Insights & Analysis for Academic Medical Centers

Hospitals and insurers have been fighting an AI billing war for the better part of two years, with providers deploying the technology to optimize and defend their coding, and payers using it to audit and push back. “AI is placing…

Every health system I talk to is “doing AI.” There’s a pilot in radiology. A GenAI scribe in ambulatory. A predictive model for readmissions – perhaps by someone who built two years ago, left the organization and now nobody can…

Becker’s asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems, along with academic medical centers and universities across the U.S. to share how AI will reshape their workforce within the next 2 years. The 50 executives featured in this article are…

AI chatbots often project overconfidence, expressing certainty where it doesn’t exist. That’s dangerous for healthcare. So researchers affiliated with Beth Israel Lahey Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, all based in Cambridge, developed a framework to make…

As healthcare AI moves beyond the pilot phase, health systems need to build the infrastructure to enable the technology for the long term, according to a recent panel discussion at New York City-based Columbia Business School. “There’s a lot of…

Jeff Flaks doesn’t lead with the hard stuff. He knows it’s there — the reimbursement pressure, the public policy uncertainty, the compounding financial strain bearing down on health systems across the country. The CEO of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, system spanning…

Healthcare leaders are moving quickly on AI — but many believe the biggest risk isn’t that the technology falls short. It’s that organizations overestimate what AI can do on its own and underestimate what it takes to make it work…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed an automated document referral system to triage patient referrals with generative AI. The health system previously received referrals by fax and had to process them by hand. The tool flags urgent cases, causing care…

Boston Children’s Hospital is shortening what could be a weekslong process of identifying similar patients by using AI to locate “clinical doppelgangers.” The pediatric health system recently built a digital tool that allows cardiac ICU providers to surface past Boston…

Armed with a new $100 million donation, UT Health Austin (Texas) leaders told Becker’s they are well on their way to creating an “AI-native” health system. Nvidia investor and board member Tench Coxe and his wife, Simone, gave the unrestricted…