The use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)-a robotics precursor to artificial intelligence in the past two years has led to drastic improvements in productivity at Steward Health Choice Network (SHCN) Health Plan Division, a division of Steward Health Care Systems. Steward Health Choice Network (SHCN) implemented RPA. Within 30 days of implementing its first RPA script, SHCN began realizing an ROI. Since that time, the labor automation—Foxtrot RPA from EnableSoft—has processed 4.5 million
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Ambra Health and Google Cloud Partner to Leverage AI with Secure Access to Medical Imaging for Researchers
Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud to advance healthcare research with anonymized medical imaging data. The partnership will leverage Google Cloud’s Healthcare API for their Ambra Health Cloud PACS solution for Google Cloud allows researchers to turn data into insights by easily de-identifying patient medical imaging data for use in research studies. Anonymized Medical Imaging DataIn order for
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Nuance Launches AI-powered Radiology Reporting Platform, PowerScribe One
Nuance announced the introduction of PowerScribe One, a radiology reporting platform that harnesses Nuance’s advanced natural language understanding capabilities and cloud technology at RNSA18. The PowerScribe One platform delivers AI-powered diagnostic and decision-support tools to improve radiologists’ workflow efficiency and accuracy, ultimately advancing disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment.PowerScribe One OverviewPowerScribe One is the next generation of the industry’s most widely
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Study: Artificial Intelligence May Fall Short for Data Analysis Across Multiple Health Systems
A study reveals artificial intelligence must be carefully tested across multiple environments before being put into clinical practice.Artificial intelligence (AI) tools trained to detect pneumonia on chest X-rays suffered significant decreases in performance when tested on data from outside health systems, according to a new study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in a special issue of PLOS Medicine on machine learning and healthcare. These findings
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Eko’s AI Algorithm Detects Pediatric Heart Murmurs With Cardiologist-Level Accuracy
Eko’s heart murmur detection AI-driven algorithm outperformed four out of five cardiologists for the detection of heart murmurs in a recent clinical study.During the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2018, Eko, a cardiac monitoring company that combines non-invasive sensors with machine learning presented a clinical study abstract revealing their murmur detection algorithm outperformed the majority of participating cardiologists. The study entitled, “Artificial Intelligence
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VA Taps VisualDx to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Skin-Related Conditions
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its partnership with diagnostic clinical decision support tool VisualDx to improve diagnostic accuracy in skin-related conditions. The one-year license agreement license will give clinical staff in more than 1,200 of the VA’s healthcare facilities nationwide access to VisualDx’s add-on feature, DermExpertDermExpert AI OverviewToday, more than 65 percent of skin complaints are seen by non-dermatologists, and 15 percent of all primary care
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R1 and Automation Anywhere Team Up to Apply Enhanced AI to Revenue Cycle Management
R1, a provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) services is teaming up with Automation Anywhere to incorporate their Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies into the healthcare revenue cycle. This move supports the industry’s call for digital transformation across hospitals, health systems and physician practices alike. Benefits of Applying AI in Revenue Cycle ManagementR1’s technology solutions currently leverage RPA, driving improved results for its clients, such as increasing net
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Life Image, Medel.ai Integrates to Support AI-Driven Clinical Trails
Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, today announced a new partnership with Mendel.ai, a novel AI platform built to turbocharge oncology clinical research, to support the adoption of AI in site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials.According to Accenture, AI-powered clinical trial identifier apps are expected to save the industry $13B by 2026. This strategic partnership between Life Image and Mendel addresses this demand by combining the power of
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DrChrono EHR Integrates With Diagnoss to Offer Physician Practices AI-Driven Medical Coding
Diagnoss integration with DrChorno’s mobile EHR will help physician practices automate their medical coding through artificial intelligence. Mobile EHR provider DrChrono is teaming up with Diagnoss, a company focused on reducing the administrative burden of medical practices to offer physician practices artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help automate the medical coding process. Diagnoss's artificial intelligence technology helps medical establishments improve their collections while
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[Un]hyping AI In Healthcare: Why Marketing Hype is Dangerous
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Artificial intelligence has been one of the most important — and perhaps most jarring — technological advances of the 21st century. Lines of code have been trained to drive cars, detect faces, and decode complex radiological images, and the recent explosion of AI utilizations has created a jagged divide in societal perception. On the one hand, there are those who fear the robot apocalypse, with entrepreneur Elon Musk himself claiming that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of
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