Oculogica's EyeBOX

NEW YORK, February 6, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Oculogica Inc. announces publication of the initial five-site study performed to obtain FDA Marketing Authorization for its EyeBOX technology as an aid in the diagnosis of concussion. EyeBOX uses eye tracking to assess pupil size and position to determine whether a person has sustained damage to brain regions that control those functions.

The study, published in Frontiers in Neurology Dec. 1, 2022, was performed on 282 emergency room or concussion clinic patients ages 5 to 67 within two weeks of injury. Study participants were evaluated at New York City's Bellevue Hospital, Rochester's Mayo Clinic, Pittsburgh's Allegheny Hospital, Denver's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, and Beaver Dam Wisconsin's Community Hospital.

The study demonstrated that patients who had symptoms of concussion and scored poorly on a cognition assessment were more likely to have abnormal eye tracking, as assessed by the technology's proprietary BOX (Brain injury associated Ocular motility dysfunction) Score. The BOX Score diagnosed concussion with over 80% sensitivity.

"The brain has tremendous heterogeneity of normal baseline function. This makes it challenging to figure out normal versus abnormal function when injury occurs. Assessment of pupil size and movement can be a powerful way to assess function because the majority of people have relatively normal function that is controlled reflexively. A person cannot pretend to have pupils that constrict normally and move in a synchronized way when they do not," said neurosurgeon Uzma Samadani, MD, Ph.D., and Oculogica founder. "Similarly, if their brain and therefore pupil function is normal, it is difficult to pretend that it is not. Eye tracking to assess pupil size and position is a truly objective measure of physiologic brain function. We consider it a form of more precise digital neurologic examination. We believe that this will eventually and inevitably become standard of care."

"We decided to publish this data because so many people have asked us what the gold-standard for concussion is, and how one obtains FDA approval for a concussion diagnostic," said Oculogica CEO Rosina Samadani, Ph.D. "The reality is that there is currently no single gold-standard, and that is one of the challenges of any study in the field. We found that those with the worst symptoms and poorest cognition were most likely to have an elevated BOX score. Fundamentally, if a patient has abnormal eye reflexes or movement, that is their objective physiologic condition, regardless of symptom severity or ability to perform on a cognitive test. This information is helpful when people may under or over-report symptoms or have high or low baseline cognitive skills. It also may reduce biases due to language, culture, education or other factors that impact traditional patient assessment."

The EyeBOX technology is the first non-invasive, non-baseline requiring concussion diagnostic approved by the FDA for aid in the diagnosis of concussion. Leading clinics, such as the Mayo Clinic, Midwest Orthopedics at Rush University and Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology, amongst others, offer the technology.

OpenBots Expands Network to Include Xpertek Contact, Roth Automation, and Intellese
The new digital workers are designed to automate the inbound shipping process, accounts payable processing, delinquent invoices, and tax cards and vesting deeds.

EDISON, N.J., February 6, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Intelligent Automation Platform OpenBots is collaborating with three solutions providers, Xpertek Contact, Roth Automation, and Intellese, to develop four new digital assistants for its growing digital workforce. 

OpenBots is a fully bundled intelligent automation platform that allows companies to scale their digital transformation initiatives. Until now, businesses had to pay expensive licensing fees. OpenBots flips the script by giving companies access to its complete line of enterprise tools with monthly plans based on consumption hours instead of individual automation. 

Xpertek Contact offers services and solutions in hyperautomation, electronic data extraction, and Wi-Fi Location-based marketing. The company is the developer of digital assistants Rachel and Fred. Rachel is an inbound shipping process assistant that automates the inbound shipping process to enable online retailers to receive orders in their warehouses much faster. The result is a faster turnaround on customer orders. Fred provides 80% faster invoice or payment approval times, 100 reductions in paper documents, and 100% accuracy between Purchase Order and ERP. 

Intellese is a consultant company in the energy sector. They provide an automation solution is a Tax Card and Vesting Deeds digital assistant used to simplify the process for land agents to get ownership information, land information, and taxation information to determine who owns a property, what they are doing with the property, the value of the property, and the location of the property.   

Vesting Deeds show how and when a person or entity acquired a piece of real property. Landmen, Abstractors, and Title Attorneys need this information to begin chaining titles back 20, 50, or 100 years, or all the way back to sovereignty. Sadly, these processes are very tedious and time-consuming; however, with this new digital assistant, land agents can focus on more involved tasks such as chaining titles, looking for encumbrances and liabilities, and organizing the data, while Intellise's digital worker quickly finds and extracts the data they need. In comparison, human agents save the file up to 75% faster and can run at the beginning of the project in bulk so that the entire data set is ready for access simultaneously.     

