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Platforms are in, point solutions are out as the healthcare AI category leaders come into focus this year. In conversation with Shelby Livingston at Endpoints News, I shared: 1. Why AI-first companies have the greatest platform potential and heuristics for identifying these opportunities at the earliest stages, 2. How companies are differentiating through co-development and distribution partnerships with leading healthcare institutions, and 3. Strategies for navigating anemic budgets and constrained market sizes through business model innovation such as AI-enabled services and pay for performance models Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dJWqv_zC Bessemer Venture Partners Abridge #healthcare #lifesciences #AI #generativeAI

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It’s hard to believe its over 2 years since we went live with the worlds first fully cloud native ecosystem in Amazon Web Services (AWS), more than 3 years since we started the implementation and more than 5 years since beginning our journey too getting health systems out of the data center. How far we’ve come. And it’s STILL getting CHEAPER and BETTER by the day!!! Have a listen to the discussion!

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If you start down the path of #enterpriseimaging – which many health systems are doing (or considering) – "there have to be some objectives and a clear understanding of what you're attempting to do," said Joseph Marion during a recent discussion with Alex Towbin and Lenny Reznik. What you don't want is to go into it with "a false expectation or limited expectation." https://lnkd.in/gg3PkCim AGFA HealthCare #itimaging #healthcareit #enterpriseimagemanagement #patientsafety #patientexperience

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This webinar is focused on practical, real-world application of AI-powered patient navigation by Montefiore Health System

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Bag is packed, and I'm heading off to HLTH Europe 🎉 HLTH Vegas was my first taste of the HLTH experience, so expectations are high for what Henry Stoneley and the team have crafted over in Amsterdam. The official agenda is appetising (https://lnkd.in/e3Y87Z8Z), with multiple stages themed around the senses. What am I looking forward to? 🪩 MAIN STAGE 18th: Ali Parsa talking about Babylon and his latest venture. Essential stuff 19th: "Transforming Perspectives on Psychedelics: A Journey Beyond the Trip" fits the tolerant and broad-minded nature of our host city well. 👁 SIGHT 19th: We have "Ghosts in the machine: Empowering healthcare to capitalise on GenAI", "Blinded by AI: The Turing Test live" and "Safekeeping: Is trust AI’s biggest hurdle?" all on the 19th * I'll be appearing on the live Health Tech Talk Show with Lisa B. and Kat McDavitt 👂🏼 SOUND STAGE 18th: Listening to the latest on Mental Health at "Navigating depression: New pathways in mental health"- supporting Erin Sivyer Lee and Team Flow Neuroscience 19th: Having wrapped my head around longevity tech in ArabHealth earlier this year, I'll be checking out "Beyond the Fountain of Youth: Unlocking the secrets of longevity" 20th: The Middle East summit takes over the stage * I'll also be catching up with Christophe Jauquet Mo Zouina and Aline Noizet to record some special Healthusiasm content 👃🏼 AROMA STAGE 18th: ChatGPT and Hospitals? IM IN 19th: Debate time! "This house believes there’s no role for government in healthcare" - I smell smoke... 20th: Data might be the new oil, but not all oils are the same "Goldmine or fool’s gold? Extracting value from health data" 👇🏻 TOUCH STAGE 18th: "Eighths and pains: The ongoing trials and tribulations of cannabis in healthcare" wins for the pun alone - 18th 19th: As a GP, I'll be cheering along to this one: "Undervalued, underinvested: Why keeping primary care as an afterthought costs lives" 20th: My mind was opened by recent talks from ☀️Maneesh Juneja. "Greener, leaner, cleaner: Healthcare's role in global warming" gets my vote 👅 TASTE HLTH do food really well: Survivors BBQ is locked in. 🌍 EVERYTHING ELSE There's the Startup Stage, HealthXL Global Gathering on Monday, AlbionVC mixer, Philips welcome reception, HLTH Networking party, and goodness knows what else. This is Amsterdam after all. 🌶️ For all of my neurospicy sisters and brothers, I'm bringing a wee gift for you. Let's stay hydrated and pace ourselves folks, we have a big week ahead of us! Anushka Patchava MD, MBA Darshak Sanghavi Adel B. Hassan Chaudhury Michael Watts Dr Cos Fantis Rochelle Morris Dr Dom Pimenta M.D. Dr Rizwan Malik Sam Shah Haris Shuaib Dr Harpreet Sood plus many, many more

