Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

Nurses and AI artificial intelligence

4 ways to help nurses make friends with algorithms

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. 

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In pharma, AI will probably make the big even bigger

Generative AI is fixing to transform the pharmaceutical industry. However, not all adopters will reap rewards in comparable degrees.  

AI in healthcare

Said and heard this week in and around healthcare

10 notable quotes about AI from the past 5 days.

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It’s 2024. Does the C-suite know—or care—what workers are doing with generative AI?

In the rush to do something, anything with AI, are America’s business leaders playing fast and loose with the risks? 

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UN effort afoot to address the world’s ‘governance deficit with respect to AI’

The AI advisory board of the United Nations is calling for the creation of a global AI data framework. 

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Providers trail payers in healthcare AI action

If putting an AI plan in place were a team sport, the Payers would be outpacing the Providers quite handily. 

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View from the C-suite: AI, automation key to getting, staying ahead of RCM issues

Healthcare executives have big plans for technology in their revenue cycle management operations. 

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AI technical trends to watch for (and not just in healthcare)

Many gen AI end users are finding that large language models (LLMs) defy easy infrastructure setup and affordable management costs. One budding option may be to go with small language models (SMLs) instead. 

Around the web

"The number of non-facility services reimbursed at less than direct costs grew 50% since 2024. The number of services under the MPFS for which reimbursement does not even cover cost likely is much higher than 300 services," the proposed AMA resolution states.

COVID-19 vaccines are associated with a very low risk of myocarditis and/or pericarditis, primarily in young adults. The long-term impact of this risk has been the subject of many studies and debates over the years. One side says that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks, and the other side says that even the smallest risk of heart damage is too high.

Gerald G. Blackwell, MD, MBA, MedAxiom's president and CEO, examined how different cardiology employment models look today compared to even a decade ago.