The health care landscape has undergone trials and transformations throughout the nation over the past year, including in metro Birmingham. Leaders in the local health care arena are anticipating what the upcoming year might hold.
Jan. 8, 2025 (Birmingham Business Journal) - The health care landscape has undergone trials and transformations throughout the nation over the past year, including in metro Birmingham. Leaders in the local health care arena are anticipating what the upcoming year might hold.
Brad Kennedy, group president of Encompass Health's South Central region, concurred that AI will provide opportunities to improve care. "However, we must be cautious that we continue to find a balance between AI implementation and the use of human intelligence, particularly related to clinical judgment," he said.
Kennedy added that data and technology will remain important to leverage in 2024.
"At Encompass Health, we will continue to leverage our proprietary database of inpatient rehabilitation patient records to further develop our predictive analytics and enhance our value proposition," said Kennedy. "In the last few years, these patient insights have helped us develop predictive models to identify patients at risk for acute care transfers during their stay with us and those at risk for readmission once they are discharged home from our hospitals. Our most recent predictive model reduces patient falls. Through these tools, we implement strategies as a part of patient care plans, improve outcomes and reduce health care expenditures."
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