The greatest innovation in healthcare in the last twenty years is something that connects us all… data. At any given moment, healthcare facilities, hospitals and more rely on data to operate more efficiently, drive forward patient care and further develop medical research. Even in the last two years, data has been paramount to the development of mRNA technology that has helped us combat the COVID-19 crisis and even led to a new treatment for type-two diabetes.
The recent medical
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4medica’s EMPI Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
What You Should Know:
4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.Built on Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, 4medica’s EMPI offers healthcare organizations access to a highly scalable data management services such as referential matching and identity enrichment.
Impact of Poor Healthcare Data Quality
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals
Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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How AI is Transforming Rare Disease Diagnosis
Collectively rare diseases are anything but rare – they impact 30 million people in the US and ten times that amount globally. And 1 in 3 children suffering from a rare disease will not survive beyond the age of five.
One of the biggest challenges facing clinicians is making a quick, accurate diagnosis – on average patients visit eight physicians and receive two to three misdiagnoses before being correctly diagnosed, a process that takes US patients around 7.6 years, and is often referred to
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Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data
What You Should Know:
Patientory Inc., the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store and earn money from their medical data and Neith Enterprise Dashboard in partnership with Prosper Healthtech, a community-backed organization committed to equity in Birmingham offering a supportive network of
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Can Technology Live Up to Its Promise for Clinical Trials?
By creating efficiencies with technology, CROs have an opportunity to build clinical trials of the future.
For many years, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) had a reputation in the biopharmaceutical industry as flashy buzzwords, with little concrete evidence to back up their promise. Over time, this lack of understanding has created drawn-out anticipation, leaving many skeptical about the true value of these tools.
As the
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How Search Makes Clinical Natural Language Processing Useful in the Real World
Clinical Natural Language Understanding (cNLU), the technology by which computers extract meaning from clinical text, is quickly becoming a common feature in the healthcare IT landscape. In 2021, 30% of surveyed healthcare organizations were either using or exploring the technology. (Gradient Flow, 2021). Similar adoption is occurring in the UK as well. (Wu et. al, Nature, 2022). Today, cNLU is being applied to billing/coding, trial enrollment, registry creation, clinical decision support,
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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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Health Gorilla Partners with CLEAR for Consumers to Access & Control Their Health Info
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla, a leading Health Information Network and interoperability provider, has partnered with CLEAR, a secure identity verification platform, to launch Individual Access Services, which allows consumers to access their personal health information securely.
- Health Gorilla will embed Powered by CLEAR to seamlessly verify a consumer's identity and provide them with secure and easy access to their health information. Friction-free identity
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How Home Health Tech Can Solve a Stubborn $290B Healthcare Challenge
The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their homes and even live active lifestyles, which improves their quality of life and can save them, the government (Medicaid/Medicaid), and the insurance industry money. But -- and it’s a big one -- those savings can only be achieved if those patients adhere to their medication schedules.
Non-adherence first came to the forefront of awareness back in 2009, when the New
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