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E-Newsletter • January 2026 |
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Editor's E-Note
Are you wondering whether and how AI can help your practice or department? In this month’s exclusive, we are taking a look at generative AI and how it may be used to improve care and reduce physician burnout.
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— Dave Yeager, editor |
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Generative AI in Value-Based Care and Risk-Bearing Organizations
By Anil Patil
Value-based and risk-bearing primary care practices are under rising expectations to deliver outcome-based care at lower cost while managing increasingly complex populations and patients with multiple chronic conditions. Unlike fee-for-service environments, success for these organizations hinges on proactive, coordinated, and data-driven care delivery. Yet clinicians and care teams remain overwhelmed by administrative work, fragmented data, and reactive operational and technology workflows. Generative AI (GenAI) is emerging as a powerful enabler in the care models—not by replacing clinicians or admin staff, but by optimizing their ability to identify risk, close care gaps, engage patients, and act at the right moment. When applied thoughtfully, GenAI can help value-based and risk bearing practices align clinical outcomes with economic performance.
Reducing the “Administrative Burden”: Freeing Time for the Human Touch
Excessive administrative overhead has become one of the biggest roadblocks in value-based and risk-sharing models, in particular. Clinicians are expected to manage chronic disease, coordinate care, have optimal documentation, meet quality metrics, and engage patients—all while maintaining productivity. This “administrative burden” erodes time for patient interaction and contributes to clinician burnout.
GenAI offers an opportunity to redesign clinical and operational workflows so that critical information is surfaced automatically and at every touchpoint of patient care. Rather than having clinicians and staff hunt for insights across EMR and practice management screens, worklists, and dashboards, GenAI synthesizes data into usable context and makes it available at the right time and place in the service model.
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Largest Health Care Data Breaches of 2025
While the number of data breaches and affected individuals were lower than the previous year, 2025 had at least 642 data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, and 15 that affected more than 500,000 individuals, according to The HIPAA Journal.
MIT Scientists Investigate Memorization Risk in the Age of Clinical AI
Researchers studied how AI foundation models trained on deidentified EHR data have the capacity to memorize patient information and tested whether patient privacy was at risk from targeted prompts by threat actors, reports MIT News. |
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CLEAR Powers Secure, Seamless Digital Identity
CLEAR’s secure identity platform CLEAR1 addresses the growing challenges of identity risk in health care. By replacing legacy checks with multilayered verification, CLEAR1 reduces identity-related fraud, minimizes misuse of sensitive data, and restores trust in digital access to care. CLEAR1 is HIPAA-compliant and Full Service certified by Kantara Initiative for NIST IAL2/AAL2, and has partnered with Epic, Sharecare, Welldoc, CMS, and other health systems. Learn more »
Included Health Launches Intelligent AI Assistant
Included Health expanded its platform with an intelligent AI assistant—Dot by Included Health—to offer an always-on, clinician-in-the-loop health care experience. Dot by Included Health delivers personalized guidance drawn from medical data, claims, and benefits information, while keeping clinicians involved. Learn more » |
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