What You Should Know:
- Today Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and Cohere Health, a provider of utilization management (UM) technology, announced they are joining forces to streamline the prior authorization process for providers.
- Cohere’s collaborative UM platform will help GHP support value-based care delivery, reduce administrative costs, and lead the nation in aligning quality improvement initiatives across all its lines of business, including
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FDA Clears Eko’s Heart Disease Detection AI for Adults and Pediatrics
What You Should Know:
- Today, Eko, a digital health company advancing heart and lung disease detection, has announced the FDA has issued clearance for its Eko Murmur Analysis Software (EMAS), the first and only machine learning algorithm to screen for valvular heart disease (VHD).
- The next generation of Eko’s murmur detection capabilities grants Eko the first and only smart stethoscope on the market that can identify and
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GE Healthcare Launches First 5G Innovation Lab for Remote Care
What You Should Know:
- GE Healthcare, a leading global medical technology, diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, inaugurated its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the first for GE Healthcare across the globe.
- With the advantage of massive bandwidth, high data speeds, low latency, and highly reliable connectivity, 5G has the potential to disrupt the patient care continuum, transforming diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis.
5G Enabled Precision
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How AI Can Accurately Detect Diabetes Through Retinal Images
Recent advancements in AI have demonstrated that AI can accurately detect diabetes through the analysis of retinal images that retina experts would consider healthy. To better understand this achievement, it is worth taking a step back to understand the context and magnitude of the achievement.
Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, resulting in high levels of sugars in the bloodstream. Over time, elevated blood sugar levels can
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Regard Raises $15.3M for AI Co-Pilot to Diagnose Medical Conditions
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- Regard (formerly known as HealthTensor), a L.A.-based software company developing an artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for physicians to help diagnose medical conditions, announced its $15.3 million in Series A funding led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group, with participation from additional investors.
- The funding will be used to help grow the Regard team to support more clients, reduce integration time and expedite reach to new physicians and hospitals,
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Merck Digital Sciences Studio Launches to Support Biomedical Startups
What You Should Know:
- Merck, today announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development.
- MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck.
MDSS Accelerator Program Focus
The MDSS is a collaboration between
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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions
Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. New advances in technology (e.g., ICH E2B for the electronic exchange of case reports) over the past 20 years coupled with progressive legislation have been a catalyst for an explosion in safety data over this period.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the rate of reporting of safety data has been unprecedented
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Olive Launches Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC) Suite
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today launched its Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC), the company's flagship Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite of solutions.
- Olive's ARC is designed to handle tedious, time-consuming administrative tasks in the revenue cycle, allowing healthcare organizations to get paid quicker while reducing the risk of uncompensated care.
Automate the Revenue Cycle Management Process
Managing revenue
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HFMA: DeliverHealth Launches AI-Driven Autonomous Coding
What You Should Know:
- DeliverHealth, a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices launches artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomous coding for a simpler, more efficient way to accelerate revenue cycle optimization.
- The autonomous coding platform removes inherent complexities clinicians and care teams face while helping administration and operations obtain the realization of their EHR investments.
Combating the Impact of the
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When It Comes to Digital Health, Experience Is Everything
Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Whether it is streaming video telehealth appointments with a provider, a remote patient monitoring platform, or a prescribed digital therapeutic to manage a chronic condition, the emphasis must be on the patient and caregiver
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