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Optimization & Automation for the Rapidly-Changing Veterinary Landscape

October 18, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

We’re busy, overbooked, stressed, mentally exhausted and – on top of it all – we’ve fallen behind on our practice management tasks. Instead of focusing on the obstacles we currently face in the veterinary industry, let’s shift the conversation towards strategies, solutions and new approaches that we can use to create a more sustainable work-life balance.

The week after next, I’m delighted to invite you to a discussion about current thinking around best practices and tools that can help you reclaim some invaluable me-time on Wednesday, October 27 at 11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT, entitled “Optimization & Automation for the Rapidly-Changing Veterinary Landscape.”

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Smoking Gums – Using Oral Care Data To Identify Self-Reported Misinformation for Life Insurance

October 14, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

Continuing our insurtech webinar series, I’m delighted to invite you to a discussion about cutting-edge topics in life insurance entitled “Smoking Gums – Using Oral Care Data To Identify Self-Reported Misinformation for Life Insurance.”

Jeff Pickett (AVP, Growth Marketing at Sikka) will moderate this roundtable on addressing applicant misinformation. The panelists are Lewis Goldman (General Manager of Sikka Insights’ Insurance Business), Dan Brown (AVP, Chief Underwriter, Baltimore Life), Brian Lanzrath (Director of Analytics, ExamOne) and Nick Irwin (Director, Life Underwriting, Verisk).

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SikkaPay™, Premier Payments Platform for Dentistry, Launches New User Interface

September 29, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

SikkaPay™ integrates with all major practice management systems and versions, and it allows patients to pay from anywhere, anytime.

“One of the most efficient ways to take control of our finances to get paid faster. Collecting payments through text2pay and web2pay has been a game changer…improving our collections by 15%.”— Roy Reynolds, Office Manager at Nova Family Dentistry of Tyrone, GA

SAN JOSE, CA, USA, September 28, 2021 — SikkaPay™, the leader in dental payments processing since its inception two years ago, has gone and made a good thing even better, refreshing its user interface with a clean, up-to-the-minute look.

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sikka.ai Launches New Version of Its Award-Winning Sikka API Platform To Optimize Healthcare Connectivity

September 23, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

This new release adds near-instantaneous response time and advanced query and filter capabilities to its more than 2 million calls per day with 99.945% uptime.

“Dental, veterinary, optometry, chiropractors and other healthcare offices have never had a single API that enables over 50 best-in-class productivity applications…. We feel inspired to do our part.”— Founder and CEO Vijay Sikka

SAN JOSE, CA, USA, September 21, 2021 — “One API to rule them all,” the brand-new Sikka API Platform not only provides boundless connectivity, it handles concurrent calls with ease. It enables healthcare app-makers to connect to practitioners within minutes using just a few lines of code instead of the months of development – not to mention constant upkeep – that come along with going it alone.

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Team of Caltech Undergraduates Triumphs in sikka.ai’s Hotly-Contested AI Model Hackathon

July 28, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

Second place went to an individual entry from India, followed by another Caltech team. The quality of the data science work was surpassing across the board.

“It has been amazing to see such great minds’ collective brainpower applied to these healthcare business predictions. We hope to continue interacting with these leaders of artificial intelligence….”— Vijay Sikka, Founder and CEO of sikka.ai

SAN JOSE, CA, USA, July 27, 2021 — 29 registrants contested sikka.ai‘s AI Model Hackathon, the first of its kind in the retail healthcare realm, which ran for the week starting July 12. While the finish was extremely close, as one might expect based on that level of enthusiasm, the data was nonetheless conclusive – the winning team was indisputably this group of undergraduates from Caltech:

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First AI Model Hackathon Using Dental and Oral Health Data Announced by sikka.ai

July 2, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

sikka.ai extends registration deadline for its Artificial Intelligence Model Hackathon due to extreme demand.

“We live in a world where our superheroes are AI model builders. To help pave the way to Self-Driving Practice, we have organized this hackathon, which is the first of its kind in the dental industry.”— Founder and CEO Vijay Sikka

SANTA CLARA, CA, USA, July 2, 2021 — In its continuing quest to build the best predictive models in healthcare, sikka.ai is set to host an AI Model Hackathon – the first of its kind in the retail healthcare realm – starting July 12. With no fewer than 15 crack teams from across the world already registered, sikka.ai has extended the signup deadline to 11:59 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 7, so that no interested data scientist shall be left out of the quest for over $10,000 in cash to be awarded across the top four finishers. To test your wits against some of the most brilliant minds in artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, register here.

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Leveraging Oral Care and Other Alternative Data To Improve Mortality Risk Assessment in Automated Underwriting

July 1, 2021 sikkamarketing Leave a comment

In this Webinar, you’ll learn from underwriting leaders at Swiss Re, SCOR, Ethos and Sikka about:

How alternative data sources can effectively assess risk without the need for a paramed exam

Customer expectations for automated underwriting through digital channels and the need for realtime data feeds

The high correlation between oral care and mortality, including using dental information to identify chronic conditions and tobacco use

Leveraging alternative data and realtime decisioning for higher Term coverage amounts to stem the decline in life insurance ownership

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