Practice Technology

The license fee is the number on the proposal. These 10 costs arrive after the contract is signed, and the biggest never shows up on an invoice.

A NAACOS and Innovaccer survey of 116 leaders also found only 21% are tracking which of their patients have enrolled in the new chronic care model.

The CMS-0057 rule regulates health plans. The question that matters is: Which of your payers will be live in your EHR on Jan. 1?

The top news stories in medicine this week.

An OpenAI agent's unauthorized trip through an Australian Medicare data portal is a preview of the risks physicians take on as autonomous AI moves into prior authorization, billing and scheduling, and of what practices should demand from the vendors deploying it.

Adding a brief safety reminder cut potentially harmful clinical choices by large language models from 16.6% to 10.1% across more than 10 million responses, but researchers say it doesn't replace physician oversight.

What it takes for health systems and health plans to stay visible when an AI model is the one making the recommendation.

The practices seeing real returns from AI don't just switch it on. They choose the right technology and partner, then customize it to their workflows and patients.

MGMA's senior vice president of IT explains how independent practices can adopt AI and new technology without big budgets or IT teams.

Nolla Health claims it has the nation’s first approval for artificial intelligence to issue initial prescriptions. Physician review comes later.

Medicine has never moved this fast. How much of the next decade has already been decided, and what’s still open?

Medical Economics spoke with health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., about vendor contracts, patient consent and the malpractice questions physicians could face next.

How long before every doctor has an artificial intelligence stunt double?

Health care's real problem is operational capacity, not AI, and the right tools are the ones that eliminate work rather than add dashboards.

Generic, template-style language from ambient AI tools is triggering payer scrutiny under CMS's G2211 rules.

A new national survey finds Americans still want a person — not AI — on the other end of a health care call

U.S. health care has a patient loyalty problem hiding in plain sight, says a new report based on a survey of 10,000 consumers.

Preparing rural care teams for AI can strengthen care without replacing clinical judgement.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

MGMA’s 100th-anniversary conference runs Sept. 27-30 in San Antonio, and these 10 sessions put physician contracts, compensation and legal exposure on the table.

U.S. health care has a patient loyalty problem hiding in plain sight, says a new report based on a survey of 10,000 consumers.

Lost and stolen devices used to cause half of all major health care breaches. Now the real exposure is hiding in staff phones, outdated medical equipment and unmanaged passwords.

In a University of Toronto simulation, AI scribes cut documentation from 36.3% of each primary care visit to 11.2%, though total visit length didn’t change significantly.

A study published in Advanced Science used three AI models to screen thousands of approved drugs, identifying nine that inhibit Streptococcus pneumoniae, a bacterium increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Cerna Healthcare's SafePatch is a wearable skin patch that detects falls, tracks activity and sends emergency alerts to family or professional monitors, with shipping set to begin in October.