In talking to many customers lately, I’ve been inspired by a palpable shift in attitudes towards “the Cloud,” with growing acceptance and demand for cloud-based solutions. Perhaps this shift is […]

All of us experienced quite a shift from the norm in 2020, and we continue to adapt to this new environment in 2021. We stay home, some of us work […]

This week’s AI Talk… Future of health I came across a press release from UCI Institute for “Future Health” which intrigued me. UCI Institute’s research mission and goal are in […]

“Primary care is the foundation to a high value, high functioning system that meets the needs of people and communities.” – Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Purchaser Business […]

Hopefully, everyone is using the new E/M codes without issue. CMS added two HCPCS codes to represent “additional” time for E/M services. These are important qualifiers, as medical necessity audits […]

I recently received some questions from an Inside Angle reader about my blog post on ICD-10 coding for aortic valve disease. The reader asked about transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) […]

This week’s AI Talk… BOLD: Bias in Open-ended Language-generation Dataset I saw this article in VentureBeat about researchers releasing a new dataset that attempts to expose bias in language models. […]

State budgets have been pushed to extremes driven in part by ballooning Medicaid costs and ballooning Medicaid rolls. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation:  “Early estimates indicate that states are […]

In the first month of 2021, COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing heart disease and cancer. Except for the 1918 flu pandemic and the […]

Predicting Breast Cancer This week, MIT News featured a good discussion of some fresh new research published in Science Translational Medicine. Adam Yala, an MIT researcher, led this multi-year, multi-site […]

The effort to develop vaccines against COVID-19 has been extraordinary and the process to distribute the vaccines needs to be just as successful—not only for the country overall, but also […]

World Cancer Day, which falls on Feb 4, 2021 seeks to build awareness across the international community that cancer can lead to preventable suffering and injustice, and that efforts are […]