Artificial Intelligence

The updated infrastructure offers baked-in data anonymization as well as advanced encryption and user permissioning, built on Bitfury’s Exonum private blockchain framework.

The new Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence works with Change's Intelligent Healthcare Network to improve the revenue cycle, the company says.

With worries that China and other countries are outpacing the U.S. in artificial intelligence maturity, the initiative seeks to boost R&D and education. But it's spare on specifics and has no new funding attached.

At the HIMSS19 Precision Medicine Summit, John Halamka and other healthcare leaders described how policy, technology, clinical processes and patient engagement need to evolve to make it a reality for primary care.

The vendor’s new system leverages its machine learning engine to offer an interactive retrospective analysis of order utilization, matched up against the evidence-based interventions proven to affect quality outcomes.

Cerner debuts Chart Assist, a new AI-enabled workflow, to join a suite of systems designed to reduce physician burnout, enhance the clinician’s experience and increase productivity.

The major academic health system is working with machine learning analytics vendor Splunk to create a new system to guard against misuse of controlled substances, including opioids.

The vendor will also show how its technology can help improve the patient experience, enable ease of use for the clinicians who interact with its EHRs and boost operating margins for health systems navigating value-based care.

Providence St. Joseph Health has launched a new population health company, Ayin Health Solutions. WHY IT MATTERS PSJH said the new venture will aim to help organizations “maintain stability in a shifting healthcare market,” and it will do so by offering services that can help organizations keep costs down, improve care and ease into population health management. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Ayin’s offerings will include a pharmacy benefits management service, risk evaluation tools, comprehensive reporting and employee health benefits service. Value-based competition is getting tougher, and providers are looking for a competitive edge that calls for more customized population health management programs, according to a new study by Frost & Sullivan. Traditional PHM solutions that focus on high-cost patient populations are giving way to more holistic and evidence-based approaches that cover both high-risk and at-risk patients. Providers want to focus on preventive care and target patients as consumers. Many population health technologies are evolving to provide a more granular understanding of a patients' social determinants, giving providers greater insight into how to approach care, according to Matt Hawkins, CEO of Waystar, a cloud-based revenue cycle management company. ON THE RECORD “These are tumultuous times for the healthcare industry and organizations are eager for proven strategies and solutions that will stabilize their business and guide their shift toward a new standard of care,” said Dr. Rhonda Medows, CEO of Ayin Health Solutions and president of Population Health at Providence St. Joseph Health.  Diana Manos is a Washington, D.C.-area freelance writer specializing in healthcare, wellness and technology. Twitter: @Diana_Manos Email the writer: dnewsprovider@gmail.com  

Northwell is transforming how it delivers standardized and personalized information to patients outside its facilities, says Northwell VP Sabina Zak and Conversa Health founder Philip Marshall.