Decision Support

Specialty centres focused on cancer and brain disorders share flagship projects and initiatives in the pipeline to provide more personalised care to individual patients.

Hospital CIOs share their thoughts on what it takes to champion health IT this 2024.

Andy Ta, director of Data Analytics and AI and chief data officer of Synapxe, shares how the national health tech agency empowers public health facilities and the healthcare workforce to be confident using AI and other new technologies.

Aside from clinical decision and diagnosis support, AI technology is also anticipated to assist with personalised treatments, clinical trials, and self health management, says Augnito founder Rustom Lawyer.

The goals of the partnership include "reducing radiologists' burnout, streamlining workflow, and ultimately improving the quality of patient care," says Rad AI's CEO.

Also, Konkuk University Hospital is joining the latest R&D initiative in South Korea to further enhance Alzheimer's diagnosis through AI.

A Yale University School of Medicine ER clinical informatics expert offers a deep dive preview of his HIMSS24 educational session that will show how artificial intelligence and CDS can boost emergency care.

"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.

A newly established research centre is building a chronic disease management system to enable access to comprehensive patient data.

The projects mark a "significant step in VUMC’s exploration of AI’s potential in streamlining clinician workflows and enhancing medical record-keeping while reducing time spent on documentation," said the health system's CMIO.