The integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. This week’s Friday Five rounds up key predictions from our experts for AI in healthcare in 2025, exploring the innovations and impacts poised to redefine the future of medicine.
With the new year approaching, the American Medical Association is offering 10 recommendations to help Americans make the most impactful, long-lasting improvements to their health in 2025 and beyond.
By Devin Partida – Telehealth slowly began to take hold before the pandemic. However, once COVID-19 spread, remote health care rapidly became the norm. While doctors’ offices have reopened, telehealth has repeatedly optimized medical care, expanding patient access to providers and reducing costs.
Wishing you a safe and happy holiday from all of us at Healthcare NOW Radio. Check out what we did in 2024 and predictions for 2025.
By Dr. Lawrence Kosinski – We are living in an era of an increasing second derivative with respect to health care. The rate of change in the rate of change is increasing making for a progressively more complex world around us in which we have to work and strive to survive.
Health IT product news from Teladoc, Omnicell, symplr, eddii, CirrusMD, Evolve Telemedicine, LifeSignals, Incredible Health, Lindus Health, Carta Healthcare, KARL STORZ, Veradigm, ModMed, Interlad Medical Systems, SoundHealth, athenahealth, Oracle Health, SmarterDx, and more.
The AMA gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine at its Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates in November to shape guiding policies on emerging health care topics. We have gathered some of the policies and outcomes from this year’s meeting.
According to SonicWall’s 2024 Healthcare Threat Brief, at least 14 million US patients have been affected by malware breaches. This week’s Friday Five lists notable healthcare cyber incidents this past year that have impacted and in many cases disrupted care delivery.
By Members of AHRQ’s National Advisory Council – One of AHRQ’s most valuable contributions is its abiding scrutiny of inequities in healthcare delivery. Its National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, published annually for over two decades, is the Nation’s most comprehensive assessment of disparities.
Next week is National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) and our Friday Five provides information about this year’s flu season and a newly approved vaccine option, tracks the parts of the U.S. where activity is high, and offers some tips and resources for how to prevent and treat the illness.
From all of us at Answers Media Network we wish you a safe and happy holiday. Thanksgiving Day is not only a time to gather with friends and family to eat a sumptuous meal and count blessings, it’s also National Family Health History Day. Healthcare providers encourage you to use this day to share and care about this and other serious diseases.
Continued physician frustration with excessive and disruptive prior authorization controls required by health insurers resulted in calls for legislative and injunctive action by the American Medical Association to fight retrospective denial of payment for care that has been pre-certified by an insurer.