Mike Miliard
Developed at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the innovative tool can scan EHRs and spot data that might identify kids with undiagnosed or rare conditions. It helps refer them for genetic testing sooner, giving them more personalized care.
Earlier this month in Brooklyn, HIMSS informatics leader Rob Havasy joined us for a discussion about the excitement and challenges he sees as health systems scale up their adoption and deployment of new AI tools.
The aim is to build an interconnected ecosystem of tools – AI-enabled video and analytics, two-way radio comms, mass notification technologies – to keep staff and patients safe at New York's largest health system.
At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in Brooklyn next month, keynote speaker Tom Lawry will offer some no-nonsense perspective on the steps health systems need to take to make the most of their artificial intelligence investments.
The American Hospital Association, EHR Association, Premier, WEDI and ATA have weighed in on HHS' request for comment about digital health tools for Medicare beneficiaries, and on the current state of interoperability and health IT infrastructure.
Working with Coalition for Health AI, the standards accreditation group says it will advance best practices with a suite of new playbooks and tools, as well as a new evidence-based certification program.
The technology, homegrown at Stanford Medicine, allows users of its electronic health record to do voice-based queries, helping make chart reviews and other routine tasks more efficient.
The physician and software engineer will hold dual titles as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The technology, which has been deployed ahead of schedule after an "aggressive timeline to scale AI agency-wide," is meant to boost productivity for clinical protocol reviews, scientific evaluations and more.
HHS Office for Civil Rights says a malicious insider exploited a vulnerability at BayCare Health System that offered "unrestricted access to patient health information."