Machine Learning

Healthcare Data & Analytics Platforms: Shifting from Siloed Capabilities

Artificial Intelligence, Health IT, Healthcare Data, KLAS, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), social determinants of health, Value-Based Care / October 25, 2021

Bradley Hunter, Research Director at KLAS Research Ryan Pretnik, Research Director at KLAS Research Lois Krotz, Research Director at KLAS Research Historically, analytics capabilities for healthcare organizations have been offered in siloed solutions. These solutions provide quick insights but not the longitudinal patient, financial, and operational views organizations need to truly move the needle in …

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How Machine Learning Is Helping Consumers Take Action on Their Health

Artificial Intelligence, digital health, Machine Learning, Opinion / September 27, 2021

Craig Wigginton, Chief Technology Officer at Icario For years machine learning (ML) has been touted as a way for health plans to leverage the mounds of data they collect on their members, but practical use cases remain relatively uncommon. For some, the perception may be that ML is a futuristic and somewhat impersonal way to …

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How tech can help solve the overpayments problem in healthcare RCM

audits, Availity, CMS, Daily, Health IT, hospitals, HSBlox, Machine Learning, News, overpayments, Payers, Revenue Cycle Management, Review, rules, SYN, technology, Top Story, VisiQuate / September 9, 2021

When CMS overpays for services, providers and commercial payers are responsible for paying the agency back, and at times, they are on the hook for millions of dollars. But technology can help healthcare stakeholders catch the mistakes that lead to overpayments, thereby reducing unnecessary costs.

AI could be used to guide drug therapy for heart failure

Artificial Intelligence, Atrial Fibrillation, Birmingham University, digital, digital health, heart failure, Machine Learning, News / September 6, 2021

UK researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a way to identify patients with heart failure who would benefit from treatment with beta blockers, by interrogating data from nine landmark clinical trials. The study applied machine learning to trial data involving 15,659 patients who were being treated for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction …

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Real-world study suggest AI may improve atrial fibrillation screening

Artificial Intelligence, Atrial Fibrillation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, digital, digital health, Machine Learning, News, Pfizer / September 1, 2021

An artificial intelligence algorithm already shown to be able to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) in clinical testing has also shown its worth in a real-world setting, according to its developers. The AI – developed by the Bristol Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance on cardiovascular disease – was developed using machine learning from a UK dataset of almost …

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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack

Artificial Intelligence, Care Coordination, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Interoperability, Machine Learning, Opinion / August 25, 2021

Jeff Fuller, Vice President, Analytics Solutions at CipherHealth For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical …

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UPMC Launches Drug Discovery Company Novasenta to Develop Targeted Immunotherapy Drugs for Cancer

Biomarker-Guided Drug Development, Cancer Drug Approval, Drug Discovery, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, Startups / August 23, 2021

Mani Mohindru, Ph.D.,Chief Executive Officer, Novasent What You Should Know: – UPMC today announced the launch of Novasenta, a drug discovery and development company seeking novel and effective treatments for cancer.  Co-founded in late 2018 by Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., Dario Vignali, Ph.D., and Greg Delgoffe, Ph.D., all of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Pitt, Novasenta …

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ClosedLoop.ai Raises $34M to Expand Healthcare Data Science Platform

AI, Artificial Intelligence, digital health, Healthcare Data, Machine Learning, Startups / August 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – ClosedLoop.ai., an Austin, TX-based healthcare data science platform, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series B financing led by Telstra Ventures with participation from Breyer Capital, Greycroft Ventures, .406 Ventures, and Healthfirst. Notable angel investors Adam Boehler (former director of CMMI & CEO of Landmark Health) and Sam Palmisano …

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How AI is Enabling Next-Generation Insights from Biomedical Data

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Data, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Nference, Opinion / August 16, 2021

Alastair Blake, MD – VP of Clinical & Commercial Partnerships at nference COVID-19 caught the world off-guard, sending governments, populations, and the entire healthcare community — physicians, nurses, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers included — scrambling to discover and deliver rapid solutions as millions of lives hanging in the balance.  The heroic efforts …

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Sensyne, Oxford University deploy AI to find asthma targets

Artificial Intelligence, Asthma, digital, digital health, Genomics, Machine Learning, News, Sensyne, Transcriptomics / August 10, 2021

Oxford University and UK clinical artificial intelligence (AI) company Sensyne Health will partner on a project to find new drug targets for people with hard-to-treat asthma. It’s estimated that almost one in five people with asthma find it difficult to control symptoms using current therapies, while around 4% have particularly severe forms that puts them …

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Cambridge team says AI could diagnose dementia with one scan

alzheimer's disease, Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge University, dementia, digital, digital health, Machine Learning, News / August 10, 2021

Researchers at Cambridge University in the UK are trialling an artificial intelligence system that they think could spot the signs of dementia after a single brain scan. The team – led by Prof Zoe Kourtzi of the university and Alan Turing Institute – told the BBC that the AI could make it possible to start …

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Google’s DeepMind puts human proteome online for free

Artificial Intelligence, DeepMind, digital, digital health, Drug Discovery, In Silico, Machine Learning, News / July 26, 2021

The most complete database of protein structures ever assembled, developed with the help of Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind, has been made freely available to researchers around the world. DeepMind partnered with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) to come up with the AlphaFold database, which predicts the three-dimensional structures of the human proteome – …

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Crowdsourced science refines AI prediction of clinical trial outcomes

Artificial Intelligence, digital, digital health, drug development, Machine Learning, MIT, News, Novartis / July 21, 2021

Think of the R&D dollars that could be saved if artificial intelligence (AI) modelling could tell you at an early stage whether a drug was likely to succeed in clinical trials, and ultimately reach the market. In 2019, a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US came up with just such a …

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AI-driven ‘clock’ predicts aging-related illness and mortality

aging, Artificial Intelligence, digital, digital health, Machine Learning, News, Stanford University / July 14, 2021

Scientists in the US have developed an artificial intelligence-powered ‘clock’ that can estimate a person’s chance of developing an illness or dying based on the pattern of cytokines in their blood. The “inflammatory age” or iAge clock – described in the journal Nature Aging – uses a snapshot of the level of chronic inflammation in …

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Johns Hopkins spinoff building risk prediction tools emerges with $15M

AI, Andreessen Horowitz, Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian Health, Daily, Health Tech, Johns Hopkins, Machine Learning, risk prediction, Startups, SYN, Top Story / July 13, 2021

Bayesian Health, a startup created by a machine learning researcher at Johns Hopkins, is building models for sepsis detection, patient deterioration and bedsores. The company recently emerged from stealth mode with backing from Andreessen Horowitz. 

