Practice Technology

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?

Look for a problem and make artificial intelligence a tool to solve it, an MGMA leader says.

An artificial intelligence vendor that keeps patient data after a contract ends can leave the practice holding the liability once the vendor's damages cap runs to zero, according to health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D.

D2 Solutions President and CEO Dean Erhardt says most prior authorization rejections stem from administrative errors rather than clinical criteria, and that many patients caught in the delay don't know who to call.

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.

The law is still catching up to rapid AI advances. Here's what doctors need to know.

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 Now the real exposure is hiding in staff phones, outdated medical equipment and unmanaged passwords.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

Admission, discharge and transfer alerts were set up for fee-for-service, not value-based care.

Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute says the way health care pays for clinical AI will decide whether it lowers costs or drives them up.

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