Since at least 2012, the world of medical records in both the public and private sectors remains dominated by a push toward interoperable data, and more broadly useful health data. Like everything else in American healthcare, the effort has been only moderately successful despite a price tag in the billions. In a modern digital world, where technologies in so many industries are bringing better insights and next generation efficiency – driven by cloud computing, big data, AI and machine learning
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HMS Acquires Population Health Analytics Company VitreosHealth for $36M in Cash
- HMS Holdings Corp acquires VitreosHealth, the first Insights-as-a-Service delivery model for advanced population health analytics for $36M in cash. - HMS is currently using VitreosHealth’s technology as the predictive analytics engine for HMS’ Elli, a risk intelligence solution that is part of the company’s integrated Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio.HMS believes the integration of VitreosHealth will enhance our predictive modeling and analytics capabilities within its PHM
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Navigating Cancer Lands $26M to Expand Oncology Patient Relationship Management Platform
- Navigating Cancer raises $26M in Series D funding in an over-subscribed round (TTCP) for its comprehensive oncology patient relationship management solution.
- Navigating Cancer’s PRM platform helps providers manage patient interactions, improve the patient experience, and deliver value-based care more effectively – increasing the flow of communications between in-office visits, which, in turn, boosts patient engagement in their own care.
- Funding will enable NC to accelerate innovation of
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Drugmaker Bayer to License One Drop’s Digital Diabetes Management Platform, Leads $40M Series B Funding
- Drugmaker Bayer leads One Drop’s $40M Series B funding round and enters commercial agreement to license One Drop's digital diabetes management platform in its global bio-digital efforts in therapeutic areas. - Bayer will leverage One Drop's data science and predictive capabilities, and harness its mobile platform to deliver innovative bio-digital solutions across a broad array of therapeutic areas.- One Drop provides personalized health programs to drive sustainable behavior change as part of
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Backed by Optum Ventures, Kaia Health Raises $8M for AI-Driven Digital Therapeutics for Back Pain & COPD
- Digital therapeutics startup Kaia Health raises $8M in funding led by Optum Ventures to support the accelerated execution of clinical trials required to demonstrate efficacy to the FDA.- Kaia Health utilizes multimodal therapy, which combines physical, psychological and educational elements to relieve back pain at home, without medication.- Optum’s investment in Kaia Health will consider use of Kaia Health’s digital therapeutic offerings for back pain and COPD with Optum and UnitedHealth
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AVIA, Deloitte Expand Relationship to Accelerate Innovation in Digital Health & Wellness
- AVIA and Deloitte expand their relationship to collaborate on market insights sharing, with the potential delivery of complementary solutions to accelerate innovation in digital health and wellness. - Deloitte will garner rich insights from AVIA on the digital health landscape and AVIA will leverage Deloitte’s expertise in areas such as data interoperability, analytics, AI, and cognitive healthcare provider strategy.Deloitte, an audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services organization, and
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Change Healthcare Unveils AI-Infused Charge Capture for Providers
- Change Healthcare unveils a new AI solution, Charge Capture Advisor that will help providers capture more revenue—automatically.
- Charge Capture Advisor identifies potentially missing charges for services that providers performed before claims are submitted.
- Change Healthcare’s AI for charge capture is trained on more than 500 million service lines and 180 million unique, de-identified claims that touch $245 billion in charges.
Change Healthcare today introduced Charge
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4 Steps Healthcare Organizations Need to Take to Automate Their Data
According to IDC, all the data that’s being created and captured in healthcare is projected to grow by 36 percent (CAGR)—more than any other industry.
While managing growing volumes of data is a common challenge for many organizations across all sectors, healthcare is uniquely set apart by the sheer number of new data sources that’s being made available—with new sources being added all the time. This is driven in large part by advancements in telemedicine, personalized or precision medicine, as
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FDA Clears GE Healthcare’s AI Algorithms Embedded on Mobile X-Ray Device
- GE Healthcare awarded Food and Drug Administration’s 510(k) clearance of Critical Care Suite, an industry-first collection of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms embedded on a mobile X-ray device.
- Algorithms help radiologists prioritize critical cases with a suspected pneumothorax – a type of collapsed lung – by immediately flagging critical cases to radiologists for triage, which could drastically cut the average review time from up to eight hours.
- Critical Care Suite offers
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Geisinger, IBM Develops Predictive Model Using EHR Data to Detect Sepsis
- Geisinger/IBM’s AI and Data Science team are working together to prevent sepsis, life-threating infection through early detection and research.
- Geisinger team used IBM Watson Studio open-source tools to build a predictive model that would ingest clinical data from thousands of de-identified sepsis patients spanning a decade.
- Geisinger uses IBM Watson Explorer to create a searchable index of thousands of medical publications for clinicians and researchers can now mine the journal
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