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.

Healthcare, AI top list of fastest growing jobs
While artificial intelligence engineers and consultants took the top two spots, physical therapists and advanced practice providers also landed among the 25 fastest growing jobs in the U.S.
$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports
A new final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bans reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports or factoring them into credit scores.
$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit
The new deadline for the deal to be finalized is Dec. 31, 2025. However, the ultimate fate of UnitedHealth's acquisition of Amedisys will be decided in a federal court.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
New Year’s Day brought the go-live for California’s new law forbidding the use of AI to deny health insurance claims.
FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval
Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

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

Industry Watcher’s Digest

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

Industry Watcher’s Digest

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

Business Intelligence

Healthcare, AI top list of fastest growing jobs

$49B in medical debt to be erased from credit reports

$3.3B merger of UnitedHealth and Amedisys delayed by DOJ lawsuit

Industry Watcher’s Digest

FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval