By Ben Crocker MD – The debate over the return on investment (ROI) of ambient AI clinical documentation has reached a critical juncture. What began as a narrow question – Do AI scribes increase productivity enough to justify their cost? – has turned into something more revealing: a broader reckoning with how health systems define value in the clinical AI era.

By Julie Appleby – Subsidies. Love ’em or hate them, they dominated the news during the Affordable Care Act’s sign-up season, and their reduction is now hitting many enrollees in the pocketbook. While lawmakers continue to disagree on a way forward, and the politics of affordability keeps the issue front and center, it would be understandable to…

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By Alix Goss – Changes to how HIPAA-adopted standards are maintained rarely generate much attention. They tend to unfold slowly, behind the scenes, and often become visible only once a new version is formally named in a regulation. That lack of visibility can make it easy to miss early signals about how standards are….