Benchmarking AI in healthcare

Veracuity Blog Benchmarking AI in healthcare Artificial intelligence (AI) models are becoming an indispensable part of healthcare delivery due to the ever-growing volumes of data the sector produces. The technology supports countless operations, from pattern recognition and classification of disease entities to clinical decision-making. The purpose of AI is to decrease the burden of repetitive…

The cost of patient harm

Veracuity Blog The cost of patient harm U.S. health care spending reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, of which hospital care was $1.1 trillion and physician and clinical services was $694 billion. Retail prescription drugs cost $333.4 billion [1]. The cost of drug-related patient injury, referred to adverse drug events (ADEs) in the U.S. is estimated…