Much has already been written about attendance at RSNA, but from a first-hand perspective, RSNA 2022 could be regarded as a step back toward “normal”. Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”. Against this positive backdrop, however, the stark challenges facing radiology in a post-COVID world were
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Yale New Haven Health to Provide Musculoskeletal Care in Patients’ Homes, Powered by IncludeHealth
What You Should Know: - IncludeHealth, a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company, today announced a partnership with Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) to transform care for patients with musculoskeletal health conditions. - The partnership aims to deliver a best-in-class hybrid MSK care model for all YNHHS patients. The care model combines Yale New Haven Health’s world-renowned in-person orthopedic services with IncludeHealth’s Musculoskeletal Operating System (MSK-OS™) to deliver
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KLAS: HIT Vendors in the Cloud: AWS Leads but Azure Gaining
What You Should Know: - Public cloud providers are increasingly important to how HIT vendors deliver software to provider and payer organizations. - To help HIT vendors make informed decisions about which public cloud provider can best meet their needs, a new report from KLAS examines (1) how industry adoption of public cloud solutions is progressing and (2) how well public cloud providers perform in key areas, including their strengths and improvement opportunities Vital Trends and
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If You Are Not Using AI for Medical Coding, You Are Not Doing Your Job
A quick, efficient, and well-managed revenue cycle creates a solid foundation for a profitable medical organization. That’s why if you’re responsible for ensuring the health of your organization's revenue cycle and you are not using AI for medical coding, you are not doing your job. Let me explain. Some RCM professionals may see medical coding as a small portion of the revenue cycle; however, its reach is wide. The quality and accuracy of medical coding can either negatively or
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Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence can do amazing things for patients, providers and the healthcare business — but only if the right cyber safeguards are in place. For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. And now, it seems, the group has designs on healthcare companies. “Evil Corp should be considered a significant threat to the U.S. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity
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Lumen Raises $62M for Handheld Device to Measure Metabolic Health
What You Should Know: - Lumen, the metabolic health company behind the first handheld device to measure your metabolism through the breath, today announced that it has raised $62M in a series B funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital. - Participating investors include Hanwha Group, Resolute Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Unorthodox Ventures, Almeda Capital, and Disruptive VC. World’s Largest Platform For Measuring Metabolism To Expand Business Growth and Research Lumen helps
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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others
Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere. Curavit Raises $5M for Digital Therapeutics
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HLTH22: Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League Launches Digital Health Platform
What You Should Know: At HLTH, Highmark Health, Google Cloud, and League today unveiled their collaboration on an interoperable, digital health platform that makes it simple for individuals to navigate healthcare and connect to the right tools and resources when and where they need them. - The navigation technology can be envisioned as a "digital front door" to a holistic customer experience and will initially be integrated into a new My Highmark health insurance member portal and
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HLTH22: Google Health – MEDITECH Collaboration Advances to Pilot Phase, Early Adopters
What You Should Know: - MEDITECH and Google Health today announced that DCH Health System and Mile Bluff Medical Center are early adopters in the pilot phase of their clinical search solution collaboration. - The solution will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities to create a longitudinal view of a patient's health history directly within the clinical workflow of MEDITECH's Expanse EHR. - The Expanse solution will leverage Google Health’s intelligent
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HLTH22: COTA and Google Partner to Use NLP to Harness Unstructured Oncology Data
What You Should Know: COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company announced a partnership with Google Cloud to bring clarity to unstructured oncology data through the latest advancements in machine learning and natural language processing. - Many leading real-world data companies - including COTA - leverage clinicians to manually curate oncology real-world data. While this is a reliable and trusted near-term solution to overcoming the challenges associated with
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