By Robin Roberts – Like most new technologies, AI is expanding faster than the ability to regulate it. There are no governing bodies, no universal policies or guidelines that apply to all situations and applications where it might be used. It is up to each individual organization and, sometimes, to each clinician to decide how to use it.
By Laxmi Deshpande – Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation over the past decade. Member portals, mobile applications, personalization platforms, and engagement programs have all become essential components of the healthcare ecosystem.
By Courtney Holmes RN IFNCP – To all the nursing students graduates, welcome. Healthcare needs your talents and dedication to patients more than ever. You’re entering the field at an opportune time because the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 194,500 average annual openings for registered nurses between 2020 and 2030, with employment projected to grow by 9%.
The American Medical Association recently urged federal lawmakers to put stronger safeguards in place as the use of augmented intelligence (AI) chatbots in mental health care continues to grow. The AMA emphasized both the promise and risks of these rapidly expanding technologies.
By Eugene Gonsiorek – Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming an integral part of skilled nursing operations. In areas from referral review and documentation support to denial analytics and revenue oversight, AI tools are helping organizations handle increasing regulatory complexity while operating with limited staffing.
Newly released episode of AI Amplified. Host Dr. Heather Bassett talks to Tim O’Connell, a radiologist and co-founder of emtelligent, a company specializing in processing unstructured clinical data.
Newly released episode of AI Amplified. Host Dr. Heather Bassett talks to Greg Miller of Carta Healthcare. They discuss responsible AI in healthcare, focusing on Carta Healthcare’s approach to registries and abstraction. Take a listen.
Through this RFI, HHS is inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on how the Department can use its regulatory, reimbursement, and research & development levers across all of HHS to enable AI adoption to propel the American health care system forward.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its AI Strategy, the next phase of the Department’s transformative initiative to make artificial intelligence available to the federal workforce, integrating it across internal operations, research, and public health.
By Joe Dolce – Healthcare has a trust problem. One 2024 poll found that only about a third of Americans trusted the U.S. health system, a significant drop from previous years. Another study indicated that trust in physicians and hospitals fell from over 70% in April 2020 to just over 40% in January 2024.
By Kate Ruder – Patients have unprecedented access to their medical records, often through online patient portals such as MyChart, because federal law requires health organizations to immediately release electronic health information, such as notes on doctor visits and test results.
When a topic is hot, everyone is talking about it, and this week’s Friday Five brings together episodes from several Healthcare NOW Radio shows where hosts and guests dive into AI’s impact on the healthcare industry.
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