Ophthalmology Practices Turn to Specialized AI Agents to Tackle Scheduling Complexity General Chatbots Can't Handle
Assort Health and Nextech partner to automate the intricate patient access workflows unique to eye care, with early adopters reporting 60% call time savings and 97% resolution rates.
AI Scribe Meets Medical Encyclopedia: Suki Embeds Evidence-Based Answers Directly Into Patient Encounters
New clinical decision support feature powered by UpToDate delivers patient-specific insights 83% of the time, merging ambient documentation with real-time medical reference.
From Digital Twins to Grindr's Telehealth Play: Six Innovations Reshaping Patient Access This Week
Duke University's predictive health modeling program and Welldoc's AI care platform lead a wave of announcements signaling healthcare's shift toward continuous, data-driven patient engagement.
AI Agents Now Handle 95% of Patient Calls for Over 1,300 Primary Care Doctors—Without Human Handoff
Assort Health's platform, trained on 250 million patient interactions, is generating up to $4.3 million in incremental revenue per 100 providers while slashing hold times by 75%.
Austin AI Startup Bets on End-to-End Automation to Solve Healthcare's 42% Missed-Call Crisis
Hello Patient's acquisition of Converse Health creates a unified platform that automates patient interactions from first contact through post-visit paperwork, targeting the administrative bottlenecks that leave nearly half of patient calls unanswered.
Digital Cognitive Test Catches 80% of Dementia Cases Missed by Traditional Paper Screening
Florida Medicare provider doubled dementia detection rates in seven months after replacing standard paper assessments with domain-level digital cognitive profiling.
Healthcare's Next Evolution: AI Workforce Platform Aims to Replace the Fragmented EHR Ecosystem
DeepCura launches supervised AI agent system that consolidates practice management, documentation, and population health into a single auditable timeline used by over 6,000 US clinicians.