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  • A tall tan checklist document outlined in charcoal with a column of short horizontal lines beside small square checkboxes, three of them marked with terracotta checks, and a small terracotta magnifying glass resting over the lower portion of the list.

    Healthcare

    21 Questions to Ask an AI Vendor Before You Sign

    A security questionnaire a small practice can actually run — no procurement team required. Copy the list, send it, and read the answers for artifacts rather than adjectives. We answer all 21 ourselves at the bottom.

    Prasad Thammineni

  • A tall tan document with several lines of text, most of them covered by solid charcoal redaction bars, and a single terracotta-outlined magnifying glass hovering over the two lines left visible — an agent seeing only the minimum necessary fields.

    Healthcare

    Can AI Read PHI? The Data-Handling Rules That Actually Apply

    Yes — with a BAA and the right safeguards. The harder questions are where the data travels during inference, how little of it the agent actually needs, and what ends up sitting in prompt logs nobody thought to check.

    Prasad Thammineni

  • Three elements in a row joined by thin lines: a tan document with signature marks, a horizontal chain of three linked tiles, and a block of stacked terracotta dashes beside a vertical rule — the signed agreement, the subprocessor chain it binds, and the audit log that records what happened.

    Healthcare

    HIPAA-Compliant AI Agents: BAAs, PHI Handling, and Audit Trails

    An AI agent that touches patient data is a business associate, with direct legal liability. Here's what the BAA has to cover, which AI-specific questions older templates miss, and what an audit trail needs to contain when an agent acted instead of a person.

    Prasad Thammineni

  • Flat geometric illustration showing denied claims documents flowing through an Agent Skills node with modular skill cards into clean claims and clinical notes with an approval check mark.

    Healthcare

    How Are Agent Skills Transforming Healthcare? From Claims Appeals to Clinical Notes

    Agent Skills package expert RCM knowledge — denial playbooks, coding audit methodology, PA criteria — into files AI agents execute on demand. Here's how independent specialty practices use them to automate claims appeals, billing compliance, prior authorization, and clinical documentation, with 2025–2026 AMA, KFF, and HFMA data.

    Debby Wang

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