Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has sped up prior authorizations with AI in Epic. Here are five things to know from a May 4 Epic case study: 1. Advocate Health replaced phone and fax-based prior authorization workflows with digital processes in…
Deepfake physicians created by AI are popping up on social media, often endorsing unproven treatments. The American Medical Association released seven key policy principles for preventing AI-generated physicians from proliferating, according to a May 11 news release: 1. Make physician…
Ambient AI scribes have evolved from experimental technology into one of the fastest-growing tools in U.S. healthcare, reshaping how clinicians document patient encounters. What began as early-adopter pilots in 2020 has accelerated into enterprisewide deployments. Health systems that once measured…
As the ambient AI market grows more crowded, health systems are demanding more than promising pilots, they need proof. Becker’s Healthcare spoke with Mac Boyter, revenue cycle management and business solutions research director at KLAS Research, and Josh Margulies, vice…
AI underperforms on simple number-crunching tasks that hospital administrators rely on to track admissions and apportion resources, Mount Sinai and Mayo Clinic researchers found. The study’s authors analyzed nine large language models’ ability to perform two straightforward administrative tasks —…
15 to 20% of all first-time claims are denied, 65% of those denials are never resubmitted and 86% were entirely avoidable. The math adds up to $36 billion in annual revenue losses for U.S. health systems, plus an additional $20…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence and IBM have collaborated to launch an AI-powered agent for human resources at the 51-hospital system. Here are four things to know about the partnership, according to a May 6 news release: 1. Providence and IBM Consulting…
Ambient AI is delivering measurable returns for health systems, from reduced documentation time to increased patient volume and revenue. New validation data from KLAS Research provides early evidence of how the technology is performing in clinical settings across the country.…
As hospitals face intensifying pressure on traditional fee-for-service margins, a growing number of health system executives are pointing to artificial intelligence not merely as an operational efficiency play, but as a structural enabler of new and durable revenue streams. From…
The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Pathology in Pennsylvania is expanding its AI infrastructure to support earlier and more accurate disease detection. The initiative centers on the Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence, which will deploy Dell Technologies servers…