This week’s AI Talk… Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Are we there yet? Not even close. I saw a fairly extensive article in MIT Technology Review exploring this theme. Of course, […]

Pre-COVID-19, telemedicine was thought by many to be an option of convenience. COVID-19 has made it our main line of communication with physicians. Experts predict there will be more than […]

As COVID-19 cases continue to creep up, I wanted to assess the state of analytics with respect to the disease. AI and machine learning have been central to the data […]

For much of 2020, HIM and CDI professionals have been focused on COVID-19 and understanding how the temporary waivers for medical care delivery and payment impact documentation and coding. We […]

Emergency departments provide an essential role in the health care ecosystem, but a significant proportion of visits to the emergency department are for care that might have been delivered in […]

The beginning of this year was unusual for all of us. It wasn’t a shock for me to be in the hospital though, as I was pregnant and about to […]

Over the weekend I came across a nice summarization of recent advances in Conversational AI Agents and found these advances interesting. I covered GPT-3 in an earlier blog post, but […]

Primary care is the doorway to health care in the United States—at least in theory. The trust established between a patient and their primary care physician (PCP) allows the physician […]

COVID-19 will have a profound and permanent impact on how we interact with other people and with the world at large. This really hit home to me a month ago. […]

Normally, I don’t comment on marketing material, but these two stories are a bit out of the ordinary. Mercedes AVTR In Futureloop’s email digest I saw a reference to a […]

Hopefully October 1 came and went for you as normally as could be expected—considering we are beginning fiscal year 2021 during the biggest health care emergency of our lifetimes. Typically, […]

Value-based payment (VBP) contracts have been taking hold across the spectrum of payers. Unfortunately, COVID-19 will make it difficult for VBP contracts to be settled. At some interval (usually yearly), […]