AI in Healthcare March 14, 2025
Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.
- Many AI documentation suppliers bill providers on a per-use basis. Use the vendor’s tool a lot, ring up a big vendor bill. At large healthcare organizations, this can be a ballooning problem, as the number of physicians using AI documentation has been increasing exponentially. And few have a way to pass these costs along to payers. So the more a healthcare system integrates ambient AI into its daily workflows, the heavier the cumulative financial burden becomes. And the faster it keeps accruing. Ronald Rodriguez, MD, PhD, of UT-San Antonio reminds the wise about these realities in a Q&A with HIMSS Media. “Unless hospitals and healthcare providers negotiate cost-effective pricing structures, implement usage...