Roth Automation is a provider of end-to-end professional services and project management. The company offers a range of solutions to capture, extract and utilize information from documents to automate repetitive, error-prone work processes to amplify efficiency. Roth Automation designed XO to automate the collection of delinquent invoices. XO follows all the same processes as a human worker but at a much faster pace and with greater accuracy.  

For further information visit: https://openbots.ai/digital-workers 

LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 4, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Healthcare AI-powered Risk Adjustment technology and services company achieves significant milestones in its first year. 

Celebrating its first anniversary, RAAPID sees a bright future for its Risk Adjustment solutions based on what they have accomplished in year one.  Despite spending far more on healthcare than other nations, the US lags behind in many key health measures, including life expectancy, accessibility, and value for service. Higher cost does not equate to higher quality and acceptance and adoption of sustainable, unique, and customized AI-driven solutions for Medicare Advantage Organizations, and healthcare providers continue to grow, and RAAPID is at the forefront of building new and dynamic solutions for their customers around the globe.

About RAAPID

Launched in February 2022, RAAPID, the personalized AI assistant for risk capture, is providing healthcare payers, medical coding service organizations, providers, and facilitators across the United States with access to the most powerful risk adjustment platform on the market.   RAAPID's solutions give payers, providers, coders, and hospital executives the opportunity to accurately structure key data points to effectively determine patient risk scores and calculate premium totals.

Raapid.ai has developed its state-of-the-art NLP (Natural Language Processing) technology that runs on top of Deep Learning algorithms. RAAPID 's patented technology has been trained across millions of real clinical charts and delivers accurate outcomes. This AI-powered Risk Adjustment Software ensures you don't miss out on HCC codes or RAF scoring opportunities while ensuring compliance by removing unsubstantiated codes. RAAPID combines the latest advances in machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data science, and data engineering with deep clinical and biomedical expertise.

Talking about the long history of the foundation of RAAPID:

RAAPID is Chetan Parikh's latest venture, a modern natural language processing (NLP) powered, AI-driven risk adjustment solution.

"Our mission at RAAPID is to support the healthcare ecosystem so that doctors and clinicians can provide the highest level of care to their patients. We are committed to developing and deploying advanced healthcare AI technologies that empower healthcare workers to deliver affordable care with empathy and make a positive impact on their lives. Our goal is to make human activities more meaningful" Affirms Chetan.

Reminiscing on the Past

"There are lessons to be learned from the past and I think for RAAPID, it comes down to two things. First, dream big! We had big dreams when we started RAAPID. We made these dreams come true by turning them into goals and actionable strategies. What we have achieved is far beyond the wildest dreams we had at the start of this journey. 

Second, believe in your dreams passionately, show resilience, learn from your mistakes, and get back up when you get knocked down: the power of passion and perseverance!" recalls Chetan

Casting the Future:

This year, RAAPID is entering a new phase with AI-Driven personalized solutions for healthcare providers. We are creating new technology innovations transforming our engineering and product lines to improve customer experience with a commitment to continuing to deliver value with speed and accuracy.

Through leveraging its innovative deep Knowledge Graph-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, RAAPID reads charts just like any human coder would do, and automatically suggests risk adjustment-relevant codes, eliminating inefficiencies and inaccuracies in the process. By streamlining manual coding workflows through the platform, users can expect significant improvements in hierarchical condition category (HCC) Coding and risk adjustment factor (RAF) scores, RAAPID offers the most efficient risk adjustment workflow automation capabilities available today.

The Way Forward

RAAPID's vision is to become the world's leading technology provider of customizable risk adjustment products for value-based healthcare organizations. The goal of the organization for the next five years is to make its SaaS and API offerings accessible to all healthcare payers, providers, and medical coders for better data accuracy, proper on-time risk score derivation, and most importantly, achieve value-based care. 

Keynote by the President - Chetan Parikh

"RAAPID, today is a burgeoning organization in the Risk Adjustment space. Our esteemed customers recognize the differentiated value we bring to them in terms of superior service delivery, innovative solutions, and responsiveness to their needs. They also recognize our contribution to the healthcare industry. 

We need to continue to build on their trust and demonstrate clear actions. The overall market will continue to get more competitive, and we absolutely need to continuously improve to stay ahead of the competition and achieve our goals. We have established an incredibly talented group of SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), Engineers, Data Scientists, Medical Coders, and Advisors to ensure we are at the right speed in terms of technology adoption and implementation.

Saying that, our core values - Integrity, commitment, and transparency remain the guiding principles for everything we do, and I would like to continue with this as the major driving force for RAAPID as an organization."

