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By Mackenzie Garrity for Becker’s Hospital Review Although technology and artificial intelligence is helping physicians, the tools will ultimately not replace clinicians, according to a panel of physicians and health executives interviewed by CNBC. “I don’t think at this stage, we are 100 percent, or even close to 100 percent, sure that AI can replace…
By Ron Shinkman for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: CMS on Friday issued its 2020 final rules for the Physician Fee Schedule, including a streamlining of evaluation and management services (E/M) reporting that was rolled back from an earlier proposal in a change providers applauded. The final rule, which is mostly unchanged from the proposed rule…
By Maureen Kelly and Fred Wulf for For the Record In August, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Final Rule for fiscal year 2020’s inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) code set changes. IPPS updates take effect for discharges occurring from October 1, 2019, through September…
By Samantha Liss for Healthcare Dive Health systems across the country are looking for creative ways to capture volume as non-traditional competitors threaten to steal patients away. In Washington state, Providence St. Joseph is focusing on making same-day appointments a reality. In Illinois, Advocate Aurora is using AI-powered technology that allows patients to type in…
Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence can detect diseases from medical imaging with the same accuracy as healthcare professionals, according to a systematic review of 82 articles published in The Lancet Digital Health journal Tuesday. However, AI didn’t outperform human diagnosis. In a small subset of the studies comparing AI and clinician diagnostic…
By Andrea Park for Becker’s Hospital Review Though artificial intelligence algorithms require as much objective patient data as possible to be effective tools for healthcare delivery, it is equally important that they are trained on anecdotal patient evidence, according to Blake McKinney, MD. In an op-ed for STAT, Dr. McKinney, an emergency medicine physician and…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News SANTA CLARA – At Health 2.0 on Monday, National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Don Rucker listed a litany of challenges faced daily by physicians and nurses, and contributing to the ongoing scourge of clinician burnout: onerous documentation requirements, boilerplate electronic health records and the “monster burdens” of…
Scott Becker and Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review Artificial intelligence is making big waves across many industries, and healthcare organizations are exploring ways to harness AI’s transformative power. Many hospitals and health systems are already leveraging AI to improve care, support clinical decisions and boost clinician satisfaction. However, the role of AI in healthcare…
By Nick Paul Taylor for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: More than two-thirds of healthcare executives think artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies will extensively impact their organizations over the next three years. The new Accenture survey suggests executives will expand quickly beyond the experiments that make up most of the engagement with new digital…
The Journal of AHIMA published an article in the June 2019 issue called “Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check” by Mary Butler. The article takes a closer look at the impact of Computer Assisted- Coding (CAC) by examining studies, interviewing HIM professionals and Dolbey’s Product Manager, Heather Eminger-Gladden, CCS. What is CAC? How does Computer- Assisted Coding…