Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.
Pharmaceutical companies are spending close to $10 billion per year on direct-to-consumer advertising in the U.S. Only the entertainment industry spends more. Is that a good thing?
The idea was floated as part of a proposed budget for the state released by Democrats in the Senate. If passed, only the top 2% of corporations in California would be impacted. The levy would generate $5 billion to $8 billion annually for Medicaid.
The maker of popular GLP-1 agonists Wegovy and Ozempic said technology from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will allow it to sift through and make sense of massive datasets to identify potential new uses for its diabetes and obesity treatments.
Chapter, a technology company based in New York City, said it tripled its revenue last year by filling a market niche designing technology for seniors—specifically, those who have questions about the Medicare program.
The Dallas-based company says its product incorporates bias-busting algorithms that overcome the lack of diverse populations available for model training.
Acotec, founded in 2008, designs and distributes a wide range of medical devices used in interventional cardiology, including drug-coated balloons and thrombus aspiration catheters.
An AI startup has been cleared to market a platform for precisely mapping prostate cancer with 3D visualization so the tumor can be treated without harm to healthy surrounding prostate tissue.
More than half of surveyed radiologists worry about MRI contrast availability, yet almost all—99%—wish for contrast agents that would cut current gadolinium concentrations at least in half.
Last fall Yale Radiology began offering users of its EHR-based patient portal a link to a page on RadiologyInfo.org headed “How to read your radiology report.” The page drew 400 or so clicks in its first two weeks. Today it’s getting 5,000 to 10,000 a month.