Deep 6 AI: the smart software breathing new life into clinical trials

Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Trials, digital, digital health, Machine Learning, Partner content, Patient Recruitment, Press releases / June 18, 2021

Wout Brusselaers has spent his life on a quest to achieve one career goal—to work with smart people on a meaningful project that makes a difference to people’s lives. This mission saw him become a diplomat in the Middle East, a McKinsey consultant in Asia, and take on roles in international intelligence before realizing he could use his knowledge and skills in solving …

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4 Notable Life Sciences Trends from the Tech Trends Report

AI, AI & Data, AlphaFold, Drug Discovery, Machine Learning, NLP, Pharma R&D, protein folding, SciBiteAI, tech trends / June 4, 2021

The Future Today Institute has released its 2021 Tech Trends Report (14th Annual Edition), a comprehensive report on strategic trends that it anticipates will affect business, government, education, media and society in the coming year. We noted four trends discussed in the report’s Health, Medicine & Science section that will be of particular interest to …

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BIO-Europe Spring Digital: Big data and AI panel discussion

AI, big data, BIO-Europe Spring, Bio-Europe Spring Digital, digital, Machine Learning, video, Views & Analysis / June 3, 2021

The combination of big data and artificial intelligence/machine learning is a powerful one and nowhere more so than in healthcare. As part of BIO-Europe Spring Digital, pharmaphorum founder Dr. Paul Tunnah moderated a panel discussion about big data, AI and applications in the real world. The expert panel explored the evolving applications of big data …

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FDA faces big questions as it takes a closer look at AI regulations

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Decision Support, Daily, ethics, FDA, Health Tech, Healthcare, Legal, Machine Learning, Policy, regulation, SYN, Top Story / May 31, 2021

An action plan shared by the FDA earlier this year showed how the regulator is thinking about future regulations for AI and machine learning in healthcare. But the agency still has several big questions to address as it prepares to roll out new guidance.

Now what? The future of clinical trials after the pandemic

AI, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, digital, Machine Learning, R&D, Views & Analysis / May 27, 2021

Sheila Rocchio highlights four key areas life sciences must improve on as an industry to drive real change in how clinical trials are conducted. This is definitely a time for the life sciences industry to be proud of our accomplishments. The way in which the industry came together to support the development of the COVID-19 …

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Komodo Health’s CEO on $220M Series E & What’s REALLY Happening with Big Data in Healthcare

Arif Nathoo, big data, Health Tech, Jessica DaMassa, Komodo Health, Machine Learning, start ups, WTF Health / May 18, 2021

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH You know all that “magic” that machine learning is meant to bring to seemingly lackluster healthcare data and our limited understanding of it? Komodo Health’s co-founder & CEO Arif Nathoo demystifies the wizardry of one of our favorite buzz phrases, “The Algorithm,” and gives us a colorful overview of how …

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Backed by $92M, startup Interline aims to shed new light on protein communities

ARCH Venture Partners, Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma, biopharma nl, Daily, foresite capital, Interline Therapeutics, investing, Machine Learning, Pharma, South San Francisco, Startups, SYN, Top Story / May 13, 2021

Interline Therapeutics has technology that shows how proteins interact as communities, paving the way for the discovery of new drugs. CEO Zachary Sweeney, a Denali Therapeutics veteran, said the startup will use the $92 million in funding to advance programs in cancer and inflammatory diseases.

UltraSight Raises $13M to Bring AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasound to Point of Care

AI, Artificial Intelligence, digital health, Machine Learning, point of care, Startups, Ultrasound / May 11, 2021

What You Should Know: – UltraSight, an Israeli based digital health company focused on transforming cardiac sonography through the power of machine learning, announced today that it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round. – Cardiac sonography is a skill that takes years to develop.  It requires daily practice to achieve a high …

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Mutually empowering – semantic-based machine learning and subject matter expertise

AI & Data, Entellect, Language, Machine Learning, ML, named entity recognition, NER, ontology, Pistoia Alliance, SciBite, semantic based, subject matter expertise, translation / May 7, 2021

In a day dedicated to emerging science and technologies at the Pistoia Alliance virtual conference Collaborative R&D in Action, SciBite CTO James Malone opened the program with a compelling exploration of use cases for semantic-based machine learning (ML). A simple but elegant ML strategy based on “seeding” named entity recognition (NER) can facilitate ontology creation, …

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The Future of Revenue Integrity: From Reactive to Predictive – RCM

Artificial Intelligence, Health IT, integrity, Machine Learning, Opinion, rcm, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle operations, revenue integrity / May 6, 2021

Vasilios Nassiopoulos, Vice President of Platform Strategy and Innovation, Hayes Healthcare organizations have witnessed an explosion of new opportunities to extract value from the industry’s treasure trove of data in recent years, with success stories related to using advanced technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning found in every sector.  Revenue integrity is …

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Serimmune CEO: Leveraging the functional antibody repertoire will transform healthcare

biophamra nl, BioPharma, Biotech, Daily, Diagnostics, Health IT, immunology, Machine Learning, MedCitizens, Serimmune, Startups, SYN, Top Story / April 22, 2021

In response to emailed questions, the CEO and CTO talk about the immune intelligence startups’ Human Immunity Map — a growing database of immune interactions that can support the development of multiplex diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.

