The Rural Health Transformation Program: Local Calibration Is Essential

By Josh Gray and Nigel Harriman The Rural Health Transformation Project is an unprecedented federal initiative that commits $50 billion over five years to reshape healthcare delivery in rural America. Participants are expected to pursue transformative technologies, new care delivery models, workforce innovation, and digitally enabled approaches to care.

Beyond the Hype: How to Deploy AI Summaries That Work in Practice

Deploying AI in a health system means more than choosing the right tool — it means getting clinicians, IT, and governance committees on board from day one. In this on-demand webinar hosted by Healthcare Dive, HDAI experts Dr. Scott Cullen, David Clain, and Carola Endicott walk through a practical framework for evaluating and scaling AI Summaries across your organization.

Skin Substitutes: A Cost Nightmare That Could Still Hurt ACOs

By Josh Gray and Maria Monahan The skin substitute cost explosion of 2022 – 2025 should be behind us. But it continues to hang over the finances of ACOs. Skin substitutes are expensive wound care products made from human placenta and other biologicals. The cost of some of these products exceeded $21K per square inch.

Transforming Care Delivery at Houston Methodist

What does it actually look like when AI shows up in a clinician’s day-to-day workflow at one of the country’s leading health systems? Brenda Campbell, Senior Consultant of Health Systems Innovations at Houston Methodist, and HDAI Founder and CEO Nassib Chamoun, join the Healthcare AI Pioneers podcast to answer exactly that. Using AI, stratification, and a fresh perspective on patient care.

HDAI Achieves HITRUST r2 Certification, including new AI Security

Distributed by PRNewswire HITRUST Certification validates HDAI is meeting rigorous cybersecurity and data protection standards through independent assessment and assurance. HDAI (Health Data Analytics Institute) announced that its core information systems have earned HITRUST r2 Certification for demonstrating commitment to cybersecurity and information protection.

Readers Write: Doing Everything For the Patient, Not To the Patient

Written by Nassib Chamoun and featured on HIStalk, this piece explores how our system’s reflexive drive toward intensive intervention can sometimes overshadow what matters most — the human experience of care, dignity, and quality of life. This perspective could reshape how we think about patient-centered care.

Predictive Diagnostic Discovery Improves Quality, Outcomes, and Economics

By Scott Cullen, MD – Chief Medical Officer at Health Data Analytics Institute CMS is taking new steps to control rising healthcare costs. They believe some large Medicare Advantage insurers are “gaming” the coding system to increase payments. CMS recently proposed a major change: diagnoses would only count toward risk scores if they were directly related to the billed encounter.

AI on the Front Lines: Houston Methodist’s Innovative Approach to Reducing Readmissions

How can AI transform quality, outcomes, and economics? It’s not about telling clinicians what to do or how to change a workflow; the goal is to make clinicians more impactful using predictive risk models and AI Summaries embedded in the EHR.

How Houston Methodist is Cracking the Code on HCC

Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Medicare ACO is #1 in savings per patient for Academic Medical Centers. Their leaders discuss HCC recapture tools and change management innovations that drive savings and improve patient outcomes.

Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) deploys innovative use of LLMs for summarizing and supporting patient preferences

HDAI collaborates with Dana-Farber to help clinicians improve goal-concordant care for patients with serious illness. An innovative new protocol called BRIDGE-SIC is being launched to enhance patient care communication.