by Holly Meyer | Sep 9, 2026 | Agentic AI, Automation, Conversational AI, Workflow Efficiency
The first foray of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare industry occurred in the 1970s with INTERNIST-1, an artificial medical consultant. Although the industry has lagged in areas such as the consumerism trend, it is deploying AI at more than twice the rate...
by Holly Meyer | Jun 3, 2026 | Agentic AI, Automation, Patient Access, Patient Outreach
The continental United States stretches roughly 2,800 miles wide from east to west and 1,650 miles long from north to south. Of the approximately 341.8 million U.S. residents, 56 million people (18 percent of the population) live in areas designated as rural or...
by Holly Meyer | Mar 19, 2026 | Agentic AI, Automation, Conversational AI, Patient Engagement
What do healthcare providers and payers have in common? Both encounter rising costs, staffing shortages, compliance challenges and changing consumer expectations. Take increasing expenses, for example. The average overhead for today’s medical practice ranges from 60...
by Holly Meyer | Jan 13, 2026 | Agentic AI, Automation, Workflow Efficiency
Healthcare staffing shortages in 2026: new year, same old problem. Some pundits previously expressed doubt about the projected lack of physicians, nurses and other clinical staff, but numbers paint a grim picture. Just last month, the National Center for Health...
by Holly Meyer | Nov 24, 2025 | Agentic AI, Automation, HIPAA
Becker’s Hospital Review recently ranked the United States’ top 65 health systems by annual revenue. As the article noted, most health systems experienced a revenue increase in 2024 as patient volumes rebounded and provider productivity improved. However, rising...
by Holly Meyer | Nov 7, 2025 | Agentic AI, Automation, Patient Communication, Workflow Efficiency
In 2008, the AAMC projected a shortage of 124,000 full-time equivalent physicians by 2025. As Feeling the Impact of the Physician Shortage 2025 report notes, that shortage was not a myth. Along with staffing shortages of both physicians and nurses the United States...
