The Paradox of Healthcare AI
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The Paradox of Healthcare AI

The concept of AI making healthcare decisions from patient healthcare data sources is difficult to accept, driven by a paradox driven by two statements.

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Understanding Prior Authorization
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Understanding Prior Authorization

A prior authorization is an approval from a health plan, required before specialized services or medications are provided to ensure that they can be paid for.

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2025 Healthcare LLM Tech
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2025 Healthcare LLM Tech

Summarization remains the highest utility of healthcare LLM AI. We cover expected developments in 2025 from most to least significant for the healthcare domain.

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SDoH NLP and Tenasol
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SDoH NLP and Tenasol

SDoH NLP is the use of NLP to detect aspects of patients that are peripheral to their medical status but have a large impact on their wellbeing.

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Risk Adjustment NLP with Tenasol
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Risk Adjustment NLP with Tenasol

Risk adjustment is component of the US health economy whereby federal resources are distributed to health plans based on membership quantity and attributes.

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What is HL7 CQL?
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What is HL7 CQL?

CQL stands for Clinical Quality Language - a SQL-style query language used for calculating HEDIS measure performance metrics.

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How to Convert a Medical Record
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How to Convert a Medical Record

Learn how to convert a medical record from between HL7 FHIR, HL7 CDA/C-CCDA, HL7 ADT, and PDF or other unstructured medical record data sources.

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Tenasol 2025 Health IT Perspectives
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Tenasol 2025 Health IT Perspectives

The healthcare data industry feels poised for policy transformations with the adoption of AI, healthcare interoperability, and introduction of HL7 FHIR.

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 Explanation of HL7 C-CDA
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Explanation of HL7 C-CDA

C-CDA stands for Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture - the most dominant structured electronic format at present, though it is not the most recent.

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Introduction to HEDIS & Quality
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Introduction to HEDIS & Quality

HEDIS is a set of criteria for evaluating if patients are receiving preventative care checkups relevant to them based on their age and gender.

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The Best Medical Record OCR
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The Best Medical Record OCR

This blog aims to compare and contrast known vendors, relative performances, and limitations of these OCR systems.

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Summary of Medical Coding Systems
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Summary of Medical Coding Systems

Given that all healthcare system in the world ultimately need to have a billing component, the concept of medical data categorization is essential.

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Explanation of HL7 ADT
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Explanation of HL7 ADT

We look at HL7v2, also called ADT for Admit Discharge Transfer - the first digitally standard of healthcare data adopted globally.

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Explanation of HL7 FHIR
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Explanation of HL7 FHIR

FHIR data is a unique new generation of data whereby the guardrails are narrowly defined, data transfer is fast, but anything is still possible.

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