Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
UChicago Medicine is using automation to move revenue cycle staff away from routine insurance and prior authorization tasks and into more complex cases that require human judgment. Matthew Kennedy, director of patient access and financial clearance at UChicago Medicine, discussed…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has built a three-person revenue cycle automation team that processed about 400,000 tasks over the past fiscal year — work the health system estimates is equivalent to roughly 24 full-time employees. Northwestern’s automation team manages about 30…
New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has turned to automation and AI to keep pace with roughly 30% volume growth while reducing the manual workload tied to prior authorization and patient estimates. Ochsner operates 46 hospitals and more than 370 outpatient and…
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare saw primary care revenue rise 17% after piloting autonomous coding alongside ambient clinical documentation, according to Kalan Blair, senior director of revenue cycle at the 10-hospital system. The health system launched the pilot in primary care, pairing…
Hospitals and health systems are building out their AI workforces, with openings spanning AI architecture, governance, engineering, product development and legal strategy. Here are 10 AI-focused positions listed on health system career sites as of Sept. 25:
An AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, reaching public and nonpublic files. OpenAI said in a statement to Becker’s that the activity occurred as its models attempted to answer…
Some hospitals ask patients to sign a consent form before recording a physician’s visit. They don’t ask before an algorithm reads the patient’s EKG. That inconsistency is at the heart of a fight health leaders still haven’t settled: When, exactly,…
Google will launch an experimental satellite carrying AI chips into orbit Oct. 1. The launch is the first step in Project Suncatcher, the company’s effort to build solar-powered AI data centers in space, The New York Times reported Sept. 24.…
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday hospital operations, health systems are confronting a new question about what happens when the AI disappears or quietly stops working as intended. For CIOs and other technology leaders, the issue is becoming more…
Nearly two-thirds of hospital nursing professionals surveyed by Black Book Research said they feel individually watched or behaviorally tracked by AI or algorithmic systems used in their workplaces. The findings come from Black Book Research’s State of AI in Hospital…