Leveraging AI in the Most Human Industry
By now, most of us have taken a side in the AI discourse: Should we embrace this? Be prudent before going all-in? Should I have a strategy now, or wait to see what’s coming?
The answer – as I see it in healthcare – is Yes. And it can’t wait.
Call it AI, machine learning, predictive modeling… technology is everywhere, and it’s a disruptor. But disruption isn’t a bad thing. Disruption breaks ineffective systems, processes and ideas and ushers in innovation that enhances quality and experience.
And frankly, this is the time for disruption in healthcare. Health systems’ ability to survive and grow into new care models and treatments has always been contingent on navigating change: changes in best practices, changes in payor models and, now, changes in intelligent systems and cognitive computing. The organizations still asking, “Should we?” are already falling behind the ones asking, “We should; and now, what is possible that wasn’t before?”
Learning, adapting to and implementing AI-powered solutions is now essential work.
Consider what’s already deployed across health systems today: Ambient AI is eliminating documentation burden, so clinicians spend more time with patients; predictive analytics are flagging deteriorating patients before a crisis; and revenue cycle AI is recovering millions in claims that manual processes miss entirely.
This is not the future. This is the present, and it is accelerating.
On the administrative side of healthcare, AI tools are rapidly being applied. Within the last few months, Warbird practitioners have worked with client partners to implement advanced analytics tools and generate actionable insights that produce significant cost savings and reclaim resources for the patients, communities and team members who need them most.
This isn’t a pilot program. This is happening today. And it’s just the beginning. The Warbird team is examining the larger potential impacts for providers, developing shoulder-to-shoulder implementation and execution strategies that are bolstered, but never replaced, by AI. The health systems that will thrive over the next decade will be those that moved with discipline and the right partners when the window was open.
The window is open right now.
Because we’re stakeholders, in the most human industry, leveraging AI for both efficiency and efficacy is important work. New things are becoming possible to preserve healthcare access and outcomes in communities we serve together.
Best,
Mike Draa
CEO
Warbird Healthcare Advisors
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