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We just released our H1 2024 Digital Health funding summary. https://lnkd.in/gAZY64tp H1 2024 Digital Health funding closed at $12.4 billion invested across 719 deals. - Q2 2024 is outperforming Q1 by 34% ($7.1 billion vs. $5.3 billion)! - Digital Health funding has shown sustained investor confidence. Funding in Digital Health in North America is up 14% to $9.5 billion. Investment in Europe is down 10% to $1.52 billion, while funding in APAC dropped by 7% to $1.17 billion. - Partnerships in Digital Health are flat in the first half at 1,730. NVIDIA has been the strongest corporate partner in H1 2024 - 96 M&As, 8 bankruptcies, 5 delistings from the stock market and 3 relistings from NASDAQ to OTC market. The full report will be available for free next week. Feel free to comment and share if you want to receive a copy prior to our official launch 😊 Galen Growth | Insights You Can Trust #funding #digitalhealth #investments #partnerships

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Here’s your recap of last week’s health IT news 🗞️ Notable partnerships 🤝 • Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Innovaccer to incorporate their population health and AI platform        • MUSC Health adopted Andor Health’s ThinkAndor in its ED to reduce wait times and “leaving without being seen” rates.      • Upperline Health is partnering with Navina to improve clinical workflows and improve the accuracy of patient histories.      • Intermountain Health deployed Nuance Communications DAX Copilot, an AI ambient scribe solution.      • PA Clinical Network is partnering with Guidehealth  to improve outcomes and care quality while improving physician efficiency. Product updates 👩🏼‍💻 • Klara released a new patient intake product for athenahealth users.    • Baton Health released Universal Primary Source, giving users access to hundreds of primary source databases for credentialing.    • InsightRX released InsightRX Apollo, an analytics platform that provides insights on clinical performance.    • Trovo Health launched with a $15 million seed round, offering specialty-specific AI combined with clinical experts to help practices add to their capabilities.    • Quest Diagnostics acquired PathAI’s diagnostic laboratory business (PathAI Diagnostics) to improve Quest’s oncology services.    • GenHealth.ai launched its Automated Prior Authorization platform.    • Veradigm® is partnering with MedEvolve, Inc. to make its suite of products available to Veradigm users.    • CLEW announced availability of a newly FDA-approved patient surveillance platform. Posts we enjoyed 👏 • Eric Topol, MD shared a compelling piece reviewing the state of research on AI in medicine. In short, we’re seeing our first early evidence that AI can reduce mortality as a research endpoint, but large language models are not yet the panacea we’ve been promised. (https://lnkd.in/e6hK-4mr)    • Nikhil Krishnan of Out-Of-Pocket shared a deep dive on Stedi, which converts X12 EDI into JSON-based APIs for healthcare tech developers. (https://lnkd.in/eqS9V5zW) --- Want to stay in the loop? Sign up for the Elion Briefing to get all of the latest healthcare tech news delivered to your inbox 📬 👉 https://bit.ly/49z6AUW

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Ply Health (YC S24) helps behavioral health providers get in network with insurance companies faster by using AI to automate and monitor submissions. Providers simply input their information into Ply once, and with a couple of clicks, can apply to join any of the ~1,400 US insurance company networks. The process to join each insurance company’s network is highly manual and fragmented. On top of that, forms that aren't filled out properly cause significant delays, which in turn costs practices tens of thousands of dollars of missed revenue. Ply’s platform solves for speed and accuracy of enrollment submissions using a combination of automation and an experienced ops team as humans-in-the-loop. Samantha Wu and David Zhang founded Ply Health because of Sam's first-hand experience with the contracting and credentialing process while running BizOps for health-tech startup Finni. With Ply, behavioral health providers get into the network so they can start seeing patients ASAP. Congrats Sam and David on the launch!

