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Itā€™s Not AI Itself, Itā€™s the Wrong AI
The promise of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is immense: streamline operations, reduce burnout, enhance diagnostics, and free physicians to focus on what truly mattersā€”patient care. Yet, despite the hype, a significant chasm remains between AIā€™s potenti...
For two decades, independent practices have fought a common enemy: "Dr. Google." We spent years correcting the anxiety-induced self-diagnoses patients found in the search bar.
But as Cheng Ruan, MD notes, that era is ending. The search bar is dying. The era of the "Conversation" is winning.
We are...
In the halls of medical school, we are taught that there is a right way and a wrong way. We are taught to follow the "Standard of Care."
But in the real world of independent practice, we know the truth: The "Standard of Care" is a myth.
If medicine were purely binaryā€”a simple game of "if this, the...
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The $48,000 Invisible Cost: Why Your AI Scribe Costs More Than Its Subscription
When healthcare providers invest in AI scribing technology, the focus is almost exclusively on time savings and subscription fees. The calculation usually looks like this: "If this tool saves me two hours of charti...
If you look at the trend lines of healthcare ownership over the last ten years, one trajectory stands out: the sharp, downward slope of independent physician practice ownership.
Between 2012 and 2022, the share of physicians working in private practices dropped by roughly 18%.
When industry analys...
You went to medical school to treat pathology, not to argue with insurance adjusters. Yet, many clinicians spend their "pajama time" staring at a blinking cursor, trying to craft the perfect argument to overturn a generic denial.
It is a waste of your clinical brainpower.
We talk a lot about "Ente...
