How Smarter AI Strikes Back for Hospitals

[Sponsored] In an interview with MedCity News, Smarter Technologies CEO Jeremy Delinsky talked about the newly formed business Smarter Technologies and his ambition to automate hospitals’ revenue management capabilities with AI, which lags 2-5 years behind that of payers. The post How Smarter AI Strikes Back for Hospitals appeared first on MedCity News.

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Have we reached ‘peak HEOR’?

That is the title of my guest column at The Evidence Base. An excerpt is below: Multiple indicators suggest that health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) faces unprecedented challenges to its traditional role in pharmaceutical value demonstration. Yet these apparent threats may signal evolution rather than decline – if the field can adapt to serve…

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Senior CDC Officials Resign After Monarez’s Ouster, Citing Concerns Over Scientific Independence

Four senior officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced their resignations in recent days, citing what they described as growing political interference in the agency’s scientific work, particularly regarding vaccines. Two of them — Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief science and medical officer, and Demetre Daskalakis, who led the National Center for…

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CMS Finalizes Rule to Simplify Payer-Provider Disputes Under No Surprises Act 

CMS finalized a new rule aimed at streamlining the No Surprises Act’s overwhelmed arbitration system. Provider groups largely welcomed the reforms — though some industry leaders said additional changes are still needed to address alleged misuse and improve transparency. The post CMS Finalizes Rule to Simplify Payer-Provider Disputes Under No Surprises Act  appeared first on…

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When They Don’t Recognize You Anymore

It happened more than a decade ago, but the moment remains with her. Sara Stewart was talking at the dining room table with her mother, Barbara Cole, 86 at the time, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Stewart, then 59, a lawyer, was making one of her extended visits from out of state. Two or three years…

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