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In case you missed it, last week the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released a draft consensus framework for responsible health AI. Developed with input from over 100 contributors representing a diverse network of healthcare stakeholders, this guide proposes actionable evaluation criteria throughout the AI lifecycle—from identifying use cases to deployment and monitoring. Key examples outlined in the guide include: • Predictive EHR Risk Use Case (Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation) • Imaging Diagnostic Use Case (Mammography) • Generative AI Use Case (EHR Query and Extraction) • Claims-Based Outpatient Use Case (Care Management) • Clinical Ops & Administration Use Case (Prior Authorization with Medical Coding) • Genomics Use Case (Precision Oncology with Genomic Markers) The draft framework is open for public review and comment for the next sixty days. Please use this form to submit feedback: https://lnkd.in/eYughFYC Kudos to the CHAI team led by CEO & President, Dr. Brian Anderson, MD, on this milestone. Eric Horvitz Jennifer Goldsack John Halamka, M.D., M.S. Michael Pencina Micky Tripathi Nigam Shah Suchi Saria Troy Tazbaz #healthcare #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai https://lnkd.in/e7VRv6fD

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Who remembers learning about inertia? It's Newton's first law of motion, that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced force. Well - if you want healthcare payment reform, we have to overcome inertia - and that means approaching the VBC negotiation differently than we've done before. And that's what we're about at Syntax Health. Let's connect and we can show you how. #valuebasedcare #collaboration

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Since launching Pivotal Healthcare in late 2020, our mission to transform healthcare delivery has evolved dramatically. What began as a tech-enabled platform for clinician house calls has blossomed into a revolutionary direct care model that's reshaping the healthcare landscape. Our journey has revealed a crucial insight: there's a rapidly growing segment of individuals and companies fed up with traditional health insurance models. They're seeking better care and substantial cost savings by taking control of their healthcare decisions. This realization has driven our bold pivot towards a direct care approach, abandoning conventional insurance models (with few exceptions) as of August 1st. The results have been nothing short of extraordinary. Our direct-to-employer solution, Pivotal Health Direct Care, launched in late 2023, has experienced explosive growth. We now serve over 1,000 employees across 16 companies. Riding this wave of success, we've expanded our offerings to include individual and family memberships, attracting 113 members in just one month. This shift wasn't just a business decision; it was a response to the frustrations of dealing with insurance claim denials, excessive paperwork, and payment delays. By embracing the direct care model, we've streamlined our operations and opened up new avenues for partnerships and growth. As we look to the future, our focus is clear: expand our employer client base, increase individual and family memberships, and bring our innovative model to new metropolitan areas. To fuel this expansion and boost our sales and marketing efforts, we've launched a crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder, inviting our 8,000+ satisfied patients and other interested investors to become partners in our vision. https://lnkd.in/eZyM5uxp Why invest in Pivotal Health? The reasons are compelling: 1. We're riding the wave of exploding demand for direct care models. 2. Our tech-enabled platform is uniquely positioned to scale across multiple metro areas. 3. Our Direct Care for Employers is outpacing projections. 4. We have a captive, low-acquisition-cost market in university students. 5. With over $900,000 raised in this round and seeking up to $1.2 million more, we're poised for significant expansion. 6. Our vast addressable market offers multiple exit opportunities and the potential for substantial value creation. Join us in revolutionizing healthcare. Invest in Pivotal Health today and be part of a movement that's making quality healthcare more accessible, affordable, and patient-centered than ever before. #entrepreneurship #crowdfunding #healthcare #healthinnovations

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Converged Stars Health Equity Analytics will help health plans calculate their projected health equity index, potential impact to Stars rating well in advance of 2027, and plan for adjustments and improvement today.

