Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks.

AdvaMed itemizes AI imperatives for ‘the entire healthcare ecosystem’
If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do.
6 things high-achieving orgs do to wring real value from AI
What makes an organization an AI leader? Demonstrating success in one of two pursuits.
A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan
As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”
4 points crucial to the nimble regulation of GenAI
With generative AI coming into its own, AI regulators must avoid relying too much on principles of risk management—and not enough on those of uncertainty management.
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

Health Gorilla Releases Marketplace 2.0 for Doctors

SUNNYVALE, CA., October 28, 2014 – Health GorillaTM, Inc., the first online healthcare marketplace to connect doctors and clinicians with over 9,000+ diagnostic labs and 35,000+ radiology centers, has announced today the release of Health Gorilla Marketplace 2.0.

October 28, 2014

Seattle companies make plans for new innovation hub

Cambia Health Solutions, based in Portland, Ore., plans to establish The Cambia Grove, a collaborative facility in Seattle that will serve as a hub to foster innovation and transformation in the healthcare industry on a national level.

October 28, 2014

MedAptus and Entrada Announce Corporate Partnership

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2014 -- Entrada and MedAptus® today announced a formal partnership to integrate Entrada's technology and services within the MedAptus Pro Charge Capture solution.

October 27, 2014

Creating linkages between behavioral health and primary care

BOSTON—High-risk patients with comorbidities more often than not have mental health conditions, and several initiatives are underway to integrate behavioral health and primary care to more effectively treat these patients, according to speakers at the 2014 Center for Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 23.

October 24, 2014

CHIME opens up membership to CTOs, CAOs

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is expanding its ranks to chief technology officers (CTOs) and chief application officers (CAOs). The group traditionally has served CIOs, and earlier this year launched a new trade group for chief security officers and chief information security officers.

October 24, 2014

Reider to leave ONC by end of Nov.

The exodus from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues as Deputy National Coordinator Jacob Reider, MD, made it known that he will depart the agency at the end of November.

October 24, 2014

Surprising change

Earlier today I was sure that our coverage of the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium were the most impactful health IT headlines of the week. Then came the news late this afternoon that Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, has left her post as head of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT to help manage the Ebola crisis.

October 24, 2014

Five rules to reconsider innovation

BOSTON—Is the concept of an innovation center outmoded? That was the idea posed by Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, chief medical information and innovation officer at Merck and Company, who spoke during a session at the 2014 AMDIS Fall Symposium.

October 21, 2014

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Cardiovascular Business

Payment cuts and beyond: Key takeaways for cardiologists from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals.

AI in Healthcare

A modest proposal to rally AI regulators around a simple game plan

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

Cardiovascular Business

FDA commissioner urges clinicians to join fight against medical misinformation

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."