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This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital

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Health podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing

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for today, May 7.

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First, the FDA has appointed Jeremy Walsh as

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its first chief artificial intelligence

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officer.

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Mister Walsh, who announced the career move in

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a May 2 LinkedIn post, will also oversee

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information technology in the role.

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He joins the FDA after fourteen years at

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government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as chief technologist,

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according to a May 6 report from Politico.

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In that role, mister Walsh developed cloud infrastructure

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and data analytics systems for agencies like the

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FDA,

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CDC,

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NIH,

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Department of Veterans Affairs, and Military Health Services.

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The appointment follows an April 3 directive from

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the Office of Management and Budget that stated

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each federal agency must appoint a chief AI

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officer within sixty days.

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Second,

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Pittsburgh based UPMC

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Enterprises, the venture capital arm of UPMC,

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led an 18,250,000

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series b one financing round for Carta Healthcare,

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a provider of AI powered clinical data abstraction.

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Other participants in the round include MemorialCare Innovation

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Fund, Rex Health Ventures, the investment fund of

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina based UNC Health, and

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Tampa, Florida General Hospital Ventures, according to a

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May 7 news release.

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The new funding will support Carta Healthcare's continued

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customer expansion, according to the company.

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Carta Healthcare was founded in 2017.

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Third,

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Optum has launched a new AI powered revenue

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cycle platform aimed at reducing administrative burden for

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health systems through better clinical documentation

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and coding accuracy.

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Optum Integrity One consolidates several RCM functions

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single interface,

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allowing hospital

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employees to remove manual processes across multiple

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platforms, according to a May 7 news release.

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The platform uses AI to automate revenue cycle

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tasks from point of care through final coding,

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such as removing clinical documentation,

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assigning codes, and capturing services for billing.

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This will enable more accurate documentation and billing,

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allow providers to receive proper reimbursement,

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help patients avoid surprise charges, and enable more

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efficient claims processing.

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Fully autonomous and partially autonomous coding is available

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and allow humans to oversee complex and specialized

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cases.

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Opto partners with health systems nationwide to manage

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administrative services such as RCM and information technology.

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The UnitedHealth Company set a recent pilot program

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for the new RCM platform with the health

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system showed a coding productivity increase of over

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20%.

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