Healthcare IT leaders are under growing pressure to do more with less. New technologies promise game-changing outcomes — AI for diagnostics, cloud migration for scalability, cybersecurity platforms to protect patient data — but budgets haven’t kept pace with the need for innovation. According to a 2024 report from Kaufman Hall, hospitals continue to allocate only…
Download Slides Exploring how AI-driven analytics can transform care management through focus on Population Health Risk Stratification and Predictive Modeling. We will discuss how advanced data science techniques using Electronic Health Records (EHR) and claims data provides us an opportunity to perform risk stratification to help identify high-risk populations, predict adverse health events, and…
A webinar sponsored by Elation Health highlighted some of the challenges primary care practices face and how a more thoughtful, nuanced approach to health tech could transform healthcare practices. MedCity News Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar moderated a conversation with Elation Health executives Dr. Sara Pastoor, head of primary care advancement, and Meaghan Sullivan, senior sales engineer….
Executives from TailorCare, Altera Digital Health, and WiPro shared insights at the ViVE 2025 conference in Nashville. John Petito, TailorCare Chief Strategy Officer, talked about what sets the company apart, particularly its multi-pronged approach to specialty value-based care. TailorCare is focused on using PT to improve outcomes for patients with joint, back, and muscle conditions,…
Generative artificial intelligence can identify social determinants of health within EHR notes, accurately and without bias, determining which patients might need extra support, according to Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. The health system’s researchers fine-tuned large language models to automatically extract information about social determinants — factors such as housing, employment and family status that…
The debate is real, AI is real, but how will we use AI responsibly in healthcare innovation? Will the debate suck all the air out of the room and stifle innovation? There will be no stone left unturned with AI in healthcare in 2024. Here is what the thought leaders are saying about it. Full…
When I graduated from medical school and took the Hippocratic Oath, I vowed to not just treat the illness on a patient’s medical history form but to treat the person behind the diagnosis. To do this well, clinicians need to understand the whole person and the context in which they live — their race, gender…
Many healthcare systems have made creating high-quality and value-based care a top priority. Southwestern Health Resources (SWHR) used clinical data and predictive analytics to put a total cost of care plan in place to provide affordable and quality care to thousands of patients in North Texas and cost-effective care for their employers. Oftentimes in the healthcare market, purchasers…
Imagine the future when you go to your doctor to be treated for some sort of ailment. After collecting and entering key data into an app, she’s presented with a clinical diagnosis and optimal course of treatment, including the correct medications. While she’s there to talk “human-to-human” to the patient, it’s a predictive model and…
Humans have been interested in artificial intelligence for as long as you or I can remember. If you’re a science fiction fan you’ll have seen it in both good (i.e. Star Trek’s Lt. Commander Data and Star Wars’ C3P0) and bad forms (i.e. The Terminator or Hal 9000 from 2001 – A Space Odyssey) since the 1980s. Suffice to say, we’re still…