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UCLA Spin Out DEARhealth Lands $6M for AI-Powered Pathways for Chronic Care

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2019 Leave a Comment

UCLA Spin Out Dear Health Lands $6M for AI-Powered Pathways for Chronic Care

DEARhealth, a health IT spin-out from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has raised $6.8 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered pathway platform for chronic care. Participants in the Series A funding round include Philips Health Technology Ventures, Vesalius Biocapital III and Health Innovations. DEARhealth was founded in 2011 by Daniel Hommes as a research project when a team of UCLA specialists designed a value-based care program for the management of chronic
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Did EHRs Light the Physician Burnout Fuse?

by Christopher Maiona, M.D., SFHM, Chief Medical Officer of PatientKeeper 07/17/2019 Leave a Comment

When Will Health IT Become Part of the Solution (Rather than the Problem) for Physicians?

According to the American Medical Association, about 50 percent of practicing doctors are experiencing burnout and EHRs are a significant driver of this problem. For every hour physicians spend on direct patient care, the report indicates that they spend two hours on EHR data entry and other administrative tasks. All of this adds up to more time spent with computers than with patients. Organizational, regulatory, and technological factors are eroding many physicians’ passion for the profession,
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Siemens Healthineers, UM System, MU Health Care Forms $133M Alliance for Precision Health

by Fred Pennic 07/12/2019 Leave a Comment

University Hospital with the Staff for Life Helicopter at dusk.[/caption]Siemens Healthineers and the University of Missouri System (UM System), including all four universities, and University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care), has established the Alliance for Precision Health that will leverage their joint expertise to transform healthcare delivery, promote education in the fields of technology and engineering, and develop groundbreaking research initiatives.As part of the alliance,
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Geisinger Selects EarlySign to Apply AI Algorithms to Identify Patients At Risk of Lower GI Disorders

by Jasmine Pennic 07/11/2019 Leave a Comment

Bayer and Geisinger to Create EHR-Integrated Contraception Counseling Pathway

Geisinger Health System announced it is partnering with machine learning solution provider EarlySign to develop AI-based solutions to identify individuals at risk of a range of chronic and high-burden diseases. The multi-year agreement will begin by deploying EarlySign’s LGI Flag through Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation – to identify patients at risk of lower gastrointestinal conditions – including colorectal cancer and precancerous adenomas. This partnership follows the
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Waystar Acquires AI Firm Digitize.AI to Tackle Prior Authorizations

by Fred Pennic 07/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Waystar Acquires AI Firm Digitize.AI to Tackle Prior Authorizations

Bain-Capital-backed revenue cycle management company Waystar is acquiring Digitize.AI, an artificial intelligence firm, to enable faster and smarter prior authorizations in healthcare – one of the largest pain points for both providers and consumers.Financial Impact of Prior AuthorizationsPrior authorizations, the process by which insurance companies and payers determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure or medication, are meant to help patients avoid surprise bills and unexpected
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Medsphere Integrates CloudMedx AI Engine With CareVue EHR Platform

by Fred Pennic 07/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Medsphere Lands $32M to Expand its Suite of SaaS Health IT Solutions and Support Future Acquisitions

Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to the company’s comprehensive CareVue electronic health record (EHR) platform. CareVue’s complete clinical and financial suite of applications now include an AI engine developed by CloudMedx that gives clinicians and administrators the power to pull meaningful and actionable
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6 Considerations For Creating A Robust Healthcare Data Analytics Program

by Dr. Anunaya Jain, VP, IKS Health 07/10/2019 Leave a Comment

6 Considerations For Creating A Robust Healthcare Data Analytics Program

Healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to data analytics to solve their toughest business challenges. As information becomes less siloed, and technology systems do a better job of both generating and sharing data, organizations are seeing the need to more precisely identify patterns to predict patient needs, anticipate resources and improve processes. There is now as much emphasis on making the data work as there was on collecting data, so it can affect change.  Unfortunately,
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Cigna Leads $23M Series D in Specialized AI Company, GNS Healthcare

by Fred Pennic 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Cigna Leads $23M Series D in Specialized AI company, GNS Healthcare

Today, Cigna Ventures (CV), the corporate venture fund of global health service company Cigna, announced that it’s leading a $23M Series D round of funding in GNS Healthcare (GNS), a highly specialized AI company that turns millions of data streams into personalized insights that precisely match the appropriate clinical care/treatment intervention to the right patient at the right time.Cigna joins other leading carriers and health plans and GNS investors, including Cambia Health Solutions, Echo
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Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?

by Ori Geva, Co-founder and CEO, Medial EarlySign 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?

Personalized Analytics is becoming essential in healthcare, stemming from the movement from fee-for-service to a value-based market. The need to preempt and prevent disease on a more personal level, rather than merely reacting to symptoms, has created a significant opportunity for machine learning-based applications. This “analytics of one” approach (using advanced mathematical models and artificial intelligence techniques) is already impacting several key areas: 1. Medical imaging is utilizing
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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Models to Predict the Future Cost of Care

by Fred Pennic 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Risk Models to Predict the Future Cost of Care

Traditionally, providers and health systems have relied on claims-based risk models, such as the CMS-HCC, ACG, and DxCG, which were built to forecast the risk of populations, but not at an individual level. While these models give a fairly good estimation of the risk of the population, they exhibit unsatisfactory estimation if used to predict the risk at an individual level.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company, has taken a major step towards revolutionizing the way we identify
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