Securing the Brain Behind the System: Why AI Governance Is the Next Frontier in Patient Safety
As AI becomes central to diagnostics, workflows, and patient engagement, securing the models themselves must become a pillar of patient safety and quality assurance.
Healthcare Leaders Are Hamstrung by On-Again Off-Again Telehealth Waivers
The CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home waivers, launched in 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic, expired at the end of September, but were revived in last week’s Congressional action to reopen the federal government.
Preventing Diabetes Exacerbations Through Human Connection, Not Crisis Response
In response to these concerning trends, leading health systems are redefining diabetes management by merging remote patient monitoring, behavioral health coaching, and AI-enabled engagement.
The (Continuing) Evolution of the Hospital at Home Strategy
The CMS concept had more than its share of skeptics. Some criticized the complexity of the model, and the many rules tied to qualifying for Medicare reimbursement. Others questioned the disruption to patients and their families, amid the idea that providers were looking to recreate the hospital room in the home rather than develop a home-based hospital care program.
The Pace Quickens in Adoption of AI Tools for Clinical Care
The health system is planning on adopting new AI tools that will improve provider experience. One will help providers prepare for a patient encounter by looking at a patient’s history and summarizing the patient’s chart, and another will help providers after a patient encounter with functions such as helping with coding.
How ‘Top Gun’ and Technology Are Improving Patient Transfers
The so-called Top Gun initiative is a partnership between Mercy Health Toledo and Conduit Health Partners, the IT company launched out of the health system in 2018. The program creates a transparent tech platform that allows the health system to see into each hospital and coordinate non-emergency transfers, most often to Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center, the network’s only Level One trauma center.
Do CIOs Need a New Virtual Care Strategy?
A new report from Sage Growth Partners finds that patient experience is moving quickly to the top of the list of strategic initiatives, and that executives are targeting virtual care and digital health as key channels to get in front of patients.
Finding True Value in AI for Smaller Health Systems
One tool that Dayton Children’s is embracing is ambient AI. The hospital became one of the first pediatric hospitals in the country to use the technology when it partnered with Abridge earlier this year to launch the tool.
Mobile Access: Healthcare’s New Problem Solver
This article will explore innovative ways that leading health systems can and are leveraging mobile to support and deliver on key initiatives.
Addressing the Divide Between the Promise of and Trust in Healthcare AI
While many leaders consider AI the top technology to watch at the moment, most reported low levels of trust in current solutions and noted a lack of concrete integration strategies.