Summer 2024 Issue

By the Numbers
For The Record
Vol. 36 No. 3 P. 34

91.8%
Tech company Crosby Health built a clinical, large language model (LLM) that is scoring this percentage on medical licensing board examinations, making it seemingly more powerful than most of the currently available LLMs.

715
A former employee of Allina Health, a Minneapolis-based health care system, accessed this number of patients’ EHRs without permission. New security measures were implemented following the incident.

60%
According to a cross-sectional study referenced in a BMC research article, the percentage of people aged 18 and older taking antidepressants increased by this much between 1999 and 2010.

15 Billion
Change Healthcare, a company specializing in revenue and payment cycle management, which handles this number of transactions annually, had to greatly improve its security after a hack earlier this year crippled its ability to process medical claims.

$20 Million
Sift Healthcare, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to innovate health care payment solutions, recently finished fundraising this much to enhance and further invest in AI-powered health care solutions.

6
Nym, a company dedicated to automating medical coding, has expanded the capabilities of its medical coding engine, allowing it to support this number of specialties and services, which includes emergency medicine, radiology, outpatient surgery, outpatient visits, inpatient professional fee services, and urgent care.

11.6%
Innovation within the medical coding audit tools market is driving growth and piquing interest, which is projected to lead to a growth of at least this percentage between now and 2031.

$108.38 Billion
A recent report by Vantage Market Research on the cancer registry software market estimates that by 2032, the market is predicted to reach this amount.