This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
July 29th.
First, losses for the health care industry from
the CrowdStrike
IT outage are estimated to reach 1,900,000,000
according to a July 24th report from Parametric
Solutions,
a provider of cloud monitoring, modeling, and insurance
services.
According to Parametrix,
the health care and banking sectors in the
US are expected to suffer their greatest direct
losses due to the July 19th
global disruptions caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software
update that led to widespread Windows system crashes.
Additionally, the report states that 75%
of firms in health care and banking experienced
direct financial impacts.
Parametrix said its insights into the financial impact
of the CrowdStrike event is derived from analyzing
more than 4 54 1,000,000,000 data points that
could outline
the historical performance of cloud services.
This comes after CNBC reported that CrowdStrike
CEO George Kurtz said that more than 97%
of Windows sensors have been restored following the
outage.
2nd,
more than 70% of health care organizations
either have already adopted
or plan to implement generative AI,
McKinsey and Co reported July of 25th.
Here are the areas that health care leaders
believe will benefit the most from generative AI
according to the management consultant's March survey of
a 100 executives across providers, payers, health services,
and technology companies.
1st is with
clinician and clinical productivity at 73%.
2 is patient and member engagement
experience at 62%.
3 is administrative efficiency and effectiveness at 60%.
4 is quality of care and service delivery
at 48%.
5 is IT and infrastructure at 42%.
6 is research and education at 30%,
and 7 is at strategy and growth at
28%.
3rd,
UPMC
Enterprises
and Tampa General Hospital Ventures,
the venture capital arms of UPMC and TAPA
General Hospital,
respectively, have completed a strategic financing round for
Medicom,
a health tech startup leading enterprise imaging interoperability.
UPMC
Enterprises and TGH Ventures joined the funding round
for Medicom
alongside in distant existing ventures such as Cone
Health Ventures, the venture capital arm of Cone
Health, Oval Park Capital, and GrayHawk
GrayHawk Capital.
Medi comm plans to harness the new partnerships
at capital to boost platform innovation and accelerate
go to market efforts according to a July
25th news release from the company.
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