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From AI scribes and coding habits to the claims payers quietly cut, these are the lessons physicians can take from four days of sessions and interviews at the Medical Group Management Association's centennial meeting.

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.

Medical Economics spoke with MGMA's Madison Hynes about the association's draft bill to ban automatic downcoding, the Patients First Act and AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare.

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?

From a same-day payment cut to AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare, MGMA's government affairs team laid out what Washington has in store for physicians next year.

The American Medical Association and five specialty societies say casting AI as smarter than physicians diminishes their expertise, a day after the health secretary praised AI second opinions.

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.

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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.

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.

Federal contracts, Medicare pilots and new state laws have pushed artificial intelligence from the edges of clinical practice into the middle of it.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

New national research shows health systems and health plans still can't get provider data right — and the fallout lands squarely on physician practices

Independent practices carry the same legal, regulatory and clinical exposure as large health systems when they buy AI tools, but none of the informatics oversight — here is the five-question framework to close that gap.

A U.K. review of 27 papers found the evidence on ambient scribe risks thinner than the American adoption curve.

With AI being used by both candidates and hiring managers, finding good employees in the resume pile can be challenging.

Digital mental health tools can widen access to care, but they also create clinical and administrative work — enrollment, data review, escalation, documentation — that rarely gets budgeted for before launch.