SciBite’s James Malone Talks Future of Biocuration on Conference Panel

AI, biocuration, Conference, curation, data science, databases, Machine Learning, Medical Information, SciBite / April 15, 2021

Biocurators are among the unsung heroes of the life sciences world, performing the essential task of translating and integrating biomedical information into interoperable databases. Of course, there is a lot more to it than that, as attendees of the International Society for Biocuration’s 14th Annual Biocuration Conference already know. At the first session of this …

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Komodo Health Launches Next-Gen AI to Accelerate Innovation and Close Gaps in Care

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, digital health, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, Oncology, Patient Journey / April 14, 2021

What You Should Know: – Today, Komodo Health is capping off a month-long flurry of activity by announcing the launch of its Prism and Sentinel solutions — opening up access to its Healthcare Map to drive the next generation of AI innovation.  – Prism and Sentinel allows life sciences teams to tap into detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns …

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Carta Healthcare Raises $17.3M for AI-Assisted Data Abstraction

AI, Artificial Intelligence, digital innovation, health innovation, Health IT, Healthcare Data, Machine Learning, Startups / April 8, 2021

What You Should Know: – Carta Healthcare, a provider of AI-powered clinical data abstraction technology and services, is pleased to announce a recent $17.3M Series A investment led by Storm Ventures. AI Digital Innovation Fund (affiliated with Mass General Brigham), CU Health Innovation Fund (affiliated with University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Asset Management Ventures, …

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3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management

Accenture, administrative workflow assistance, AI, AI in healthcare, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, assistants, Change Healthcare, Clinical Trial, connected machines, cybersecurity, fraud detection, Health IT, Healthcare Leaders, ICD-10, Machine Learning, Medical Billing, NLP, Opinion, Partners, Patient Access, Patient Engagement, Predictive Analytics, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, risk, robot-assisted surgery, Robotic Process Automation / March 30, 2021

Kenya Smith, Healthcare Solution Marketing Manager at ABBYY AI technology is quickly evolving and already surpassing human decision-making in certain instances; sometimes, in ways, we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.  Adoption of AI in healthcare is growing, but …

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AKASA Raises $60M to Automate Revenue Cycle Operations for Health Systems

algorithms, cloud, Electronic Health Record, Health IT, Health Systems, hipaa, HITRUST, Machine Learning, Patient Care, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle operations, SAN FRANCISCO, Startups / March 23, 2021

What You Should Know: – AKASA (formerly known as Alpha Health), a South San Francisco, CA-based Unified Automation™ company for revenue cycle management in healthcare, announced it has raised $60 million in its series B round of funding. – Founded in 2018, AKASA uses the same machine learning approaches that made driverless cars possible to …

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AI platform says Olumiant could be repurposed for Alzheimer’s

alzheimer's disease, Artificial Intelligence, digital, digital health, Eli Lilly, Machine Learning, News, Olumiant / March 10, 2021

With so many novel drug candidates for Alzheimer’s disease failing in clinical development, researchers in the US have started using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen already-approved therapies for activity against the neurodegenerative disorder.  A team based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has come up with an AI algorithm – called DRIAD (Drug …

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Meet Circulo, the insurtech firm on a mission to disrupt Medicaid managed care

AI, Bright Health, Circulo, Clover, Daily, Health Tech, insurtech, Machine Learning, Managed Care, Medicaid, News, Olive, Oscar Health, Payers, Startups, SYN, Top Story / March 4, 2021

A new startup has entered the highly competitive insurtech market — with $50 million in new funds. Circulo, co-founded by Olive CEO Sean Lane, is a Medicaid managed care company that plans to build a platform to improve care delivery and member experience.

CorVista Health Nabs $65M for Non-Invasive Cardiac Diagnostic Platform

digital health, Health IT, Heart, heart disease, Machine Learning, Physicians, Portal, Startups / March 4, 2021

What You Should Know: – CorVista Health, a Toronto-based digital health company dedicated to improving cardiovascular disease diagnosis, announced it has closed a $65 million Series C financing, bringing the total funding to nearly $100 million. – This significant capital provides a runway for ongoing research, development and commercialization efforts for CorVista® System, the company’s …

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Could AI reduce healthcare waste? Approach of online retailers could provide clues

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Daily, Health Tech, healthcare wasteful spending, Machine Learning, MedCity Influencers, SYN, Top Story / March 3, 2021

Just as Amazon leverages machine learning to develop valuable insights into consumer purchasing behavior in real time, healthcare organizations can strengthen their ability to reduce costs of care and eliminate waste and abuse with this type of intelligence.

Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management

AI, AI in healthcare, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Ascensia Diabetes Care, behavior, bioinformatics, Clinical Trials, cloud, CONTOUR®DIABETES app, diabetes, diabetes app, diabetes management, Diabetic Retinopathy, Digital Healthcare, DreaMed Diabetes, Electronic Medical Records, Genomics, global health, google, healthcare delivery, insulin, Machine Learning, medical records, medication, mobile health, Opinion, Patient Monitoring, radiology, remote patient monitoring, risk, Telehealth, type 1 diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Virta Health / March 2, 2021

Athar Siddiqui:  Global Strategy Lead, Digital Connected Solutions –  Ascensia Diabetes Care “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other” – Bill Gates wrote this in 1999 and, nowadays, the same can certainly be said about information technology and healthcare.  …

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3 Ways to Boost Patient Confidence with Real-Time Contactless Communication

Artificial Intelligence, behavior, Care Coordination, clinical collaboration, digital health, Digital Transformation, home health, Machine Learning, Medicaid, Medicare, medication, Medication Adherence, MGMA, Opinion, patient experience, patient satisfaction, physician burnout, Physician Practices, Physicians, Telehealth, Virtual Visits, Vital / February 22, 2021

Ford Blakely, SVP & GM, Medallia Zingle Although the vaccine’s rollout is slowly underway, Covid cases worldwide are continuing to reach all-time highs as new mutations make the virus even more contagious than ever before. Not surprisingly, patients’ concerns about visiting their healthcare providers in the midst of this global pandemic persist, pushing demand for …

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Mayo Clinic, Google eyeing ‘AI factory’ as collaboration moves forward

AI, Artificial Intelligence, collaboration, google, Health Tech, hospitals, Machine Learning, Mayo Clinic, News, office, radiology, SYN, Top Story / February 20, 2021

The health system and tech giant are more than a year into their 10-year collaboration. As their partnership evolves, the organizations are looking to create an “AI factory” — an assembly line of AI solutions that are developed at scale and incorporated into clinical workflows.

Vytalize Health Acquires Patient Financial Experience Platform MedPilot

ACO, Cedars-Sinai, digital health, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, integrated care, JumpStart, Machine Learning, Medicare, Medicare ACO, MedPilot, Partners, Patient Engagement, patient experience, patient experience platform, Patient Financial Experience, patient satisfaction, Physicians, primary care, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, Techstars, Value-Based Care / February 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – Vytalize Health acquires patient financial experience platform MedPilot to accelerate data-driven engagement technology to its ACO’s Medicare population. – An alumnus of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, MedPilot’s platform has already helped over 1 million patients to date and boasts a 97% patient satisfaction score.   Vytalize Health, a leading provider of value-based …

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Can AI Pave the Path to Reducing Physician Burnout?

