- The latest version of XIFIN’s flagship RCM platform optimizes cash collections, enables real-time connectivity and error correction, and provides enhanced self-service for patients and physicians.- Unlike other RCM systems that require manual efforts once the claims are denied, XIFIN RPM 11 reduces costs and delivers denials and appeals process automation, including automatic generation of payor-specific appeal forms and appeal letters.Today’s diagnostic laboratory leaders face more challenges
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Hg Takes Majority Holding in Intelerad: 3 Major Implications to Know
- On 23rd Jan 2020, Hg Capital announced it had agreed to acquire a majority stake in imaging IT software vendor Intelerad Medical Systems from previous majority stake owners Novacap.
- The founders, management and employee shareholders at Intelerad will be reinvested, with Novacap remaining as a minority shareholder.
- The company has undergone significant growth in the last four years, announcing a USD75m R&D program in 2019 and acquiring imaging IT workflow specialist Clario Medical
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MGH, Current Health Team Up to Reduce C-Section Deaths in Uganda
- Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Current Health partner to leverage health technology to reduce maternal deaths/complications following C-section in sub-Saharan Africa.- Current Health and MGH will provide healthcare providers at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), a Ugandan hospital, with Current Health’s solution to help them more closely monitor and manage women’s vital signs after C-section deliveries.Current Health, a New York City-based provider of
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Microsoft Launches $40M, 5-Year AI for Health Initiative to Advance Health Globally
- Microsoft launches 5-year, $40M AI for Health initiative to advance the health of people and communities around the world through artificial intelligence (AI).
- AI for Health will focus on three core areas: quest for discovery, global health insights, and health equity.
Microsoft
Corporation, today announced the launch of AI for Health, a new $40M, five-year program to empower researchers and
organizations with AI to improve the health of people and communities around
the
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FDA Clears Eko’s AFib, Heart Murmur Detection Algorithms for AI-Powered Stethoscope
- StartX company, Eko, announced today that the FDA has cleared Eko’s AFib and heart murmur detection algorithms, making it the first AI-powered stethoscope to screen for serious heart conditions. - Eko’s algorithms alert clinicians to the presence of heart murmurs and atrial fibrillation (AFib) during the physical exam, converting the classic stethoscope into a powerful early detection tool. Eko, a digital health company applying artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against heart disease,
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AI Will Continue to Improve Healthcare, But Only If We Can Trust It
While the public perceives artificial intelligence as futuristic, AI is already intertwined with healthcare today. As a PwC report observed, AI is transforming numerous aspects of healthcare, from medical training and research to wellness and treatment. But while AI is already supercharging our capabilities (it’s 30 times faster and 99 percent accurate when reviewing mammograms, reducing the need for unnecessary biopsies, for example), AI is also supercharging the disparities that are baked into
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Star Trek-Inspired Bed for X-Ray Medical Imaging Raises $26M
- Israeli digital health startup Nanox raises $26M to support the commercialization and deployment of its Star Trek-inspired medical bed for end-to-end X-ray medical imaging service. - The Nanox System is composed of the Nanox.Arc, a novel digital X-ray device and the Nanox.Cloud, a companion cloud-based software that will be designed to provide an end-to-end medical imaging service. NANO-X IMAGING LTD. (“Nanox” or the “Company”), an Neve Ilan, Israel-based innovative medical imaging technology
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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EarlySign, Maccabi Healthcare Launches AI-Powered Flu Vaccination Campaign
- Medial EarlySign unveils the first clinical implementation of its AI-based solution to identify unvaccinated individuals at high-risk of developing serious flu-related complications.- Developed in collaboration with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services, the implementation utilizes existing EHR data to identify and stratify patients at high risk.Medial EarlySign, a Israeli-based provider of machine learning-based solutions to aid in the early detection and prevention of high-burden
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Change Healthcare Unveils Breakthrough All-Payer Medical Claim Attachments Capability
- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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