Dr. Hanby and His Team
Northwest Arkansas' First Robotic Total Knee Arthroplasty in an ASC Performed by C. Kris Hanby, M.D., of Ozark Orthopaedics.

ROGERS, Ark., February 4, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Ozark Orthopaedics surgeon C. Kris Hanby, M.D., has officially performed the first robot-assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Northwest Arkansas ASC with the Zimmer Biomet ROSA® Knee System. 

The procedure was performed Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at Precision Surgical Center of Northwest Arkansas.

"I'm excited about our ability to perform this procedure in an ASC setting. We're the first to do it in Northwest Arkansas," stated C. Kris Hanby, M.D., a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and joint reconstruction specialist at Ozark Orthopaedics. "For many patients, ASCs offer an efficient and affordable outpatient experience with the same state-of-the-art technology and safety standards as a typical hospital setting."

The surgery is now offered in the ASC by all of Ozark Orthopaedics' joint replacement specialists. Dr. Jonathan D. Creech of Ozark Orthopaedics performed the surgery Thursday, Jan. 26, and Dr. Matthew J. Coker will perform the surgery in the coming weeks.

This procedure may be appropriate for anyone suffering from severe knee pain or stiffness resulting from noninflammatory degenerative joint disease (including osteoarthritis, traumatic arthritis, or avascular necrosis), rheumatoid arthritis, or post-traumatic arthritis and for whom conservative treatment options, like bracing, medication or joint fluid supplements, have not provided relief.

For more information, please visit Ozark-Ortho.com/contact-us.

ABOUT OZARK ORTHOPAEDICS 

Ozark Orthopaedics has been setting the standards for total orthopaedic care in Northwest Arkansas for 75 years. Our expert physicians and physical therapists treat injuries and problems of the spine, hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, knee, hip, foot and ankle, as well as sports medicine concerns. For more information, visit Ozark-Ortho.com.  

ABOUT PRECISION SURGICAL CENTER OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS 

The Precision Surgical Center of Northwest Arkansas, LLC was established in 2018 by hospital and clinical personnel to offer safe, high-quality surgical care. The center specializes in outpatient surgery, providing patients with personalized service and excellent medical care. The center meets the highest industry standards for top-quality healthcare and is accredited by The Joint Commission. For more information, visit PrecisionNWA.com.

OpenBots Partnerships with Hexaware and Simply Automate
OpenBots Partnerships with Hexaware and Simply Automate in the Global Digital Summit 2023

MIAMI, February 3, 2023 (Newswire.com) - OpenBots is proud to assist companies in carrying out automation workflow solutions that successfully mimic human behavior and interactions on computers, connect disparate systems, process documents, and perform repetitive tasks with 100% accuracy. The platform provides businesses with a limitless team of bots and enterprise automation utilities without bot licensing fees.

A car auction company that carries out sales around the country previously conducted manual auction searches, which involved sending out requests manually, searching for vehicles, and other time-consuming, repetitive, and error-prone tasks. With the help of the OpenBots Platform, businesses have automated aspects of the car auction process that eliminate 80% of labor costs and save over 280 hours a week of manual searching. OpenBots partner, Simply Automate, is expected to save this client almost a quarter of a million dollars annually.    

"Jumpstarting this client's automation program not only means more freedom," says Wilton Rogers, CEO of Simply Automate, "but it also means more flexibility and opportunity to place more time into initiatives that bring in more value, such as building relationships with the brokers. It makes work a lot easier and so much more productive." 

OpenBots has announced a partnership with Hexaware, a global technology and business process services company. As part of its automation suite of solutions, Hexaware has automated the insurance claim status process, improving the current processing times manyfold. Claims status is an inquiry and response communication between a Payer and Policy Holder. A Policy Holder can send a request to a Payer to know the status of their claim, which then gets forwarded to a centralized portal system that confirms multiple Payers' status requests. Digital workers access this centralized portal, process the status request, and provide status responses to the Policy Holder - decreasing the average handling time from 15 minutes to one minute.  

"Intelligent automation such as this not only streamlines business processes to ensure accuracy and improve employee satisfaction, but it also reduces operational costs and provides improved trackability and reporting," says Chandru Ramaswamy, Head of Intelligent Automation Services and Banking Operations at Hexaware. 

"There's been a huge growth of automation solution providers in just under a decade, which proves that many more enterprises are beginning to embrace such technologies to their own benefits, reducing their dependency on human employees and time." 

CMO of OpenBots, Gilberto Marcano, says, "We do our best to ensure business owners, companies, and clients can complete mundane or everyday tasks far more effectively, in an automated way."