- Parkland Hospital delivers over $17M in savings preventing in-hospital adverse drug events using an AI-powered predictive model developed by the Park Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI).- The program, Patients at Risk for Adverse Drug Events (PARADE) demonstrated positive results combating ADEs, a problem that impacts more than 450,000 patients nationwide and increases the risk for re-admissions lengthen the stay of patients by 2 to 3 days and adds almost $4B in extra hospital costs
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Cerner CEO Unveils New Next-Generation Cognitive Platform, Project Apollo
- Cerner CEO Brent Shafer unveils their next-generation cognitive health platform named Project Apollo to bring a cognitive approach to practicing medicine.
- Project Apollo will leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to accelerate the speed that innovations are integrated by removing manual steps for clients.
- CEO also introduced new predictive modeling to reduce opioid abuse, free Cerner Learning Network for clients, and Cerner Seamless Interoperability to give
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Leveraging Healthcare CRM Tools to Deliver Better Patient Experiences
Consumers and patients have high expectations for their care providers – they want convenience, personalization, and increasingly, price transparency. We’ve all come to know this as the “Amazon experience”.
Yet, hospitals and health systems are different from other businesses, handling more sensitive and personal information while also delivering an often life-saving service. And while that is true, consumers now experience the world holistically and expect the same level of care and
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Novant Health Taps Jvion As Inaugural Partner for its Institute of Innovation & Artificial Intelligence
- Novant Health names Jvion as the inaugural partner for their Institute of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence. - Together, Jvion will identify Novant patients with a preventable risk of CHF readmission and recommend patient-specific interventions to prevent readmission.Today, Novant announced the inaugural partner for their Institute of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence would be Jvion, a leader in prescriptive analytics for preventable harm. Together, they aim to use Jvion's AI-enabled
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HMS Acquires Population Health Analytics Company VitreosHealth for $36M in Cash
- HMS Holdings Corp acquires VitreosHealth, the first Insights-as-a-Service delivery model for advanced population health analytics for $36M in cash. - HMS is currently using VitreosHealth’s technology as the predictive analytics engine for HMS’ Elli, a risk intelligence solution that is part of the company’s integrated Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio.HMS believes the integration of VitreosHealth will enhance our predictive modeling and analytics capabilities within its PHM
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Why Medicare Advantage Will Lead the Way on Healthcare Consumerism
For years, the healthcare industry has been abuzz with the concept of “consumerism” and the potential implications to insurance companies, providers and patients. Stakeholders from across the industry have opined on what it means create a healthcare system more focused on consumers, often with little impact to actual consumer experience or outcomes.
One spot of genuinely consumer-centric innovation and execution is in the Medicare Advantage (MA) space, where select health plans can offer
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Geisinger, IBM Develops Predictive Model Using EHR Data to Detect Sepsis
- Geisinger/IBM’s AI and Data Science team are working together to prevent sepsis, life-threating infection through early detection and research.
- Geisinger team used IBM Watson Studio open-source tools to build a predictive model that would ingest clinical data from thousands of de-identified sepsis patients spanning a decade.
- Geisinger uses IBM Watson Explorer to create a searchable index of thousands of medical publications for clinicians and researchers can now mine the journal
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Medable Joins the American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation Innovators Network
Medable Inc., a provider of digitally-enabled and data-driven clinical trials, will join the American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation (the Center) Innovators Network. The Center is focused on building health-tech relationships to drive innovative and scalable solutions across the health continuum.American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation Innovators NetworkThe Center helps members of its Innovators Network in the healthcare
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What’s AI’s Holdup in Healthcare? The Answer Is In The Cloud
When you consider what technology has the most potential to transform healthcare over the next decade and beyond, no doubt your first thoughts turn to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Already these technologies are showing promise in helping clinicians work faster and smarter, identifying trends, alerting us to signs that can predict and prevent diseases, and providing insights into potential treatments and cures.
But AI, ML, and DL alone cannot
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DrChrono EHR Integrates With OutcomeMD to Track, Analyze Patient Outcome Data, Cofounding Factors
DrChrono, a medical practice EHR and OutcomeMD, a company revolutionizing medical outcome tracking, today announced its integration that gives practices using DrChrono’s EHR the seamless ability to incorporate patient-reported outcomes into their clinical flow.
OutcomeMD Solution Overview
OutcomeMD is a software solution that uses literature validated patient-reported outcome instruments to score and track a patient’s symptom severity and inform treatment decisions. The platform’s outcome
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