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Ran Balicer, CIO of Israel's Clalit Health Services, says leaders feeling pressured to adopt new AI tools should have a specific use case in mind and assess the readiness of their existing IT infrastructure and data.

A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be "no aggregation without representation," its leaders say.

Healthcare providers can take advantage of seniors' growing trust in digital health tools, empowering older adults to make sense of a complex healthcare landscape, says the CEO of one care navigation platform for Medicare beneficiaries.

Whether a health system is in the early stage or advanced maturity affects how they view the technology, says HIMSS senior market insights manager Nicole Ramage, who highlights new research.

Also, the Department of Health and Aged Care seeks to automate the creation of monthly care statements in residential aged care homes.

Also, the South Korean government is deploying AI to check on solo-living seniors during the upcoming holidays.

As new artificial intelligence tools are introduced, the greater efficiency and accuracy achieved using AI will increasingly justify the costs and effort to take on digital pathology practice, says Dr. David Klimstra, cofounder of Paige.

HIMSS senior director of informatics strategy Rob Havasy says that, even as it evolves at a rapid pace, the policies around AI are coming into focus, and providers are getting more comfortable integrating AI into their workflows.

Out-of-the-box generative artificial intelligence capabilities on Health Cloud, specific to provider operations, will be available in October through a new AI use case library.

Providence Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health Dr. Eve Cunningham offers advice and best practices for using automation and ambient voice to help alleviate burden and bring joy back to medicine.