Technology & AI

AMA CEO John Whyte, M.D., M.P.H.: New AMA policies demand transparency, audits and physician oversight wherever AI touches care or coverage decisions.

AI is transforming medicine faster than the legal and clinical frameworks governing it, raising new questions about liability, deskilling and the standard of care.

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

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

Lumeris CMO David Carmouche, M.D., says AI's biggest opportunity in primary care is giving physicians back the time to actually practice medicine.

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

Skillsoft's Asha Palmer, J.D., explains why banning AI doesn't stop staff from using it and what practical governance looks like for small practices.

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.

Neil Baum, M.D., makes the case for why AI will never replace the human connection at the core of patient care.

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.

Robert Wachter, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, takes us inside the AI scribe era.

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.

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) explains why he wants to ban the WISeR model, and why AI should be used to fix prior authorization, not make it worse.

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.

ArentFox Schiff's Pat Naples, J.D., breaks down the legal basis of CMS' antifraud push and what practices must do before investigators arrive.

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

Aeroflow Health CEO Casey Hite explains how tariffs forced his company to innovate faster and why the rest of health care should follow suit.

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