Artificial Intelligence

For Global Health Equity Week, Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health and co-chair of the HIMSS SDOH Committee, explains how AI is transforming how social and digital determinant information is incorporated and surfaced.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees three areas of concern as artificial intelligence is used across critical infrastructure sectors: attacks using AI, attacks targeting AI systems and design, and implementation failures.

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will be surveying agencies to assess the readiness of state, local, tribal and territorial public health organizations to manage cyber threats and gauge their needs for support.

From preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance to visualization and predictive analytics, AI has many new roles to play to help surgeons do their best work.

Cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings of the University of Denver says the clinical information used for AI-enabled decision support models needs to be protected – but that's a tall order with so much of it to manage.  

By partnering with Meharry Medical College, the cloud giant says it aims to enhance community care and wellness in Middle Tennessee with AI and clinical applications, spark health innovation and cultivate workforce skills.

A virtual nursing success story emerges from a large New York health system, and examples of the kinds of care coordination services that virtual nurses can handle during message triage, from Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare.

Virtual care can boost satisfaction for patients and nursing staff.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has recently developed four large language models, including models for cancer detection and an AI chatbot for physicians.

Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.