AI, Artificial Intelligence, assistants, Clinical Documentation, Diagnoss, digital health, HIM, Machine Learning, medical coding, Opinion, Patient Care, physician burnout, Physicians, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, risk, technology in healthcare, virtual assistant / February 11, 2021

Abboud Chaballout, Founder of Diagnoss The timing couldn’t be more critical for us to start making serious headway to reduce the growing problem of burnout among America’s physicians. In 2018, physician burnout was already at an alarming 42%, but that number is growing as COVID-19 cases surge around the country.  While we are at a hopeful place …

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Nuance Acquires Ambient AI Assistant for Physicians Platform Saykara

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Clinical Documentation, Clinical Intelligence, Electronic Health Record, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, integrity, Machine Learning, Nuance, Nuance Communications, physician burnout, physician documentation, Physicians, unstructured data, virtual assistant / February 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Nuance acquires ambient AI healthcare voice assistant Saykara, Inc. to bring complementary AI technology and engineering talent to conversational AI and ambient clinical intelligence market leader. – Kara’s AI-powered healthcare voice assistant can be used during a physician-patient encounter without any voice commands, promising to eliminate up to 100% of …

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A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience

AI, blood pressure, breast cancer, cancer, Definitive Healthcare, healthcare delivery, IoT, Machine Learning, Opinion, Patient Engagement, Payers, Population Health, Population Health Management, primary care, risk, social determinants of health, Telehealth, Telehealth Visits / February 3, 2021

Chris Evanguelidi, Director, Enterprise Healthcare Market for Redpoint Global Inc. Researchers from Johns Hopkins published a study in October on the impact of the pandemic on health care delivery. Among its findings, the data show a 21.4% decrease in primary care visits in Q2 of 2020, compared against the average volume of Q2 visits for …

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Why CMS Will Lead the 2021 Kidney Care Revolution

ACO, algorithms, care management, care teams, CMS, Final Rule, Health IT, kidney disease, Machine Learning, Medicaid, Medicare, model, Opinion, Partners, Patient Care, Patient Journey, Physicians, Population Health, Population Health Management, risk, social determinants of health, Value-Based Care / January 27, 2021

Chris Riopelle, CEO of Strive Health After an unprecedented year, kidney care providers, including nephrologists, dialysis facilities, and care extenders are expecting 2021 to follow suit. We will see an overhaul in reimbursement and major industry shifts, partly led by CMS, that will require providers to advance their capabilities in a way that will usher …

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How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Box, CAQH Index, Charge Capture, cloud, Data Analytics, data management, Definitive Healthcare, digital health, Digital Transformation, global healthcare, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, NIH, Opinion, Patient Care, patient experience, Prior Authorization, Public Cloud, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle operations, Robotic Process Automation, Vital / January 27, 2021

Giri Rajaiah, Executive Leader, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, DISYS As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is seen in the quest to leverage innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to address key problems facing the healthcare industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the immense pressure the U.S. healthcare …

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Intelligent Automation of the Revenue Cycle: How an Integrated Platform Approach Yields Financial Results

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Deloitte Consulting, Digital Transformation, EMR, Health IT, Health Systems, Interoperability, Machine Learning, medical records, model, NLP, Opinion, patient population, R1, R1 RCM, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle operations, risk, Robotic Process Automation, unstructured data / January 25, 2021

Sean Barrett, Senior Vice President, Product and Digital Transformation, R1 RCM Healthcare provider networks are experiencing enormous pressure to manage financial margins and invest in contactless patient experiences. With overall financial losses projected to exceed $323 billion as a result of COVID-19, a projected $200 billion in administrative waste due to revenue cycle inefficiencies, and …

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Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, blood pressure, cloud, Connected Health, health monitoring devices, Heart, Lark, Lark health, Machine Learning, Medical Device, medication, Middleware, model, Opinion, Patient Care, Patient Monitoring, primary care, remote patient monitoring, Siemens, Telehealth / January 21, 2021

Roberto Martinez, President, Mexico, Encora Among the many evolving technologies in the healthcare industry, there may be none more important or impactful than remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware and software solutions. This technology is opening up new possibilities in extended healthcare – saving patients money, limiting visits to the doctor’s office, and providing healthcare professionals …

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Modernizing Medicine Acquires Orthopedic EHR Platform Exscribe – M&A

Artificial Intelligence, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, healthcare technology, Machine Learning, MD, Modernizing Medicine, Patient Education, Physicians, Value-Based Care / January 13, 2021

What You Should Know: – Modernizing Medicine announced it has acquired orthopedics EHR vendor Exscribe bringing together two of the healthcare industry’s leading, all-in-one orthopedic EHR vendors. – As part of the acquisition, Exscribe Founder and CEO, Dr. Sachdev and other members of the Exscribe team will be joining Modernizing Medicine. Specialty-specific EHR provider Modernizing …

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Why Hospitals Should Act Now to Create Clinical AI Departments

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Decision Support, clinical research, decision support, Department of Health and Human Services, depression, Health and Human Services, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Health Systems, Heart, Henry Ford, Jvion, Machine Learning, MD, model, Opinion, patient population, Physicians, Predictive Analytics, Radiologist, radiology, risk, Sepsis, social determinants of health / January 13, 2021

John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Jvion A century ago, X-rays transformed medicine forever. For the first time, doctors could see inside the human body, without invasive surgeries. The technology was so revolutionary that in the last 100 years, radiology departments have become a staple of modern hospitals, routinely used across medical …

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COVID-19 Deferrals Lead to 3 Major Conditions Payers/Providers Must Address in 2021

AI, Artificial Intelligence, behavioral health, cancer, chronic care, Health IT, Heart, heart disease, Machine Learning, MD, Medicaid, Payers, Predictive Analytics, risk / January 8, 2021

What You Should Know: – COVID-19 care deferrals lead to three major boomerang conditions that payers and providers must proactively address in 2021, according to a newly released report by Prealize. – COVID-19’s hidden victims—those who avoided or deferred care during the pandemic—will increasingly return to the healthcare system, and many will be diagnosed with …

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DaVita & RenalytixAI Partner for Early Risk Identification to Help Slow Kidney Disease Progression

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biomarkers, cancer, care management, digital health, Electronic Health Record, kidney disease, KidneyX, Machine Learning, Patient Care, Patient Education, patient experience, primary care, RenalytixAI, risk, risk stratification / January 5, 2021

