Analytics
Julie Harris, Children's Health Alliance senior director of population health, explains how giving providers more information at the point of care by tracking 35 key quality measures reduces their burdens in meeting value-based incentive targets.
Encryption technology used in elections can potentially improve an AI model's predictive capability without compromising patient data privacy.
Offered in partnership with Novo Nordisk Foundation, the fellowship will focus on technologies that analyze vast amounts of data to increase diagnostic accuracy, speed personalized medicine and improve clinical trials.
As Italy develops a national digital strategy requiring healthcare data exchange across all 20 of its regions, Marco Foracchia, AUSL Reggio Emilia CIO, recommends first steps for hospitals that haven't yet begun digital transformation.
AI & ML Intelligence
The Boston health system's director of AI operations discusses some challenges and best practices for integrating large language models into research and operational tasks while explicitly excluding direct clinical care.
Prolonged understaffing in clinical laboratories threatens to compromise patient care, but deployment of automation and artificial intelligence technologies could offer a lifeline to burned out lab workers.
Jayden Jung, head of business development at AIRS Medical, discusses SwiftMR, the company's AI-powered product that shortens MRI scan times by an average of 40% without sacrificing image quality so hospitals can scan 30% more patients.
HIMSS24
AI-powered radiology tools aren't yet ready to make diagnoses; they must return accurate results and save time to be truly useful to burned-out radiologists, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, University of Pennsylvania radiology professor.
The freely-downloadable tool, called Dioptra, is designed to help artificial intelligence developers understand some unique data risks with AI models, and help them "mitigate those risks while supporting innovation," says NIST's director.
HIMSS24
The health IT society has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea's Health Information Service that HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf hopes will help measure Korean hospitals' digital maturity and support their workforce development.