For many years, natural language processing (NLP) has held the promise of dramatically increasing the ability of healthcare organizations to quickly and accurately understand unstructured medical text in clinical notes. Using medical NLP, healthcare providers, clinical researchers, and payers would uncover meaningful insights hidden in unstructured text faster, with fewer errors, and at less cost than manual data review and analysis. This high-quality medical-grade data in turn would drive
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Authenticx Secures $20M to Enhance Customer Experience
What You Should Know:
- Authenticx, the new standard in healthcare for listening to customer voices at scale, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by Blue Heron Capital with participation from Beringea, 50 South Capital, High Alpha, Mutual Capital Partners, Signal Peak Ventures, Allos Ventures, Elevate Ventures and M25.
- The investment comes after a significant year of growth for Authenticx, which saw a 2.5x increase in ARR in 2022 and 64 new employees since July 2021, many
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17 Executive Hospital/Health System Predictions to Watch in 2023
Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health
Health systems will realize their challenges are not transitory but systemic: This year saw health systems facing a myriad of compounding threats – from historic inflation exacerbating their cost structures, front-line clinician burnout driving widespread labor shortages, and increased capacity issues that left patients in hospital facilities one full day longer than in the prior year. As the financial markets turned south, many institutions
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20 Executives Share Health IT Predictions to Watch in 2023
We asked several healthcare executives to share their health IT predictions and trends for 2023.
Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health
Data Personalization: 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options. In 2023, we’ll see a greater shift towards healthcare enterprises prioritizing this personalization, by innovating their current data infrastructure to show a range of information that lets a patient make an educated care decision based on what
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The Continuing Rise of AI in the Healthcare Sector in 2023
The announcement in September 2022 that the health tech company Iodine Software was entering into a partnership with the software platform TruCode “to upend clinical administration using artificial intelligence” serves as one of the more recent reminders of AI’s considerable impact on the healthcare sector.
Certainly, it will be felt not just in the administrative realm, but also in the clinical and operational aspects as well. And given the challenges presented by a rapidly aging population,
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M&A: LeanTaaS Acquires Hospital IQ, Combined Valuation Exceeds $1B
What You Should Know:
- LeanTaaS, Inc., a provider of AI-powered and SaaS-based capacity management and patient flow software for health systems, today announced it has acquired Hospital IQ, a provider of intelligent automation solutions for hospitals. The acquisition values the combined company at more than $1 billion in enterprise value and enables it to power intelligent operations across more than 180+ U.S. health systems. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Why ML Monitoring is Essential to AI Success in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in the healthcare sector has grown significantly over the last decade, with no signs of slowing down. According to a 2021 report from HIMSS, 62% of clinicians are interested in using AI/ML tools.
From front-line workers to back-office staff, every stakeholder in the healthcare continuum can leverage AI technology to enhance healthcare quality. In fact, ML models are already being used to collect and analyze patient data at scale, thereby allowing
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6 Executive Health Data Predictions to Watch in 2023
Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health
In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways.
Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health
In today’s
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Caris Life Sciences and ConcertAI Partner to Accelerate Drug Development and Novel Research
What You Should Know:
- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), a molecular science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and ConcertAI, an oncology real-world evidence data and AI technology company, announced a unique partnership to align the two companies' oncology capabilities.
- The strategic partnership will create one of the largest translational and clinical
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Real-World Data Startup Crescendo Health Launches with $3.2M
What You Should Know:
- Crescendo Health, a real-world data startup that's drastically reshaping how clinical researchers get access to hard-to-reach patient data to support their clinical research today officially announced its launch with $3.4M in seed funding from Define Ventures as well as the founders and CEOs of many other well-known organizations.
- Founded by the co-founder of Datavant (merged with Ciox in a $7 billion deal), and a top product-management leader from Grand
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