Doctor consulting with an older patient while stacks of insurance forms, prior-authorization paperwork, billing codes and patient records are digitally organized by AI into scheduling, claims, records and compliance tasks. Headline reads: “AI Should Replace Health-Care Bureaucracy — Not Doctors,” illustrating how artificial intelligence could reduce administrative overhead and health-care costs while preserving the physician-patient relationship.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s Most Practical Role in Health Care May Be Cutting the Bureaucracy

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America spends extraordinary sums administering health care rather than providing it. AI may offer its greatest near-term value not by replacing physicians, but by automating prior authorization, claims, billing, documentation and other bureaucracy that consumes hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
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