Empiric Health, a health IT startup that activates evidence-based healthcare delivery to improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency has raised $3M in seed funding from Intermountain Helathcare. The company plans to use the seed funding to to commercialize and expand the company's service offering and workflow optimization tools, which will help health systems uncover and address variations in procedures and improve outcomes.Formed by Intermountain Healthcare and Oxeon earlier this
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Providing Companionship & Safety For The Elderly
40% of U.S. adults today are responsible for taking care of an elderly or sick relative, according to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center and the California HealthCare Foundation. Despite this growing number, most caregivers do not want their aging relatives living with them. Instead, family members are seeking affordable caregivers to provide in-home care for seniors.Two of the most common struggles for the elderly are loneliness and the danger that comes from living alone. It is often one
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3 Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Drivers to Watch in 2018
One ageless trend emerging for 2018 is the quest of hospitals, larger carriers and clinics to identify new revenue streams; not just managing revenue cycles, but creating them. The healthcare industry is now looking at revenue which can be generated through the interoperability of Annual Wellness Visits (AWV), chronic care and service care transitions between physical and behavioral health services.Hospital systems and other healthcare facilities that can connect these services with technologies
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MedTech Startup Launches AI Platform to Help Radiologists Diagnose Stroke Faster Using CT Brain Scans
Infervision, the medtech company which uses Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to improve medical image analysis and significantly speed radiologists' reading of scans and X-rays, today is launching a artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help radiologists diagnose strokes quickly using CT brain scans. This will help patients get faster treatment, possibly saving lives and reducing the impact of the stroke. The new AI-CT Stroke Screening System is the first of the Infervision AI-CT
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Change Healthcare, Zebra Medical Vision Partner to Bring AI to Medical Imaging
Change Healthcare and Zebra Medical Vision today announced an agreement to create solutions that deliver artificial intelligence solutions to complex radiology reporting environments. Change Healthcare's proven radiology solutions, along with Zebra Medical Vision's algorithms, will benefit radiologists and other imaging specialists by improving the efficiency of routine tasks and the effectiveness of workflow in the radiologist reading environment.By working together on the pragmatic integration
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TigerText Launches Clinical Communication Platform, TigerFlow Enterprise
TigerText has launched TigerFlow Enterprise, a new clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) platform that allows allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors, and higher patient and provider satisfaction.The capabilities in TigerFlow Enterprise allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors,
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Nuance Launches Artificial Intelligence Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging
Today, Nuance introduced a first-of-its-kind, open artificial intelligence (AI) marketplace for diagnostic imaging that will speed the creation and adoption of AI by providing radiologists and data scientists with the ability to define, build, publish and improve imaging algorithms. It will provide radiologists with real-time intelligence needed at the time of care and within their usual workflow.As part of this, Nuance is collaborating with NVIDIA, a company well-known for its deep learning
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Change Healthcare, Google Cloud Collaborate on Next-Generation Enterprise Imaging Solutions
Yesterday, Change Healthcare announced a strategic relationship with Google Cloud that leverages the two companies’ respective strengths, transforming the healthcare industry. Change Healthcare and Google Cloud will work on next-generation enterprise imaging solutions to meet the challenges that healthcare providers face today and in the future.These combined solutions built on Google Cloud Platform have the potential to provide a scalable data infrastructure that better supports the needs of
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NTT DATA, MD.ai Partner to Accelerate Adoption of AI for Medical Imaging
NTT DATA Services today announced a partnership with MD.ai, an emerging company in imaging research and artificial intelligence (AI) delivery for the clinical imaging space. Through this partnership, NTT DATA clients now have the ability to dive deeper into their imaging data with algorithms and automation tools that will improve workflow and provide better patient care.MD.ai brings a unique combination of semi-automated tools for imaging research, collaborative data annotation software, as well
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3 Challenges and Considerations for Measuring Population Health Success
Healthcare organizations across the country are under enormous pressure to improve health outcomes, where the notion of “population health management” has suddenly evolved from a “nice-to-have” to a necessity. This prominent care initiative involves grouping patients together based on certain characteristics - age, gender, chronic conditions come to mind, just to name a few - and working to improve the health status of that group by monitoring, analyzing and improving the health of the
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