What You Should Know:
- A new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine from K Health – a Clinical AI platform has shed light on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the quality of care in virtual urgent care settings.
- The retrospective cohort study, conducted at Cedars-Sinai Connect, an AI-assisted virtual urgent care clinic, compared the initial diagnostic and management recommendations generated by AI with the final decisions made by physicians who
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Heart Failure’s Hidden Price: Understanding the True Cost of Cardiac Events and AI’s Role in Reducing Expenses
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and a growing financial strain on the U.S. healthcare system, costing an estimated $252.2 billion annually. With one in every eight healthcare dollars spent on cardiac care, the urgency to control costs while improving patient outcomes has never been greater.
As traditional care models struggle to keep up with demand, we are faced with an important question: How can we make cardiac care more sustainable, ensuring the healthcare
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Suki Launches AI Prescription Order Generation from Ambient Visits
What You Should Know:
- Suki, the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, today announced the industry’s first-ever capability to generate and stage prescription orders from ambient visits.
- This new feature will be available within its flagship product, Suki Assistant, and was developed at the request of clinicians. Orders are among clinicians' most time-consuming administrative tasks and can take up to 1.4 hours every 8-hour shift, making the
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KLAS Report Evaluates AI Data Science Solutions in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- A new report from KLAS Research examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within healthcare data science solutions.
- The KLAS report, which builds upon a previous KLAS analysis, explores how healthcare organizations are utilizing these technologies, the outcomes they are achieving, and the effectiveness of vendor partnerships in driving success.
AI in Healthcare: A Broad Landscape
The report emphasizes
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Sohar Health and Talkiatry Partner to Automate Insurance Verification
What You Should Know:
- Sohar Health, an AI-driven eligibility determination and Verification of Benefits (VoB) provider, has announced a partnership with Talkiatry to automate Talkiatry's insurance verification process.
- Sohar Health's Eligibility Automation technology is designed specifically for behavioral health providers. The collaboration has resulted in improved claim accuracy, reaching 95%.
Today’s Cumbersome Insurance Eligibility/Verification Challenges
Patients
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Why Nurse Leaders Deserve a Seat at the AI Table
AI is unlocking new possibilities for care delivery. As the frontline guardians of patient care, nurses play a critical role in ensuring AI solutions effectively address healthcare’s most pressing challenges. To fully harness AI’s potential, healthcare organizations must bring nurses, other clinicians and nurse leaders to the decision-making table.
Evaluating the Healthcare Landscape
In the last year alone, healthcare organizations faced over 700 data breaches, a nearly 21% turnover
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Gen AI Adoption Surges in Healthcare, Leaders See Potential for Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Generative AI (Gen AI) is rapidly changing the healthcare industry, and a recent McKinsey survey reveals that a large majority of healthcare leaders are actively exploring or implementing this technology.
- The latest survey, conducted in Q4 2024, provides insights into the evolving perspectives and approaches of payers, health systems, and healthcare services and technology (HST) groups.
Widespread Adoption and Implementation
The survey found that 85%
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Mount Sinai Launches AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center
What You Should Know:
- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center, a pioneering initiative that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the process of drug development.
- The new center aims to integrate AI with traditional drug discovery methods to identify and design novel small-molecule therapeutics with unprecedented speed and precision.
Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI
Unlike conventional drug
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Serve You Rx Integrates With Waltz Health’s AI Specialty Pharmacy Platform
What You Should Know:
- Serve You Rx, a full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), has announced a strategic partnership with Waltz Health to integrate Waltz Connect, an AI-powered specialty platform.
- The collaboration aims to address the rapidly escalating costs of specialty medications, which have surged by over 40% in recent years, reaching $300 billion annually.
Enhanced Specialty Medication Management
By integrating Waltz Connect, Serve You Rx is reinforcing its
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With RCM Staff in Short Supply, Is AI the Missing Piece?
A hefty 63% of healthcare providers are grappling with revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages, causing significant operational and patient-care challenges across the healthcare system.
The staffing deficit has created a challenging cycle: understaffed RCM departments struggle to handle claims denials, leading to delayed reimbursements and increased administrative costs. When staff members spend excessive time investigating and correcting denied claims, it prevents them from
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