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- UnitedHealthcare, one of the largest health insurance companies in the United States, has been sued for allegedly using a faulty AI model to deny healthcare claims to elderly patients, the Register first reports.
- The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court in Minneapolis, alleges that UnitedHealthcare has been using the AI model, called nH Predict, since at least 2020 to improperly deny claims for post-acute care, such as nursing home stays and home
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UHealth and Aidoc Partner on AI-Driven Care Diagnostic Imaging
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UHealth has launched a system-wide AI deployment powered by Aidoc, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. The initiative aims to support UHealth's mission of delivering high-quality, compassionate care by utilizing AI to identify suspected findings early in the care process.
UHealth will integrate Aidoc's 13 FDA-cleared algorithms and pathway-optimized workflow technologies. Aidoc's platform, the aiOS™ flags suspected acute abnormalities in patient scans, expedites
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Mercy’s AI-Powered Texting Platform Intercepts Chemo-Related Hospital Admissions
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- Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. The model was created by Jiajing Chen, a data scientist who passed away from cancer earlier this year.
- The Chen Chemotherapy Model predicts the likelihood of outpatient chemotherapy patients experiencing symptoms that may result in hospitalization within 30
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
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- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
Layer
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Butterfly Network, iCardio.ai Partner to Deploy Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
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- iCardio.ai, a developer of deep learning algorithms for ultrasound images, has joined Butterfly Garden, an AI Marketplace by Butterfly Network.
- The agreement aims to integrate iCardio.ai's suite of cardiac ultrasound AI tools with Butterfly's single-probe, whole-body handheld ultrasound system, pending applicable approvals.
Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
Cardio.ai's software, awaiting FDA 510(k) clearance, automates critical measurements of the heart, detects
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Aiberry Expands Mental Health AI-Powered Assessment Platform to Cover Major Anxiety Disorders
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Aiberry®, a leading AI-powered mental health assessment platform, today announced that it has expanded its capabilities to include screening for anxiety disorders, in addition to the clinically-validated depression assessments it has provided to date.The comprehensive anxiety screening includes assessments for five distinct anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and
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Widespread Ultrasound Adoption in Primary Care Expected Within 5 Years, Exo Study Reveals
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Exo, a pioneering medical imaging software and devices company, today released its 2023 Survey Report: Unlocking Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Based on a survey of more than 150 U.S.-based physicians, the report uncovers trends related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) adoption and use—such as challenges with existing solutions, their perceived value of handheld POCUS devices, and the impact of new innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and
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Wysa’s AI-Powered Mental Health Platform Now Available at FQHC
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- Wysa, an AI-guided mental health platform, has partnered with MyCHN, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with 14 locations throughout Texas.
- Wysa's integrated solution will now offer continuous and accessible mental health care support across the care journey for patients and providers.
- Wysa's partnership with MyCHN follows recent launches with three leading orthopedic hospitals: the Living Well Center of Washington University at St. Louis, the
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Using Generative AI to Streamline Clinician Workflow and Reduce Burnout
Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. physicians exhibited burnout; this year, it is 62%.
Contributing factors include heavy patient loads, too many administrative tasks, and rising clinician shortages. Many physicians work 50 hours a week: seeing up to 20 patients a day, spending an average of 4.5 hours entering electronic health records (EHR
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AI Empowers Healthcare: Streamlined Data, Supported Workers, Enhanced Patient Experiences
The healthcare industry is known for holding on to data – and for good reason. With valuable insights and patterns to be derived from patient information, more is more. Where healthcare IT departments run into issues is when this data becomes unmanageable: disorganized and siloed and partially stored in dusty offices with the rest sitting exposed on outdated legacy systems. My point? With more than 30 percent of the world’s data generated by healthcare systems, it’s growing impossible for
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