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ChatGPT Has Potential to Help Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer Patients, Cedars Sinai Study Reveals

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

ChatGPT Has Potential to Help Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer Patients

What You Should Know: A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, may help improve health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer by providing easy-to-understand information about basic knowledge, lifestyle and treatments for these conditions.The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, highlight the AI system’s potential to play a role in clinical practice. Helping
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Q1 2023 Digital Health Funding Reaches $3.4B Across 132 Deals

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

Q1 2023 Digital Health Funding Reaches $3.4B Across 132 Deals

What You Should Know: 2023 started off with the hallmarks of a rebound year. While Q4 2022 signaled the tail end of the digital health funding cycle, January and February funding numbers began to suggest that sector investment was slowly but surely inching back upwards. Inflation was easing ever so slightly. Investors were rediscovering their confidence and launching new projects, signaling optimism in the sector, according to a new Rock Health report. However, recent news—the collapse of
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Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit

by Rahul Sharma, CEO & Lynn Carroll, COO at HSBlox 04/03/2023 Leave a Comment

Value-based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit

Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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VIVE 2023: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Their Key Takeaways

by Fred Pennic 03/31/2023 Leave a Comment

ViVE 2023 Executive Takeaways

A common thread throughout my conversations at ViVE was the increased competition for health consumers. Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. As this continues to
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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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Zorro Launches with $11.5M to Revolutionize Employee Health Benefits

by Fred Pennic 03/29/2023 Leave a Comment

Zorro Launches with $11.5M to Revolutionize Employee Health Benefits

What You Should Know: - Zorro, a digital health company optimizing the health benefits experience for employees, employers and brokers, announced its launch out of stealth with $11.5M seed funding round co-led by Pitango and 10D. - The process of offering employee benefits is complicated, opaque and burdensome. For employers and brokers, offering benefits often results in unpredictable budgets, endless administration, and a distraction from the core business. For employees, health
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5 AI-Driven Healthcare Trends and Solutions in 2023

by Dmitrii Evstiukhin, Director of Managed Services at Provectus 03/28/2023 Leave a Comment

AI-Driven Healthcare Trends and Solutions in 2023

Enterprise-level healthcare is a massive business sector with seemingly infinite moving parts. With patients’ lives at stake, liability is huge, leaving little room for error. Yet human error is common in healthcare, and minor mistakes can cost millions in legal fees and lawsuits, not to mention risks to patient health. Healthcare enterprises are quickly embracing artificial intelligence solutions to mitigate loss, streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer
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Survey Reveals 94% of Leaders to Invest in Software/ 90% Admit to Lost Data 

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/27/2023 Leave a Comment

urvey Reveals 94% of Leaders to Invest in Software/ 90% Admit to Lost Data

What You Should Know: Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO), a healthcare data enablement company, conducted a survey of more than 300 provider leaders who are responsible for implementing and purchasing technology at healthcare provider organizations. The survey, titled ‘Intelligent Insights: Data challenges, tech investments, and shifting provider priorities’ uncovered many surprising findings and some seemingly universal truths about the challenges U.S. provider organizations are facing and
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How Search Makes Clinical Natural Language Processing Useful in the Real World

by Kevin Agatstein, CEO, of KAID Health & Dimitri Linde, Clinical AI Specialist at KAID Health 03/24/2023 Leave a Comment

How Search Makes Clinical Natural Language Processing Useful in the Real World

Clinical Natural Language Understanding (cNLU), the technology by which computers extract meaning from clinical text, is quickly becoming a common feature in the healthcare IT landscape. In 2021, 30% of surveyed healthcare organizations were either using or exploring the technology.  (Gradient Flow, 2021). Similar adoption is occurring in the UK as well. (Wu et. al, Nature, 2022). Today, cNLU is being applied to billing/coding, trial enrollment, registry creation, clinical decision support,
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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them 

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/24/2023 Leave a Comment

New Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them

What You Should Know: - Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. - A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering.  Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities  To understand the human and economic
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