Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Donald J. Trump 2024

Healthcare AI newswatch: Trump-era AI regs, AI sign language, AI dentistry, more

The Trump administration will probably play to type when it comes to regulating AI. 

Generative AI hospital comparison shopping

Generative AI isn’t changing everything for patients and providers—but it’s not leaving much unaffected, either

Generative AI is altering the way healthcare consumers size up hospitals, group practices and individual providers. But the comparison shopping would pose a challenge to healthcare organizations even if AI hadn’t entered the picture. 

shocked surprised social media post defamation

Healthcare AI newswatch: Consumer mistrust, humanoid robots, vendor wars, more

Healthcare consumers are wary of healthcare systems packing AI. 

AI in healthcare news

Healthcare AI newswatch: UnitedHealth lawsuit, humanized medical AI, mobile AI care clinics, more

A federal judge has vacated five of seven complaints against UnitedHealth Group—yet is allowing the AI-implicated suit to advance. 

healthcare AI newsmakers

Healthcare AI newswatch: End-of-life AI, deepfake healthcare workers, AI drug prescribers, more

End-of-life decisions are often anything but easy. AI might be able to help. 

Thumbnail

Gottlieb: Let’s not slap the label ‘medical device’ on AI software that only helps clinicians make care decisions

Standing FDA guidance reflects concern over physicians deferring to AI-aided CDS recommendations when pressed for time or uncertain of their own judgments. Is that stance outdated? 

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Healthcare AI Digest

People are still asking if AI will replace doctors or other healthcare workers. 

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Healthcare AI Digest

Don’t judge DeepSeek on the innovativeness of its programming. Judge it on the degree to which it shakes up the economics of the AI market.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.