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Google Cloud is tackling the cumbersome problem in healthcare of slow preauthorization of recommended procedures, medications, or devices. On April 13, the company introduced its AI-enabled Claims Acceleration Suite to reduce these administrative burdens and costs for health plans and providers. The prior authorization process causes burnout for physicians, notes Amy Waldron, director of Global Health Plans Strategy and Solutions for Google Cloud. In fact, 88% of physicians call it "very or extremely" burdensome, according to the Medical Group Management Association. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid says prior authorizations take an average of 10 days.

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Healthcare providers are growing increasingly more comfortable with using AI-enabled software to improve patient care, from analyzing medical imaging to managing chronic diseases. While health plans have been slower to adopt AI and machine learning (ML), many are beginning to rely on these technologies in administrative areas such as claims management, and 62% of payers rank improving their AI/ML capabilities as an extremely high priority. The process by which health plans manage the cost of members' benefits is especially ripe for technological innovation. Health plans often require providers to obtain advance approval, or prior authorization (PA), for a wide range of procedures, services, and medications. The heavily manual PA process drives unnecessary resource cost and delays in care, which can lead to serious adverse events for patients.

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JUPITER, Fla., Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Scheduled to broadcast spring/2022, the award-winning series, Advancements with Ted Danson, will discover how innovations in AI are helping employees to access, understand, and utilize their health benefits. In this segment, Advancements will explore why so many Americans lack an understanding about their healthcare benefits -- from complex rules to complicated, verbose verbiage. Viewers will learn about the many ways these complexities can negatively impact employees' health and well-being, productivity in the workplace, and ultimately, the U.S. workforce as a whole. Audiences will hear from experts at Insurights, an AI-powered startup on a mission to improve human health by giving people better access to their health benefits. The show will discover how developments in AI and technology present a solution for the industry as the Insurights team introduces Zoe, its digital healthcare navigator.

We are a digital healthcare technology company focused on helping health plans transform utilization management into truly collaborative care management, using next-generation technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. I was drawn to Cohere because of the company's focus on ensuring that patients get the most optimal health outcomes. To make that goal a reality, Cohere is committed to playing a big role in transforming the vexing healthcare processes that undermine patient care. That is the company's mission, and that's what attracted me to Cohere. COVID has been a major catalyst for healthcare in multiple ways because it has laid bare the inefficiencies and inadequacies of the system.

Lark Health, a provider of chronic disease prevention and management programs, raised $100 million in a Series D funding round. The round was led by Deerfield Management Company, and it included participation from crossover fund PFM Health Sciences. Franklin Templeton, King River Capital, Castlepeak, IPD, Olive Tree Capital and Marvell Technology Co-founder Weili Dai participated as returning investors. The Mountain View, California-based company offers an artificial intelligence platform that provides users access to a personalized digital health coach that is available 24/7. "There has been an unprecedented amount of innovation and investment in technology solutions in an attempt to make care more accessible and effective for those who need it," said Julia Hu, co-founder and CEO of Lark Health, in an email.

BOSTON, June 30, 2021- Cohere Health, an emerging high growth digital health company, today announced it has earned Utilization Management Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), validating that the company's digital prior authorization platform conforms to the industry's highest standards. It is the first such known digital prior authorization solution to receive NCQA accreditation. Health plans have traditionally used utilization management to ensure that patients are receiving proper care, reduce unnecessary overuse of resources, and minimize variation from evidence-based care. However, as health plans look to meet interoperability, analytics and timeliness requirements legislated at the state and federal levels, electronic prior authorization vendors have not kept up with quality standards. The most prominent health plans in the country are NCQA certified, and an NCQA Utilization Management Accreditation helps guarantee that organizations making these decisions are doing so based on objective, evidence-based best practices.

Since the beginning of the year, there has been a significant uptick across health plans, healthcare providers, and analytics firms utilizing AI to change how healthcare is delivered and how patients can be more engaged in their care. AI applications in healthcare are all over the map today. Data from my firm's digital health intelligence database, DamoIntelTM, has identified a significant rise in the launch of AI use cases across clinical and administrative areas in 2020. An analysis of AI/ML applications deployed by the top 50 health systems across the United States identifies that AI-enabled solutions fall into multiple technology categories: machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), conversational interfaces such as chatbots, and robotic process automation (RPA). COVID-related use cases in clinical and administrative areas contributed to the growth in adoption of newer technologies such as chatbots in healthcare.