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AI Talk: Wimbledon analytics and powering Internet of Things

July 9, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Wimbledon Analytics Fourth of July weekend is a time for celebration and relaxation. It is also the midway point for a 140-year-old tradition: Wimbledon. This two-week extravaganza, replete with countless […]

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COVID-19 arm: An unexpected vaccine reaction

July 9, 2021 / By Pamela Ewing, CPC

Waiting in the line of cars at the Biloxi Coliseum for my COVID-19 vaccine, I felt a sense of relief to be wrapping up my second dose of Pfizer vaccine. […]

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The way we pay for health care in the U.S. is irrational

July 7, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

As early as 1992, JAMA published a randomized control trial (gold standard for studies of impact) of telephone care. Patients liked it, doctors liked it, outcomes improved and costs went […]

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A personal perspective on the long-tail impact of COVID-19

June 28, 2021 / By Steve Cantwell

We’ve all learned some hard lessons from COVID-19, but it will be years before we begin to understand the full impact of COVID-19, both positive and negative. The development speed, […]

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AI Talk: 100th blog – A look back

June 25, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

This blog marks my century mark with the 3M Inside Angle team – all in a little over two years! It has been a remarkable period for several reasons, the […]

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Where we’ve been and where we’re going: A 50-year perspective on health policy

June 25, 2021 / By Megan Carr, Chet Stroyny

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Chet Stroyny, a program manager for Regulatory and Government Affairs at 3M Health Information Systems, about his 50-year career in the health […]

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The way we bill people for health care services is broken and it’s time to fix it

June 23, 2021 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD

A physician is billed $10,000 for a COVID-19 test by his own organization, and the insurer paid the full amount (it costs about $8 to perform the test). A nurse’s […]

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Indian health system in pre-DRGs era

June 21, 2021 / By Naveen Sharma, MD

Why is it a pre-diagnoses related group (DRG) era in India? The major public health schemes in India, including PMJAY, face the challenges of cost escalations, value-based service generation, data […]

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AI Talk: Smart clothes, AI for AI and AI for IT

June 18, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Smart Clothes Forget wearable devices, these researchers from Purdue have a new vision for the future that is all about smart clothes. These clothes will monitor anything and everything about […]

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ICD-10-PCS and NTAP: Where do we go from here?

June 16, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler

The first draft of this blog was an exhaustive (and exhausting) summary of the actual changes to the FY 2022 ICD-10-PCS posted recently on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]

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The secret of continuous integration/continuous deployment

June 14, 2021 / By Steve Austin

If I had to pick just one of the many advantages to delivering revenue cycle automation in the cloud, the unique, amazing power of automated software updates “over the wire” […]

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AI Talk: Explainable AI and HateCheck

June 11, 2021 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

Explainable AI? I came across an article in AI in Healthcare, about a study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. A lot of studies are claiming great results using black-box neural […]