All NLP

We often speak about the importance of humans in the loop in AI, and how Infinitus uses humans in concert with our purpose-built AI system. Our human experts serve a number of roles in our ecosystem, including stepping into live calls the Infinitus AI agent is conducting with payor representatives. This may occur if the...

AI agents are everywhere, with some news outlets proclaiming them to be the future of AI. We don’t disagree.  At Infinitus, we talk a lot about our AI agent and the technology that powers it. Also known as Eva, the Infinitus AI agent makes phone calls to commercial and government payors on behalf of healthcare...

How we use humans in concert with our multi-model, multimodal AI system to deliver real efficiency to over a dozen Fortune 500 healthcare customers Automating administrative phone calls in healthcare is no easy feat. The benefit verifications and prior authorization inquiries Infinitus automates can be an hour long, with hundreds of back-and-forth interactions that require...

If you ask many experts, they’ll tell you AI is a discipline within computer science. After all, AI is concerned with creating computer systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence; it makes logical sense.  I understand where those that label AI as computer science are coming from. But I also disagree with them. ...

Increasingly employer-sponsored plans are including copay accumulators, copay maximizers, or alternative funding sources as part of their plan design. In fact, estimates suggest about half of all lives covered by commercial insurance are enrolled in a plan that utilizes a copay accumulator and/or a maximizer.  If your team is responsible for guiding individuals through coverage...

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...

For healthcare leaders in 2023, understanding the nuances of artificial intelligence (AI) is essential. Whether you’re a seasoned healthcare professional or newer to the industry, odds are you’re being asked to incorporate AI into your plans.  But the world of AI can be complex, filled with terminology and acronyms that can be overwhelming. Below, we’ve...

The world of AI and large language models (LLMs) is in a state of constant flux, change, and improvement. At Infinitus, we’re focused on keeping up with the latest – both in our own research, and in that which we read. It is our hope that the research papers and articles below will provide some...

Artificial intelligence (AI) dominates today’s headlines, with the stories see-sawing between two fears: AI will take over our brains, or humans will also lose their jobs to AI. “AI doomerism,” as the Techdirt blog calls it, sees little middle ground between humans and AI.  But at Infinitus, we have a more positive vision of the...

Recently, Arushi Raghuvanshi, Infinitus’ machine learning lead, presented the results of an Infinitus research project at the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting. The resulting research paper, “Leveraging Explicit Procedural Instructions for Data-Efficient Action Prediction,” explored leveraging explicitly stored agent guidelines, such as company policies, customer service manuals, or documents on standard operating procedures, to...

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...

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?

There hasn’t been as much production level automation in longer form conversations, including phone calls, but there is a need for it. Many business operations today still happen over the phone and we discuss how we are solving these issues.

This week, we’re excited to be featuring Conal Sathi. Conal has been building the computer brains that drive the conversations that the Infinitus digital assistant has. From rule based systems to self-learning models, Conal has been pulling out all stops to make sure our customers are getting the most out of their Infinitus experience.