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There are a variety of applications of ChatGPT and LLMs in healthcare, and various uses that have the potential to help or harm patients. Dr. Srinivasan Suresh, VP, CIO and CMIO at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, digs into these tools.

The sector has strengths in cybersecurity and communications but lacks innovation, the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council notes.

Dr. Howard Strasberg, Wolters Kluwer’s VP of informatics and an HL7 CDS working group chair, said the HIMSS24 session he is co-presenting will discuss a variety of FHIR-based standards, CDS Hooks and other tools that can help bring AI into workflows.  

Despite the hype, this buzzing AI will still have to prove its worth for Asia's cautious hospitals, says one health tech vendor. 

Also, South Korea's National Rehabilitation Center is opening up its resources to assist manufacturers in getting their rehabilitation medical devices approved.

It's also helped decrease the amount of time spent documenting care by about two hours per provider each day, the health system's medical director reports.

In a short time online, organizations can capture more patient concerns, reduce more open cases and improve staff experiences, say Alpa Vyas of Stanford Healthcare and Dr. Adrienne Boissy of Qualtrics and the Cleveland Clinic.

The provider group acquired a practice with a different electronic health record. Today, everyone "speaks the same language," staff satisfaction is way up, operational costs are down – and it's launching new services such as self-check-in.

It has also adopted a document management solution.

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.