A hot topic we see and hear a lot in healthcare is leveraging big data. Little known fact, we don’t yet have big data in healthcare, so the industry hasn’t had the opportunity to use big data. Healthcare has been in the “little data” game because much of the healthcare experience has yet to be digitized. In addition, interoperability issues leave much data siloed on disparate databases across the healthcare ecosystem.
This is all changing, and this change is accelerating. We’re quickly
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AGS Health Launches AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Platform
What You Should Know:
- AGS Health, a revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions provider and strategic growth partner to some of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S., announces the launch of the AGS AI Platform, a connected solution that blends artificial intelligence (AI) and automation with award-winning human-in-the-loop services and expert support to maximize revenue cycle performance.
- The platform allows healthcare organizations to gain enhanced visibility into day-to-day
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XpertDox Secures $1.5M to Automate Medical Coding Process
What You Should Know:
- Today, XpertDox, LLC., a Birmingham, AL-based revenue cycle company specializing in autonomous medical coding powered by artificial intelligence raises $1.5M from TN3, LLC, an Arizona based Private Equity Capital firm.
- XpertDox's XpertCoding solution harnesses the power of artificial intelligence in order to autonomously code medical claims faster, more accurately, and cheaper than traditional manual processes. XpertDox is utilizing the funding to
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Assisted Polyp Detection Device Receives FDA Clearance
What You Should Know:
- Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in precision medicine technologies for gastroenterology, and Provation, the premier software and SaaS provider of clinical productivity and workflow automation solutions, announced recently that SKOUT™ has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adults undergoing colorectal cancer screening or surveillance.
- The device was evaluated in the largest U.S.-based multicenter clinical study for a
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Healthcare Data Lake: The Key to Operating a Data Informed Organization
Two decades ago, business priorities within a healthcare organization were largely driven by a select few executive visionaries. Today, the most successful healthcare organizations are using data to validate ideas and further refine them through advanced studies and predictive models.
The data-informed healthcare organization has come of age through recent advances in data technologies, a surge in artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities,
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Eko Lands $2.7M NIH Grant to Train Pulmonary Hypertension AI
What You Should Know:
- Eko, a digital health company applying machine learning in the fight against heart and lung disease, today announced that it was awarded a $2.7M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct Phase II grant by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
- The grant will fund the development of a machine learning algorithm that detects and stratifies pulmonary hypertension (PH) using phonocardiogram (PCG) and
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Reimagining The Operating Room of The Future with Robotics
Make way for the age of software-defined healthcare.
Amid a growing shortage of doctors and nurses, hospitals around the world are increasingly turning to AI to improve the quality of care in the face of an aging population. One major undertaking across the healthcare industry is to deliver AI-driven solutions that can improve surgical care - a tall order.
According to the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, in the US alone, individuals can expect to undergo, on average, seven
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RWJUH Opens Center for Innovation for Medical Research
What You Should Know:
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) launched a new model for medical research and innovation today at the grand opening of its Center for Innovation, located on the main campus of the hospital.
- The Center for Innovation is a partnership between RWJUH and Rutgers RWJMS to bring together clinicians, researchers and private industry to invent and develop new
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Edifecs Launches Solution to Automate Prior Authorization at the Point of Care
What You Should Know:
- The full automation of prior authorization at the point of care leads to improved member experiences, enhanced outcomes, ongoing compliance, and reduced administrative burden. Edifecs’ automated prior authorization solution integrates with electronic health records (EHR) and leverages artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and industry standards such as FHIR to instantly deliver authorization.
- This innovation comes on the heels of
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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Not all AI-powered pop health tools are created equal, and while many still exhibit different types of bias that limit their ability to accurately identify issues affecting certain populations, we have learned a lot about the sources of bias in AI and how to eliminate them. AI shortcomings aside, pop health analytics have advanced to the point that we
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