Decision Support

A doctor of pharmacy explains why it's more important than ever to reduce alert noise and help clinicians who are struggling with burnout – and discusses the technology behind the scenes.

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.  

At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Monday, Stanford Healthcare's Dr. Jonathan Chen brought some impressive sleight of hand to a very serious discussion.

Dr. Brian Anderson, the newly-announced CEO of the Coalition for Health AI, offers some insights in a preview of his HIMSS24 panel discussion on the quest for responsible and transparent models.

AI has forever changed healthcare with access to data and predictive analytics now only a click away. Public health expert Dr Adam Chee from the National University of Singapore discusses the technology's implications on patient groups.

The hospital has reached Stage 7 for the HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity.

"We saw a 16.6% to 37.5% reduction in the optimized alerts per week being achieved while adding more meaningful guidance for clinicians," says the health system's CMIO in a preview of his HIMSS24 clinical decision support presentation.

Scott Levin of Beckman Coulter and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine gives a preview of his HIMSS24 session, where he will discuss the AHRQ systems engineering success phases and mitigating bias in AI.

How can artificial intelligence improve care delivery, and how can it be used safely and effectively? We're all figuring it out together. At HIMSS24, a chance to get lessons and insights from folks who are exploring in earnest.