Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 12, 2024
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When big returns on AI investment arrive in healthcare, providers will lag behind suppliers in marking the moment: Moody’s

Years will pass before the global economy’s healthcare sector sufficiently leverages AI to build major financial muscle off of it. And even then, industry players are likely to see gains well ahead of hospitals and health systems. 

March 12, 2024
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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 7, 2024
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Generative AI: Who’s disrupting whom?

Given the speed at which generative AI has penetrated every major sector of human endeavor, no expert in any field should pretend to know how to cleanly separate the disruptors from the disrupted.

March 7, 2024
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Hospitals backslide on price transparency test

Pricing transparency report cards for 2024 are out, and the grades for U.S. hospitals have dipped for the first time since the federal government reset the standards in 2021.

March 5, 2024
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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

March 5, 2024
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AI in healthcare: 3 areas of likely risk for legal liability

As healthcare AI opens new avenues to improve care quality without unduly increasing operational costs, the technology also expands potential exposure to civil and criminal liabilities. And that’s not only for providers but also payers and suppliers.

March 5, 2024
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8 nonclinical AI applications on which physicians are especially keen, according to the AMA

The American Medical Association lays out eight in-demand AI use cases for which the organization says it has heard physicians “express particular enthusiasm.”

February 29, 2024