Abridge, a company that sells AI software for medical documentation, on Thursday announced the largest deployment of its technology to date. The University of Kansas Health System will adopt the software for more than…
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As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of all the efforts going on to improve the physician documentation process. It’s a burden that’s burning out physicians. One of the biggest efforts out…
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There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard…
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Physicians spend more than 16 minutes on average per patient visit using electronic health records (EHRs), research shows. At a time when clinician burnout is at an all-time high, one company is trying to…
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Earlier this month, the newly spun-off GE HealthCare revealed its second planned acquisition as an independent company. It signed an agreement to acquire Caption Health, which developed AI-enabled guidance software for ultrasound imaging. Karley Yoder,…
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In the world of Healthcare, there isn’t much room for making guesses. When you’re in charge of someone’s well being, it is critical that all of your decisions are well thought through and based…
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For the 108th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we decided to mix things up. Regular listeners will know that last episode we talked about Generative AI (ChatGPT being one example) in healthcare. With that context in mind, we thought it would be fun for this episode to let ChatGPT take…
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Amid swirling accusations that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are overbilling the U.S. government and calls for better oversight, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. They expect to recoup 4.7 billion dollars through this program.
This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. The article is based on an interview with Kel Pults, chief clinical officer and vice president of MediQuant. A future article will explain how Medicare Advantage plans are trying to improving data collection and reporting,…
Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an information extracting method for structuring radiology reports called RadGraph.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to VinBrain, its latest partnership with Stanford aims to enhance efficiency in radiology reports while “tackling complexity, ambiguity, and limitations in medical image interpretation.”
Through Stanford’s support, the company will be able…
