Andrea Fox
Health Care Service Corporation is using augmented intelligence to accelerate prior authorization – up to 1,400 times faster – and an AI tool that references historical authorizations and claims to authorize treatment "within seconds," the company says.
Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University developed three new natural language processing algorithms to extract housing, financial and employment data.
The health system is one of six institutions that will use advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for a $52M NIH-funded phenotyping research project targeting acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia and sepsis.
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.
AT&T's annual industry insights report revealed a shift in focus from consumer virtual care in 2022 to richer budgeting for tele-emergency medical services.
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes and a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.
The company told the American Diabetes Association that the metabolic monitor could reduce down-the-line healthcare costs for T2 non-insulin users and others. "These trends have to change," says CEO Kevin Sayer.
A teleburn pilot that relies on telehealth technology enables ER doctors at three of Northwell Health's New York City-area hospitals to conduct virtual consults with specialists at the Staten Island University Hospital Regional Burn Center.
The agreement supports the use of the World Health Organization's international classifications and terminologies in the HL7 FHIR community and will provide a testing environment and standards documentation to member states.
Medtronic has released an update for a cybersecurity vulnerability that an unauthorized user could exploit to steal, delete or modify cardiac device data or to gain network access.