Becker's Cardiology

More than 80% of physicians now use AI in their clinical practice, double the share of just three years ago, with documentation and coding among the most common applications. That shift has quietly created a new category of billing inaccuracy.…

A patient leaves a clinic with a prescription, drives to the pharmacy and discovers the copay is higher than expected, a prior authorization is required or the medication is out of stock. They leave empty-handed. Therapy is delayed. Adherence is…

Unprecedented growth creates unprecedented complexity. As Ochsner Health expanded to 47 hospitals across the Gulf South, medical device spend climbed 141% between 2018 and 2024 — and a growing share of procedural spend remained invisible to the teams managing it.…

Smokers. Diabetic patients. Revision cases. Multilevel fusions. These are the patients where reliable fusion is hardest to achieve and where biologic selection carries the most weight. A clinical evidence review brings together more than 10 years of published literature and…

When Gundersen Health System and Bellin Health merged to form Emplify Health in 2025, training leaders faced a clear challenge: unify EHR education across two organizations and tens of thousands of clinicians without disrupting care. Their answer was a shift…

Physician burnout continues to impact the overall sustainability of the U.S. healthcare system. In this paper, the American Medical Association (AMA) presents key findings from their 2025 national physician well-being survey. Findings include year-over-year national trends across key indicators such…

Women’s health is too often treated as a narrow benefit category, defined by maternity and annual screenings. The result is a system in which underdiagnosis is the norm, not the exception. For every one woman diagnosed with a serious condition,…

Filling an open physician role costs more than $500,000. Yet only 39% of healthcare organizations have a formal retention policy and most aren’t using retirement benefits as the differentiator they could be. The problem is that traditional 401(k) plans offer…