RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Over the past couple of years, ambient scribes have earned widespread adoption among health systems. While there's excitement around other categories like AI agents, no other AI use case has achieved ambient scribes’ level of traction, noted Daniel Yang, Kaiser Permanente’s vice president of AI and emerging technologies.
Solera Health is working to streamline employer contracting with health tech.
Healthcare leaders might be too confident about their AI readiness, according to new research. It showed that 70% of leaders feel at least somewhat confident in their organization’s AI governance frameworks, but only 15% report having scalable infrastructure in place.
OhioHealth is scaling its use of Digital Diagnostics’ AI system that autonomously diagnoses diabetic retinopathy during primary care visits.
Andy Crowder, chief digital officer at Advocate Health, detailed five benefits his health system is experiencing as a result of being bullish on AI — including better staff retention, clinical improvements and cost savings.
Navina closed a $55 million Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs. The company, based in Israel and New York, uses AI to help primary care physicians thrive in value-based care models.
How Apella leverages technology to increase OR efficiency.
Without a clear picture of which solutions are working and which ones aren’t, it’s difficult for providers to scale AI across their enterprise. As hospitals transition their AI efforts from experimentation mode to the widespread adoption phase, experts agree that more rigorous, real-world evidence is needed.
The American Cancer Society struck a multi-year collaboration with Layer Health, a healthcare AI company that uses LLMs to improve data abstraction and generate insights. The partners will abstract data from thousands of medical charts of patients enrolled in the American Cancer Society’s research studies, with the ultimate goal of shortening research timelines.
AI tools very rarely work as out-of-the box solutions, noted Zafar Chaudry, chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer at Seattle Children’s. When hospitals enter into contracts with AI developers to build tools that are the right fit, he thinks the two parties should share risk. That way, hospitals won’t be stuck paying for tools that don’t deliver results.
Some healthcare providers have partnered with AI gun detection company ZeroEyes. The company adds its software to hospitals' existing security camera systems to identify a gun before the shooter strikes.
Richard Fu details the company's approach to nutrition therapy and strategy for patients using GLP-1s.
This year's HIMSS conference featured many news announcements — from advanced partnerships to product launches to new research. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for six of the conference's most notable announcements.
Healthcare AI is developing at a rapid rate, and the industry’s attitude on how to best regulate and deploy this technology is evolving every day, according to leaders attending this year’s ViVE conference.
Hospitals are adopting AI technology more than ever before, but they still face challenges when it comes to measuring the impact of these solutions and scaling them, noted Kiran Mysore, chief data & analytics officer at Sutter Health.
AI-powered documentation tools have proven successful in alleviating clinicians’ administrative burden and burnout. As these tools continue to evolve, healthcare leaders want to see more tech that can help surface the right data at the right time, as well as tools that can help speed up billing processes.
Healthcare AI company Innovaccer closed a $275 million Series F funding round, bringing its fundraising total to date to $675 million. The company has plans to go public “at some point,” but it isn’t in any hurry, said CEO Abhinav Shashank.