Clinical Decision Making

From Data to Decisions: Leadership, Trust, and AI in Healthcare with Dr. Julia Rehman

Learn how healthcare leaders can integrate AI effectively while maintaining governance, human judgment, and frontline staff engagement in clinical decisions.

OpenAI Links ChatGPT to Epic EHRs, Adds Health Data Plugin

OpenAI has connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic EHRs and launched a plugin linking clinicians to nine public healthcare data sources.

How Lived Experience Drives One's Clinical Practice Leadership - Patrick Makarewich, UTSouthwestern

From Denial to Access: Rethinking Oncology Care Through AI, Clinical Trials, and Patient-Centered Innovation

The rapid expansion of precision medicine, biologics, and targeted cancer therapies is transforming oncology—but it’s also overwhelming a system not built to keep pace. In the U.S., cancer drugs now account for some of the highest-cost treatments in healthcare, and with that has come a surge in prior authorization requirements and denials. Studies suggest physicians…

Navigating Payer Denials: A Physician Advisor’s Perspective #2

A physician advisor recently described a case that should unsettle anyone who cares about fair, clinically grounded coverage decisions: a Medicaid patient arrived comatose from an overdose, was emergently intubated, developed aspiration pneumonia, and stayed through three midnights before leaving against medical advice. By any bedside standard, this is acute, unstable care—exactly what…

The Answers You Wanted On Sepsis – Episode 3

In episode three of The Michael Rothman Podcast, Dr. Rothman continues his deep dive into sepsis—a condition often misunderstood yet responsible for a significant portion of hospital deaths. Through data from a major northeastern hospital, he challenges traditional thinking: labeling a patient as “septic” isn’t what determines survival—their overall sickness is. Using the…

The Voice of the Patient… Heard Through the Megaphone of Data

A healthcare leader shares how capturing and analyzing patient data can transform clinical decision-making and close outcome gaps across populations

Unraveling E&M 2023 Code Changes: Impact and Implications on Healthcare

Healthcare providers face a critical transition as coding standards shift focus from documentation volume to clinical decision-making