The Thynk Health platform optimizes data-driven workflows and provides operational and clinical analytics for lung cancer screening programs and other quality initiatives.
Lung Cancer Screenings Could Double, Is Your Program Prepared? The United State Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidance on lung cancer screening that could make a significant impact, possibly even saving an additional 60,000 people annually. Lung cancer continues to be the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death …
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COVID-19: How Healthcare IT Industry Organizations are Managing This interview is part of a series “COVID-19: How Healthcare IT Industry Organizations are Managing” by DirectRecruiters.com Is your company pivoting at all during this pandemic and are there any initiatives you would like to share about what your firm is doing to assist the healthcare industry …
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Covid-19’s impact is being felt across the entire world. While the majority of those who contract the virus will experience mild symptoms, cancer patients and those who are immunocompromised are at a high risk of becoming seriously ill. To protect our friends and family members who are at high-risk, we have enacted social distancing – …
COVID-19 has created new and unfamiliar challenges for healthcare providers to deliver patient care. Many non-urgent, but important services like lung cancer screening have been temporarily suspended to protect the health of staff and patients. Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in appointment scheduling, patient tracking, and patient and provider follow-up communications to ensure the …
Lung Cancer is the Deadliest Cancer 0 Estimated new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in 2019 (American Cancer Society) 0 Estimated deaths caused by lung cancer in 2019 (American Cancer Society) Deaths Caused By Cancer Lung cancer accounts for 25% of all cancer deaths and causes more deaths than the next three cancers combined. Go2Foundation Survival …
For 12 months of the year our focus, at Thynk Health, is on defeating lung cancer with advanced technology to identify and screen more at-risk patients, detecting lung cancer earlier when survival rates are far higher. We help hospitals track patients through their screening and treatment processes and easily communicate test results and appointment notifications …
Solving the Data Conundrum in Healthcare – Part 2 Innovations and Technology as Solutions: The second of a three part series. Read Part 1: Barriers to Innovation here. In technology — specifically in the area of data analytics — the myriad of available tools can be overwhelming for healthcare administrators or program champions to sift through. …
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Solving the Data Conundrum in Healthcare Barriers to Innovation in Healthcare: The first of a three part series. Healthcare’s transition to a highly data-centric environment, requires greater innovation and technology than ever before. While healthcare has always been a data-driven field (through laboratory tests, imaging exams, vital signs, and other clinical tests), we have recently …
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Changing the Way Radiologists Performance is Assessed with the help of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Radiologists quality evaluation programs are highly variable and rarely lead to improved patient care. Some organizations like the American College of Radiology have substantially elevated the topic by creating frameworks and data repositories to collect information on radiologists …
In the first three parts of this series, I made the case for electronic health records, addressed their problems, and then talked about the need to build structures to share this data with one another to improve care and lower costs. I believe we are on the cusp new technologies for medical screening with recent …
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