New specialists' schedules fill quickly, the authors of an NEJM Catalyst analysis write, and changing how existing clinicians are used may do more to shorten waits.
|Videos|September 14, 2020
Are more independent practices joining hospital systems due to the pandemic?
Author(s)Jeff Bendix, Logan Lutton
Practices unable to survive financially due to the pandemic have simply been closing, rather than selling themselves to hospital systems.
Advertisement
David Zetter, founder of Zetter HealthCare LLC, says that practices unable to survive financially due to the pandemic have simply been closing, rather than selling themselves to hospital systems.
Advertisement
Related to this article
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.
The second annual Healthcare Workforce Barometer finds employers underestimating how many employees are ready to move, while interest in AI skills cools on both sides.
HR thinks your recognition efforts are great. Employees would like a word.
Federal contracts, Medicare pilots and new state laws have pushed artificial intelligence from the edges of clinical practice into the middle of it.
Three health policy leaders argue that strengthening primary care payment isn't an attack on specialists — it's the fix the whole system needs.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Trending on Medical Economics
1
New Medicare ACCESS model aims to reward results, not volume, for chronic disease care
2
59% of health care workers plan to look for a new job in the next year, Harris Poll finds
3
10 ways AI is creeping into medical care
4
Saving America's primary care system requires bold action now
5