Artificial Intelligence

At HIMSS24, the president of Mayo Clinic Platform offered some tough truths about the challenges of deploying genAI – touting its enormous potential while spotlighting patient safety dangers to guard against in provider settings.

AI could identify early signs of heart disease and even Alzheimer’s in ocular images. But Kerry Goetz, associate director, NEI Office of Data Science and Health Informatics, says a lack of interoperability keeps this image data out of EHRs.  

Whende Carroll, clinical informatics advisor, HIMSS, offers a preview of upcoming HIMSS24 sessions on ethics and AI in nursing, and discusses how AI and virtual care technology can empower patients and mitigate the effects of nursing shortages.  

At HIMSS24, the medical AI vendor has unveiled the next generation of its medical AI platform, a collaborative effort between medical expertise and the best that artificial intelligence has to offer, its CEO says.

Use cases are emerging and showing promising results, but that means organizations need to be ready for change.

Telehealth, wearables and artificial intelligence all hold promise to increase access to care for underserved populations.

That's the message Talkdesk VP Patty Hayward is sending at HIMSS24, because, she says, contact centers have a high impact on patient experience, offer nonclinical use cases for AI, and keep humans in the loop.

Boosts to Oracle Health Data Intelligence include system performance improvements, prebuilt clinical quality analytics and automated alerts that can help increase reimbursements and enhance care.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf, with leaders from Hackensack Meridian and Google Cloud, explored how process automation can boost the sustainability of healthcare practices, large health systems and the environment – which has a direct impact on health outcomes.

In total, the company is offering its cloud clients updates to Vertex AI Search, Healthcare Data Engine and MedLM, designed to improve patient care.