Healthcare has historically been slow to adopt new or innovative technology, even as its inherent complexity frustrates providers and patients and its inefficiencies fuel public distrust. Health systems, plans, and providers are notoriously risk-averse—and understandably so, as a technology malfunction in this sector can have life-threatening consequences.
Yet, there are strong reasons to embrace innovation, not least due to financial imperatives. Recent analysis from PwC suggests that by
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Neuro-Symbolic AI in Healthcare: Unlocking Precision Medicine
Until recently, the term “symbolic” bore negative connotations in AI because it harkened back to the failures to achieve symbolic thinking during the so-called “AI winter” of the 1980s. Since then, generative AI has demonstrated the masterly capacities of neural networks at scale.
Generative AI has relieved doctors of their administrative and cognitive burdens, for example, by handling administration and paperwork, including clinical summaries. More than 70 percent of healthcare organizations
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Optimizing MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) for Oncology Practices in 2025
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) as part of its ongoing revisions to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program, which was established in 2017 to encourage ongoing and consistent quality, efficiency, and improvement in medical practices. The MVP framework was designed to ease the burden imposed on clinicians and their administrators who participate in the MIPS program. Traditionally, MIPS scores have been calculated based
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Atropos Health Launches AI Model Training on its Federated Healthcare Data Network
What You Should Know:
- Atropos Health, a leader in translating clinical data into high-quality, personalized, real-world evidence (RWE) for care, today announced the availability of AI model training on the Atropos Evidence Network, the largest federated healthcare data network with more than 300 million patient records.
- Atropos Evidence Network members can utilize certain de-identified real-world data (RWD) to
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UChicago Medicine Expands Abridge GenAI Program to 800+ Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- Promising results from a pilot program using a generative AI platform to help with clinical documentation show improvements in both patient and clinician experiences at the University of Chicago Medicine, according to survey data of patients at the academic health system.
- UChicago Medicine will expand the program to more than 800 clinicians across its health system.
Abridge: Revolutionizing Clinical Documentation Through AI-Powered Medical
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UC Health Deploys Laudio’s Workforce AI to Enhance Frontline Leadership
What You Should Know:
- Laudio, an innovator in frontline leader solutions that drive efficiency and engagement for health systems, today announced that University of Cincinnati Health (UC Health), an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, is implementing Laudio’s AI-enhanced leader operations platform.
- UC Health will utilize the technology to free up capacity for frontline leaders, helping them spend less time on administrative tasks and more
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Digital Health Trends to Watch in 2025: Rock Health’s Innovation Maturity Curve
What You Should Know:
- Rock Health, a a digital health seed fund that supports and invests in early-stage companies announced the launch of its Innovation Maturity Curve.
- The Rock Health Innovation Maturity Curve provides a framework for assessing the progress of emerging technologies and predicting their future trajectory.
The Innovation Maturity Curve
Rock Health's Innovation Maturity Curve tracks digital health trends based on three key factors:
Research Publication
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Bridging Healthcare Disparities in Limb Loss Through Data-Driven Strategies
Limb loss and limb difference impact millions of people globally, with over 2.3 million individuals in the United States alone who are affected, a number expected to rise to 3.6 million by 2050. This rise in prevalence presents significant healthcare and economic challenges, necessitating innovative, data-driven solutions to improve patient care, quality of life (QOL) and healthcare equity.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has taken a leading role in addressing these challenges
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KLAS Report Reveals Biggest Challenges to Achieving Enterprise Clinical Communications
What You Should Know:
- A new KLAS report examines the adoption and performance of clinical communication solutions in acute care settings, highlighting vendor strengths and areas for improvement.
- The KLAS report, “Clinical Communications 2024 Which Vendors Best Support Solution Adoption Enterprise-Wide?” emphasizes the importance of solution breadth, ease of deployment, and ongoing vendor support in driving enterprise-wide adoption.
PerfectServe Leads in Module
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Systems Thinking: The Future of Equitable, Efficient, and Effective Population Health Management
Healthcare in the United States consists of a tangled web of complex interconnected drivers, including payment models, regulations, processes, and facilities. However, the lack of a cohesive system design has resulted in less than optimal care industry for the US population and highlighted the need for a more comprehensive approach.
Year over year, data from the Commonwealth Fund demonstrates that despite high costs for healthcare, the patients in United States experience worse outcomes with
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