By Dr. Ali Azeem Rajwani – For most payer technology teams, CMS-0057-F still lives in a folder marked “next year.” The compliance date, January 1, 2027, feels far enough away to keep it in the planning column. That framing is the first mistake. The rule does not reward organizations that are ready on the deadline. It rewards the ones that treated the year before it as the real work.
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By Harvey Castro MD MBA – Most hospital AI projects look convincing in a conference room. The slide deck is clean. The pilot cohort is curated. The demo patient has a complete chart. Then the model meets a real emergency department at 2 a.m., and the story changes.
By April Miller – Doctors spend significant time documenting care during and after patient visits. Heavy paperwork demands may also contribute to administrative burden, workflow pressure and burnout. Today, large health systems are investing in ambient documentation technology to help ease that workload and allow physicians to focus more on patient care.
By Beth Friedman – I recently attended my second HRX Live conference. Once again, the conversations and educational sessions did not disappoint. Spending three days with hundreds of electrophysiologists (EPs), cardiac clinic leaders, and allied health professionals reinforced three facts health IT leaders should know about cardiac device management and ambulatory heart failure monitoring:
By Sagnik Bhattacharya-In conversations with healthcare organizations, we hear versions of the same problem again and again: there is no shortage of technology they want to put to work. Finding the capacity to connect it all is another story.
By Feynman Xu, Ph.D. – Independent medical practices are being asked to evaluate AI while already managing staffing gaps, payer friction, document backlogs, and patient access demands. The temptation is to start with a product demonstration. A safer and more useful starting point is the workflow itself.
By Ankur Malik – On paper, medical record indexing sounds simple. A clinical document comes in. Someone identifies the patient, figures out what kind of document it is, and sends it to the right place in the chart. The rules can be written down. The team can be trained. The work should be repeatable.
By Keith Schmidt MD – Patient education has a distribution problem as well as a content problem. A practice may have a carefully written procedure handout, yet a patient cannot find it when a question arises. For healthcare leaders choosing digital tools, the useful starting point is the path from a question to a dependable answer, including what happens when the answer requires a clinician.
By Amy Oliver – One of the absolute best things about this industry is the people in it. During conference season, the number of people I get to reconnect with or meet for the first time multiplies fast, and learning from them brings me a kind of joy I really didn’t know a career could give me.