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A culture of analytics, starting with leadership at the top, is key for hospitals and health systems that aim to bolster care delivery and manage other healthcare challenges, says one patient safety expert.
Sal Lo, CEO of Jorie AI, discusses the company's policy of offering its automated billing and collections product to rural hospitals at a lower price to help them maximize reimbursements and sustain operations.
Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, explains that interoperability is fundamental to enabling data-informed patient care decisions and is required for the use of AI and advanced analytics tools.
The remote patient monitoring project aims to integrate platforms to equip clinicians with advanced decision support for hospitalized patients in both critical and non-critical care, and develop new AI-enabled predictive analytics.
The American College of Radiology's ARCH-AI initiative is billed as the first-ever such framework, designed to help imaging providers deploy artificial intelligence more safely.
AI & ML Intelligence
From January 2023 to February 2024, the organization saw an average increase of 168 encounters per week with help from automated processes to help reduce missed appointments – amounting to approximately 7,800 additional encounter numbers and $1.4 million in new net patient revenue.
Cybercriminals are innovating quickly, but key learnings from the 2021 ransomware attack that caused a nationwide shutdown of Ireland's healthcare system are still highly relevant, says David Wall, CIO of Tallaght University Hospital.
As providers adopt IT solutions to streamline their documentation, they need to take accountability for shaping the underlying genAI, according to Michael Ristau, VP of global marketing and international growth at Solventum (formerly 3M Health Care).
La Monte Yarborough, HHS CISO, believes that federal agencies, health system partners and vendors should work together to share information and create a "village" that strengthens healthcare cybersecurity.
Success Stories & ROI
Patients who otherwise wouldn't have used the health system's physical therapy services because of geographic distance are now staying in-network. The technology also has boosted Emory's value-based care efforts.