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The Epic-integrated tech boosted automated medication instruction mapping from 26% to 86%. Further, the clinical-grade AI's ability to understand unstructured Rx instructions eliminated manual entry in an additional 60% of cases.

Mountain View Medical Center also says its new EHR, embedded with AI, has helped with a 63% increase in collections year over year and a 45.3% increase in charges posted – along with the addition of five more providers and 20 new staff members.

Remote patient monitoring provides a "digital bridge" to the patient's home, and AI acts as the intelligent assistant that makes sense of that connection and often overwhelming amount of data, says Dan Tashnek, CEO of Prevounce Health.

The Ohio health system achieved powerful results on 81 suggestions from nurses. It reduced nursing documentation time by an estimated 1,500 hours per year and reduced clicks by 2.7 million per year. Needless to say, nurses are happy.

In behavioral health, for example, the shift to virtual intakes significantly reduced wait times and improved access for the community. The average time from the day an appointment is made until the first appointment is only 10 days.

The Kaiser Permanente Intelligent Navigator, built into the patient portal, has detected urgent medical cases accurately 97.7% of the time. In addition, appropriate care pathways are recommended accurately 88.9% of the time.

Dr. Robert W. Warren says mentors can benefit a hospital or health system as they impart their wisdom to younger staffers. He highlights the qualities of a good mentor and offers tips to those who are looking for one.

And they should symbolize a new era by modeling for employees what an AI-enabled future state will look like – motivating staff to adjust their approaches and embrace that vision, says one of the top AI execs at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Ismelda Garza, chief information officer at Cuero Regional Hospital, is fresh off of a Meditech deployment and now fully into the optimization phase. She discusses the importance of working with clinicians and consultants, keeping momentum up after go-live, and much more.

Artificial intelligence has helped the organization reduce its rehospitalization rate, identify declines in activities of daily living earlier and engage therapy sooner. Fall reduction efforts are also moving in the right direction.