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In August, we released The truth about prior authorization, our inaugural report analyzing data collected directly from payors to understand whether – and how – efforts to improve healthcare’s “burden turned nightmare” have had any effect.  As we wrote in the report, no one likes prior auth; patients, providers, and payors have all spoken out...

Organizations across the care continuum are embracing AI’s potential, but no two leaders approach its use in the same way.  We know the buzz around the technology is growing – AI recently was ranked as the most exciting emerging technology for the fourth year in a row in an executive survey. But to understand more...

This week, members of the Infinitus team attended the NASP Annual Meeting in Nashville. The conference brings together leaders from across the specialty pharmacy sector to explore trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the industry. While each annual meeting offers valuable insights, this year there was a notable emphasis on artificial intelligence. Numerous sessions and booths...

Helping patients access therapy as efficiently as possible is critical to improving outcomes. This is just one of the reasons electronic benefit verification (eBV) solutions are popular – they represent a streamlined approach to getting the data that makes medication access possible. But with so many options on the market, and as technology and AI...

Earlier this year, we shared the details of our multi-model, multimodal AI system. Now we’re introducing some of the human experts who help make the work of Infinitus, and our human-in-the-loop machine learning, possible. Infinitus learns a lot from human feedback – which is why it’s important to note that our human team represents all...

This piece is excerpted from Separating AI fact from fiction: A guide for healthcare leaders. You can read the full ebook here. If what’s written about in popular media were to be believed, there’s nothing AI can’t quickly and easily automate. In reality, that’s not exactly the case – especially when it comes to sensitive,...

The recently released 2024 Future Health Index zeroed in on something all healthcare workers have known for some time: staffing shortages are hindering the ability to provide the best possible patient experience.  The good news is, per the report, it seems healthcare leaders have realized that a solution may be found in the automation of...

The Inflation Reduction Act – or IRA – contains $500 billion in new funding and tax breaks intended to boost clean energy, strengthen taxpayer compliance, and reduce healthcare costs. It includes three provisions concerning Medicare prescription drug prices that have the potential to dramatically impact the pharmaceutical industry, and patient support in particular. For a...

Last week, members of the Infinitus team attended Asembia’s AXS24 Summit, the annual conference that brings together leaders from across the pharmaceutical landscape to discuss the industry’s biggest trends, issues, and developments. Every Asembia summit is a chance to learn – and not only from speakers who take the stage – and this year’s conference...

You’re ready to embrace AI. Now what? Any AI solution under consideration should help empower your patient support program to provide streamlined processes and, ultimately, quicker access to medications for those who need them most. To accomplish this, however, you’ll need to be sure you’re choosing the right vendor and that you can get colleagues...

There’s a lot to see and do at Asembia’s AXS24 Summit, and more people than you could ever hope to meet in just five days. Which means it takes some preparation to successfully navigate what others have dubbed “spring prom” for the specialty pharmacy industry. I’ve been attending the summit for 10 years, which means...

Since Change Healthcare abruptly shut down its network Feb. 21, disruptions across the healthcare landscape have been far reaching. One unforeseen result has been a backlog of calls to payors and pharmacies, making it even harder for providers to get access to live agents on the phone. In an analysis of calls made by the...

Technically, the annual insurance reverification period (often known as blizzard) lasts just a handful of weeks. However, reality tells a different story. We know our customers spend months preparing for each January, when patients’ access to medication can be put into question because of changes to formularies, deductibles, and out-of-pocket requirements.  With this year’s blizzard...

Chatbots are everywhere in healthcare news, with some outlets even proclaiming the AI-powered technology to be “the future of healthcare.”  At the same time, you’ve likely heard about conversational AI’s potential to transform the industry too.  But when it comes to provider- or payor-facing communications, like phone calls to retail pharmacies or major medical insurance...

2023 will go down in history as the year artificial intelligence in its current incarnation went mainstream, and it won’t be slowing down this year. To many, the technology’s arrival – and pressure to be incorporated at work – felt sudden. Regardless, the healthcare industry is in dire need of the kind of help AI...

While AI is dominating many conversations in healthcare, relatively few organizations in the space actually use generative AI tools, according to a recent survey. Among the primary reasons why are concerns about hallucinations, accuracy, and reliability. At Infinitus, we are committed to our mission of improving access, adherence, and affordability in healthcare – but along...

Popular weight-loss medications Wegovy and Saxenda are somehow both everywhere and nowhere.  It’s nearly impossible to avoid the headlines about these injectables, part of a class of medication known as GLP-1 agonists that were originally intended to treat type 2 diabetes or severe obesity. The media has detailed which celebrities might be taking them and...

