What You
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- FAIR Health brief finds the total costs for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients range from a low of $362 billion in charges and $139 billion in estimated allowed amounts to a high of $1.449 trillion in charges and $558 billion in estimated allowed amounts, depending on the incidence rate of the infection in the US population.
- The total average charge per COVID-19 patient requiring an inpatient stay is $73,300 and the total average estimated allowed amount per
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Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience
For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security.
Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world.
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ResApp Awarded CE Mark for Smartphone-based Diagnostic Test for Adult Respiratory Disease
- ResApp awarded second CE mark for its first smartphone-based diagnostic test for respiratory disease.- CE Mark certification indicates that ResAppDx-EU version 2 meets the essential requirements of all the applicable European regulations as a class IIa medical device and allows for its sale throughout the European Economic Area.- ResAppDx-EU version 2 is a software-only solution that runs on a smartphone and does not require any additional hardware or accessories.ResApp Health Ltd., the
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Q&A: How the VHA’s Innovator’s Network Is Transforming Veteran Care
Dr. Ryan Vega, Executive Director at VHA Innovation Ecosystem
Dr. Ryan Vega explains how the VHA’s Innovator’s Network (iNET) is transforming how the VA identifies, incubates, and deliver healthcare innovation to improve healthcare for veterans.
Innovation is the bud from which all things radical seem to bloom. It’s also the critical element at the center of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) objectives to improve the quality and reach of healthcare for its veterans. Changes
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ResApp Awarded CE Mark for Smartphone-Based Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Disease
ResApp Health, the developers of the world’s first smartphone-based diagnostic test for respiratory disease where one simply coughs into the phone and the machine learning-based algorithm diagnoses the underlying respiratory disease, has received CE Mark certification as a Class IIa medical device.Significance of CE Mark CertificationCE Mark certification indicates that ResAppDx-EU meets the essential requirements of all the applicable European regulations as a medical device and allows for the
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AI vs. Humans: AI Solution Beats Stanford Radiologists in Chest X-ray Diagnostics Competition
JF Healthcare, a Nanchang, China-based medical diagnostic startup is the first organization in the world to beat Stanford University radiologists in a competition designed by the Stanford Machine Learning group to compare the capability of artificial intelligence (AI) to human experts in interpreting chest x-rays.Standard Chest X-ray Diagnostic Competition ResultsThe AI team from JF Healthcare recently achieved an average AUC score (a measure of diagnostic accuracy) of 0.926 and is currently
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Medically Home Group Nabs $10M for Scalable, Virtual Hospital Platform
Medically Home Group, Inc., a Boston, MA-based technology-enabled services company has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Cardinal Health and other investors. This strategic investment for Medically Home from Cardinal Health and other investors illustrates the rapid movement in the market for innovative value-based models. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support scaling efforts and to realize a common vision of enabling cost-effective, patient-centric
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Physician Practices Strategy to Developing A Strong Chronic Care Management (CCM) Program
Zachary Blunt, Sr. Manager of Product Development, Population Health at Greenway Health
More than three years have passed since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its separately billable non-face-to-face Chronic Care Management (CCM) service. This was intended to help more than two-thirds of individuals on Medicare who suffer from multiple conditions receive more coordinated, regular primary care. The hope was that a focus on managing chronic conditions would
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UM Spinout Fifth Eye Lands $11.5M for Early Warning Patient Deterioration System for Hospitals
Fifth Eye, a medical device software spinoff from the University of Michigan building clinical early warning patient deterioration system for hospitals has raised $11.5 million in Series A funding led by Arboretum Ventures and Cultivation Capital. Other participants in the round include were MINTS, the direct investing arm of the University of Michigan’s endowment, along with additional capital from previous investors Invest Michigan and 35 private angel investors.Why Clinicians Need A Better
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ResApp Licenses New Algorithm to Improve Diagnostic Screening for Childhood Pneumonia
ResApp Health Limited, a digital health startup provider of smartphone apps for respiratory disease diagnosis and management has signed a licensing agreement with UniQuest, the main commercialization company of The University of Queensland. The licensing agreement includes an additional diagnostic toolset of machine-learning algorithms that use a combination of clinical features to screen for childhood pneumonia. Pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality for children below five years of age.
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