Analytics

Leaders from Providence, Humana and VMware offered varied perspectives on their artificial intelligence journeys at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Friday.

"AI can fundamentally change the physician experience with an EHR by making it an intelligent partner for the clinician," says Paul Brient, chief product officer of athenahealth.

A project by Pauliina Ilmonen, mathematician at Aalto University in Finland, and her colleagues is emulating a zombie plague to gain insights into how an event like a pandemic or a mass disinformation campaign can spread.  

Deploy a unified communications platform to streamline workflows.

Operational staff are focused on improving efficiency and reducing delays, while clinical teams are looking at quality improvement projects. A thriving research community, meanwhile, is digging deep into data for many different use cases.

The new public-private collaboration Insight Net is using advanced biosurveillance to respond to outbreaks and prevent future pandemics. Dylan George, director of the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, explains more.

Dr. Luis Ahumada of John Hopkins All Children's Hospital previews his session at next week's HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum – describing how the health system has made strides with advanced data analytics models that fit with clinical workflows.

Members impacted by the breach are being provided with no-cost credit monitoring and identity restoration services.

Plus: HFMA and FinThrive release RCM modernization assessment tool, a peer-reviewed adoption model for healthcare providers.

Dr Han Deok-Hyun, vice CMIO of the Office of Digital Transformation at SMC, shares the hospital's approach to achieving world-class healthcare analytics.