Category: AI

Northwell Health has signed a ten-year agreement with Clinithink to use its CLiX revenue solution to improve accuracy in its revenue cycle management operations. With 22 hospitals and over 800 outpatient facilities in its growing network, Northwell Health delivers healthcare to over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, operating…

“If you build it, they will come.” WP Kinsella, Canadian author of Shoeless Joe This timely viewpoint from JAMA Ophthalmology asks the proverbial question “if the artificial intelligence tool is made available, will clinicians use it?” While this editorial appeared in the journal for ophthalmologists, it provides practical insight for every clinician and healthcare stakeholder.…

GuideWell, a health solutions company and parent to the leading health insurer in Florida, and Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, have announced an innovative collaboration of healthcare and technology. Through this collaboration, GuideWell’s subsidiary, Florida Blue, becomes the first US payer to automate prior authorization approvals through AI-powered clinical reviews, resulting…

“One of the biggest issues we have in the healthcare system is not having enough money (AI) for healthcare, but it is how that money (AI) is spent (deployed).” Health advocate Kat Lahr quote with editing (ACC) We conclude our 5-part series on AI in healthcare systems by introducing a simple strategy for the measurement…

Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), have announced they are working to provide colorectal cancer screening technologies in low income and underserved communities across the United States through the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program for colon cancer screening, with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The…

An artificial intelligence programme created by Bering Limited and study conducted by iCAIRD, Scotland’s Industrial Centre for AI Research in Digital Diagnostics, has yielded promising results from chest x-rays in a simulated clinical test setting to speed up Covid-19 diagnosis in patients who had presented to hospital emergency departments with respiratory symptoms. The iCAIRD study,…

“AI winters were not due to imagination traps, but due to lack of imaginations. Imaginations bring order out of chaos. Deep learning with deep imagination is the road map to AI springs and AI autumns.” Amit Ray, author of Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0 – AI with Blockchain, BMI, Drone, IOT, and Biometric Technologies I have…

One of America’s leading health insurance organizations deployed artificial intelligence to generate more than $245 million in savings related to fraud, waste and abuse in 2021. The Financial Investigations and Provider Review (FIPR) department at Highmark, which covers the insurance needs of more than 6 million members in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New York,…

“What is measured improves.” Peter Drucker, American business consultant Over the past few weeks, we have discussed the steps of your journey towards becoming a center of AI in a health system. The following are some helpful metrics to measure the artificial intelligence capabilities of the health system in the context of an individual AI…

Cardiologist and Us2.ai co-founder Dr Carolyn Lam talks to AIMed about the potential of AI to democratize heart ultrasound, her experience as an accidental entrepreneur, and the importance of championing women in cardiovascular science. You serve as a senior consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Centre Singapore, a full professor at Duke-National University of Singapore,…