By Jim Younkin – While Americans have generally embraced consumer technologies like smartphones and social media, healthcare AI is proving to be different. Consumer technologies typically gain widespread adoption despite initial concerns, but healthcare AI faces deeper skepticism from both providers and patients.
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By David Van Houtte – With a recent increase in rules and regulations from CMS, health plans are feeling the pressure of more scrutiny, and the fear of penalties looms. For example, the No Surprises Act, passed in 2022, has already resulted in healthcare facilities, payors, and providers paying more than $11 million in penalties.
By Greta Barnes – Imagine Jane, a mid‑level project manager, powering through another flare‑up of her rheumatoid arthritis. Her joints ache, fatigue drapes over her like a heavy blanket, and she knows she needs to take a day or two away from her desk. When she checks her company’s PTO policy, however, she’s met with rigid accrual tiers and a “use it or lose it” deadline.
By Ellie Gabel – Internet of Things (IoT) solutions have seen rapid growth across the health care industry. Patient-monitoring wearables may be the most prominent example of this technological shift, but connected technologies also have vast potential in the operating room.
By Mark Coetzer – The pace of healthcare modernization is accelerating. With value-based care becoming the norm, organizations across the care continuum are under pressure to improve outcomes, reduce administrative burden, and meet increasingly complex reporting requirements.
By Keavy Murphy – The adoption of AI within healthcare to improve and streamline workflows and inform clinical decision-making has grown exponentially within the last three years. While the potential is clear, questions around data privacy, compliance, and clinicians’ trust in the technology continue to slow progress.
By Alan Vitale & Donald Searing PhD – In the digital age of healthcare, data is abundant, but structure is not. Payer organizations are inundated with clinical notes, scanned forms, faxes, and handwritten appeals. These “unstructured” data types – which lack uniformity – slow operations, obscure insights, and increase administrative burden.
By Arun Hampapur PhD – The U.S. healthcare industry is once again in the spotlight—this time, with the scrutiny on UnitedHealth. The Department of Justice has launched a civil fraud investigation into UnitedHealth Group, which highlights the ethical challenges and complexities around risk adjustment in Medicare Advantage.
By Stavros Papadopoulos – An estimated 30 percent of the world’s data is generated by the healthcare industry, and it’s increasing at a faster rate than even finance and media. Increasingly, seamless data sharing between hospitals and other types of organizations is proving critical to improving both population and individual health, as well as promoting health equity.