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Healthcare billing and claims automation startup Outbound AI raises $16M

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(Outbound AI Photos) Outbound AI announced Wednesday $16 million in fresh funding to advance the rollout of its artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare teams interact with insurance companies and automate administrative work during the claims process. Providence-linked Advata has a focus on healthcare revenue cycle management.

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Health Innovation of the Year: 5 finalists at the GeekWire Awards use tech to improve healthcare

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The five finalists for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards highlight the multitude of ways that technology is changing healthcare, from treatment in the hospital to the development of new therapeutics. Read more about the finalists and cast your vote below. The company, which raised $22.4 The company raised $2.5

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How Healthcare Can Keep Up with Accelerating Tech Cycles

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I recently read an interesting fact around software and product deployments at leading consumer facing websites: Amazon performs a software release every 11.6 So if I am a provider of dental software, why would I not enable Kolibree to provide a value-added data as a service to the participating dentists?

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives. Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale.

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BirchAI, spinout from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, acquired by health-tech company Sagility

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(BirchAI Photo) Seattle-based BirchAI , a startup that builds software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies, announced Tuesday that it is being acquired by Sagility , a Denver-based health-tech company. The company was launched in June 2020 by CEO Kevin Terrell , CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale.

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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.