Insights & Analysis for Academic Medical Centers

The extraordinary turbulence surrounding AI security is likely to have a profound impact on board governance of health care companies, both as to its overarching agenda and to director oversight obligations. This, given the extensive commitment by many such companies to AI…

At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…

Health systems do not need more AI pilots. They need a better way to decide which AI opportunities to pursue, how to deploy them, who remains accountable after deployment and whether they create measurable value. That is not simply a…

Across the country, health systems continue to invest in operating rooms while surgeons still hear the same message: there isn’t enough OR time. Yet when organizations take a closer look, the story is often more complicated. The challenge is not…

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…