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Switching cardiology patients to Bluetooth-enabled medical devices that send data to patient portals is helping to reduce chronic care complexities, says Sutter Health CCIO Dr. Richard Milani and Epic patient UX R&D lead Trevor Berceau.

Electrophysiologists, who implant devices such as pacemakers, need technology to automatically determine when the billing period ends, says Sallie Gustafson, RN, director of Medical Affairs at Murj.

A Murj survey verified billing is the undisputed top concern for electrophysiologists, says Sallie Gustafson, RN, director of Medical Affairs at Murj.

Todd Van Meter, CEO of Accuity, says that when partnering with clients, initial clinical denial rates are nearly cut in half and following an appeals process using an AI-driven platform, the final denial rates end up at 1% to 1.5%.

Investments in workforce, integrated technologies will broaden and strengthen care in rural areas, says Anna Basevich, SVP at Arcadia.

Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health, discusses the rollout of its AI Evidence Agent within Microsoft Teams, which allows care teams to access real-time, patient-specific insights during meetings to drive evidence-based clinical decisions.

Kevin Ritter, EVP for CareInMotion at Altera Digital Health, offers some answers and discusses how to tackle the challenges of data fragmentation and silos that block a unified patient view and impede coordinated care.

Arintra aims to be a bridge for aligned incentives and shared transparency for accurate, compliant and explainable coding, says CEO Nitesh Shroff.

In part one of how RUSH University Medical Center transformed OR utilization, Sam Davis Jr., AVP of perioperative and interventional clinical services, says teams are no longer chasing the day because of unpredictable data.

In the second part of our look at the Chicago medical center's returns on OR analytics investments, Sam Davis Jr., AVP of perioperative and interventional clinical services, says "trusted data and transparency made all the difference."

Next year it's AI-powered real-time location services for intelligent care orchestration, AI-native care operations replacing RTLS, and a surge in AI-driven length-of-stay optimization, says Rom Eizenberg, CRO at Kontakt.io.

Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society, discusses DiMe's new initiative to support aging in place with digital health tools and reimbursement of remote patient monitoring as Medicare and commercial coverage policies shift.