Feb 26, 2020
The Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) becomes mandatory in 2020. It promotes evidence-based medicine by requiring consultation of appropriate use criteria (AUC) when ordering Medicare part B advanced imaging, and evidence of such consultations in order for claims to be paid by the CMS.
On today's podcast, Change...
Feb 26, 2020
Organizations around the world are hungry to capitalize on the immense potential of AI, machine learning, and deep learning. But sometimes in their haste to apply AI to solve problems, these well-meaning organizations overlook their end users.
What are the users' needs? After all, they're the people who need to interact...
Feb 24, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the business of risk adjustment—the science of predicting the level of disease burden of an individual. On today’s show, Adam Sullivan, Ph.D., senior director of AI at Change Healthcare, interviews Curt Vinyard, vice president of Product and Strategy at Change Healthcare,...
Feb 24, 2020
"Data-driven insight" is becoming a driver of operational efficiency for payers, providers, and other healthcare stakeholders. But in most cases, the available data is limited to an individual organization or a region. What happens if we scale up the amount of data available for analysis by sourcing from across the...
Feb 17, 2020
Hospital Laboratories Must Think Critically and Evaluate Carefully Before Launching Decision Support Projects
Practicing medicine today is more complex than ever. The menu of diagnostics, medications and treatments available to providers is continually expanding. Standards of care are shifting as guidelines grow and...