Health care news from around the web: April 24 – 28, 2023

Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Some companies claim AI can help 

A San Francisco startup is among a handful of companies hoping to use artificial intelligence chatbots to offer services to doctors. These firms maintain that their programs could dramatically reduce the paperwork burden physicians face in their daily lives, and dramatically improve the patient-doctor relationship. 

3 best practices for maturing health care third-party risk management 

Panelists discussed top third-party risk management challenges and best practices at the HealthITSecurity Virtual Summit. 

Hospitals look for immediate return on investments in tough operating environment 

“We’re not going after anything that’s kind of cool that takes a couple of years to get to the bottom line. This is about immediate returns,” an Advocate Health executive said. 

Labor ruling will embolden unions to pursue nursing home cases: experts 

A federal labor board ruling could give employee unions more leverage in positioning themselves against nursing homes in negotiations and organizing campaigns, labor attorneys said.