Artificial Intelligence

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.

A deep dive into where these technologies may be headed – and challenges healthcare organizations must overcome – from Michael Orlando, corporate and IP transactions attorney at Sheppard Mullin and a member of the firm's digital health team.

Pelu Tran, Ferrum Health's CEO, says a point solution approach for scaling health AI "doesn't really work when you're dealing with every possible disease, patient or service line" needing AI, and favoring one LLM may also limit future coding.

HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit is aimed at executives looking to deploy AI while managing the risk.

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.

The St. Louis-based health system achieved a 15%-20% increase in diabetic retinopathy screening. And individuals in lower socioeconomic groups were more than 2.5 times as likely to be screened as a result of using the technology.

Dr. Mark Sendak, pop health & data science lead at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation, offers an update on the Health AI Partnership, and how it's offering technical assistance to help FQHCs and community hospitals bridge the digital divide.

Patients of Epic providers onboarded to TEFCA can now access and share a single, real-time health record with HealthEx’s new service, and securely share it with any trusted third party, the companies say.

Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera, says hospitals need better visibility into the various AI-enabled tools coming onto their networks, and the ability to track new traffic patterns, security vulnerabilities and privacy risks.