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Artificial intelligence is becoming so user-friendly that doctors can code custom clinical workflow tools. But AI-driven vulnerability discovery is fast reshaping cybersecurity imperatives for IT leaders.

What's more, staff used the analytics to slash inpatient length of stay from 5.99 days to 5.29 – a result "not driven by a single initiative, but by the cumulative effect of real-time visibility and coordinated action," says a performance improvement director.

At HIMSS26, two leaders from New York's Office of Mental Health will describe how they managed semantic data exchange challenges with FHIR and terminology mapping, improving care coordination and critical time intervention for vulnerable individuals.

While hospitals and health systems continue to face an array of significant challenges, human-centered innovations that pair data with agility are helping improve caregiver experience and patient care, the research firm says. 

Doug Meil, author of The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired, discusses some lessons learned from that era, and offers perspective on where artificial intelligence may be headed next.

The two SymphonyAI companies are combining to launch GW RhythmX, an artificial intelligence-driven personalized care platform that unites clinical, financial, payer and social data.

The company, which offers interventional imaging services to providers nationwide, uses hosted tools to gain efficiencies and keep pace with growth. It's on pace to read more than 2 million studies in 2025 and expects to double that number next year.

Physicians at all eight of its hospitals can use one viewer to see almost all clinical imagery. Patients can view images in the patient portal, too – and 11,000 do so each month.

The mass layoffs have severely undercut essential IT, policy and contracting functions, and sources say they fear critical expertise has been lost. The government could hire contractors to fill the gaps, putting ousted employees in an ethical bind.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the DOGE-assisted cuts, which represent nearly 25% of the department's employees and impact FDA, CDC, NIH and other agencies, would save $1.8 billion per year.