What You Should Know: – RenalytixAI and DaVita announce a program partnership that aims to slow kidney disease progression and improve outcomes for the nation’s estimated 37 million adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). – This is the first clinical-grade program that delivers advanced early-stage prognosis and risk stratification, combined with actionable care management to …

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2020’s Top 20 Digital Health M&A Deals Totaled $50B

Acute Care, AI, ALLSCRIPTS, AMN Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, cancer, Cardiac Monitoring, Care Coordination, care teams, CarePort, CarePort Health, CareZone, Central Logic, Cerner, Change Healthcare, Cloudbreak Health, Collective Medical, Data Analytics, digital health, Digital Healthcare, global health, Health and Human Services, Health Systems, healthcare it, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare Payments, Heart, home health, InTouch Health, Kantar Health, Life Sciences, Livongo, Machine Learning, Medicare, medication, Oncology, Partners, Patient Access, Patient Care, Payers, Pharmacy, Philips, PointClickCare, post-acute care, Private Equity, Radiation Oncology, radiology, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, SAN FRANCISCO, senior care, Siemens, Siemens Healthineers, Startups, Stratus Video, Teladoc, Telehealth, Telemedicine, UPMC, Veritas, Veritas Capital, video, virtual care, Virtual Care Platform, Vital, Walmart, Waystar / December 31, 2020

Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge The combination of Teladoc Health and Livongo creates a global leader in consumer-centered virtual care. The combined company is positioned to execute quantified opportunities to drive revenue synergies of $100 million by the end of the second year following the close, reaching $500 million on a run-rate basis by 2025. …

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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

ACA, Acute Care, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biofourmis, Biomarkers, blockchain, Blockchain Technology, cameron deemer, Care Coordination, Central Logic, chronic disease management, CipherHealth, Clinical Quality Measures, clinical research, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, clinical workflows, cloud, CMS, critical access hospitals, Cybercriminals, Data Governance, decision support, digital health, Digital Transformation, DrFirst, Drug Discovery, electronic medical record, Elsevier, Genomic Analysis, Health Disparities, Health Informatics, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare analytics, Healthcare Data, healthcare it, Healthcare Leaders, Healthcare Price Transparency, home health, Home Health Care, honor, integrity, Internet of Things, Interoperability, IoT, Life Sciences, Linguamatics, Machine Learning, MD, Medicaid, medical records, Medicare, medication, Medisafe, mental health, Mental Illness, model, NLP, NTT DATA Services, Patient Access, Patient Care, Patient Engagement, Patient Journey, Patient Monitoring, PatientPing, Payers, Pharma, physician burnout, Physicians, Population Health, Population Health Management, post-acute care, Predictive Analytics, Price Transparency, remote patient monitoring, risk, SAP, sensors, social determinants of health, Solutionreach, Teladoc, Telehealth, Telemedicine, THREAD, Uber, unstructured data, Value-Based Care, virtual care, Virtual Visits, Vital, Vocera, Wearables / December 30, 2020

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and …

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Humana Taps Vida Health to Power Virtual Diabetes Management for Kentucky’s Medicaid Population

algorithms, Biometric Data, diabetes, diabetes management, Diabetes Management Platform, Diabetes Prevention Platform, digital health, Digital Therapeutics, Humana, Hypertension, Machine Learning, Medicaid, obesity, risk, vida health / December 23, 2020

What You Should Know: –  Humana Healthy Horizons™ in Kentucky announced it has selected Vida Health’s virtual diabetes management program to serve Kentucky’s Medicaid population. – Vida’s diabetes management program achieves lasting results for participants. Because chronic conditions like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension often occur simultaneously, Vida’s unique program was built from the ground up to …

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LeanTaaS to use $130M to expand predictive analytics product suite, scale teams  

Artificial Intelligence, beds, capacity, Daily, funding, Health IT, hospitals, LeanTaaS, Machine Learning, News, Operations, ORs, Solutions, SYN, Top Story / December 16, 2020

The health technology company raised a whopping $130 million in a Series D funding round. Its solutions aim to improve operational efficiency and better manage patient volume through predictive analytics, a growing need for providers as Covid-19 cases rise.

Immunai joins 10x Genomics program to boost drug development

10X Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, baylor college of medicine, BioPharma, biopharma nl, California, Daily, drug development, Immunai, Machine Learning, Memorial Sloan Kettering, News, Startups, SYN, TLV Partners, Top Story, Viola Ventures / December 16, 2020

Together, the two companies say can give drugmakers a better view at the cellular level of how a patient’s immune system is responding to a cerain therapy.

AI offers promise but faces barriers in drug development

AI-based drug development, Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma, biopharma nl, Daily, Lantern Pharma, Machine Learning, News, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, SYN, Top Story / December 10, 2020

Inertia is a barrier as is the traditional split between the clinical and the data-driven spheres of drug development. While smaller firms have an edge in bridging the gap, big pharma will eventually get there, said panelists at the INVEST conference session.

LeenTaaS Secures $130M for ML Platform to Help Hospitals Achieve Operational Excellence

Artificial Intelligence, cancer, Health IT, Health Systems, Healthcare Data, healthcare reform, Lean Startup Methodology, LeenTaaS, Machine Learning, Partners, Patient Access, patient experience, Payers, Predictive Analytics, Silicon Valley, Startups / December 10, 2020

What You Should Know: – LeanTaaS raises $130 million in Series D Funding to strengthen its machine learning platform to continue helping hospitals achieve operational excellence during a time where they are facing mounting financial pressures due to COVID-19.  – LeanTaaS provides software solutions that combine lean principles, predictive analytics, and machine learning to transform …

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UK hospital deploys Microsoft AI to tackle cancer backlog

Artificial Intelligence, diagnosis, digital, Machine Learning, Microsoft, News, Oncology / December 9, 2020

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge will be the first in the world to use an artificial intelligence tool developed by Microsoft that promises to cut the time it takes to analyse computed tomography (CT) scans, and allow treatment to start sooner. The Project InnerEye tool was developed just down the road from Addenbrooke’s at Microsoft’s Cambridge …

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Amazon Launches HealthLake for Healthcare Orgs to Aggregate & Structure Health Data

Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), blood pressure, Cerner, CIOX, Ciox Health, Clinical Trials, cloud, ecg, Electronic Medical Records, FHIR, Health IT, Health Systems, Healthcare Interoperability, Heart, hipaa, Interoperability, Konica Minolta, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, medical records, Orion Health, Precision Medicine / December 8, 2020

What You Should Know: – Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, query, and apply machine learning to analyze data at petabyte scale in the cloud. – Cerner, Ciox Health, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, and Orion Health among customers using Amazon HealthLake. …

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COVID-19: How Hospitals Can Create Better Inpatient Bed Capacity through Math

Artificial Intelligence, Coronavirus (COVID-19), f, Figure 1, Health Systems, Machine Learning, model, operating room, Opinion, Patient Access, public health, SAN FRANCISCO, Silicon Valley, UCSF / December 8, 2020

Dr. Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF & Director of Client Services at LeanTaaS Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, key elements of hospital operations such as managing inpatient bed capacity, and access to ventilators and PPE have taken center stage. The general public got a crash course on what hospitals need …

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M&A: Imprivata Acquires Patient Privacy Intelligence Company FairWarning

EMR, FairWarning, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Imprivata, Machine Learning, Patient Privacy, PHI / December 2, 2020

What You Should Know: – Imprivata acquires FairWarning Technologies, a provider of patient privacy intelligence. – The combined solutions will offer healthcare a single Digital Identity platform that integrates role-based access controls, identity governance, and data privacy compliance. Imprivata®, the digital identity company for healthcare, today announced the acquisition of FairWarning Technologies, LLC, a Clearwater, FL-based provider …

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Okra says AI-based drug price predictor is 90% accurate

Artificial Intelligence, digital, digital health, HEOR, HTA, Iqwig, Machine Learning, News, OKRA Technologies / November 30, 2020

UK artificial intelligence startup Okra Technologies has launched a new software platform that it claims can take the guesswork out of the price that can be charged for new drugs, years ahead of launch. The AI system – called ValueScope – can predict the price  as well as the likely outcome of negotiations with health …

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How the rare disease community has developed fertile ground for progress

Drug Discovery, Machine Learning, o2h Group, patients, Rare diseases, Views & Analysis, Views and analysis / November 27, 2020

Amanda Barrell explores how a perfect storm of changing economics, advances in technology, and the increasing volume of the patient voice is stoking change in the rare disease space. New models of drug development are fuelling life-changing advantages in the rare disease space, previously an economic no-go area for pharma and biotech companies. That was …

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BioNTech, InstaDeep plan joint lab for AI research

Analytics, Artifical Intellgence, BioNTech, digital, Drug Discovery, InstaDeep, Machine Learning, Manufacturing, News, Supply Chain / November 26, 2020

BioNTech may be deeply ensconced in the latter stages of its bid to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to market, but it’s still pushing forward on other fronts, including a partnership with InstaDeep to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning across its business. The two companies have been working together in this area since 2019, but …

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Recent Executive Hires: CVS Health New President, Cleveland Clinic/Amwell Joint Venture Leadership, Others

Accolade, Accountable Care, ACO, Advisory Board, AI, Amwell, Apervita, Augmedix, behavioral health, Bernoulli, cancer, Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Intelligence, Clinical Trial, cloud, CVS Health, cybersecurity, digital health, Digital Health Hires, Evolent Health, FDA, Health Catalyst, Health IT, Health IT Hires, Healthcare Data, healthcare innovation, healthcare it, Imprivata, Kaiser Permanente, Life Sciences, Lumiata, Machine Learning, MD, Nuance, nuance healthcare, Payers, Pharmacy, PhD, Population Health, Premier, Qventus, SAN FRANCISCO, Siemens, Suki, Telehealth, Tridiuum, Value-Based Care, venture capital / November 25, 2020

Neela Montgomery, EVP & President at CVS Pharmacy/Retail CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, 2020. Montgomery will oversee the company’s 10,000 pharmacies across the United States. Montgomery, currently a Board Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft, most recently served as chief executive officer of …

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Zebra Medical Vision to Co-Develop AI-Based Models for Osteoporosis Early Detection & Prevention

AI, Artificial Intelligence, digital health, Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, model, NHS, Patient Care, risk, Zebra Medical Vision / November 25, 2020

What You Should Know: – Zebra Medical Vision, the deep-learning medical imaging analytics company, and Scottish digital transformation consultancy Storm ID were chosen to co-develop new AI-based osteoporosis prevention solutions under EUREKA intergovernmental network.  – The UK-Israel research and development grant will be co-developed with clinical teams from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Assuta …

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Bringing Scalability Into Chemistry Modeling

AI, big data, Chemistry, chemistry modeling, Entellect, Machine Learning, Pharma R&D, scalability, synthetic chemistry / November 18, 2020

Synthetic chemistry has been with us for centuries, but it is now entering a new frontier. Big data, AI and machine learning are unlocking a predictive power that is transforming the conceptualization and optimization of synthetic routes. A new white paper from the Entellect team titled “The foresight to bring scalability into chemistry modeling” looks …

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Mount Sinai Develop Machine Learning Models to Predict Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients

Clinical Intelligence, Coronavirus (COVID-19), digital health, Machine Learning, Mount Sinai, PhD, Vital / November 11, 2020

What You Should Know: – Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within clinically relevant time windows. – The new machine learning models were outlined in a recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research—could aid clinical practitioners at Mount Sinai and across the world in the care and management of COVID-19 patients. Research Protocols – In the retrospective study using …

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NeuroFlow Joins Epic App Orchard for Behavioral Health Integration

behavioral health, Care Coordination, clinical workflows, EMR/EHR, Epic App Orchard, Epic EHR Integration, Epic Systems, Health IT, Health Systems, Machine Learning, mental health, NLP, risk / November 11, 2020

What You Should Know: –  NeuroFlow, the leader in technology-enabled behavioral health integration, is now available to healthcare providers through Epic’s App Orchard marketplace. NeuroFlow combines provider workflow augmentation solutions, clinical care dashboards, and a patient-facing application to create a clinical feedback loop centered around behavioral health. – Patient generated data including validated assessment scores, mood and …

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M&A: Centene to Acquire AI Healthcare Analytics Platform Apixio

AI, algorithms, Apixio, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Data Analytics, deep learning, f, Health IT, healthcare analytics, Healthcare Data Analytics, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Interpreta, Machine Learning, risk, unstructured data / November 9, 2020

