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.

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B
Ontario-based Andlauer Healthcare Group ships sensitive temperature-controlled products necessary for healthcare manufacturing and research. It has agreed to be acquired by the world’s largest courier, with the all-cash deal expected to close later this year.
Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more
AI is making patient financial advisors of hospital administrators who used to work in revenue cycle management.
Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more
In medicine’s next chapter, AI literacy will separate physician leaders from peer followers.
Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M
The pharmacy chain was accused of filling “millions” of unlawful prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances. Despite agreeing to the payout, the company does not admit wrongdoing.
AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more
AI may finally end the paper chase caused by prior authorization. Or it may worsen it.

Are these the 5 best healthcare AI products money can buy?

No time like the present to canvass experts for their opinions on which tools are tops.

Humana to open clinics at 23 empty Walmart Health locations

The clinics will open in 2025 with a new focus on providing primary care to seniors under the CareWell and Conviva brands.

Northwell Health launches film studio backed by Creative Artists Agency

The newly founded Northwell Studios will work on documentary and scripted projects that creatively “humanize” the healthcare experience for patients and clinicians.

M&A mergers and acquisitions business deal

Molina Healthcare to buy Connecticut insurer for $350M

The cost represents “25% of expected 2024 premium revenue of $1.4 billion,” with Molina adding 140,000 members through plans in the state.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Physicians shouldn’t think of AI as a tool to wield and sharpen. They should think of it as a medical student to mold and mentor.

AI represents the single biggest opportunity to fundamentally transform healthcare since antibiotics.

Brainstorm, collaborate to save healthcare AI from a ‘failure of imagination’

The suggestion comes from a strategic communications professional who specializes in thinking creatively about how to unlock opportunities—including those that are, at present, hard to see.

House lawmakers want to relax ban on physician-owned hospitals

The bipartisan Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act would amend the Social Security Act to allow physicians to open new hospitals in hard-to-reach communities.

Medicare Money dollar payment reimbursement

Humana buys stake in Healthpilot to expand Medicare Advantage portfolio

Healthpilot will remain an independent, payer-agnostic company despite Humana’s minority stake.

Business Intelligence

UPS Healthcare acquires Canadian supply chain company for $1.6B

Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more

Newswatch: AI-eager doctors, AI-reticent buyers, AI cost worriers, more

Walgreens settles DOJ opioid crisis case for $300M

AI newswatch: Lifecyle AI oversight, data matters, AI vs. animals, more