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6 Ways Health Payors Can Leverage Intelligent Document Processing for Cost Savings

by Tom McCann, Growth Strategy & Business Development, Instabase 04/25/2023 Leave a Comment

6 Ways Health Payors Can Leverage Intelligent Document Processing for Cost Savings

The prevailing global economic conditions are negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Continuing staff shortages, endemic COVID-19, high inflation rates, and supply chain disruptions continue to drive medical costs higher, worsening what is already a persistent challenge for health insurers.  To offset rising healthcare costs, health insurance payors are challenged to find ways to contain their own costs by streamlining their processes and tightening their belts, which invariably
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Bringing The Customer Voice to Life in Healthcare

by Leslie Pagel, Chief Evangelist at Authenticx 04/14/2023 Leave a Comment

Bringing The Customer Voice to Life in Healthcare

Voice is a powerful tool. The average person speaks about 7,000 words daily (although anyone who’s spent time around young children knows that estimate is probably low). Yet amid healthcare organizations building a more customer-centric approach to customer experience (CX), many have not included a key piece of the CX puzzle: analyzing the voice of the customer. The value of unstructured data Healthcare organizations use a variety of existing touchpoints to connect with their customers.
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FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety

by Jasmine Pennic 04/10/2023 Leave a Comment

FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety

What You Should Know: - Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, and FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center are teaming up to develop AI tools to extract and assess clinical notes to better understand drug safety.   - Teaming with John Snow Labs, Cerner Enviza will use AI and NLP to develop tools to extract information from clinical notes within the EHR to better aid in better understanding the effects of medicines on large populations. The project known as the Multi-source Observational
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

by Ittai Dayan, co-founder & CEO of Rhino Health 04/07/2023 Leave a Comment

The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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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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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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Study Reveals EHR Data Can Identify Patients Who Are Frail

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/17/2023 Leave a Comment

Study Reveals EHR Data Can Identify People Who Are Frail

What You Should Know: - AHRQ conducted a study to address the operational gap between CFIs and EFIs. This project focused on validating an established CFI using linked claims-EHR databases of multiple large health systems. The project provides a systematic approach that health systems can use to examine the quality of the EHR data and prepare it for the application of EFI measures. - The findings demonstrated that structured EHR data can be used by healthcare providers to identify frail
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Accelerating Clinical Trials Through AI-Enabled Precision Oncology

by Marie E. Lamont, Global RWE Data Strategy, Access & Enablement at IQVIA and General Manager 03/17/2023 Leave a Comment

Accelerating Clinical Trials Through AI-Enabled Precision Oncology

The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics 2023 report highlighted a few major accomplishments within oncology, such as decreased cancer mortality rates and increased trial diversity. However, there is still much work to be done. Especially with the multiple types of new and ongoing challenges clinicians and staff members are facing - such as high turnover rates, decreased budgets and increased feelings of burnout - taking the necessary steps to enhance clinical trial procedures is crucial
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Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/16/2023 Leave a Comment

Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine

What You Should Know: - Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare. - Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health devices, consumer health and medical-grade digital apps, individual multi-omics profiling data and the move to cloud storage, holds great promise for accelerated healthcare progress and precision medicine, and data
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Zus Health Raises $40M, Partners with Primary Care EHR Elation

by Fred Pennic 03/16/2023 Leave a Comment

Zus Raises $40M, Partners with Primary Care EHR Elation

What You Should Know: - Zus Health, (pronounced "Zoose"), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing from JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). - Zus is the only shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the
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