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Te Whatu Ora sees up to $20 million in long-term societal savings from implementing the AI.

It's eliminated two hours of daily admin time and three hours of daily manual work, a practice manager says. Patient no-show rates are now under 4.5%. Surgical procedures are also more efficient. The clinic PM tells the whole story – and offers tips others could learn from.

Some applications come out of the box "ready to go," says Yesha Patel, data scientist at Keck Medicine of USC. Others need a custom approach – but that requires a lot of in-house expertise, like data scientists and AI architects.

The Ohio health system achieved powerful results on 81 suggestions from nurses. It reduced nursing documentation time by an estimated 1,500 hours per year and reduced clicks by 2.7 million per year. Needless to say, nurses are happy.

Eric Gasser, RN, VP of IS and CIO at Wooster Community Hospital Health System, has had great success reducing burden for nurses. He discusses where IT can help nurses with major challenges and offers tips for health IT leaders working with nurses.

In behavioral health, for example, the shift to virtual intakes significantly reduced wait times and improved access for the community. The average time from the day an appointment is made until the first appointment is only 10 days.

Healthcare artificial intelligence strategy at hospitals and health systems is a big challenge as the AI market and tech explode around providers. Dr. Hojjat Salmasian, CDAO and leader of AI at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has answers.

Dr Wui-Chiang Lee, vice superintendent of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, shares four essential requirements in fostering digital hospital innovation.

The new chatbot at Singapore General Hospital was also projected to save around 60 senior doctor hours annually.

The collaboration aims to create AI agents that can analyze and act on unified health records and social data to improve access, streamline care coordination, and boost staff and patient engagement.