The future of telemedicine and its reimbursement

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.

What it takes for health systems and health plans to stay visible when an AI model is the one making the recommendation.

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.

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?