Payers face numerous challenges when it comes to AI, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t use the technology, according to Neil Gomes, senior vice president and chief digital officer of AmeriHealth Caritas.

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Executives at the ViVE Payer Insights event earlier this year discussed prior authorization, AI, value-based care and the role of tech to help achieve their goals.

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More than 100 skilled consultants to self-insured employers shared their perspectives on the changing dynamics in healthcare benefits in MedCity News’ second annual 2024 Benefit Consultant Sentiment Index (The Index): Benefit Consultants’ Perspective on Shifting Employer Healthcare Landscape. The report functions as an insider’s guide to understanding how healthcare trends are shaping employer benefit decisions from the perspective of consultants.

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With its financing round of $130 million, Sword Health is now valued at $3 billion. The company also unveiled Phoenix, an AI care specialist that guides users through sessions.

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If Medicare acts, the potential of AI-enabled technologies to improve healthcare outcomes for patients, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status, will be closer to being fully realized.

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No matter what form they take, one thing is clear — there is an urgent demand for digital primary care providers to guide patient navigation in the digital health era.

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The MedTech industry is poised for breakthroughs, owing to the rapid integration of digital ecosystems and technologies like AI and cloud.

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This rapidly growing field marries bioinformatics and pharmacology and represents a transformative new era of precision medicine and highly personalized treatments.

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Focusing on these areas can help healthcare organizations reduce the incidence of denials, optimize revenue cycle performance and enhance overall patient satisfaction. 

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Routine NM-MRI for individuals at risk of Parkinson’s could provide a means of identifying the disease before symptoms emerge.

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HiLabs’ Series B funding round was led by Denali Growth Partners and Eight Roads Ventures and included participation from F-Prime Capital. In total, HiLabs has raised about $41 million.

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Health systems aren’t seeing a ton of ROI when it comes to their AI investments quite yet, as use of the technology is still in an iterative stage. However, Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr thinks that is likely to change in the next couple years.

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Today, clinicians have to spend an inordinate and impractical amount of time combing through the EHR just to find the information they need to provide that level of care. All of that back-end administrative work should be the function of technology.

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One way that we can address this root cause of burnout is by supporting health care workers in using their time most effectively. That involves deploying technologies that make their lives easier.

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The combination of technology and cross-functional collaboration allows providers to address denials and achieve optimal revenue performance.

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When it comes to behavior change support, humans are still better than AI, according to Dr. Carolyn Bradner Jasik, chief medical officer at Omada Health.

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AI can improve the prior authorization process, but there needs to be more transparency, experts said during a recent panel held by KFF.

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Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.

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A new EY survey found that while 86% of health executives say that digital health solutions have the potential to reduce costs, 70% said they haven’t seen a return on investment so far.

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Proper data collection, analysis, and utilization has the potential to address long-standing health disparities and propel our healthcare system forward to serve all communities.

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Today, many hope artificial intelligence will be the key that unlocks the value of digitization. Perhaps it will, but the claim that better technology will necessarily improve healthcare is no longer credible. Having lived in both analog and digital worlds, who better than us Oregon Trail doctors to help ensure digital health technologies best serve our workforce, patients, and communities?

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The only way to effectively scale care coordination to meet the needs of digital consumers is through technology, combined with empowered staff and transformed processes.

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Equitable AI isn’t an aspiration; it’s an absolute necessity, particularly for the millions of older Americans who remain unseen within the current frameworks and miss out on algorithmic benefits such as risk profiles and early interventions for certain diseases.

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A preview of ViVE 2024 offers a sneak peek at the agenda and how the Payer and Provider Connect meeting platform initiatives have been revamped to maximize the quantity and quality of meeting for healthcare executives.

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The shift towards digital pathology has marked a significant advancement in breast cancer diagnosis. High-resolution digital imaging of slides provides pathologists with an unprecedentedly clear and expansive view of tissue samples for their analysis.

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AI, health equity and merger and acquisition activity are among the trends to watch in 2024, according to a recent report from Deloitte.

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A recent Deloitte report found that improving health equity is a top-10 goal for 83% of life sciences and healthcare C-suite executives in 2024. The report also laid out factors that will likely influence health equity in 2024, including AI.

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There are three key trends for the healthcare industry to follow in 2024, including the rise of AI, increasing cost pressures and M&A activity, according to West Monroe.

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AI may transform health care across the board, but not by itself. It’s a tool, and like any tool, it will work more effectively and more safely in trained hands. As the AI revolution continues to grow, we believe organizations should invest in that training now.

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Providers who don’t take advantage of AI will get “left behind,” said Dr. Shantanu Gaur, founder and CEO of Allurion Technologies, during a panel discussion at INVEST Digital Health.

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