Healthcare continues to struggle with controlling rising costs. Headlines this week featured a few interesting solutions: Artificial Intelligence. Micro-hospitals. Those stories and more are highlighted this week in the stories you might have missed.
Lyft teams with Allscripts to get patients to doctor appointments
The ride-sharing service is integrating its software with Allscripts to make it easier for physicians to schedule rides to appointments for patients who need them.
Want to use AI to impact healthcare? Give it the mundane jobs.
“… the greatest opportunity for AI in the near term may come not from headline-grabbing moonshots but from putting computers and algorithms to work on the most mundane drudgery possible.”
The real opioid problem may be in the hospitals
Health officials report they are struggling to keep their pharmacies supplied with the opioids needed to treat patients, forcing them to find other courses of treatment and wondering when their supplies can be restored.
Are micro hospitals the next step in controlling healthcare costs?
These smaller facilities–some as small as 8 beds–are seen as good alternatives to larger community facilities, performing the same procedures at a lower cost. They are also considered realistic options for more rural areas that can’t support bigger hospitals.
A study says babies that resemble their fathers are healthier
Why? Because when the baby looks like the dad, the dad knows with more certainty the child is his and spends more time with the child. That means he is more in tune with the baby’s health needs.