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.
Working with Medicare Advantage insurance plans is like playing poker in the Wild West. And it’s gotten a lot harder to win since the cowboys started using AI.
As 2024 winds down and the number of FDA-approved medical devices packing AI approaches 1,000—the agency had the tally at 950 as of August—the industry finds itself at a “critical inflection point.”
Nurses tend to feel optimistic if not exactly excited about AI’s advances into their profession. Those who hold back tend to share a common concern—sacrificing care quality for the sake of tech-enabled efficiency.
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.