Bill Siwicki

Sumit Rana, head of research and development, discusses how the EHR giant’s system uses AI to generate progress notes, create draft responses to patient questions and assist with medical coding. And how AI sometimes can be more empathetic than a person.

Patients who have used Upswing instead of traditional musculoskeletal approaches have consumed 38% fewer MSK services – 61% fewer injections, 49% less surgery, 46% fewer physical therapy/chiropractic visits, 30% less imaging and 25% fewer ER visits.

Tom Hallisey, a digital health strategy expert, previews his presentation at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum next month, describing rollout best practices and discussing ways to ensure investments are targeted for maximum impact.

Its machine learning model updates predictions on hospitalized patients every 15 minutes and acts as an objective assessor of risk, helping facilitate alignment and coordination in patient care as an AI-integrated system.

An expert who works in the digital health and technology investment field points to where activity in these three areas may be hot in the year ahead.

An expert in natural language processing discusses the need for generative AI systems that can understand an entire chart or EHR system – and describes how clinical LLMs can improve patient outcomes and prevent clinician burnout.

Hybrid collaboration enables multidisciplinary care, standardized outcome measurement and more streamlined care delivery, its CEO says.

The chief innovation officer at Phoenix Children’s lived up to his title when he enabled inexpensive, ubiquitous, hands-free virtual care using devices meant for the home in his 750 exam rooms – with no new FTEs to support them.

The New York health system also successfully migrated, consolidated and shut down data centers and servers, achieving monetary savings and remediating security risks.

What’s needed during big EHR and other system changes to protect cash flow, improve data integrity, and drive better system adoption and satisfaction? Rich Amelio, VP of healthcare IT operations and consulting at consulting firm e4health, has answers.