Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Web Services is working with several healthcare partners to rapidly adopt and support technologies ranging from telehealth to interoperability solutions in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The American Academy of Family Physicians is seeking up to 100 physicians to participate in stage 2 of its Innovation Lab pilot program aimed at reducing EHR documentation burdens, according to a June 25 news release. 

San Francisco-based Alpha Health received $20 million in Series A funding, the company reported June 10.

The New York University College of Dentistry created a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to analyze risk factors and biomarkers from blood tests to produce a COVID-19 "severity score" for patients. 

From crafting new programs to partnering with companies focused on IT innovation, hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are finding new ways to incorporate artificial intelligence, facial recognition and virtual communication technologies into their return-to-workplace approaches.

OurCrowd, an equity crowdfunding platform that invests in global startups, launched a new fund dedicated to companies that are finding technological, business, educational and social needs solutions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cincinnati Children's is dedicating $450,000 to launch six COVID-19-focused research projects.

West Virginia University Medicine's neuroscience institute created a digital platform that can detect COVID-19 symptoms up to three days before they show up.

University Hospitals is working with a technology company on facial recognition technology as part of the effort to return people to work and reopen restaurants and entertainment venues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

***In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kurt Hopfensperger, MD, JD, a vice president of physician advisor services with Optum360, about the evolution of artificial intelligence and how the technology is revolutionizing the mid-revenue cycle and utilization review process. ***02/12/2020…