Heightened patient expectations are changing the way healthcare services are delivered, from the way patients receive care to the way they pay for services and manage their conditions. A need for greater patient-centricity is changing the way payers, providers, and healthcare services organizations do business. The digital front door is an ecosystem of technologies patients use to engage with healthcare, starting from when they detect symptoms, to when they pay or receive post-appointment care.
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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?
Digital twins are virtual representations of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and use simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making (IBM). In most cases, this helps data scientists understand how products are operating in production environments and anticipate how they may behave overtime. But what happens when a digital twin is that of a human being?
By using digital twins to model a person, you can use technologies like
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ClaimLogiq Acquires SyTrue for Better Clinical, Coding, & Medical Reviews
What You Should Know:
- Payment integrity tech provider ClaimLogiq acquires SyTrue, a provider of healthcare natural language processing (NLP) technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition combines the premier payment integrity platform with the leading NLP technology solution to transform how health plans address payment integrity, risk adjustment and data management. By combining their technologies, the market will have a new seamless and cohesive
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Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network
What You Should Know:
- Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus)to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers.
- The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.
Syapse, a San Francisco, CA-based real-world evidence company accelerating the
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Mayo Clinic, Mercy Sign 10-Year Collaboration to Transform Patient Care
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic and Mercy announced a 10-year collaboration agreement— a first-of-its-kind alliance between two large healthcare systems that will use the most current data science and years of deidentified patient outcomes to find diseases earlier and start patients on paths to better health more quickly.
- With the combination of privacy-protected, cloud-based technology architecture, and the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning, this aggregated
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New Study Links One Drop’s AI-Powered Blood Glucose Forecasts to Better Engagement and Diabetes Outcomes
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- One Drop, a leader in precision health solutions for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, announced outcomes from a retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) on the effects of its novel AI-powered blood glucose (BG) forecasting feature.
- In the present study, cohort members using One Drop's glucose forecasting feature were more likely to log glucose values in the app than those
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Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?
The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between
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ForSight Robotics Raises $55M to Develop Robotic Cataract Surgery Procedure
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- Israeli-based ForSight Robotics, the pioneer in ophthalmic robotic surgery raises $55M in Series A funding to advance the world’s first surgical platform for fully robotic cataract surgery: ORYOM. The round was led by The Adani Group with existing investors Eclipse Ventures and Mithril Capital. A number of new investors, including Provenio Capital, Precision Capital, Reiya Ventures, the Ljungstrom family office, and other prominent private investors also joined the
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Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient care, clinician experiences, and to help the health and hospital network operate more efficiently.
- Privacy and security will be of the utmost importance in all aspects of this digital transformation. Through the implementation of Google Cloud's reliable infrastructure along with Northwell
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Geisinger Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations
What You Should Know:
- Today Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and Cohere Health, a provider of utilization management (UM) technology, announced they are joining forces to streamline the prior authorization process for providers.
- Cohere’s collaborative UM platform will help GHP support value-based care delivery, reduce administrative costs, and lead the nation in aligning quality improvement initiatives across all its lines of business, including
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