Payers are always wary about funding new treatments for illnesses and conditions: When millions of dollars are at stake, payers want demonstrated improvements...
Author - Andy Oram
Andy is a writer and editor in the computer field. His editorial projects have ranged from a legal guide covering intellectual property to a graphic novel about teenage hackers. A correspondent for Healthcare IT Today, Andy also writes often on policy issues related to the Internet and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist, Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM (Brussels), DebConf, and LibrePlanet. Andy participates in the Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, named USTPC, and is on the editorial board of the Linux Professional Institute.
Amazing how a trivial detail such as a postal address can cause so many headaches and so much waste. But in health care, a lack of address standardization is a...
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—”one-stop shopping” for a large range...
The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription...
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the...
A Deep Dive Into Epic’s Partnership with Microsoft and Nuance Including Integration with DAX Copilot
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Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy...
Very large health care systems and academic medical centers can employ programmers to create their own LLMs, according to David Kereiakes, managing partner at...
A clinical trial can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and one of the major contributors to costs is recruiting and keeping human subjects. According to Dr...