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Are AI agents the key to optimizing online appointment scheduling?
Community Health Network deployed AI agents to help navigate consumers through the common logjams that keep them from using ...
Data privacy concerns could hold patients back from using AI
Although artificial intelligence has quickly become integrated into our daily lives, Americans say they’re becoming increasingly ...
Access, not hesitancy, stymies flu vaccine rates
Surveying shows vaccine hesitancy isn't all that's dampening flu vaccine rates, as care access and mixed messaging keep people ...

Trump administration revamps insurer price transparency reporting
On Monday, the HHS and Labor and Treasury Departments finalized a rule meant to strip out junk cluttering cost disclosures, among...
Neb. Medicaid work requirements yield 7% coverage losses
Since implementing Medicaid work requirements in May, Nebraska has also denied 14% of new Medicaid coverage applications.
Texas AG opens prior auth probe into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office has received reports about denied or delayed coverage for services that are ...

Investor suit says UnitedHealth ignored governance, cybersecurity gaps for years
The laundry list of allegations include claims that UnitedHealth deceived investors, artificially inflated share prices and ...
Cyberattack forces temporary closure of 83 AnMed facilities
Nonprofit health system AnMed's medical group and imaging offices will be closed on July 27 as it responds to a cyberattack; ...
Hackers steal customer data from major hospital software vendor
The breach is another reminder of how vulnerable the healthcare industry is to supply-chain attacks.

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