On heels of $100M funding round, Olive expands healthcare AI capabilities

Healthcare software startup Olive is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities to assist healthcare workers with time-consuming tasks like prior authorizations and patient verifications. The company's new Olive Helps platform, unveiled Monday as part of the HLTH VRTL conference, is designed to work "hand-in-hand" with healthcare employees to provide real-time intelligence throughout their workday. The goal is to turn healthcare employees into "super" human workers who can work faster, smarter and more efficiently, Olive CEO Sean Lane told Fierce Healthcare in an exclusive interview. "Olive Helps is like an ever-present companion that's always sensing the needs of human workers and delivering valuable information tailored for the individual user and their environment," he said. Olive Helps minimizes the time it takes a healthcare worker to carry out critical activities such as billing and patient verification by using AI technology to anticipate what the user will need and providing the information and tools necessary to do their jobs, according to the company.