By Leigh Burchell – Artificial intelligence presents the potential to rapidly reshape healthcare, offering opportunities to assist clinicians, empower patients, streamline operations and reduce system costs. Yet, as this transformative potential expands, so does interest in—and in some cases, concern about—the use of AI among lawmakers and regulators.
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By Beth Friedman – AHIMA recently held its 2025 Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, setting a vision to empower, evolve, and impact. As a 20+ year veteran of this event, I can wholeheartedly attest that health information (HI) professionals are ready to live out these verbs and digitally transform their roles.
By Angela Hart – California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks endangering quality patient care. Nearly 60% of California counties, stretching between the borders with Mexico and Oregon, face a nursing shortage, according to state data.
By Jason Bobay – How Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Harm, Support Clinical Teams, and Improve Patient Outcomes. Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are one of the most common and costly hospital-acquired conditions in the United States, despite being largely preventable.
By Lauren Sausser & Darius Tahir – Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of September that we think deserve sharing again.
By Scott R. Schell PhD MD MBA – Health systems face dual pressures: Increasing patient demand and flat clinical capacity. Documentation takes up to a third of a clinician’s day. Ambient scribing, using AI to capture and structure physician-patient conversations in real time, offers a potential solution.
By Susan Clark – There are two kinds of joy I carried home from the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) this year in Milwaukee. One was unexpected and a little quirky—the discovery of a mobile karaoke truck on the last day of the conference (yes, that really happened). The other was more lasting—the joy of making and sharing #clonnections.
By Michelle Lane – In research and clinical trials, clean and accurate data is not merely a best practice, it is the lifeblood of credible clinical research and a prerequisite for meaningful results. Without it, trials risk being compromised, and the conclusions drawn may be misleading or invalid.