What You Should Know: – Centene Corporation acquires AI healthcare analytics platform Apixio to additional data and AI capability to technology portfolio. – Apixio will remain an operationally independent entity as part of Centene’s Health Care Enterprises group to continue bringing value to its clients and the industry. Centene Corporation, today announced it has signed …

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How RPA Can Help Get COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Patients First

AI, Artificial Intelligence, blood pressure, care management, Coronavirus (COVID-19), diabetes, digital health, Electronic Health Record, Heart, heart disease, hipaa, Machine Learning, Opinion, Patient Engagement, patient population, Patient Privacy, Physicians, Population Health, primary care, risk, Robotic Process Automation, Walgreens / November 5, 2020

Ram Sathia, VP of Intelligent Automation at PK While most of the public’s attention is focused on the horse race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine, another major hurdle lies just around the corner: the distribution of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. In today’s highly complex and disconnected health data landscape, technologies like AI, Machine …

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Does my cough sound like COVID? There could be an app for that

Artificial Intelligence, coronavirus, cough, COVID-19, digital, Machine Learning, News / November 3, 2020

It could be possible to detect whether someone has COVID-19 or not, just from the sound of their coughing. That’s the conclusion of testing of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which was able to detect around 98% of cases of COVID-19 from a forced cough delivered down …

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AI’s infiltration of pharma: How COVID-19 accelerated change

Artificial Intelligence, business strategy, COVID-19, digital, Machine Learning, pharmaceutical industry, Views & Analysis, Views and analysis / November 2, 2020

The pharmaceutical industry has sometimes been a laggard in terms of digital maturity, but the COVID-19 crisis has provided companies the impetus to rapidly implement the most cutting-edge technologies. At the heart of most of these digital advancements is AI and machine learning. With a collective sense of uncertainty, many are pinning their hopes on …

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BMS joins forces with insitro to develop neurodegenerative treatments

AI, ALS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, digital, Drug Discovery, FTD, Insitro, Machine Learning, News / October 29, 2020

insitro has landed another big biopharma partnership, signing a five-year collaboration with Bristol Myers Sqibb to develop therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).  Neurodegenerative disorders such as ALS and FTD are considered a challenging therapeutic area, with no disease modifying treatments available today. insitro uses machine-learning technology to discover novel drug …

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KēlaHealth Lands $12.9M to Expand AI-Powered Surgical Intelligence Platform

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cedars-Sinai, cloud, Health IT, Healthbox, Machine Learning, MD, Partners, Precision Medicine, risk, SAN FRANCISCO, Startups, Surgical Analytics Platform, surgical management, Techstars / October 28, 2020

What You Should Know: –  KēlaHealth announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures. – KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications – KēlaHealth is …

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Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem

API, chronic disease management, cloud, consumer health, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Health Ventures, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Interoperability, Human API, Machine Learning, Omada Health, Pharma, Physicians, Population Health, Population Health Management, risk, risk stratification, Samsung, Startups / October 27, 2020

What You Should Know: – Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week. – Human API’s consumer-controlled platform gives users a streamlined means of accessing and sharing their personal health records with physicians, trusted startups and enterprises, and insurers. – The platform harnesses a …

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Kettering Health to Deploy Nuance’s AI-Driven Physician Documentation for ED

AI, Artificial Intelligence, capd, cloud, computer assisted physician documentation, Data Analytics, Dragon, Electronic Health Record, Health IT, HITRUST, Machine Learning, Nuance, Nuance Communications, Nuance Dragon, nuance healthcare, Patient Care, patient safety, physician documentation, Physicians, point of care, risk / October 26, 2020

What You Should Know: – Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the Kettering Health Network has selected ED Guidance for Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor. – This AI-powered computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) solution will help reduce physicians’ administrative burden while lowering the risk of adverse safety events, missing diagnoses, and malpractice litigation – priorities for all physicians, especially …

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Can Technology Help Reduce Cases of Hospital Negligence?

AI, AI in healthcare, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Health IT, healthcare technology, Machine Learning, Vital / October 16, 2020

For most healthcare professionals, providing care to their patients is mandatory. However, there are times when their desire to give patients the best care possible becomes a necessity for compliance, particularly now that hospital negligence has been a constant stress factor for both professionals and patients.  It is a given that any medical treatment has …

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98point6 Lands $118M to Expand Text-Based Primary Care Platform

98point6, Aetna, AI, Artificial Intelligence, digital health, Machine Learning, Partners, Physicians, primary care, Startups, Telemedicine, urgent care, virtual care, Virtual Care Platform / October 15, 2020

98point6 App What You Should Know: – On-demand text-based primary care platform 98point6 raises $118M in Series E funding to further invest in research and development and expand its robust medical practice. – 98point6 offers patients easy access to primary care in the same way they’ve grown accustomed to receiving the majority of services today—on …

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Fujifilm & Volpara Partner to Help Clinicians Determine Patient Breast Density

AI, Artificial Intelligence, breast cancer, cancer, Diagnostic Imaging, digital health, FDA, Machine Learning, Patient Care, risk / October 15, 2020

What You Should Know: – FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and Volpara Solutions announced the extension of their partnership to provide mammography facilities and clinicians with breast imaging solutions designed to improve image quality, streamline workflow and accurately assess a patient’s breast density. – Building on a successful 6-year partnership, Fujifilm’s customers using ASPIRE Cristalle …

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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models

Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), behavior, bioinformatics, Biomarkers, breast cancer, cancer, deep learning, depression, digital health, Machine Learning, Patient Care, Precision Medicine, Precision Medicine Oncology, radiology, risk, UPMC / October 6, 2020

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression. – In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh …

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Extracting Relevant Chemical Information from Patents with Machine Learning

AI, chemical compounds, Chemistry, Machine Learning, NLP, text mining, webinar / October 5, 2020

New chemical compounds and reactions are often introduced to the world – and with little fanfare – through patents. It may be years after the patent has been filed before these compounds are published in scholarly journals, and even then it is only a small share of them that are published at all. As a …

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AI-ML Drug Discovery & Development Summit 2021

Artifical Intellgence, Events, Machine Learning, R&D / October 5, 2020

Visit our website: www.ai-drugdiscovery.com R&D & Clinical Processes for the Future: Accurate, Efficient & Cost-Effective The AI-ML: Drug Discovery and Development Summit is the industry’s definitive guide to translating the wealth of tech available to successfully implement a working and practically effective drug discovery and development platform. Designed with leading AI experts from R&D and …

