Practice Technology

Here’s how to augment your front-end workers so they can focus on patients when staff and funding are in short supply.

AI is moving from a value-add to a critical infrastructure tool

A report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute says efficiency in AI tools is still lacking.

Veradigm’s survey of 360 practice leaders finds operational and financial pressures, not clinical concerns, are the top threats to independence.

Skillsoft's SVP of compliance solutions, Asha Palmer, says banning AI doesn't stop staff from using it — it just means practices lose visibility over what's happening to their data.

A Medical Economics and Physicians Practice flash poll, sponsored by Heidi, found physicians split on AI, even as 70% are using or evaluating AI scribes in their practices.

The UCSF Department of Medicine chair says AI scribes are the right first use case for AI in health care.

What to look for so electronic health records don’t take more time than necessary.

The physician group is pushing for disclosure rules, FDA review, crisis-detection mandates and advertising limits on tools patients increasingly use for mental health support.

Health care clinicians don't want AI running the show, but they are happy to have it help.

Emerging technology can support primary care physicians with early detection that offers the best hope for patients

Whether you are thinking about getting an AI-powered scribing tool or already using one, you need to ask these questions

A new Mass General Brigham study tested 21 large language models on the full clinical workflow and found a striking gap between the AI's ability to reach a final diagnosis and its ability to reason through one.

A researcher in wearable medical technology describes technology that’s already helping patients and has room to grow.

There are two main obstacles holding back true interoperability in EHRs.

Skillsoft's Asha Palmer, J.D., on why clinicians keep reaching for unsanctioned AI, what risks practices are actually underestimating and how to build governance that sticks.

Physicians who signed on during implementation and never revisited their plan may be paying for tools they've never opened.

Better quality focus and policy pressure are driving down safety events, even as the patients left in hospitals grow more complex.

Ambient listening is going mainstream. Advanced practice providers are filling a physician shortage that isn't going away anytime soon.

Follow these steps to make sure you find the right partner for your practice

The results are in: AI is changing the health care workforce forever. Are you ready?

Instead of treating AI as a black box, we should integrate it like a new team member, with clear expectations, guidance and support, to help build trust.

Ambient artificial intelligence scribes are the biggest shift in clinical documentation in a generation. Here’s what the evidence actually shows.

Access to care surged 14 points in two years to become the No. 1 policy issue for physicians.

How ambient AI and clinical decision support are reducing administrative burden, eliminating burnout and returning the focus to patient-centered care