The Business Side of Healthcare Blog

Unpopular opinion: AI scribes are a bandage on a bullet wound. Every major health system is racing to deploy ambient AI documentation tools. Epic, Oracle Health, Microsoft, Nuance, and a dozen well-funded startups are all ...

I keep thinking about why AI still can't change a doctor's mind. Not because the models are bad. Some of them are genuinely impressive. But impressive models and useful tools are not the same thing. ...

I keep thinking about how we are building AI on top of a security disaster. Healthcare is the most attacked industry in America. Not finance. Not energy. Healthcare. The HHS Office for Civil Rights breach ...

Why do we keep buying healthcare AI that nobody uses? Health systems spent an estimated $45 billion on AI and analytics tools in 2025. That number is climbing in 2026. And yet, when you walk ...

The hospitals serving the poorest patients may not survive this bill. As the Senate takes up the reconciliation package in June 2026, one of the quieter provisions is getting very little attention outside of hospital ...

CMS just proposed cutting physician pay again in 2027. And if you run a clinic, imaging center, or community health center, this one deserves your full attention. Every year, CMS releases its proposed Medicare Physician ...

Healthcare AI just had its biggest funding quarter ever. And most clinicians have no idea it happened. In Q2 2026, healthcare AI startups raised more than $4.1 billion across 120-plus deals, according to analysis from ...

1,300 health centers could close. And most Americans have no idea. The reconciliation bill working its way through Congress in June 2026 contains a provision that has received almost zero mainstream coverage, but it may ...