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March 10, 2025, Issue #299

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Connect & Optimize: Best Practices for Effective Contact Center Consolidation

When: Wednesday, April 09, 2025 · 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
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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

EHR vendors turn to artificial intelligence to modernize health records

Software companies like Epic and Oracle say they’re weaving AI into clinicians’ workflows to meet client demand, keep up with competitors and improve the productivity of a swamped healthcare system. Healthcare DIVE

HIMSS25: Google Cloud expands AI-powered search capabilities to images, genetic information

Google Cloud's Vertex AI Search for Healthcare tool is designed to make it faster for healthcare professionals and other employees to find critical information within health records and medical documents. Healthcare IT News

Rush expands AI-driven documentation with Suki partnership

Rush University System for Health will deploy Suki's clinical documentation platform system-wide. mobihealthnews

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

Could artificial intelligence increase clinician burden?

Vendors say their AI scribes and assistants will save doctors time. But the need for careful oversight and hospitals’ financial incentives could complicate things. Healthcare DIVE

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Featured Events

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

Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

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: 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

Two Frameworks for Balancing AI Innovation and Risk

Organizations that view AI as just another technology project will increasingly find themselves irrelevant. Success will go to those who adopt a balanced approach—being radically optimistic about AI’s potential while remaining cautious about its risks. HBR

How to Build Your Own AI Assistant

For frequent gen AI users, the process of uploading the same background files and prompts over and over for similar or repeated tasks can become onerous. But many generative AI platforms allow for the creation of custom AI assistants which store those elements for repeated use. 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

Software Architect – Full Stack

This role blends architectural expertise with hands-on coding, requiring you to define system architecture, enable seamless integrations, and develop software that connects hardware, machine learning, and user-facing applications.

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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