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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10 things you may have suspected about AI but didn’t know for sure till now
All around the world, people are increasingly wise to the advance of AI. More than a few are growing ever more uneasy about it. And yet workers equipped with AI are both more productive and better at their jobs.
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Physicians are embracing clinical GenAI—in theory, at least
More than two-thirds of U.S. physicians have changed their minds about generative AI over the past year. In doing so, the re-thinkers have raised their level of trust in the technology to help improve healthcare.
Recent Rite Aid store closings exceed 200
Right Aid is turning out the lights in 53 more stores across nine states.

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

February 13, 2024

5 terms every hospital trustee—and healthcare AI stakeholder—should know

As AI continues infiltrating healthcare at nearly every level, the technology’s potential for good and ill must become—or remain—a preeminent concern for hospital boards of trustees.

February 13, 2024

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

February 7, 2024

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Healthcare stakeholders to AI-equipped devices: We don’t trust you if we don’t know what you don’t know

It’s not easy to get patients, providers, payers, vendors and regulators to agree on any one aspect of healthcare delivery. But the CDRH recently managed to get everyone to settle on a working definition of transparency.

February 6, 2024

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

January 30, 2024

If you haven’t met your chief AI officer yet, chances are you soon will

Members of C-suites around the world are making room for a new teammate: the CAIO. In healthcare, some organizations are hiring for the even more specialized position of CHAIO, for chief health AI officer.

January 30, 2024

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Finance specialists: In 2024, hospitals and health systems ‘will not be able to cut their way to profitability’

Along with the obvious hits to patient traffic and population health, the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a financial upending to U.S. healthcare. Is it over yet?

January 29, 2024

24 hospitals earn ‘A+’ or ‘A’ for overall performance

Going by criteria set and applied by Money magazine, only two of America’s 6,000 or so hospitals deserve the title “best of the best.”

January 26, 2024