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KLAS: Clinical Documentation Strategies 2023

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/15/2023 Leave a Comment

KLAS: Clinical Documentation Strategies 2023

What You Should Know: For years, documentation has been a pain point that has led to clinician frustration and burnout, but numerous strategies have emerged to ease that burden and enhance patient care. COVID-19 has exacerbated burnout, leading organizations to renew their focus on improving documentation.A new report by KLAS examines physician-facing documentation technology and services, along with how vendors compare in overall scores, and the key performance metrics of value and
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Report: Prior Authorization for Biomarker Testing Leads to Treatment Delays For Cancer Patients

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/14/2023 Leave a Comment

Report: Prior Authorization for Biomarker Testing Leads to Treatment Delays For Cancer Patients

What You Should Know: Biomarker testing is a necessary tool in the advancing world of precision cancer treatment. According to a new survey released by CancerCare, a leading national cancer support organization, biomarker testing helped doctors tailor therapy for nearly all the respondent patients (93%) whose cancers were tested over the past three years. Two in 10 cancer patients (20%) surveyed were able to avoid unnecessary chemotherapy and/or radiation and 10% became eligible for
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What Role Can Consumer Health Technology Play in Diagnoses?

by David Smith, President at ilumivu 04/12/2023 Leave a Comment

What Role Can Consumer Health Technology Play in Diagnoses?

There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology, like wearable health devices (i.e., smartwatches), can play in diagnostics, now and in the future. Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface. Even so, smartwatches and their connected health apps are reshaping the healthcare industry. This technology has the ability to not only make personalized healthcare more widely accessible, but its
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Thinking Beyond CRM to Reach Healthcare Consumers

by Abhi Sharma, Chief Product Officer for Loyal, 04/11/2023 Leave a Comment

Thinking Beyond CRM to Reach Healthcare Consumers

A new type of purpose-built technology is necessary to manage patient relationships. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are commonplace in nearly every industry, though their use in healthcare is complicated. Healthcare is incredibly complex and unique in many ways, and many generic CRM or CRM-like solutions address only one or two elements of the patient journey, such as appointment scheduling and reminders, without factoring in personal needs and preferences, health histories,
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HeartFlow Raises $215M for AI-Powered Cardiac Test

by Fred Pennic 04/06/2023 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - HeartFlow, Inc., a provider of precision heart care raises $215M in Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Life Sciences with participation from new investor Janus Henderson Investors, and existing investors including Baillie Gifford, Capricorn Investment Group, Hayfin Capital Management, HealthCor, Martis Capital, USVP and Wellington Management. - HeartFlow’s non-invasive personalized cardiac test provides unprecedented visualization of each patient’s coronary arteries, enabling physicians to create more effective treatment plans for their patients. Expansion Plans The HeartFlow product pipeline is expected to continue to propel the company’s position as a precision diagnostics leader. HeartFlow’s additional product launches will enable the company to further support physicians in their commitment to improve cardiovascular patient outcomes. The new funding will enable HeartFlow to meet the growing demand for its commercial products, support a robust body of growing clinical evidence and advance its comprehensive product portfolio to help physicians to diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) and guide their treatment decisions.

What You Should Know: - HeartFlow, Inc., a provider of precision heart care raises $215M in Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Life Sciences with participation from new investor Janus Henderson Investors, and existing investors including Baillie Gifford, Capricorn Investment Group, Hayfin Capital Management, HealthCor, Martis Capital, USVP and Wellington Management. - HeartFlow’s non-invasive personalized cardiac test provides unprecedented visualization of each patient’s coronary
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How AI is Transforming Rare Disease Diagnosis

by Chris Tackaberry, founder and CEO of Clinithink 04/06/2023 Leave a Comment

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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OXOS Medical Raises $23M to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”

by Syed Hamza Sohail 04/05/2023 Leave a Comment

OXOS Medical Raises $23M Series A to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”

What You Should Know: OXOS Medical, the MedTech innovator developing simple and safe X-ray solutions, announced a $23 million Series A funding from Parkway Venture Capital and Intel Capital, bringing its total funding to $45 million.OXOS continues to build on its traction across outpatient clinics, the military, the Veterans Administration, sports teams, hospitals, imaging centers, and bioskills labs. To help accelerate the company’s growth, Gregg Hill, Parkway Venture Capital co-founder and
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AI-Enabled Butterfly Network Lung Tool Receives FDA Clearance

by Fred Pennic 04/03/2023 Leave a Comment

AI-Enabled Butterfly Network Lung Tool Receives FDA Clearance

What You Should Know: - Today, Butterfly Network announced it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for a groundbreaking AI-enabled tool named AI-enabled Auto B-line Counter that will help physicians assess adults’ lungs and accelerate providers’ abilities to make informed treatment decisions. Butterfly used data inputs from hundreds of sites across the country to train and develop its AI algorithms, offering potential for a broad and diverse range of age, gender, body mass index, ethnicity,
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Kahun Integrates AI Physician Chatbot with ChatGPT

by Fred Pennic 03/31/2023 Leave a Comment

Kahun Integrates AI Physician Chatbot with ChatGPT

What You Should Know: - Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians announced it is integrating its AI chatbot for physicians with ChatGPT, an open-source AI chatbot platform to build on the advanced Large Language Model’s (LLM) ability to engage in human-like conversation with patients. - By integrating ChatGPT, Kahun builds on the language model’s text fluency to boost patient engagement pre-visit, cutting the time needed for the healthcare provider to conduct the
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The Importance of Employee Recognition Programs in the Healthcare Industry

by Mike Szczesny, Owner and VP of EDCO Awards & Specialties 03/31/2023 Leave a Comment

The Importance of Employee Recognition Programs in the Healthcare Industry

Hiring and retaining top-quality candidates in the healthcare sector has been a significant challenge. Aside from the risk of working around patients infected with diseases, as we saw during the COVID-19 outbreak, they are also faced with several difficulties. The healthcare industry needs effective and efficient retention strategies because of a talent shortage, high turnover rates, and heavy competition for top candidates.  Healthcare workers have a complex routine of responsibilities.
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