Technology & AI

Office 2021 and Windows 11 24H2 lost security fixes Oct. 13, and Windows Server 2016 is next. Here's where outdated tech hides in a practice.

The federal checklist behind your EHR shrinks Dec. 28. Lock down your contract, MIPS reporting and referral workflows while you have leverage.

WISeR cut targeted services 15 to 20 percent in six states. These fixes protect your volume, your claims and your patients' place in line.

A Johns Hopkins employee put 3,182 patients' data into a consumer AI tool. Here's what that mistake would cost a small practice.

MGMA poll: 63 percent of groups are adding revenue cycle automation as payers push harder, and the EHR is the first place to look.

Neil Baum, MD, weighs the 10 benefits and eight risks data centers bring to physicians as the facilities spread across rural America.

The CMS-0057 rule regulates health plans, not practices, but administrators are the ones who have to get the EHR and billing vendor conversations right.

Here's a video primer on forming your practice's approach to technology in the age of AI

Most practices have a cyber plan and an AI policy. Far fewer can show either one works. Here's how to turn paperwork into proof.

A 2027 Medicare proposal would stop paying for RPM time logged by vendor staff and cut device payments. Our handbook walks through what to do.

A Utah program allows Nolla Health's AI to prescribe acne treatment within physician-approved limits. Physician review scales back as more patients enroll.

Six national physician organizations warned that claims of AI superiority undermine patient trust, putting new attention on how practices set rules for AI use by clinicians and staff.

About 34 percent of medical groups have built their own tools with AI. Check HIPAA, code ownership and insurance before yours goes live.

Pew found 72 percent of adults want to know when AI touches their care. Only 16 percent say a doctor has ever told them.

CMS dropped 760,000 marketplace enrollees in a fraud sweep. Real-time eligibility checks keep the fallout from turning into denials.

Someone else configured your EHR. These 18 defaults quietly add clicks, inbox noise and compliance risk to every clinic day.

Federal accessibility rules now cover practice websites, portals and online forms. The deadline moved, but the lawsuits and complaints didn't.

The 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer measures the gap between what practice leaders think their staff want, and what staff say they want.

AI scribes won't do all your charting. Define their use cases, cut redundant steps and reshape workflows to see real time savings.

Four in five practices already run AI in the front office. Far fewer have written the rules, picked the metrics or named what stays human.