A new report found that while more than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI tools, less than half have the infrastructure to properly test and validate them before they become embedded in patient care.
A new paper shows Cleveland Clinic's AI scribe rollout is paying dividends in clinician satisfaction and retention. These are key metrics for hospitals to track, given they spend millions on recruitment and retention efforts amid an ongoing workforce crisis.
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
Ascension is pushing AI beyond note-taking to tackle the billing, order entry and nursing handoff work still weighing on clinicians after a patient visit ends.
UnityPoint Health's chief medical officer, Gregory Johnson, shared several ways the system is using AI to lift administrative burden off clinicians and get them back to patient care — including ambient scribing, real-time capacity tracking and AI-powered chart review.
Pathos AI struck a deal for rights to a bispecific antibody drug conjugate from Alphamab that could become first in a new class of cancer drugs. Separately, the startup began a partnership with AstraZeneca on a protein degrader from the pharma company's cancer drug pipeline.
Grove AI’s technology uses voice agents to recruit eligible patients for clinical trials. Formed in 2024, the startup’s rapid growth led to its acquisition by Hippocratic AI earlier this year.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
As patients increasingly bring AI chatbot advice into exam rooms, where does liability land when that advice goes wrong? Health law attorney Meghan O'Connor said the answer still isn’t clear, but silence is the riskiest response for providers.
Assured Health raised $19 million for its AI agents that verify provider credentials and manage insurance enrollment for health systems and group practices. The startup said it can cut a process that usually takes months down to days.
As hospitals increasingly use AI to improve patient care, the same technology is being used by hackers and nation-states to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks. Karen Habercoss, chief information security and privacy officer at the University of Chicago Medicine, explained how her health system is building a governance structure to manage that risk.
HSS chief digital and information officer Ashis Barad, who has worked on both the payer and provider sides of healthcare AI, thinks the industry's growing "bot vs. bot" battle over prior authorizations and appeals is driving costs up. To him, the real fix lies in providers and payers sharing data to build more personalized care pathways.
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
As Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams touted the success of his organization’s value-based care models at the AHA Leadership Summit in Denver, Kaiser nurses outside protested the health system's AI strategy. They claim they're being excluded from decisions about the technology.
A former Mayo Clinic research director claims she was silenced, demoted and ultimately fired for sounding the alarm on AI safety and patient privacy lapses at the health system. Traci Tamiko Eto is now suing Mayo for retaliation.
Rural health system Reid Health is using Abridge's AI-powered documentation tech to reduce burnout among nurses. It appears to be working — after-shift charting is down by up to 45 minutes, and the RN vacancy rate has been cut more than in half, said Misti Foust-Cofield, Reid’s chief nursing officer.
Mayo Clinic is deploying AI across its revenue cycle operations, but revenue cycle chair Todd Manion said he's skeptical that these functions will be fully automated anytime soon.
AI hasn't solved all the problems plaguing healthcare's revenue cycle — but R1's Lee Kupferman says that it is getting closer, one gray area at a time.