Artificial Intelligence

Punit Soni's company is a major player in this area of artificial intelligence. Here he gives advice to healthcare CAIOs, CIOs and other IT leaders implementing the systems – and to doctors and nurses using them. He sees significant changes coming to healthcare over the next five years.

Dr. Cole Zanetti, professor and director of digital health at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, discusses the need to train and educate patients, providers and the healthcare workforce about the promise of artificial intelligence.

Doctors at China Medical University Hospital have also spent less time making diagnoses using AI.

Samsung Medical Center CIO and professor Wonchul Cha emphasises that AI implementation is one part of an overall digital transformation.

With synthetic data, innovation doesn't have to come at the cost of privacy – synthetic data enables hospitals, health systems and others to unlock new capabilities while keeping patient trust intact, a healthcare analytics expert says.

Innovaccer, Palo Alto Networks, Samsung and others are using artificial intelligence to improve patient access, enhance urgent care and home health with clinical insights, position mobile health data for consumption, and secure agentic AI integrations.

Developed at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the innovative tool can scan EHRs and spot data that might identify kids with undiagnosed or rare conditions. It helps refer them for genetic testing sooner, giving them more personalized care.

Dr Chung-Kan Peng, deputy superintendent of Taiwan's Tri-Service General Hospital, is developing a mobile integrated AI system to detect and predict cardiac events like strokes and arrhythmias.

There are still risks that hospitals must keep in mind when setting up AI-powered defence systems, according to a private hospital chain's CIO.

The patient communication system powered by artificial intelligence handles routine calls, making way for life-and-death calls for matters like organ transplant to quickly get through to people who can make a difference.