Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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AI ‘smart agents’ underutilized in fight against healthcare fraud

Stopping scams before they’re perpetrated, cutting illicit payments and reducing hours spent by staff on such cases are three of the top benefits administrators believe artificial intelligence could deliver to their operations.

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Working remotely during the pandemic? AMA, AHA have cybersecurity help for you

A physician working from home during the COVID-19 crisis may offer cybercriminals a tantalizing target. Taking note of the heightened threat, the AMA and AHA have put together guidance to help foil would-be offenders.

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Digital health drew more than $3B of funding in Q1 of 2020—but this is COVID’s world now

In the first quarter of this year, investors injected a cool $3.1 billion into venture funding for digital health. Then came COVID-19. What will those investors do now?

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2 plane crashes, 5 warning points for AI-eager radiology

Two radiologists reflect on what went wrong AI-wise with the Boeing 737 MAX, outlining potential parallels between aviation and their specialty. 

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Healthcare AI startup closes $51M funding round

Venture capital firm General Catalyst and other investors are sinking $51 million into Columbus, Ohio-based Olive with the aim of growing the AI startup’s capacity for automating administrative processes in healthcare.

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A splash of cold water for those banking on AI to kill the coronavirus

The tech sector is abuzz with high hopes in AI’s potential to help the world beat back COVID-19. A veteran writer who’s been on the high-tech beat for years offers a reality check.

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Persivia launches COVID-19 surveillance model powered by AI

Another healthcare company is leveraging AI to address the new coronavirus pandemic and help identify potential patients who could have the virus.

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AI tech sees uptick in venture capital funding

Venture capital investment volume and value continued to flow into the AI technology space in 2019, though the number of big deals dropped globally.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.