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 today: AI-enabled layoffs, following the AI money, AI to unscrew healthcare, more
A network of more than 100 clinics is leveraging AI to lay off more than 175 of its 2,500 or so nonclinical staff by early November.
Data-blocking antitrust lawsuit against Epic can move forward, judge rules
Epic’s attempt to have a lawsuit filed by startup Particle Health dismissed was unsuccessful. However, a U.S. district court judge narrowed the claims and rejected accusations that Epic engaged in defamation.
Employer-sponsored health plans to see 7% jump in premiums, survey finds
Consulting firm Mercer said employers are prepared to deploy cost-cutting measures, including better management of high-cost claims. However, Americans who get insurance through their workplace are likely to face higher out-of-pocket expenses, such as co-pays and deductibles.
Healthcare AI today: Healthcare AI on Capitol Hill, hospital leadership’s eye on AI, publicly traded AI recalls, more
AI could appreciably improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients—if only people trusted it. For many, the difference-maker would be nicely crafted federal regulations.
FDA designates recall of Hamilton breathing circuits a Class I
Two lots of breathing circuits manufactured by Hamilton Medical have a defect that could cause the tubing to splinter. The affected devices must be quarantined, as they cannot be safely used on patients.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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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.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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.

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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?

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.”

Business Intelligence

Healthcare AI today: AI-enabled layoffs, following the AI money, AI to unscrew healthcare, more

Data-blocking antitrust lawsuit against Epic can move forward, judge rules

Employer-sponsored health plans to see 7% jump in premiums, survey finds

Healthcare AI today: Healthcare AI on Capitol Hill, hospital leadership’s eye on AI, publicly traded AI recalls, more

FDA designates recall of Hamilton breathing circuits a Class I