Patient safety

Business school professor Joe Peppard penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed recently, making the case that many companies shouldn't necessarily be investing in AI – because many aren't well-positioned to succeed with it. What about healthcare providers?

Improving cybersecurity despite resource challenges requires small healthcare providers to pull many support levers. "We need to move away from the idea that each rural hospital is solving these issues alone," says one infosec leader.

While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.

Dr. Ronald Rodriguez, co-founder of the nation's first MD/MS in artificial intelligence dual degree, offers warnings and solutions for generative AI privacy errors, skyrocketing AI usage costs, and AI correcting mistakes resulting in different errors.

Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.

MGB-eFI can be integrated with an Epic-based electronic health record or be modified for other IT systems, making it a versatile tool for frailty assessment and fall risk.

Aubrey May Agcon, clinical research nurse at NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss her HIMSS25 talk on how appropriate triage influences patient outcomes and resource utilization.  

The Alliance for Connected Care has asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to intervene on proposed Drug Enforcement Agency e-prescribing rules, urging broader telehealth access.

Darren Webber and Nathan Licht, principal data analysts at Cedars-Sinai, preview their HIMSS25 presentation on how chart abstractors use generative AI to detect sepsis and determine treatment and are teaching LLMs to ensure improved functionality.

At HIMSS25 in Las Vegas next month, members of the HIMSS Nursing Innovation Advisory will explore where artificial intelligence is finding favor with RNs, where they're skeptical of it – and how it can be deployed and integrated safely into practice.