Cardinal Analytx, a Palo Alto, CA-based digital health startup using machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve care and reduce healthcare costs for patients has raised $6.1 million in Series A funding. Spun out of Stanford University, Cardinal Analtyx Solutions was founded by Stanford professors Drs. Arnie Milstein and Nigam Shah, who created the company with lead investor Cardinal Partners. Other investors include the Stanford-StartX Fund and Premera Blue Cross, which also
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Innovaccer Launches Care Intelligence System to Empower Care Teams for Value-based Care
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of Care Intelligence System to become the bedrock of value-based care. The new platform is designed for care teams to streamline their workflows, reduce IT dependency and yet reach more of their at-risk patients.Innovaccer realized the need for a new value-based care platform while working with multi-hospital systems like Mercy ACO, Osler, Compass, CHI, and Catalyst. CMS has introduced many payments
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doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated (“doc.ai”), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup building an advanced natural language processing technology platform for quantified biology has raised $2.3 million in pre-ICO (initial coin offering) or initial sale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens ("SAFTs"). A total of ten purchasers acquired SAFTs led by Pantera Capital.The early pre-sale of doc.ai's SAFTs, which are convertible into digital tokens named Neurons ("NRNs"), was limited to existing investors
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doc.ai Launches First Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology
doc.ai Incorporated ("doc.ai"), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has announced the launch of its blockchain-enabled natural language processing (NLP) platform for quantified biology. Founded by the entrepreneurial Walter De Brouwer in 2016, doc.ai utilizes the blockchain to timestamp its datasets and decentralize artificial intelligence to generate insights from combined medical data.doc.ai is building a new platform for established medical companies to enable patients to have
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Why The Mental Health Industry Is Ripe For Innovation
Technology has been tested and proven effective in many advanced and innovative industries, and is now extending and applying its benefits to more regulated industries such as healthcare. According to Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2017 report, healthcare is “at a digital inflection point.” She recognized and attributed this change in part to the increase of data collection from fitness trackers and health apps as well as the increase of hospitals sharing healthcare data with patients.As part of
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Buoy Health Lands $6.7M to Expand AI-Powered Symptom Checker to Providers, Payers
Buoy Health, a Boston, MA-based digital health startup has raised $6.7M in Series A funding led by F-Prime Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor. The round also included participation from FundRx, Jack Connors, and other angel investors.Formed out of the Harvard Innovation Laboratory in 2014, Buoy Health’s artificial intelligence-powered online symptom and cure checker leverages an intelligent algorithm backed by medical data to diagnose patients. Designed to resemble an
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Why Data Governance Is The Backbone to Artificial Intelligence’s Potential
A recent contributor to HIT Consultant made a bold, yet not too far fetched statement about the data analytics space. He noted that applied artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, and that the more common form of healthcare analytics will slowly but surely be replaced. For a quick IT lesson, applied AI refers to the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning, where the best of human intelligence is brought together with the best of computing capabilities.Related: Why
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Mendel.ai Raises $2M to Launch AI-Powered Medical Matching Service
Mendel.ai, a San Francisco-based startup has raised $2 million in seed funding co-led by DCM Ventures and Bootstrap Lab to launch a new artificial intelligence engine for doctors. The company has developed a new artificial intelligence engine that enables doctors and patients to more quickly find the best diagnostic and treatment methods available for their patients’ medical conditions.Founded by Dr. Karim Galil, Mendel.ai has developed a sophisticated algorithm that understands the
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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Apixio Launches AI-Driven Code Compliance Auditor App for Health Plans
Apixio, a data science company for healthcare has announced the launch of Compliance Auditor, a first-of-its-kind software platform that uses AI to help health plans audit 100% of their coding work in a fraction of the time. Compliance Auditor makes it possible for insurers to validate the accuracy and compliance of their risk adjustment chart coding efforts, paving the way toward fair and complete reimbursement. Powered by Apixio’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, Compliance Auditor
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