By Katie Brenneman – Like other aspects of modern society, AI (Artificial Intelligence) dominates conversations in the medical field. Its current and future benefits for healthcare professionals are remarkable and, for patients, potentially lifesaving.
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By Peter Bresler – Health systems are pursuing digital initiatives to meet their unprecedented financial and strategic challenges. These initiatives include the creation of a modern consumer-grade experience, automating myriad back office processes, and delivering care using virtual technologies.
By Josh Rubel – Valuable insights are buried inside the massive quantities of data collected in various healthcare settings, but extracting those insights is often challenging and resource-intensive for health systems and hospitals.
We conclude our coverage of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with reports, resources, and surveys that we have found throughout the month. And of course we will continue to cover the challenges and best practices of cybersecurity in healthcare.
By Anup Panthaloor – As states disenroll millions of individuals from their Medicaid rolls, small and medium sized health plans with managed Medicaid plans face multiple risks. Their Medicaid members are losing access to care, many of them erroneously, with 72% of members being disenrolled for procedural reasons.
By Emily Newton – Research positions surgical robots as game-changing for patients and surgeons. The robots can handle highly precise procedures on delicate body parts. The technology is liked because it allows more accuracy with magnified images from inside a person’s body on high-definition screens.
By John Trest – Part of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Healthcare organizations find themselves on the front lines of an ongoing battle to protect sensitive patient information, and emerging information shows that the sector experiences more data breaches than any other industry.
By Jordan Messler MD SFHM FACP – How Clinical Decision Support Tech enables process improvement projects that impact patient safety. Despite decades of research linking patient safety measures to improved financial and clinical outcomes, hospitals often struggle to streamline inefficient workflows.
By Beth Friedman – I’ve attended over two decades of American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conferences in my career. But this year’s event was remarkably different. At AHIMA23, the association’s legacy of ensuring data quality and protecting patient privacy met face-to-face with today’s most important healthcare issues—