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.

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Google’s chief clinical officer: Healthcare AI ‘should happen with clinicians, not to them’

Generative AI of the “large language” kind has been an attention hog over the past 10 or 11 months. The buzz has been so loud and constant that it’s all but asking to be dismissed as hype.

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5 reasons healthcare needs ‘ownership transparency’ now

Do you know who owns your personal favorite doctor’s practice? Could it be a healthcare conglomerate? An insurance company? A private equity firm? Amazon?

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Who benefits—and who doesn’t—when 2 disparate health systems come together as 1?

It’s easy to see the appeal of cross-market hospital mergers to the marrying partners. How these long-distance entwinements help patients is a separate question.

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Hospital pricing puzzlers—whether inadvertent or intentional—uncovered in study co-authored by Mark Cuban

Patients browsing shoppable hospital services often get one price online and another over the phone, new research shows.

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Federal regulation of AI: What the likely framers and innovators are saying now

Last week brought the latest in an occasional series of conversations on AI between governmental leaders and Big Tech honchos.

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Updated branding gives J&J 2 segments sharing 1 name

A healthcare logo familiar to Americans since the 1800s has gotten a makeover.

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Meet 23 of the ‘world’s best companies’ working in U.S. healthcare or health insurance

After assessing measures of revenue growth, employee satisfaction and attention paid to “ESG” issues, Time magazine and Statista are hailing 750 companies as the best in the world.

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Healthcare systems vs. private equity: If you can’t beat them, join them?

Physician groups mulling buyout offers from private equity firms often simultaneously entertain alignment opportunities with healthcare systems, including not-for-profits. For this reason, hospitals do well to stay competitive for finite clinical talent.

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."

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