Dr. Sanjay M. Parekh Ph.D., Sr Market Analyst at Signify Research Ltd.
With over 150 independent software vendors developing machine learning solutions for medical imaging, sorting through the plethora of options to select vendors is a challenge. Here are 10 factors radiologists should consider (and questions they should ask) before partnering with vendors providing AI solutions for medical imaging.
1. Clinical Relevancy
The foremost consideration for healthcare providers adopting AI
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RCM: Getting the Most from Your State’s All-Payer Claims Database
Samir Panchal, Consultant, Freed Associates
This past year, California became the latest (and largest) state to legislatively mandate an all-payer claims database (APCD). As the name implies, an APCD is a statewide repository of all claims information from a state’s health care payers, including both commercial and government.
The intent of an APCD is to help policymakers and others better understand the drivers of health care use and costs and spot usage trends across networks,
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Five Lessons Learned From Building A CRM for Pharma
Thom Doyle, President, Human Care Systems
We all know the pleasure of interacting with technology that does exactly what it’s designed to do. Whether it’s getting to your destination via Waze, reserving dinner through OpenTable or making an electronic payment through Venmo, applications that work have one important thing in common: they are designed with a purpose and are the true experts in getting exactly that thing done seamlessly.
But professional industry software, especially when it
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Accounting for Inherent Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Blockchain Adoption
Rich Herrington EVP, Client Success Team Leader at SoftServe
In the digital economy, every industry runs on data. In the healthcare industry, there is no greater need than to have total view and capitalization of data. But this need inherits others—the need for security, transparency, and interoperability.
In an industry rife with inefficiencies and systemic vulnerabilities (e.g. counterfeit prescription drugs), the benefits of using blockchain to address these needs cannot be ignored.
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3 Myths About Robotic Process Automation in Healthcare, Debunked
Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, UiPath
Patients’ wellbeing should be the central focus of healthcare. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Studies show that doctors spend almost half their time on data entry and more than half of their workdays managing records instead of caring for patients. Add this lost time to the fact that healthcare in the United States is already understaffed – averaging 2.5 healthcare practitioners to every
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Jumping to Lightspeed – Consolidating Patient Monitoring Devices
Guy Meger, CTO and VP of Research & Development and Israel GM at EarlySense
In the early summer of 2005, Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premiered worldwide. Diehard fans flocked to the theaters to see Anakin Skywalker embrace the dark side of the force, battle Obi Wan Kinobi and transform into the infamous Darth Vader.
While audiences were enthralled by vivid battle scenes and cool effects, I was intrigued by a less popular scene, where Padmea, mother of Luke and Leia
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care
Dr. Ryan Vega, Executive Director at VHA Innovation Ecosystem
Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans.
Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes
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Actiste’s Unified IoT Diabetes Care Device Awarded CE Mark
- Actiste, the world’s first unified diabetes care device with eSIM technology for monitoring and treating insulin-dependent diabetes, has received two CE marks.
- The EC certifications allow the company to move forward with its ongoing market entry and sales activities in the company's primary target markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and opens up for future sales in over 30 European countries, where Sweden is most imminent.
- The development of the Actiste device was
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KLAS: Epic, Cerner, Lack Integration for Medication Inventory Management
Pharmacy and EMR vendors Cerner and Epic all have gaps in their ability to provide enterprise medication inventory management (MIM) capabilities, resulting in lower consideration rates in MIM purchase decisions, according to the latest KLAS report. The KLAS report, “Medication Inventory Management 2019: How Close Is Your Vendor to Enabling True Enterprise MIM,” reveals Cerner and Epic’s MIM software ability to serve as an agnostic solution to manage inventory across disparate hardware is not a
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TriHealth Goes Live on Kyruus’ Patient-Provider Matching Solution Across Network
TriHealth, a Cincinnati-based, not-for-profit health system, has implemented Kyruus’ patient access platform to boost online patient acquisition and engagement. Now working with Kyruus, TriHealth is empowering patients to seamlessly search for providers by a wide range of criteria across its network of five hospitals and over 100 sites of care. Formed as a partnership between Good Samaritan Hospital and Bethesda Hospital, TriHealth includes five hospitals and over 100 other sites of
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