Brightside Health CMO: AI Shows Promise in Supporting Mental Health Providers
Mimi Winsberg, M.D., discusses study indicating that LLMs can help clinicians triage patients with suicidal ideation
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A Playbook for Modern Ambulatory Infusion Care: How Providers Can Strengthen Experience, Outcomes, and Operational Performance
As specialty therapies expand and chronic conditions rise, infusion services must be viewed as both clinically intensive and deeply human. The post A Playbook for Modern Ambulatory Infusion Care: How Providers Can Strengthen Experience, Outcomes, and Operational Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
Penn Medicine Develops Solution to Speed Fax Processing
Called coordn8, solution automates the intake and filing of faxed documents into the EHR and allows patients to digitally give consent
Transforming CTMS: An Operating Layer for Real-Time Trial Execution
CTMS platforms do not lack capability. They reflect an earlier architectural priority. The post Transforming CTMS: An Operating Layer for Real-Time Trial Execution appeared first on MedCity News.
An AI Assistant Can Interpret Those Lab Results for You
When Judith Miller had routine blood work done in July, she got a phone alert the same day that her lab results were posted online. So, when her doctor messaged her the next day that her overall tests were fine, Miller wrote back to ask about the elevated carbon dioxide and low anion gap listed…
Streamlining Public Benefits Access is a Must to Address Poverty
By ALISTER MARTIN and TARA MENON If a friend were to ask you which state, Massachusetts or Texas, has a more streamlined federal benefits enrollment program, what would your guess be? Having screened over 17,000 families and helped them obtain more than $1.8M in federal and state aid through our work in both Massachusetts and…
Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge
Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe. He had rolled his wheelchair to the oven to keep himself warm as he tried to regulate his temperature, she recalled, and was drenched in sweat from an apparent infection. In that moment,…
CMS and AHIP Isn’t the Finish Line: It’s the Starting Gun for Prior Auth Innovation
Without systemic redesign, these efforts risk reinforcing the same pain points that made prior authorization a flashpoint for payers and providers. The post CMS and AHIP Isn’t the Finish Line: It’s the Starting Gun for Prior Auth Innovation appeared first on MedCity News.
Hospitals Can’t Keep Staffing Like it’s 1995
The time to prepare is now, while there’s still time and space to figure out what works. Change is uncomfortable, but clinging to outdated habits is far riskier. The post Hospitals Can’t Keep Staffing Like it’s 1995 appeared first on MedCity News.
A Possible Downside to Limits on Teens’ Access to Social Media
In 1982, then-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned that video games might be hazardous to young people’s health, a statement he later walked back, acknowledging it had no basis in science. These days, state and federal policymakers are sounding alarms about the need to protect children from the harmful effects of social media platforms such…