If the ultimate goal of patient support programs is to create holistic, patient-centric ecosystems of assistance, 2023 saw strides forward. Patient support programs are better than ever at creating and analyzing meaningful data and have improved dramatically at providing the personalized engagement that patients desire. But there is still more to be done.  In 2024,...

At Infinitus, we spend a lot of time talking about the advantages of benefit verification automation. AI can transform healthcare’s back-office administrative processes, helping create time for the industry to improve access, adherence, and affordability – something we’re committed to as an organization. But why is benefit verification, specifically, a strong fit for automation?  Read...

Depending on your company and role within healthcare, you’re either researching AI, experimenting with AI, or scaling up your approach. But regardless of where you are in your AI journey, there are a number of questions to answer and items to mull over.  Here are some key considerations to weigh as you embark upon creating...

We’re often asked whether the Infinitus digital assistant uses ChatGPT, or on a more general level, whether ChatGPT can automate calls from healthcare providers to payors like Infinitus does. After all, based on the media coverage OpenAI’s chatbot has received, it almost seems as if there’s nothing ChatGPT can’t do.  It’s worth noting that ChatGPT...

AI is everywhere – dominating headlines, business meetings, and even conversations at the dining room table. But as healthcare and pharma leaders, and not necessarily AI experts, many of our customers and partners have questions about the technology.  Machine learning, deep learning, large language models (LLMs), generative AI … these terms are all interconnected, but...

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the amount of time we spend communicating through screens instead of in person. The result: a growing sense of isolation, one that the US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy believes contributed to an “epidemic of loneliness.” This highlights a paradox: Healthcare, one of the most personal of services, now lacks connection...

Healthcare professionals generally gravitate to the field because they genuinely want to help people. In my experience, from senior clinicians to researchers to administrative staff, everyone’s goal is to ensure patients get the right treatment as quickly as possible. One thing not on their career plan? Spending hours on the phone trying to complete benefit...

As the American Medical Association puts it, prior authorization creates “a huge administrative burden” for healthcare providers that often delays patient care. Despite this, reports suggest prior authorizations are increasingly common – and are increasingly leading to problems. The good news is: Prior authorization automation – especially in patient access programs – can be a...

To date, Infinitus automates calls on behalf of healthcare providers to more than 500 payors. Those calls are faster and result in more accurate data for our customers, but we’re still often asked: Why do payors take calls from the Infinitus digital assistant? As it is for healthcare providers, digital transformation is a top priority...

The new year is a time of hope and renewal, of setting goals and refocusing on the big picture. But it is also a time of uncertainty when it comes to health insurance; with the new year comes changes in health insurance coverage, cost share, and authorization requirements. This annual cycle creates uncertainty for patients about...

Recently there have been huge advancements in the ability of large language models (LLMs) to handle conversational systems. In many practical industry settings, the conversational AI systems we want to build are task-oriented dialog systems (TODs). In these systems, the goal is to help a user complete a task or collect certain information. For many...

When it comes to benefit verifications, ambulatory surgery centers are under intense pressure to turn around authorizations quickly. However, it’s not uncommon for this crucial task to take longer than expected. Coverage information online is often incomplete, and staff must make multiple calls to payors to close out inquiries and ensure procedural dates are met....

San Francisco — May 16, 2023 — Infinitus Systems, Inc., the Conversational AI Platform for Healthcare, today announced that Gramercy Surgery Center, the #1 Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in New York, has chosen Infinitus to automate tedious and time consuming tasks of insurance verification and prior authorization across its care sites. With Infinitus, Gramercy aims...

Key Insights: ‍ Much of the attention on healthcare has focused on lower patient outcomes even in the face of ever-escalating costs.  And there seems to be no end in sight. But lost in that understandable outrage is another important story around healthcare: the agony and emotional stress of waiting. A doctor visit can be...

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Today, we are proud to announce that we have successfully completed a SOC 2 Type II audit for the Infinitus platform and services.

We talk about being vulnerable in our day to day lives. Let's do that for our AI products as well. It'll enable everyone to understand the power, pitfalls and progress that our computers are making.

Every January, US healthcare operations workers go through hell. With Omicron, this year has been worse than most years. Here's a behind the scenes look at what happens..on healthcare phone-lines across the US in January. Why?

Infinitus Systems, the leading VoiceRPA company for automating phone calls in healthcare, today announced its close of $30M in Series B financing, accelerating its position as the category leader in VoiceRPA.

How Infinitus helped VaccinateCA improve their coverage of Covid-19 vaccination sites by automating calls to 2500 pharmacies every day.

Today, my co-founder Shyam Rajagopalan and I are introducing the world to Infinitus, a voice robotic process automation (Voice RPA) company targeted to reduce the complexity and cost of healthcare in the United States. We have been working on this project since February 2019 and are excited to share our progress on it on this blog over the coming years.