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AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 01:33 pm | November 07, 2024
Dr. Tim O'Connell, physician CEO of emtelligent, offers his view of what's needed to ensure artificial intelligence can work safely, effectively and transparently in healthcare settings.
By Mike Miliard | 11:36 am | November 07, 2024
OpenNotes and Abridge want to find out, as they team up for a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center project to assess and develop new clinical documentation tools powered by artificial intelligence.
By HIMSS TV | 10:51 am | November 07, 2024
Greg Garcia, executive director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, says breaches have increased 250% over the past five years – and ransomware attacks are up 280%. Here's what health systems can do in response.
By Adam Ang | 11:23 pm | November 06, 2024
This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 02:08 pm | November 05, 2024
Andy Sajous, a leader in digital transformation, explains. He discusses the trade-offs of building versus buying artificial intelligence tools and describes some crucial actions CIOs should take going into 2025.
By HIMSS TV | 11:46 am | October 30, 2024
Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC head and current chief strategy officer of 1upHealth, says the fundamental point of star ratings is balancing the interest of patients with that of taxpayers.
By Andrea Fox | 10:45 am | October 30, 2024
The AP reports that OpenAI's Whisper documentation platform is prone to hallucinations, and to making up sentences and sections of text across millions of recordings. Tens of thousands of transcriptions could be faulty.
By Mike Miliard | 11:27 am | October 25, 2024
In what it's calling "one of the most ambitious initiatives in its 250-year history," NewYork-Presbyterian has launched a new $2 billion capital campaign that has advanced technologies and digital transformation as core goals.
By HIMSS EHR Association | 11:02 am | October 24, 2024
The electronic health record vendor group was founded two decades ago with a bold premise: competitors working collaboratively to identify issues related to software development and functionality for EHRs and to further the initiatives laid out by HHS.
By Mike Miliard | 11:33 am | October 22, 2024
BRIDGE – Blueprint for Resilient Integration and Deployment of Guided Excellence – is meant to be an "evidence-based framework that health systems can rely on to not just adopt AI but to help scale it across their operations."