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.

Walmart launches AI tool to steer Medicare Advantage members toward ‘healthy’ foods

Walmart is highlighting food and products eligible for purchase using Medicare Advantage supplemental funds through its app, while also using AI to algorithmically help enrollees build diet-appropriate shopping lists.

Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, associate director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and an associate professor of health policy and management, Harvard School of Public Health, explains the impact of private equity ownership of hospitals and private practices.

Private equity's influence continues to rise in cardiology—what does that mean for patient care?

Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, a cardiologist who also specializes in healthcare policy, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the good, the bad and the unknown when it comes to private equity's role in cardiology.

Q&A: Universities, tech collaborate to predict opioid overdose with wearables

The Digital Medicine Society has partnered with organizations such as Duke University and Google Fitbit to leverage wearable technology and smartphone data in reducing opioid relapse and overdose deaths. As the pilot study gets underway, HealthExec speaks with Candice Taguibao, associate program director at the Digital Medicine Society, to learn more about the initiative.

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AI newswatch: OpenAI goes to the UAE, patients get cyberchondria, more

Like remoras hitching a ride on a shark, private businesses are capitalizing on President Trump’s AI-aggressive trip to the Middle East. 

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Report: UnitedHealth rewarded nursing homes for delaying hospital transfers

Citing evidence from documents and interviews, the Guardian released an exposé accusing UnitedHealth of directly influencing the day-to-day operations of some 2,000 nursing homes, resulting in patients not receiving necessary emergency care.

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AI newswatch: American AI in the United Arab Emirates, healthcare AI investment, med schools embrace AI, more

Here’s a big thing to watch for in the wake of the President’s flashy Middle East tour: the AI “acceleration partnership” between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. 

John Simon, MD, CEO of SimonMed Imaging, one of the largest U.S. outpatient medical imaging providers and physician radiology practices, is a big advocate for whole-body MRI screening, but there are some radiologists who are against this type of screening. He offered a comprehensive look at whole-body screenings.

SimonMed Imaging CEO discusses why his radiology practice offers elective whole-body MRIs

John Simon, MD, is a big advocate for these elective exams, but the American College of Radiology and some members of the specialty oppose this practice. 

Rite Aid sells over 1,000 pharmacies to competitors, including CVS and Walgreens

The deals account for most of Rite Aid’s remaining stores, as the bankrupt chain nears its final days.