Artificial Intelligence

Boosts to Oracle Health Data Intelligence include system performance improvements, prebuilt clinical quality analytics and automated alerts that can help increase reimbursements and enhance care.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, with leaders from Hackensack Meridian and Google Cloud, explored how process automation can boost the sustainability of healthcare practices, large health systems and the environment – which has a direct impact on health outcomes.

In total, the company is offering its cloud clients updates to Vertex AI Search, Healthcare Data Engine and MedLM, designed to improve patient care.

Amid healthcare staffing struggles, Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, assistant professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says AI-generated documentation can give clinicians more time with patients.  

HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf discusses healthcare trends, including patient engagement, AI advancements and cybersecurity challenges, and how HIMSS24 offers attendees a chance to learn from each other and collaborate in responding to those trends.  

At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Monday, Stanford Healthcare's Dr. Jonathan Chen brought some impressive sleight of hand to a very serious discussion.

And patient experience too, of course, which is "so interconnected" with clinicians being satisfied with their work, says VP Jessica Sweeney-Platt. She discusses the cloud pioneer's innovative work on AI and automation, new partnerships and more.

COO Helen Waters discusses early adopters of the company's ambient listening, search and conversational AI technologies, along with news on its latest work in precision medicine.

The anchor exhibitor has been working on data exchange for a long time. With the FHIR spec now widespread and becoming normative, good things are starting to happen across a variety of use cases – and the company plans to show how it's helping.

Autonomous medical coding has been viewed as the province of large academic medical centers that could afford to experiment with cutting-edge technology. Today it is starting to be viewed as a necessary tool for all health systems.