Hippocratic AI Raises $53 Million Series A at a $500 Million Valuation
Company Releases First Product: Generative AI-Powered Staffing Marketplace for Healthcare and will use Funds to Accelerate Further Product Development and Conduct Phase Three Safety Testing for its LLM
Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million. Today, the company also released its first product for phase three safety testing: a staffing marketplace for healthcare where health systems, payors, and others can “hire” generative ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT a16z Andreessen Horowitz Bio Health Capsule Cincinnati Children’s ELNA Evernow Fraser Health General Catalyst Guidehealth HarmonyCares Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investmen Source Type: blogs
Why ICDs are less effective in Non Ischemic DCM ?
We wish, our understanding about cardiac contractile physiology is deep and nearly complete. Heart is an irreversibly coupled electro-mechanical organ , right from the fetal days until the final heart beat. In myocardial pathology, the genesis and sustainability of ventricular arrhythmia are intricately related to the degree of LV dysfunction of any cause.
SCD is the leading cause of mortality in heart failure. Tackling SCD was in God’s domain, until the brilliance of Dr. Michel Mirowski shrunk the defibrillator and implanted it under the chest in 1980. (Dr. MM’s s a unique and inspiring story, from Poland a...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 20, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized crt device crt-p vs crt-d danish trial ischemic dcm madit trial non ischemic dcm Source Type: blogs
Physical Examination as a Helpful Aid in Decision-Making in Challenging ECGs
Discussion continuedThe absence of pace spikes suggests this is not a pacemaker/ICD-related rhythm in this patient with an ICD.The presence of thinned myocardium and known large amount of scar tissue makes for a nidus for VT. Thus VT is very probable.A wide native QRS can be expected in a patient with a dilated heart and a history of heart failure, even if it is sinus rhythm. so the question of whether those are P-waves is critical.Additionally, the qR morphology, particularly in a patient with right bundle branch block (RBBB) type wide QRS complex tachycardia (WQCT), lends further support for VT.Furthermore, a pertinent p...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Emre Aslanger Source Type: blogs
" Non-STEMI " is a worthless term.
A 60 yo with 2 previous inferior (RCA) STEMIs, stented, called 911 for one hour of chest pain. He had no h/o heart failure. Here is the first prehospital ECG (time 0, after one hour of pain): I do not see evidence of OMI, and neither did the Queen of HeartsHere is the 2nd prehospital ECG (time 10 minutes, after 70 minutes of pain): No changeOn arrival, the first ED ECG was recorded 20 minutes after the last one (90 minutes after pain onset): What do you think?Here is his most recent previous ECG:This was recorded after intervention for inferior STEMI (with massive ST Elevation, see below), and shows inf...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 30, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Rate vs Rhythm Control in Atrial Fibrillation
Rate vs rhythm control as a management strategy in atrial fibrillation has been a long standing topic for debate. Though at one look rhythm control would appear to be the ideal strategy, long term adverse effects of the currently available medications for rhythm control is the often cited down side. AFFIRM [1] and RACE [2] trials were the main reason for the debate as they failed to show any benefit for the rhythm control strategy. AF-CHF trial in those with AF and congestive heart failure also failed to show any advantage for the rhythm control strategy [3]. But there have been important criticisms as well [4]. In AFFIRM...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 26, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: ECG / Electrophysiology General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Unraveling Its Impact On Heart And Lungs
Conclusion
Navigating the complexities of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) might seem daunting. However, with the right knowledge and proactive approach, it’s possible to manage the condition and maintain a good quality of life.
PAH, a unique type of high blood pressure affecting the arteries in the lungs, can put extra strain on the heart. Over time, this can lead to heart failure. The condition’s root cause may vary, from genetic factors to other health issues like heart defects, liver disease, or autoimmune diseases. Remember, sometimes the cause remains unknown, resulting in idiopathic pulmonary ...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 19, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Misses the Mark in Healthcare – What It Needs to Succeed
The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI. While AI has been broadly deployed across industries for a decade, it remained mostly hidden from the typical user. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.
Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based applicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy AI Hallucination BeeKeeperAI Chatbots ChatGPT ChatGPT4 Cyber Risks Generative AI Source Type: blogs
Advances in Early Diagnosis
This article shows how some surprising technologies are improving the early detection of several conditions. Nutromics continuously monitors the delivery of an antibiotic used to treat sepsis. Eye-tracking from Tobii is used by several of its clients to detect certain kinds of autism as early as twelve months of age. And Cordio Medical is detecting oncoming congestive heart failure (CHF) three weeks in advance of an incident.
Minimally Invasive Monitoring Provides Real-Time Measurements
Although doctors learn what people have in their bodies most often through blood tests, technologies developed over the past few decades c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring ADOS Agim Beshiri AI Diagnosis Autism CHF Cordio Medical Eye Tracking Eye Tracking Sensors Healthcare Sensors HearO Karen Pierce Source Type: blogs
Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMS
This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. The article is based on an interview with Kel Pults, chief clinical officer and vice president of MediQuant. A future article will explain how Medicare Advantage plans are trying to improving data collection and reporting, and how AI helps.
Challenges of Investigating Overpayments
Undeserved payments are needles lurking in the haystack of 135 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). But the needles pile up fast. Improper payments f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management #COVID19 CMS COVID Reimbursement Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics Kel Pults MAOs Medicare Advantage MediQuant Overp Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well – Part 2
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
2022 Medicare Advantage data gathering process change made last year just made upcoding for plans irrelevant and impossible, but the critics do not accept that it happened.
CMS just ended that upcoding debate for 2022 by completely killing the coding system for the plans, effective immediately. The plans can’t code risk levels up because the coding system was eliminated entirely for 2022.
RAPS is dead.
The payment approach for Medicare Advantage now has no upcoding components and the government just used their new and more accurate numbers to create the 2023 payment level for the pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Obamacare Source Type: blogs
Medicare Advantage UpCoding Has Been Eliminated by CMS Effective 2022
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Medicare Advantage now enrolls almost exactly half the people enrolled in Medicare — and has both significant fans and hardline opponents in the health care policy circles who disagree about its performance.
The biggest attack point that comes from the critics deals with the issues of coding accuracy by the plans. The payment model for the program is capitation — and that capitation is based on the average cost of fee-for-service Medicare in every county. The people who designed the model believed that the country should use the average cost of fee-for-service Medicare in every county as the b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy CMS George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
The Open Data Movement Runs Aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka FDA regulations Fourier open data Source Type: blogs
The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions
This article looks at some technical solutions.
Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon, an AI and digital health platform, says discharge planning doesn’t require “massive amounts of technology” or “rocket science”; just good planning from the beginning of the stay. Indeed, one research study (suggested to me by Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of HealthTap) achieved a significant time saving through low-tech measures such as checklists.
Other respondents, however, reported that their solutions were making a difference in discharges.
Weaknesses of Current Technology
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC ABOUT Ali Parsa AvaSure Babylon Cindy Gaines CipherHealth Cloudticity Cynthia Davis Da Source Type: blogs
One family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART
Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the first in a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients.
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because the money’s good and enforcement is lax. The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring. I now have permission ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs