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Exciting news from Monica Chopra, Jeffrey De Flavio, MD, Samantha Adelberg, and the rest of the Auxa Health team as they officially announce their $5.2M Seed round. The team's deep industry expertise and drive for change have led them to solve critical infrastructural friction to providing quality healthcare and adoption of value-based care. Auxa's AI benefit navigation platform is simplifying the complexities of healthcare by streamlining all of the fragmented and siloed data and information to make it actionable in real-time for healthcare organizations. For the 70% of Americans who aren't getting access to the health and social care benefits they deserve, Auxa's solution will be pivotal in enabling equitable care. We're thrilled to partner with co-investors Zeal Capital Partners, AlleyCorp, Laconia, and Chaac Ventures on this journey and look to share many more milestones ahead. Cc K50 Ventures, Ryan Bloomer, Daniel Vásquez, Nick Talwar, Stefanie Ng https://lnkd.in/dPDY7-Db

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Discover how AI can revolutionize the mid-revenue cycle in hospitals, reduce administrative burdens, and enhance Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) accuracy. #HealthcareAI #healthtech #AIInHealthcare

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What is one of the country's leading safety net health systems focused on right now? Gabriel M. Cohen MD, CMIO for Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals shared his perspective with us in this week's 𝘌𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰? 1️⃣ Patient engagement – leveraging omnichannel communication to efficiently close care gaps 2️⃣ Interoperability – putting usable data in front of our clinicians at the point of care to support care gap closure 3️⃣ Care coordination – building the tech infrastructure for our social workers, community health workers, and care managers 4️⃣ Care infrastructure for asylum-seeking and incarcerated patient populations – multiple initiatives, with a particular focus on providing housing for homeless populations 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆? Our partnership with Findhelp. Addressing health-related social needs is a critical priority for NYC H+H Our organization already has a high penetration of social needs screening, so our focus today is connecting patients with the right resources to address the identified disparities. Findhelp helps us with this by: • Ingesting the health-related social needs screening data • Identifying those patients who have a need • Locating the best local resource(s) for that patient • Connecting the patient to the resource(s) • Facilitating end-to-end communication, including informing the physician and care team whether the patient accessed the resource(s) Key to this initiative's success has been its tight integration with our current workflows in Epic, to the point that it should largely feel seamless for our clinicians. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜? As a safety net health system, NYC H+H’s priority is to ensure that the AI tools and models we employ can sufficiently manage potential bias. We’re currently prioritizing governance-related workstreams (e.g. governance councils, frameworks, and processes) that will drive a safety net health system playbook for appropriately evaluating and managing AI. The specific AI use cases we're currently prioritizing include: • Chart summarization • Inbasket management Other future areas of exploration: billing automation and radiology automation — For more insight from leading health IT execs, as well as Elion's latest research and can’t miss industry news, subscribe to our newsletter 📬 👉 https://bit.ly/49z6AUW

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Excellent insights into #telehealth service utilization and temporary waivers, set to expire at the end of 2024 unless legislation extends provisions related to sites, provider types, in-person and face-to-face requirements, audio-only televisits, and rural access. McDermott Will & Emery Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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It’s been an eventful start for healthtech in 2024, so we wanted to reflect on our learnings from our Q1 conversations with founders, investors, and other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. From our interactions at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in SF to #ViVE in Los Angeles, and even #SXSW in Austin, it’s clear that #healthequity is gaining a seat at the healthcare innovation table. Panels on expanding care access, addressing language barriers, and strengthening community partnerships through culturally-relevant solutions were front and center at all of these conferences. Nonetheless, its obvious we're just beginning to move from ornate mission statements to making health equity a true strategic priority. See our newsletter below to learn what we're seeing in the market, as well as what kept us busy during Q1 at Sequential Ventures. https://lnkd.in/guMRVYbE

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Improving Patient Outcomes by combining Stardog & Databricks to conquer real data challenges... Solving the data silo, sprawl, and context problems that prevent users from getting a trusted, timely, and accurate answer to any question.

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The future of health care lies in tailoring access to care. As focus on consumer experience accelerates, convenience and access will be as crucial as quality. Health care organizations must predict personal access needs using advanced data strategies. Collaboration is key to delivering the personalized experiences consumers deserve. #HealthCareInnovation #ConsumerCare #HealthTech #PatientExperience #DataStrategy #HealthcareCollaboration

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