Bill Siwicki

If the CPT Editorial Panel approves new changes and Medicare and private payers follow suit, providers that expand their remote patient monitoring programs to fit the new codes will gain the most benefits for their patients and clinics.

The clinician-informed data model answers more than 70% of patient questions correctly, reducing the number of routine questions clinicians need to answer so they can focus on more complex patient concerns. The tool also is helping boost health equity for new mothers.

The data-driven Patient Acuity Nursing Tool, or PANT, maximizes patient and nursing outcomes, and has been extensively validated and determined to be an accurate reflection of nursing workload for various patient populations, the project coordinator reports.

This new scalability is possible because spinoff Praia Health's Consumer Platform does the heavy lifting associated with creating new features and capabilities within the health system's logged-in experiences, explains Providence's SVP of product and tech innovation.

The health system's savings have come from the platform's ability to conduct preferred product swaps, identify contract discrepancies and local contract savings, and swiftly assess shortage impacts then devise mitigation strategies.

This form of telemedicine can provide high-touch care coordination for preventive care, chronic condition management and mental health services, and bring cost savings from lower out-of-pocket expenses and avoiding unnecessary care, one expert says.

Large language model AI can help with the redistribution of routine tasks to nonphysician staff and directly to patients, getting patients to take an active role in their healthcare journey, and enhancing patient engagement and self-management, an expert says.

James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, reveals quite positive feelings among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.

The center created the Charisma Virtual Social Coaching platform. To date, 90% of participants have reported gains in recognizing and managing emotions. The center now is adding generative AI capabilities.

Before deploying the technology, staff was 67% core staff, 8% flexible staff and 25% agency staff. Afterward, the mix became 69% core, 23% flexible and gig staff, and only 8% agency staff.