Managed Healthcare Executive October 12, 2023
The chair of Harvard Medical School’s bioinformatics department says the deterministic, discrete data of billing and reimbursement means that artificial intelligence’s first big impact in healthcare is likely to be in “the business of healthcare.”
When artificial intelligence (AI) starts making a major difference in healthcare, it won’t be by hastening diagnoses or analyzing complicated datasets, says Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.
Instead, it will follow money instead and be used to manage billing and reimbursement, predicted the chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the featured speaker today at the opening plenary session today of the IDWeek 2023 meeting in Boston.
“All those healthcare professionals who are working for insurance companies to vet or not...