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Healthcare AI market expected to surge from $2.1 to $36.1 billion by 2025

Increasingly large, complex data sets, and a growing need to reduce increasing costs, are driving market growth.

Here’s a big supply chain cost-savings opportunity: physician preference items

Physician preference items can help with patient care, but to get the most value, physicians and subject matter experts need input.

AGS expresses concern for future stability of high-quality, affordable healthcare

Last week’s ruling in district court has questioned the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which has stakeholder groups concerned.

Fewer people cite healthcare as country’s most important problem following midterms, Gallup finds

Pollsters attribute the dip in part to decreased media attention in the weeks following the election.

New Affordable Care Act policies could drive down uninsured rate from 12 to 7.3 percent

There are a number of specific steps outlined in a new report that would drive the uninsured rate back down to an estimated 7.3 percent.

Orphan drug exclusivity resulting in on-market drug prices rising more slowly than common drugs

Adding an orphan indication to an on-market drug didn’t correlate with a higher-than-average price increase.

Blockchain in the revenue cycle: What healthcare needs to succeed

Stakeholder participation, real-time transparency and emerging use cases will likely help blockchain permeate healthcare over the next several years.

Vast majority of physicians say data reporting detracting from satisfaction in their work

The Physician Misery Index has increased from 3.78 to 3.94 since 2015 despite increasing awareness of the prevalence of burnout.

As benchmarking in healthcare becomes more common, artificial intelligence is poised to facilitate it

The purpose of benchmarking in healthcare is to improve efficiency, quality of care, patient safety and patient satisfaction; AI can help.

Surgeons under stress make more mistakes in the operating room, study finds

The findings could lead to the development of protocol aimed at reducing acute or short-term stress on surgeons working in the operating room.