Practice Technology

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 Now the real exposure is hiding in staff phones, outdated medical equipment and unmanaged passwords.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.

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

A review of eight leading virtual chronic kidney disease management solutions found minimal cost savings and no clear evidence of slowed disease progression, according to the Peterson Health Technology Institute.

Security has become an operational crisis in the AI era

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.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

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.

The pharmaceutical distributor says attackers accessed oncology and surgical customer data; a hacking group claims 284 million patient records were stolen.

Peterson Health Technology Institute's Caroline Pearson explains why payment models — not the technology itself — will decide whether AI lowers costs for physicians and patients.

Here are five strategies for independent practices to keep the doors open.