What You Should Know: - Yseop, an artificial intelligence (AI) software company and pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP), today announced that Sanofi, the global healthcare company, has chosen to scale its natural language generation (NLG) capabilities with Yseop. - Sanofi will use the platform to accelerate its clinical study submission processes and bring new treatments to patients faster. - Sanofi plans to continue to expand the use of the Yseop
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KAID Health Raises $4.25M for AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform
What You Should Know: KAID Health,makers of anartificial intelligence-enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform,today announced its $4.25M in Series A funding bringing their total capital raised to $6.45M. - The funding will fuel growth of the provider/payer platform that integrates with the electronic medical records (EMR) to identify high-value tactical care and coding interventions. The company will also expand its Boston, MA office and will hire new team
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Using NLP Technology To Uncover Real-World Patient Insights
It’s estimated that humans create a combined 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day – and that around 90% of all data to ever exist was created in just the last few years. As difficult as it is to ignore the massive impact that connected technologies and social media have had on the way we experience our world, it’s somehow even more challenging to fully grasp the scale of it. For health researchers, this data explosion – and especially the rise
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HonorHealth Deploys Loyal’s Symptom Checker to Improve Patient Triage/Experience
What You Should Know: - Phoenix-based HonorHealth has deployed Loyal’s Symptom Checker chatbot solution to assist with patient intake and triage. Symptom Checker leverages machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to identify which clinical symptoms may be affecting patients – with the ability to handle multiple health conditions and access a clinical database of over 1,200 symptoms, 660+ conditions and 130+ risk
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Suki Secures $55M for Voice-Enabled Clinical Assistants to Relieve Physician Burnout
What You Should Know: - Suki raises $55M in Series C funding to expand its AI-enabled, voice-enabled clinical assistants to relieve physician burnout. - Suki will use this funding to make strategic investments that will lead to an expansion of its user base through new and existing partnerships with leading health systems and medical groups while bolstering employee growth and development. Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced
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How Healthcare NLP has Evolved from 2020 to 2021
Few industries have embraced natural language processing (NLP) as openly as healthcare. With the ability to identify new variants of COVID-19 and help speed up clinical trials for the vaccine, the pandemic is just one example of what NLP is capable of achieving. And while new research points to NLP budgets growing significantly across vertical industries, locations, company sizes, and maturity levels, healthcare is leading the pack. Big strides have been made in AI and NLP over the last year,
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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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Augmedix Partners with Google Cloud to Rehumanize the Patient-Clinician Interaction
What You Should Know: - Augmedix, Inc., a provider of virtual medical documentation and live clinical support, today announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to optimize and integrate automated speech recognition (“ASR”) technology for use in real-world clinical settings. ASR technology is a critical component in the Augmedix technology stack, and Augmedix is now integrating Google Cloud Speech-to-Text into its Notebuilder technology platform, which provides natural language
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Edifecs Acquires Talix to Expand Risk Adjustment Solution
What You Should Know: - Edifecs, a global health IT provider announced it is acquiring Talix, a SaaS IT company, to expand Edifecs’ reach in the encounter management and risk adjustment space. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The integration of Edifecs’ and Talix’s technologies will create an expanded risk adjustment solution with critical workflows and insights that improve efficiencies and directly support payer and provider collaboration. Talix
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How AI is Enabling Next-Generation Insights from Biomedical Data
COVID-19 caught the world off-guard, sending governments, populations, and the entire healthcare community — physicians, nurses, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers included — scrambling to discover and deliver rapid solutions as millions of lives hanging in the balance. The heroic efforts of everyone involved have at last brought the end into view; now, as we begin to emerge from the pandemic and are able to assess its long-term impact, one important
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