions, and vice versa. MIT Sloan

When AI Gets a Board Seat

Lab experiments show that AI can outperform humans, but outside of the lab, when making decisions, executives face shifting challenges, often with insufficient or inaccurate data. HBR 

Digital Health Funding and M&A

Virtual musculoskeletal care provider Vori Health nabs $53M

The startup plans to use the funding to expand its value-based care initiatives, including evolving toward increasingly sophisticated economic models with two-sided population health risk. Fierce Healthcare

Jobs Corner

AI Governance Lead and Program Manager

The AI Governance Lead and Program Manager will be instrumental in advancing AI governance and compliance initiatives within a highly regulated public-sector organization. 

Director of Healthcare Technology & Engineering

Lead the Clinical Engineering Department in selecting, procuring, and delivering biomedical equipment and services. 

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