Artificial Intelligence

In just 10 months, the analytics initiative helped the hospital rack up nearly 700 hours of productivity saved for clinicians, nurses, administrators and staff. It's also fostered safer surgical environments with fewer surgical site infections.

The cloud infrastructure company promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as it redoubles focus on a series of artificial intelligence initiatives, including its forthcoming AI-powered EHR.

Good governance builds trust for staff to give up the tasks they thought were critical to their jobs.

Attendees at the inaugural forum, focused on the healthcare C-suite, are pursuing different projects and are at different stages of artificial intelligence maturity. All are aiming to maximize their AI investments for true enterprise-wide value.

At Healthcare 2030, panelists highlighted successful programs at the VA and other government agencies that included integrating digital tools like remote monitoring and AI scribes.

Change is on the horizon, and its time to start planning for it, says HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, at the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit in Chicago. He describes some use cases, existing and emerging, that he's excited about.

Patients in the largely rural pediatric population now have a better office experience and more personalized treatment with artificial intelligence, says VCH's physician informatics director.

Combining EHR data with clinical AI is giving hospitals a new edge.

"It's a myth that providers are against new tools and technology," says Thomas Osborne, CMO at Microsoft.

As are proof of effectiveness, transparent models and reliable data, says Scott V. Anderson, pharmacy informatics and technology liaison at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He digs into these topics and much more.