Analytics

New this month: Artificial intelligence and analytics platforms seek to help providers improve compliance, patient care experience and quality ratings.

eClinicalWorks showcased a series of artificial intelligence tools it says are all aimed at improving the relationships between doctors and patients, and billing departments and healthcare consumers.

Healthcare organizations should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce, and stay on top of compliance and ethics as artificial intelligence evolves, says Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias.

Enhance accuracy while keeping humans focused on clinical decisions.

At the kidney care provider, congestive heart failure patients receive more than a dozen supportive calls and messages, on average, in the first 30 days, post-hospitalization. That outreach has helped drive down 90-day readmission rates to under 25%.

By agreeing to be acquired by Patient Square Capital, the healthcare improvement company hopes the new ownership structure will offer it the flexibility it needs to accelerate its IT investments and expand its services for health systems.

Patients in the largely rural pediatric population now have a better office experience and more personalized treatment with artificial intelligence, says VCH's physician informatics director.

Combining EHR data with clinical AI is giving hospitals a new edge.

Nearly seven in 10 hospitals were using predictive artificial intelligence in 2024, with a surge in the use of third-party or self-developed automated billing, the agency says. Also, hospitals slower to adopt AI are lower-resourced, suggesting a divide.

The House passed a bill to modernize the Veterans Affairs' claims process by creating an artificial intelligence tool to retrieve data, provide decision support, share information and generate claim-related correspondence.