Analytics and Pop Health

Healthcare Savings — Lies and Punchlines

By David Burda – Healthcare executives always lie about why they did what they did, whether what they did is a merger, acquisition, affiliation or strategic partnership. The only correct answer is “for economic reasons.” They made a deal to preserve revenue or profits or to increase revenue or profits. That’s it. Sorry.




Welcome ChatGPT to Your Ambulatory Practice

By Jeremy Dixon & Wesley Combs – Natural language processing tools driven by artificial intelligence—the most well-known being ChatGPT—are poised to revolutionize the ways we do business and live our lives. Without question, these tools will affect your medical practice. The question is how.



It’s All Informatics to Me

By William Hersh MD – In the last decade or so, a number of new names have emerged for the kinds of activities historically studied, disseminated, and taught by those who work in biomedical and health informatics. Each of these areas has emerged as a “hot topic” in biomedicine and healthcare, with resulting…