One of the ways that Answers Media is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. We publish at least eight guest posts a week now, so in case you missed some, here are the top ten read and shared guest posts in the month of August. You can also read previous month’s Top Ten Lists. Thank you for contributing and reading.
Most Played Radio Episode in August
From Health Cent$ – Host Adam Russo invites Phil Martin, VP of Stop-Loss at Benefits All In, a company offering a client focused solution which combines individualized benefits expertise with best-in-class technology to ensure employees and their families make well-informed decisions on their benefit choices. Philip predicts that younger, more educated workers will demand better information and transparency from healthcare providers.
Most Read Thought Leader Posts in August
Stopping Avoidable Work: The First Job for Payer AI
By Sanjay Subramanian, Healthcare, Payer Business Unit Leader, Cognizant
By Sanjay Subramanian, Healthcare, Payer Business Unit Leader, Cognizant
LinkedIn: Sanjay Subramanian
LinkedIn: Cognizant
Some of the most expensive work in healthcare is the work no one counts as care. Physicians and their teams chase authorization status, resubmit records, clarify denial reasons, and explain coverage confusion to patients. Recent research from the AMA shows that physicians complete an average of 39 prior authorizations each week, and 93% say prior authorization delays access to necessary care. Continue reading…
Structured Data, Smarter Workflows: What Electronic Prior Authorization Means for Behavioral Health
By Christy Winter, LMSW, Chief Product Officer, Cantata Health Solutions
LinkedIn: Christy Winter, LMSW
LinkedIn: Cantata Health Solutions
For decades, paper-based authorizations have stalled the healthcare industry, creating administrative backlogs for care teams and critical treatment delays for patients. On average, practices spend 13 hours each week completing 40 prior authorizations per clinician, a massive administrative burden that diverts nearly 700 hours from patient care annually. Continue reading…
Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage Is Not AI. It Is Access.
By Khalid Sattar, Founder & CEO, iBrands Group | President, American Chamber of Health
LinkedIn: Muhammad Khalid
LinkedIn: American Chamber of Health
Healthcare has spent decades optimizing care delivery. It has invested billions in clinical excellence, advanced diagnostics, modern facilities, digital records, and operational efficiency. Yet one of healthcare’s greatest challenges still occurs before care even begins. Patients struggle to access the system. Continue reading…
Value-Based Care Needs an Operational Backbone, Not Just Better Analytics
By Abhishek Gupta, SVP, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Mastek
LinkedIn: Abhishek Gupta
LinkedIn: Mastek
It is said that value-based care is meaningless without access to robust data. Data has been crowned by the foundation and is the backbone of VBC. While the premise is undeniable, I believe that this is only part of the whole truth. No doubt, data powers everything, from the big picture to nuanced insights, from real-time dashboards to predictive AI models, and from holistic population health to tailored needs of the individual. Continue reading…
Rural Health Is Having a Moment. But It Still Doesn’t Feel Like Enough.
By Amy Oliver, Founder, Azul Heart
LinkedIn: Amy Oliver
LinkedIn: Azul Heart
Rural health is having a moment. There is $50 billion in federal transformation funding on the table, a wave of state legislation moving through capitols with a trail of confusion, and a public comment period on Medicaid work requirements that recently closed. Layer on the webinars, panels, policy briefs, and LinkedIn posts about rural hospitals, and it is more attention than I have seen in my fifteen years in this industry. Continue reading…
The Pediatric Care Deserts Hiding in Plain Sight
By Patricia Hayes, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Imagine Pediatrics
LinkedIn: Patricia Hayes, MD
LinkedIn: Imagine Pediatrics
It’s Friday at 5 PM. A mother can tell her medically complex son isn’t himself today. He’s not tolerating his food the way he did this morning, and his breathing has changed enough to worry her. The pediatrician’s office has closed for the weekend. The emergency department can take him, but she knows from experience it means hours in a waiting room with a child who is already overwhelmed, and she isn’t sure tonight has reached that point yet. Continue reading…
An AI Realist’s Take on Building AI Technology that Serves Humanity
By George Bosnjak, Co-Founder, Morph Services, Inc.
LinkedIn: George Bosnjak
LinkedIn: Morph
As someone currently building my fourth healthcare technology company, I’ve learned to value practical, hard-working solutions over the flashy hype touted by Silicon Valley. So, when Pope Leo XIV released his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas addressing the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and its potential consequences, I paid attention. I’m a Midwestern dad, not a theologian. However, as I read the Pope’s grounded, human-centric concerns about AI, I found myself nodding along in agreement. Continue reading…
Payment Integrity Needs a New Operating Model
By Anne Neal, Vice President, Product Management, Payment Accuracy, Availity
LinkedIn: Anne Neal
LinkedIn: Availity
For years, the industry has measured payment integrity success largely through recoveries, savings, and avoided overpayments. However, achieving those metrics often comes at the cost of significant abrasion that manifests as claims rework, provider tension, cash flow unpredictability, and poor member experience. Continue reading…
I Used to Buy Practices. AI Is Draining the Moat I Was Paying For.
By Theo Sakalidis, Co-Founder & CEO, Cevi
LinkedIn: Theo Sakalidis
LinkedIn: Cevi
When I worked on the buy side of healthcare private equity, we underwrote a lot of physician practices. And I can tell you that the clinical work, the thing the doctors trained a decade to do, was almost never the thesis. The thesis was the back office. That sounds cynical. It was just the math. When you model a roll-up, you are not betting that the cardiologists or dermatologists will suddenly practice better medicine under new ownership. Continue reading…
The Specialty Problem Generalist AI Scribes Don’t Solve
By Pat Williams, CEO, iScribeHealth
LinkedIn: Pat Williams
LinkedIn: iScribeHealth
When healthcare leaders talk about ambient AI scribing, they almost always picture the same setting: a primary care physician, managing a panel of 15 to 20 patients, dictating notes between appointments. That’s the benchmark the industry has built its expectations around. But I spend most of my time working with a very different kind of physician, the orthopedic surgeon seeing 40, sometimes 50+ patients in a single day, moving room to room every twelve minutes, cycling through post-op checks, new injuries, and six-week follow-ups in rapid succession. Continue reading…
