The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists – at great cost to patient safety
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Imagine the furore if a Conservative government announced a scheme to shrink hospital waiting lists using financial incentives. First, they’d pay cash-strapped hospitals unlimited bonuses to kick patients off the lists. Then, they’d offer GPs cash to stop referring patients to hospital.
AI-driven billing for more medically complex inpatient stays has resulted in nearly $1 billion in additional healthcare costs over the last two years, according to new analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
More than 60% of hospitals and…
An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm increased aneurysm detection, identifying 55 true-positive brain aneurysms that radiologists had missed, representing a 39% relative increase in detection.
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