Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have improved rapidly over the past decade,[1] largely driven by advances in machine learning, which is closely related to data science and statistical prediction.[2] Several aspects of the health care system involve prediction, including diagnosis, treatment, administration, and operations.This connection between machine learning’s capabilities and needs […]
Articles
How AI Will Cure The American Health Care System
There is no denying that the American health care system can provide quality care. However, it’s costly and riddled with a tedious, bloated bureaucracy. Experts estimate that more than a third of health care costs go to bureaucracy and administration nationwide. Besides astronomical costs, there are preventable medical errors, personnel […]
The Pandemic Can Pave the Way to Better Mental Health Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained our social fabric in so many ways. Above all, there is the loss of life, which has occurred at an unfathomable scale and is still ongoing. But in addition, with the necessary disruptions in our educational system, we’ve seen the struggles of families trying to […]
Detecting the patient’s need for help with machine learning based on expressions
Developing machine learning models to support health analytics requires increased understanding about statistical properties of self-rated expression statements used in health-related communication and decision making. To address this, our current research analyzes self-rated expression statements concerning the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic and with a new methodology identifies how statistically significant differences […]
Behavioral Health M&A Will Remain Hot in 2022
Behavioral health had its most active year in 2021, which came on the heels of very active years that preceded it. There are many factors that contributed to this and that indicate that 2022 is likely to involve substantial M&A activity once again. A brief summary of those factors follows […]
Top 5 Challenges for Private Credit Lenders in Health Care Restructurings
Despite the strength of the U.S. economy headed into the New Year, a variety of conditions may be conspiring against businesses in certain segments of the health care industry. These include reduced patient census at skilled nursing and other long-term care facilities, COVID regulations that limit the ability of providers […]
4 Innovations That Could Transform Health Care This Year
Evaluating and ranking innovations that have the greatest potential to transform health care is difficult, but each year Cleveland Clinic scientists and physicians give it their best shot. In their recently issued Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2022, nearly 100 thought leaders within the health system elicited and rigorously evaluated […]
5 factors that can make or break health care spending in 2022
In 2022, challenges will continue to mount for plan sponsors and their advisors as they battle to keep costs under control without gutting benefits. “The top cost drivers for 2022 are similar to those of 2021, with musculoskeletal conditions and cancer ranking number one and two, respectively, followed by diabetes, […]
United States: Play It Safe When Launching & Scaling A HealthTech Business In The US
The US healthtech market is thriving, attracting a wave of new entrants and record levels of venture capital funding. In the first half of 2021, VC investors ploughed just under $22bn into US healthtechs, dwarfing the $16.8bn raised across the whole of 2020, itself a record year. From online doctors […]
10 essential ingredients for digital twins in healthcare
This story looks at some fundamental building blocks that work together to build a digital twin infrastructure for medicine. It explains how promising techniques like APIs, graph databases, ontologies, electronic health records are being combined to unlock digital transformation in healthcare. Digital twins could transform healthcare with a more integrated […]
