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Leaders from Providence, Humana and VMware offered varied perspectives on their artificial intelligence journeys at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Friday.

"AI can fundamentally change the physician experience with an EHR by making it an intelligent partner for the clinician," says Paul Brient, chief product officer of athenahealth.

William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm, discusses a distributed landscape for healthcare and health IT and new technologies leaders at provider organizations must consider.

While privacy regulations are still developing, IQVIA brings humans into artificial intelligence models to think through, trigger and make the go, no-go decisions, says Updesh Dosanjh, practice leader for technology solutions.  

Also, regional health services in Western Australia are rolling out Magentus' oncology patient record.

One industry observer notes the massive digital transformation in how care is accessed and the historic increases in cyberattacks have been pushing more provider organizations to expect much more from their IT vendors.

Also, Mercy Health is modernising its recruitment and people management.

Ahead of his appearance at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, the chief information and digital officer, who also serves as CISO, offers some lessons learned from the health system's rollout of artificial intelligence across the care continuum.  

Dr. Luis Ahumada of John Hopkins All Children's Hospital previews his session at next week's HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum – describing how the health system has made strides with advanced data analytics models that fit with clinical workflows.

Though adoption is still limited among smaller healthcare providers, more large hospital systems are embracing new generative artificial intelligence tools from their EHR vendors, according to new research from the Arch Collaborative.