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AI adoption for real-world healthcare settings can’t happen in a vacuum. 

burnout boreout

Feeling overwhelmed by your work? There’s a lot of that going around these days. Some call it burnout. But there’s another side to the story.

sexual harassment in medicine

First-year medical residents are getting sexually harassed at work less frequently now than several years ago. That said, incident rates are still alarmingly high.

“Most health systems rely on a financial cost-containment model to inform staffing decisions. Clinicians understand the patient populations and needs over time, yet they are currently excluded from most staffing decisions,” the authors write. 

A gavel and a stethoscope

An expansion in access to mifepristone for telehealth patients is at risk before the Supreme Court. What does this mean for the FDA approvals process?

artificial intelligence for family medicine primary care

ChatGPT is only so-so at letting physicians know if any given clinical study is relevant to their patient rosters and, as such, deserving of a full, time-consuming read. On the other hand ... 

UK doctors strike

Going by compensation rates and trajectories, these might be the worst of times to be a physician in the United Kingdom.

hospital chief financial officer pain points

Healthcare CFOs spend more time dealing with cost management and, by extension, operational issues than any other single set of items on their to-do lists.

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The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have dropped their legal challenge to the interim final rule independent dispute resolution process of the No Surprises Act.

A gavel and a stethoscope

UnitedHealth Group can move ahead with its planned $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare after a district court shot down the Department of Justice’s attempt to block the transaction.

Covid Nurse

Despite higher rates of burnout and stress among healthcare workers during the pandemic, the healthcare industry has reported lower unemployment rates than other fields.

 

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Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit healthcare system operating in seven states, has launched a telehealth program aimed at reducing hospital transfers among pediatric patients and lowering costs.

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AI adoption for real-world healthcare settings can’t happen in a vacuum. 

ChatGPT is only so-so at letting physicians know if any given clinical study is relevant to their patient rosters and, as such, deserving of a full, time-consuming read. On the other hand ... 

Imperfect algorithms. Resistant clinicians. Wary patients. Divisive disparities. The plot ingredients of a flashy techno-thriller coming to a cineplex near you? No—just a few of the many worries that provider organizations take on when they move to adopt AI at scale.