6 ways AI can improve health care efficiency

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.

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?

The top news stories in medicine this week.

An OpenAI agent's unauthorized trip through an Australian Medicare data portal is a preview of the risks physicians take on as autonomous AI moves into prior authorization, billing and scheduling, and of what practices should demand from the vendors deploying it.

Adding a brief safety reminder cut potentially harmful clinical choices by large language models from 16.6% to 10.1% across more than 10 million responses, but researchers say it doesn't replace physician oversight.

Urban Institute analysis finds 26% of insured adults owe medical debt, with hospitals the largest source