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4 Areas Driving AI Adoption in Hospital Operations and Patient Safety

AI, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, behavior, Chatbot in Healthcare, Coronavirus (COVID-19), digital health, Drug Discovery, Genomics, global healthcare, healthcare startups, Machine Learning, medical records, operating room, Opinion, Patient Monitoring, patient safety, patient satisfaction, risk, sensors, Tele, Telehealth, telemonitoring, urgent care, video, virtual care, Virtual Nurse, Virtual Visits / September 30, 2020

Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead at NVIDIA COVID-19 has put a tremendous burden on hospitals, and the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff who make them run.  Many hospitals have suffered financially as they did not anticipate the severity of the disease. The extended duration of patient stays in ICUs, the need for more …

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Aetion completes $82M Series B round with $19M extension

Aetion, Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma, biopharma nl, Daily, EDBI, Greenspring Associates, healthcare analytics, Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Machine Learning, New York, real world evidence, RWE, SYN, Top Story, venture capital / August 26, 2020

The healthcare analytics company said it had raised the extension funding from three new investors and would use it to accelerate development of its real-world evidence technology.

Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex Lab’s Voice-Based Survey Platform

Biomarkers, dataset, depression, Digital Biomarkers, digital health, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Machine Learning, model, Partners, Sonde Health, Vital / August 25, 2020

What You Should Know: – Sonde Health acquires NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc. to forms one of the world’s preeminent biobanks focused on vocal biomarkers. – NeuroLex’s core product, SurveyLex, makes it easy to create and distribute voice surveys in less than a minute as URL links through web browsers. Sonde Health, a Boston-based digital vocal biomarker …

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9 Ways UX/UI Design Can Improve Digital Health Adoption for Seniors

AARP, apple, digital health, Digital Health Adoption, Healthcare Data, healthcare design, Machine Learning, Opinion, physical therapy, public health, Telehealth, WASHINGTON / August 19, 2020

Amy Oughton, Founder, and CEO Dream in Color Seniors have the lowest reported usage of telehealth of any age group. As many healthcare providers are increasing the use of telehealth, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the implementation of new tools and technologies could impact seniors. In my experience, this doesn’t indicate that older …

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Innovaccer Launches Perioperative Optimization Platform for Surgeons

algorithms, care management, electronic medical record, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare delivery, healthcare technology, Innovaccer, Machine Learning, model, Patient Care, patient stratification, risk, SAN FRANCISCO, social determinants of health, Surgery Platform / August 18, 2020

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer launches a perioperative optimization solution for surgeons to realize clinical and financial goals with patient-risk analysis. – The solution redefines surgical planning and post-surgical recovery with machine learning-based patient stratification for optimized surgery experience and personalized patient care management. Innovaccer, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, recently …

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Cerner Launches AI-Powered Command Center Dashboard for COVID-19 Response

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cerner, cloud, decision support, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare it, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Situational Awareness, Vital / August 13, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner launches a new Command Center dashboard to help organizations visualize and optimize operations in a centralized location by leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics to provide situational awareness and decision support during COVID-19. – Powered by AI and predictive models, helps organizations align patient needs, staffing, and resources to …

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Top 5 RCM Challenges for Healthcare Executives in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Box, Health IT, Health Systems, Machine Learning, Opinion, Partners, Payers, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, risk, Robotic Process Automation / August 11, 2020

Brian Robertson, CEO at VisiQuate, There have been many memorable “where were you?” events since the 21st century began. But few can match the COVID-19 pandemic, at least from a healthcare perspective.  The effect on healthcare (and healthcare executives) has been particularly profound since our industry is in the center of everything. From the search for …

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Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’

Artificial Intelligence, coronavirus, COVID-19, digital, Genomics, Machine Learning, News, radiology, Sophia Genetics / August 10, 2020

Swiss medical data specialist Sophia Genetics has launched a platform that will sift through data generated at more than 1,000 hospitals around the world to try to work out how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve in the coming months and years. The data mining tool will be used to try to unearth some of the …

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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform

Amazon, cloud, Data Analytics, digital innovation, Greenway Health, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Machine Learning, Patient Care, Private Equity, Value-Based Care, VistA / July 30, 2020

What You Should Know: – To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). – Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, …

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5 Critical Considerations for Patient Privacy in Telehealth

behavior, Box, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, GDPR, healthcare security, healthcare security and privacy, hipaa, hitech, HITRUST, Machine Learning, medical records, Opinion, Patient Privacy, Phishing, risk, Telehealth / July 30, 2020

Sachin Nayyar, CEO at Securonix The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous ripple effect across all industries, with one of the most impacted being healthcare. Providers have had to quickly adapt to supporting patients ‘virtually’ in a secure manner, while simultaneously developing procedures to support accurate reporting to government organizations. These changes have placed added …

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Next wave: how pharma analytics can be improved with new technologies

AI, Analytics, data, digital, Machine Learning, Sales and Marketing, Views & Analysis, Views and analysis / July 29, 2020

Pharmaceutical companies have always had access to a steady stream of data to look at what has happened in the past and to try to predict future prescribing trends. Business intelligence (BI) departments have supported this throughout with timely and effective reporting, within an environment that has seen in recent years a bit of an …

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4 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Establish Partnerships to Drive Innovation

AI, Artificial Intelligence, behavior, Box, Data Analytics, EMR, foundational, healthcare spending, healthcare technology, integrity, Machine Learning, Opinion, Payers, Prior Authorization, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue integrity, risk, SSI Group / July 14, 2020

With public and private healthcare spending significantly outpacing that of other countries, U.S. hospitals face intense pressure to find new ways to capture greater value. More and more, organizations are finding that partnerships with existing vendors can help unlock next-level performance gains in a transformative environment. Take Nebraska Medicine, for example. In the early 2000s, …

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Scripps Research, Repurpose.AI Partner to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutics

AI, Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, Coronavirus (COVID-19), digital health, Digital Therapeutics, Drug Discovery, FDA, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, Scripps / July 10, 2020

What You Should Know: – Repurpose.AI, has partnered with Scripps Research to discover drug candidates that may be repurposed to treat COVID-19.  – The partnership will leverage Repurpose.AI’s ActivPred AI Drug Discovery Platform, an unbiased drug, target, and disease agnostic digital chemistry engine, to discover drug candidates to treat COVID-19.  Scripps Research is teaming up …

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