Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Consumer acceptance of medical AI coming into focus

Patients are strongly inclined to follow treatment instructions that combine innovative AI recommendations with a physician’s reassuring presence.

August 9, 2021
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How and when FDA assesses the clinical competency of healthcare AI

True or false? Each time a software developer significantly updates an FDA-approved Software as a Medical Device product, the SaMD faces possible re-review by the agency.

August 6, 2021
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Envisioning a world of big, AI-ready—and free—healthcare data, a top medical school leads by example

The academic medical institution that maintains the world’s best-stocked library of curated, patient-deidentified and AI-ready data is going 100% open source with its digital riches.

August 3, 2021
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Notable regulatory approvals of emerging technologies over the past 30 days

Along with AI in its various iterations, the list may include virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, robotics and other technologies currently changing healthcare delivery.

July 30, 2021
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AI chatbots spawned by COVID look to grow their niche

Going on a year and a half since its debut as a COVID symptom checker, one virtual health assistant is now trained on 17 million patient interactions. 

July 26, 2021
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US public OK with AI for heart, cancer, anxiety care—AI video pain monitoring, not so much

An online survey completed by more than 900 U.S. adults reveals an overall openness to AI for several scenarios in healthcare.

July 26, 2021
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Big Tech player promises big interoperability via new data engine

A Silicon Valley icon has debuted a healthcare-specific data engine aimed at collating actionable information from data siloes operating within hospitals and health systems.

July 22, 2021
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Watson is alive, well and continuing IBM’s quest to help drive AI into healthcare

Reporter Steve Lohr interviewed IBM insiders and close observers en route to finding Watson’s current leadership evidently humbled, cautioned and determined to pursue more sober goals.

July 21, 2021

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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