Clinical

Experts advise healthcare organizations to ask: "Who will be accountable for decisions influenced by artificial intelligence – the clinician, department, vendor or hospital? And what will be needed to defend AI-influenced decisions?"

Its president, Dr. Baligh Yehia, says the Philadelphia health system has committed to returning 10 million hours back to patient care over the next three years using AI.

Julia Zarb, principal and founder of Blue x Blue, discusses her upcoming HIMSS26 talk, exploring "human in the loop" AI practices and workflows that support human decision-making.

The popular AI tool for healthcare professionals may also soon come to public outpatient clinics in New Zealand.

Gold Coast Health is the first in Queensland to pilot this concept, initially supporting collaboration between local GPs and developmental paediatricians.

Elation Health and HealthEx announce they are integrating Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence to better synthesize health data for doctors and patients.

Mass General Brigham plans to make online primary care access available to all insured Massachusetts and New Hampshire residents. The primary care access situation in the Bay State has been called "dire."

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says 25% of spending is fraudulent or being abused by providers. Carol Howard, VP innovation and adoption at Janus Health, explains how the new payment rule might help.

Instead of buying digital innovations, Middle Eastern countries should focus on creating and scaling up their own products while developing local workforces, says Alvarez & Marshal's Mazin Gadir.

Sutter Health's CCIO, Dr. Richard Milani and Epic's patient UX R&D lead, Trevor Berceau, explain how Bluetooth-enabled medical devices that send data directly to cardiology patient portals are helping to reduce chronic care complexities.