What You Should Know: - Innovaccer partners with SyTrue to uncover powerful insights
and accelerate its efforts to drive healthcare’s digital transformation. - The integration of SyTrue’s proprietary NLP OS with
Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will empower healthcare
organizations to identify diagnosis codes and Hierarchical Condition Categories
(HCC) from patient care progress notes and other unstructured texts. Innovaccer, Inc., a San
Francisco, CA-based
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NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events
Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US alone. Nearly 5 percent of hospitalized patients experience an ADE, making them one of the most common types of inpatient errors. What’s more, many of these instances are hard to discover because they are never reported. In fact, the median under-reporting rate in one meta-analysis of 37 studies was 94 percent. This is especially problematic given the negative
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NeuroFlow Joins Epic App Orchard for Behavioral Health Integration
What You Should Know: - NeuroFlow,
the leader in technology-enabled behavioral health integration, is now
available to healthcare providers through Epic’s App
Orchard marketplace. NeuroFlow combines provider workflow augmentation
solutions, clinical care dashboards, and a patient-facing application to create
a clinical feedback loop centered around behavioral health. - Patient generated data including validated assessment
scores, mood and sleep ratings, and journal
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Innovaccer Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution For Improved Coding Accuracy
What You Should Know: - Innovaccer unveils new risk adjustment solution to help providers better segment their population to refine the risk scoring process and improve coding accuracy and efficiency, thereby improving performance on risk-based contracts. - The solution utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make risk predictions. Innovaccer, Inc., a
leading healthcare
technology company, has launched its Risk Adjustment
Solution. Leveraging
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Parexel Acquires Healthcare NLP Provider Roam Analytics
What You Should Know: - Parexel acquires healthcare software company Roam
Analytics, Inc. to strengthen and enhance Parexel’s pharmacovigilance (PV)
services. - The acquisition provides significant opportunities to
apply Roam Analytics’ natural language processing (NLP) technology to further
streamline and extract insights from unstructured data. - Parexel will also use Roam’s AI technology to leverage
various data, from clinical notes, medical images, patient surveys,
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020. While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has outperformed
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Ciox Health Acquires Biomedical NLP Company Medal
What You Should Know: - Ciox Health has acquired Medal, Inc., a biomedical
Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP) technology company. - The acquisition will lead Ciox to better and more
quickly enable real-world data in support of research that advances patient
care. Ciox
Health, a leading health technology company, today announced its acquisition
of San Francisco-based biomedical Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP)
technology company, Medal, Inc., a leader
in
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Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe. With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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SyTrue Offers Free AI-based Solutions to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know: - SyTrue offers its free AI-based solutions free of charge to qualified global public health organizations to help researchers and governments battling the COVID-19 pandemic - SyTrue has developed solutions that enable identification of disease trends, early detection, and interventions, safety-monitoring of medicinal therapies, COVID-19 knowledge extraction, and accelerated identification of patient cohorts. The solution will support efforts to identify
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevent the Oncoming Medical Information Crisis
“You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data. A case in point is the information infrastructure of the American healthcare system, which will play a critical role in understanding and battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as the capacity of some national health systems have been
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