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Artificial intelligence that detects surgical site infections from patient-submitted photos with 73% accuracy could enhance patient care and also reduce clinician burdens following surgeries.

Dr. Matt Crowson, the genAI expert at Wolters Kluwer Health, dives into the company's new survey of caregivers and execs on the technology and explains where hospitals and health systems need to do the work of getting it up and running properly.

Although the learning curve for AI tools is steep, MSD's Matt Studney discusses how the company guides teams through change management and how it mitigates risk with human-in-the-loop feedback and ethics committee reviews.

According to OECD AI in Healthcare Expert Group member Dr Derya Şahin, 2.6 billion people worldwide still lack internet access, meaning basic connectivity is needed in those areas before digital health projects can begin.

The burden then shifts to hospitals, which puts clinicians in a tough spot, relying on AI that might not generalize, with no real way to track performance or course correct – that's an unacceptable blind spot, says one healthcare AI governance expert.

The Health Data Hub's Pauline Cohen explains that the SHAIPED project will assist AI-enabled medical device manufacturers in obtaining health data for model training while maintaining regulatory compliance.

The California arm of the massive health system jumped from one to more than 50 value-based care quality contracts in eight years. It earned more than 50 quality awards in 2024 alone. And it continues to close care and disparity gaps.

Mike Reagin says the health system is gaining provider satisfaction from an in-house digital assistant that helps with tasks such as summarizing documents, and its ambient voice technology has enabled productivity gains.

As phishing tactics evolve, healthcare organizations need to act quickly to shore up defenses and close the gaps that attackers are exploiting. That shift needs to start now.

High levels of adoption and continuous optimisation are crucial in realising EMR benefits.