John Cardello

Physicians in the US spend an enormous amount of time documenting care. AI scribes have promised to remedy this issue.   However this technology is far from perfect since it’s release in 2022.  They are generating notes that hallucinate exam findings, inflate billing codes and at times, get signed off

Artificial intelligence is subtly transforming senior living, and most people haven't noticed yet.  It's arriving through AI-powered fall detection, virtual companionship, predictive monitoring, and smarter care platforms designed to help resident staff identify problems faster. The AI Caregiver Has Arrived It's doing much

Millions of Americans wait days or sometimes weeks—for insurance approval before receiving medical treatment. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is helping determine how quickly those approvals happen. Prior authorization is the process where a medical provider gets permission from an insurance company to treat a patient.  Hospitals, in order to keep

Some patients aren't waiting for healthcare to catch up......... Faced with serious diagnoses they are building their own AI driven health systems and in some cases outpacing their own hospitals. The Faces of Digital Health podcast recently profiled several of these patients, each confronting a different diagnosis and

Technological expertise is usually not a prerequisite in hospital management.  But preparation for what's happening in healthcare AI in the next 12 months will likely require a deeper understanding. dd A Hospital Chief Operating Officer arrives on a Monday to find an Electronic Health Records (EHR) AI update

Physicians have been using AI tools in some form for many years, but in 2022 something changed. Shadow AI exploded in healthcare and doctors quickly adopted this transformative technology.  Think of tools like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, consumer AI platforms that were not designed for clinical use, now being used