Bill Siwicki

The St. Louis pediatric hospital has fully integrated its in-house behavioral health team with vendor tele-psychiatrists – including in its Epic EHR. The percentage of new patients scheduled within 14 days has jumped from 14% to more than 60%.

Artificial intelligence can boost efficiency of imaging providers and support roles that offer greater provider productivity, says The Gordian Knot Group's Dawn Cram, who offers a preview of her HIMSS25 session on the subject.

The CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health sees big artificial intelligence developments this year – and predicts that AI is moving from a reactive force in healthcare to a proactive one.

And yes, that includes AI. Dr. Anwar Jebran, a primary care physician informaticist, dives deep into LLM-powered ambient artificial intelligence while offering a preview of his HIMSS25 panel session on technology's role in alleviating burnout.

The sprawling health system believes artificial intelligence should never replace the judgment of clinicians and must be carefully assessed, says Dr. Daniel Yang, who offers a closer look at Kaiser's successful rollout of a genAI tool for clinicians, among other insights.

A virtual care CEO says telemedicine means more physicians in the mix, enabling them to delegate less-complex tasks. Health systems should then be able to reduce wait times with that newly expanded capacity.

In an increasingly competitive healthcare landscape, a strong digital presence and a superior care experience can be decisive factors in attracting and retaining patients, says one health IT consultant.

Generative AI and other technologies can help ease the clinician shortage by augmenting the work of doctors and nurses and offering significant outcomes, says Accenture Health Strategy Lead Brian P. Kalis.

As one telemedicine CEO looks to the year ahead, he predicts RPM will improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients and help manage those on the wildly popular GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss medications.

A health IT CEO offers his view of the next year in healthcare and technology, pointing to AI's true transformative power operating quietly in the background and mounting pressure for providers to reassess their digital investments.