1/ A summary version of my post on http://viz.ai , their Medicare reimbursement via the New Technology Add-on Program, and why workflow matters more than tech

aka. what every AI company in healthcare should think about https://outofpocket.health/p/vizai-and-why-workflow-tech

2/ There are two types of stroke centers - primary stroke centers that can handle the more simple things and comprehensive stroke centers which do the more advanced surgeries, etc. for complex strokes

Primary stroke centers triage and escalate the complex strokes

3/ Usually at a primary stroke center, there's an escalation process that happens where a radiologist, neurologist, ED doc, etc are all looking at a patient to figure out how serious they are. This happens with a lot of calls, pings, back and forths to figure this out

4/ http://Viz.ai  takes the scan, uses AI magic, and figures out if a patient is potentially severe enough that they should be escalated immediately. If the patient is, then all the specialists are notified and immediately give a consult

5/ This is a particularly smart tactic for Viz because

-The AI is actually not diagnosing, but just assessing risk. A patient will at the very least get the standard of care
-This is time sensitive, every minute counts
-It's a very $ heavy area - Viz helps decide surgery vs. not

6/ Viz made a few specific product workflow choices that I think are important

-Parallelization of processes (this is where tech I think can play a huge role)
-Ensuring both collaboration and traceability
-It's a single use-case product - there's only one reason you'd be pinged

7/ Workflow is so important that CMS agreed that a workflow could be considered to have a therapeutic effect.

Everyone is like "software is a drug" when the whole time it was "collaboration software is a drug" lmao

Workflow is more important than tech!!!!