Patients are turning to AI tools across every care setting — and in rural communities, chronic conditions often go undetected until it's too late.
Austin Littrell
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Austin Littrell is associate editor of Medical Economics.
Articles by Austin Littrell
The top news stories in medicine this week.
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High costs of living, expensive malpractice insurance and crowded physician markets push several Northeastern states and the District of Columbia to the bottom of WalletHub's annual ranking.
Declining enrollment, early retirements and rising patient acuity are hitting simultaneously, and the consequences for care are already visible.
From ambient scribes to diagnostic decision support, artificial intelligence is reshaping how medicine gets done.
Richard E. Anderson, M.D., FACP, says the system around American medicine is shifting faster than the law, or physicians, can keep up with.
Texas 2036's Charles Miller, J.D., breaks down the market consolidation, pricing failures and coverage gaps that are making it harder than ever for independent physicians to survive.
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The top news stories in medicine this week.
Richard E. Anderson, M.D., FACP, points to 50 years of evidence and says caps on noneconomic damages remain the single most effective lever physicians and medical societies can pull.
Kelly Villella of Wolters Kluwer Health breaks down a new survey of physician assistants.
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Vizient’s Shannon Sims, M.D., Ph.D., FAMIA, joins Kaufman Hall’s Matthew Bates, M.P.H., to explain how access, AI and team-based care are reshaping the economics of practice.
Richard E. Anderson, M.D., FACP, explains how massive jury awards ripple far beyond individual cases — and why the cultural forces driving them aren't going away.
The 10 biggest cases of health care fraud charged, settled or sentenced in the first 10 weeks of the year.
Richard E. Anderson, M.D., FACP, says the legal system knows how to sue physicians and hospitals — but has almost no precedent for holding AI accountable.
The proposal, which would also allow senior PAs to supervise junior colleagues, has drawn sharp opposition from the state medical society and reignited a national debate over scope of practice.
Robert Cain, D.O., joins the show to discuss the remarkable growth of osteopathic medicine and why the profession's whole-person philosophy may be more relevant now than ever.
A Mount Sinai study found the consumer AI chatbot undertriaged 52% of cases that physicians agreed required emergency care.
Richard Anderson, M.D., FACP, says ambient listening is the clearest example of AI delivering real value today — but notes the irony of solving one technology problem with another.
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