Quality and Safety

With a cohort of health systems including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Stanford Health and others, its QHIN efforts are aimed at advancing information exchange at providers nationwide, says Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic.

Sen. Mark Warner has questions for Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai about Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot currently being piloted at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere. "I worry that premature deployment of unproven technology could lead to the erosion of trust," he says.

That said, despite its current limitations – it will never replace "empathy, listening, respect, personal preference" – it's clear artificial intelligence is leading to fundamental changes in care delivery, says the IT innovator, who predicts "doctors and nurses who use AI will replace doctors and nurses who don't."

At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping serve up valuable real-time insights to help develop training, policies and procedures that address racial disparities and social determinants.

With approximately 200 active peer reviewers at the health system, this significant transition has improved physician engagement and the overall process – and saved scores of hours per coordinator.

Dr. Mohammed Saeed from the University of Michigan Medical School discusses how the artificial intelligence tools can help improve provider practice patterns, potentially shielding patients from the harms of inappropriate or unnecessary care.

NEC will be deploying a fall detection and alert system.

By having deep conversations about artificial intelligence's capabilities and limitations, the nine-state health system hopes to help its clinical and IT leaders enable a more responsible path forward for AI deployments.

The interoperability organization's Consumer Voices Workgroup says its recommendations – for improving patient access, use and sharing of data – are 100% achievable using current technology.