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Why value-based care requires AI that tells clinicians not just who is at risk, but which interventions are most likely to change outcomes.

A framework published in npj Digital Medicine ranks patient care and staff experience alongside price, and says a health system that cannot score a tool across all five domains may not be ready to buy it.

What physicians need to know to begin considering malpractice liability with new artificial intelligence technology.

New research on whose names AI gives patients searching for care, and why many independents never make the list.

Anagram Security founder and CEO Harley Sugarman explains how everyday AI use can expose patient data — and what physician practices can do to reduce the risk.

Clinicians who learn to use AI as a tool, not a replacement, will be the ones who benefit.

Two physicians and two health system executives got candid with Chief Healthcare Executive about denials, administrative burden and what AI is actually delivering.

A Dartmouth study of 146,000 real patient-portal messages finds AI-drafted replies to patients often create more editing work than they save.

Your health care artificial intelligence is only as good as the data behind it. Here's how to get that right.

Practices say technology is essential to staying independent but don't fully trust their current tools, and a Veradigm strategist explains the gap.

What patients know, use, and trust about their coverage.

How public LLMs store and reuse information, and why typing patient details into them could be a privacy disaster waiting to happen

The number of doctors using AI tools is rapidly increasing, but for a smaller practice, does the business case make sense?

A new survey of physicians, nurses and health care leaders points to burnout, reimbursement uncertainty and the pace of AI adoption as the top threats to the system, even as national data show physician burnout easing.

A new Mass General Brigham benchmark, BRIDGE, found the top-performing AI model struggled on tasks built from electronic health records and patient visits.

Patients are already using AI to choose physicians. Here’s what your website needs to say to show up in those results.

Vibe-coded AI implementations can present serious risks to health data privacy, protection and, ultimately, to health care function.

Nearly 40% of Gen Z patients don't have a primary care physician, and Andrea Giamalva, M.D., FAAFP, says urgent care is quietly stepping in to fill the gap.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A veteran practice administrator at the MGMA Summit digital conference laid out the disruptions ahead — from AI phone agents to payer audits — and how physician practices can get in front of them.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

An empty exam room is more than a missed appointment; it’s a breakdown in patient engagement.

AI is reshaping how doctors work, but unchecked adoption could do more harm than good

While artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into clinical work and diagnostics, physician oversight and legislative engagement are critical to protecting the patient-physician relationship.

The top news stories in medicine this week.