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A recent OIG report suggested many vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists may be performing medically unnecessary vascular procedures in office-based labs. Now, some of the leading medical societies from those very fields have shared a statement to provide additional context.
Asking medical questions of AI with language spoken “in the wild”—meaning with LLM prompts from everyday consumers—brings back answers with decidedly mediocre accuracy, a new study shows.
A team of healthcare scholars is making U.S. states an offer they hope the border-defined polities won’t refuse: If you’ll pay for the reinvention of primary care, we’ll help sell the public on the rightness of measured, state-level efforts to preserve the profession.
Teladoc, the popular telehealth platform, will provide urgent care, dermatology and nutrition support through Walmart’s existing virtual patient care platform. The companies made the announcement Thursday.
As a class-action lawsuit gets rolling in California over the use of ambient AI in healthcare, a national law firm is drawing takeaways for hospitals and other provider organizations. Makes sense: All AI-equipped providers are potential targets for similar litigation now.
Some AI decision-support models have a proclivity for recommending aggressive care pathways. And doing so on the basis of patient demographics, not medical necessity.
As applications of AI spread rapidly across healthcare, ambient scribes are poised to become one of the fastest technology adoptions in the history of the sector.
Sending helpful alerts through email and the electronic health record can make a significant impact on patient care, according to new data presented at ACC.25 and published in Circulation.
As TAVR continues to grow in popularity, researchers noted, it becomes more and more important to know how different complications impact long-term outcomes.
Many if not most hospitals and other provider organizations take a decided interest in what their peer institutions are doing with AI. A major motivator for the keen curiosity is gauging how well one is keeping up with the Joneses. So to speak.
Researchers tracked patient outcomes through the use of 15 performance measures related to hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.