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E-Newsletter • December 2025 |
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Editor's E-Note
AI is finding its way into every corner of health care, and organizations that haven’t already planned for it would be wise to do so. This month’s Exclusive takes at look at the potentials and pitfalls of AI adoption in the health care enterprise.
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— Dave Yeager, editor |
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AI That Heals the Bottom Line — Cost-Saving Strategies for Health Care Leaders
By Tom Hughes
Health care providers have embraced AI with enthusiasm, recognizing its potential to automate manual tasks, enhance accuracy, and improve patient outcomes. This year, those early ambitions are evolving into practical, targeted applications. Providers are strategically pinpointing challenges and identifying opportunities to embed AI solutions directly into workflows and processes—and reshaping financial performance. It marks a pivotal phase in the AI transformation, one that will pave the way for broader, scalable adoption across the health care sector.
As enthusiasm for AI continues to build, health care providers face ongoing challenges in scaling adoption and securing the necessary investment. Identifying the right tools to pilot, developing a sustainable budget, expanding programs, and evaluating operational impacts can be complex and overwhelming. While AI offers tremendous potential to streamline administrative processes and strengthen financial performance, implementation often brings its own set of challenges. Through strategic planning and deliberate execution, however, providers can successfully navigate these complexities and realize the full value of their AI investments.
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Health Care Executives' Biggest Takeaways From 2025
Health leaders discuss the biggest impacts this year, including AI’s increasing role in health technology, reports MobiHealthNews.
CMMI Debuts ACCESS Model to Spur Use of Tech in Chronic Disease Treatment
The CMS Innovation Center is introducing the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions, or ACCESS, Model, which will provide outcomes-based reimbursement for technology used to treat chronic diseases, reports Fierce Healthcare. |
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athenahealth Introduces AI-Native athenaOne Features
athenahealth has announced new AI-powered practice and revenue cycle management (RCM) innovations, which are designed to eliminate much of the manual work across the revenue cycle and reduce administrative work by more than 50%. The athenaOne features utilizing these new AI capabilities to improve RCM performance include automated insurance selection, patient liability estimation, waitlist scheduling, express coding with real-time clinical documentation improvement, AI payer portal agents and voice AI, and automated denial advice. Learn more »
AdvancedMD Launches Practice Management, EHR, and Patient Engagement Platform
AdvancedMD, a provider of cloud-based health care software for independent medical practices, has launched AdvancedMD Now, a unified practice management, EHR, and practice engagement platform designed specifically for mental health practices with up to three providers. The cloud-based platform has been built with all the standard features of the AdvancedMD software suite—including the ability to add and manage patient demographic, clinical, and billing information—but designed to meet the specific needs of small mental health practices. With AdvancedMD Now, mental health providers get a self-service, unified practice management, EHR, and patient engagement platform with full clinical and billing capabilities; purpose-built workflows designed specifically for behavioral health providers with templates and tools aligned to the DSM-5 criteria; charting solutions that support long-form clinical documentation, treatment planning, and progress planning; features that support mental health-specific needs, such as assessments, severity disorder monitoring, and outcome-based care; and integrated telehealth capabilities to conduct remote sessions and patient engagement tools that reduce no-show rates and improve continuity of care. Learn more » |
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