Artificial Intelligence

Robotic initiatives aim to save on nursing time by providing a variety of tasks and services, including multilingual and emotional support, says hospital director Dr Weide Tsai.

When assessing ROI, "it's not just about improving care quality, it's also about strengthening the sustainability of the service line," says a physician expert from the Illinois health system.

Additionally, the health system's deployment of artificial intelligence has helped improve the patient experience and shrink overall expense-per-visit. Integris Chief Ambulatory Executive Blake Windham explains how.

The goal is to fine-tune new technology that "elevates safety and quality while being a catalyst for growth through innovation," says the health system's chief clinical officer.

With a steep artificial intelligence learning curve, the event offers confirmation that "everybody's going through this, everybody's learning along the way – and that's OK," says Rob Havasy, HIMSS senior director of informatics strategy.

A new reasoning model quantifies how often large language models elaborate on false clinical details fed to them. Prompt mitigation quelled some hallucination frequency, but the AI behind clinical bots may still pose risks, researchers said.

It can be a challenge to find AI tools that work, says Josh Wymer, chief health information & data strategy officer in the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, who discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to deployment.

Narayana Health has also reduced administrative workload by over 50%.

While some say the executive order is too broad, others hope that by streamlining approvals and setting development standards it will "accelerate AI adoption in healthcare at a time when the industry has never needed it more."

Punit Soni of Suki, a major vendor of the technology, gives expert advice to healthcare CAIOs, CIOs, CTOs and others implementing the systems and to physicians, nurses and others using the tech.