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.

5 reasons AI should never spell ‘game over’ for physicians
Certain corners of the healthcare AI industry continue hyping the notion that their technology will render physicians unneeded. Young people, including potential medical students, might believe the claim. Here’s help.
Q&A: Virtual health system places bet on primary care as the future of telemedicine
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth provider HealthTap began to emphasize its ability to deliver primary care services. Now, Co-Founder and CEO Sean Mehra says, long-term patient care delivered from anywhere has become its central focus, as advancements in technology made it a reality.
Fearless futurist: ‘In Phase One, AI felt like software. In Phase Two, it feels like a new species of workforce.’
The nonfiction book market is flooded with titles mentioning AI or artificial intelligence. Here’s a new work that will shake your world whether you’re an AI lover, loather or someone in between.
What has AI done for healthcare administration lately?
Administrative AI can meaningfully cut providers’ price tags on prior authorization processes. Yet the technology is not doing much to reduce overall system-level costs. And it tends to increase billing intensity, inflating medical spending as it does so.
An ‘AI-native’—and lavishly funded—medical center grows in Texas
The largest single component of the overall project is likely to be the high-tech, high-touch hospital that’s now slated for opening in 2030.

5 reasons AI should never spell ‘game over’ for physicians

Certain corners of the healthcare AI industry continue hyping the notion that their technology will render physicians unneeded. Young people, including potential medical students, might believe the claim. Here’s help.

Q&A: Virtual health system places bet on primary care as the future of telemedicine

During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth provider HealthTap began to emphasize its ability to deliver primary care services. Now, Co-Founder and CEO Sean Mehra says, long-term patient care delivered from anywhere has become its central focus, as advancements in technology made it a reality.

Fearless futurist: ‘In Phase One, AI felt like software. In Phase Two, it feels like a new species of workforce.’

The nonfiction book market is flooded with titles mentioning AI or artificial intelligence. Here’s a new work that will shake your world whether you’re an AI lover, loather or someone in between.

What has AI done for healthcare administration lately?

Administrative AI can meaningfully cut providers’ price tags on prior authorization processes. Yet the technology is not doing much to reduce overall system-level costs. And it tends to increase billing intensity, inflating medical spending as it does so.

An ‘AI-native’—and lavishly funded—medical center grows in Texas

The largest single component of the overall project is likely to be the high-tech, high-touch hospital that’s now slated for opening in 2030.

Healthcare AI often arrives with great expectations only to disappoint end-users as well as execs. Why is that?

By and large, U.S. hospitals and health systems do not have an AI adoption problem. But many—if not most—have an execution problem: They struggle to turn a set of installed AI tools into a measurable operational value.

AI scribes add at least $167 per month to clinician income: 5-site study

In the three or so years since it burst into healthcare, ambient AI scribe technology has run away with the win in the market-uptake race. What has been the return on investment in all those software packages?

Healthcare cybersecurity has never been so complicated—or so plannable

AI technologies have changed daily life for provider organizations and industry partners alike. Arguably the biggest single difficulty to emerge from the complex transformation is the risk of cybersecurity breaches.