Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI, such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.
Despite this growth, health systems have yet to maximize the potential of AI to
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Healthcare Data Exchange, Integration, and Analytics
Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment.
In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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Unlock Healthcare Data to Improve Patient Care and Operational Efficiency
The ease in which protected health information (PHI) is shared, accessed, and analyzed has a direct impact on clinical productivity, patient care coordination, and health outcomes. Today, clinicians still spend a considerable amount of time typing in, clicking through, and editing electronic health records (EHR). Manually keying-in patient data into fields is not only time-consuming and inefficient, but it can also lead to medical errors if any of the information is typed incorrectly.
This
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H1 Acquires London-Based Faculty Opinions to Broaden Global Doctor Network
What You Should Know:
H1, a global healthcare professional data ecosystem to enable life sciences, academic medical institutions, health systems, and payors acquires London-based Faculty Opinions Ltd, formerly known as Faculty of 1000 and F1000 Prime. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- A close partner of H1, Faculty Opinions fuses the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in the Life and Medical Sciences to highlight and validate the most
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Data Integrity, Security, and Confidentiality: The Building Blocks of Healthcare Data Management
Stethoscopes, needles, tourniquets, and blood pressure cuffs are what typically come to someone’s mind when thinking of items used to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a healthcare setting. While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient.
Lab results, transcripts, radiology imagery, and physicians’ notes all fall under the category
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Healthcare Data & Analytics Platforms: Shifting from Siloed Capabilities
Historically, analytics capabilities for healthcare organizations have been offered in siloed solutions. These solutions provide quick insights but not the longitudinal patient, financial, and operational views organizations need to truly move the needle in their efforts to improve care and reduce costs. The good news is that as organizations’ analytics needs have expanded, so have vendor offerings. A number of vendors now offer consolidated, end-to-end platforms that provide a wide variety of
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Pivotal Analytics Nabs $10.2M for Healthcare Data Analytics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Pivotal Analytics, a provider of strategic healthcare analytics solution Pivotal, announced it has raised $10.2M in a Series A funding round. This investment was led by one of the largest owner-operators of medical office buildings in the United States, with participation from three existing investors.
- Pivotal, the company's flagship business intelligence platform, is a strategic healthcare analytics solution that empowers healthcare
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ClosedLoop.ai Raises $34M to Expand Healthcare Data Science Platform
What You Should Know:
- ClosedLoop.ai., an Austin, TX-based healthcare data science platform, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series B financing led by Telstra Ventures with participation from Breyer Capital, Greycroft Ventures, .406 Ventures, and Healthfirst. Notable angel investors Adam Boehler (former director of CMMI & CEO of Landmark Health) and Sam Palmisano (former CEO of IBM) also participated in the round.
- ClosedLoop’s explainable AI reimagines the concept
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M&A: Healthcare Data Startup H1 Acquires Carevoyance
What You Should Know:
- H1, a global healthcare platform that connects healthcare professionals has acquired Portland, Oregon based Carevoyance, which offers the best targeting, sales enablement, and physician segmentation platform to medical device sellers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition enables H1 to expand its presence in the medical device market, and allows Carevoyance - which will continue to operate independently, as a subsidiary of H1 -
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RCM: How Coding Gray Areas Skew Healthcare Data
Clinical reality, the ICD-10-CM classification system, and considerations of reimbursement are three distinct worlds that are sometimes in conflict. We don’t like it when financial considerations intrude on the purity of coding, but there’s no escaping this intrusion when coding serves as both the representation of the clinical picture in healthcare data and as the basis for reimbursement.
Sepsis Definitions at Odds
Sepsis provides a great illustration of a coding gray area that can
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