Mike Miliard

At the HIMSS Machine Learning & AI event, Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and innovation officer at CHOC Children's, cleared up some common misconceptions.

In Oklahoma, the Center for Health Systems Innovation, with some help from Cerner, is using machine learning to help address care disparities and manage chronic conditions.

Everyone knows that data is a key strategic asset, said Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips of Providence St. Joseph Health. "But is data the asset, or is it what we do with it?"

The group wants to advance the ability of augmented intelligence to enhance care, boost population health, drive value and improve physician satisfaction.

The firm says hospitals and health systems should be preparing themselves to take advantage of distributed ledger technology, AI, augmented reality and quantum computing.

THE ROAD TO HELSINKI: At the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference, experts from Philips will showcase AI-powered health information management solutions.

The informatics group says the feds should do more to protect against bad data and algorithm bias, and keep cybersecurity top of mind in its software-as-a-medical-device rules.

Healthcare leaders are concerned about security and data breaches and meeting GDPR requirements when leveraging the cloud for clinical decision support. At the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference, experts from Roche will discuss the latest advancements in cloud security.

In its comments on the agencies' interoperability rules, HIMSS said FHIR v.4 should be required for certification – but cautioned against too broad a definition of EHI and said to slow requirements for payer trusted exchange network participation.

The unauthorized access also included Social Security numbers, credit card data and banking information – but not laboratory results, the company said.