Decision Support

"What data do you have? Where is it located? How do you get to it? And is the data fit for purpose? Data doesn't need to be perfect to be useful. But you don't ever want to use data that's not perfect and not know it."

In an update on several looming regulatory deadlines, the HIMSS Electronic Health Records Association said it asked ONC for enforcement discretion on a December 1 deadline.

Doing away with traditional manual coding has enabled Mount Alvernia Hospital's IT team to focus more on innovation rather than "reinventing the wheel," shares technology director Bruce Leong.

Its national research institute has built a chatbot based on Meta's LLM which can answer doctors' questions with up to 95% accuracy.

"We thought if we could bring more transparency to decision support intervention, we can instill more trust and we can help optimize the use of these algorithms."

Also, Bitsmedia's ex-CEO is joining telehealth company Doctor Anywhere as VP of Product.

A doctor of pharmacy explains why it's more important than ever to reduce alert noise and help clinicians who are struggling with burnout – and discusses the technology behind the scenes.

At HIMSS24, the president of Mayo Clinic Platform offered some tough truths about the challenges of deploying genAI – touting its enormous potential while spotlighting patient safety dangers to guard against in provider settings.

AI could identify early signs of heart disease and even Alzheimer’s in ocular images. But Kerry Goetz, associate director, NEI Office of Data Science and Health Informatics, says a lack of interoperability keeps this image data out of EHRs.  

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.