Technology & AI

Physician AI use has doubled since 2023. Vet your next tool on data privacy, liability and EHR fit before you sign.

Operational levers that practice administrators can pull to give clinicians their evenings back

Eight practical steps to govern AI in your practice, from naming an owner to vetting vendors and training your team.

Health care veterans resistant to innovation can create barriers to progress, but converting them from adversaries to allies may be the answer.

As AI, cybersecurity threats and ambient documentation reshape clinical practice, legal experts warn liability is evolving faster than regulation.

Veradigm’s survey of 360 practice leaders finds operational and financial strain, not clinical concerns, are the top threats to independence.

AI scribes get the headlines, but the highest-yield documentation fixes are workflow changes practices can make without a new vendor contract.

How one medical group used AI scribing to redeploy scribes into a revenue-generating chronic care management program.

As AI takes on a larger role in clinical decision-making, the diagnostic coding system underpinning health care data may be too imprecise to keep patients safe.

A real-world ChatGPT mix-up illustrates why physicians must verify AI-generated responses before trusting them in clinical or patient-facing settings.

How the widespread adoption of electronic medical records quietly transformed the way primary care physicians code office visits, and their bottom lines.

Two years after a historic health care cyberattack exposed dangerous single-point failures in claims routing, the industry has largely rebuilt the same vulnerable structure.

What practices need to know about "vishing" — the phone-based scam putting patient data and HIPAA compliance at risk.

95% of practices say regulatory burden has grown over the past three years, according to MGMA's 2026 Regulatory Burden Report.

Physicians Practice, Medical Economics and Heidi Health will share exclusive national physician survey data on AI adoption, scribe utilization and the financial realities of implementation in a live virtual event on April 29.

Most practices land on a software tier during implementation and never revisit it. That's an expensive habit.

Vanderbilt professor and health care entrepreneur Bruce J. Lynskey breaks down what companies and investors need to know before betting on AI in medicine.

Access to care surged 14 points in two years to become the No. 1 policy issue for physicians.

How clinics can turn telehealth from a pilot program into a reliable, financially sustainable part of their patient care workflow.

Small practices may be missing thousands of dollars in Medicare revenue monthly. Here are 6 billing opportunities that don't require new patients or more hours.

Learn how HIPAA, the Cures Act and Medicare incentives make patient portals nearly essential, and how to avoid information-blocking complaints.

OCR’s latest HIPAA settlement spotlights risk analysis failures and how ChatGPT, AI scribes, consent laws and evidence deletion reshape compliance.

From ambient scribes to diagnostic decision support, artificial intelligence is reshaping how medicine gets done.

Doctors embrace AI for notes and decisions, but policies lag. Practices must manage shadow tools, training, privacy and patient questions.

Sweeping HIPAA Security Rule updates push small practices toward mandatory MFA, encryption and audits as compliance deadlines loom.