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The American Hospital Association (AHA) has released a report that includes predictions of what hospital IT efforts will look like by 2035. Here is their vision of healthcare IT in the next decade: 

• Patient access to benefits and provider scheduling with be improved with AI bots.
• Provider burnout will be eased by the availability of better data integration into clinical workflow tools.
• “Remote patient monitoring” will morph into “remote patient management” with the addition of more health data into compact smart devices with faster processing capacity.
• Clinical trial recruitment will be improved with the availability of technology that can do a better job of identifying and matching trial participants outside of academic medical centers.
• Repetitive administrative and back-office tasks will be more efficiently managed with AI solutions similar to ChatGPT.
• Repetitive tasks such as prior authorizations, care planning, assessment-triggered consults and robotic medication administration will be automated by AI.
• Virtual patient care and treatment will become more available with devices that allow patients to examine themselves – while supervised virtually by a provider – and have data sent immediately to the care team.
• At-home care will be enhanced and more available via the Internet of Things, aided by faster video, email, text and email connections to providers and real-time data uploads.