Calling healthcare a balancing act is probably not doing it justice: Costs are rising, reimbursements are dwindling, and Medicaid is under the knife, but health organizations are still tasked with providing the highest quality of care to the most people they can without breaking the bank.
Under unprecedented financial strain, providers and payers need to optimize operations and trim the budget wherever they can, but never at the expense of quality patient care. That’s why many are investing
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Moving Beyond the Worklist: Agentic AI and Radiology’s Next Efficiency Leap
After years of flat or falling payment rates, radiology providers are being asked to do more with less. Medicare cuts continue to squeeze margins, and inflation-driven cost hikes in labor and supplies further strain budgets. At the same time, workforce shortages have left many radiology departments shorthanded and clinicians overextended. Meanwhile, the traditional follow-up worklist-centric model—essentially a growing to-do list of patients needing outreach, navigation, and scheduling—is
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Beyond Wearables: How Radar Technology is Revolutionizing Elderly Sleep Monitoring
Radar holds the potential to change the way we look after elderly people, with new radar-based sleep monitors offering a way to rethink the way elderly people are monitored both in elder care facilities and in their own homes. Traditional monitoring techniques have significant drawbacks when it comes to elder care: for example, cameras have significant privacy, security and compliance concerns, and wearables have practical issues both in elder care facilities and the home.
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The AI Paradox: Why Some Tools Save Millions While Others Increase Physician Burnout
AI has become everyone’s favourite topic in healthcare. From predicting diseases to creating personalised treatment plans, it’s already changing how hospitals, insurers, and health tech companies work. But behind all the excitement sits one big question: is AI really paying off, or is it just more talk than truth?
Like any other business, healthcare organisations need to see clear financial results before calling AI a success. The real question isn’t just how advanced the technology
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From Confusion to Collections: How Unclear Billing Fuels the Medical Debt Crisis
Medical debt remains a significant burden for patients nationwide, with U.S. residents collectively owing an estimated $220 billion. Medical visits already bring emotional and financial stress, and confusing bills only make matters worse. When patients receive statements that they don’t understand, or multiple, fragmented bills, they’re left frustrated, less likely to pay on time, and are at greater risk of accumulating medical debt.
While the July 2025 ruling striking down the Consumer
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Beyond the Margin Squeeze: How Specialty Providers Use RCM Automation to Combat Rising Costs
Despite a recent uptick in margins, providers continue to face significant pressure on their revenue cycles as a result of potential reimbursement cuts, workforce recruitment challenges, and higher costs.
Providers in 2024 reported operating margins of 1.2%, up from -0.5% the prior year, according to a report from Fitch. Nonetheless, margins remain “well below” pre-pandemic levels, and looming federal cuts to Medicaid funding could be devastating for some providers.
Federal
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Healthcare Costs vs. Wages: Why Premiums Are Absorbing Your Annual Raise
Healthcare costs are consuming an increasingly large share of household budgets. A RAND study found that payments to finance healthcare averaged $9,393 per person, or nearly 19% of average household income. For many families, that means more than a line item on a paycheck. It shapes the way people decide when to see a doctor, whether to fill a prescription, and how secure they feel in their jobs. A benefit once seen as a cornerstone of compensation is now a source of financial stress. For
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ACOG Declares Telehealth an “Ethical Imperative” for Obstetric Care
The maternal healthcare industry has been divided over the use of telehealth since the early days of its use for obstetrics.
Concerns about losing the personal connection of the physician-provider relationship, compromising the quality of care, and adding more work to a strained labor force initially complicated the adoption of telehealth. However, a growing body of research and on-the-ground experience slowly dispelled those concerns, and the COVID pandemic accelerated an emerging clinical
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More Safe Days at Home: A Call to Redesign Pediatric Care
For children with special health care needs, the line between stability and crisis is razor-thin. A quiet day at home can quickly spiral into an unplanned hospital admission. Even during moments of calm, families live with constant anxiety that a small change in condition could trigger the next emergency.
It shouldn’t be that way.
Time at home should be safe and supported, not a fragile pause between hospitalizations. Yet today’s healthcare system still defaults to crisis response,
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The Future of Pharma Marketing: How AI and Real-World Data Are Redefining Personalization
Consumers are increasingly learning about potential drug therapies from advertising across the media channels they use regularly – whether it be broadcast or streaming TV, social media, display ads, or streaming radio. One survey found that 63% of patients learned about new treatments through pharmaceutical ads, but capturing and retaining consumer attention continues to be an uphill battle for pharmaceutical marketers, with many consumers experiencing advertising saturation and fatigue. Life
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