The Importance of Data Quality in Benefits

In this contributed article, Peter Nagel, VP of Engineering at Noyo, addresses the benefits/insurance industry’s roadblocks and opportunities — and why some of the most interesting data innovations will soon be happening in benefits.

How Machine Learning is Cleaning Up Medical Records

In this contributed article, Dr. Oleg Bess, practicing physician and CEO of 4medica, discusses how machine learning is doing great things in medicine, including improving medical diagnosis and drug manufacturing. It’s also improving healthcare in another way that doesn’t earn headlines but is at the core of care delivery: eliminating duplicate patient records, and providing high-quality data for patients and providers.

What Is Federated Learning in Health Care? And How Should Health IT Teams Prepare?

In this contributed article, Ittai Dayan, co-founder and CEO of Rhino Health, believes that while traditional machine learning has huge potential for medical researchers, its major shortcoming is the vast amount of centralized data collection that’s required, and the privacy issues this creates. Federated learning has been suggested as a potential solution to this problem. This is a novel ML technique that is able to access data held across numerous decentralized servers (such as data held by individual hospitals), with the data never leaving these servers and remaining completely anonymous.

How AI Can be Used to Help People See

From reducing the reliance on trial and error to providing ultra-precise drug effectiveness data, AI has a major role to play in making clinical trials more efficient and robust. In this contributed article, ophthalmologist and biopharma CEO Dr George Magrath explains how AI is being harnessed in the development of eye care medicines.

How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Coding Audits

In this contributed article, Jacob Wilkinson, Director, Product Management at VisiQuate, takes a look at how medical coding audits are complex, time-consuming, and costly processes that historically have required significant investment of manual resources to complete, but, more recently, advances in artificial intelligence have made audits more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective. 

How Can Dentistry Benefit from AI? It’s All in the Data

In this special guest feature, Florian Hillen, founder and CEO, VideaHealth, points out that Like many other industries within the healthcare ecosystem, dentistry is beginning to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to improve patient care, lower costs, and streamline workflows and care delivery. While the dental profession is no stranger to cutting-edge technology, AI represents such a revolutionary change that few organizations have the knowledge and skill sets to implement an effective strategy.

Using Advanced Analytics to Address Patient Risk and Deliver Value-based Care

In this contributed article, Michael Dulin, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Gray Matter Analytics, suggests that to improve health outcomes and lower cost, the U.S. healthcare system must abandon fee for service models and provide comprehensive, proactive value-based care (VBC). High-quality data and advanced analytics that produce actionable insights into patients’ medical and social needs are an essential building block for this transition. 

Doctors Find Artificial Intelligence is the Best Prescription for Expert Assistance and Patient Care

In this special guest feature, Amir Atai, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and CEO of Sway AI, examines how AI is changing healthcare by improving the efficiency and quality of care on many fronts, starting with administration. The article also does a deep dive into the challenges of using AI in healthcare and how no-code AI and machine learning are automating mundane tasks and adding new diagnostic and treatment solutions to make doctors and nurses more efficient.

Reforming Prior Authorization with AI and Machine Learning

In this contributed article, Niall O’Connor, CTO at Cohere Health, discusses how the application of AI and ML to the onerous prior authorization (PA) process can relieve both physicians and health plans of the repetitive, manual administrative work involved in submitting and reviewing these requests. Most importantly, these intelligent technologies transform PA from a largely bureaucratic exercise into a process that is capable of ensuring that patients receive the highest quality of care, as quickly and painlessly as possible.

How to Overcome Patient Obstacles with Conversational Intelligence

In this special guest feature, Amy Brown, Founder and CEO of Authenticx, discusses speech analytics in healthcare. Organizations must listen and learn from patients’ voices to gather insights, customize their approach and facilitate change and growth.